The Making and Listing of Lists and Listed List

I love my Elmos and the whole world knows! Recent acquisitions make me feel loved and pampered. And I guess I appreciate them much more than I show since I love to play hide and seek. Here is the list, ready yourselves…

1. Elmo Notebook and Pencil; from the gang in Singapore. I now officially take the coolest notes in school due to the power conferred by an Elmo mechanical pencil. Best part: its mechanical and thus will last for a damn long time unlike those sharpening type. =)
2. Elmo grocery bag; from J’s mum. I cannot bear to use it to put actual groceries so I am putting it on my cupboard and it is currently home to all the things that I have purchased to bring home. Currently its’ contents are 4 Kinder Buenos and 2 boxes of my sisters’ favourite chewing gum.
3. Elmo PJ pants; from yf. A good combination of all my favourite things. Firstly it is Elmo, second it is blue! My favorite colour to wear. And lastly it is silky polyester! For the person who only sleep on silk pillowcases… I think I am in heaven.

Ok ok… now all I need is someone to design a classy Elmo blogskin. Heh! Just kidding people… Don’t go and do anything I won’t yeah. But I won’t mind an Elmo icon somewhere. Heh.

So now, whats the total number of Elmos I have in my room. I think I lost count.

Well since I am in the mood for lists I will now share trivial facts that are brought to you by Libragirl. Males won’t and shouldn’t really know this but there is this Australian brand of sanitary napkins that has tons of odd, interesting and nonsensical facts printed on its wrappers and whats not. Ok, so here goes.

1. Average weight loss of a racehorse during a race is 6-10kg
2. The male fox will mate for life. If the female dies, he remains single till death.
3. The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
4. The starfish has 5 limbs but can regrow 4 of them as long as the central body is not harmed
5. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
6. The indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle strengthens the structure and helps to trap the sediments in the wine.
7. An egg shell had nearly 8000 pores that allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to flow in and out allowing the chick to breathe.
8. Researchers claim that light green as a colour is effective in relieving homesickness.
9. An average person sheds 750 grams of skin per year.
10. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue
11. You can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth.
12. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
13. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
14. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
15. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
16. Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
17. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

And since I am in the mood for lists and the listing of lists… Here is one last one. A list that I made more than a month ago, during an hour long lunch break that was spent in the library.

Things You Do During Your Lunch Break

1. Realise that highlighters are usually produced in 5 colours despite there being 7 colours in the rainbow.
2. Wonder why Arts Festivals Events cost so much and yet society perceive artists as starving personas.
3. Fall back into the old old discarded habit of rubbing the chin with the shoulder.
4. Go to the photocopier section of the library and accidentally become the smaller person.
5. See a book in the bookshop that claims to include all the timings and happenings in the Beijing Olympics… And wonder how is it all possible since it has just recently ended.
6. Be startled by the fact that black ink looks good on hot pink note paper. (PS: the paper was pink!)
7. Make a mental note never to entertain pink note paper thoughts again.