Ouch, been tagged! Zun­nur of A Lit­tle Time asked me to com­plete the now famous “seven things about me” meme. Okay, let’s go:

My lit­tle Coke addic­tion: I don’t mind the odd cup of cof­fee but I have never got addicted. That said, I need some caf­feine to start my day… so I usu­ally have a can of Diet Coke (or Coke Zero), while every­one else is sip­ping Star­bucks. I drink about two cans a day along with a lot of mint tea.

Ooops… I did it again: When I first came to Canada, I signed up on a few French-speaking immi­grants forums. Prob­lem was, most French peo­ple move to Que­bec and I was almost the only one liv­ing in what Que­be­cers call “the ROC” (for “Rest Of Canada”). The two main forums had pretty strong views on Canada. One basi­cally thought Canada was the worse place on earth while France was soooo much bet­ter, while the other one strongly empha­sized on the evil of English-speaking provinces and was basi­cally a Que­bec sep­a­ratist recruit­ment cen­ter. I was banned from both forums within months. But I had a lot of fun argu­ing with stu­pid people!

A for­mer veg­e­tar­ian: as a teen, I had stopped eat­ing meat. Not because I wanted to be nice to ani­mals, but mostly because I found it gross. I stopped being a veg­e­tar­ian when study­ing in China… I mean, why live on tofu and spinach with rice when you can have 北京烤鸭 (Bei­jing Duck)? When trav­el­ing, food is food. Period. I just drew the line at pig’s intestine.

My eye: I’m blind in my left eye — I can see light, shapes and move­ments with this eye, and that’s about it. I was born like that. It doesn’t really bother me since I can see, drive (even if I’m not the best dri­ver), and gen­er­ally speak­ing live just fine. I just can’t see 3D movies — not a major thing. Besides, all geniuses have fucked up eyes: Thom Yorke, me, David Bowie, me etc.

We don’t need no edu­ca­tion: In high school, I was good at French, his­tory, for­eign lan­guages etc. but I sucked at maths and sci­ence in gen­eral. So I decided to stop attend­ing these classes. Why even bother? I was well-known for skip­ping classes I didn’t like and being pretty hon­est about it (“Zhu didn’t attend the class yes­ter­day because she didn’t feel like it”/ “Zhu fig­ured she could use extra-time to sleep, so she didn’t come on the first two Mon­day morn­ing classes” etc.).

Ner­vous, moi?: when I’m think­ing of just bored, I twist my hair. Like right now. Oh well. I least, I don’t bit my nails.

Please, hold the line: I have just bought my first cell phone a week ago. So far, I had one incom­ing call: myself call­ing from home, just to check the cell phone was work­ing fine. It does. Maybe I should just start giv­ing my friends the new phone num­ber. But how about I try to fig­ure out how to answer a call first? And how to write text mes­sages? And how to shut off the phone? Damn, I’m only 25 years old but I feel old…

Since I don’t like to suf­fer alone, here are the blog­gers I tag:

• That Breese Family
• Jen­nie En France
• Reward Rebel
• The Spit­ting Vessel
• Johnada

Have fun!

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