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50 things about me (not in order)

  1. I’ve only been in love once – to my husband.
  2. I am scared of cockroaches.
  3. I hate shopping. I try to get everything online. I only shop if I have no other choice.
  4. I am obsessed with soft shelled crabs.
  5. I love JD and Maker’s Mark. A very dirty martini gets me dirty.
  6. I’ve always been the interviewer never the interviewee.
  7. I was a TV, radio, print and online journalist.
  8. I love photography, and wish I have more time to experiment with objects.
  9. I have a love and hate relationship with travelling. I want to travel but I detest planes (I am hoping I’d still be alive when demolecularisation is invented).
  10. I am a sci-fi fan – but not too much.
  11. I love horror and zombie movies. I saw my first horror show when I was five years old (yet I still turned out perfectly fine).
  12. I used to do martial arts. I even competed and won in high school.
  13. I was an academic achiever in school – not really sure why or how it happened.
  14. I’ve never seen/touched snow. I want to try it for the first time with Inara.
  15. I had anaemia as a kid.
  16. I used to be good at drawing and sketching.
  17. I am a knitting addict.
  18. I love animals, a lot more than I love humans.
  19. My heroes are my parents.
  20. I am extremely close to my sisters.
  21. I drive like your grandmother.
  22. I am a TV addict.
  23. My favourite expression used to be “I don’t care” and I meant it. Now, I have to care, because I have a daughter.
  24. I still don’t care what other people say.
  25. I was never a fashionista, never will be one.
  26. I play the guitar and sing when alone, or with my daughter.
  27. I love gadgets.
  28. I cook when I feel like it, but I’m bad at baking.
  29. I was a bad girlfriend to all my ex boyfriends.
  30. I am not good at sports but I love swimming and kickboxing.
  31. I got my masters degree through a scholarship in Singapore – but I’m still not really sure what it’s for.
  32. I never planned to get married and have a family, but it turns out it suits me very well.
  33. I am a hermit and very wary of new people.
  34. I am a frustrated singer.
  35. I don’t believe in self-deprecation. I tend to move away from people who self-deprecate.
  36. When everyone else was crushing on actors, my childhood crush till highschool was Hulk Hogan – then I added Red Hot Chilli’s lead singer to it (the running scene from that clip Under the Bridge was hot).
  37. I know what I want and I’m not afraid to ask for it.
  38. I don’t drink coffee or tea.
  39. I am a fag hag like my mother.
  40. I have a tattoo on my right wrist, and I’m waiting for the design for my next major one on my back also on my back. Designing the third one now.
  41. I meddle with other people’s lives sometimes.
  42. I have chicken ankles that buckle under me when I use it wrong. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sprained them because of it.
  43. My handwriting looks like chicken scratches.
  44. I always try to find the easiest way out, or the easiest way to do things – because I was born lazy.
  45. I like my cookies soft and my chips stale. I’d leave a packet of chips open for several days and then eat them when they’re chewy because I feel my teeth are going to crumble if I eat anything crunchy (dates back to when I had retainers on).
  46. As a kid, I was a radio soapie addict. In gradeschool, I used to hide my portable radio in my bag and have one of the earphones on, while I listened to the teacher at the same time. Yes, I was always top of the class and no I don’t know how my brain balanced listening to a soapie while figuring out math at the same time.
  47. Speaking of Math, I hate Math. Avoiding it was one of the reasons I took up Journalism in the first place.
  48. I’ve never seen any form of strip show. Ever. I am pathetic. I want to watch Manpower Australia.
  49. I don’t read movie reviews before watching a movie. I don’t believe in movie reviews I’ve read before and/or after watching a movie. I can make up my own mind, thank you very much.
  50. I love all kinds of weather. I love rainy days, sunny days, hail, storms, hailstorms — I love them all.
  51. I’ve never read a single book by Shakespeare. I’ve seen some of the movies, never read any of the books. I blame the education system in the Philippines.
  52. I can’t hullahoop to save my life.

to be continued…

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