a glimpse of sharon world...

tagged!

Rules of the game: Post 5 Weird and Random facts about yourself, then at the end list the names of 5 people who are next in line to do this. Also leave a post on their xanga (but do blogspot because it's better) to let these people know.

i know it has taken me far too long to do this (sorry naomi!), but in any case, here we go...

5 wierd and random facts about me:

1. my pinky toes on both feet are a little bit oddly shaped. one of my parents have short pinky toes and the other has curvy ones so yours truly got stuck with a hybrid of both: short curvy pinky toes! one on each foot. it used to bother me a lot when i was younger but not so much anymore. it just sucks when i try on some sandals and it looks like i'm missing my pinky toe because it's too short and it stays hidden. boo. :P

2. i eat slow. now, there are people who eat slow and then there are people who eat SLOW. i belong to the latter group. when i was younger it used to take me on average 2 hours to finish my dinner. (sometimes longer. i think once i dragged it out to like 3 hours.) i remember was so boring and sad. i used to have to sit at the kitchen table and finish my food alone since everyone else finished their food like 1.5 hours before me and were long gone. :P

3. i have perfect pitch. don't ask me how it works because i have no idea. all i know is that i can (99.9% of the time) tell you what note is being played without looking the keyboard or whatever instrument your playing or sing you notes without the use of a musical instrument. (i think in recent years it has started to fade and isn't quite as good as it used to be. liz has said the same thing about her ears too. i wonder why...??) in any case, it's pretty useful sometimes. (all my dictations in first and second year university were SOOOO easy - i had much more complicated and difficult dictations at yamaha when i was 11. no joke.) you can also pick up chords of songs a lot more easily. there are, however, other times it's just plain annoying because it's one of those things you can't turn off.

4. i never wanted to go into music. ever. (i'm in my last year at laurier and i'm a music therapy/psychology student. haha.) even back in elementary school i didn't want to audition for the arts york program at unionville high school. it was liz who basically shoved the application form in my face and literally forced me to apply. then when i auditioned to get into the program i auditioned for both visual arts and music, and really wanted to get into visual arts. (i even told the music department that during my audition.) in the end, i got wait-listed for visual arts but was accepted into the music proram, (i would have chosen visual arts over music if i could.) sometimes i can't help but be amazed when i look back on everything that has happened in my past because even though i didn't know it at the time, there was definitely a Higher Power guiding me through it all. it's funny how things work out in the end. :)

5. i won a chinese school award (or something to that extent) in VBS once when i was younger. you probably don't believe me, but i did! i won it because out of everyone in my VBS class, i was able to write the most chinese characters (i knew "grandmother", "girl" and some other ones but i can't remember them) from memory and nicer than other people. what did i win? a pencil set...and the satisfaction of getting the award over the other people in my class who were all show-offs because they were actually in chinese school and were really vocal about that (i never did). HA! i'm sure when my name was called they were like: :O bah hah. suckers. ;)

alright, i nominate justin, shannon, joanna, chow, and dan!!! *sharon tags them all*