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Saturday, June 05, 2004

'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'

despite being a saturday...today was a very slow day. i wound up sleeping for most of the day. actually it's safe to say that i slept the entire day cause i woke up at 5pm. went to meet up with a friend who's leaving to work in china. seems like we're all slowly dispersing from home. some have left to further their education...others to move forward in our careers. anyway...went for dinner with friends as usual and then it was off for the usual mahjong session. nothing spectacular happened on this not-so-spectacular saturday. there are still a few people that i want to meet up with that i just can't seem to meet. schedules are tight and timing is never right. oh well...hopefully i'll see them someday.

i bumped into an old classmate today and we got to talking a bit. we did the standard 'long time no see' conversation and we later exchanged phone numbers. we said we'd call each other but after walking away i was thinking in the back of my head that i would probably never find myself in a situation where i feel that i'll need to call him. it's been four years since i last saw him and i've never wondered how he was or what he's doing. i've never felt the need to try and obtain his phone number or to call him to find out how things are. so why should i find myself in a position where i'd need to call him now? i know that just sounds really unfriendly of me but i'm just being honest. and this is just one scenario. there are other scenarios where i meet people (i refrain from using the word friend) that i still keep in touch with but not on a regular basis and we do the regular catching up conversation when we bump into each other but that's all there is. there are no phone calls or no lunch/dinner dates...the only time we see each other is when we 'accidentally' bump into each other. then there's also those whom i only talk to on the phone. we'll catch up for awhile...yada yada yada...end the conversation with "we should meet up someday...catch up" but it'll never happen.

so it got me to thinking...this whole "i'll call you" or "we should meet up" business is just a front. i'm just saying those things to appear amicable. i can't say things like "i'd say let's meet up but then i'd be lying" so i have to say something nice. sometimes i wish i can be really honest and say things straight but then i'd come off as being the biggest bitch in the world. anyway...all i can hope for is that the other person feels the same way. we're just saying these things to appear amicable but we both know that it's not going to happen. that would save me a whole lot of explaining if and when we do meet or talk again.

i'm weird ey. i've been told many times that i defy human nature. that i'm not ordinary girl. sometimes i wonder what that statement truly means. anyway...before i go catch some sleep here are some fun facts. which reminds me...why do people use the term 'catch' some sleep? that's something to discuss some other day.

- hitler was voted 'time' magazines man of the year in 1938
- 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
- 'unatractiphobia' is a fear of ugly people (reminds me of a few people i know..hrmm)
- there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
- A female orgasm is a powerfull painkiller (because of the release of endorfines) so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
- rod stewart was once a grave digger
- according to a british law passed in 1845...attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense...offenders could be hanged for trying (in the end..the same result is achieved..that's compassion for the brits)
- 85% of the people killed by lightning are male
- the vatican city and san marino are the only two countries in the world that are located within a country itself (italy)
- the longest official city name in the world is: Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit...it is the official name of Bangkok.
- the desert rat can have sex up to 120 times an hour
- the female bedbug has no sexual opening...to get around this small problem the male uses his curved penis to drill a vagina into the female.