Facebook's 25 Random Things About Me

Thought I should post this list I made for my Facebook account. It's just me and the stupid things I do. Oh, well...

1. I don't know how to ride a bike. Wtf! I never learned how to ride one when I was a kid because first, I'm not really good at balancing myself, up to now, and second, I was so scared of falling over and getting ugly bruises and scars on my legs (I was always told to take care of my legs). Ironically though, my one and only scar that I have on my legs came from a freakin' bicycle. I was riding on the sidecar of my friend's bike when I accidentally cut myself from a metal protruding near the seat of her bike. It got infected and all and now it looks like I have a 25 centavo coin sticked to my left leg. Wtf!

2. I enjoyed chemistry and physics in highschool because of our teacher Ms. Suniega. I especially enjoyed the contests we had wherein each row will go up against each other and race in answering our teacher's questions in the blackboard. Whichever row wins will have additional points added to their quizzes. I remembered one time we had a quiz wherein the total score reached 1000 points (that high because each question was worth like 10 points, I think some even reached 50 points per question) and I got like 950+ points and since our row won the contest we each get additional 50 points and after that my total score reached 1000+ points. It's more than a perfect score. Hahaha!

3. I almost flunked my Rizal subject in college for the silliest of reasons: I rarely attend our classes because I was so engrossed in playing tong-its with my friends. We were that addicted to tong-its we even rented a boarding house so we could play tong-its non-stop and we would even spend over-nighters there. Silly!

4. I cry a lot. I have easy tears. I cry over sappy movies, I cry when I'm mad, I cry when I fight with my boyfriend, I even cry when I have my facial wtf!

5. I love to travel and experience new things. My dream destination is Paris and Greece.

6. I read blogs everyday. I'm currently into Malaysian blogs. My favorites are Su-Ann, Audrey and Tim. I never thought Malaysians could speak that good English. I thought we Filipinos are better in English than them. Apparently, our English is rusting while theirs is rapidly advancing. And are there really that many Chinese in Malaysia? I have never read a Malaysian blog written by a Malay, all of them are Chinese-Malaysians. Hmmm!

7. I don't know how to cook. But now, my boyfriend is teaching me how to cook because he is afraid that he will eat canned-goods and fast-food for all of our married life. Now, I am happy to announce that I now know how to cook fried rice and adobo. I thank you! Bow!

8. I don't know how to clean and paint my nails. I always have to go to the salon just to have them done. What an idiot!

9. I studied in a Catholic school from elementary to highschool. We would pray every flag ceremony, before and after classes, Angelus at 12nn, the 3 O'clock Prayer every 3pm, Novena every Wednesday, Mass every first Friday of the month, Mass every Sunday, confession every month. I was even a commentator and lector during masses since I was a member of the Liturgical Committee. Having said that, you would think that I am a devout Catholic and have an unshakeable faith. But I don't. I don't go to mass anymore because I don't feel anything when I'm in Church. My last confession was before my highschool graduation. I don't really know what is happening to me but I do have lots of questions about my faith. I don't believe everything that is written in the Bible. I am literally losing my religion. But I still believe in God. He is just different to me as He is to most of you. Ok, so I think I'll burn in hell because of this.

10. They said signs of aging becomes visible at age 25. I believe it now. So I think I should start using an anti-aging cream. Wtf!

11. I regretted taking up accountancy in college. I don't think this is the right path for me. I am currently analyzing my options and contemplating on what I really wanna do with my life. Hope it's not too late.

12. I am currently addicted to Body Combat of Fitness First. I love all the punching and kicking and all the action of it. I just hope I'll see the results soon.

13. I want to try sky diving at least once before I die. For the meantime, I'll try parasailing when I get to Boracay this month. It's the closest I can get to sky diving just yet.

14. I thought I will kill myself at 16. I sort of forgot.

15. I started drinking when I was in college. We have this every other day, albeit sometimes everyday, drinking session back in college because of our long vacant periods. We would sometimes attend our classes all drunk and one time our law professor asked us why it smells like chico in the room. We just kept our mouth shut. It's not something to be proud of. But they were good times. And I am now reformed. =)

16. I am often asked if I'm related to Smokey Manaloto. Wtf! Well I'm not.

17. I hate okra! Yuck!

18. I love math. Back in highschool, I represent our school during inter-school competitions and I won a couple of times. Ha! But now, I think I lost it in me. Blame it on technology!

19. I used to collect stationeries back in grade school. My friends and I would use our collections to write daily notes to one another. I kinda miss those days. Today, when I see a Papemelrotti paper, I remember Che.

