Hello new people, this is your captain speaking. Thank you for getting suckered into the insanity that is my blog. Hope you have a pleasant journey and please come back again. Also, next time you come a-visiting, please bring cake. And booze.

Right. Now that the welcome is out of the way… For those not in the know, Entrecard is the intarweb’s version of a business card. It’s kinda cool because you can be a cheapskate save money on printing actual cards and save the trees at the same time. Now, Entrecard lets you hobnob with all these bloggers out there and you can leave your e-calling-card if they’re not home, then you can sit tight and hope they come a-calling too. Once you’ve built up a stash of ec (Entrecard currency), you can place blinged up advertisements on other Entrecarders’ blogs and really pimp yourself. Read Jason’s post for a more detailed review.

So after I signed up, I had to really whore myself to afford Jason’s sky high advertising fees. Man, do I feel like the village bicycle. Well, eventually I got there but in the process, I discovered lots of outrageously funny blogs out there so I’d say the whoring was totally worth it.

Some Entrecarders have complained that they’re getting lots of drop-and-runs instead of quality traffic. Me? I just lure them here and then let the nekkid pictures of my voluptous stick figure do the job. Some of them decide to stick around after that so they must really like my nekkid pictures…

So go sign up now and remember to drop your card with me. I promise to call. Really.

Entrecard Meme
I’m really not a big fan of tag memes that’re really just a collection of links with a shit load of instructions you’ve to read through and at the end of it, you’re supposed to spin in your chair 69 times, touch your toes with your tongue, and forward the meme within 24 hours or you’ll end up with syphilis. Or was that the Chain Letter? Anyhow, I am appreciative when other bloggers tag me. It means they really like me (or hate me, depending on how you look at it) and I’m in their thoughts… possibly nekkid. So anyhow, do check out these lovely people who’ve tagged me.

• Evilwoobie at Drop Yours! (Entrecard Meme)
• The Enforcer at The Meme Tag at Entrecard
• Sweet Mummy at 1st Ever Entrecard Meme

I contemplated posting 7 obscure trivia but was too lazy to google for them. I try not to do too many of these revealing memes because I want to, you know, preserve an aura of mystery about my stick person and it’s hard to do that when the whole intarweb knows every teeny weeny detail about you from your choice of underwear (black!) to your shower habits (only detachable showerheads plz). Since I uh… didn’t exactly reveal much in a similar
meme I did previously, I shall try to do better this time round. Just don’t blame me if you fall asleep reading this and find your face imprinted with the letters from your keyboard when you wake up.

1) Short. Tiny. Petite.
I’m what I’ll call “armpit height”. I’m almost 5′1″ on a good day and 5′5″ if I wear 4-inch high CFM heels that I can barely walk in. And yes, the air down here is fine, thank you very much. Just don’t ask me about it when I’m stuck in a packed train during peak-hour traffic and it’s Smells Galore.

2) Born with tilted head.
I think the proper medical term for this is congenital torticollis (OMG I used big words!). Mama Lis told me it was a forceps injury during birth. Since then my head has been fixed although I’ve been told there was much screaming and crying involved (not necessarily mine!) so I no longer walk around with a tilted head.

3) Accountant by training.
Yes, your eyes didn’t lie to you. I majored in Accountancy in university. Big mistake! I realised shortly that I had absolutely zero desire to be labelled a bean counter for the rest of my life. Plus, have you seen the guys? I’m definitely not going to find someone with the looks and body of Christian Bale, wit of Stephen Colbert and culinary skills of Anthony Bourdain in the field. My General Paper (it’s like English language at A levels) tutor in junior college told me I should have chosen Law or at least Arts. After doing the few business-related law modules in school, I can safely say law isn’t my calling either. Law jargon made my teeth gnash in ways I didn’t think was possible. Unless I get to work under Alan Shore (hee! I said under!). There you have it, I’m a certified bore.

4) Bang at piano when angry.
I’m trained in classical piano. Other angsty emo teenagers showed their “this world doesn’t understand me” anger by slamming doors, phones or writing bad poetry while I used to bang away at my piano whenever I was pissed. My family knew to stay out of my way whenever they heard Beethoven being banged around on the piano. 100% effective.

