My second meme from Jennic at sweetisu.com. 🙂
When researching the meaning of number 8, I came across of a lot of fun trivia I wouldn’t have known if not because of this meme.
Eight facts on number 8 :
- In Mathematics, 8 is a Fibonacci number (as 3 plus 5), same way as Dr Robert Langdon of The Da Vinci Code viewed it
- In Science, an octopus has 8 tentacles – that’s a lot of hands if planning to get pedicure, but wait … it doesn’t have fingers!
- In Chemistry, 8 is atomic number for oxygen – that’s pretty cool
- In ancient tradition of Chinese, 8 immortals are most popular deities – my most favourite ones, they cover symbols of all good things in life
- In Tarot, card number 8 is “strength” – don’t know much about tarot
- In culinary experience, 8 courses-dinner is a must for a Chinese-style wedding banquet – yeah, that’s a lot of food
- In Astrology, Scorpio is the 8th sign in zodiac
- In Chinese culture, 8 is a lucky number because pronounced the same way as “wealth”, “prosper” (I know, this one is old news, but still worth mentioning!)
Eight things I am passionate about
- Family & husband (the usual stuff)
- Work & shop – it feels great to be apart of something else outside family
- Home – we live in a beautiful tropical home. There’s really nothing like home!
- Great furniture – I love good quality wood furniture, I know it’s not very rain-forest friendly, but sturdy teak high quality furniture last forever!
- Electronic gadgets – I am not techie, but great cool gadgets amazed me. They make me feel cool and chic, even when I don’t know a thing about them 🙂
- Shoes and clothes and makeups – I am a shoe gal. Boots, open sandal, strappy, flats, pumps, blablabla. The others explain themselves ..
- Art work – I support local artists! I collect paintings, sculptures, ceramics, mix-media art
- Food – I love good food and great restaurants
Eight things I want to do before I die
- Get a tatoo on private place, before cellulite get its hold on me!
- Grow something in our garden, flowers, vegetables, or even cactus .. anything
- Get my parents cruise trip to Alaska
- Learn to cook and bake properly
- Start an organisation that provides free books and computers to third world children
- Travel the world, go to Italy and have spaghetti, go to New York for pizza – the whole culinary tour
- Write children books
- Learn to speak and write Mandarin!
Eight things I say often
- I am so so sorry I forgot
- Hunggryyy …
- Hey poop tongue
- Clean the crumbs!
- Can I call you later?
- Let’s go out for lunch!
- !@#$%*&!! <– swearing in Hokkien (chinese dialect)
- #+%*!@$?!! <– swearing in Indonesian
Eight books I read recently
- To kill a mocking bird – Harper Lee
- The Broker – John Grisham
- Treasure Island – Robert Stevenson
- Archie Comics
- The Angel and Demon – Dan Brown
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Total Feng Shui – Lilian Too
Eight songs I could listen to over and over
- Norah Jones – Come away with me
- Sheryl Crow – Good is good
- Willie Nelson – Don’t give up
- Macy Gray – I try
- Alanis Morisette – Now is the time
- Pearl Jam – Last kiss
- Sarah McLachlan – I will remember you
- Sade – I’ll be there
Eight things that attract me to my best friends
- Trustworthy – I have lots of deep dark secrets ..
- Reliable
- Fun
- Outgoing
- Great listener – I could talk for hours and hours ..
- Kind
- Like me for who I am
- Helpful
Eight people who should do this meme
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andie summerkiss 
Wow!! Such resaerch for the Number 8!!! Have you seen the movie 23, starring Jim Carrey? Heh… 88888888 Everywhere 8888888888888 88 8 8 88888 88 88 888888 888888 88 8 88888 Very Fatt!
How does one curse in Indonesian, eh? Interesting!
I like your home too, from what little I’ve glimpsed of it.. 🙂
Andie : No I haven’t seen it. Is it good? LoL, I think we swear differently, bahasa Melayu and Indonesia. But the essense is the same. 🙂
hi andie, thanks for stopping by, yes we had alot of fun the best part is we raise lotsa $$ for the food bank, boy did that ever felt good.
Andie : Wow, congratulation on that!
Nice!
Hokkien? You speak Hokkien?
Andie : Of course! Chinese in Medan speak Hokkien. In KL, they speak Cantonese, right. I speak a bit of it. 🙂
You know, I always thought all Indonesians speak only the Indonesian language. How ignorant of me. Yes, people in KL speak Cantonese in public though at home, we speak our own dialect if we are not Cantonese. In Penang, the dialect is Penang Hokkien and in Johore, it’s Johorean Hokkien. These days, Mandarin is widely used too especially in hawker stalls that cater to college students as outstation students may not know the local lingua franca.
Andie : Well, Chinese language (any dialects) is becoming quite scarce. Even young Chinese are reluctant to speak it anymore. They prefer Indonesian or English. I think you will understand the unsaid here. 😦
But amazingly, the rise of China as economic power has prompted a lot of people to learn Mandarin, even the non-Chinese. That’s quite impressive, I’d say.
I loved reading this post! What? no tagging? hmmm….
I loved your song list.. could listen to more than half of those songs over and over too 🙂
Andie : I didn’t know who to tag 😦 Not that many friends when I put the post up, I know, I gotta get going … Make new friends …
I am really glad we almost like the same songs … :0