1. I have scars on my face, arm, waist, and leg from when I got bit by a dog when I was a baby in the Philippines.
2. I still have a stuffed animal lamb (which I named Lambchop) that I got when I was five. There’s a story about how I freaked out when I lost him in Las Vegas, but luckily, we found him on top of a slot machine.
3. I can actually say that I hiked the Great Wall of China.
4. I used to be really obsessed with LOST in high school to the point that I could tell you all the titles of the episodes that had aired.
5. I collect lapel pins from places I visit. I used to keep them on a black tie, but I got a lot more so I made my own display canvas.
6. I didn’t have a real, paid job until after college since my parents wanted me to focus more on school and work later.
7. I am pretty naive about a lot of things.
8. I once spent a Halloween dressed up like Mr. Potato Head. The face parts were velcro, so you could stick them wherever on the potato outfit.
9. I used to want to be a paleontologist when I was in elementary school. It evolved into becoming a photo journalist and then travel journalist over time. Now I want to go to graduate school in Anthropology.
10. I got a 2020 on my SATs and it is still one of my proudest high school moments.
11. I was also the only male valedictorian (basically anybody with a 4.0 or higher was a valedictorian) at my high school.
12. I didn’t start reading Harry Potter until the end of my fourth year at UCLA.
13. I really love the scent of blackcurrant.
14. I think giraffes are disgusting after seeing them drink each other’s urine on two separate occasions at the Los Angeles Zoo.
15. I know not everyone has a Facebook, but sometimes I worry that something has happened to the middle school and high school friends that I can’t find.

[Last Year: December 15, 2010]