I was tagged by Mark Cohen to write 8 little things about me.

The meme is basically defined as follows:

The ground rules for the meme are simple. Here they are…

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

So here goes: 

1) I was born in India and at the age of 2 moved to Nigeria where I spent about 9 years for primary schooling. Then I moved to Australia, and this is now home.

2) When I was 10, I went to London with my parents to meet my Dad’s extended family. While I being naughty in a restaurant running around as I was chased by my cousin sister, I looked back and missed a step in front of me – only to slide about a meter, and put the right side of my forehead into a metal chair. My uncle’s handkerchief was drenched in blood, I was crying, my mother nearly fell sick. It only took my uncle 5 British pounds to shut me up by buying me a toy gun (I still have it!!)

3) At the age of 11 I went to a boarding school which was pretty much military style.

This is sample weekday schedule:

5:30am – Wake up
5:30am to 6:30am – Brush, shower, change
6:30am to 6:45am – Inspection by the warden (yes, that’s what they called him)
6:45am to 7:45am – Be in class for morning prep (doing some early studies and homework)
8:00am to 8:45am – Breakfast
9:00am to 12:00pm – Teaching time 3 subjects for 1 hour each
12:00pm to 1:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm to 4:00pm – Teaching time 3 subjects for 1 hour each
4:00pm to 5:00pm – Shower, change, polish your shoes and have it inspected (again by the warden)
4:00pm to 4:15pm – Tea (you can be lucky to get a chocolate)
4:15pm to 5:30pm – Play some sports or head to the library
5:30pm to 6:00pm – Shower and change to evening clothes
6:00pm to 6:15pm – Roll Call (they check to make sure no one has run away from the campus by counting everyone)
6:30pm to 8:30pm – Evening Prep
8:30pm to 9:30pm – Dinner
9:30pm to 10:00pm – Prepare for bedtime.
10:15pm – lights out!

4) At the age of 16 I was travelling from high school back to Nigeria to meet my parents. I usually travel from India to London (meet family) and then travel down to Nigeria. 3 hour mid air after the flight left London, the pilot was told that Nigeria airport had a strike and was shut down (nothing new for African countries). We were diverted to Ghana. Worried as my parents were, I called them saying that I was fine and found a hotel for the night until the next flight to Nigeria. My Dad was impressed when I told him that I was calling them from the hotel’s restaurant dining on a pizza and sipping on Club Beer (local Ghana beer, really good that I had to have 4 before I had a good night’s sleep)

5) I started uni when I was 17 (3 months shy of being 18), but I was still able to get into the university 18+ events. It seems security only looked at my year of birth and not the month =)

6) I had a small business during my bachelor’s degree at university selling computer hardware on eBay. All I did was simply liaising with the wholesale dealers and shipping them directly to the end customer. Started with no capital and came out with $7000 profit over 12 months. I pretty much drowned myself in the university pub at the end of my degree. Unfortunately I didn’t have the heart to do it again when I did my masters.

7) I love cooking. I haven’t been thought by my parents, but by being independent most of my life. Infact, my mother didn’t know how to cook when she got married, my father thought her the basics. I admit to watching the Food channel on foxtel and get receipe ideas. I also like entertaining friends, but given my fairly small sized apartment, I don’t think I can host more than 4 friends at a time…

8) Prior to Fairfax I worked at Wiliam as a Developer, Team Leader, Production Manager and Web Services Director (all these positions titles in 2.5 years). You’ve got to love agencies that just give you a job title on a platter.

Now, to tag some people to do this meme:

www.benjaminchristie.com
www.cheb.com.au
www.robertbeerworth.com
www.gregorybrine.com
go2naveen.blogspot.com
www.lauratj.com