21 Random, Obscure, Completely Unimportant Facts About Me (aka Egocentrism 101)
1. I can bend my right pinkie backwards.
2. The only computer games I can win are Hangaroo and Solitaire. Those are the only ones I can play, too.
3. I know all the words to all the songs in The Sound of Music soundtrack.
4. I used to have a pet cemetery when I was a kid. I buried the remains of unsuccesfully rescued grasshoppers, birds, chicks, catterpillars, tadpoles, etc. there. And yes, the neighborhood kids attended the funerals, too.
5. I am deathly afraid of dentists. And any injections or blood tests are a form of torture to me.
6. I once burped continuously over a period of 3 days.
7. My friends once caught me reading a horror book by peeking through my fingers. I have never read horror since then.
8. My childhood ambition was to be a princess.
9. Right now, I have five cats (Elanor, CJ, Kahlil, Lira and Coffee), one dog (Butchukoy), and a turtle (TJ) at home.
10. I have a secret, hopeless crush on Sir Von Arroyo of Pinoy Dream Academy fame. I used to watch the show just to see him.
11. For some reason, the line “I am no longer queen of Sparta!” has been running through my mind all day.
12. My name is mentioned 18 times in the NIV Bible. It means “father’s joy” in Hebrew. The worst (mis)spelling of it that I ever saw was “Aveguel.”
13. I didn’t know I had a birthmark on my back until I was in highschool.
14. I’ve read The Lord of the Rings nine times, Watership Down six times, A Walk to Remember three times, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters seven times, and Message in a Bottle four times.
15. My parents experimented with me when I was a baby to find out whether a child will learn the language spoken by her parents or the common tongue in the community. They spoke only English at home, so it became my first language. I didn’t learn how to speak Tagalog until I attended preschool.
16. I am addicted to Cloud9, Chooeytoffee and pritong isaw. Anything with cheese also rates high on my list of gourmet fare.
17. I am frequently mistaken to be no more than 18 years old.
18. I can’t make a big bottle of lotion last for more than a month. Why? I put a lot on my feet every night before I sleep.
19. My sense of direction is worse than useless. I have been known to get lost and give up when I’m fifty meters away to where I’m going.
20. My boyfriend, Aragorn son of Arathorn, is the king of Gondor. My other boyfriend, Gary V., is an international celebrity.
21. The most important things in my wallet are my TLW covenant card, a brown feather, a chocolate bar wrapper, a copy of the Tagalog version of “I Will Be Here”, a dry leaf, and a ten peso bill with the serial number FD183639.
Tags: egocentrism, random facts, Trivia
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