1. I was born on 9/29/92. The repeating digits amuse me, and often turn up in the lottery.
2. I'm proudly single since birth.
3. I'm the eldest of four kids, but other than looking after them, I don't really seem like the eldest.
4. I'm a Libra with a Scorpio Moon and a Scorpio Ascendant. That kind of explains why I couldn't relate much when they say Librans are graceful, sociable and wholesome.
5. I'm mixed-handed; I use my left hand for writing, brushing my teeth, batting, shooting a gun and my right hand for cutting with scissors, combing my hair, throwing, holding a racket, etc.
6. My blood type is B.
7. I have two moles on my chin. The palm reader near school said that at least one mole means a person is charismatic. I'm not sure if I'm one to attest to that.
8. Deadpan is my default expression. I respond to deadpan humor with more deadpan humor. People end up thinking I take things too seriously.
9. As a result, I tend to be successful at bluffing, which comes handy in games, competitions and pranks.
10. I've been mistaken for a boy tons of times. I've even been told a few times that I'd be a cuter guy than a pretty girl.
11. Although my mom keeps nagging me not to, I keep my hair in a layered bob (close to the kinds that Korean pop singers have) because it's low maintenance and frames my face well.
12. In grade school, my hair used to be waist-long.
13. Whenever class lists are arranged in alphabetical order, I'm almost always the 13th in the lineup.
14. I have low tolerance for alcohol. I get close to blacking out after a just glass of wine.
15. So far, I've never resorted to energy drinks or caffeine as a performance drug.
16. Unfortunately for me, I've been a second-hand smoker since I was very young. We kids at home are having a hard time getting our mom to stop smoking.
17. My three siblings and I have all been given birth to through caesarian section.
18. I'm terrible at playing musical instruments. I have no sense of rhythm.
19. I avoid touching people as much as possible. I can't get used to people touching me, either, no matter how close they are to me.
20. I'm self-conscious. I can't study, read, play sports, or do anything that needs concentration if people are watching me.
21. I can't stand idle chit-chat with strangers for very long. When I make small talk with people, I appear to be awkward, but that awkwardness is more of me worrying how to keep the conversation(?) going rather than being scared of the person.
22. I also struggle at talking to people who are as quiet or quieter than me.
23. I startle easily.
24. I have low tolerance for alcohol. I get close to blacking out after a glass of wine.
25. I'm the only one in my family who likes strawberries or anything strawberry-flavored.
26. I like jackfruit and can stand durian, but not guyabano. Anything but guyabano.
27. I really like wasabi. I'd even eat it on its own whenever there is some left over from sushi.
28. I was so quiet as a child that the teachers at elementary school used to asked me if I was being neglected or abused at home.
29. In 3rd grade, I borrowed thick biology, chemistry, history textbooks from the library, three or four at a time, to read at home.
30. In 5th grade, I used to go to the school clinic and pretend to be sick so that I could skip classes. That happened a lot.
31. I was class heartthrob in 6th grade.
32. I went to an all-girls' Catholic grade school.
33. I now identify as an agnostic deist at the verge of becoming apatheistic.
34. I still like going to places of worship, if only for the calming atmosphere.
35. I once passed out during mass. It was at 3 in the morning, and I had skipped and only got to sleep for two hours before that.
36. I also fainted once after running five times around the campus during army training in high school.
37. In my first two years of college, there were times when I would forget to eat throughout the day. Luckily, I never fainted during those times.
38. I've owned two cacti in the past. One dried up (ironically) and the other one got eaten by rats at home.
39. I have never had a pet animal. I'm scared of it dying on me.
40. I'm allergic to the cold. I get bumps on my arms and legs when I sit in the airconditioner or swim for a long time.
41. That's the reason dress shirts, jackets or cardigans typically make up my outfits.
42. But I'm the first person to break into sweat when the temperature rises just slightly.
43. I don't like wearing slippers/flipflops outside the house and having dusty feet at the end of the day as a result.
44. Being able to feel the seams on the toe part of socks annoys me.
45. I feel naked if I'm not wearing a watch.
46. I don't like wearing white pants or skirts. I find it a hassle checking whether wherever I'm going to seat isn't too dirty.
47. My favorite colors to wear are navy blue and gray.
48. I've only tried shooting with an air rifle and those pellet guns they have in fairs, but I'd like to hold a real gun one day.
49. At one point in my childhood, I had wanted to be a military sniper.
50. I play futsal, volleyball and (half-willingly) basketball for intramurals at school.
51. I'd rather play sports than watch other people on TV play.
52. I've got two sprained ankles from basketball and hiking and one sprained thumb from soccer.
53. The only time I was an officer in something related to school was when I was secretary of a university organization. However, most of the things I ended up doing were tasks supposedly for a PRO or the external affairs officer like meeting with other organizations and organizing school events.
54. Neither of the two roles turned out well, and I got depressed about it for months.
55. I was referred to a psychiatrist by my high school counselor because of episodes of depression, but never actually visited them. I have never visited one, actually.
