Random lists of things

Things I own or owned that are older than me:

• My mum's swimsuit (it was actually quite nice-looking)
• My dad's Bible (pocket-sized copy of the NIV)
• My friend David's mum's old bike (a Motobecane Nomade, mixte-frame road bike. The photo in the Wikipedia entry is mine, actually.)

Things I like:

• Skinny boys (must work on Steve!)
• Sharp knives (I have 14 bladed instruments in my tiny apartment at last count, ranging from a foot-long Filipino bolo to a #11 craft knife)
• Medium-sized dogs
• Cats except brachycephalic breeds (e.g. Persians, which look like they've been punched in the face)
• Rainy days
• Broccoli, green peas, Chinese/Napa cabbage, Chinese radish/daikon
• Boston Cream doughnuts
• Automatic microplate washers
• Watching animals interact without human intervention
• Lindt and Dove chocolates, and those fancy Guylian hazelnut praline seashells
• Fireworks of any type
• Lego
• Complex but gramatically well-structured sentences
• My immediate family and most of the Hwa cousins
• White mice
• Wensleydale cheese
• Char koay teow and Penang laksa
• Microwave ovens
• Evolutionary psychology
• Thick copper wire, like the kind in the solenoids of ceiling fans

Things I don't like:

• Indexed shifters on cheap bikes (because the "clicks" on the shifters don't line up properly with the gears)
• Running
• Pipettors that take weird-sized tips
• Mustard greens
• Toy breeds of dogs (especially since working at a vet clinic in college)
• UMNO politicians
• Girls/women who wear a lot of makeup and expect males to carry things for them
• Radical feminists
• Ultracentrifuges (because I'm scared the rotor will come off and fly through a brick wall)
• Cotton rats, because they bite and they're tough bastards to catch
• Oscillating fans
• Cheap chocolate with palm oil or other vegetable oils substituted for the cocoa butter
• Whiny accents, particularly Malaysian Chinese-school-educated and the US "Valley Girl"
• Powdered latex gloves
• People who are stupid because they're lazy and/or arrogant (people who are stupid because of innate skill level are fine, it's not their fault...and they often act more sensibly than the former type of stupidos)
• Chee cheong fun ("pig intestine noodles")