6ixx things

15th March 2010

6ixx things you may not know about me
1. I have a mole under my eye which comes makes me cry uncontrollably
2 . I prefer bank world
3 . My type is misfits & misunderstoods ! X-D
4 . I use up at least 20 tubes of hand cream per annum: “hand cream anyone ?“
5 . Every time it rains I stick my tongue out and taste the rainbow !
6 . Thanks to Nicole’s influence, I attract a lot of freaks (not that that I attract a lot of people, but the people I do attract, 99% are freaks)

6ixx things I could do repetitively
Play Debussy’s Moonlight .1
Watch Ava-tar .2
Dance embarrassingly to a funky beat .3
Recycle conversation .4
Fake an accent just for laughs .5
Pull funny faces .6

6ixx irrational fears
1. Dangling objects handing from rope
2. FEET
3. Parents getting a divorce
4. Commitment
5. Tiny tiny dots
6. People that smell/reak of urine

24th March 2009

6ixx characteristics
1. Female [though doesn't always dress like one X-DD]
2. 20 years since expelled from mother’s uterus
3. Melbourne, Australia is my home <333333
4. 3rd year com/eco + french student
5. Moved out 6 months ago to the capital of the city !
6. A Christian minus all of misconceptions of people who think they can comment on a “religion” they have no idea about [that includes anyone who hasn't even read the WHOLE Bible]

6ixx favourite places I’ve been to this summer
Les Pyrénées, Argelès-Gazost, France .1
Insadong, Seoul, Korea .2
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France .3
Casa Batlo, Barcelona, Spain .4
Seoul Tower, Seoul, Korea .5
Festival of Lights, Lyon, France .6

6ixx things I’ve recently crossed off my 101/1001 list
1. Go overseas for some sort of abroad program (20th Nov 2008 – Jan 2009)
2. Make 5 new friends (5/5) (January 2009)
3. Visit France (20th November 2008 – January 2009)
4. Get a massage (6th September 2008)
5. Get a pedicure or a manicure for the first time (4th October 2008)
6. Write 10 snail mail letters to someone, just because (10/10) (December 2008)

25th April 2008

6ixx places you may bump into me
1. Australia, being the obvious one — but if you come, GO TO MELBOURNE, the culture & sport capital of Australia !
2. At the airport, flying off to France, or a country in Asia [where i have family]
3. Monash University, Clayton campus.
4. In a mosh pit, hopefully not but most probably being smushed
5. On the bus; I very much rely on the crappy public transport system
6. In a library .. reading or studying 8-DD.

6ixx things that will make or break my day
The state of my hair — -ve: greasy +ve: not .1
Music — -ve: listening to artists whose songs sound all the same +ve: s/t fresh & exciting .2
My credit card bill — -ve: excess of $500 +ve: $0 balance [like THAT will happen X-DD] .3
God – If He’s by my side there’s nothing life can throw at me that I can’t handle .4
Quality of time spent – this usually involves less beating around the bush .5
Sleep — did I get enough of it ? [usually not X-DD] .6

6ixx favourite msn names I’ve had (it’s like a nickname)
1. ~~ \ —- i don,´t need a nu}.MBER! … +º i just wanna d a n c e (with my shirt off) —-
2. —– #just ·· p´a s s i n g   >->->->->-t-h-/r-o-u-g-h->*
3. —-##— YOU’LL WAKE UP ONE DAY  ..  but it will be t o  o   l    a     t      e       *
4. ; ´ · ¸ we were just there together                 -&-                that was enough ¸ · ` ;
5. ~~+  t r y i n g    t o    s u m . y o u   u p    .   .   .    is like catching sunlight /\i/n\/\a/\/\j/\a/\r/\
6. ++ •• — >> p.lease don-t` cry. —// it’s just your love   •• IT-CREEPS-ME-OUT -(Ø.0)- ++

15th February 2008

6ixx things you have a 50/50 chance of knowing
1. The name’s Mookxi or “Mooks“
2. My Chinese calendar says I was born in the year of the dragon
[& hence you can work out my age]
3. I’m an undergraduate in Com/Eco & French
4. When I was in junior school I was in every club [you name it: chess, choir, orchestra 8-|]
5. I have a car but I can’t LEGALLY drive it; damnit!
6. I’m an naturalised Aussie. I was born in Malaysia ya see.