5) Ex-Japanophile.
I went through a phase when I was a complete Japanophile. I was crazy about Japanese guys, Japanese culture, Japanese guys, Japanese literature, Japanese guys… well, you get the picture. Then I took a closer look at the guys and realised they had better pluck eyebrows than me. Seriously, have you seen their eyebrows? They’re all plucked with military precision. I can never date anyone who doesn’t have a single eyebrow out of place. It’s freaky!

6) Addicted to weather reports
I check the weather reports obsessively. If you know where I’m from, you’ll be laughing your arse off right about now. Our weather’s pretty much the same day in day out. Oh well, sure beats reading obituaries although I used to do that too…

7) Prank on Office Creep.
Yeppers, I played a prank on Office Creep and I’ll post about it soon!

There you have it, 7 fun facts about me you’ve been dying to know and probably regret knowing now.

Meleah at Momma Mia, Mea Culpa for the Friendship Badge.

Meleah and Lisa at OMYWORD! Did I Say That? for the Spreader of Love award.

One of the new friends I’ve made on cre8Buzz, Deb from Missives from Suburbia has tagged me for what I think is the Actor’s Studio meme. Yes, I can hear you groaning back there. Not another boring brain-numbing meme! But because I’m feeling kind of lazy and this blog hasn’t seen an update in a week… Incidentally, Snoksred has also tagged her readers, so I’ll consider myself tagged. Anyway, on to the meme.

What is your favorite word?
Peripatetic. I first heard it used in a Divine Comedy (bestest 1-man band in the whole, wide world) song, My Imaginary Friend, and fell in love with it. Peripatetic. Peripatetic. Quick, say it 10 times.

What is your least favorite word?
Work. No prizes for guessing why.

What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]?
The magical magicness of a good cuppa tea.

What turns you off?
Stupid people who insist on walking dreadfully slow smack in the middle of the path. If you want to walk slower than my grandmother, keep to the side of the path, damnit. Don’t make me poke you with my umbrella. For more turn-offs, please refer to my other posts, Die, Stupid People, Die and Die, Stupid People, Die Redux.

What is your favorite curse word?
How about favourite insults? Pick any from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” or “I unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window dresser!” or “I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy-leather, second-hand, electric donkey bottom biters!” etc.

What sound or noise do you love?
Thunderstorms. It means it’s not freakin’ boiling hot outside! All of you out there who love the bright and shining sun with the too much shining? Come to Singapore and take the sun away please.

What sound or noise do you hate?
Nails on chalkboard. Motorcyclists who rev their engines in the goddamn middle of the night. James Blunt’s singing. Celine Dion’s screeching.

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Professional bum. Heiress. Someone with too much money. The guy who decides on the play lists at radio stations.

What profession would you not like to do?
James Blunt’s music producer because that means I’ll have to listen to that shit all day.

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Party on, dudes!

As a bonus for reading the 90293840935th meme on the intarweb, here’s a naked picture of me.

Uhm, tagging all of you who read this and feel like doing it. If you do, post the link in the comments and I’ll go check it out.

1) Face Behind the Blog
Nick tagged me for this. I think I’m supposed to post a picture of myself and provide some useless information.

Blog Title : About Every Little Thing
Description : Just a girl with a penchant for stick men drawings blogging about whatever interests her.
Why “About Every Little Thing”: Because I needed to pee really badly and so decided on the first title that came into my head.
Name : Lis
Country : Singapore
Occupation : Corporate drone
Email : abouteverything[at]gmail(dot)com
Birthday : Hello, a chick’s age is secret so you’ll just have to settle for “somewhere in April of a certain year”
Fav Color : Green (see green top and green handbag in self portrait above)
Fav Drink : Depends. Before 6pm or after? Tea if before (coffee is overrated) and liquer if after.
Fav Fruit : Strawberries (plus whipped cream and champagne and… mmmmmmm…)
Fav Dessert : Chocolate (the dark stuff. white chocolate is for pansies)
Hobbies : Not posting tag memes, thinking of the next prank to play on my unsuspecting colleagues, and the best ways to pretend to be productive at work. Drop me a note if you’ve any tips.
Some of the blogs that I know which put up picture(s) of me are : You think I’m gonna tell you so you can go snoop around those blogs? Yeah, right.

Come on, show yerself!

Linda of Ugly Mailbox
Baxter of The Far Corner
Trik of Trik’s Gulch

Rules:
Post a short article and include your photograph (or more if you want to). If you already have a pix online somewhere, the get creative with a new one :)

Next include the link to the others who have displayed their pix, or even include their pix in your post, adding a reference to it.

