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