About
SassyGirl is from The City, but spends most of the year in University Town. She lives in an apartment with a tiny kitchen, which is barely sufficient for her culinary exploits.
Despite her love for The City, she has a serious case of wanderlust and desperately wants to move to a warmer, lively, more people-per-sq-ft Asian metropolis. To this end, in 2009 she accepted a job offer in Singapore and will be moving there after graduation.
SG aspires to be a corporate lawyer, an NPO consultant, a magazine editor, a world-renowned food critic, or Angelina Jolie.
She has been blogging since 2002. She can be reached at admin at girlandcity dot com.
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Things You May or May Not Know About SassyGirl
- I’m not scared of being alone1, even less scared of being around people.
- I’m kind of afraid of horses (up close).
- Sometimes, I’m too lazy to put on clothes.
- I have always had a pet, since as far back as I can remember. Pets I have had from earliest to latest: chicks, ducklings, pigeons, mice, hamsters, rabbit, bunny, dog. And I am completely a dog person.
- I secretly fantasize about being an acrobat.
- I am attracted to a guy’s collar bone and hands. That’s it.
- When I was in elementary school, I started a cult.
- Once in elementary school, I bitch-slapped a girl so hard, my hand print was on her face for a whole day.
- To me, farts are just natural gas. What’s the big deal?
- I have a very addictive personality (which is why I should never do drugs). I can be addicted/obsessed about anything, including but not limited to: pad thai, scrambled eggs, shrimp tempura maki rolls, the colour purple, the colour teal, the name Evey from V for Vendetta, Adobe InDesign, red dresses, the number 5, the comic font…
- I never gamble where money is involved (related to my addictive personality, see #10).
- I like food way too much. Which is why they have comprised of many of my obsessions (see #10).
- Up until I was 14, I could always fly in my dreams. Now it only happens occasionally.
- I am terrible at receiving unsolicited compliments, especially from boys. It makes me feel awkward and question their sincerity. Most of the time I pretend I didn’t hear them, or run away. Yes, I actually run away.
- I want to travel more than anything in the world. I have never been to three and a half continents: Europe, Africa, South America, and Australia.
- I have always wished that I was born a boy instead of a girl. I think I would be much better at it.
- I constantly daydream about the life of my alter ego.
- I was the only girl in high school to play trombone, which was the same size as me when I started learning it. I hated it.
- Whenever I am in an elevator alone with a semi-attractive guy, I have a strong urge to make out with him. One time, I even asked a guy friend to kiss me in the elevator even though we didn’t like each other. I know, I’m shameless.
- I cry easily. I cried during Pursuit of Happyness, The Great Debaters (when they were invited to debate Harvard), Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, and even Mulan. I have watched Mulan five times and cried 4 out of 5 times. The part when her father wakes up in the middle of the night to realize she’d left breaks my heart every time.
- I fantasize about living in New York City without ever actually wanting to move there. In fact, I don’t even want to visit (although I have been to NYC three times in the last three months) because I don’t want to be “just another tourist in NYC.”
- Once, I was asked what my version of heaven would be, and after thinking about it for an hour, the only thing I could come up with was “an endless supply of ice cream.”
- I learned to talk much faster than I learned to walk.
- I’m afraid of cats, even though I lived with two different cats (my roommates’) when I was at university. The first few days of living with either cat, I had nightmares that the cat would jump up on my bed and scratch my face off in my sleep.
- I think it’s blasphemous to use ketchup in cooking – but I have to admit, it tastes good.
- I love to read and I love libraries. Thus, I own very few books of my own. If I ever became a billionaire, I would build my a privately-run but open-to-public state-of-the-art library.
