I’ve been tagged by several people for to do this and I caught wind that if I didn’t, I would be less cool. Since I am trying so hard to be regarded as 'cool' by my friends, here are the 25 random facts about me.
1. I can make a horrible first impression and many people have told me they thought I hated them when we met.
2. If I was a domestic animal, I would be a llama. If I was a wild animal, I would be a flamingo.
3. My biggest problem in relationships is that I tend to avoid talking about problems. (Which in turn causes more problems).
4. Clearly, there are vampires.
5. I’ve been collecting postcards since I was about eight and want to get one from every country in the world.
6. I don’t think people should travel to Burma and I secretly think less of anyone I meet who has.
7. I had a scary reoccurring dream as a child of being at sea in a storm on a pirate ship with Spiderman’s body in a coffin.
8. I think circumcision is bad and wrong and should be made illegal.
9. I am a nerd about the following things: capitals, flags, airlines, public transport, birds, languages, alphabets, Project Runway, French Indochina, postcards, Meso-American history, kanji, Thor Heyerdahl.
10. I don’t like driving and when I’m in charge, I will make private car ownership illegal and replace all roads with train tracks.
11. The beach is my favourite place in the whole world and if I could live there forever, I would.
12. My greatest fear is failure.
13. My dream is to travel around the world without leaving the ground.
14. If I could only watch Gong Li movies for the rest of my life, it wouldn’t really be so bad.
15. I spend too much money on clothes. I think I have a problem.
16. As much as I hated all the fishing and camping trips my father took me on when I was young, I appreciate them so incredibly much now. So many people have so little exposure to nature now.
17. The last time I cried was 12 January 2009.
18. I have always been incredibly, incredibly self-conscious about my taste in music. (See #24, for example).
19. I’m a leg man.
20. Although a staunch left-handist, I bowl with my right hand.
21. If someone offered me a free plane ticket tomorrow, I would have a hard time choosing between Toronto and Tahiti.
22. I think
Couchsurfing.com is amazing and it’s basically changed my life.
23. I want to go to Nunavut so bad!
24. My first record (
whoa – dating myself!) was Rick Astley’s “Whenever You Need Somebody”.
25. I didn’t learn to tie my shoes until I was eleven. My poor mother must have thought I was retarded.
