RULES: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to «notes» under tabs (+) on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
Oh, dear…
1. I can’t stand avocados and mushrooms. I have tried them, several times, but the outcome is always the same: I just hate them. If there is no choice but eating either of them, I do, but almost always with something else that hides their flavour and/or texture.
2. My name is so impossible, my brother couldn’t learn to say it until he was like 5… or maybe 6. In the meantime, he used to call me ‘So-so’ and then ‘Meyi’. In fact, ‘So-so’ became so popular that everyone in my house got used to calling me that for quite a while. Other popular mispronunciations of my name include ‘Rosangela’, ‘Mariangela’, ‘Elisa Ángela’, ‘Elisangelia’ (in my italian course certificate), and many others I can’t remember.
3. I’m a hopeless romantic. Maybe you knew, maybe you didn’t even see this one coming. But I am. Not in an exaggerated way, though. I have never cried while watching a chick-flick (hell, I don’t even watch that kind of movies)and I don’t usually read girly romantic novels, but I am a sucker for romantic gestures, no matter how simple, cheesy or overused they are, as long as they are honest. I do listen to REALLY romantic, cheesy music.
4. I find ironic the fact that I seem to earn other people’s trust quite easily, while I sometimes have quite a hard time trusting people. I do, however, appreciate my friends’ trust very much, and I am always more than happy to listen to them and try to help them in any way that I can.
5. When I was around 2 years old, I used to listen to my dad speaking on the phone all the time, so I proceeded to imitate him with my own little toy phone. What I didn’t know, is that some of the words that stuck in my head most easily were actually curse words.
6. My brother and I just started getting along a really short time ago. Like some months ago, really. Before that we couldn’t even stand the sight of each other. He even gave me a bad nosebleed once… and broke my lip open with a baseball, unintentionally, I want to believe.
7. I’m a very crafty person, I love to do all sorts of things. Anything involving the creation of new stuff. I want to learn to sew and knit properly as bad as I want to read and actually understand Kant, or Aristotle, or Gödel, etc. If I weren’t studying philosophy, I would probably be studying some kind of design, or even art (as if philosophy hasn’t brought me enough trouble already). I do recall I time when I wanted to become a carpenter. I still haven’t got a clue of what is it exactly that I want to do with my life. Well, I sort of have an idea, but nothing more than that.
8. I regret not going to concerts more often, but I think that the few ones I’ve attended to have been the best ever. (Coldplay, The Strokes, Audioslave, Pearl Jam, Safri Duo.)
9. I sometimes find it very hard to get myself to do things. Especially if they involve leaving my house or going somewhere/doing something on my own for the first time.
10. Intelligence is a touchy subject for me. I hate being called intelligent, because I’m really insecure about it. I do feel intelligent, but nothing out of the ordinary. I always feel like I will never meet the expectations of those who consider me as intelligent, and that if I do, they will automatically rise them to an impossibly higher level, so I would much rather have no one think of me as intelligent.
11. When I was a few years old, I used to love this plush gopher an aunt brought me from the US. Needless to say, the animal was quite ugly, it was smoking a cigar and wore a tee with something vulgar written on it. But I LOVED the little critter. I used to call it ‘Atón’. I took it everywhere I went, and once I asked to bring it with me to a store (Sears, I think). My mom told me not to because it could get lost, but daddy said it was ok. The thing is, I obviously lost the freaking animal and cried for weeks non-stop. I would wake up in the middle of the night asking for it. Tons of gorgeous, soft and cuddly stuffed animals were given to me as a replacement, but I just wouldn’t give in. That is, until my grandma gave me a rabbit that was almost as ugly as the gopher.
13. Like 2 weeks ago, while in Vancouver, my aunt took both my grandmother and myself to Granville Island. We were exploring the public market, when we came out to a courtyard where a man was playing a cool song in French. I asked my aunt and grandmother about the song because they knew it too. Next thing I knew I was swaying unconsciously to the rhythm of the song, until I hear my aunt say that Mr. French-singing-man was checking my grandmother out. Noticing him looking our way, my grandmother runs out of sight, only for me to discover that it wasn’t her who he was looking at, it was me! So he catches my sight, winks, smiles and starts dancing with me from the distance. I am quite sure I was bright red in that moment (not precisely because of the cold). So what do I do? I give him my most charming smile and keep swaying until he’s out of sight.
14. I used to avoid being the last person to fall asleep at my house, I found it really hard to sleep when the only the only light left to be turned off was mine.
15. I would like to be a more organized person, but without losing spontaneity.
16. I love flowers, all kinds of them. Mainly because they’re colourful and pretty. Which reminds me that I like colours, each and every single one of them, and colourful stuff too.
17. My favourite band ever will always be The Clash, bar none. (There are others, but none will ever be as close as The Clash)
18. I would like to learn to dance, I love watching people dance, especially those who know how to.
19. I was a really bitter person from the moment I turned 15 to a couple of years ago. I used to hate everyone, really. And never speak, or smile, ever. I’m still bitter, but nothing compared to those times.
20. When I was 7, I owned a really small bicycle that didn’t fit me anymore. My loving parents bought me a new one, which I immediately embraced, that is, until I fell down. From that moment on, I went back to my old bicycle which made my knees go all the way up to my chin. What’s even more curious is that my brother, who was 3 at the time and supposed to be using the old bicycle which fit him, found no hindrance to riding my full sized bicycle.
21. I could travel in time, I would probably be quite shallow and use it to see The Beatles (infamous rooftop concert), Queen (Wembley Stadium/Mexico) and The Clash (anywhere) playing live.
22. Physical touch is a great deal for me. For some time, not even my brother could hug me without being shouted at or physically hurt. It often makes me uncomfortable and I have no idea of how to respond to it. I think it’s not that bad now, but I’m still quite picky about the people I permit this to, and nothing can offend me more than uncalled for physical touch.
23. I have had 2 minor and 2 major surgical procedures done. The two minor ones were an awful thing in my middle right finger (sort of a bump) that turned out to be some kind of fungus infection I think, and a fat accumulation over mi right eyelid (looked like a pimple, but one that wouldn’t go away). The 2 major ones were my tonsils and the mystery dislocation of my left wrist).
24. Three years ago, my wrist started hurting very much. My mother then noticed that the little bone there was sticking out in quite a weird manner, so she took me to the ortopedist. The x-rays revealed that I had dislocated my wrist at least a year before, and try as I may, I can’t remember how it happened. Needless to say, little casts and stuff like that were useless, I had to undergo a surgical procedure in which a titanium nail would pierce my bones and hold them in the right place for some time, shoulder-high cast included. Having that cast was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced, but thank goodness it worked. Plan B was cutting my muscles open and having the doctor force the bones into place again. I swear I still don’t know how it happened
25. Earthquakes scare the hell out of me.
Bonus: I’m actually a lefty, I was jut forced to learn to write with my right hand while in kindergarden.
Bonus 2: If I had to choose the one person I never thought I would become best friends with, it would most definitely be Nelly. She is so awesomely different to me, it is hard to believe we have anything in common; yet, we do. Being with her is one of the most exciting things that has happened to me, not only because she is a crazy person just like me, but also because everyday I learn something new from our differences. She is such a good influence to me that her dream of me becoming a tiny bit of a glittery pink girly girl, lover of all things Japanese might as well come true… eventually.
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