My List of 25

1.) My favorite love song of all time is "The Way You Look Tonight" by Frank Sinatra.

2.) I ate boogers (yes, only my own) as a kid and kicked the habit when Mom caught me :O

3.) I regularly hold rock concerts in my car acting as the lead vocals/guitarist in front of a non-existent music video camera. Complete with overly dramatic expressions.

4.) I was born with symmetrically crooked pinky fingers but successfully took piano lessons for 8 years.

5.) When I was 2, I fell 10 feet to the ground through the stair railing. I landed on my head. Mom sued the building and won while I still wonder what it might have done to me.

6.) I naturally befriend men before women and often wonder if that has any connection to #7 or even #5. I personally think it's because of my tomboyish childhood and preference for simplicity.

7.) My Dad passed away when I was 4. I remember both him and the funeral clearly.

8.) I religiously do the "reach over and open driver's side door for your date when you're in the passenger side of the car" etiquette from watching "A Bronx Tale" when I was 10.

9.) My first official nightmare was the bloody alley scene in "Ghost."

10.) I think kids are better than adults, and animals better than people.

11.) I've been in 7 car accidents. Only 2 my fault. I've also been pulled over many times for speeding but been released by every ethnic cop and one specifically because we were both part Chinese.

12.) I befriended a homeless woman in San Francisco while shooting a class project. Ironically she was a graduate from my college 20 yrs prior.

13.) I think interesting people are a result of leading interesting lives. I used to be a supporter of bodybuilding and attended the Mr. Olympia contest in Vegas where I met Chuck Lidell and his mass of muscles. I also attend hip hop dance competitions and use bookstores to meet more interesting people. Hey, it's a start.

14.) I was the heaviest baby born in the hospital that day at a "healthy" 8lbs. 6 oz. A 9-pounder beat me the next day.

15.) My favorite book as a kid was Cat in the Hat. As an adult, Memoirs of a Geisha.

16.) I ditched Senior year of highschool to go to college instead. I got credit and diplomas for both.

17.) I've been to over 40 raves in the past. It's where I learned to dance but not exactly to be sober.

18.) My first concert was Bon Jovi. I was 6. It was the New Jersey album and a blue bandana was the fashion hit.

19.) I don't like absolute silence at home so I fill the air with sounds from the TV when I'm awake. I'll pick re-runs of I Love Lucy over everything else.

20.) I've never been outside the continent.

21.) I've been truly in love once and he knows who he is. I often wonder if changing #20 and keeping #22 would make a difference.

22.) I'd rather cook for a loved one than be cooked for.

23.) I developed my fear of sharks from watching Shark Week on The Discovery Channel.

24.) I'd like to claim my favorite movie is something beautifully dramatic and gut-wrenching like What Dreams May Come, but alas it's The Sandlot. Childhood, mischief, dreams and communal acceptance of the nerdy but enthusiastic new kid in town. It's like reliving my whole life

25.) My mother is my hero. Not because of her struggle or her sacrifices, but because she's the only person who really knows who I am. We used to have to work really hard at our relationship, and now we just enjoy it.