38 random things about me

In honor of my 38th birthday I thought I will make a post about it. Since I just turned 28 38, I decided to write about myself. Here goes - 38 things about me.

1. Savoury vs sweets? Savoury - definitely.
2. I worked in a cruise ship to see the world  and travelled from North to South America in 9 months.
3. My favourite colour is yellow although I don't have yellow things.
4. My best friend in high school was a boy - his girls hated me!
   
5. I got so drank in college, I woke up the next day lying on our door mat.
6. I made a list of 100 things I wanted to do when I was 28 years old ( 10 years ago!!!! ) and one of them is to live in a foreign country, breathe, cry and laugh in their language  und jetzt bin ich hier in Deutschland, atme und lache und weine und esse viele Würstchen und und ....(and now I am in Germany, breathing, laughing and crying and eating lots of sausages and and..)
7. I have worked on a beautiful private island and walked along the beach before sleeping,  went for dives on my break and watched beautiful sunsets before going to the toilet.
8. I wanted to go to Africa and teach underpriveleged children and nowI am teaching children of the richest people in our area.
9. I am a very clumsy person, I almost never wear white!
   
10. I can eat chicken everyday! 
11. I go to  a bible study every other Sunday.
    
12. I was a working student in college - supporting myself partly from my meager Mc Donald's salaries, a scholarship and my mom when she could.
13. I started this blog  in February 2005.
14. I love the scent of citrus.
    
15. I eat the same flavour of ice cream wherever I go - peppermint!
16. I love to cook and imagine how a dish would taste before I cook it then I figure out what to put in it.
    
17. My fondest childhood memory is dipping my finger  in a big steel drum of molasses somewhere in the sugarcane fields of Pangasinan.
18. I was sent to the principal's office only one time in my life - I stuck a pen upside down before my classmate sat on it.
19. Back in high school, my stepfather asked me to light his cigarette for him and try it - it was horrible. Maybe that's why I don't and wouldn't smoke cigarettes.
20. I love old music - 60,`s, 70's and 80's.
    
21. I love cats.
22. Spring is my favourite season because it reminds me so much of my hometown Baguio where it is forever spring except during typhoon season.
23. I am working on my 3rd diploma and hope to finish it before I turn 40.
24. I'm a great procrastinator.
25. I failed  french because I was always late in class and Monsieur D. gave me a mark of failure due to absences before I could  have my finals. I was always late only because of no. 12.
26. I sleep with my socks on.
27. If there is a soundtrack to my life one of the songs in it should be You Gotta Be from Desree.
28. I read endings of books before I start to read it.
    
29. I'm a night person. I am most active in the evenings. 
30. In relation to the above statement, I hate waking up early.
31. There was a slight moment in my life that I wanted to get a tattoo but could not think of a design - I am so glad I did not do it.
32.  I have a garden with raspberries, rhubarbs, strawberries, mint, sage and lots of thorny roses.
33.  I don't like roses and orchids.
    
34. When I was in grade 1, I danced on my own with Chic's Le Freak  in front of the whole school. What confidence! The teachers must have thought that was hilarious.
35. My family thought I danced like a grasshopper, my teachers probably too.
36. Dancer or singer - singer!
37. My husband and I speak with each other in our  third language (mine: tagalog, english, german; his: bulgarian, russian, german)
38. I think writing 38 random things was difficult. I think you should try it.