56. I'm a self-harmer. I've been like that since my childhood.
57. I prefer blunt force, though; the idea of wounds getting infected makes me too squemish to try cutting.
58. Even though I'm in medicine proper now, when people say that I must be smart to have qualified for accelerated medicine, I still get embarrassed.
59. If I didn't qualify for accelerated medicine in college, I would be taking up Molecular Biology and Biotechnology now.
60. I don't watch the latest TV series or anime. I watch whatever interests me, at my own time. Usually not in order and skipping some episodes.
61. I normally can't sit still long enough to finish a movie that happens to be showing on TV.
62. I watch at most two hours of television every week. That doesn't count anime I stream online.
63. Among all anime, I like watching gag series the most. Gintama, Lucky Star, Cromartie High School....
64. In the case of manga, I'm willing to read any genre.
65. I'm not a fan of any musician or band in particular. I just happened to like certain songs of theirs, but I usually don't end up following the musician and their works after that.
66. I appreciate anyone who is shameless enough to belt out Bohemian Rhapsody or What's Up by 4 Non Blondes at anytime. I'm more than willing to sing along with them, too.
67. I learned how to assemble and use a telescope in high school.
68. Too bad I never learned how to keep track of the night sky.
69. I bring healing stones with me when I go out. I've got a piece each of clear quartz, amethyst and lapis lazuli.
70. My given name literally translates to “Pearl Jade”.
71. Endings from books, manga, movies and video games tend to stick onto me for days. (Yeah, it took me a while to get over catching all the monkeys in Ape Escape.)
72. My mantra is “Nerves of steel”.
73. I collect quotes I like in a notebook. I found out recently that my grandfather has the same hobby.
74. I've always been doted on by extended family since I was young. Not because I was cute (that's the case for my siblings) but because of being an overachiever. It's great that I have their emotional and material support when it comes to my studies. The only disadvantage is that I have to write to them all the time to thank them.
75. I find it difficult to write to relatives and friends. There's a lot about me that I'd like to hide, but it tends to pour out when I write. I don't have many problems writing formal letters or posts on the internet.
76. In world history class in high schoool, we were assigned to write historical short stories. I submitted one revolving around the enlightenment, and it ended up a bit slashy. I got a perfect grade, and my teacher started gushing about the slashiness when I went to consult with her.
77. I have only played Pokemon up to when they had 250 of them (Pokemon Gold/Silver). I never bothered to get to know the Pokemon beyond that.
78. I can't sleep lying down on my back.
79. When we had hospital rounds in pre-med, I once got into a bet with a classmate where whoever finishes stapling their stack of forms gets treated to lunch. I lost.
80. I'm too impatient to learn Flash properly.
81. I'm not interested in keeping up with celebrities' personal lives.
82. I participated in a CPR training session before. I did okay when we were practicing, but I'm not sure if I could stay calm if I get into a real situation that needs CPR.
83. I don't quite understand how people are convinced that I am calm and collected.
84. Aside from when I'm reading, attending class or working on the computer, I make sure to wear my glasses when commuting. I get dizzy attempting to look at something at a distance from windows of whatever I happen to be riding.
85. I like travelling alone. That way, I'm more aware of my surroundings.
86. I get dizzy riding taxis because of the air fresheners they use.
87. In my dorm room, I have a meter-high stack of books I have yet to start reading.
88. I'm looking for the perfect opportunity to delete my Facebook account. I've deactivated it a few times, telling myself that I would delete in two weeks, but end up reactivating it when people from school decide to post important announcements in FB instead of our mailing lists or school sites.
89. I can't dance.
90. I don't like beach trips. Sand, sunburn, more sand, hair that gets dry from sea water. I like swimming in the water, though, but I always end up getting bumps on my skin if I stay there too long.
91. I think I'd go crazy if I didn't have at least an hour everyday to be alone and physically away from people.
92. I don't freak out when I see cockroaches. For years, I've seen them flying around the house at night. So at the dorm or other peoples' places, I'm the one who calmly squishes any cockroaches and cleans them up while almost everybody else is screaming getting out of the room.
93. My skin crawls at the thought of ants.
94. I used to memorize world capitals and currencies in grade school just for fun. Unfortunately, I can't remember many of them anymore.
95. I rarely swear, even automatically.
96. I'm wary about suspicious people intruding my home. I've got my metal baseball bat near the door of my room at home, and a pair of mahogany arnis sticks at the dorm just in case that ever happens.
97. I sometimes use canned mushroom soup as pasta sauce.
98. I have self-esteem issues, and it took a long time for this realization to sink in.
99. I really don't have any specific ambitions regarding my career, or any part of my life for that matter. For now, I just keep pushing myself to do the most I can do at what I happened to be doing at the moment.
100. I challenge myself to write a completely new list of 100 things within the year, because I might really be crazy.
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