One of my earlier FB accounts was hacked so I forgot all about it until just minutes ago when while checking my email, a message from FB popped saying I was requesting to change my password. Ah ganun ba? Heheheee... So now I have the account back.
Heniwey, while backreading I found this! Written 12 months ago, still rings true.
25 Things About Me.
1. I am not a grumpy person. I may look like one but I'm not. Not always. There are days when I don't grump at all. They may be few and far in between but.. Oh okay, I'm grumpy.
2. I love eating out. I like trying new places (to me, even if they've been around for decades). The motive being that I will attempt to cook at home whatever it is that captures my fancy. In twenty years of trying, I have never been successful. I always end up making my own version which is not quite like what I ate when I ate out. But I can always rely on my pancit bihon and lechon kawale to draw rave reviews.
3. My lechon kawale is triple cooked. Boiled, baked and fried. I only cook lechon kawale for people deserving of such a labor of love. More labor than love really. Ang hirap eh. Portugal. It has to be frozen overnight after boiling.
4. I like four-wheeled motor vehicles. But I have never seriously contemplated buying one, or inheriting a dilapidated one from my relatives. I love life. Mine and other people's. Sometimes, I want to go forward but then I realize my destination rapidly shrinks as I accelerate. It's that bad.
5. I am a magnet for life-threatening freak accidents, the last one being when I covered for XXXXX XXX and the bus I was riding post-shift slammed into a wall in SLEX.
6. I'll go back to school in June. Sublime Karma. (P.S. Karma nga. Those were months of pure hell)
7. In school we lined up according to height. In Grade 3 I was first in line, in Grade 4 I was last. Something happened that summer in between.
8. In Grade 3 I was suspended for scrubbing a classmate's face on loose gravel. In Grade 4 I was suspended for saying "You're lying" to the teacher at the top of my voice. The other suspensions are now a distant blur.
9. If I made too much noise in class the teachers would lock me up in the library instead of making me stand in the corner where I'd still be making lots of noise. Everyday I would try to make as much noise as I could. I loved the library so so much.
10. Between the ages of 8-16, I slept in other people's houses more than I did in my own. My house was just a stone's throw away from school. I'd do that even during weekdays, but still managed to never be absent. My parents simply gave up looking for me. When I was about 10yo, they had the radio announcer broadcast this message... "umuwi ka na... hindi ka daw papaluin..."
11. In college I frequently survived on kamatis and itlog na maalat for weeks on end, because I had blown a whole month's allowance away on Skiva Ruki,and Britannia, Sassoon, and Jordache etc... in Cartimar.
12. Sen. Francis Pangilinan was my team mate in the UP Men's Volleyball Team at the same time that Sen. Pia Cayetano was playing for the women's team. I studied in Los Banos but played for and practiced in Diliman. But played for and practiced in Los Banos also... at the same time. MWF and TTh held a different meaning for me. Oh... and I hit Kristy Ramos on the face with a volleyball but I'm still alive... that's why I campaigned for Fidel Ramos.
13. I hated iPods until I was given one (sort of). Now i obsess about in-ear headphones all the time. I have a Bose Tri-Port but I'd also like to have Klipsch's Image X5, Denon's C551, and a token Shure headset that's out of production therefore on sale (masabi lang...).
14. I love kakiage. Tried making this at home and ended up with something resembling OKOY. I love tempura. I tried making this at home and was successful only with kamote and talong. I can never quite get shrimp right. But they're expensive so why bother.
15. I watched all episodes of "So You Think You Can Dance -- Canada" over the holidays, on YouTube. Which prompted me to load up on all of Rick Astley's songs, because they're the last ones I remember dancing to. "And don't you know I would move heaven and earth to be together forever with youuuu"
16. I used to join amateur singing contests as a kid. Kinda like Regine Velasquez and Nora Aunor. Sometimes lost but mostly won... singing "Beeeen the two of us need look no moooore"
17. My first taste of glory was when I won the Southern Mindanao Regional Science Quiz (for Biology). I always thought I'd be a scientist someday. That was before I discovered sports. I like the smell of sweat on my jersey better than HCl on my lab gown.
20. I memorized the spelling of the longest word in the English dictionary because I might finally get to join a game show. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Hala. I think mali 'cos there's a squiggly red line running under it.
21. My dream career was to be a cook. Not a chef, but a cook. I'd open up my own carinderia and be famous for bila-bilaong pancit, ginataang labong, lechon kawale, and steaming hot bulalo.
22. I grew up in a town in the middle of a tree plantation surrounded by tropical forest. In a province that's mostly coastline facing the Pacific. It's hard for me to relate with the excitement over Boracay and Palawan.
23. I worked in the Middle East for some time, and discovered Indian food there. I can eat curry and chapati everyday for the rest of my life and I wouldn't be any less happier than if I ate rice. But smellier? Definitely.
24. I trained in Japan for three weeks but don't remember anything about "Digitization of Public Information" because I was too busy window shopping and eating.
25. I will buy a mountain bike this year. (P.S. Hindi nangyari, wish lang talaga pero malabo)
