Friday Five 16-September-2022

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1. Do you tend to remember book titles or authors the most?
I'm not sure. Book titles I suppose? I don't know why when I read this question I was immediately "Ah, coz I remember the title of a school reading book, Silas Marner, I don't remember the author!" and the next second I was all like "of course it was George Eliot, but that was a pen name, because George Eliot was actually a she!" And for the record. No, I don't know her real name. I could Google it, which I did, but I'm being authentic here, LOL. And on that note, I read through the Silas Marner Wiki...... I have totally no recollection of it LOL oops sorry. At least I passed my Literature GCSE back then.

2. Do you play any memory games to try and improve your memory
Not really. Not on purpose at least. Some of the games on my phone have such side-games, so I suppose.

3. What is the very first movie you remember seeing in a movie theatre?
Lucidly, it was the Ranma 1/2 movie. I was a primary school student. The cinema was right next to the school. I wanted the postcard that they were giving out for the people who went to watch on the first day.

But, by bits and pieces of memory, it was one of the earlier Macross movies. I think at that time I hadn't exactly mastered Cantonese yet, so I don't really remember watching the actual whole movie (it could have been in Japanese, but I don't think so. Back then for public broadcast they would have dubbed them)... I remember snippets of it, especially when Lin Minmi was singing while the space battle was going on.

4. What sense do you tend to rely upon the most?
First sight, second hearing.

5. When was the last time you felt lonely and what made you feel better?
I'm an inclined-loner, but I don't think I "feel lonely" frequently.

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1. How do you feel about grapes?
They're fine. I don't really like it when I'm eating seeded grapes and bite on the seeds... but I also don't like seedless grapes as I kind of think they're mutants, as in.... how are they cultivated if they're seedless? But I still eat grapes. Just. Carefully. To not bite on the seeds.

2. How do you feel about wine?
I prefer white wine because you drinnk white wine chilled. I haven't had a really good red wine. Usually in wedding banquets they serve some standard reds and I always think those reds taste like butter. I have no idea where that came from. Maybe because they weren't decanted enough? And of course this leads me to do a Google about it. HOWEVER, I doubt that's the case because nobody around me would say the same thing. And this buttery tasting red wine is when I'm at banquets, so usually they would serve wine on the cheaper side? I always thought it was because those were sub-standard quality.

3. How much of a gossip are you?
I will admit I love hearing about them, but I hardly spread gossip... mostly because I would have forgotten about that very soon, and while I love hearing gossip, I don't believe in what I hear. I've had enough experience to know the gossip mill has... questionable... sources and... the telephone effect thing.

4. How much purple is in your wardrobe?
There was a point in time when I really liked purple and had lots of purple. As of today though, by memory, I have 1 purple colored T-shirt (the one that says "I'm an Austrian girl, like most other girls, only cooler" or something along those lines LOL, I have 1 purple cap that I think I got from H&M years ago... and I supposedly should have a jacket but I think since I've expended and the jacket didn't quite fit, I've gotten rid of it. I'm sure I've also gotten rid of 2 purple bags (one knapsack and one tote-style bag) I had.

5. How have you gotten better as you’ve grown older?
I think I'm pretty good with keeping secrets. I'm less prone to blurt things out. Like, the other day, another colleague was, I guess trying to butter me up and say "he doesn't know why that other colleague is stopping all distribution of information to you" but that he's more than happy to provide whatever information I/my boss need... What he doesn't know is... this "that other colleague" is actually a very close friend of mine, and she had explained to me whats going on... and she... still BCCs those reports to me. Before I'd be like "oh that's not the case," but now I'm just "huh. okay. Thanks for the offer." and walked off.

Bonus question (because they appear to be so polarizing): What’s the best food with raisins in it?
As a raisin hater (despite being ok with grapes), NOTHING goes well with raisins. A polite curse I give to people is "may your chocolate chip cookies turn out to be raisin oatmeals." Granted, I curse them in my head only. So. yeah.