50 random things about me
thanks to jamie for the idea!! hehehe.
50. i would seriously rather be shot in the head than get on a rollercoaster. at least the torture would be over sooner.
49. i used to own a light brown and white hamster named muffin, who i dressed in barbie outfits, who was the sweetest thing ever, who had 11 children with my sister's hamster nibbles (a bastard, she would bite everything). nibbles ate half of them because we didn't know we weren't supposed to touch the babies.
48. my top pet peeves are people who are hypocritical, people are incompetent, and those ignorant morons who are racist.
47. i'm really bored right now, and a chihuahua named "frankie" aka "the bat" is sitting on my lap and licking my wrist at this very instant.
46. steamed chicken is one of my favorite foods, i think it tastes great.
45. i used to want to be a dolphin trainer at sea world when i was younger.
44. i'm one of the few people in the world who is lucky enough to have found her soulmate (hi dj!!).
43. i'm afraid that i'm going to lose my knack for painting and sketching because i haven't done that in a long time from lack of time. and now that i do have the time, i still haven't started again.
42. my guide in decisions tends to be cold rationality and logic more than emotions, which has it benefits and drawbacks. a lot of people do not understand this, which means i can come off as a bitch sometimes.
41. if i could live my life over again, i would take figure skating lessons as soon as i could walk because my secret dream is professional figure skating. haha.
40. i was an exchange student in japan in 4th year high school, and i am just incredibly impressed with the culture and , i just fell in love with it.
39. one of my most treasured moments in my 4 years of college: when i was an EPWD garbage collector, i learned so much from the experience and it really humbled me. so much to learn in the most unlikely of circumstances.
38. i was a bookworm when i was a kid, something i've carried with me all these years. =)
37. i have 2 stomachs: one for normal food, and one for desserts. one can get sooo full but the other will still be craving.
36. i'm such a sucker for surprises. ;)
35. i think mamplasan is the funniest city name in the philippines, and i laugh every single time that i pass it. it reminds me of "platypus" kasi.
34. i highly admire the intellectual genius of machiavelli, i think he's one of the most misunderstood people in history.
33. my biggest fears are of stagnancy, and of waking up and discovering that there is lack of meaning in my life. that's why every spare moment, i'm reassessing where i am, and how i feel about that particular location.
32. my first crush was a boy in my kindergarten class in new jersey, i can't remember his name for the life of me.
31. i love a tall, 17hh golden chestnut danish warmblood gelding named savannah.
30. i love baking, and use unconventional techniques that make dj laugh, like separating the egg from the yolk. rawr.
29. i'm so afraid of suicide and am constantly aware of the people around because of it. i've had a friend end his life before and it was one of the saddest things i have had to go through, i've learned that life is short.
28. i hate mainstream, and steer clear of anything people become cult-obsessed with. it's not that i'm unnaturally biased, it's just that i have a clearer eye for things people tend to gloss over. i personally didn't think rent was that great, nor was i impressed at all with da vinci code.
27. i'm secretly afraid of children because they're so frank and thus i don't seek them out, but they are also drawn to me because i always treat them like adults - i never babytalk.
26. i find it easier to get along with guys than girls?
25. i cannot sleep without my stuffed animal red, who i gave to dj before i left, but he gave me a
24. i'm so sentimental that if i wore a shirt with someone, it'll probably take me a while before i wash it.
23. it's really difficult for me to find someone to love, because normally the smallest things turn me off. i can be really shallow, and it's horrid.
22. i really wish i had continued piano, and debate.
21. it sounds horrible, but i've always wanted to grab the money box from the blind men that sing in a band in a mall somewhere, just to see if they'd run after. then we'd see if they were really blind or not.
20. i once made a bet with paola long long long ago that i would never have a boyfriend, and that if i got one, i'd have to pay her a million pesos. thankfully, she never picked up on the bill. ;)
19. all of the major decisions i have made in my life, i'm thankfully happy with. even the painful moments, i've learned so much from them that i wouldn't change a thing.
18. i'm a health freak, and have never smoked or consciously taken drugs in my life. i could subsist on granola bars. and i'm buying a pair of rollerblades later for *ahem* fitness intentions. =)
17. i've seen a ghost before, and it was a dog. it wasn't spooky on its own, but the implications of seeing such a sight was something that scares me all the time.
16. i used to hate okra because it was so slimey, but now i've decided i can't live without it.
15. when i was younger, i used to want to be jubilee from x-men because she was the youngest one, although her powers were like fireworks or something. basta, stupid. now that i'm more mature (haha), i'd rather have the powers of nightcrawler but i wouldn't wanna look like him (fore purposes of vanity).
14. i still want to start a bakeshop one day, and my specialties will be chewy chocolate chip cookies, blueberry cheesecake, black & white cheesecake, banana cake and fudge brownies!
13. i have congenital heart murmur, which means my heart beats irregularly and is weaker than most. i inherited it from my mom, who was once told that she could probably never have kids because her heart might not be able to handle the stress. she had my sister and me, so i'm not worried about this. although when i go to doctor check-ups, they still sometimes look alarmed.
12. another treasure memory from college that made an impact on my life: my olongapo immersion with regards to the philippine prostitution sector. so sad.
11. when i was 2, i decided that i was too old to drink from a bottle. when i was 9, i decided i was too old for barbies and put them away forever in my pink treasure chest. my sister, who is 2 years older, stopped bottles at 6 and barbies at 13. haha, she's gonna kill me for this!
10. i would prefer backpacking through africa rather than backpacking through europe.
9. i find it easy to meet people and have a decent conversation, but difficult to really connect with a person and let my guard down.
8. i tried skimboarding and i just don't have the balance for it at all!! i found that out thanks to the large bruise on my butt after bora.
7. when i was younger and lived in westfield, there was only one filipino girl in the entire town and no one liked her because she, her house, and her yard constantly smelled like tuyo. i didn't like her either, which was sad i guess.
6. i secretly imagine dying a hero's death.
5. estela brielle e. oreta makes me the proudest tita there is. gosh! i'm a tita na!
4. as a kid, when i'd be pissed off at my sister, i'd get her favorite cd and sabotage it by smearing glue on both sides. regardless, the cd would still play. just goes to show those things are unsabotage-able.
3. i have an incredibly high tolerance for pain. yup, brazilian waxes don't hurt.
2. i'm a huge pig. i once ate 8 scoops of icecream using the single cone i had, i just kept refilling. the cone was sooo soggy by the time it was over! and, i've also finished a family size stuffed crust extra cheese, mushroom and pepperoni pizza.
1. i used to scoff at the idea of long-distance relationships, and now i'm living one and determined about it. but then again, i also never knew what real love was like, and now i do.
posted by bettina at 5/05/2005 03:48:00 PM
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