I’ve been keeping this on my mind but school has pretty much taken over – I almost feel as if my time is no longer mine. This goes back to Domestic Scientist, who will know that I have tried my best. So here you go, seven things that I assume you don’t know about me:

1. I have complained about my mother’s obsessive cleaning (she’s Virgo) a lot more than I give her credit for but the truth is I have inherited the tiniest trace of compulsiveness to put things in order around the house or pick up that one strand of hair on the ground. I live in a house with five other girls: we have too many people to keep a tidy place and too few who bother at all. I try very hard for it to not get on my nerves!

2. I major in Speech Communication, which means that my profession requires to me to talk to people all the time. I love people and I love being curious about people and listen to them talk about themselves but I absolutely cannot stand crowds. People become so unlovable in crowds.

3. About 99% of my blog entries are titled with song lyrics. I am so bad at giving titles.

4. I am secretly afraid that as my spoken Chinese gets better every day, my spoken English will deteriorate relatively. The worse thing is that no one is here to speak to me in unaccented English and I have to succumb to the great power of an American accent here in Taipei city.

5. Everyday I think about whether to go to graduate school and everyday I change my mind. If you ask me whether I think I am going to make a good academic, the answer would be a flat no. But if you ask me whether I am keen on going to graduate school, the answer would be why not? I think academia is very inspiring and that the power of being curious is best understood in school. It’s just that once in a while you realise that while being a student you have so much time on your hand to contemplate but most of it is thought that explores theory or formulates one without much action at all. And we all need some kind of action, every once in a while.

6. I suck at electronic games. I pretend to be impatient with them but the truth is I am disinterested completely because I suck at them.

7. I will probably not get marry ever, because I am in love with a girl whom I cannot marry legally in either of the countries we come from. But it’s okay.