Well, I don’t know about that but here’s something freaky for your reading pleasure: I was the third child born at 3:33 in the morning of 9/21 (multiples of 3)

I think I’m a bit germophobe! ;)

http://wen-xin.net/archives/2004/04/13/a_cell_phone_number_bid_for_1_million_in_china.php

1) Every now and then I like watching the clock when it turns 12:34 56 seconds. I’ve always liked how it was 1,2,3,4,5,6 at that time of the day.

2) In reference to the Chinese, there have been phone numbers that sold for ridiculous prices because they contained these numbers. Here is a blog post about it. Some guy bought a cell phone number for US$1.1 million and an airline bought an 8888 8888 number for US$280,000.

Anyway, for example I tend to wash my hands 5 times. Although, strangely enough that has dropped to 3 over the past few years.

Other strange items, I was supposed to be born on the 5th, but I was 20 days late and ended up being born on the 25th — of the 11 month. :) Or if you take 5 + 25 + 11 you get 41. Then 4 + 1 is 5. I know some of it’s reaching and subconsiously it might be me creating this. But I think it’s cool. That, and I have always been a math/numbers person.

One of my issues with food is if it looks strange to me at the moment. I can’t eat it. It’s hard to explain in words, because most of the time it’s my imagination working. It can be food I’ve eaten before, but if at that moment something looks strange, I just can’t convince myself to eat it.

BTW, here is a cool numbers site: http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Just wanted to say hi too. Cool site. I might be visiting some more.

I also have an obsession about keeping my hands clean, I cannot stand to have my hands dirty for more than 30 seconds. When I cook, I wash my hands everytime, compulsively. Same thing when gardening, it’s very hard for me to handle having some soil on my hands. When I take the subway or the bus and I have to stand, I never put my hands on the metallic bars. I had a few accidents because of that, but, oh well, I’d rather have a broken arm than a dirty hand.

About that number 3 obsession, I keep looking at the time on the clock when it is near 3h14 and 15 seconds. I always wonder if something would happen when the time was exactly PI. That is stupid because PI on a clock would be more like 3h08 and 28 seconds, and well, because nothing will be happening!

Chinese people are very obsessed about numbers in general. I have visited many temples where a lot of thing were following some rational distribution, where on a circular floor, made of many rows of bricks, when you divided the number of bricks from one row to another, you would always get 3…well or something like that. Chinese are also obsessed about number 8 which means luck. They try to get the more number 8 everywhere they can, on their car plate, on their phone number, etc. There are so many numbers that goes like 11 00 88 88 88 88. Because 8 in chinese if a flat “ba”, it sounds like “bababa-babababa” when you pronounce it.