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Sorry it took me so long to get to your ask, I have no excuse I was just to lazy to go on my computer. 1. How was the rest of your Christmas? | 2. What happened with you and your girlfriend if you don't mind my asking? | 3. What have you been up to? | 4. Hardest thing you find about being in an relationship? | 5. Best thing you find about being in an relationship? | Sorry for the relationship based questions, you asked me about Ty so that's where my mind is .

1) Eh, I bailed on the family dinner but that was maybe the day before; Christmas itself was fine. My sister enjoyed the present I got her (she doesn’t use it now, though. It was a VR thing for mobile phones, like Google Cardboard except a bit fancier) and I enjoyed the present I got myself so it was fine.2) Near the end of November I decided that it would be fairer to her if we broke up since although I’ve always liked her, I’ve never really felt like I loved her and also my behaviour was upsetting her a bunch and I figured it would be better to break up with her sooner rather than continuing to hurt her feelings and then having us eventually end things anyway, so I broke up with her. I didn’t feel anything about that for a month but then all of a sudden in January I felt really bad and I’ve kinda regretted it since but I suppose she’s better off without me now. I did text her near the start of the year and that conversation ended amicably but she said she’d rather not get back in contact with me so I’ll respect that and just look for someone else or just keep on keeping on alone, I guess.3) Not much, really. I don’t have a job and I’m not dating anyone, so mostly I was just on YouTube and playing games while listening to podcasts and occasionally I’d go to university to do university things. I just finished my first semester so I have about a month off before my next semester starts but I’ll only have one subject so there’ll still be loads of free time. I’m thinking about getting a job again just so I’ll have something to do. I’m not really bored, but I do feel like I’m wasting a whole year, so a job would be good to make me feel productive. I should finish university in December, though, assuming I don’t fail anything or drop out.4) Knowing that you’ve hurt the other person and not being able to do anything to make it better.5) Having someone to be completely open and relaxed and comfortable and safe around; having someone with whom to share your life.

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1) What is your favorite artificial fruit flavor? Least favorite? 2) Would you rather it be really cold or really hot? 3) What do you typically order at Starbucks? 4) Any Easter traditions? 5) Last book you read?

1) Strawberry is pretty great. Banana is the worst, it’s never tasted anything like real bananas.

2) Really cold. It feels nicer getting warm and dry inside after a cold day than it does cooling down after a hot day. Mostly because of the sweatiness of hot days, I think.

3) The largest size of something chocolatey with lots of foam. If I’m up on casino hotel mountain, it’s a hot chocolate. Any other time it’s either ice blended chocolate or ice blended coffee chocolate, depending on whether I plan on sleeping soon-ish or not.

4) Not really, no. I’ll probably go for a special Mass with my girlfriend this year, though.

5) After America by John Birmingham is the last book I finished. My girlfriend got it for me as a present because I liked the first book so much. She also got me the third one but I haven’t started on it yet. The last book I read is the Bible, but if you don’t count that then it’s Les Misérables. I’m just a little under halfway through that book now. It’ll be years before I’m done, I think. =/

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1. How was your time away from Tumblr? | 2. What did I miss in your life that I probably would of heard about? | 3. What do you think is the greatest thing since sliced bread?(P.S Betty White was the best thing before.) | 4. Black or White? | 5. Fav thing about the weather you're experiencing right now? | 6. Most worst vehicle of any sort of transportation device that you have ever had.. (btw my autocorrect thing is gone? I don't know why? So probably spelling errors.)

1) It was good! I used my free time to exercise a bit and play video games and hang out with my girlfriend. There was also a lot of refreshing the same pages over and over because even with all that other stuff, I still had time left over. Oh well. =/

2) Becca and I are making out a lot now. We got taken in for questioning by the cops a couple weeks back because of that. Malaysia is weird. =P

3) The internet? I would say computers but they’re pretty boring without the internet. The Pill is pretty big, too, but if it didn’t exist already people probably would’ve used the internet to crowdfund it at some point or something.

4) Black. It looks cooler with most colours and it doesn’t strain the eyes so much to look at it onscreen and such.

5) It’s raining on most evenings, which makes for some really great naps. It’s also keeps things nice and cool at night.

6) I guess maybe that bus that broke down right outside that exit up to Genting? It was stuck for several hours when we were on our way to Terengganu to visit Redang many, many years ago. That was pretty boring.

I was once on a pretty boring train back from Ipoh, but it was a smooth enough ride that I could sleep through most of it, I think. I don’t recall ever being in a really awful vehicle before, really.

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Totally random bunch of questions:1) Salty or sweet snacks? |2) If you had a superpower what would it be? |3) What’s the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to you? |4) Who’s your best friend? |5) How did you meet him/her?

1) Sweet. You need less of them to feel satisfied.

