An excuse to do something stupid
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Dawn tagged me, so I'm writing seven things about myself. I won't be tagging anyone else, because I'm that kind of person.
1. The first thing people should know about me is that I am deaf on my right ear. I was too young to remember having the use of both ears, and I am not sure how my hearing got lost. I was either born with it, or it could have resulted from my aunt cleaning my ears too hard which caused it to bleed, or from the antibiotics I took when I developed a skin infection after swimming in a beach. I usually use the third explanation when people ask me why, but my aunt is still very guilty because she fears that she could have been the one who took away my hearing.
2. I love climbing mountains, but I’m not a hardcore mountaineer. I wish I could climb more, but I don’t have the free time or the budget to keep living the outdoor life. I first started climbing on 2005, and averaged a mountain a month. Now I have only had two climbs this year, and it’s already the middle of the year. The highest I’ve been to was Mt. Apo, which is the highest mountain in the country. My toughest climb was Mt. Guiting-guiting, and I haven’t been to Mt. Halcon yet. Climbing taught me to cook, and unfortunately this was also where I learned to become an accomplished alcohol drinker, and where I developed a preference for hard alcohol over beer.
3. I look at people today hooked on games like DOTA and Ragnarok, and I’m thankful that I didn’t get the gaming bug. I started on that dark road way back before gaming was popular, and misspent my high school life playing the granddaddies of today’s popular games: Deathtrack (who knows this?), Civilization, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Heretic, Command and Conquer (the first one), Dune, Lemmings, Commander Keen, Worms, Flashback, Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2, Altered Beast, Wing Commander 1 and 2, etc. Somehow I lost the bug when I got to college and had a girlfriend.
4. I wasted a lot of money on things that have never really made me happy. When I was in high school I got hooked on Magic: The Gathering cards, and that was where my stipends went. I dropped the habit when I got to college, and I got a job as an SA for the EEE department. The money I earned there went to computer frivolities: upgrades, a flatbed scanner, and more upgrades. The upgrades made my computer faster and more powerful, allowing me to waste my time in faster and more powerful methods. For the past two years I have been spending a lot of money on hiking equipment, but I that is an exception, because I was very happy with my experiences on that regard.
5. I have a fascination for WWII aircraft, specifically British and German propeller-driven fighter planes. I picked the weird fascination up when I read a Time picture book of the European air war during WWII. Some boring trivia: (1) Stuka dive bombers were used in the blitzkrieg invasion of Poland to add an element of terror during the attacks. The bombers were equipped with a device that produced a screaming sound during a dive bombing run to add that terrifying anticipation before the actual bombs hit. (2) The British Mosquito fighter plane was made entirely of wood (except for the guns of course) that made it invisible to radar. These planes usually served as the lead planes during night bombing runs because they can drop the incendiary bombs that will light the target for the big bomber planes. (3) I can identify a Messerschmitt 109 fighter by its silhouette.
6. I observed that my habits get worse as I grow older. When I first had a job I was able to keep more than 50% of my salary as savings. But as I grew older, and actually started to earn more, I also started spending more and it got to the point that I was able to save more money on my first job, when I was actually earning less. Also, three years ago, I was able to discipline myself into exercising and dieting, and was able to drop 20 pounds in 8 months. After gaining back 10, but knowing that I have the capacity and capability to lose that 10, I can't bring myself to regain the discipline I have already displayed three years ago. But I could do it again if I want to. I think.
7. I hate reading messages from people who misuse the ellipsis... I used to work as a network and server administrator, and part of my job was to receive trouble tickets describing various problems encountered by the users... One user (a generally nice person) only used one freaking punctuation mark, the dreaded ellipsis... Every sentence and paragraph ended in ellipses, and it was very tiring to read her description... I felt that I was always waiting for something to happen... This practice of replacing periods with ellipses are also prevalent in people's blogs, and I find it really annoying...
