I have another weird habit to add to the list. Have never told anyone about this except my mom when I was little. But of course, I wouldn't know that was weird back then, would I? She commented that I was nuts and "putting brain cells to waste".

It was then when I noticed I like to read short words in a reversed manner. And if it's a nicely spelt out (reversedly) word, I would read it out aloud to show that the word could also be pronounced nicely in a reversed way. For example: sun --> nus, elf --> fle. Would giggle about it if it would sound funny. Example: Back in primary years, I started the 'name terbalik' thingy where me and my friends would reversed our names to see how they would sound like.

Mine was quite cool - eigna wol kip rah. Wasn't funny so no laughs on this name. My then-bestfriend, Kelly had us burst out laughing when I mentally diligently placed the 5 alphabets backward and exclaimed "yllek!". As in, "elek" in Tamil which means 'don't have!'

Now, of lately this habit of mine has been increasingly making its presence felt. It's almost like an automatic thing for me to do. See a short word ---> Read and pronounce backwards. I even have some which, I encountered almost quite regularly and are now embedded in my memory. Such words: nike --> ekin, adidas --> sadida, avon --> nova, milo --> olim, love --> evol etc.

Remember back when we were younger, there was this brand of milk powder called Klim? Packaged in a bright yellow design. So anyway, Klim is actually milK! See! Astonished or not?! Well, I was, back then *giggles*

Then lately, with the big hooha on the latest Civic I discovered civic, when spelt reservely is also civic! How cool is that! Yea yea snigger on. Roll your eyes even. I don't care coz words like these just amazes me  Also, interestingly Oprah caught on too with her famous Harpo Productions.

Was chatting with DT(divad), AW (xela naw) and Lin just now. Was just telling them that if I were to have a fashion line of my own, it'd be called - e i G n a - and ...

(and as usual, we shall all ignore 'xela naw' who is 24/7 nasty)

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OMG. I WAS JUST BROWSING THROUGH GOOGLE TO SEE WHETHER THEY HAVE A NAME FOR THIS WEIRD HABIT AND I DISCOVERED THIS! Some interesting ones:

Mirror of Erised - In the Harry Potter books, the enchanted Mirror of Erised (desire spelled backwards) reveals the deepest desire of the person seeing himself in the mirror.

dnL - A drink from 7 Up. 7up flipped upside down (not exactly a backword, but certainly interesting).

Enola South Carolina - originally named Alone.

Erehwon - a book by Samuel Butler (nowhere spelled backwards).

Skoob Books - Bookstore in Old Town, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia <---HOW COOL IS THIS!

And lastly, "It's no accident that stressed spelled backwards is desserts"

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Note: Just discovered my boss - Goh - as everyone calls him when reversed is 'hog.'