2) The ability to understand any language. If I pick something like time-stopping powers, then I’ve got eternity to fix everything that’s wrong with the world and I don’t like that responsibility. If I pick the ability to make people do whatever I want, then I’d have to battle with temptation to use it on people I care about, which would be the start of the slippery slope to villainy and madness. Ditto mindreading. I think freeze powers are pretty cool, since you can reverse entropy and make the universe last forever and stuff, but I wouldn’t know how to apply them. So yeah, the ability to understand any language. I’d be super easy for me to get a job, I’d have no problems travelling, I could watch previously inaccessible foreign films without subtitles. It’d be great.

3) Existing. I could’ve been someone very different, with a 50% chance of being a girl, even, if a different sperm had made it through.

Aside from that, though, probably meeting you. I am super glad that I got bored enough on that day to check my OKC profile and find your message. =D

4) Pholanx? Bardia? Malini? Maybe you? I dunno. I think it may be cheating on the question to count one’s girlfriend as one’s best friend, so we’ll just take that as a given. I guess I’ll go with Pholanx ‘cause I have the most fun hangin’ out with him and I’m more open with him than the other two candidates. Also I talk with him more than I do with Bardia and he frustrates me less than Malini.

5) After the guys in my first outfit in Planetside 2, the Blue Berets, stopped playing so much, I hopped over to another room on the same Teamspeak channel that seemed to always be full of people. That room was for ABOL, another outfit on the Cobalt server, and they were more active so I hung out with them. Pholanx was in ABOL, and that’s where I first met him. I got to know him better when DayZ standalone was released and he and a few of the other ABOL guys started playing with me. He’s the only one that really stuck around, though; the other guys are now mostly playing Clash of Clans or Borderlands 2 or something.

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1) What do you think about having an imaginary friend during childhood? | 2) Which song do you sing the most in the shower? | 3) What do you scream when in a roller coaster? | 4) IHave you ever tried imitating a monkey or a chimp while looking at yourself in a mirror? | 5) What were you doing at the end of the world on December 21st, 2012?

1) It can be really disturbing and creepy, but most of the time it’s harmless and normal? I’m gonna Google it quickly to check that it’s normal.

Yeah, it’s normal and common. Not just that, it’s also quite a positive thing. Kids with imaginary friends laugh and smile more and imaginary friends help children cope with distressing events. Also almost all children know their imaginary friends aren’t real, so that’s relieving, too.

I’m much more supportive of imaginary friends after reading that article.

2) Heaven’s Light/Hellfire, Cocaine Blues, and various sea shanties from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

3) I don’t scream; I yell. =P

Usually it’s just “Yeah!” or “Woo!” or something.

4) …No? Is this a common thing?

5) Drinking and watching either 2012 or Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

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1) Believe in aliens? |2) What comes to mind when I say the word “apple” (I heard this at a job interview once) |3) Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? |4) Do you have any nicknames? |5) What’s your least favourite form of exercise?

1) Not any that have visited Earth already, no. There is probably extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe, but I’m guessing we’re gonna run into a lot of boring life like bacteria or fungi if we’re lucky before we even come close to anything sentient or even sapient.

2) Macs and all the money they’ve made for the company.

3) Nope. Should I?

4) Amanda used to call me Shaunie but I haven’t spoken to her in over a year. Now Malini uses that one. People online call me Itrade and I’m fine with that.

5) Push-ups. I can’t figure out how to do them properly. My form is always all wrong.

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I am totally new to this and I'm too lazy to read through your entire Tumblr to check if you have ever answered these questions. Have fun answering =D1) So what was it like finally swallowing a bit of durian?2) Tell me one thing that’s on your bucket list3) If you had RM100 million, what would you buy (notice I did not ask “do”)?4) What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?5) What’s the best dish you can cook?

Haha, that’s fine. You could probably ask Bailey or Dysfunctionull and they’d be able to find plenty of times where I’d ask the same question multiple times ‘cause my memory is weak. =P

Also you can use “|” to separate questions; it’s right above the enter key if you hold shift. =)

1) It was difficult because it was like I forgot how to swallow. Every time I’d move it around to try and get it in position, I’d taste it again and I’d gag. The taste was awful but tolerable; its horribleness didn’t hit me with as much force as the one in Terengganu.

2) When I was, like, 12 or so (probably earlier than that, actually) I played loads and loads of RuneScape and only a couple of months in I decided I wanted to master the mining skill, which takes a really really long time and is really really boring but back then it was very profitable. Nowadays it’s probably not even in the top 20 most profitable activities, but still the ambition remains. I must’ve stopped playing 5 years ago or something. Probably longer. I only would come back every now and then for a few hours each year to do the holiday events, and even those I’ve skipped for the past few years. I still wanna get level 85 mining (level 84 with Dwarven Stout) so I can mine Runite Ore, though.