6ixx things I reckon are true [despite popular belief ?]
Taste is not subjective .1
Most people who are rich don’t have degrees .2
There’s isn’t someone out there for all of us .3
In the end of days, we all go where we believe we will .4
Pills are placebos [well.. some] .5
Life is a verb .6

6ixx uses of the 6ixx senses
1. Sight : Foundation by Isaac Asimov
2. Hearing : Be Gentle With Me by Boy Least Likely To
3. Touch : Fur, my dog’s ;-b
4. Taste : Basmati rice & vegetables
5. Smell : Flower Bomb by Viktor&Rolf
6. Sixth : Err .. sometimes I have dreams & they come true ;-B

23rd December 2007

6ixx things I want you to believe *starts a conspiracy*
1. I am Mookxi
2. I am your typical, short, 45kg Asian celebrity Chinese
3. I am an old soul trapped inside the body of a 19 year old
4. I live in on a big, big desert island called Australia
5. I am a Christian, minus all the stereotypes
6. I am French *I wish* .. nahh Joy Luck Club taught me to be proud of my heritage haha.

6ixx lasts
Book I read: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis .1
CD I listened to: Across the Universe soundtrack .2
Movie I watched: Disturbia .3
Person I spoke to on AIM: Whitney .4
Thing I bought: Stationary from Kikki.K .5
Wish I wished: To set things straight with my sister, Bindi .6

6ixx funny moments
1. Sister: So when you saw the old Star Wars did you think the technology was good?
Dad: Well, that was the top technology at the time
Sister: So when you saw it you didn’t go “ehhh, that’s cardboard”?

2. Polly [one of our clients at the bank, really girly]: “Wow Mookxi ! You’re SO fair !”
Me: “Nahhh not really .. anyway, you’re fair too !”
Polly: “Yeah hmm.. *pauses thoughtfully* or maybe your hair’s just really black” X-DD
NB: Most Chinese people strive to have snow-white, porcelain skin & hate tanning

3. Me: I want to go to Belgium.
Mum: Nooo, it’s a waste of time. Nothing to see. All it has is the little boy peeing.
*pauses*
Mum: Wait, that’s Luxemburg.

4. Okay, so this may only be funny those to who study economics X-DD haha.
Macro Lecturer: *Points to graphs* “On the exam, this is good good good, this is bad bad bad !!!!”
Macro Lecturer: “See how this is a boom? Well, this is a boom boom because it’s a boom…. boom!”
Credit to Ainzo

5. Bus Driver: Everybody, i’ve just gotten into a bus accident so i’m going to take a few minutes to recuperate .. and take a smoke. [Outside, you can see him inhaling into a cigerette like an asthma sufferer into a ventilator]
Credit to Ainzo

6. Mum: “Dad said you had ‘debs’”
Me to Dad: “Whhattt ? What’s ‘debs’??”
Dad: “You know .. debs. Debs, debs, debs. So many debs.”
Mum: *Rolls eyes* “Dad means ‘debts’” X-DD

24th November 2007

6ixx inherent super powers I have
1. The ability to confuse: “how do you pronouce that ..Mook.. xi?”
2. Being 19 but still being able to go on kiddy rides at carnivals
3. As an Australian, I can wrestle a crocodile, obviously ;-b
4. Speaking Chinese to shoo away telemarketers : “mi no speak-a-da-engrish”
5. Puppydog face/pout that gets me what I want when I want X-DD jkjk.
6. My credit card, enough said haha. Jk. Uh.. I really can’t think of any more super powers. I’m pretty ordinary. ;-o

6ixx things that made me laugh today
1. Me: What would you do if the guy of your dreams came up to you & kissed you?
Bindi: I would be like ‘what are you doing out of my dreams? I thought you were in my head!’

2. Grandma: “You should take a shower!”
Me: “I take one later tonight”
Grandma: “You know those old Australian ladies who are hunchbacked? It’s because they didn’t take their showers early!”
Me: “How do you know? Who told you?”
Grandma: “No need to talk, just see!”

3. Mathews [business law tutor]: WHY weren’t you here last week?
Will [student]: I was on the freeway and i ran out of petrol so i pulled to the side-
Mathews: Do I really care about your petrol problems???
Mathews: Does anyone have a question?
Will: *hand up* Mathews: And no, i don’t know where the nearest petrol station is on the freeway.
Mathews: If you fail business law this semester, make sure you’re not in my tutorial next semester, because i WILL give you hell for the whole entire semester. When you fail, it’s a reflection on ME. So don’t fail.
Credit to Ainzo

4. (After the Columbia shootings)
Matthews: I’m about to give out your assignments back. Now if you don’t do as well as you expected don’t go around shooting everyone. It’s not the end of the world!

