1. I am an idealist at heart and I spend a lot of time trying to understand why people do the things they do.
2. I hate war. If there is anything I could abolish, that would be guns and the military. Don’t ever make me watch a war movie! The army uniform turns me off.
3. Strangely enough, I have a fascination with knives, particularly daggers. I like all my knives to be real sharp. And yes, I sharpen them every day. I used to carry a small knife in my bag when I was young.
4. I cannot take it when a parent screams at their child in public. Esp when they use bad words. The child will just become the same way when he grows up. Coz of this, I make a conscious effort to call my girl nice nicknames or sweet words to train myself for when she become unbearably naughty.
5. I must have tea every day and it’s a huge process of boiling tea leaves, and doing it teh tarik style! It’s my daily pleasure 
6. The immigration in Saudi laughed at me after seeing the number of chilli sauce bottles in my luggage!
7. I have a sister and a dad. I have 2 stepmothers. I have another sister not living with me. I have a brother with my first stepmother. And my 2nd stepmother is still married to my dad. It’s a trip all the time when people ask me how many brothers and sisters do I have.
8. I don’t like getting into religious debates. It’s a waste of time.
9. There is no way I can ever be a vegan or a vegetarian. I’m a Leo, it’s all about the carcasses!
10. I have a thing for vampires. That’s why I love Buffy.
11. I didn’t feel like a mother not even when I held my daughter in my arms the first time. It’s only when we got home and she somehow moved to snuggle beside me when we sleep at night, that’s when I felt it.
12. Seeing Gul fall in love with Farah after he wanted a son is the sweetest moment of my life.
13. I was once been surrounded by 5 big dogs all barking at me. Someone distracted them and I was able to run!
14. I tore up my dentist card when I was 7 after my first visit. That thing that vibrates in your tooth for cavity still give me chills.
15. I get most of my stories in dreams and graphic nightmares. It always has a beginning and an end. I cannot sit and think about what to write. It will never come. Sometimes I go for months without writing because the nightmares never came.
16. I’ve bumped into the glass doors of Mac and BK 3 times, once after they washed it.
17. I once fainted during the national anthem and laid on my best friend’s feet while she kept on singing.
18. After watching too many travel shows on Discovery Travel, I’ve lost the travel bug. There’s just no more surprises.
19. I’ve had 2 almost fatal experiences. In a cab in BKK and a bus stopped inches from crashing against my cab, in Tioman when I slipped while climbing a mountain and hung on to a limb till my friend grabbed me and pulled me to safety.
20. I’ve had moments where I prayed so hard for God to help me and He did. He didn’t have to but He did.
21. I wish that Global warming is less a political issue and more of a humanitarian issue. Our kids are going to suffer!
22. A lot of people tell me that giving birth is a magical experience. I wish they had told me the truth! Too many things were violated during mine but the magic did happen. Months later.
23. I love that I’m so comfortable with my friends. It feels like home and its hard for me to find this comfort in new friends. It’s our history that makes us the way we are now.
24. I don’t take life for granted. I can die tomorrow.
25. I hope I become a better Muslim before I die. That I’ve done enough to outweigh my sins so that God will forgive me somehow.
