IMHO

Sivven

We had several Kiwis (New Zealanders, not the bird or the shoe polish) volunteer at He Cares over the last couple of weeks, and one of the things that set them apart was the way they pronounced "seven": "sivven" daw. Very Ilokano, he he. Anyway! Ella tagged me with this "Seven" survey, and since I like to rack my brains with questions like this, here gooooes...

Seven Things That Scare Me
1) Rats (and mice na rin)
2) Guns - cannot even stand the sight of them up close...although I could once assemble and disassemble an M1 Garand very quickly indeed.
3) Apathy
4) Hell
5) Myself
6) Global warming
7) Japanese horror movies.

Seven Things I Like The Most
1) Books, bookstores, libraries
2) Knives. Kitchen, not murder weapons. I mean, I like really really good knives.
3) Horses, dogs...but they're not really "things"
4) Sunsets, stars, the sea (daya ba. Things in nature starting with "S" heh heh)
5) Clean bathrooms
6) Movies
7) Earrings

Seven Random Facts About Me
1) My Master's degrees in Public Administration and Asian Studies are "in progress." Except that my school's (UP Clark Air Base) not there anymore.
2) I cannot play any sports involving balls - volleyball, basketball, billiards, table tennis, name it - except soccer (UPIS Girls' Soccer Team - yahoo - but we never really played anywhere. Go figure.)
3) I finally set aside my ambitions to become a doctor when I couldn't hack Chem 16 in the summer of '86 (I only stayed as long as the cute Eng students stuck around, and when they dropped out, so did I, hehe)
4) I was a chainsmoker of Philip Morris (regular, not lights) for 16 years. Got up to 3 packs a day. Quit on November 9, 2002, cold turkey ever since through the grace of God and the fear of Ney's eternal damnation (OA!)
5) My parents wanted to nickname me "Mylene" (what a mess that would have been, since "Mayleen" is my best female friend) but my hippie grandmother insisted on "Honey" (but my best male friend is "Neyney," close enough)
6) In an idle moment during Bar review, I came up with the "Life of a Civil Action" diagram, pirated with permission and apparently now widely disseminated among the general public
7) My secret identity: titser. I've taught elementary and highschool Science (SLC in UPIS, 1985); English as a second language (1989); Election Law, Law and Economics, and Argumentation and Debate (San Sebastian College of Law, 1997-1999); and now Business Law and Media Law (Thames International Business School, 2003 to present)

Seven Important Things In My Bedroom
1) My bed he he
2) My workspace - laptop, printer, dictionary and thesaurus chuchu
3) TV and DVD player
4) Books - the most important ones because the less important ones would clutter my space too much (not to say that my space isn't cluttered enough as it is)
5) Clothes and shoes
6) Aircon and industrial fan
7) Singing Jolina doll from Neyney, to remind me exactly how jologs I really am.

Seven Things I Plan To Do Before I Die
1) Write (critically-acclaimed) books (plural)
2) Find and be found by the one, raise a family
3) Visit Lourdes and Fatima
4) Walk the Camino de Santiago
5) Put up my dream camp for underprivileged kids
6) Attend the canonization of Mother Teresa and John Paul the Great
7) Get a Master's degree in Theology from the Franciscan University in Steubenville

Seven Things I Can Do
1) Cook...well (huuu yabang). Cater for hundreds. Feed the hungry.
2) Write (well! Mwehe), edit
3) Swim, SCUBA dive, free dive up to 30 feet
4) Make little kids smile. Attract dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals ('wag lang rats!)
5) Preach the Gospel (and use words, if necessary. Only through His grace.)
6) Sing, play the tambourine satisfactorily, and the guitar (barely), dance - the swing, salsa, Roger Rabbit...
7) Understand French (speaking it is a completely different matter), speak passable Spanish and Italian

Seven Things I Can't Do
1) Go back to active law practice...heh heh sorry Kenneth
2) Spend money on expensive brand names (unless they're on sale...)
3) Play GM7...my fingers don't reach that far!
4) Like badminton
5) Change a flat tire
6) Math
7) Stay mad at someone I love

Seven Things That Attract Me To The Opposite Sex (hmmm, incriminating...good thing my list of essentials is a lot longer!)
1) Nice smile, and hands (hard to describe, but I know what kind of hands I like, and what I don't!)
2) Chivalry. Not just gentlemanly behavior for pogi points, but genuine courteousness. And good manners.
3) Intelligence (magaling sa Math!), and the conversation factor
4) Kindness to all of God's creations, especially small children and domesticated animals
5) Over-all cuteness also helps, heh heh
6) Good relationship with my family and friends
7) Most importantly...loves God (hindi dogs, although OK din sana yun) more than anyone or anything else.

Seven Things I Say The Most
1) Hassle!
2) Tigas ng mukha mo...
3) Chenes, chika, chuva
4) Oh my goodness
5) What the heck...
6) God bless you.
7) Yes, Kuya

Seven Celeb Crushes (whether foreign or local)
1) John Cusack
2) Harrison Ford
3) Lou Diamond Phillips (bakit ba)
4) Hugh Jackman
5) James Woods (oo nga)
6) Humphrey Bogart
7) Rey Valera (I'm serious...)

Seven People You Want To Take This Quiz
1) Lex
2) Ate Punay
3) Day
4) Concon
5) Sunny C
6) Viviene
7) Jeryc

posted by Honey Oliveros @ 11:23 PM