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Bad habits...

Yeah, and they can be helluva hard to break too.

It's surpising how a bad habit can be so addictive.

Biting nails

I used to love biting my nails since I was a kiddo. I have no idea why too. It's not cause they taste like sweets or chocs, neither am I starved kid but I jus love to chew and bite for no rhyme or reason.

I still rem of this particular story in an Enid Blyton book on how a girl who loves biting her nails was invited to a fairy party and while all the other kids got to eat delicious edible cakes and stuff she was told to only eat hard iron nails. The fairies had observed how much she love eating her nails and since they could not find any nails such as the ones on her fingers, they served her iron metal ones. Eeeek!

Mum used to show me reports of kids and adults who chew their nails down to the raw flesh in a bid to scare me into halting my bad chewing habit. I was terrified of the image but I just could not control my itching teeth. Especially when I am faced with a tricky-head-scratching maths prob. Damn it. I am like so never going to have nice long feminine nails or so I thought.

Then as time goes by, my addiction to nail biting wore off. It was like one fine day, I look at my nails and it suddenly dawn on me that I had bitten/nibble/chew em for eons. Gosh, it was an enlightening experience :p

But I still do not grow em long coz the idea of dirt in em does not agree with me. I keep em short and neat till now. Some ladies are great with their nails keeping em so long and beautiful with all the manicure and clean too. Take my hat off em. :)

Lazy-fat-ass-bus-hopping-one-stop-away-mrt-station

Confused? Haha...When I was a student, my concession pass is the bus stamp type where u get unlimited bus rides everyday. So lard ass me decided to make full use of it by taking the bus to and back the mrt station (which is just one stop/5 mins walk) from my place. That gone on for the whole of my academic years and before I knew it I became a real lazy person. The 5 min walk to mrt station (at that time) was like 2.4km run to me.

Then, when I graduated and no more unlimited bus rides pass, I had no choice but to walk to and fro the mrt station. Unless I want to spend an additional $24 a mth (ouch!). Hence, I discovered overtime that hey, it isn't too bad afterall. The mrt station aint too far :)

Leaving the lights on

My mum screams at my bro and me if we leave the lights/telly on when no one is using em. Yesh, that is damn wasteful, not earth friendly and very damaging to the wallet. But I guess when we were younger we didn't really reaslise it and plainly felt that mum will switch em off. But as we got older, the screaming got lesser. Now we are pretty much operated to off the lights whenever we do not use em. That mum is screaming at us to keep it on coz she will be going in to the toilet/room but our automated fingers will just switch it off :p

Do you have a bad habit?