16 random things

I’ve noticed around Flickr recently that a lot of people are posting pictures or paintings of themselves and then writing a list of “16 random things or facts” about themselves. Apparently, someone has to tag you and challenge you to do this (One random example).

As I’m not popular enough in Flickr to have someone challenging me to do it, here’s my own list ow “16 random facts about myself“:

1) I love nature and all her creatures. I spent most of my childhood in a “cortijo“, in the middle of the nowhere, far from the madding crowd, and most importantly, surrounded by nature. However, what a southern spaniard can consider as “nature” is quite a different concept to what your average English person thinks nature is. I prefer the English version though.

2) I have been addicted to the internet since 1999. I remember the first time I went into a chat room. I was in an Internet Cafe with two friends. I was checking my uni emails and they were in the mIRC. I remember shouting across the room: “Show me how you do that!”

3) I am very autocritical. Although I may seem very cocky or confident sometimes, in reality I’m never 100% happy with anything I do.

 4) I used to collect cinema tickets. I still have them. Two huge boxes full of cinema tickets dating approx. from 1995 to 2005. I don’t do it anymore. Now that I own my own house, I am more careful with useless clatter that I bring into the house.

5) My favourite dog ever was called Margaret Thatcher. She was a stray German Shepherd that I took in. She had been mistreated by her previous owner and she was very scared, but she was very strong though. Then and there we decided to call her “the iron lady”, Margaret Thatcher. Ah, this was in the early 80s!
     5.1) My other favourite dogs when growing up were Johnny and Fosi.
     5.2) I was actually biten by a dog during my childhood, but that didn’t stop me loving dogs as much as I do.

6) I’ve got over being 30. Turning 30 last year was a milestone that I wasn’t looking forward to. I felt old for a few weeks, but now I can successfully say that I have accepted my age and I’m happy about it!

7) I love singing, but can’t sing. I can’t hold a tune, no sir. Still, there’s nothing more satisfying that hearing a song I love and singing along (using anything as a “fake microphone”!)

8 ) I’ve loved the colour pink for almost 6 years now. It hasn’t been that long since I discovered that I really like that colour. And now I not only have several object on that colour… I also buy pink clothes!
     8.1) I utterly love colours, all colours, bright colours, pastel colours, rich colours, soft colours, blues, red, oranges, greens
     8.2) Although my favourite colour of all time is blue.

9) I used to be a bit of a bully in school. I wasn’t a proper bully though. Not to English standards. I don’t think there were any bullys in my school. I was just a bit naughty and would laugh at people sometimes. But I never attacked anyone (physically or mentally)

10) I take three sugars on my milky tea. I don’t drink normal English tea. I like Spiced Chai, but I take it with just milk. I put the mug of milk in the microwave for 2 and a half minutes and then put the tea bag on it. With three sugars. After three years in the office, people still look at me all surpised when I prepare it.

11) I used to ride a moped when I was 13. It was my brother’s moped (he was 18 then) but because he used to work in the afternoons/evenings, I would borrow it all the time. No, I wasn’t insured. No, I didn’t have a licence. No, I never had an accident. No, I was never stopped by the police.

12) My taste in music has changed greatly throughout my life. From childhood pop like Phil Collins, 80’s Madonna, New Kids on the Block, Jason Donovan, etc. Through alternative stage in my uni years like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, REM, Manics, Taking Back Sunday, Killers, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, etc. To a more relaxed adulthood, where I listen to practically anything. I have also developed a taste for classical music.

13) I had braces for quite a few years. Due to a problem with my dentist, lack of understanding with my own family and some other details that I’m not going to list here, I had braces for about 6 or 7 years. Problem is, my teeth never got really straight and they don’t look perfect at all, so you would never believe I wore braces for such a long time!

14) I have no tattoos and no piercings. I tried piercing the upper part of my left ear once, many years ago, but it hurt like mad, and it got infected, and I couldn’t sleep properly (because I move a lot) so I had to take it out, and never thought of doing it again.

15) Never broken a bone (touch wooooood!). I’ve only been to a hospital for minor injuries and hopefully the next time that I have to go to a hospital is because I’m just in child labour or something beautiful like that.

16) And last but not least, I love living in the UK despite the weather, the food, the hooligans and chavs, and all those things that make people go and ask “But WHY are you still here?!”

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