This is in response to a tag from Blupanjeet. Another one of those posts on little known facts about me:
1. I was once a ghost writer of the following: a society columnist, a censors chief, a senator and a congressman. With the first one, I got to know all of Manila’s social climbers. But the censors stint was most enjoyable since me and my relatives got free movie passes!
2. On a flight to Germany in 2002, I got so mysteriously sick that the pilot of the Lufthansa plane had to go down from his cockpit to check on me and see if I was still fit to fly. Luckily, I felt better. Just in time.
3. I was washing clothes hours before I delivered my twins. My doctor, who performed an emergency caesarean operation, got nervous and wondered why I took so long to go to the hospital despite immense labor pains. Looking back now, the caesarean was a better experience for me than eh, normal delivery. But it wasn’t better for my twins who had to stay in the incubator for two weeks!
4. I’ve never eaten balut in my entire life.
5. My second name is Socorro. My mother had such a hard time giving birth to me (because I came out of her womb with my little feet first) that she had to pray to the patron saint of succor
6. I never get seasick. This despite having sailed through the notoriously rough Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic Ocean.
7. I cheated in my Spanish class in college and got some flak from a few goody two shoes classmates because I was… accch… president of the Legion of Mary.
8. As a matter of principle, I never get back with ex-boyfriends. You have only one chance and if you screw it, you’re dead. Even if I stayed good friends with the Xs, as I believe that life is too short for bitterness and pain.
Ironically, the only exception to this good friends rule is The Ex Husband.
likewise here, In high school, I stole a final exam test paper on math due to peer pressure and double dare (that’s the worst thing I did) only to end up @ the principal’s office due to some “class leeches”.
Thanks for responding ajay. I really appreciate it. 🙂
I’ve never eaten balut either.
Ateng, palitan mo ang pic. Chaka-nors, wala kang ganda dito.
I loved this! We really must meet up one day and share chismis. 🙂 Seriously, you’ve never tried balut???
PS: Only class I ever cheated on was Theology. Freshman year Ateneo. I wrote my cheat sheet on the front pp of my Bible (which we were allowed to use for the exam). My seatmate was a seminarian who was horrified. So during Finals, I think it was, he enlisted the assistance of his fellow seminarians to help save my soul: they sat around me and made sure I couldn’t cheat again.
cheating is the Spanish Finals….
a fine UST tradition!!!
Guess in life, we always have to expect the unexpected Blupanjeet…
Hi Noemi..I heard some restos offer balut in olive oil, hopefully without the day-old chick. I can try that…
Nyahaha, thanks Jimi. But I don’t take out pictures already published. The caption here should be “makati ang tenga ko!!” shows my all too human side, di vala?
Guess every student has to go through the cheating phase Gigi and Spanx… and those who have not deserve to be canonized, lol
Yes, certainly hope to meet you one day to Gigi..in Manille or in OC (keeping my fingers crossed)
you were texting in that pic. 😀