25 Random Things About ME

1. Sometimes, I dream about dropping out of school. I would open up a bakery (like Ana Pascal in Stranger than Fiction)…Or just travel down rivers like the Mighty Mississippi, Danube, or through a canal like the Erie or the Suez in a homemade skiff made from empty soda bottles and used gerbil wheels.

2. My siblings and I used to tape ourselves recreating Disney movies like Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. Being Asian, my family had to video record everything. They didn’t like me manning the camcorder because my filming made them queasy but if only they supported me and I could have made Blair Witch or Cloverfield…or the Bourne movies.

3. When I was young, I resented Disneyland because when we would go as a family, my dad would get tired from the day and need a mid-day break to nap…on a bench. We wouldn’t be allowed to go off on our own because we were too young so we sat by the bench like beggar children trying to sell ‘papes on the streets of New York.

4. I watched the premiere of the first episode of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.

5. I am from California and I do not like In-N-Out Burger.

6. When I was in first grade, the school nurse suggested for me to see an optometrist. I took this as an opportunity to MAKE SURE I would have glasses like my best friend at the time. So, I stared at the sun. I wore his glasses that were thicker than the ice roads that the ice road truckers from the History Channel drive on. My eventual exam of lies went something like this…Doc: “What looks better, 1 or 2?” Me: “Um…neither?”

7. One late evening as a kid, I chucked a rock at the neighbor’s kid and when they called the cops and confronted my parents and myself, I blamed it on my older brother who had been in the shower the whole entire time.

8. I have an irrational fear of swimming in open water, especially when I can’t feel the bottom…but I also love Discovery Channel’s Shark Week (best week of the year). I have a scar and indentation in my skull/forehead from slipping on some of those big rocks pier things as a kid. I was catching little crabs that lived in the cracks and cracked my skull when I fell. I was holding a big, emptied can of Cheetos which were filled with crabs that took my debacle as a chance to scurry over me with their sharp, prickly legs.

9. My favorite X-Men is Jubilee but not because she is Asian.

10. My mom thought I was in a cult in high school because I had Star Wars posters on my wall after the Heaven’s Gate incident.

11. O.J. Simpson is guilty.

12. I have taken a P.E. volleyball class a total of 12 times during my undergraduate career. I came in second on two different teams during a one day tourney at my apartment complex and another for charity. Intramurally, I’ve played on a bunch of teams. I’ve played on two city league teams: last year at Orem when we won ZERO games and a few months ago at Provo when we won the championships. I play setter and I’m a setter snob. I played one year as a freshman in high school and that was that. Some of my volleyball team names have included: the Ligers, the Late Comers, the Flux Capacitors (go Provo champs!), and Affirmative Action.

13. I don’t know remember the last time I did a pull up.

14. The scariest movie for me growing up was Fire in the Sky.

15. Vitamin C’s Graduation Song (Friends Forever) still makes me think about high school but strangely, nothing specific.

16. I am Asian and I am terrible at math AND science.

17. I have never fired a gun.

18. I have rudimentary proficiency in Spanish that I use for eavesdropping more than anything else.

19. I am 25 but I still speak of the future in terms of “WHEN I GROW UP.”

20. I write in all-caps.

21. My favorite accent is the Scottish…which I would like to learn how to do perfectly.

22. I thought Dumbledore was still alive.

23. Dakota Fanning bothers me.

24. I believe in the American Dream.

25. I can watch Scrubs 24/7.