{"id":9353,"date":"2006-02-26T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/26\/stuff-about-me\/"},"modified":"2006-02-26T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T22:36:00","slug":"stuff-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/26\/stuff-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"stuff about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p># I&#8217;m left handed. The interesting thing is that I&#8217;m not sure if I was meant to be left handed. My right arm&#8217;s pull is stronger than my left arm, my left arm&#8217;s push is stronger than my right arm. This means that I can lift more with my right but I punch harder with my left. Dribble with my right but shoot hoops with my left. Stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p># Another interesting thing about that is that I burnt my left hand as a kid playing with fire, so for a period of time I learnt to use my right hand for stuff, making me mildly ambidextrous. I haven&#8217;t used the right hand to write in a really long time though, so it&#8217;s sort of like primary 3 writing now.<\/p>\n<p># I have pretty much always been amongst or the most tallest guy around, since kindergarten. I&#8217;ve never actually had a &#8220;growth spurt&#8221; per say, but I more or less stay consistently tall and then stopped.<\/p>\n<p># I don&#8217;t enjoy being tall nearly as much as people think I do. But there are perks, like being able to look over everybody&#8217;s heads. This is great in a crowd and brilliant at stuff like rock gigs. It also gets minahs poking you and making stupid jokes and telling you to bend down\/grow shorter\/carry them\/ etc etc etc. Which is kind of annoying. Unless they&#8217;re cute. Which is kind of rare.<\/p>\n<p># There were always undercurrents of music in me when I was a little kid but I never quite realised. My brothers used to blare Guns N Roses and Metallica when I was about 3, so the rock and metal anthems just seemed so damn familiar when I heard them for myself again.<\/p>\n<p># I was never taught to swim or to ride the bicycle. I find my parents very annoying for that. I can do both very, very horribly and am still in the process of self-learning.<\/p>\n<p># I was also brought up as a very picky eater. This is very sad because it means that my appetite is nowhere near what it should be and that as a result, I am very skinny.<\/p>\n<p># Until about two to three years ago, I refused to eat any form of meat other than fish (that&#8217;s right, I pretty much never touched chicken until so recently. I remember puking out chicken curry when I was really young.)<\/p>\n<p># This lack of adventure in my food reflects in the fact that I pretty much always eat fish-related burgers at fast food joints and that I am a vanilla ice-cream person. This is occasionally is starting to change.<\/p>\n<p># Though recently I&#8217;ve grown to love sweet&#038;sour pork or prawns, well-done venison, and hot plate tofu.<\/p>\n<p># I have never eaten Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s ice cream, ever. I intend to change that ASAP. I had never eaten A&#038;W waffles or root beer float or whatnot either. I am much saddened by that.<\/p>\n<p>Enough about food eh.<br \/>\n# I used to enjoy playing and watching soccer as a little kid.<\/p>\n<p># I first picked up basketball from a few friends of my brother&#8217;s, but only started playing it semi-regularly after watching the anime Slam Dunk.<\/p>\n<p># Despite my height, I cannot yet slam dunk. It can&#8217;t be too far away though, because I can grab the rims at least.<\/p>\n<p># I used to watch the animes on AXN obsessively. I can sometimes understand conversational japanese because of that, but it seems to fade with not-watching anime too much.<\/p>\n<p># I love live music. I believe music is meant to be an interaction between the performer and an audience, of emotion, of feel, and as an art. (Of course, mastering a brilliant record is also an art form, but not nearly as great to me as beautiful live music.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p># I&#8217;m left handed. The interesting thing is that I&#8217;m not sure if I was meant to be left handed. My right arm&#8217;s pull is stronger than my left arm, my left arm&#8217;s push is stronger than my right arm. 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