Thirty Three

Thanks, Ms.Claudineski, for the tag.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I have lots of ideas. Waking up having your family's around, reading a book, being with a girl I really love to be with, food and conversations, being in church, having my band around me with or without on stage. and a hundred more.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Heights, guns, having the breaking point in a certain grave situation, earthquake and losing your identity and the capacity to lose ideas.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Madami. But I think the ability to listen to others is one I could think of.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
The way they make me laugh.

5. What is your greatest extravagance?
Music and books. I mostly think less twice when it comes to those things. Clothes... hmm.. i guess you could put it on the list as well.

6. What do you consider as the most overrated virtue?
Honesty. I guess because I have a notion that almost everybody lies.

7. On what occasion do you lie?
When I ran out of excuses.

8. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
If I could really name one, and I hope the Heavens will forgive me by stating this, my nose. BUT if there's a chance I could improve it, then why not.

9. Which living person do you most despise?
None. Despising someone is really something awful. It's like despising yourself as well.

10. What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to reason with things or someone.

11. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Their ability to accept their own emotions as it is.

12. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Wasak. Basag. Tangna. Indeed. Absolutely. Splendid. Hehe. Kumusta. Certainly.


13. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My family, the immediate ones or the relatives. As long as they're my family, that's cool with me. My bandmates. The little members of our household, Vodka and Donatello. And my friends, wherever they are or whoever they are now as time goes by.

14. When and where were you happiest?
When I am on stage performing original songs.

15. Which talent would you most like to have?
Is healing a talent? If it does, then count that in. Healing in general.

16. If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?
My physique. I want it lean and a bit muscular. Built for stamina and agility.

17. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Small things which I rather forgotten now. But not directly. I believe that through the course of someone's life, you actually did something small for the greater humanity or for someone you know. It does not matter wheather it's a suprise cake you gave or a consoling hug or the prayer you whispered to someone you may or may not know. As long as it's something good, I considered a great achievement. Awards are not achievements, for me. They are acknowledgements. The real achievement is something YOU alone acknowledges it. Either to yourself or to a small group of people like your family.

18. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I'd like to be myself again in a different timeline. That would be something awesome.


19. Where would you most like to live?
I'd still love to be here where I was born. I dunno, I guess it's a comfort zone thing. It's a great experience having snow but not all the time. Likewise on rains and summer breezes.


20. What is your most treasured possession?
Books, my two electric guitars, a few photos and the songs I composed.


21. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
When the tiniest of hopes are gone.


22. What is your favorite occupation?
If I could be paid just by reading books with no specific deadlines and performing on stage with my band to a less strict crowd, then that would be it!


23. What is your most marked characteristic?
Ask my family and friends about it. I rarely look at my innerself on a mirror.


24. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty, trust, humor, compassion and understanding.

25. Who are your favorite writers?
Mario Puzo, Agatha Christie, Mitch Albom, Jose Saramago, Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, Vayie De Leon, Jim Paredes, Matthew Pearl, Conrado De Quiros, Michael Crichton and J.K. Rowling


26. Who is your hero of fiction?
Don Vito Corleone


27. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
So far, I haven't considered someone yet. That's how unique I am, I guess.


28. Who are your heroes in real life?
My Family. Bandmates. Jim Paredes. Jose Rizal. Winnie Monsod.


29. What are your favorite names?
Indira. Anthea. Ruidzi. Ponciano. Jean. Salawikain. Lualhati. Hercule. Ralph (as in Ralph Feinnes). Kalawakan. Intramuros


30. What is it that you most dislike?
Contradiction and on the duality of life. But they are also the things that matters in life.


31. What is your greatest regret?
Telling someone you love her and only to find out that she doesn't feel the same way but you should understand that love doesn't go the way you want it to. And NOT telling someone you love her but only to find out that she feels the same way too little too late.


32. How would you like to die?
As I sleep and when I'm already on my 80th age. No pain. and already fulfilled of all the missions and the things I ought to contribute in life.


33. What is your motto?
Things aren't always what they're seem. Reason with people.


And now, I'd like to tag Diana Jean De Belen, Vayie De Leon, Indira Margareth Parayno, Mark Zuckerberg, Barney Stinson, Ted Mosby, Acey Jayssan and Joshua Nutribuns