Here goesssssssssss...1. I am absolutely obsessed with Mariah Carey- I have every single one of her albums dating back since her debut album in 1990 up to E=MC2 just this past 2008. I even have rare Spanish versions of her songs. I have 3 of her live concert DVDs. It's pretty ridiculous. Sigh. Don't judge me.
2. I am an avid lover of pop music of all kinds. Especially the teeniebopper 90's. Yeap. I'm a sucker for Britney, *N Sync, Spice Girls (my first CD ever was... their "Spice World" album), Justin Timberlake, TLC, BSB, J.Lo, Christina Ag, Whitney, Brandy, The 90s Jacksons aka Janet and Michael, Destiny's Child, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch, etc... dude... remember Christian pop: Stacie Orrico, Plumb, Rachael Lampa, Plus One, Out of Eden, Raze (I was SO into them back in 7th grade)? Anyone?
3. I fainted on the toilet in junior high... twice. Ask me about it later... Maybe I'll tell you the story.
4. I missed out on some very VITAL (stereotypical) Asian genes such as: a) Math. Arithmetic and I are like oil and water... we just DON'T mix. I can't do math to save my life. It gives me a headache and I get super irritated. b) Spicy foods. (Especially Asian spices... I'm a tad better at Latin spices) I just can't do it. I get sweaty, I start coughing, and then get mad heartburn half-an-hour later. I wish I could. I order my soon-do-boo (tofu soup) "white," I don't eat kimchee, I get my popcorn chicken at Guppy's Teahouse completely non-spicy... All the waitresses at Asian (especially Korean) restaurants give me weird looks, shake their heads and sigh at me when they find out I can't eat spicy stuff. Sometimes they laugh at me thinking I'm joking. But I'm not. Sad face.
5. I'm deathly allergic to cats. And kittens. They make my eyes water, sneeze nonstop, and if they scratch me, I swell up like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory...
6. When I was young, my parents didn't let me watch Saturday morning cartoons. So I would sneak as quietly as I could to the TV room and would turn on the TV and watch the cartoons starting at like 8 or 9 in the morning... I put the volume at like 4 or sometimes 5 cause any higher would wake up the parentals... Oh it was glorious: Captain Planet, (the OG) X-Men, Spider Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fantastic Four, Power Rangers... But there were many times when I would get caught by my parents. Sometimes my younger brothers would join me. Those were some good times. It was SO worth getting caught for.
7. I am a bookworm especially in fantasy and science fiction. No one really knows. I've read all the Boxcar Children and the Animorphs books. A Wrinkle in Time trilogy. Ender's Game is an AMAZING novel. So are ALL the Harry Potters... totally grew up with Dumbledore, Hermione, Ron, Hagrid, etc., and voraciously devoured them whenever J.K. Rowling put out a new one... I've even read Ella Enchanted BEFORE it became a movie.
8. Rambo's Taco Truck in Eagle Rock. or King Taco. Amazing. I always go for the weird, disgustingly sounding meats: cabeza, lengua, tripas= head, tongue, and tripe. SO SCRUMPTIOUS AND DELICIOUS. Try it sometime.
9. I really, really, really like Disney movies. Especially the musical-ish ones: Aladdin, Hercules, Beauty & The Beast, Little Mermaid, Mulan (go Asians! haha), Pocahontas, Sword in the Stone, Lion King, Jungle Book, Rescuers Down Under, Emperor's New Groove... just to name a few.
10. Back in 1st grade, I had a teacher named Mrs. Redulabich. Yes. I swear I did. But I was in 1st grade. I didn't know anything. But I do remember her name to this day. I remember we had these little slips with the days of the week on it at the start of every week and if your discipline color card wasn't flipped by the end of Thursday, you would get to attend a party on Friday, eat ice cream and watch Wee Sing videos. I distinctly remember only going to those parties ONCE in 1st grade. I was so happy. But alas, never again. My color card was always flipped to red (the 1st offense) and sometimes yellow (time out) for being disruptive. Sigh. Super lame.
11. I love cheese. Does that mean I'm gonna be lactose intolerant later on in life? I hope not.
12. I used to spin around in the living room in my tighty whiteys for hours and hours when I was like 4. Til about age 7. My parents have videotapes of me doing exactly that, sweat pouring forth endlessly...
13. I love to poo. I read on the can, pray on the can, faint on the can, have deep conversations on the phone... all on the can... it's just so peaceful. I might like dying on the can... like Elvis.
14. I really like watching "How I Met Your Mother" and "Friends."
15. I'm allergic to melons... watermelons, cantaloupes, etc. My tongue/mouth gets all itchy and my throat starts to slightly swell up, and then I feel like throwing up. But it's soooooo good. Sigh. Oh same thing with raw avocados. Except when they're in guacamole form I'm fine. Weird.
16. I want to live in Hawaii for a year. And Manhattan-NYC for 2 years.
17. I was obsessed with comic books when I was a boy... especially the X-Men. Confession: I used to shoplift X-Men comics underneath my shirt when I was in elementary school b/c my parents would NEVER buy them for me, or let me read them. They though the X-Men were the Devil... even though they saved the world. Countless times.
18. I have a dream that someday I'll get several large tattoos on my body. Except I'm a big fat WUSS in the pain department so... yea... it might only be a dream... until I grow a pair... and just DO IT. (p.s. I have NO IDEA what tattoos I'd be getting...ideas?)
19. I don't know how to drive a stick-shift car. I wanna learn so frickin' bad... Someone teach me, please?
20. I want to adopt at least 2 children from another country, particularly eastern Europe... I can't wait! I hope I'm a good father.
21. I absolutely detest, abhor, loathe scary movies. But I'm more scared of scary real-life documentaries such as the Holocaust, escapees' accounts of North Korea, war footage, etc. Since I have a pretty vivid imagination, I dream very graphic nightmares... and I hate it.
22. When I was a wee child, I used to be captivated by fireworks. I guess I still am. Especially the ones from Disneyland. I was also obsessed with the "Dancing Waters" show at the Disneyland Hotel when we used to live in Anaheim. We used to go every Wednesday night. And while my younger brothers played with toy cars, I would make my mom draw me the exact replicas of fireworks and watershows on paper with crayons or color pencils. Again. and again. And again. I was strange as a child. Yesssssssssssssss.
23. I hate celery. I detest the smell of it or the taste of it. It makes me want to puke.
24. I was a huge baby when I came out of my mother's womb. And a very, very, very fat one at that. If you see my baby pictures, I had rolls of fat to where I had fat sleeves. But I was oh-so-freaking cute. I used to be super difficult to change diapers for... my grandma would get so angry... but how could you ever REALLY be mad at your baby grandson? haha... sigh. I miss my grandma. R.I.P. Halmonee.
25. I have this dream to be a famous, world-class, all-around entertainer. Singer, dancer, actor extraordinaire. Grammy's. Oscar's. MTV VMA Moonmen. It will happen someday. Very, very soon. I can't wait.
26. I fart. A lot. I think I got it from my dad. He farts EVERYWHERE. In public, in private, wherever. He has no shame... I used to be SUPER embarrassed about it until college when I started doing it. You have no idea how incredibly freeing it was. Now I follow in my old man's footsteps... and do it shamelessly.
27. I really really really like gummi bears especially the Heide Candy Company Brand... I've only tried the Haribo (original gummi bear maker) Brand one two days ago in Heather Olson's room.
28. I like awkward moments. They make me laugh. hehehe.
