Facts ‘Bout Me
I decided to rewrite my “About Me” page. I started from scratch again and I come up with an seven-paragraph introduction to myself. I decided to post it here so that it’ll get the attention that it will need. The front page is always the best part where you can put stories that you want your audience to notice.
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During the year I started blogging, my answer to the question “What’s your ASL?” was 14/M/Pampanga. Now that almost four years have passed since I first encountered that question, my answer is still the same, except for the age part which you have to add to four (that’s equal to 18). But of course, giving you a two-digit number, a letter that stands for “male”, and the name of a province here in the Philippines is not enough for you to know me. So the purpose of rewriting my short description of myself is for you to visualize me better on your head. Feel free to make your own image of myself. I’ve also provided links to my previous posts, that you can freely read (minus those password protected entries) which can help you know more about myself.
I was born three days after Christmas in the year of 1989. December 28, 1989 was the start of my journey here on earth. Eighteen years later, I’m already 18 years old, obviously. Kidding aside, I think, I’ve achieved a lot of things but there are still many things to conquer. Currently, I’m a college student but I still have to learn how to love my course and I still think that college is synonymous to hell.
Reading books has been my main source of entertainment since sixth grade when I first read JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Since then, I have read more than 50 books which include the whole Harry Potter series, two of Dan Brown’s controversial books, reads by Mitch Albom which are all talking about death, and even books that are more disturbing like Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner which is my most favorite book, by the way.
Other forms of entertainment that I enjoy include watching American TV shows especially Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and The Amazing Race, ridiculing incompetent teachers, sleeping, surfing the Internet, and most recently, listening to indie music by Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol, The Postal Service, Hellogoodbye, Jack Johnson, and many more. As a matter of fact, because of my obsession to indie music, I named my iPod touch as Gibbard, in honor of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s singer: Ben Gibbard. Just visit my Last.fm account to know my listening patterns.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I also love writing. I was actually the news editor of our official student publication for two consecutive years back in high school. But until now, I still don’t know how I was able to get that position because of my faulty grammar. I know, my grammar sucks. And if it were not because of Firefox’s spell checker feature, I would have committed lots of misspelled words. I need an editor, really. Haha. But despite all of those reasons I’ve mentioned, I’m really thankful for my adviser who trusted me. Writing news never gave me pleasure. You have to be specific with the facts and you can’t give your own points and using adjectives is a big no-no.
Now, I want to tell you what I’m not: I’m neither a singer nor a dancer (I suck at both). I’m not also a cellphone and SMS addict, I can leave even without a phone. I hate PE classes (I’m just glad that I will not wear my PE uniform ever). And oh as some of you might already know, I don’t have the ideal body weight (take a guess if I’m overweight or underweight) and I don’t look like an 18 year old student (I look younger… lol).
I’ve got more things to tell you but I guess, I’m already boring you. Just watch out for the next version of this introduction to myself to know more about me. But if you need something or you just want to leave your two cents, feel free to contact me.
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DanHellbound and Dre tagged me to post facts about myself. BTW, Mr. DanHellbound tagged me way back in December of last year. Dan says I should post seven facts, and Dre says that I should post eight. But obviously, I broke the rules. Lol. And oh, I didn’t make this post because of these memes. It’s just coincidental. Of course, everyone is invited to post random facts. Yeah, I’m tagging you everyone!
April 13, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Ako din, I’m not an SMS addict. I can go on with a ‘dead phone’ for one month! LOL
Shouldn’t you rename this to ‘autobiograhy’? Joke. Kidding. Hehe
April 13, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
CHEERS TO YOU, christian.
both of us aren’t texters, and that’s just… cool. i don’t even care about cellphone units. lol
Why not post your real name here?
Argh, I understand.
April 13, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
We have a lot in common, we both like indie music, books and writing.
But I like singing, dancing and some of my PE classes.
I’ve been having trouble writing my About Me page so I may just do this.
April 13, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
Looks like you will attract a lot of girls with your new bio!
April 13, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
Pe’s fun! pero not HS PE which was so…ummm. kebs. lol.
April 13, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Gibbard is teh sex!! Um, not your iPod, but the person
April 14, 2008 @ 2:37 am
I’d have to agree that Firefox’ spell checker is pretty useful. How I wish it could detect grammatical errors too. Maybe I should add it myself. The browser’s an open-source in the first place.
April 14, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
Books and American TV shows are two of my loves too!
I remember starting my true love affair with books back when I would read the bible (the Children’s one complete with pictures and stuff). Yeah. I’m that much of a Catholic geek. It carried over with the Sweet Valley series (owgad) then eventually, as you did, I fell in love with Harry Potter too. I don’t really know how many books I’ve read. But I guess they are quite a lot!
I have the kite runner stored in my shelves.. somewhere. Haven’t read it though.
How lucky of you to have an iPod Touch! *Me wants badly*
I’m not much of an SMS addict also.
Okay. Bye now. Long comment.
Hahahha.
April 15, 2008 @ 11:25 am
I agree that firefox spell checker is awesome useful. Specially now that I blog directly in WP’s post box. lol you have an ipod touch?
April 15, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
I agree with what you said about news writing. Man, I suck at news writing.
April 15, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
haha. san ka sa pampanga? province ng family ko yan. yey!
anyway, i enjoy watching AR too. and, ridiculing incompetent teachers. teacher lang pala. haha. link ex?
April 17, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Shucks, I have forgotten what year I started blogging.
But one thing’s for sure, you were one of my first online friends. Others are gone but you’re still there. D ba ikaw pa nga yung nagturo sa akin kung paano iintegrate yung layout ko sa wordpress. Tenk u! 
Thanks for hosting me, too. 
Snow Patrol is <3 .
You should also try listening to Mae. Their album “Singularity” is <3 .
April 19, 2008 @ 2:17 am
Pst! Hindi na natuloy-tuloy yung eyebol natin!! Bumalik na kong manila. XD
April 19, 2008 @ 8:41 am
Hi Christian. It’s wonderful to learn more about you on this post. Hope you achieve all your dreams but remember to cherish your youth.
April 20, 2008 @ 3:43 am
hi christian thanks for the congratulation note on my new baby
even after reading your facts i always figure you out as a smart kid and i always sees you as young kid as in like a grader
May 8, 2008 @ 7:59 am
hei.. i see you everywhere in the blogosphere and in twitter but only now that i messaged you when i read from kath’s page (pusangkalye dot com) that you’re from Pampanga. Cabalen! hehe..