Little-known facts

Tagged by the lovely A L. :)

List three random facts about yourself that your friends might not know. And then tag five other friends to do it.

1. I was bitten by a neighbour's dog when I was eight-ish. It wasn't a ferocious attack or anything; we were just playing and his tooth accidentally hooked into my flesh. But try explaining it to my dad, who was absolutely livid. He woke the entire block up as he pounded on my neighbour's door and demanded they pay for my "medical fees." I can't remember how much it was; I only remember getting a jab in my tooshie. I still have the scar on my right thigh to show for it. I don't remember being in much pain. I was, however, mortified to be standing in front my neighbour in only my underwear as my dad showed my neighbour the "proof" of the bite.

2. My friend, X, calls me her "fellow four-stomach friend." We were having dinner at Clementi one evening, when we suddenly realised that everyone was staring at us. We still don't know how it happened, but we counted 10 plates of food on our table that night, on top of the claypot rice we each had. Yes, it was just the two of us. No, there was no special occasion. We pretended to be waiting for other friends; we kept glancing at our watches and asking each other, "They aren't here yet, ah?" And no, there were no leftovers.

3. I used to give tuition to primary and secondary school children. I taught half of them as a favour to a friend of a friend's sister, a full-time tuition teacher who went to China for a few months. As I left the house of one of my students one evening, I wondered why the ground felt so cold beneath my feet. I then realised that I'd left my slippers in their house, and I had to ring the doorbell to get them back. It was not my most glamourous moment.

I actually cheated a little, because I'm pretty sure most of my "offline friends" know at least two out of three of these; which ones they know depend on what point in time they entered into my life. :) But hey, now you know them all. Although, I'm not so sure that's a good thing at all.

So here goes the tag. Same old, same old: don't feel obliged to do it -- it's all in the name of fun, and I was never very good at tag anyway. ;) I'm tagging: Raymond (because these things make him happy), Vandice (who was curiously absent for most of last week; maybe this'll get him to tell us why), Ball of Yarn (because I know this'll be a treat to read if he does come up with something), Woof! (because this might moisten a dry spell that he was complaining about recently), D W (because the guy recently spilled all the beans about himself; let's see if we can squeeze anything more out of him, just for fun).