Some facts for the tossing:
- Citizen of Singapore
- Denizen of Hong Kong for four years and three months
- Ghoulish presence at Singapore Bible College at the mo’
- Fan of Diana Wynne Jones, Joss Whedon, Jay Chou, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Chow, Studio Ghibli, Pixar Animation Studios, Worship Central, This American Life, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Michael Palin’s adventures, Stephen Colbert, Korean dramas with happy endings, Jesus Culture
- Connoisseur of good affordable food, fine weathered friends, fast fearless enmities, lazy lousy days, good books I don’t read and a certain I-know-not-whatness about life
- Mac user since 14 November 2000 (1st: iBook G3/466 SE Graphite, 2nd: MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 15″, plus an iPad 2 in the Glory of White)
- Compulsive photo-taker, reductive video-maker
- Studied French, Latin and Hindi, to little avail; getting better at Chinese with lesser effort; can just about hold a conversation in Cantonese (but can’t in Teochow or Foochow, to my familial shame; now tackling Koine Greek with some seriousness)
- Sort of double majored in English Literature and Political Science with a minor in Philosophy; now marching onwards to a Master of Divinity, with a concentration on Intercultural Studies
- Kinda had two stories for children published, as well as a hotch-potch of educational ‘articles’
- Comedy nerd, hopeless type
- Dilettante, intellectually ineffectual type
- Flibbertigibbet, verbally diarrhoeal type
- Christian, growing-to-be-ruined-for-Christ type
goyster
i agree, and like, that you’re a ‘flibbertigibbet’! isabel is quite obsessed with the sound of music; she can sing most of its songs, including ‘how do you solve a problem like maria’
starbreez
hehe, actually my gold-standard flibbertigibbet reference is meg ryan’s delivery of a line in joe vs. the volcano (assisted by a folding fan): “Daddy says I’m a flibbertigibbet!”
has isabel been introduced to the wonders of mary poppins yet? i remember that as one of my great obsessions!
goyster
oh isabel’s obsessed with the opening scene where mary poppins sits on a cloud; and the part where poppins arrives descending with a brolly. also warbles ‘spoonful of sugar’ and ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ (somewhat. she skims thru the syllables in a blur :)
starbreez
nice! is that bear in the big blue house dvd still around? does she like that too? :]
goyster
yeah she does groove to bbbh songs, or they did. at a certain age (about 1), they both were terrified whenever bear came too close and sniffed the tv, but have now grown out of it lah :)
starbreez
aiyoh, sorry for inadvertently traumatising your kids! maybe broke the ‘fourth wall’ a bit too early for them. :]
Wayne Leman
laughing languidly at your alluring alliterations!