25. Since starting at AIPD, I've found out how much I really really like programming, but I absolutely HATE everything else about school, especially GE classes. I hate homework, I hate tests, I hate getting up to go to school, I hate lectures, I hate projects, I hate retarded classmates, I hate bad teachers. If I could ONLY take programming classes and quickly get to my job, that would be awesome.

24. One of my best friends, Brice, is drawing my third tattoo, and I'm really excited to get this inked. I came up with the idea, and he tossed it out on paper like nothing. The guy is an awesome artist. This will be my most detailed, and consequently (but damn worth it) my most expensive tattoo.

23. One of the biggest reasons I want to be skinny is so I can dance like this Korean motherfucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=775bG3xWo_k -- I mean seriously, how ridiculously awesome is he?

22. I've been involved in two weddings: a ringboy when I was really young at my uncle's wedding, and a groomsman at my best friends Tina and Joe's wedding.

21. I am a martial artist, specifically in Eskrima, the Filipino martial art of stick/knife fighting. Eskrido (the combination of Jiu-Jitsu/Judo moves performed with Eskrima sticks) is my favorite thing to do.

20. While I don't really play any instruments anymore, surrounding myself with them is comforting. I have my bass guitar in my living room, my piano in my bedroom, and my acoustic guitar ready to go whenever I wanna grab it. I really, really miss my drumset though, as I couldn't take it up here with me (or play it even if I could have).

19. Top favorite videogames in no particular order: Halo/Halo 3 (no, I didn't really like Halo 2), Max Payne 1/2, Starcraft, and Mirror's Edge. As such, my top favorite videogame characters in no particular order: Master Chief, Max Payne, Ryu, and Faith.

18. I am extremely thankful for the fact that I have a really good set of friends up here in Oregon and back down in California. They are such awesome, and awesomely different groups of people.

17. Rob's been a friend since my sophomore year of high school, 2002. Somewhere along the line, he became one of my closest friends, and we've been brothers ever since.

16. I honestly, absolutely cannot wait til I'm actually working in my chosen career. I am looking forward to the stress, to the all-nighters, to the deadlines, to the head-on-desk bashing time I will spend making a freaking VIDEOGAME.

15. Toby will be the first and last pet I have as a single person. Once he goes, I will only get another dog if my wife or kids really want one. Otherwise, I really think my lifestyle is not suited to owning a dog. A cat maybe, but I'm never getting a cat.

14. I am a blade enthusiast. I have multiple folding knives, a couple fixed blades, a couple machetes, and someday hope to own a real daisho set -- a katana and a wakazashi.

13. Continuing from above, however, I would use my blades either only as tools or decoration. If I ever got into a fight, I would much rather use an eskrima stick or a baton, as I am being trained in that and feel that I would be much more dangerous and efficient with one (or two) of those.

12. By the end of this year, I will be an uncle! I am looking forward to spoiling that brat so bad, haha.

11. The end of February marks my first year living up in Oregon, living out of my parents' house, and living alone.

10. Neil Patrick Harris is my biggest mancrush. I LOVE his acting. The way he delivers his lines, all the little facial ticks/expressions he puts in for his characters, just every little thing he does. How I Met Your Mother is officially my favorite TV show of all time, and Dr. Horrible is my favorite musical of all time (which doesn't say much considering I don't like any other musicals besides Grease). And the man looks good in a suit. And if you search NPH on IMDB, his page comes up. How awesome is that?

9. For a person who has never ever taken public transportation for over half of my life, I am quite comfortable taking the MAX to school and back. But for some reason, I still don't like buses.

8. All my tattoos are in Latin. It started with "Veritas" from Boondock Saints, which means truth. Then I got "aevitas", which means life. The third one that I was talking about above will have "Omnia Vincit Amor", which means "Love conquers all."

7. One of my weekly activities is playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live with my cousin Kent. He's become one of my best friends since I moved up to Oregon. Despite our age difference, we have a very similar sense of humor. We love mocking all the people we kill in our fake viet fob accents and teabagging their corpses. Actually, my fake viet fob accent is second-hand. I took it from him, and he took it from his mom I believe.

6. My sleep schedule is completely whack. Throughout the week, I get around 4-6 hours of sleep per night, and then my body makes up for all of it at the end of the week when I get a free day and can sleep in. At that point, I am dead asleep for at least 10 hours, sometimes 12. The funny thing is that I have some friends whose normal amount of sleeps equals to 10 hours a night.

5. My diet consists of mostly chicken and salmon. That's all I really cook at home anymore. Rice, vegetables, and one of those. I eat that until I get sick of it, and then go out with my friends to Buffalo Wild Wings or some other restaurant, or I go out and get pho or Thai food by myself.

4. I think if I were to meet my next girlfriend somewhere, it'd be a coffee-shop/bookstore type of environment. However, I don't really like hanging out at those places unless I had a friend to sit and chat with. If I had more time and less responsibilities, I would love to sit out with a cup of coffee and a book to read though.

3. My condo feels more like home than my previous three houses have. The last house that really felt like home was my house on N. Hillview Drive in Milpitas. The Park Victoria house with the pool, the giant London house, and my parents Beaverton house, even with all of their perks, do not feel like "home" to me. I absolutely love my condo, I love being here, being home, relaxing in front of my tv, and having people over to hang out.

2. How I Met Your Mother really changed my life. From Ted's stories of his love life to Barney's ridiculous outlook on life to Marshall and Lily's ideal relationship, I've learned so much about myself and how I should be. Not because I want to act like them, but because the writers behind the show had some real lessons and bits of wisdom for me to think about underneath all the comedy. HIMYM helped me realize that the way I had been living my life was no way to live, and that trying to enjoy it despite any and all problems is the only way to survive. "When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story."

1. I love hugs. In high school, everybody got a hug from me, and everybody wanted a hug from me. Not in a creepy or sexual manner, but in just a comforting friendly way. I was raised in a very affectionate manner, I guess. I still hug my grandma everytime I see her, as well as all my aunts. I hug all my friends in Cali too. I've noticed people up in Oregon are much less affectionate in that manner. And yes, I do miss giving out hugs sometimes.