25 Random Things

As on Facebook...thought it'd make a good blog post too :P

Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.


1. My favourite fruit to eat at breakfast is a banana, because it's good for you and fills you up :)

2. I've been to the U.S. more times than I've been back to Hong Kong.

3. I used to have a lot of trouble in highschool falling asleep because I would lie awake thinking/worrying about stuff (I still do sometimes)

4. I often wonder what plans God has in store for me for the rest of my life, and if it involves moving out of Sydney or doing something else other than my chosen profession, and how much of life's comforts it will require me to sacrifice.

5. I can be quite stubborn sometimes, in that if you ask me to do/tell you something and my original answer is no, the more you ask me, the more determined I become to not change my mind.

6. My email and blog URL "certainhope" was inspired by a series of studies on 1 Peter we did in Glue (Friday night youth group) 2004.

7. I like to play piano, it is one of my favourite things to do now, but I didn't start enjoying it until a few years after I had stopped going to piano lessons.

8. Sometimes I can appear cold and unfriendly to people I don't know very well, because I am naturally shy and not very good at making conversation. But I really am quite nice, please talk to me because I would like to get to know you better :)

9. I am good at expressing myself in writing, not so much when I speak.

10. I sometimes wonder how different my personality would be if I had grown up with siblings.

11. I have come to realise the futility of pursuing career, money, mortgage, marriage, kids, fun and pleasure as the primary aim of life, and wonder why more people don't contemplate their lives from the perspective of eternity.

12. A lot of my youth leaders have had a big influence on me, and I hope I can do the same for the youth I've led/will lead in the future.

13. I am a lot more short-sighted in my left eye than in my right eye.

14. I have seven first cousins on my mum's side, and one on my dad's side.

15. I've been out of highschool for more years now than I've been in highschool, which makes me feel old.

16. But I often feel too young to be taking on the responsibilities required of my profession.

17. I don't like walking outside when it rains because the raindrops get on my glasses and then the world becomes speckled!

18. I want more people to come to know Jesus but struggle with how to go about it in a way that is practical, loving and non-judgemental.

19. I feel I'm using the word "I" too many times in this post.

20. I have a thing for correct grammar and spelling...I get a bit annoyed when people do things like using the wrong "your/you're"....although I'm probably guilty of doing the same thing online sometimes :P

21. I don't fear death for myself, but that it will take away the people I love too early.

22. It takes a long time for me to build up close relationships with people, so I really value those that I have.

23. I dislike wearing heels and make-up.

24. I think I often worry too much about gaining other people's approval, and too little about what God thinks about the actions and thoughts other people don't even see.

25. I laugh at lame jokes and make even lamer ones :P