100 things you don’t know about me…

by Evans Yonson

(Note: This blog originally appeared in my Multiply account on 11 July 2005. In the coming days, I will be posting blogs written between 2004 and 2006 and posted in Multiply. The site will be offline soon thus the migration of several blog entries.)

madrid – i’ve been receiving bulletins and forwarded messages since time immemorial. these fill up my inboxes that i have to delete those twice every single day. as a revenge, i am writing a blog about the things that you barely know about me…. FYI.

1. i studied chinese fookien everyday for three years.
2. i say i love you always and i mean it.
3. i studied the arabic language for one summer.
4. i studied BASIC (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code – a computer language) in high school.
5. i peed in my pants in chinese school.
6. i still keep a diary, this time a digital one.
7. i suffered bamboo stick whackings in chinese school.
8. i got lost in a market in cagayan de oro for 3 hours when i was 7 years old.
9. i hate listening to repeated stories.
10. i love electronic gadgets.
11. i burned all my honor cards and cerftificates.
12. i love copying lines and quotations but never use them any way.
13. i don’t like repeated questions.
14. i tried cross-stitch but never finished one.
15. i lost my only 100 pesos for the pants that i was wearing for my high school graduation.
16. i learned my ABCs alone.
17. i never climbed a tree.
18. i’m a peeping tom.
19. i love cleaning my ears day and night.
20. i don’t know how to drive a bicycle.
21. i hate animal furs like cats’ and dogs’.
22. i love watches. my first watch was a Rado from my father. i once had a Mickey Mouse watch. i’m wearing a Swatch, my seventh.
23. i seldom wear necklaces.
24. i am a green-thumb.
25. i stare at people from head to toe.
26. i love Bench and Springfield shirts and Rusty Lopez shoes.
27. i barely sleep when traveling in a bus.
28. i don’t regret spending money – hard-earned or otherwise.
29. i prefer to sleep alone.
30. i dreamt of becoming a doctor.
31. i want to be a farmer.
32. i love it when i receive emails personally written and not the copied ones.
33. i can walk for several hours inside a museum, a mall or at the park.
34. i have worn the same model of leather sandals from Our Tribe for the last 14 years.
35. i buy second hand clothes.
36. i hate chocolates and potatoes (except McDonald’s french fries).
37. i seldom drink alcoholic beverages.
38. i believe in reincarnation.
39. i love museums and cultural places.
40. i can literally close my ears.
41. i prefer black, yellow, orange, and white shirts.
42. i smoke a pack of cigarettes in two days.
43. i did my masters thesis in less than two months. writing, i mean.
44. i love ABBA and Mamma Mia, of course!
45. i play chess. and i am a good arnis player.
46. i hate organized religion.
47. i shave my pubics once in two months.
48. i prefer wearing short pants.
49. i hate buying gifts in Christmas.
50. i want to learn hoow to swim and drive a car.
51. i have taken more than 5,000 photos.
52. i love working on the 11th hour.
53. i would rather sit down than be the life of the party.
54. i cry when i listen to regine velasquez’s pasko na sinta ko and the wonder of you.
55. i had my first experience when i was 12.
56. i go for the married ones for my serious relationships.
57. i love the singing group, everything but the girl.
58. i feel in love with a classmate when i was in junior high.
59. i easily forget names of people i meet.
60. i know how to cook. my specialty is chicken and pork adobo, and pasta with chili sauce.
61. i have so many moles in my body and in the most conspicuous places.
62. i hate organized pleasure travels.
63. i procrastinate.
64. i listen a lot to classical, celtic, world and alternative music.
65. i hate routines.
66. i travel very light wherever i go.
67. i am a clairvoyant. i see things happenings in the future in vivid color and details.
68. i wear black briefs and most of the time plaid boxers.
69. i fear flying from manila to cagayan de oro and davao.
70. i love floating to cebu.
71. i stopped using towels.
72. i go more for noses than looks.
73. i don’t believe in bad luck.
74. i pick my nose with my right small finger.
75. i write when i get so angry.
76. i recite the Lord’s Prayer in Cebuano, Filipino, English, and Spanish before i sleep.
77. i hate forwarded emails about mantras, the Lord, self-help advisories and asking you to forward to others.
78. i had stage fright in high school.
79. i am an impulsive buyer.
80. i wore my father’s 60s clothes in college.
81. i spoil my nieces more than my nephews.
82. i love wearing an all black ensemble.
83. i am very possessive of my friends. loyalty is one of my worst values.
84. i do everything with my left hand. it’s longer and bigger than my right.
85. i would rather travel and be broke than having money and not traveled at all.
86. i hate it when people tell me about their first impressions of me.
87. i am always on time.
88. i could sleep without praying.
89. i have 15 versions by different artists of Cyndi Lauper’s song, Time afer Time.
90. i collect museum brochures, bus/plane tickets, and pencils.
91. i always dreamt of studying in the University of the Philippines.
92. i hate sleeping with blankets and bed sheets.
93. i find happiness in the rain and the trees outside my window.
94. i indulge in buying shoes just like the Beauty from Leyte.
95. i hate waiting for people who don’t come on time.
96. i don’t buy pirated CDs.
97. i prefer eating fish than any red/white meat.
98. i hate the word miss when people write me. i don’t use it either.
99. i have always maintained my weight for the past 10 or 12 years.
100. i love this thing that i am doing now.

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