One hundred things about me:

1. I love that I was born on the first day of spring;
2. I was born in the year of the metal rooster: nineteen eighty one to be exact;
3. My ruling hours are those of the rooster: 5-7pm;
4. I love monkeys; Kitty was born in the year before me: the year of the metal monkey;
5. Kitty and I have been together since I was fifteen; and we’re still going crazy strong;
6. I watch minimal television, I’ve probably watched less than five hours of television in the last six months;
7. I listen to a lot of music, probably about five hours every evening, and all day Saturday and Sunday;
8. I use the internet a lot, probably about three hours a day: I love rss feeds and i subscribe to about one hundred;
9. I love plants that look good and are easy going: mainly succulents and frangipani trees;
10. I dislike cliches, idioms and most puns; I usually cringe when I hear one;
11. I eat meat whilst Kitty is a vegetarian; we accept each others decisions;
12. I don’t drink much; maybe a beer once a fortnight;
13. I love reading novels, mostly modern American thrillers;
14. I love open-source, open standards and creative commons, also Ubuntu;
15. I really dislike d.r.m;
16. I went to a private school and was the only male in my year in both the top-maths and top-english class (there were only three males out of thirty in the top english class);
17. I try to continually expand the right side of my brain;
18. When ever I listen to my ipod using just one earbud, it’s always in my left ear: feeding the right side of my brain;
19. I can’t pee at a urinal;
20. I prefer to have a few deep relationships than a lot of shallow ones with friends;
21. I work in IT; I say I don’t like what I do but I secretly do;
22. I love street art, but hate tagging and graffiti;
23. I choose to rent over choosing to buy;
24. I make most of the art in our apartment, Kitty makes the rest;
25. My favourite font is Georgia;
26. I hate excess and waste, therefore I hate microsoft office, openoffice is just as good;
27. I hate inconsistency;
28. I drive a clean diesel car that is fuel efficient, less emissive and still powerful;
29. I love Japanese built cars: my dream car is a lexus, but Kitty thinks they’re way too conservative;
30. I wouldn’t ever like to work for a casino or a bank; I think they cause way too many social problems;
31. I hate poker machines with a passion; I would love if every single one of them was blown up;
32. I like writing in green pen, metallic violet is good too;
33. I don’t have any debt, I pay off my credit card every month and it feels good;
34. I save half of what I earn, but still manage to have fun;
35. I don’t like receiving presents, but gifts mean a lot to K so I’m working on it;
36. I love Vietnamese food, especially rice paper rolls and salads: I would be happy eating these most nights of the week;
37. I get angry when people don’t keep left when driving;
38. I am six foot five and a half and wear size fifteen shoes; I buy my shoes mostly from America via eBay;
39. I still use products from The Body Shop, even though it’s now owned by L’oreal. I really like their men’s fragrances;
40. I buy the Big Issue every fortnight off Greg in Brisbane; we have a chat most days during the week;
41. I love traveling but I also love hanging at home;
42. I’m addicted to information: I read three to four newspapers every weekend which bugs me because that’s a lot of paper;
43. I’m fairly superstitious: I was once saw a lone magpie and was freaking out for weeks;
44. I always try to say cheers when starting a meal with family/friends;
45. I dislike personalised number plates;
46. I try to remain open to new ideas and things, but cut-off jeans will never be okay;
47. I’m still not sure if ignorance is bliss;
48. Kitty clips my hair at home using a number three Wahl, I’m going grey too;
49. I have three tattoos on my lower arms: an @, a speech bubble and an airplane;
50. I don’t show off my tattoos at work; I’ve never actually worn a short sleeve short to work; my choice;
51. We have a mat in our lounge room which we use for krumping at home;
52. One day we might have kid(s) but I don’t want to be a parent who loses their identity and just talks about their kids;
53. I have four email addresses including my work one;
54. I lived in Canberra for over three years but struggled because I love hot weather and sunshine;
55. I am the youngest of four boys;
56. I eat crazy fast: most likely because my older brothers used to steal my food;
57. I have a large scar on my forehead where one of my brothers (accidently) hit me with a golf club when I was a small kid;
58. I bite my nails: it’s a disgusting habit;
59. One day I want a koi pond, but we currently live in an apartment;
60. The only time I ever have stayed in hospital (besides being born) was backpacking in Ireland in 1999 when I got the worst food poisoning of my life;
61. I don’t like Christmas day; family dramas always prevail;
62. I don’t drink coffee, but love tea, especially when made using loose leaves in a pot;
63. I can drink really hot drinks, without burning my mouth;
64. My head is so big literally, that I have trouble finding hats to fit;
65. My favourite colour is blue;
66. I don’t wear any jewelery besides my platinum wedding band; watches have a strangling effect on me;
67. I’m allergic to penicillin and erythromycin, which makes it hard to find an antibiotic that actually works;
68. I love watching movies, but have fairly bland taste;
69. I have a very small amount of facial hair so I can’t grow a beard;
70. I don’t have chest or back hair;
71. I choose the car whenever I play monopoly;
72. I secretly like cats;
73. I swear quite a bit, but only in context;
74. I am scared of bogans and living in the burbs;
75. I find CAPS LOCK offensive;
76. I currently live 50 meters from a seven-eleven: bliss;
77. I prefer slow cooked, lightly fried eggs: not flipped;
78. I love sliced wholemeal bread with sesame seeds;
79. I have trouble getting to sleep, but never staying asleep;
80. I like pastel colours and dislike fluoro colours;
81. I am frightened of swooping birds, particularly plovers;
82. I don’t watch sport. This makes hanging out with blokes awkward; kitty loves it;
83. I like architecture, old buildings, and old bricks;
84. I love fresh flowers;
85. I fear monobrows: I maintain my ‘middle bit’ regularly;
86. I like playing board games, but need more people to play with;
87. I am addicted to threadless t-shirts: I’ve bought about fifty;
88. I read a lot about economics, but still don’t understand it;
89. I don’t like discs: i’ve converted all our music and most of our dvds to digital files;
90. I own four printers; a mono laser, a colour laser, a printer/scanner combo (cheaper than a scanner) and a mini photo printer;
91. I love incense: my favourite is nag champa;
92. I own two sets of creature speakers, my favourite gadget ever;
93. I love lamps; we have about ten in our place;
94. I like op-shops, but they all smell really weird and make me itchy;
95. I too have the male one-channel brain, Homer Simpson “can’t talk, eating” thing, which shits Kitty;
96. I always try to let ladies into a lift first;
97. Walking towards closing lift doors makes me feel awkward, I usually hold back or look the other way;
98. I believe that most disagreements can be resolved with an arm-wrestle;
99. I only recently started to like the Beatles; and
100. Kitty and I have a lot of nicknames for one another; some of her nicknames for me include Pony, Shuk, Slappy (the seal), Bud, Buddy, and Pones.