5. “For all you people out there, here’s another sexy latin word to heat things up!” — lecturer

6. Me: What would you do if you met the guy of your dreams.. except the only catch is that he smells like urine?
Bindi: I would be like “why do you smell like urine?!”
Me: No, but everyone else thinks he smells normal, only you can smell the urine because you nose is ten times more sensitive, like a dog’s
Bindi: I would spray him with perfume.
Me: But I mean, would you kiss him & have his babies?
Bindi: Yeah and then I’d spray his babies with urine .. i mean perfume ! >.<

ROFLMAO! I know .. i have the strangest sense of humour.. and i have no idea in the world how on earth i come up with these idiotic questions.

26th September 2007

6ixx ingredients you need to make a ‘mookxi’
1. A man & a woman JOKING [well technically, yes]
2. An 18 year old girl with down-under mixed asian mixed Christian values
3. Big black eyes, and a fat grin that facilitates a quirky sense of humour X-DDD
4. Love of music, literature, languages, travelling. << all those expensive things that make life indulgent.
5. Determination
6. Other humans for “a person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”

6ixx ways people describe me
“Mookxi is the girl with the strength of a thousand cows” — my co-worker =.=” .1
“Hostile” — Tian X-DD .2
“”Quick witted, funny, easy to get along with, tells the truth when wanted, great friend :D” — Kathy *heart melts*.3
“Demanding?” — sister >.< haha but it’s true.. -.-” i am a dragon after all .4
“Maori” — Maida v.v.5
“Mookxi is supa fly!” — Ren rofl. .6

6ixx things that made me laugh today:
1. “Have you ever wondered at the convience that Spiderman’s shots of web come out of his wrists and not his ass?” — Bindi [my sister] ROFL!

2. “Do you have to be doing business to travel in business class?” — random guys
Credit to Ainzo

3. Me: “If you had to be one profession for the rest of your life, what would it be?” ;
Bindi: “A professional tattsloto winner” [tattsloto = lottery]

4. Emma: “Guy touches butt, guy loses hand.” *pensive look* “Maybe that’s why i can’t get a boyfriend“. X-DDD

5. “Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.” — wellofpositivity.comsupport breast cancer research / [mine's msg #10626]

6. Me: “If you had a choice, would you rather be a boy or a girl?”
Bindi: “A girl.”
Me: “Why?”
Bindi: “Cause’ I like having emotions!” X-DDD /

15th August 2007

6ixx things that epitomises me
1. My asl ? = 18, fembot, Australia
2. “Girl Anachronism” by The Dresden Dolls haha.
3. The phrase “just kidding” also in Chinese & French.
4. Accounting JK jk. But my face screams “com/eco” first year uni student!
5. An enigma wrapped in an enigma X-DD
6. Oversized indie clothes or anything really haha. Comfort & fashion go hand in hand.

6ixx things I have on me at all times [thanks Katie for idea <333333]
My watch — i feel completely lost without a sense of time! .1
A scarf; well.. in winter ;-P I collect scarfs & my collection grows winterly ^^ .2
Heart / cross stone necklace from mum :-) .3
A book, either because i’m reading or studying 8-DD .4
I-pod ~ must have my daily fix of screamo emo haha .5
Pen & paper = you never know when inspiration strikes your brain like an insane membrane ! .6

6ixx Mookxisms
1. Almost always listen to music on Last.FM except when sleeping, school or doing other random crap
2. Have tendencies to develop unreasonable crushes on idiosyncratically-voiced male musicians
3. Embody my alterego; a bitter old cynic & a giddy idealist
4. Defy classification w/o having the attitude of ppl who are like “omg!!! don’t label me im so unique!!“
5. Be the girl in the sky with diamonds, a ladytron, an instant pig (& if you know what i probably like/stalk/will fall in love with you)
6. De temps en temps, je parle français pour aucune raison utile. J’admets que je ne suis pas parfaite (et pour ce que j’en sais, il y aurait des erreurs ici) mais j’adore cette langue et je veux la pratiquer…donc, je la parle quelquefois.