1. The first thing people should know about me is that I am deaf on my right ear. I was too young to remember having the use of both ears, and I am not sure how my hearing got lost. I was either born with it, or it could have resulted from my aunt cleaning my ears too hard which caused it to bleed, or from the antibiotics I took when I developed a skin infection after swimming in a beach. I usually use the third explanation when people ask me why, but my aunt is still very guilty because she fears that she could have been the one who took away my hearing.
2. I love climbing mountains, but I’m not a hardcore mountaineer. I wish I could climb more, but I don’t have the free time or the budget to keep living the outdoor life. I first started climbing on 2005, and averaged a mountain a month. Now I have only had two climbs this year, and it’s already the middle of the year. The highest I’ve been to was Mt. Apo, which is the highest mountain in the country. My toughest climb was Mt. Guiting-guiting, and I haven’t been to Mt. Halcon yet. Climbing taught me to cook, and unfortunately this was also where I learned to become an accomplished alcohol drinker, and where I developed a preference for hard alcohol over beer.
3. I look at people today hooked on games like DOTA and Ragnarok, and I’m thankful that I didn’t get the gaming bug. I started on that dark road way back before gaming was popular, and misspent my high school life playing the granddaddies of today’s popular games: Deathtrack (who knows this?), Civilization, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Heretic, Command and Conquer (the first one), Dune, Lemmings, Commander Keen, Worms, Flashback, Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2, Altered Beast, Wing Commander 1 and 2, etc. Somehow I lost the bug when I got to college and had a girlfriend.
4. I wasted a lot of money on things that have never really made me happy. When I was in high school I got hooked on Magic: The Gathering cards, and that was where my stipends went. I dropped the habit when I got to college, and I got a job as an SA for the EEE department. The money I earned there went to computer frivolities: upgrades, a flatbed scanner, and more upgrades. The upgrades made my computer faster and more powerful, allowing me to waste my time in faster and more powerful methods. For the past two years I have been spending a lot of money on hiking equipment, but I that is an exception, because I was very happy with my experiences on that regard.
5. I have a fascination for WWII aircraft, specifically British and German propeller-driven fighter planes. I picked the weird fascination up when I read a Time picture book of the European air war during WWII. Some boring trivia: (1) Stuka dive bombers were used in the blitzkrieg invasion of Poland to add an element of terror during the attacks. The bombers were equipped with a device that produced a screaming sound during a dive bombing run to add that terrifying anticipation before the actual bombs hit. (2) The British Mosquito fighter plane was made entirely of wood (except for the guns of course) that made it invisible to radar. These planes usually served as the lead planes during night bombing runs because they can drop the incendiary bombs that will light the target for the big bomber planes. (3) I can identify a Messerschmitt 109 fighter by its silhouette.
6. I observed that my habits get worse as I grow older. When I first had a job I was able to keep more than 50% of my salary as savings. But as I grew older, and actually started to earn more, I also started spending more and it got to the point that I was able to save more money on my first job, when I was actually earning less. Also, three years ago, I was able to discipline myself into exercising and dieting, and was able to drop 20 pounds in 8 months. After gaining back 10, but knowing that I have the capacity and capability to lose that 10, I can't bring myself to regain the discipline I have already displayed three years ago. But I could do it again if I want to. I think.
7. I hate reading messages from people who misuse the ellipsis... I used to work as a network and server administrator, and part of my job was to receive trouble tickets describing various problems encountered by the users... One user (a generally nice person) only used one freaking punctuation mark, the dreaded ellipsis... Every sentence and paragraph ended in ellipses, and it was very tiring to read her description... I felt that I was always waiting for something to happen... This practice of replacing periods with ellipses are also prevalent in people's blogs, and I find it really annoying...
:: posted by stoned raccoon, 8:23 PM
2 Comments:
funny #7... haha!
nothing to do with your post. Sir leo, how did you do your blog skin/template? :D
