Three things

Three things I found rather annoying today:

1. That patronising sign in the toilets at uni. It tell us how washing your hands is one of the best ways to stop spreading diseases. Actually, that's not true, it tell us that washing your hands is THE best way to stop spreading diseases. Now I'm all for washing hands, but that's a pretty big call. Anyway, the patronising thing about it is how there's a step by step guide next to it, called "Here's how". Which tells you how to wash your hands. Turn on the tap. Wet your hands. Put some soap on your hands, making sure to distribute it evenly over back and palms and don't forget your wrists. And before you leave the bathroom, please don't forget to open the door. It's kind of cute in a really weird way that they tell us how to wash our hands, but what the...!

2. The fact that I'm blogging while I should be writing on my research essay.

3. That the girl at the coffee shop this morning burnt my coffee. I'm a very peaceful person, but not necessarily when it comes to coffee. I like my coffee unburnt and I think someone who makes coffees for a living should know how not to burn it.


Three things I realised I'm very good at:

1. I'm excellent at anticipating when the traffic light at the pedestrian crossing is going to change from red to green. It's really not very hard to do, but I think most people just don't try very hard. I'm one of those annoying people who start walking just a couple of seconds before the light goes green. I love it when everyone else hangs back, waiting, and then when the light changes, they realised they should have walked with me. Because I'm never wrong (well, almost never).

2. I'm good at charming the pastry chefs at work or striking deals with them so they make me one of those killer berry cheesecakes. That cheesecake is the bomb. It's amazing. It's emotional. I typed up something for one of the pastry chefs the other day in return for a cheesecake and when I gave it to him, he said: "You're an angel." To which I replied: "I'll do anything for that cheesecake." Suddenly, he and a couple of other people that were standing around had this strange look on their face. "Let me re-phrase that," I said quickly. "I'll do ALMOST anything for it." He said, "Bugger! I thought that going to be really easy."

3. I think I'm pretty damn good at table football (or foosball, as they call it here, which I'm finding an extremely weird name for it. It means "football" in German, but it's just as strange as calling a certain variety of ham "prosciuotto", which simply means ham in Italian.). I played for the first time in ages the other day and I might have just had a lucky day, but man, I beat the hell out of the boys from work. It was great.


Three things I realised I'm not very good at:

1. Going to bed early. I suck at it. Apparently before-midnight-sleep is meant to be much better for you than after-midnight-sleep, but if that's true, I'm in trouble. I work late about four to five nights a week and the other nights, I'm usually out or then I just put off going to bed until it's really late again. It's disgraceful.

2. Whistling. Actually, I didn't just realise I'm bad at it, I always knew. It's absolutely pathetic, but I just can't whistle. I remember we used to sing this song at school that had a part that needed to be whistled and sometimes I would just do playback whistling. I still can't do it. Believe me, I tried. I got fairly close once when I practised for almost an entire day somewhere on a bushwalk in Malaysia. But it's just not happening.

3. Making long-term plans. It freaks me out when people start planning their Christmas lunch in June. I don't even know yet what country I'll be in in a few months' time.


What three things do you love, despise, wish for or don't care about today?