The ones who’ve “shown their faces”:
Gayla at Mom GadgetChar at Essential KeystrokesPaul at Reflections Rob at 2DolphinsZep at The In-Sect Ingo at StixsterStevie at Lost In Cyberspace The Paper Bull at (oddly enough) The Paper BullLisa Sabin-Wilson at Just A Girl In The WorldDawud Miracle at dmiracle.com Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home The Beta News Randa Clay at Randa Clay DesignDrew McLellan at The Marketing MinuteBecky McCray at Small Biz Survival Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great!Steve Woodruff at StickyFigure Dave Olson at Live the GREAT life that you desireGreg at Become a Remote Control SEOAriane Benefit at Neat Living Blog Genesis at the At Home Mom BlogArmen at iFFECT.NET Mihaela Lica at Online Public RelationsTara at Graphic Design BlogDoris Chua at Home Office Women Edward Mills at Evolving TimesTony D. Clark at Success from the Nest Jonathan-C Phillips at SmartWealthyRichKaren at A Deaf Mom Shares Her WorldLisa Gates at intrinsic life design Rammel Firdaus at rammelfirdaus.comCarol at Pentimento Adam Kayce at Monk at WorkThomas at Technical BloggerTammy Lenski at I Can?t Say That! Chris Brown at Branding & Marketing Rory Sullivan at HamelifeDerek Wong at Going The Wong WayEmbuck at embuck.comMs. Q at QMusings Shelly Tucker at This Eclectic Life Steve at Ramblings from the MarginalizedTroy Worman at on!blogLilith at Lilith’s Owl NestRevov at REVO-OVER Karin at Stop/Start Jamy at Seay’s Kopitam this is a miracle Anything Goes! About Every Little Thing

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Geek Train – All aboard!
1 – Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and linkback to the blog(s) that put you on the list in the paragraph. You MUST do this. No-one plans on getting slapped for duplicate content any time soon, do they?

2 – Next, copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your own blog. If you’d like a different keyword for your blog then change it, when you do your post, and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword, provided the train keeps on spreading.

3 – Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.

4 – Add at least three new favourite blogs of yours to keep the train going, e-mail the blog owners (or comment on one of their posts) and insist that they post.

The Originals:
(The kick-ass) Nate Whitehill
(The original) 13-Year Old Blogger
(The money-making) Affiliate Marketing guide
(The crafty two at) TechRave
(The AdSense ‘dude’) Michael Cheney
(The overclocker) Shawn Knight
(The incredible) Chris Hooley
(The rhetorical) Michael Kwan
(The talented) Leo Chiang
(The root of all evil) John Chow
(The business dude) Josh Mullineaux
(The brilliant) Shoemoney
(The absurdly loud) Ed Lau
(The mastermind) Jon Waraas
(The yaketty) Stephen Fung
(The wickedly cool) Everton Blair
(The uber blogger) Ms Danielle
(The enterprising) Matt Coddington
(The career minded) Jane May
(The legendary) Gary Lee
(The nifty) Dosh Dosh
(The ambitious) Jeff Kee
(The Down Low) Shawn Low
(The Reviewer) Thomas De Maesschalk
(The Post Whore) Derrich
(Life sux) AllSux.com
(The unstoppable) Brown Baron
(The hawk) Gregg Hawkins
(The sizzler) Sizzled Core
(The millionaire) Shaman
(the OG of blogging) Tony Williams
(the reliable) Bush Mackel
(the source of all knowledge) Martin
(The drummer king) Mark
(The tech lord) Benedict
(The incomparable) Christy
(The alien invasion) Mike
(The protector) Bobby
(the dragon) icedragon
(in the outdoor) Donovan
(fan of The Patriots) Angela
(in the Quest) Kumiko
(the goal to freedom) Brian
(i also hate your job) ihyj
(the fabulous stick figure lady) Lis
(the Axe Man) Fretcam
(the super creative) David Airey

My additions:
(The super hot mommy) Meleah
(The super Tina fan) Michael
(The super cow) John Cow

1.Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra link back.

2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword.

3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.

4. Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW is using the DO FOLLOW plugin to the list in the “My Adds” section. (Add no more than 5!) Let the people you’ve added know, so that they can keep the list going!