I’ll probably just pass my account to my son or nephew or whomever and let him to it for me. The game has changed so much, though, and not really for the better. I’m worried that if I wait too long I’ll just be able to buy my way to level 99 mining and that wouldn’t be the same. Oh well.

3) Firstly I’d buy lots of good karma by giving half of it to charity. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would get most of it, half of the rest would go to various suicide prevention hotlines and other resources for people struggling with depression, and then half of the other half would go to microloans for the developing world and then the other half of the other half would go to the RSPCA.

With the RM50m that’s left over for me, I’d spend it less than wisely. RM5,000,000 would go into Bitcoin even though that seems to have already failed. RM10,000,000 would go into shares of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway, and Exxon. RM2,000,000 would go to a house in Assen with furnishing and stuff. RM1,000,000 would go to arming the Kurds somehow because that’d be interesting. RM4,000,000 would just be equally distributed among the various internet people I know and I’ve known, so that’s… (Dancngman, Plunky2, Ben, Mikey, TBBR dudes [we’ll count the whole group as one], ABOL dudes [same rule; sorry Pholanx =P], Lemon, Prof & gang [another group], Kiana, Sara, Sof, Bailey, Dysfunctionull, every other person I follow on Tumblr [one group], PWoT people [one group], SoftlyGaloshes, RaceDraw8, and anyone else who I forgot to put on this list [one group]) around fifty thousand dollars (I did a very rough conversion from ringgits to make things easier) each unless they’re part of a group in which case it’s more like five thousand. RM6,000,000 would go to family and friends even though that’s a disastrous idea that usually tears people apart and creates a lot of strife when it happens with lottery winnings and stuff. RM10,000,000 would go into a savings fund that I’ll bar myself access from until I’m 37 (40 seemed to far away, 37 seems just right plus it’s 15 years from now and 15 looks okay). That leaves RM12,000,000. Hm. I’d get a Lexus, a stupidly powerful new computer, a new chair, my own apartment on a different floor of this same building (I am too lazy to do much moving plus my mum would be glad that it’d be really easy to visit), a driver, a pair of kittens, all of Jonathan Coulton’s music, my entire Steam Library in gifts to give away (those last two alone are around RM4,000, by the way), a dirtbike, better insurance, and some nice clothes or jewellery for you that you can pick out. Let’s slap a budget of RM6,000,000 on all of that. I’d travel around the world (Australia, New Zealand, the bits of Europe around the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, drive across North America, visit to Antarctica, disaster tourism in Chernobyl) for RM2,000,000. It might not cost that much but if there’s still money leftover near the end of the trip then I’d start staying at five-star hotels and flying first class; that’ll burn through it real fast. I guess I’d live off the other RM4,000,000 for the next year or two. Oh, wait, no, I’d live off the other RM3,000,000. I’d put RM1,000,000 aside to pay for the rest of my education ‘cause I’d probably go back to university to get a degree.

Yeah with that RM3,000,000 to sustain me, I’d still get bored without a job so I’d do renovation work under a contractor. If I’m good at it I might start my own business.

Huh, I’m kinda surprised I decided to stay in Malaysia at the end of all that. I have the house in Assen for holidays but overall I guess I don’t mind this country too much after all.

4) That time I walked to the KL tower and Twin Towers on Christmas Eve comes to mind.

5) I can grill a pretty good steak but that’s more like one really good ingredient with some butter and pepper and a wee bit of salt on it. I also taught myself how to make nice portobello mushroom sandwiches, actually. It’s just fried mushroom, olive oil, chopped onions & black olives, bread, and turkey slices, but it’s pretty tasty.

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1. Best thing you've read that wasn't published? | 2. Song you're embarrassed to admit you like? | 3. Favourite kind of essay (To read or write doesn't matter) ? | 4. American English or UK english? | 5. Ever lived in a room that was painted an odd colour?

1) That long message from Bekah saying she wanted to be with me or date exclusively or something. Everytime I think about it, I smile. =)

2) I don’t think I’m embarrassed about any of my musical tastes. Could be awkward if someone walked in on me singing Disney princess songs or Kesha (She dropped the dollar sign, apparently) with mad enthusiasm, but it’s not something I’d be ashamed about. They’re good songs. =D

3) General musings on hypothetical scenarios, I guess? “What would the world be like of all the men died?” “What would you do if you woke up tomorrow as a woman?” “What do you think your married life will be like?” “Whose death would improve the world the most?” “What would happen to the world if everyone thought it was gonna end in four weeks?”

That sort of thing.

4) UK English. They invented the language so I follow their rules, unless it’s about including a “z” in the middle of the word. “Z” is underutilized. I think Australian English follows that rule? So it’d be colorized in the US, colourised in the UK, and colourized to me and the Aussies. Maybe.

5) My room is a pale blue-ish green and I really like it. Is that an odd colour for a room? I like cool colours in rooms. The country is warm enough without walls to exacerbate things.