PHOTOMEME

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
1. This was the first picture I ever took for camwhoring purposes...for people online, no less (YSRMB on AIM). Check file name for exact date.
2. WHO IS THE FRIEND IN QUESTION?! ONLY SHE KNOWS. *WINK*
3. Enjoy the view of my then-short-haired mom holding my then-seven-month-old brother.
4. I always thought that apartment was one of the cooler ones I've lived in due to the mirror-wall behind me.
5. MAH ALMOST-NEXT DOAR NEIGHBAR LAHRRA USE'TA VISET ME AHL THE TIME THAR
6. First (and only) instance my hair was ever that long.
7. I still have that shitty blurry webcam sitting in my electronics drawer, though it's obviously unused now.
8. For the last month or two of 8th grade, I moved to this place from Forest Hills, but didn't bother to transfer schools. This meant I had 3-ish hours of daily combined commute going to and from junior high.
9. Because of the above, I could no longer watch YGO on KidsWB after school. This was extremely upsetting at the time.
10. Also because of 8, I got into handheld gaming with the purchase of a GBA using lunch money I proudly saved up. This was the part where I first discovered Castlevania.
11. That summer was when my dad was between quitting at NYU and finding a new job (what eventually ended up in Ohio). He sat unemployed for two months, and showed some of the worst temper I have ever seen from him.
12. I started using the comp/going online regularly by this time, and the fact I was talking with strangers severely disturbed my parents. Looking back, this is where I first began censoring things from them.
13. We installed XP for the first time with Faye's dad's help that summer. We were using Windows ME prior to that.
14. Not a fact...but did my jaw used to be not as square when I was younger? lulwat.
15. I still have that shirt. Tried wearing it once four years later (summer before college), but gave up and put it away for good.


Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with for awhile. Unfortunately, I don't have pictorial documentation of when this first started happening. BUT IT CERTAINLY HAS BEEN 'A WHILE.'


Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.


Day 04 - A picture of your night.
HA HA HA I WISH. But it was still a good one. Can't wait for this year's.


Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory.
I don't assign favorites, but this certainly was very special.


Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
...No one. I only realized quite recently that, since as young as kindergarten in China, I had habitually wished I was someone else on a very regular basis. This persisted all the way through...very distinctly, half of high school. It stopped only after I lived on my own, away from my parents, for the first time. Every one of those kids I wished I were either a) did not suffer the same parental pressures I did, or b) would be the "perfect" child in my parent's eyes. It had never occurred to me that something was very wrong with this until, like I mentioned, very recently, after the whole commotion over the WSJ article on Amy Chua. I love my parents, but this is getting more and more off-topic. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone who isn't me. Now, if I could trade places with myself from certain points earlier in life...that would be a different story.



Also it just occurred to me now that maybe I'm supposed to do one of these PER day. WHICH WOULD MAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE SENSE WITH THE NUMBERED DAYS THING. OH WELL. I'll just do the rest in similar bundles over the week...