October 26, 2005

• ten random things

  We interrupt this xanga hiatus once again, since apparently iloren has tagged me. The prompt seems simple enough, to state ten random things about myself:

  1. The first thing on my mind, since I just finished taking one, is
  that I sing in the shower. I totally believe that it's true that the
  best acoustics are present not in a studio, but in your own bathroom.
  

  2. Although I was born in the States, my first words were in a dialect of Chinese known as Hokkien
  (Mandarin: min-nan-hua). The variant I'm able to converse in is the one
  spoken by Chinese Filipinos, in which I estimate that about 10% of the
  words used are actually Tagalog words.

  3. As for food, I grew up eating a mix of American-, Filipino-, and
  Chinese- style foods, in that order. Because my parents were born in
  the Philippines, I'm able to name more Filipino foods/cooking
  ingredients rather than indigenous Chinese ones.

  4. I hated brussel sprouts as a kid, and I still dislike them. I've
  gotten much better though with food; these days, I'll usually try
  anything.

  5. I first spoke fairly late in life, when I was three years old.
  Somehow that seems to have affected me during my childhood and more
  recently my adult life with both hearing and speaking. I'm a much
  better writer, IMHO.

  6. I've been programming since I was four years old, and when I was
  seven, I wrote in a journal for school that I either wanted to be a
  programmer or a math teacher growing up. Luckily, my geekiness level
  has since subsided somewhat, lol.

  7. The awareness item: I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
  (JRA) when I was nine and officially declared to be in remission when I
  was 18. Most people aren't aware that over 100,000 kids nationwide have
  the disease. Now all that's left of it is occasional aches in the
  morning during the winter. If your kids somehow get it (sometimes
  contracted through ticks, lice, or even simple heredity), make sure
  they follow the physical therapy routines when prescribed! I probably
  wouldn't have pain at all right now if I actually followed the regimen
  as a kid.

  8. I have three main weaknesses I can think of: (1) stubbornness, (2)
  being ticklish, and (3) you can probably guess what the third one is

  9. Following iloren's lead,
  my first crush was when I was 13 (I think?). However, the name will
  remain anonymous in order to protect the innocent, haha.

  10. And last but certainly not least, it's 1:30am, and I'm getting tired. Plus, I can't think of a #10 to write.

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