i think i'm quite anal retentive.
because according to freud (again), the term anal retentive means meticulous, parsimonious and obstinate.
i feel that a couple of these three words just about summarise the way i read newspapers.
i suppose in some strange way i see the newspaper (the current day's, no less) as a fix or perhaps as a replacement for a morning cuppa.
some people cannot wake properly without coffee; i somehow feel that my day is unfulfilled without The Straits Times.
which probably, in some way, led to the fastidious way i tackle every day's headlines.
meticulous: excessively concerned with details.
parsimonious: Excessively sparing or frugal
and lastly, obstinate: Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action.
while i'm not exactly parsimonious, not when it comes to newspapers, anyways. i do agree with the remaining two words.
it's like this:
1. you will not disturb me when i'm perusing my daily gazatte.
2. i do not share when i'm in the midst of reading newspapers. no dividing up into separate sections and passing it around until i'm absolutely done.
3. i read it in the same order everyday: main paper, Home, Life!, classifieds. i skip the Asia section.
4. you will not insist i change the way i read it, otherwise you'll be branded a sonofabitch for life.
ok i think that's enough for now. this is a weblog, not a place to scare my faithful readers away.
now tell me, is that anal or is that anal? even my mom tells me i have this truly uncompromising and rigid way of reading the newspaper. well i'm sorry if i like monopolising them.
one does have one's quirks, fancies and peeves.
live with it.
because according to freud (again), the term anal retentive means meticulous, parsimonious and obstinate.
i feel that a couple of these three words just about summarise the way i read newspapers.
i suppose in some strange way i see the newspaper (the current day's, no less) as a fix or perhaps as a replacement for a morning cuppa.
some people cannot wake properly without coffee; i somehow feel that my day is unfulfilled without The Straits Times.
which probably, in some way, led to the fastidious way i tackle every day's headlines.
meticulous: excessively concerned with details.
parsimonious: Excessively sparing or frugal
and lastly, obstinate: Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action.
while i'm not exactly parsimonious, not when it comes to newspapers, anyways. i do agree with the remaining two words.
it's like this:
1. you will not disturb me when i'm perusing my daily gazatte.
2. i do not share when i'm in the midst of reading newspapers. no dividing up into separate sections and passing it around until i'm absolutely done.
3. i read it in the same order everyday: main paper, Home, Life!, classifieds. i skip the Asia section.
4. you will not insist i change the way i read it, otherwise you'll be branded a sonofabitch for life.
ok i think that's enough for now. this is a weblog, not a place to scare my faithful readers away.
now tell me, is that anal or is that anal? even my mom tells me i have this truly uncompromising and rigid way of reading the newspaper. well i'm sorry if i like monopolising them.
one does have one's quirks, fancies and peeves.
live with it.
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