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1. i don’t like peanut butter.
2. i’m an avid nail-biter.
3. i’m a righty.
4. i have collected 3 speeding tickets and over 150 parking tickets in a year.
5. and i love driving! shift stick!
6. which is why i miss my little red car. it got towed away and auctioned by the New York parking authority (yeah, that 150 parking tickets backfired).
7. i suck at playing pool.
8. i went to three different highschool in 3 years: SMA Taruna Bakti (Bandung, Indonesia), Kolese Gonzaga (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Perkiomen School (Pennsburg, PA - US).
9. i’m in love and have been for quite a while.
10. my parents have an overused Karaoke machine. i was mostly the user.
11. i’m short. my height is probably around 5’ or 150cm.
12. i drink occasionally.
13. i enjoy watching female pop stars, like Madonna, Janet Jackson and Britney Spears. not to their music, but to their presence (and the gossips, of course).
14. i was born as a Muslim and still is.
15. but i’m not a very religous person.
16. i have a big crush on Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam. mmm… Char…
17. i finally admit that i’m into Japanese Pop Culture, after denying it for a few years.
18. i double-majored to get double degree in college: mechanical engineering and fine art.
19. i have never worked as a mechanical engineer (except for one internship). and probably never will.
20. my first job after college was junior web designer. it was during the dotcom booming. i ended up working in that company for over 3 years, switching from one title to another.
21. when i grow up, i’d like to be a good house-wife.
22. i smoke and don’t plan to quit until i want to have babies.
23. i like dentists and enjoy visits to dentists. i think i like the smell of their office.
24. i had 10 piercing, although they’re lame ones (ears, belly button and tongue). i’m retiring them one by one.
25. i used to change my hair color frequently. but not anymore.
26. i like Wendy’s fries the best. McDonalds comes second. and i despise Burger King’s fries.
27. my favorite drink is water. tea with no sugar is on the second place.
28. i sleep with lights off.
29. my attention span is so short, i can never finish reading books.
30. but i read a lot of comics.
31. i like my own smell. especially the smell of my blanket and my stuffed panda.
32. i still think all Star Wars movies are one of the greatest movies of all times.
33. one of my goal in life is to live in apartment in Manhattan.
34. that’s also one of my goals in life that i would never achieve.
35. i can draw.
36. i looooove gule otak. that’s cow brain curry. yes, it’s delicious.
37. i can’t tie a “tie”.
38. i look younger than my age.
39. i’m generally soft-spoken.
40. but i can yell and curse too. it happens once in a blue moon, though.
41. i know all Queen songs, and probably have all their CDs.
42. and i have all the CDs of Dewa’s albums.
43. but currently, i mostly listen to Cornelius, Bell & Sebastian, Stereo Total, Kahimie Karie, Takako Minekawa and Bjork.
44. i’m a little bit supersticious.
45. and believe in karma.
46. this is for indonesians: i’m a mix of jawa/padang (dad) + manado/sunda (mom). ;)
47. i have one brother, who is 5 years younger than me and 2.5 times heavier than me.
48. i rarely watch TV. but when i do, i binge 5-6 hours non-stop.
49. i was born in Bandung, Indonesia… Boromeus Hospital.
50. according to horoscpes, i’m a Taurus. that’s where i get my stubborn-ness.
51. according to chinese zodiac, i’m a Rabbit. that’s where i get to be all soft-spoken.
52. i have a really dark eyes, almost black. and i love ‘em.
53. i wish i could speak and read Japanese so that i can read all those comics. there are just not enough comics in language i understand.
54. i prefer mountains over beaches. lake is the best, though.
55. my first and middle names (thalia selena) are the same as two Latina singers. it was coincidence.
56. i can use both Mac and PC. but i still prefer PC.
57. my jaw clicks. and it hurts.
58. but i can fit my whole fist in my mouth!
59. i still sleep hugging stuffed animals.
60. all my stuffed animals have names.
61. and i talk to them. and they talk back to me.
62. i can play a few musical instrument (piano, guitar, trumpet, saxophones, etc), but not good at any of those.
63. i can sleep 15 hours straight. maybe more.
64. i’m not fat. i’m not skinny. i’m just about right.
65. i currently have a 8 year-old bunny named bebe.
66. when i was a kid, i had 17 barbies, ken and skipper combined. then we moved out of that house leaving them burried in the pile of old toys.
67. i have once fallen into the toilet with open toilet seat. yuck, never again.
68. i lived in Bandung, Indonesia for 16 years.
69. then in Jakarta for 1 year.
70. and in Pennsylvania for 7 years.
71. now in New York for 3 years… (this is the year of 2002).
72. places i stayed for over 1 month and less than 3 months: Holland, outskirt of Birmingham (UK) and Maryland (US).
73. i wear contact lens.
74. i don’t have any tattoo.
75. but i want one (or two… or three). i just haven’t been able to decide what to get in the past 7 years.
76. i generally don’t like vegetables. if i could avoid ‘em, i would.
77. i’m a total meat eater. but i prefer chicken compare to red meat.
78. after denying it for 26 years, i realized that i’m terrified of cockroaches.
79. and silverfish. they makes me shiver, then scream, then run with funny pointy steps. in that order.
80. oh, i’m female!
81. and i’m NOT a feminist.
82. i’m quite bossy.
83. i sleep on my side, hugging a pillow or guling.
84. i could touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. but after i pierced my tongue, it got a bit harder to do.
85. i speak Indonesian and English. and Sundanese, if that counts.
86. my first summer job was snapping keyboards letter butttons on to the keyboards from 9 to 5.
87. i could do 100 pushups and situps when i was in junior high.
88. now i can’t even do 10. dammit.
89. i once sit less than 10 feet from Björk in a restaurant. i am still upset at myself for not doing anything about that.
90. i wish i have travelled more.
91. i’m not a morning person. although i wish i was.
92. i drink a lot when i eat. i like to reset my tastebud back to zero for each bite so i can fully taste the meal.
93. i don’t like washing dishes.
94. but i don’t mind cleaning bathroom.
95. i like bitter tea. no sugar please.
96. but when it comes to coffee, i’d like it with 5 spoonful of sugar and milk.
97. i don’t drink soda.
98. i have never broken any bones (on me). hopefully it’ll stay that way.
99. i’m terrified of public speaking. mainly because i’m not comfortable in sharing my thoughts to a big group of people.
100. but having publicly opened online journal is ok.

…pfft, that was long!