Since I just turned twenty-three last 23rd of April 2013, let me go halves on with 23 random things about me that, more or less, few people know.
1. Me Time - I can go solo watching movies, devouring in restaurants and backpacking around. That feeling being unchaperoned just gives me the most tangible form of emancipation and independence. At the end of the day, I feel resuscitated and through this I'm able to see that there's more to life more than I could ever envisage.
2. Dad's Laddie - My father is my mother too...for 23 years. Yeah, he's that exceptional. We've been through the ebb and flow of life - just us struggling through the most grueling times and savoring the summit of prosperity. I've become competent enough in the real world through him. He is my living treasure and he is, to the largest extent, my inspiration to clinch my aspirations in life.
3. Med Detour - It's a big-ticket dream, so I've never really imagined my self embarking into such career. Well, not until few weeks before I enrolled in med school when my aunt convinced me to push through. Bigtime thanks to my aunt/s and grandmother for their support.
5. Wishful Thinker - If I'm not enrolled in Med school, I'd probably be taking up Culinary Arts, Photography classes, Multimedia Arts or Juris Doctor-slash-Bachelor of Laws and BMus in Singing. What's wrong with that?
6. Pseudo-scribe - Writing is really not my cup of tea. It did not rivet me at any point not until my high school days. A few classmates and I gained a pass in the school paper but I contributed not a single article. It was the same year where I bagged second for an essay writing contest. Until then, I've been persuading my self that I should be writing more often. After all, It's a sweet escape.
7. Acrophobic - I have an extreme or irrational fear of heights. But I don't get unnerved riding a plane. Is that weird? Gah. You would not want to see me agitated, dripping with sweat and go paranoiac. I really am not sure, but do I need a virtual reality for treatment?
8. Hemi-loser - Because of number seven which poses a lot of inhibitions. I don't know how to swim (but yey, I learned how to float just few days ago). I have an ungovernable gargantuan appetite. I'am a self-diagnosed bipolar. I'm not earning at my age which others basically do. But am not complaining. Next please?
9. Music Man - No, am not equipped with any skills in playing any musical instrument except for flute which I learned way back sixth grade. Music is my alter-ego. It is my personal choice of medicament. I sing. I listen and I feel a cut above. It's my free ticket to Utopia.
10. No-Crabs-Allowed - Food allergen. But I eat everything edible and tolerable. I'm not that kind who's picky when it comes to what's being served on the table. Read third sentence of number 8 - that explains why.
11. Tickle Pink - The easiest way to spill a sweet-talk and flatter me is to tell straight that I'm chubby, plus-sized, roly-poly or whatever-it-is but assert that I still look good. No squabbles, okay?
12. Thin-skinned - Don't take that literally. I'm that little fragile kid who's sensitive few and far between. I don't like being badmouthed and getting humiliated through any forms and ways of low-blows and cheap shots.
13. Mole Mark - It's my built-in identification tag ( left cheek/zygomatic area). I guess people would not recognize me easily without it. I can be pleomorphic. No. I can't.
14. Quick Slumbook Profile - My nickname is "JR". I love blue, chocolates, pizza and pasta. A taurus, RN, 3rd year medical student and Cardio/Pulmo would-be. I watch A.I. & Grey's Anatomy. I prefer boxer shorts over brief/s, sunset over sunrise, lights off than on and you on top of a cup of coffee or tea.
15. Doll Up - My ideal dress up would be a geek or nerd alike : braces, big glasses, plaid shirts or buttoned alike all the way up, pocket protecter with pen with shirt tucked into pants that are pulled up way too high. And for final touch, master the nerd grin. Did I miss something?
16. Inside My Bag - I habitually go out with my Northface backpack (which I've paid for six months via a friend). What's inside? blue folding umbrella, G-Tech 0.4 black and red pens, markers ( a lot of 'em), wallet with enough bills to survive a day, coins in separate pocket, blue-cased Mac Air and its glitching charger, blue Polo Sport scent, lip balm, planner or notebooks alike and a hanky. I told you, I love blue.
17. Misunderstood - Surfaced by strength of character, a superficial facade unknown by the multitude. I'm delicate and a captive of my past. Bygone, at a young age, I was donned by the thought that life is an uphill. I'm on an interminable odyssey of searching ataraxia. And through time, a persona who doubts the principle of egalitarianism. What more?
18. Blackout - Way back Grade 4, I was one of the acolytes/sacristan. (I studied in a Catholic school). I could still vividly remember that day I swooned in front of a crowd while the priest was blessing the ashes. I was rushed to the clinic and I don't have any clue what happened. It's unforgettable.
19. Minor - Minor Issues - I hate (well, a lesser degree than that) minor subjects. Especially, at times, when they have a more protracted list of requirements to be done than those major ones. They're time-consuming for no real good reason. They're always my bottommost cut. Period.
21. Cyclical Dream - This may be partially psychologically induced. Eerie. First, I've been dreaming of winning the lottery and living the most fancy-schmancy life. That's sweet. Second, I saw my self in front of lighthearted spectators with the spotlight aimed at me as I started to sing. Great. But, just what Nelly's song says - it was only just a dream.
22. Grown-Up - Need I say more? There's no other footpath but to be mature enough. Maturity? Big word.
23. Exodus 3:14 - "I'am who I'am..." to sum a fraction of who i am, am dignified to say I've been molded by my yesteryears into who and what I'am today. Leo Estabillo Tiu Jr. is my name. I-shall-be that I-shall-be, my existence shall not be a fleeting memory.