20. For almost a year a now, I'm afraid to sleep alone. This is due to a traumatizing experience I had a couple of months ago. The thing is, I used to share an apartment with my uncle. One morning, I woke up and found him dead in the living room. He had a heart attack. They said he was already dead for hours when I found him. There I was sleeping soundly in my room oblivious to the fact that my uncle was already dead. I'm still not over that experience. I think it will take time before I fully recovered. Sigh!

21. I usually get disappointed when I hear myself sing. I sound better in my head. Wtf!

22. I rarely watch the news (especially the local news) cause I only get disappointed and irritated. Damn those politicians can't they get their acts straight?

23. I am moody and I often get irritated even with the littlest of things. I hate it when people act so morosely obtuse! Please don't push your luck with me that far.

24. I really wanted to become an astronomer. I love seeing heavenly bodies and i want them revolving around me. Joke! Lol!

25. I am satisfied with some parts of my life right now and is aching for change in some. Life is a never-ending journey. I will just be ready for whatever life will throw my way.

It's been a long time coming..

Finally, an update...

The start of this year was crazy on my end. I literally did more than just multi-task since December up until now and sadly, I'm not seeing the end to all of it just yet. There's just too much stuff do and I honestly don't know how I could accomplish all of it before my self-imposed deadline. I call it my self-imposed deadline because I've finally decided to say adios to this company that I am working for. It's been a long time coming, believe me. But my heart is not in it anymore. I am no longer happy. So I'm leaving. At first, I thought of leaving at the start of the year... you know, new year, new job... but since it's the audit season, I decided to forego my plans until April 15th. Now, I have to add "scour for new jobs" to my long list of to do's. Well, goodluck to me.

Before the new year started, I had time alone to reflect on the life that I have lived thus far and of the things that I (still) want to do with my life and how I could live the life of my dreams. I have learned that the past 25 years, my life was littered with inconsequential, unimportant things. My life had no focus. My life was a tangent. I am living just for the present without even thinking of the future. Sure, there are some aspects of my life that are good, they may need a little tweaking in some areas, but they are good, nonetheless. And it comforts me. It comforts me that I wasn't a complete failure after all. But there is still time. And with the new year, it gave me new hope. Hope that I could still change things. I know this is waaaayyyyy too late for a new year's resolutions-slash-to do list, but since it's the Chinese New Year, I still think it's kinda appropriate.

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So, this year, I resolve to:

1. Live healthy / lose weight.

I must admit that one of the things that my boyfriend and I disagree upon is the concept of living healthy. I would literally roll my eyes everytime he would tell me to eat fruits or go for fish and veggies instead of meat or when he would stop me from getting my Snickers bar in the grocery. Wtf! Torture, man! But since I'm a good girlfriend, I would grudgingly oblige. Haha!

This year though, I decided to finally heed my boyfriend's advice and change my eating habits. I thought that since I am not getting any younger and my family have a history of hypertension and diabetes, I must as well start living healthy before it's too late. I also started working out at the start of the year. It's like hitting two birds with one stone. I would be healthy and the best part is, I would lose weight (hello Boracay and Bohol!). Oh, I must add that I really think that I will succeed in my attempt to lose weight cause I would literally starve myself for 1 year just to afford my monthly gym membership dues. Le sigh!

2. Change the world ( lol!)

Ok. I know this is a BIG thing and that I cannot do it alone, but I really want to do my part in all this "change the world" brouhaha. Really. I do want to make a difference in other people's lives, even in my own little ways. This was one my resolutions last year that I was not able to accomplish. Hopefully, this year I would finally be able to make headway with it. I was thinking of volunteering in an NGO that helps other people and at the same time, I have interest in. Well, as they say, small things do make a difference.

3. Socialize more.

Last year, I was kinda anti-social. I love my boyfriend so much so I wanna spend most of my free times with him and I don't wanna be anywhere else but with him. Haha! Guilty. He's like a drug to me, what can I say? My own brand of morphine. So this year, I decided to, you know, live more. Like go out with my friends (go clubbing again! haha! kidding hon!), keep in touch with old friends, strengthen old ties and meet new friends. Sounds pretty exciting to me.

4. Try new things.

This is something that excites me the most. There are a gazillion things that I wanna do that I haven't tried before. Don't get me started on the list cause I tell you, its verrryyyy long. I would just blog about my progress on those things in the months to come.

5. Be more disciplined.

Something that I lack. Wtf! Haha! But I need more of this to succeed in this nth attempt on New Year's resolutions. Goodluck to me!

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Oh, by the way, January's about to end. So what?, you ask? Nothing really. It's just that, it will be my birthday soon. Just thought you should know. Haha!