Sunday, December 7, 2008

a word to describe

if you were to pick one word. just one single word to describe yourself, what would it be?
funny? sexy? clever? lazy? flirtatious? hollow? cheery? emo-ish?

i bumped into my high school classmates, qian wen and yi ling the other day at tesco. so i started askin, "hey... so how's everybody?" i told them i just ended my 2 year course in KDU, and one of them said, "hey it seems like there are a lot of people in kdu," so i started to name a few. and i was like, "remember YE*?"
and they were like, "which YE*?"
"the one that always hang out with LT* one ar... we have our own gangs in class but its always just the 2 of them at one corner. rememberrr....??"
"ohhhh the one that wears really extremely thick make up?"
"ermm... hmm... yeah..." i said. "that one." with a really awkward response...

then qian wen started to talk about ZX*. then i was like, which ZX*? she described a lil and it just shot out of my mouth "OHHHHH THAT XIAO HUA!!" i was so excited i got the person right but, it wasnt a nice thing to say. they were laughing along, cause ZX* really was famous for that. so....

anyway some ppl are known to hav their own title/description or... whatever you call it.
subconsciously when people talk about LT* or YE*, people think of them as the people with thick make up. when they talk about ZX*, yeah... xiao hua. some you just go
"that nerdy one right?"
"that bitchy one that never zips up her pinafore?"
"that short noisy one?"
"the rich rich one with the roxy backpack?"
"she was always on the tanda hitam besar list one right?"
"that show-off bitch?"

whatever it is, people are always remembered with their signature look, style, behaviour, etc. even innocent ones might also end up being called "ooooohhh the one who always pick her nose in class" "the one who always pass up her homework on time" "the one who always sleeps in class"

but those are slightly different from what im going to talk about in this post.
i came across this article in a magazine, on how to describe yourself with just 1 word. you might be sexy? funny? lovable? clever or kind? strong, tough, independent or warm?

lets take sexy for example. if you were to use the word sexy, you might sound a little like you're stretching too far. how about sassy? too posturing? attractive sounds good but its a little too broad.
funny covers witty, dry, amusing, clownish... sarcastic is funny too! if you were to say you're a funny person, uhh... which type of funny again?

how about negative traits? like grumpy, snobby, bitchy... then again, define bitchy...?
needy... u can't really use that word cause you dont want pity, you want understanding and support.
boring, naggy, anxious, problematic, stingy? a person who worries too much? or anything of the opposite of the list 2 paragraphs before?

whatever it is, the point of my post is... hahaha! that im very extremely curious on what poeple will describe me as. when people say my name, what comes to your mind automatically? and if you were to sit down and think of a word for me just oe word to describe me, what would it be?

*names are slightly altered for privacy purposes

No comments:

Post a Comment