Every time I open my Firefox browser, I usually will do one thing before anything else: check the Twitter statuses of those I follow. Usually this takes only a few seconds as all the updates get delivered right at the bottom bar of the browser. Sometimes I reply to some tweets, sometimes I follow some links and have an interesting read. And sometimes, funny things that people tweet make me smile. And this is just one of those:

And then sometimes (like once or twice a week, maybe), I stumble around in Facebooks, answering friend requests (more like accepting, really), replying to some wall posts, or posting something on other people’s walls, or view other people photos. And yes, there bound to be something funny there too, sometimes. This is what I found this time:

Credits to Shaza Hakim for retweeting the tweet from flisterz for the Twilight Moms image, and Awie Gaucho for the Spongebob IC in Facebook, and Amira Khairuddin through whose profile I stumbled across the image.

The contents of this post is selected and taken from IB Humor Checklist website.

You know you’re in IB when…

1. Relatives that have been dead for years come visit you and suggest that you get some sleep.
2. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
3. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
4. You can see individual air molecules vibrating.
5. While writing a TOK paper, you begin to actually understand the material.
6. You explore the possibility of setting up an IV drip of espresso.
7. You wonder if brewing is an essential step in the consumption of coffee.
8. You begin speaking in a language that only you and Channelers can understand.
9. You believe that if you think hard enough, you can levitate.
10. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
11. You heart beats in 7/8 time.
12. You and Reality file for divorce.
13. It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code.
14. You have great revelations concerning Life, the Universe, and Everything else, but can’t quite find the words for them before the white glow fades, leaving you more confused than before.
15. You begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a nasty row about it, lose, and refuse to talk to yourself for the rest of the day.
16. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
17. Five words: “WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?!?!?!?”
18. You can spell “Baccalaureate”.
19. You go to bed at 3AM and think, “Oh, it’s an early night!”
20. Your favorite saying is “If I get a hundred on every test for the rest of the year…”
21. Social life? What’s that?
22. You’ve fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you’re in IB or not.
23. You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping – and succeed.
24. You talk to yourself in the 3rd person.
25. It’s okay to fail, so long as you are not alone.
26. You frequently catch yourself saying “What?? We had homework??”
27. a good night’s sleep is 5 hours
28. 16+2= …wait let me get my graphing calculator!
29. you have theoretical physics discussions at parties
30. the number on your screen name corresponds to the page number that character you use for your screen name has an appearance in the book you got it from
31. you understand the above the first time you read it
32. whenever you’re watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes…without trying
33. you start to laugh hysterically when you’re writing a bibliography because a book has TWO authors
34. you spend all your time complaining about your work, then do it hurriedly because you want to get to bed and don’t know where all the time went
35. you brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night
36. you write a two page answer to a one sentence question
37. you enjoy complaining and scaring underclassmen (yeah, and they gave us 500 pages of History, but I managed to do that even though my back is now permanently damaged by the weight of my backpack, and the track bugs almost got me so I was exhausted from running… etc.)
38. you love telling your boyfriend/girlfriend the story your math teacher told you
39. this number means something: 42
40. you forget to breathe
41. your main addiction is to sleep…and you’re always experiencing withdrawal.
42. your backpack is heavier than you are.
43. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
44. you complain that you can’t store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
45. you can’t enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong.
46. You know the chemical composition of the ugly brown stains on the ceiling tiles.
47. You see 0110 1001 0110 1001 and get horny.
48. Your Theory of Knowledge class has you seriously thinking if Hitler was justified in killing those 6 million Jews.
49. You make a date to do homework together and you actually do.
50. Your pick-up lines include compliments on the quality of her (his) epidermis and the wonderful shape of her (his) occipital plate.
51. You wonder about things like what would happen if your car travelled at the speed of light and you turned your lights on.
52. You skip breakfast so you can get to school early to get in some extra cramming time and gain that “upper edge” on the rest of the class.
53. The bags under your eyes are heavier than the ones carrying your textbooks.
54. Desperate to fill up your CAS hours, you claim watching a black and white movie as “creativity” and walking your dog as “activity”, and your teacher approves it.
55. Explaining is too difficult – you just tell people the answers.
56. You plead insanity on a research paper.
57. Your plea is accepted by your teacher.
58. You actually read all the above!!

In response to Renee’s post, here are my version of 5 things about me that not many people know. At the end of this post, there’ll be a list of 5 persons who must continue this game and write about their 5 things that not many people know about them.

1. I like stargazing

This is one of my favourite hobbies. I can practically lie down at night and look up on the stars and ponder about the vastness of space and the infinite possibilities of what may be out there. And it always come down to me when I’m in the face of such a grandeur scale of the universe, I am humbled by the powerlessness of our own being and how insignificant we are in the larger scheme of the universe.

When I was still in MRSM Langkawi, sometimes at night me and several friends used to sneak out past midnight and went to the field and just lie down there, looking at the stars and wondering upon it. And yes, I did caught a falling star that night .

(If you’re wondering what do I want for a birthday present, a nice expensive telescope would be fantastic )

2. I love adventurous travelling

Yes, I favour a rough trekking into the jungle climbing rocks and traversing rivers way more than the luxurious soft thick bed of hotel suite or the glamours and glitters of shopping heaven. One of the reason why I choose New Zealand to further my study is because of its amazing natural environment and how I dreamt of travelling and witnessing the beauty and wonders of nature.

3. I read more non-fiction than fiction

It didn’t start off that way, of course. When I was a kid and the time when I started to read books with hundreds of pages, most of them are fictions and I do love them. But as I grow up, I find a liking to non-fiction more and more. Fictions are great for fantasies and fun and enjoying, but surprisingly, non-fiction provide those things too. Plus because they are non-fiction, they deal more with the reality of life. I believe books should add to our knowledge, and non-fiction does that way better than fiction does. I still read fiction though, just that I read non-fictions more.

View my Shelfari Profile page.

4. I spend a lot if I have a lot of money

I don’t know what you’ll call that kind of person, but I usually spend a lot if I have a lot of money, and I can restrict my spending to as minimal as possible when I don’t have a lot of money. Perhaps this is one habit I should change. Save for the future…

5. Kids fantasies don’t really interest me

By kids fantasies, I mean those books in the fantasy genre targeted for younger readers and audience like Harry Potter and Narnia. I don’t really read or watch them, so when my friends are crazy over the latest Harry Potter book or movie and recently, the new Narnia movie, I couldn’t be bothered. I like adult fantasies way better, and I don’t mean those 18SX kind of adult fantasies, but rather those books or movies in the fantasy genre targeted for grown-ups or young adults like Lord of the Rings and Stardust. Those are good..

Okay, now the 5 tagged persons who MUST continue this “5 Things About Me” post:

1. Jon Mah
2. Imanka
3. Aleen
4. Zahra
5. Pau