Text Messages from 2012 I will never delete

During pre-smart-phones era, I had a Nokia that saved all data in a sim card, but could only hold a limited amount. This meant, once in a while I had to aggressively discard data to receive new ones. And of course, there were always some texts that I refuse to erase! If today, say I had to go through that agonising process (an opportunity to reflect on the past year), these are some of the texts I would save because of personal reasons:

• It's freakin scary walking back at this time. in this area. Wish I had a get-out-of-rape-free card.

• I realized today that my "fat jeans" have become just jeans.

• I wouldnt want you to change from the very core of your being no? And 'just the way you are' not merely a song...

• Our friendship would transcend time, space and fictional universe! Lol

• Thats it. Get your infrared binoculars and coffee. We are pitching our tent outside Gosling's penthouse. Fanboying hard right now.

• And you know what the best spell is? Obliviate. If something hurts us we can simply erase that painful memory from our minds

• I need to watch a how to party video. Not even makeup. Just party.

• Can we do thanksgiving next year???

• Introverts unite!!!!!! .....Individually.

• Tumblr is down. I repeat, tumblr is down!!!!

• I shall live vicariously through your "pool" parties hahaha

• Sorry I didnt call you back. I had diarrhea splashed on the tie you picked out for me. All good now

• I sniffed my banana like a pervert before i took a bite

• I will be on tv, I will be your worried friend who has to do an interview. I'll cry and be like her teddy bear is taking her away!

• I know someone who has bipolar. You'll be fine. And never doubt your creativity! :)

• Oh wow... very proud of you for confronting reality. Pat on the back! So proud!

• word of advice, never be too nice to a guy, men are very simple creatures. u might break someone's heart one day. and u might get hurt too

• WTH My mum told me she was scared those hawking mothers were going to introduce you to their sons! WHAT WERE YOU WEARING?

• If you could harness all that vibrato in les mis, what could you do with it? could you power a city?

• I don't even have a vagina but I'll gladly see anything with Ryan Gosling in it. He's that good.

On being nocturnal

Uberfacts on twitter tweeted "People who stay up later at night are likely to be more intelligent than those who go to bed early." Thus, empowering(?) me to write this post about being nocturnal, and the persecutions that come with not being a jolly morning person.

In theory, I get it. I get the whole "daylight is the time we get our stuff done". But to the famous white man in a curly white wig who centuries ago came up with, "The early bird gets the worm", I have to say "Nay good sir, the early bird doesn't get to lay in bed, play with his iPhone, listen to music, check his email, and sip coffee. The phrase sucks!" This is why the lives of night owls like myself are open for public shaming. I can rise and shine. Just not at the same time. Aside from having "hating-life"-mornings to deal with when between the hours of 6 and 10 a.m., I’m just trying to get my bearings in a world that is at least 3 shades too bright and won’t stop making loud, unfriendly noises.

Then there always a Miss/Ms/Mr/Mrs. I-go-jogging-at-six-every-morning who will be like, "Geez, long night last night?" Um, well. All of my nights are long, morning people. Not because I was out clubbing, but my brain seems to be over-active at the hours between 11pm and 3am. It's the time I want to talk, to read, to blog about the meaning of life, to jump on the bed, to make tea, to catch up on Downton Abbey, to eat pistachio nuts, to keep track of  #GoslingWatch on twitter, to play with my cats (also nocturnal animals), and to cry over The Pianist soundtrack. (Not to mention the 25 other things that keep me up at night.) That doesn't mean that I'm trying intentionally to stay up past my bedtime, it means I'm a prisoner to my own internal clock.

Yes, I have accepted that society demands of me a relatively early start time. And yes, I have given myself over to the idea that I will be running on society's schedule, and not my own. All I ask is that morning people, be kind to night owls. We're not usually this grumpy. (We might just be a bit more intelligent than you.)

I should marry Bruce Wayne. He's definitely a night person.