100 Things About Me
So, a little info about me... Taken from my old blog circa 12.29.2003.

1. i'm an aries, but not a very typical aries. (apr 14)
2. i'm trying to find patterns in people's astrological signs.
3. i like collecting things: rocks, kinder surprise, pictures, emails, websites etc..
4. i've decided to stop actively collecting kinder surprise, and this is partly because I have much more materialistic stuff than I need.
5. I've been going with my wonderful katie for 4 years, 1 month and 16 days, to be exact.
6. I'm very much nocturnal.
7. The ability to blow bubblegum, whistle or curl my tongue eludes me.
8. I can snap my fingers very well though.
9. Photography is one of my favourite pasttimes.
10. ButI don't really have a favourite past time; I enjoy dabbling lightly in many things.
11. I do have a predilection to collecting things though.
12. I desire acceptance, but not necessarily belonging.
13. I'm pee-shy, but I'm making progress
14. Love is one of my most highly valued ideals.
15. Knowledge is another.
16. I enjoy quotes.
17. If my memory would serve me well, i would use witty quotes, but for the most part, my memory fails me.
18. I'm very good at numbers and names though.
19. I believe that people are inherently good, and that there exists beauty within them, somewhere.
20. I value my relationships with others.
21. I'm proud of my chinese heritage.
22. I wish I knew more about my history and origins.
23. I'm at the same time both proud and ashamed of my feet (different parts of it).
24. People's minds, and how they think fascinate me.
25. I'm feel scared and sorry for drunken old people.
26. I have a gimped knee, But I'm doing physio to fix it!
27. I've got cavities, but i blame it on my braces, and how the cavities formed beneath the braces while I had them.
28. I wish someone would play calvinball with me.
29. I appear to have an obsession with monkeys, but it's just a continuing interest.
30. I once wanted to be a giant purple telepathic amoeba.
31. I used to want to be an aerospace engineer, and I almost went to university for that.
32. I'm now in environmental science, after going on an amazing trip to Clayoquot Sound that inspired me and solidified a growing urge to protect the planet.
33. Although I haven't done a lot of backpacking, travelling the world is and will continue to be one of my passions.
34. I enjoy the subtle, small, yet beautiful moments in life, and how some people can capture them so well in writing.
35. One of my favourite places I've been to yet is Clayoquot Sound.
36. I'm not religious, but I believe in spirituality.
37. I have size 8 1/2 feet.
38. My legs are unusually short.
39. I'm an expert at the games Super Bomberman and Worms.
40. Sometimes when it's cold, I'll wear socks to bed, and then take them off 15 minutes later.
41. I am definitely a procrastinator.
42. Sometimes I wish that I could wake up and have read every single book ever written, for their content.
43. Then I don't wish that, when I think of the joy of reading and learning things narratively. Did I mention that I enjoy reading?
44. I have trouble saying no to food.
45. I can be a dweller.
46. I like to organize, but I'm not very organized.
47. Sometimes I like to hug trees to feel their power.
48. The first band I was really crazy about was the Smashing Pumpkins.
49. I was born in Hong Kong.
50. My family immigrated to Canada when I was the tender age of 4.
51. My first memory of being in Canada was having another little boy let me play with his marvel action figures while we were in line at the airport.
52. I've worn glasses ever since I could remember.
53. I have very little recollection of my childhood.
54. I was never in organized sports, or cubs, or scouts.
55. The taste of cucumbers used to make me gag, but not anymore. Same with shittake mushrooms and licorice.
56. Oysters (in any form: preserved, raw, well done) still makes me gag.
57. I used to hate vegetables as a small child. Without the fibre, I once fell asleep on the loo, trying to poo.
58. I'm notorious for twisted humour.
59. I used to have online friends, but I've since mostly lost touch with them.
60. I have similar scars on the inside of both my elbows.
61. I was born in the year of the boar.
62. I've really only had one pet.
63. I've gone through the gamut of hairstyles: bowl cut, hair parted in the middle, spikey hair, bleached and dyed, dreadlocks,a mohawk, shaved and currently, my hair is just doing its own thing.
64. Beards are currently an impossibility for me at this point in time.
65. I wish I had more direction in life.
66. I have a dislike for hype, hypocristy, and apathy.
67. I was a star wars junkie as a child, but I've mellowed out.
68. I like toys, even now.
69. I'm really interested in urban planning, and how to create more sustainable communities built for people, not vehicles, and places where people feel like they belong.
70. I enjoy eating. all sorts of food.
71. I don't, but wish I could lucid dream.
72. I'm mostly a visual learner.
73. I constantly mishear what people say. "your mango wallet had herpes?" ;p
74. I feel like I live two lives, because I live in Vancouver, but have gone to school in Guelph for the past 4 years, but there's very little overlap in these two realms.
75. My fingers get cold after I've been typing for a while.
76. I can't retain auditory information very well (long numbers, lectures), unless I write them down.
77. I try to avoid watching TV.
78. I dislike money as an end in itself.
79. Sometimes I don't understand the hate that happens in the world.
80. For a long time, I was scared of the darkness in my basement. I thought vampires lived there.
81. I've tried Qigong. It was an interesting experience.
82. I've fallen asleep in yoga class. (was I too relaxed?)
83. I graduated from the University of Guelph in 2005, in Environmental Sciences.
84. I'm blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people for my friends and family.
85. I enjoy laughing until my stomach hurts, and I'm unable to breathe.
86. Back massages are nice. So are hugs. Both to give and recieve. :)
87. Some people say I'm too touchy-feely. I call it tactile. :)
88. I don't know how to bullshit. Sometimes I wish that I knew how.
89. I have a habit of tying plastic bags into small little balls to save space.
90. I had braces for around 5 years.
91. I never really knew how to laugh with my teeth until the end of high school, and even then my teeth don't show themselves naturally, and only when I am laughing.
92. I enjoy getting mail.
93. I enjoy sunrises, but I just never wake up for them. Sometimes I'm still awake though. (eep)
94. I have asian flush when I drink.
95. Very random = me.
96. I've never broken a bone.
97. I figure that as long as you make the best of the choices you make, you shouldn't really have any regrets.
98. I've had my old blog since july 30th, 2002, and my new home here, since October 31, 2005.
99. I want to live what I believe in.
100. The sheer immensity and intricacy of the world boggles me, and what boggles me even more is that the earth itself is a infinitesimal speck in the universe.