Top Ten Tuesday | Ten Non-Bookish Things About Me

Posted October 13, 2025 by Haze in Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Book Memes / 40 Comments

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.

Today’s topic is Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time 

The topic was originally supposed to be Non-Bookish Freebie, and today is my birthday(!) so I thought I’d do a non-bookish list about me today and share a little more about me. I’m not sure how many of us will do the original topic, but either way, I hope to learn more about you too!

Ten Non-Bookish Things About Me

  1. It’s my birthday! – October 14th! I’m a Libra baby! Unfortunately, I’m not celebrating this week as I got sick unexpectedly, but maybe once I get well.
  2. Yes, I am into astrology, tarot, numerology, and other metaphysical practices – I started practicing tarot and other witchy stuff as a child and became a professional tarot reader and numerologist as an adult.
  3. I’ve also worked at a bookstore and as a wedding singer – I’m pretty sure most of us bookworms have worked at a bookstore or a library, or with books at some capacity, at one point or other! Music is another big thing for me, so singing seemed like another thing I would enjoy, and I’ve sang with a couple of bands for weddings and corporate events.
  4. And was also an investment consultant – This is probably the job that is most unrelated to any of my interests, but I met my husband here so it turned out great!
  5. My husband is a musician and we bonded over our love for music – I have dated musicians before meeting my husband and I swore I would never date musicians again! Joke’s on me, huh?😂
  6. We make beautiful music together! – Not an euphemism! 😂 We actually make music together and have just released a few songs (and more coming soon!) under the name SpaceBlaze! I’ve added our Spotify playlist to the sidebar if anyone wants to check them out, or if you don’t use Spotify, you can try any of these platforms.
  7. We also have three cats together – Button, Pepper, and Loki. We lost Loki a few months ago, but he’s still very much in our hearts and minds. Click the link for the cat tax! They are Malaysian cats, and we brought them with us when we moved to Canada.
  8. We’re Malaysian cats too – We moved to Canada in 2018 and sometimes I’m surprised to realize that we’ve been here for seven years. It’s weird to be an immigrant because after seven years, I still feel like I’m new here. There’s so much I don’t know, and sometimes I don’t even know what I don’t know.
  9. I knit and crochet in my free time – These days it’s more crochet than knit, but I realized I haven’t posted many pictures of my crochet projects here. It looks like I only have this post and this post featuring my crochet pieces. I should really change that!
  10. It was surprisingly difficult to come up with ten non-bookish things about me – Books are such a huge part of my life, and probably the thing I talk most about. In fact, I’m probably cheating with this one, and the one about working in a bookstore, because they’re bookish-related, but this has somewhat inspired me to explore other interests so I’ll have more to talk about next time!

What are some non-bookish things about you? Do we have any non-bookish things in common? What non-bookish things would you like to try?

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40 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday | Ten Non-Bookish Things About Me”

  1. Rissi

    I always struggle with lists about myself or talking about things about myself. But sometimes it’s fun. Hope you feel better soon and have a fabulous birthday once you do! 🙂

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  8. Teresa @ My Bookish World

    Happy Birthday to a fellow Libran! I really enjoyed this post, it’s so interesting learning more about you. How wonderful that you and your husband make music together—I’ll certainly be checking out SpaceBlaze! I also love that you were an investment consultant, it just goes to show you never know what background a book blogger has! I hope you feel better soon and get to celebrate properly!

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    • Haze

      Thank you! It’s nice to know another Libran! I’m so glad you liked this post and I hope you’ll enjoy our music too. We made a lot of mistakes but we’re learning as we go!

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    • Haze

      Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I feel so awkward sharing some of these stuff like it’s the first day at school and I’m introducing myself 😂

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  11. Cholla

    You have a very interesting life! So sorry to hear about Loki, our pets are definitely family. Also, I got into tarot in high school but am only just starting to get into numerology. It’s all so interesting.

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

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  12. Dini @ dinipandareads

    Happy Birthday! I’m sorry to hear you’re not feeling well, but I hope you feel better soon and get to celebrate your day. ✨Also, what a fun post to get to know you! It’s pretty cool that you and your husband make music together and I love the name SpaceBlaze, hehe. 😍

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    • Haze

      Aww thank you, I’m feeling better today and hopefully will be back to normal asap! There’s a funny story to how we came up with the name SpaceBlaze, so I’m glad you like it! I hope you’ll enjoy our music too!

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  13. Cindy's Book Corner

    I did this topic as well and still mentioned book stuff, LOL! I loved learning about more about you…how about, I lived in Singapore for 3 1/2 years…so I was close to Malaysia and regret never taking the time to visit.

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    • Haze

      So cool to know you lived in Singapore! I’m learning things about you too! Sorry you didn’t get a chance to visit Malaysia but I hope you enjoyed your time in Singapore!

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  20. Susan

    Great to know all these things about you! And sorry to have missed your birthday – hope it was fun. I like hearing your songs and I’m glad you put your Spotify on the sidebar. You two are talented, yay. Also you have beautiful kitties. I’m glad you’re a book person. I didn’t go to Wordfest this year … just too busy with other things … and driving into downtown isn’t high on my list. lol.

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