A GreatPleasure Little world of thoughts Renisphere mott’s island Kev’s Walkabout iBubbs woof Down Memory Lanes Woof & Arf Lovely Mummy Bubba Stuff Mommibee Moments in My Life Rambling Moo All about Zara & Zaria Hip n cool momma Random Thoughts of a Blur Mommy Mylittleanelqianyi Bits & Pieces De’moments chinneeq Giddy Tiger Huei Rabbit Rinnah Simple America Niceheart Ethel Sanna The Queer Chef Shoshana Leahgina> Haze GheeNeng aka Sirena Angelo Ju aka The Border aka Juana of Femjo Tina Keep the Faith jsonvlog Suncoast Scribe Blogging Kenneth My 2 Centavos Worth Manila Mom 3 Dogs, 3 Pigs and A Family Cafe Romanza Earn Global Credit Ability Macuha Flee the Cube MomReviews.net Fellow Eskimo Pajama Mommy Amanita.net WebStyle Meredith’s Weight Loss Blog Pink Blog Tricia’s Musings Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot Midlife Musings Utterly Geek Whatever I Feel Like My Dandelion Patch Surviving NJ GeekySpeaky Simple Kind Of Life 3DayMom BuyMeBlog The Hockey Dad Mariuca This is a Miracle Revellian d bImBo Secret of Mind Rightly Epitomised Random Magus Disjointed Intelligence WalksFarWoman FeedGet Wits End The Tall Poppy Man About the House Phattitudes Perpetual Expressions Ultimate MMA Video Blog Backwoods Drifter Sir Paul McCartney & The Beatles guest band purplemelon Two Write Hands About Every Little Thing Outdoor Bloggers Summit Marian’s Hunting Stories, etc, etc, etc

So what will I do if I’ve a million bucks? Easy. I’ll start my own stick men colony and use the remainder to feed my yarn addiction and build a yarn nest.

List of bloggers and how they’d spend the moolah:
1. SYH will spend for Family
2. Miche will give to the needy
3. Montessorimum will keepsake
4. Lovely Mummy will spend & save
5. MummyInVain will fully utilise
6. Babyfiona will buy house and open business
7. MonkeyWong will go for a long vacation
8. Emila Yusof will realise her dream
9. Mariuca will open a Perfume Gallery
10.Janice Ng will upgrade house and go for long vacation
11.Hin will blog to donate for charity
12.Bobo will invest in property and let her parents go on a holiday.
13. Brad will spend all of his money on foolish gadgets
14. Danielle will buy a cottage in the woods and never look back
15. Andrew will build the ultimate game room and have fun in the Hawaiian sun
16. Lis will build a stick men colony and a yarn nest.

Because I’m really curious how these folks will spend their moolah, I’m tagging the following bloggers:

Jason (spend it all on gorillas and sushi?)
Michael (getting a greet-and-meet with Tina Fey?)
Lisa (more chances to test all the hotel beds in the world?)
Geedos (another tour around the world?)

This must be my longest post ever in the history of my short, illustrious blogging career.

• Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
• Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
• Players should tag 8 other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Now, for the juicy incriminating stuff.

1) I use way too many commas, often in inappropriate places (in the closet, behind the bushes, on Cute Neighbour’s lap etc.). If you find your commas missing, now you know why.

2) I recite the 13 multiplication table when I’m drunk.

3) I used to have an extremely dangerous job that often put me in life-threatening situations. That’s right, I used to work in the banking industry.

4) I’m actually an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and carry a towel wherever I go. No, silly, I’m not Ford Prefect. I’m his sister.

5) Random fact number 4 is only 99% fiction. I do carry a towel. Sometimes.

And because I can only count up to 5, there’re only 5 random facts for you. Besides, I did say I’ll try to make it painless, didn’t I?

Now, for the next victims. I’m not real familiar with most of you so it’s fine and dandy if you don’t want to do this but bear in mind that I’m pointing a banana at your head. That’s right, consider yourself threatened. Unless, of course, you know self defence against fresh fruits.

1) Jason from Gorilla Sushi.
2) Dr. Harold Toboggans from The Ominous Comma.
3) Bob from bobbarama dot com.
4) Rachel from An English Mum.
8) Polli from Polliwog’s Pond.

All right, fine, since I’ve a big heart and all and I’m feeling mighty generous, you might want to learn a few tips about self defence against fresh fruits from our good sergeant below.