103 things

Inspired by many things, I came up with my own. Enjoy.

1) I am the youngest of three children.

2) I have two older sisters.

3) I eat strawberries with a knife and cutting board.

4) When I was small, I occasionally ate lettuce with ketchup.

5) Three is my favourite number.

6) When I was little, I added a “ch” sound to the end of my sister's and my own name.

7) I still call my biggest sister "Gotch."

8) I take showers that are probably bad for my skin because of the heat.

9) I’ve mainly used 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioners for my whole life.

10) Loreal Kids works great.

11) I like the Watermelon flavoured one the best.

12) If I ever get my own dog, I’m going to name him or her Leica.

13) I started MSNing in grade 10.

14) I’ve been hooked ever since.

15) When I was small, my sisters would try to convince me that our parents were going to name me “Guy.”

16) My oldest sister and I would try to convince my middle sister that she was adopted.

17) My middle sister and I would take the head off a Barbie and hide it places to scare my oldest sister.

18) I had seasonal asthma as a child.

19) This meant that every winter and fall I’d have trouble breathing when I was exercising.

20) It is not as bad anymore now that I have aged.

21) My parents used this as an excuse to limit my athletic pursuits when I was a kid.

22) Whenever I get slightly interested in something, I research the hell out of it (thanks internet).

23) I requested lots of catalogues as a kid because of this info searching.

24) To this day I am still a catalogue collector.

25) My favourite “Windows” game is Minesweeper.

26) I don’t think I have ever taken a cab before.

27) This means I drive to bars a lot whenever I go out.

28) This means I rarely drink when I go out.

29) I don’t like to have even one drink if I’m driving.

30) If I do drive and decide to have a drink, the most I’ve ever had was one drink.

31) I like coupons.

32) There are often coupons found in my wallet.

33) Having coupons doesn’t mean I am cheap.

34) I actually spend lots of money (e.g. tuition).

35) My biggest purchase to date (besides my education) is a $1500 camera/lens combo.

36) It was a Canon EOS 3 camera and Canon 135mm f2.0L lens.

37) I like photography.

38) My first camera was (and is) a Canon Rebel Ti that I bought from Best Buy.

39) I bought the PSP (Performance Service Plan) for it.

40) I bought it at Best Buy because I won a $500 Best Buy gift card.

41) I won it by doing a survey from a receipt I got when I bought 2 Fast 2 Furious from Best Buy.

42) My EOS 3 is a buy from eBay.

43) I am a volunteer photographer for The Gateway (U of A biweekly newspaper).

44) As of right now, I have not had a picture published yet.

45) I’ve always liked to dance in some form or another.

46) I started dancing in junior high dances.

47) My first slow dance was to “All My Life” by K-Ci and JoJo.

48) It was with my elementary crush, Sarah Keats.

49) Then in high school, the only dances were the “Touch of Class” dances.

50) I grew up watching Wayne’s World and the Mighty Ducks series.

51) Mighty Ducks 2 is my favourite of the three.

52) I really love to eat candy.

53) I prefer candy to chocolate.

54) The yellow flavour is my least favourite flavour in multi-flavoured candies.

55) The green Skittles is my favourite Skittles flavour.

56) I really liked Punkys candy, but I don’t think you can buy them anymore.

57) I drink boiled water at home.

58) My mom has gone to a Brita filter, then boil because the hard water would leave stains on the pot.

59) I don’t like to drink plain tap water.

60) I prefer Coke to Pepsi.

61) I can’t stand a dirty windshield.

62) I probably go through an above average amount of windshield wiper fluid.

63) My van once had non-working windshield wipers and I had to use paper towel to wipe the rain off.

64) I’m anal about symmetry.

65) I take a long time sizing up things to make sure that they are symmetrical.

66) I get nosebleeds very easily.

67) It is the worst during the winter because of the dry air.

68) One winter, I averaged about two nosebleeds per day.

69) I had a severe acne problem when I was in junior high and high school.

70) I still have an acne problem, but it’s not as bad.

71) It could be less severe because I was on Accutane for almost a year.

72) I have pictures from when I started and how I progressed throughout the weeks of my Accutane program.

73) Accutane is the drug that was being promoted with the guy who said: “people think I eat too many chocolate bars, or I don’t wash my face. My brother says I’ll grow out of it, but I don’t think so.”

74) I too thought that I would grow out of it, but here I am still waiting.

75) I had to take monthly blood tests because of the side effects associated with Accutane.

76) I think I’m a little shyer than other people because I am still self-conscious about my acne.

77) Maybe that’s the reason why I’ve never had a girlfriend.

78) Yup. I’ve had lots of good friends who are girls, but not a so-called “girlfriend.”

79) The girls I choose aren’t interested in being more than friends with me, and I’m not interested in being more than friends with the (few) girls who choose me.

80) Yes, am straight and I like girls.

81) Sports are a big part of my life.

82) It really started with volleyball in junior high.

83) I tried out for the senior team in grade seven and I was cut.

84) The coach, Bruce MacLeod, told me to work on my skills and to get in better shape (I was a little Asian boy).

85) I paid my dues with a year in juniors and worked out at our wonderful gym every morning at 7 (wake at 6).

86) I made the team next year and MacLeod seriously shaped me to be the guy I am today.

87) I got my mad hops from doing plyometrics once a week in addition to my weight training.

88) I could touch the rim by grade nine.

89) I had about a 36” vertical in high school.

90) I love to jump!

91) Making the Harry Ainlay volleyball teams was probably one of the best things to happen to me.

92) In terms of high level of competition and a good group of friends, you can’t beat being on the volleyball team at Ainlay.

93) That’s part of the reason why I decided to travel further for high school (who wants to go to Page?).

94) That’s also why I started assisting in coaching at Ainlay.

95) I hope to teach the kids what I was taught while I was an athlete.

96) The coaching will also help me get a job as a physical education teacher in the future.

97) I am in the BPE/BEd combined degree programs so that I get both degrees in five years.

98) I don’t know what I could do with just a BPE, so I went into the combined program.

99) I want to be a teacher.

100) My minor is general sciences.

101) I do nerdy labs, just like the science students do it.

102) I hate labs to the max

103) I’m going to finish this at 103, yippeeee!