8th June 2007

6ixx things I’d say to you if we met
1. “Eyyy, I’m Mookxi, nice to meet you” *kiss kiss*
2. “I’m 18 years young .. yup young dagnamit!”
3. “I’m a 1st yr com/eco/french student & you?”
4. “I do NOT have an [aussie] accent, YOU have an accent!”
5. “Ni hao ma? Ca va bien merci ;-D Joih gin!”
[how are you -- mando; good thanks -- french; see you later -- cantonese]
6. “Grrr, you know I’m starting to hate Vogue magazines; they’re so gossipy now a days — like ‘Gemma Ward goes to Paris, & Kirsten Dunst .. likes a guy’ X-PPP

6ixx things that make me angry / beserk / drive me up the wall
The colour pink (clothes actually) ; it’s my “angry colour” .1
Spots & stripes & yes i do realise i’m wearing spots in the pic above ;-x .2
Hairy guys hahaha .3
Songs titled ‘beautiful’ this or ‘beautiful’ that @_@ .4
Any contact via feet !! gahh. i have a phobia of feet; they’re so ugly, no? .5
Being stereotyped occassionally as an “emo” because of my taste in black clothing .6

6ixx “socially unacceptable” things I wanna do one day ..
1. Go up to some random guy and be like “I think i’m supposed to fall in love with you“
2. Act & dress up like a guy for one whole day
3. Pass by someone looking at a film poster muttering “oh, he dies in the end *points*”
4. Loiter in the city taking random pictures of people simply b/c they have cool clothes
5. Busk playing an air guitar in an air band
6. Start dancing wildly in the street to a funky Junior Senior beat.

19th April 2007

6ixx bad habits of mine
Taking a gazillion&1 pics on phone camera & wasting battery ! .1
Listening to music more than I do people >.< hahah .2
Over analysing everything & therefore being indecisiveness .3
Perving on boys & occasionally girls with unique dress sense X-PPP .4
Wasting food — WORST — i really have to stop this ;-/ .5
Persistance to finish crappy books on the basis that I’ve already started so might as well finish it! .6

6ixx things i recently consumed X-PP
1. “All aussie brekky” — 2 eggs, bacon, tomato & mushrooms on toast
2. Ichipan crepe [jap] — strawberry !
3. Starbucks skinny cappuccino
4. Rye toast with Dalfour mixed berries jam
5. Brocoli with chicken
6. Chinese soup mmmmm..

17th March 2007

6ixx things that you should know the mysterious “mookxi”
1. Mookxi is an ABC = Australian born Chinese
2. She *attempts* to speak 3 languages; Australian jk, English, Chinese [Cantonese] & French
3. Mookxi recently graduated from high school, class of 2006
4. And she’s studying commerce/economics with a degree in French @ uni!
5. She is also a Christian ^.^v
6. Mookxi loves loves loves writing & speaking in 3rd person ;-P

6ixx mushy songs ~ that i love! haha [artist > song]
Dashboard Confessional ~ Jamie / *surprise surprise* .1
Big City Rock ~ Sink / .2
Maroon 5 ~ She Will Be Loved / .3
James Blunt ~ Goodbye My Lover / .4
Vertical Horizon ~ Everything You Want / .5
Switchfoot ~ Daisy / .6

6ixx favourite quotes / statements
1. “I was going to say something but then it just came out as a sound” — a friend
2. “Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.
– The 70′s Show
3. Repeat after me, We are all individuals
4. “We don’t become missionaries by crossing the sea, but by seeing the cross”
5. “Music was my first love & will be my last” — tattoo on some guy in Thailand
6. “One & one make one and one & one make one” — cryptic child’s poem

4th February 2007

6ixx things you’ll learn in the first six minutes of meeting me
1. Mon nom, c’est Mookxi ^.^v
2. Both a citizen of Australia & Heaven ;-DDD
3. I’m eighteen, don’t drive [busy+lazy v.v] & just graduated high school
4. I’m going to study Com/Eco in university starting in March eeeeeep !
5. I suck at small talk ;-p
6. You’ll find me eccentric hopefully hehe. Normal people are .. *yawns* X-PP jkjk.

6ixx fashion-y doo dads I done
LBDs = the classic little black dress .1
Skinny jeans ;-DDD [in all the colours of the rainbow] .2
Red & black nail lacquer, red being the more prefered .3
Trench jackets .4
Old-school band tees .5
Converses ^.^v .6

6ixx new years resolutions
1. Earn more, (& spend less .. maybe ;-P) !
2. Have a purpose-driven year & keep in mind of my priorities — life is short & temporary
3. Cultivate new friendships
4. Make time for my hobbies : piano, reading, movie marathons, graphic designing.
5. Take the time to meet up with friends from high school regularly
6. Improve my relationships with immediate family

NB: My sister drew the above ^^ I just made it into an icon, likey likey? ;-D