my apologies to my friend bren who asked me to do this. see, it was only the other day that i learned she tagged me to make an entry on 20 random facts about myself. i haven't been into blogging lately due to, ok i admit, laziness, hence this delayed response. i could have chosen to ignore bren's tag (pretend i never read her blog) but i think i owe it to her to do this, being a good friend that she was back in college.

1. my name is gladyz. anyone who thinks i just spell my name with a 'z' at the end because it's funkier that way is free to look at my birth certificate and validate. I have never met anyone whose name is spelled exactly as mine and that makes me feel so special in this world.

2. my name in welsch means lame, and I am. if you count the number of times i get bumped, papercut and scratched in the last five years and multiply each by hundred bucks, I'd probably be a millionaire now. no kidding.

3. my legs get itchy when i walk or jog  a long distance. a medical mystery to me. 

4. i love the sprinkled freckles on my arms, makes me feel like I'm a weasley kin.

5. i have small hands and i have this grand illusion that e.e. cummings wrote this line for me 'nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands' (from somewhere i have never traveled).

6. unlike bren, i am a non-alcoholic. i have never consumed a single bottle of beer without mixing water or sprite on it. i do not like milk or orange juice either. but anytime, you have an afternoon tea party, i'm up for it. i'm british that way.

7. i am a sale slut. my best finds usually came from the discounted item racks.

8. i am a sushi monster. my constant craving for sushi was born not when i was in japan. it was when i moved to california that i started to have a regular weekly dose of sushi rolls. and, it doesn't help that we currently live across a japanese restaurant.

9.  i do not have a sense of brand loyalty (except for head and shoulders) so i am the best target consumer for product advertisements. i try whatever appeals to my senses. and with pride, i say, that this attitude has led me to many important 'discoveries' from grocery stores. 

10. in the past two years, i couldn't remember being extremely mad at someone or something. not that i actually want to get angry. i'm just proud of how i become a calm and forgiving person that i am now (as opposed to what i was in my younger years).

so there you have my random facts. now it's my time to tag everyone in my link - d, meds, mel, suyin and bong (whenever he is ready to revive his blog. no pressures though).