I just realized that I exceeded 100 posts to this blog while this one languished in its incomplete state in my Drafts folder. What blogger has the attention span to write 100 facts about themselves in one sitting? I made this list over time, and had forgotten about it.

Doing a “Top 100″ or a “100 things about me” list is pretty common for the 100th post. I’ve already passed 114 posts. Just pretend that 15 of my posts are utter crap and not worth reading.

Okay, there are a few gems in this list, but you’re going to have to click through to read them. I’m not going to blast the front page with 1634 words. Yes, that means you too JoJo. I know you never click on “Read the rest of this entry” when you’re blog-hopping, but this is too good to pass up.

• I love pasta. When I make pasta, I don’t stop eating until it disappears.
• I love sushi. I don’t stop eating until it disappears.
• I taught myself how to cook when I was a teenager.
• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored and made a Boston creme pie from scratch.
• I only eat eggs scrambled, in an omelette, as part of a breakfast sandwich, or as an ingredient in baking.
• But I still know how to make the perfect hard boiled egg.
• I never liked Korean food.
• One time, my parents smuggled Burger King into a Korean restaurant and made me eat it under the table.
• I was always messing with my dad’s cameras as a little boy. I eventually took a photography class in high school, learned how to shoot, develop, and print my own B&W pictures.
• I discovered the guitar and photography took a backseat for a long time.
• In high school, I discovered hair metal. Then I discovered metal metal, like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Iron Maiden.
• My favorite band for the longest time was Led Zeppelin. When I first heard Dream Theater, it was all over. I even had to get a tattoo and named one of my cats after the drummer.
• I used to work at a music store. I hated it. I quit playing guitar while I worked there. Picked it back up a few years later.
• Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Patsy Cline are my favorite female country singers. They won’t make the Maxim Top 100 (or the top 10,000 for that matter), proving that I really like country music and I’m not just in it for the babes.
• I love country music, especially the old stuff.
• I play a mean blues guitar, and thus, love that genre too.
• I can’t play jazz very well, but I enjoy listening to it.
• Best concert ever: Tie. Every Dream Theater concert I’ve been to.
• Other great concerts I’ve been to: Guns’n’Roses and Soundgarden, New Year’s Eve 1991, 28th row; Metallica, 5th “layer” of people in the general admission section right by the stage;
• When I was in 5th grade, I never admitted that I liked Madonna. All the guys said, “if you like Madonna, you’re gay. I listen to Motley Crue.” I was gay because I liked a woman and these guys were manly men because they liked a bunch of men dressed up like women?
• Instruments I can make noise on that resembles music: guitar, bass, piano, mandolin, violin, cello, upright bass, saxophone, drums, recorder.
• I love Broadway musicals. I’ve seen Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats.
• The musical I’d most like to see is Chess.
• My favorite movie of all time is The Sound of Music. I’ll never get sick of watching it.
• I want to make play clothes for my children out of the old drapes in the governess’ bedroom.
• The first two DVDs I ever bought were The Sound of Music and The Princess Bride.

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• I’ve never purchased a TV in my life, yet I’ve had as many as 5 in my possession at once.
• I’d rather wait to buy the Family Guy DVDs instead of watching the episodes on TV.
• I have tattoos, all of which are invisible in business attire.
• I joined the Zeta Psi fraternity in college.
• I didn’t graduate from college, but not because I partied. I was burned out on school and felt like I was living someone else’s life.
• I bought a digital camera so I could sell stuff on eBay. It rekindled my interest in photography.
• I currently use a Nikon D80 with an assortment of lenses and lighting gear.
• I am dying to do some shooting with my old Nikon film SLR to prove that I can do special effects without Photoshop.
• As a child, I could speak Korean well enough to fill the communication needs of a 7 year old. That ability has been lost.. And replaced with the ability to speak Spanish well enough to get my ass kicked in Little Havana.
• I had 2 Swedish girls as roommates once.

Oh wait. You’re reading a blog. You can take a bathroom break or grab another cold one from the fridge and pick up right where you left off. You can do it as often as you want. If you have a laptop, you don’t even have to miss the action. Take it with you into the bathroom and continue reading.

Sense to Save shares her tips for saving on maternity wear.

• The easiest way to annoy me is to try and have a conversation with me from the other room. Talk to me face to face please.
• I served as President of my Toastmasters club.
• Diet Pepsi.
• Guinness… At room temperature.
• All dark beers should be enjoyed at room temperature.
• I take my coffee with cream and sugar.
• I like my scotch neat or with a little water. Brings out the complex bouquet of flavors.
• Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
• Most of the time, I’m drinking water.
• I’m a part-time vegetarian. The longest I went without eating meat was a 2 week stretch. I usually go a few days here and there.
• It’s comforting to know that Guinness fits within a vegan lifestyle.
• Reasons I won’t go vegan: cheese, butter, real dairy creamer for my coffee, gelato, a good Philly cheese steak from within the city’s boundaries, Texas BBQ, sushi, the orange chicken at Panda Express,
• I prefer meat without bones. I make an exception for buffalo wings and the occasional plate of baby back ribs.
• The spicier the better. Did you know that spicy food gives you an endorphin rush?

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. A list of 100 things is a long list. We need a break at the midway point. Did you enjoy the halftime performance by Google AdSense?

• I can write and draw with both hands simultaneously in mirror image.
• I was born left-handed, but my parents held on to just enough of their traditional Korean values to “correct it.”
• My sister writes with her left hand, but she does everything else right-handed.
• I play basketball left-handed, but shoot right-handed.
• I play golf right handed… And very poorly.
• I can play tennis equally bad left handed as I do right handed.
• I’ve always wanted to learn how to do something left-handed OK and be kick-ass at it right handed so I can use that line from the movie, The Princess Bride.
• I know enough about most sports to fake it during conversations about sports. Follow one sport closely enough (hockey) and you can pull it off.
  My dream job would be as a starting goalie for an NHL team.
• My realistic dream job would be photographer and blogger. The only change I have to make is to make money at doing those things.
• I was on the varsity wrestling team in high school

Don’t you just hate how commercial breaks happen with increasing frequency during the last, nail-biting, suspenseful half of a show.

Discovering Dad has a great post about a first-time dads over 40. It’s a guest post by Sean Sharp . He had his first child at age 43.

• I proposed to my kindergarten teacher.
• A certain Van Halen song got stuck in my head during 10th grade English class.
• I got all A’s and B’s until high school.
• I don’t know how to play poker.
• I’m a chess hack.
• I’m a formidable Scrabble opponent.
• I’m downright scary at backgammon.
• I love Star Trek and Star Wars, but not much else in the way of sci-fi/fantasy. I’m totally Bored of the Rings.
• My first encounter with white water rapids was solo in a canoe. I loved it.
• The first time I drove a motorcycle, it was a rice rocket. I did it without a helmet before the laws changed.
• I once found myself staring down the business end of an M16. It was a case of mistaken identity.
• I’ve never broken a bone.
• My Tae Kwon Do training was from the source – at a school in Korea.
• Before you think I could kick your ass, It’s been over 20 years since I trained in Tae Kwon Do.
• I can type over 80 WPM.
• States I have lived in: FL, MD
• States I have been to, not counting airport layovers: FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, WV, DE, TN, MD, PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA, IL, CA
• Countries I have been to, not counting airport layovers: USA, South Korea, Italy, The Vatican, Bahamas, certain parts of Miami.
• Favorite airport: Zurich, Switzerland.
• Least favorite airport: Miami International Airport
• I only need to drive from Boston to the Maine/Canada border to have driven on every inch of I95.

There you have it. 100 random facts about me.

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