My BAKET List!

Or things you wouldn't really care to know about me and i can't even begin to explain why... or how? =)

Baket 1: I am slightly dyslexic.

Baket 2: Except for a couple of years in a private all-boys school, i was predominantly educated through the public school system

Baket 3: I cried unabashedly when i visited the Yad Vashem war museum in Jerusalem

Baket 4: I went and stayed at Camp Abubakar in Cotabato during peace negotiations with the MILF before it was taken by the military

Baket 5: I can only use the bathroom comfortably if the tile walls and floor were wet

Baket 6: I once caught a parakeet while walking home from school

Baket 7: I think the Heroes Hall at Malacanang Palace is tacky

Baket 8:An ambulance took me to the orthopedic hospital after the bus i was riding home turned turtle along the north luzon expressway, help came an hour after other survivors and i sat drenched in the rain

Baket 9: I sold newspaper around the old Buendia and Taft Avenue. It was the "Daily Express", the only publication out after martial law was declared.

Baket 10: I edited a travel magazine: Asean Journals.

Baket 11: I swam in the Dead Sea in Israel.

Baket 12: I know how to weave the sulihiya

Baket 13: I'm left-handed but can play the guitar just like any right-handed

Baket 14: I once "re-connected" another man's severed finger after an accident at the filming of Indio

Baket 15: I have blood relatives in Miami who originated from Cuba and they are blonde and blue-eyed.

Baket 16: Nida Blanca is my favorite actress.

Baket 17: I used to page myself in my EasyCall

Baket 18: My driver once left me at the gasoline station thinking that i was at the backseat when he drove away. He came back for me after two hours.

Baket 19: I like Davao City and GenSen.

Baket 20: I was an officer in our high school military cadet training

Baket 21: I won my first award when i was six in a UNICEF painting contest: Seven pesos, which my brother and i spent buying toys and Crazy Foam.

Baket 22: I auditioned for the Miss Saigon

Baket 23: I am not a good salesman

Baket 24: I am electrophobic

Baket 25: I slept on the floors of the Medical City ICU waiting area for five days while waiting for my partner to come out of comma

Baket 26: Pag may topak ako, i can consume half a gallon of ice cream in one sitting... at home only because (see baket 26)

Baket 26: I am lactose intolerant. Sanggol pa lang ako kape na ata pinaiinom sa akin ng ina ko

Baket 27: When i was 8, i strayed away from my mother's side and got lost in the wet market (Carbon) of Cebu City. We were reunited after an hour or so. At least tapos na syang mamili. I have the feeling she never noticed i got lost at all!

Baket 28: For the lack, or absence, of funds, i used to stare at the ducklings sold outside our school gates for hours until the vendor took pity and gave me one weak duckling to take home... it died the next day

Baket 29: I hate ducks.

Baket 30: I am an impulsive shopper.

Baket 31: I once got out of a driving violation (swerving) ticket by flashing my Office of the President id ...unintentionally.

Baket 32: I am a massage addict

Baket 33: For a time, all my shirts were the color blue

Baket 34: My first real (as in not imaginary) girlfriend was a lovely, doe-eyed lass from Palawan. We met at a science camp in high school. She wrote me once. I lost her letter. End of love affair.

Baket 35: I failed zoology once in college.

Baket 36: Whenever i get a recurring dream at night, it comes true.

Baket 37: I like to change the way i part my hair every once in while.

Baket 38: For a very, very long time i thought the lyrics for "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" went like this: you don't have to say you love me/ JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN

Baket 39: My first published poem came out in 1976 in MOP TOP music magazine.

Baket 40: I was the grand champion in the metro manila-wide interschool extemporaneous speaking competition after having picked the lousiest topic from the bunch: generation gap

Baket 41: I prefer to walk than to take a cab

Baket 42: My driver, after realizing i was not seated behind him in the car, tried to look for me in the trunk!!!! When asked why he would look for me in the trunk, the driver replied "Eh baka po nagbibiro si sir!"

Baket 43: I did not fire the driver. He continued to drive for me for 9 more years.

Baket 44: The most painful experience i had was burying my partner who passed away in 2004.

Baket 45: The most expensive material gift i received was a Guy Laroche watch in 1993 and i still wear it up to now

Baket 46: I'm allergic to shrimps, bagoong, crab meat... and BEER

Baket 47: I managed a hip resto bar in Eastwood City for five years

Baket 48: I used to practice crying or shedding a tear in front of the mirror without contorting my face

Baket 49: I can memorize my students names (all 40 of them) after the first day of classes

Baket 50: I always remember other people's birthday a week before the date but completely forget to greet them on the date itself.

To be continued... OC kasi ako eh.