A fellow blogger friend, Twilight Spider, tagged me as part of this blog exercise where I have to reveal six weird things about myself. I don't know if I can limit it to six, but I'll try.
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow in my stomach. This belief led to a fear of swallowing any type of seed, in which I would attempt to regurgitate the seed if I accidentally swallowed it. Over time, I began to think that the bulge of a woman's stomach during pregnancy, was really a growing seed, a belief reaffirmed by a statement I heard as a child in church "the fruit of thy womb." I continued to believe this even after my younger brother was born (I was nine at the time), theorizing that my mother was a special exception. Finally in seventh grade, when we learned about photosynthesis and chlorophyll and sunlight, I realized that seeds could not grow in such an environment. But truthfully, to this day, I'm still careful not to swallow any seeds.
- I have arachnophobia. This is not weird. What's weird is I feel a spiritual/sixth sense connection to arachnids. At one point, my fear of spiders has led me to believe that if I ever kill a spider, their families will blacklist me and hire eight legged bounty hunters to kill me. So I avoid them whatsoever. In Thailand, when spiders lived in the four corners of our hotel bathroom, I made a pact with them that so long as they stayed in their corner, I would make no attempt to harm them. An excellent plan indeed.
- I'm mildly OCD. At church, I make sure that the missalettes are all facing the same direction and equally spaced apart. It's become a weekly ritual and become one of the reasons I attend mass every Sunday.
- I plan on having an all out Indian wedding, regardless of my future husband's nationality. Whether he's white, black, hispanic, filipino... we'll be having an Indian wedding - no ifs, ands, or buts.
- I can crack my toes... and the knuckles of my toes... and my ankle... and my back and neck. I'm just one bone cracking machine. lol.
- I drive in the middle of the road (ofcourse only when there's no cars in the opposite direction). Everyone tells me that I should stop driving as though I own the road, but my logic is that the entire road is mine if no one claimed the other side. Also, I don't want to scratch the cars parked on the right side. I could easily only drive in the middle if a parked car limited my space, but I drive in the middle regardless of the parked cars. If you see someone doing that in your neighborhood, it's probably me.
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