October 19, 2005

• Swell.

  
  

  The staff here at Dramamine Boy’s Xanga is currently putting the finishing touches on yet another silly, irrelevant, ramble-filled blog.  However, I am not posting another typical Dramamine Boy’s Xanga blog at this time.  Why, you ask?  Cuz my cousin tagged me for yet another one of these thingys that’s on everyone’s Xanga!  He wanted to keep it “in the family”.  YOU HAVE A WIFE, DON’T YOU!?!  What about your cousins in Hawaii!?!  Doggone it!

  
  

  This time, it’s that “20 Random Facts” thing.  So, bear with me, as I bore one and all with all that is Dram…

  
  

  1. I won the Daughters of the American Revolution medal in 6th grade… and I still have no clue what the crap that was for.

  
  

  2. Musical instruments I played while going through school: the flutophone (woohoo), clarinet, tenor saxophone, trombone (experiment for a quarter during Jr. High band), trumpet (summer school class), bass drum (sat in for a guy that went to the bathroom during marching band practice), baritone saxophone.

  
  

  3. I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland with the guy that owns the most expensive baseball card in the world.  I also went with a friend of mine and the guy that owns the most expensive baseball card in the world’s wife… but that doesn’t quite have the “wow, Dram must be cool” factor that I was shootin’ for.

  
  

  4. Me and two friends created and played in a professional wrestling fantasy league a few years ago.  I shall now bow my head in shame.

  
  

  5. I played in a japanese basketball league from 2nd to 12th grade.  The first year I played, I was seven years old and our record was 5-3.  Our teams then proceed to have a losing record (with some REALLY BAD losing records) every single year until my senior year, going 4-4.  We tied for fourth, so we played an extra game to get into the playoffs… and lost.

  
  

  6. The phrase “There are 10 types of people that understand binary, those who do and those who don’t” makes me laugh and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.

  
  

  7. I ate spicy chow mein and it ended up burning my lips off… literally.  I had scabs for lips for over a week.  The next time my mom brought home spicy chow mein… I ate it again for some unknown reason (well, some unknown reason other than me being a moron)… and my lips burned off again.

  
  

  8. I played in one of those pee wee basketball games at the Oakland Coliseum.  We played before and during halftime of a Golden State Warriors game.

  
  

  9. I was so short at the start of 7th grade, I couldn’t see the top of the lock to read the combination numbers on my locker (I had a top locker).  After failing to figure out how to open my locker by reading the bottom numbers (and lugging a crapload of books from school to home and back for a week), I ended up going to the office and requesting a bottom locker.

  
  

  

  
  

  Bottom locker, good… top locker, bad.

  
  

  10. I am currently part of a Counter-Strike “team”, where we “play” against other “teams” in a “league”.  We use stratoogy and stuff.  I shall now bow my head further in shame.

  
  

  11. I’m left-handed, but I eat with my right hand and operate a ten-key with my right hand.

  
  

  12. Things I find totally hilarious:

  
  

  TV Show: South Park Season 1
  Movie: There’s Something About Mary
  Comedy Album: Bill Cosby – Wonderfulness
  Comic Strip: I gotta go with Calvin and Hobbes edging out Bloom County (tough choice).

  
  

  13. I bought (and still own, albeit in non-working order) the Walkman WM-1 portable stereo cassette player when it came out.

  
  

  

  
  

  I paid $99.95 for it.  Plus tax.  Yup, worked and saved up all summer to buy it.  Within a year or two, after everyone and their mom started making these things, I remember seeing the WM-1 being sold for $19.00.  I also saw a newspaper ad for a car dealership that was giving them away free if you stopped in for a test-drive.

  
  

  14. Apparently, little kids love me.  During get-togethers, I will usually spend my time playing with the kids.  This is probably also due to the fact that I suck at adult conversation.

  
  

  15. First music cassette I purchased… The Eagles – The Long Run.  First CD I purchased… The Eagles – The Long Run.  The first DVD I purchased?  That’s right, you guessed it… Hoosiers.

  
  

  16. I might have had the highest national score on a video game called Kangaroo.  I bought a video game magazine one day and they had nationwide high scores on all the popular games.  A month or so later, I beat the score listed in the magazine for Kangaroo by a wide, wide margin.  I sent in my score (with verification) and went to the liquor store every few days for months, waiting for the new issue… it never showed up.  One day, I got an invitation to attend some National Video Game competition, but it was in Sacramento and I wasn’t good at the games they were having the competitions on.

  
  

  17. I’ve never had one of those bubble tea thingys.  And I dunno… I’m not sure if I would enjoy one of those bubble tea thingys.  As an asian, I would bow my head even further in shame, but it’s already as low as it can get after those other two admissions above.

  
  

  18. I like movies and own a number of DVDs.  However, I’ve never seen minor, insignificant movies such as…

  
  

  
  
  • Any of The Godfather movies
    
  • Pulp Fiction
    
  • Silence of the Lambs
    
  • It’s A Wonderful Life
    
  • Taxi Driver
    
  • Any of the Harry Potter movies
    
  • Gone With The Wind
    
  • Schindler’s List
    
  • Casablanca

  
  

  …among many, many others.  Especially musicals and classic black and white films.  Musicals bug me.  I saw The Sixth Sense just a few months ago.  Also, I saw The Graduate on TV recently.  Boy, that sure did explain a number of scenes from Wayne’s World II!

  
  

  19.  I got new glasses a couple of months ago and how many people have noticed so far?  Zero.  That’s right, nobody.  I attribute this to one of the following:

  
  

  
  
  • They look similar to my old glasses (which they do, but not that much)
    
  • People don’t look at/pay attention to me enough to realize any differences
    
  • The look of my face distracts people from my change in glasses (this could be good or bad… but probably bad )

  
  

  I’m leaning towards number two.

  
  

  20. Today is my birthday.  I just turned… old.  Okay, that’s not correct… everyone knows I turned old years ago.

  
  

  Now, I get to tag people!  Muhahahahahaaaaaa!  Okay… let’s see…

  
  

  sydney_chickie, COMS_K, ramen_rider, petitekiu and dlordcletus cuz they never/hardly ever post anything anymore!  DOGGONE YOU PEOPLE!  It’s totally inexcusable to not post for like, seven months… cuz… uh… I would never do… something like… that… yeah.

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