In Continuum.

As I have mentioned on this blog before, I am a sucker for a few things in life. Everybody has guilty pleasures, and I have quite a few up my sleeves. The Mummy and its first sequel, despite being a critical flop, are some of my favorite action-adventure type movies ever. I have a guilty pleasure for some reality television like America's Next Top Model and Beauty and the Geek, and I also love to watch American Idol just to see the audition bits where people screw up. Anyway, memes are also my guilty pleasure, something which I have already mentioned a few entries ago when I used one for an entry. Here's another meme from Neptina's blog, where she asked me five questions that I'd have to answer. A note to readers, if you want to do this meme, comment and I will ask you five random questions as well, in which you'd have to answer on your own blog or in the comment box. Neptina asked me five questions, and they are:

1) Would you rather live without chocolate or eat a strawberry every week for the rest of your life?
2) Where would you want to migrate to if you had enough money and why?
3) "Saving the world for our children". Do you give a damn?
4) Worst or best army memory.
5) Can you give me a hug crack soon :c

Question 1: Well, some of you may know my fear for strawberries, which is an unusual phobia since everybody raves about its taste. What bugs me about strawberries aren't necessarily the taste of the fruit, but rather how it looks on the outside. If you look carefully at the seeds on the outside of a strawberry, they start to shift and move like tiny little insects perched on the surface or something. It makes my skin crawl much like the way those small bumps would make you uncomfortable when you get a skin rash. You just feel like clawing it or something, but the problem is that it won't help with strawberries. Those seeds are just there, and they won't go anywhere no matter how hard you decide to scratch it. I think I can manage to balance the strawberry and the chocolate if I have to eat both, you know. I think I can deal with strawberry after it has been blended into a juice or a pulp. When it comes to ice-cream, I don't even mind eating strawberry flavored ones every once in a while. I suppose it isn't so much about the taste, but the look of the fruit that frightens me to no end. Besides, so many snacks that I love are made of chocolate. I cannot imagine a life without something like Kinder Buenos - ever. So yes, a strawberry a day for the rest of my life it is.

Question 2: Now that is a tricky question, because there are a lot of places that I'd like to migrate to as of now. I truly believe that there are things in every country that I'd love to live next to for the rest of my life. I suppose it'd be simpler if I consider between a city life or a country life. On one hand, I do love the convenience of city life and how easy it is to get whatever that I want. On the other hand, the simple life out in the country seems to be pretty awesome as well, and I imagine myself wrestling a sheep down a grassy hill for some reason. I feel that we need a good balance of both in order for the country to the perfect destination for my migration. If that is the case, then all the continents in the world can be ruled out, save for the continent of Europe. It's true that I haven't actually been there myself, and for that I cannot make an accurate judgment on that place. Still, if I want to really choose a place to migrate to forever, it'd probably be Switzerland. I mean, think about it. Switzerland is always ranked very highly in any list that is about good things, right. They make good cheese, they make good chocolates, and they make good pocket knives that do pretty much anything. I mean, MacGyver uses it, it has to be good! So yes, Switzerland it is.

Question 3: "Saving the world for our children", that is actually something I haven't heard of before, which means that it is a concept that is completely new to me. I think realistically speaking, not a lot can be changed within one single generation, which means that whatever we do right now is probably not going to have a significant impact on the next generation, but perhaps the generation after that. I believe that more than just a responsibility to our children, there is a responsibility as a species to save the world somehow. It is a grand scheme that is difficult to comprehend at times, and I think it is more than just turning off the lights when you are not in the room, or to use just one single piece of toilet paper instead of two. I think humans are never going to be able to save ourselves, which is also a good reason why we also created God, this idea that someone of a higher order will eventually come down to save us. It is always easier to think that someone with more power can do the job for us, because it takes the load off our shoulders. It is true, though, that whatever that we do in this lifetime has its consequences. To think that we are protecting the species for the next million years would be hard to imagine, but to narrow down to just the protection of our children and their grandchildren, I suppose I can relate and agree with that.

Question 4: There are so many bad army memories that it'd be difficult to just pick one out of them all. Army was a giant pot of suck, and everything about it was just horrible. However, when you do something that sucks over and over again with a bunch of people who are doing the exact same thing, it kind of becomes better after some time, and you can't help but laugh about it. However, I can think of one or two memories that were one-time events that really left an impression in my army life, and I have mentioned one of them on my blog before. It is the incident regarding a trash bin (those big green ones with wheels) that toppled in the rubbish point in my camp, and my company was responsible to deal with the situation. The lot of us were ordered to go down to the rubbish collection point to fix the problem because what caused the bin to topple was because we threw too many bags of sand into it. The officer in command of my company thought that it'd be a neat idea to dig a pond in the middle of the company line and then have fish in it. All that sand that was dug out were put into trash bags and then thrown away, not realizing that the sheer weight actually broke one of the wheels.

So, the lot of us got down there, and I shall make the long story short since I have already blogged about it. We opened the gates to this rubbish collection point, and waves of the most horrible stench came out from within the darkness. It turned out that the darkness concealed the horrors well, because when the light came on, the hills of rubbish that stared back at us was probably the most terrifying things that I have ever seen. The green trash bin was toppled on one side, and the lot of us pulled up our t-shirts over our mouths and went in. The floor was slippery because of a collected layer of slime, and some of us actually fell down inside that place. That place is where rubbish go to when they die, and it is the worst possible place that you can imagine, because it has been weeks since the rubbish has been cleared. All around us, the contents of bags moved and rolled around because of the millions of maggots crawling around inside. Some spilled out from within and crawled around everywhere amidst the slime, and roaches crawled the walls everywhere. We had to dig our fingers into the slime and push the bin back up to its original position. Yes, we threw away all our shoes and all our clothing afterwards. I bathed three times that night - horrible.

Question 5: Yes, definitely. =D