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I just found yet another one of my pet-peeves: someone calling me “sis” or “sister”. After this post, I’m going to try to Google-search people who might be feeling the same way, if any…because it is a weird pet peeve.

It bothers me when either my male or female friends call me that. My own biological sisters don’t even call me that, so why should other people?

The reason one of my close female friends call me “sis” is because, according to her I’m the sister she never had. So instead of calling me ‘buddy’, ‘pal’ or anything that sounds like she’s talking to her dog, she calls me “sis”. I totally understand her reasons, but somehow it still bothers me big time. I can’t really tell her not to call me that, because she’s going to sulk and get all sensitive about it.

Even more horrible is when guys call me that. It’s just a word that has never been in my non-existent culture. So the word only has one meaning to me and that’s “female sibling”, of which I have two.

The ultimate worst however, is when a guy - a steaming hot guy, calls me “sister”. It’s as immoral as incest-ism.

Last year when my twin sister came to Shanghai, we decided to do what the Chinese do and buy those really cheap sheets of toilet paper (about 100+ sheets for less than 2 RMB). I’d show you a picture but I don’t have a pack in the house, and I’ll probably never buy one of those packs ever again. It’s like wiping your arse with rough, recycled paper (as opposed to soft, recycled toilet paper).

In Seychelles, everyone I know throws their used toilet paper in the toilet right before they flush. Before coming to China, I had never been taught to do it any other way. I don’t really know where the toilet paper here goes if it’s been flushed, but back home I heard that everything’s just disposed in the ocean (far away from the shore) or somewhere far, far away - I honestly don’t know.

It just hit me: isn’t paper biodegradable? So why should it matter where we throw toilet paper? Throwing it in a separate plastic bag increases its chances of being recycled (you never know?)…who’s crazy enough to use recycled toilet paper - especially those recycled from someone else’s household? Isn’t that just a bit crazy? “Recycled toilet paper” is recycled paper that’s made into toilet paper, and not literally reused toilet paper.

I don’t think I was thinking at all when I decided to follow the norm here. This is exactly why I hate listening to people - they lead you to do such stoopuhd things.

Those who are deep into conserving the environment should just use some sort of hypo-allergenic cloth that they can reuse or something.

Current Mood: Alarmed

The other day, I was feeling lazy so I thought about microwaving water. It’s not something I’ve ever done before, and I’ve never drank any in my life (not to my knowledge anyway). I was already thinking about how cool it would be to have steaming tea within 1 minute when it hit me: why don’t I read a bit about it online first?

So I came across an experiment conducted on a plant. According to snopes.com, the results of the experiment was false. http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

I was then sent a youtube link, about exploding microwave water if I were to superheat it…and after watching a few more videos I came across another plant experiment done by NutritionMum. After watching her videos, I came to my own conclusions and I’ll give you this: I’d rather boil water, even if I can’t have my tea within a minute.

And if that’s not strange to you, watch the next video!