just in case you really wanted to know...

001. i was born on december 13, 1979 on one of the the philippine islands.
002. i'm not filipino, nor do i speak tagalog, though i sometimes wish i did. i do know how to say 'please' and 'thank you' though, which i suppose, is a start.
003. i have a scar at the crown of my head.
004. it was from rocking on the back legs of the chair and falling into a sheet of glass behind me.
005. i still enjoy rocking on the back legs of my chair to this very day - even though i get scolded every time i do so.
007. i love the smell of freshly cut grass, but i hate mowing the lawn.
008. i was told that i was among the top of my class in high school. not until i reached university did i realize that i had been deluded.
009. i was an active student government leader. it was the perfect excuse to cut classes and hang out with my friends in our office.
010. i'm convinced the reason i did so well in high school was that my projects were always beautifully illustrated and designed. bonus points!
011. i was always the 'artistic one.' at my college dorm, i made posters for everything. there was always butcher paper in the lounge for me to draw on. my friends were convinced that i should be an artist or designer. i ignored them.
012. the plan was for me to become a dentist.
013. i graduated with an english lit. major (and a minor in commerce).
014. as a result, i'm pretty kick-ass at writing papers and reports.
015.i now work as a graphic designer.
016. people assume that because i'm a graphic designer and work with computers in my office all day, i know lots about computers. this is wrong.
017. i don't understand HTML or coding - it scares me. i just write words and draw pretty pictures.
018. i like what you can do with technology rather than the technology itself. although there is some pretty sexy technology out there.
019. i refuse to cave in and purchase a cell phone. (we'll see how long that lasts!)
020. i was the assistant editor of one of the college newspapers on campus.
021. it was known as the 'sporty' paper since we did a heckuva lot of sports coverage.
022. i do not consider myself 'sporty' at all.
023. although, i do enjoy swimming, skiing, and in-line skating.
024. i actually enjoy reading shakespeare. it was one of my favourite courses at university.
025. i played troilus in our class production of 'troilus and cressida.'
026. this was when i first kissed a girl. sad, isn't it?
027. other favourite classes included critical theory & popular culture - the hardest class i'd ever taken, but surprisingly, the one in which i got my highest marks; children's literature; and advanced composition.
028. i bitch about my job a lot, but i'm still secretly amazed that i get paid to do what i do on a daily basis because i always have so much fun.
029. after internships where i've had to slum it out in one of the tinest cubicles known to man, a shared office with two others, and a shared cubicle with my supervisor, i finally have my very own office. a wall of windows, double doors, a work space, a studio space, and lots of stuff in between - i can take ten giant leaps across the room...in both directions. i still pinch myself every morning when i open my office door.
030. i'm crap - just crap - at math and science-y things. numbers confuse me and i forget them all.
031. but, i looove budgets and forecasting (or maybe i just like spending money?)
032. i like good clothes.
033. but don't like spending a lot of money on said clothes.
034. silly sayings on t-shirts make me giggle.
035. i love autumn because of the crunchy leaves, the brilliant colours, and the brisk 'sweater-weather.'
036. try saying THAT ten times fast!
037. sometimes i speak so fast that i actually trip over my own words. once this happens, i tend to do the autistic-broken-record thing and continuously repeat the words i tripped over until i get them right. this makes people look at me funny.
038. i am easily enamoured by people with british accents.
039. i think accents make one sound more refined.
040. oscar night makes me nervous and excited.
041. i met wayne gretzky when i was younger.
042. i was in the car with my sister and we squeezed over to the other side of the backseat to shy away from the tall, lanky guy that was saying hello to us through the open window.
043. he laughed and commented on how cute we were. *sigh* yes - cute, but dumb.
044. my other brush with celebrity was an encounter with goldie hawn. she approached me to sell her a sofa. i found her a salesperson.
045. and then stalked her from afar.
046. i have played the piano, recorder, ukulele, trombone and trumpet at various points in my life.
047. none of them stuck for longer than a few years. i wish i had stuck with it longer. my parents were right. hot damn!
048. i love, love, looove design. graphic design, product design, packaging design, interior design, furniture design...love it all!
049. lately, i've also been into designing t-shirts for my own enjoyment.
050. i'm also quite fond of music.
051. and food. both preparing and consuming.
052. when i grow up, i want to be jamie oliver. he is a god.
053. i enjoy indie flicks and relish in 'discovering' little known artists and musicians.
054. at various times in my life, i have co-habited with: my parents and sister and an assortment of pets; a first-year roommate that everyone called 'freak boy' for good reason; my sister alone; me, myself, and i; two guys from school and a japanese exchange student (all of whom i still keep in touch with periodically); and three other guys from school (and one of the guys' twin brother).
055. in my first year at university, i struck up some pretty close friendships with the girls on my sister floor in order to avoid prolonged exposure to freak boy. student housing became increasingly more bearable (and even enjoyable) in subsequent years.
056. sometimes i need to go off to be by myself and be a loner.
057. i got accustomed to solitude when i moved to victoria without knowing anyone in the city.
058. i tend to be a little obsessive compulsive when it comes to cleanliness and organization. my friends call it anal retentiveness. i like to think of it as being orderly. they're probably right.
059. i used to work at a clothing store when i was in high school and to this very day still fold the clothes in my closet like they do in the stores.
060. but i can't iron to save my life. it takes me, like an hour and a half just to do one shirt.
061. i speak english (fluently), mandarin (haphazardly), and a little french (with great difficulty).
062. i would rather freeze than burn to death. for some reason, i think that hypothermia will set in faster, and by the time that happens, i'll be so out of it, i won't even care.
063. i hope not to suffer either fate.
064. eloquence and good grammar turns me on.
065. as does good penmanship. and the ability to spell.
066. my favourite city that i've visited thus far is san fransisco.
067. standing 5'9"-ish, i'm the tallest member of my immediate family.
068. i have twenty-two cousins. that's just on my mom's side. there's more on my dad's side...and most of them have kids of their own that call me their uncle, even though i'm technically their second cousin. scary.
069. i knew all the answers in sunday school class. all the other kids hated me for it.
070. my mom and sister now think of me as irreverent and overly liberal with my faith.
071. if i'm more left wing than right, does this mean i'm just flying around in a counter-clockwise direction?
072. when we were younger, my mom used to make us cover our eyes and sing 'old macdonald had a farm...' whenever there was any on-screen kissing or, god forbid, sex.
073. i finally broke this habit in my mid teens. e-i-e-i-oooh!
074. my sister still does so to this very day.
075. american politics confound me. canadian - likewise.
076. i was a much more informed citizen when i worked for the provincial government and was paid to know and speak intelligently about the issues.
077. i'm not a big club person. i prefer smaller, more intimate gatherings of people i know.
078. i'm quiet in large groups - loud in small.
079. i love taking afternoon naps.
080. i can spend an entire weekend curled up in bed reading a good book.
081. i'm freakishly hard on myself when it comes to work and personal goals. probably more so than my parents are. i never used to be this way...it worries me.
082. i never doodle on the margins - always on a fresh page. i like my notes to be immaculate...or non-existent.
083. i get giddy when it rains while it's sunny and warm.
084. i've only ever gotten one speeding ticket in my life - in toronto, when i was late for an interview.
085. another time, i got pulled over for running a red light (also in toronto), but didn't get a ticket because i told the cop that i was a lost tourist and wasn't paying attention. it was mostly true. my friend, who was in the passenger seat, tells this story to everyone we meet.
086. i love vegetables more than meat, but don't think i could ever be a vegetarian.
087. I'm a periodical junkie. I live for the latest magazines.
088. I have at least three or four books going on my bedside table at any given time. i tend to get distracted by new books i've purchased.
089. i can't sing or dance very well, yet I love to do both in the privacy or my room.
090. an ex-girlfriend brought me to swing and salsa classes once. this is when i realized how bad a dancer i was.
091. great commercials excite me. after five months of living without a television, i returned home only to watch commercials. i would get off the couch and fix myself a snack when the shows would come back on and return to the tv for commercial breaks. my sister rolled her eyes.
092. i can now sit through tv shows in their entirety.
093. green apple-flavoured jolly ranchers are my favourite candy. next to chocolate. especially mint chocolate. oodles and oodles of it.
094. i usually get an iced tea when i order a burger combo - except in the states, where iced tea isn't sweetened. barbarians!
095. my first car was a 1987 dodge colt whom i called xander. my friends called him white lightning. he died one day one the drive home.
096. i now drive an as yet unnamed toyota tercel station wagon which my friends have dubbed red thunder.
097. being in airports makes me happy.
098. being in airplanes makes me so happy, i'm usually giddy with excitement.
099. i'm not nearly interesting enough to have a proper '100 things about me.'
100. so, i'll probably be making changes to this list constantly.

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