Interesting things you did not know about me Thread

[Sconnie]

I have sung in concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Appeared on regional and national TV and Radio.
I know Dec's family (as in Ant and Dec) and sang for his brother's ordination to the priesthood.
As a teenager I played Sunday afternoon football with Chris Waddle.
Went pub crawling in Newcastle with Gazza and mutual friends from Liverpool, in the eighties (think he was with Spurs at the time).

[Eljohno]

I thought i would start the thread for different reasons with who we have met that is famous being part of that but also that the Filipinos on here to share somethings also. Even if you think its not that important it could well be very interesting to the members on here.

Maybe you have a simple dream that you want to reach that you can share about.

It could be places that you have always wanted to visit.

One of the countries i always wanted to go to and thought was only a dream came true about 5 years ago when i went to Africa. I got to spend a couple of weeks in Burkina Faso & Ghana and it was everything i dreamed of and more. In a way it was like many in the Philippines who struggle from day to day but yet always smiling.

[scott&ligaya]

you are so right John,
I always find great interest in the goings on in the farm at Ligaya's place. I wanted to join the men doing "TANGLE" clever way of diverting the main river for irrigation, drive the KULIG LIG or hand tractor and pump the water with the big hand pump. I find her neighbours interesting and the kids great fun... even when they catch this big flying beetle and then use it as a toy by tying fishing wire round the beetles body but leaving the wings free to wizz around.

I also get amazed when we are hiking one time on Lamma island just off Hong Kong and Ligaya starts picking wierd fruits, berries and flowers and explains each one to me. I might have a couple of degrees but her "knowledge" is fascinating to me and her "common sense" far outweighs mine. I think this a trait of all our asawas.. great common sense and an ability to pick up just about anything you put in front of them

Come on ladies don't put yourselfs down.. you're amazing

[Eljohno]

you are so right John,
I always find great interest in the goings on in the farm at Ligaya's place. I wanted to join the men doing "TANGLE" clever way of diverting the main river for irrigation, drive the KULIG LIG or hand tractor and pump the water with the big hand pump. I find her neighbours interesting and the kids great fun... even when they catch this big flying beetle and then use it as a toy by tying fishing wire round the beetles body but leaving the wings free to wizz around.

I also get amazed when we are hiking one time on Lamma island just off Hong Kong and Ligaya starts picking wierd fruits, berries and flowers and explains each one to me. I might have a couple of degrees but her "knowledge" is fascinating to me and her "common sense" far outweighs mine. I think this a trait of all our asawas.. great common sense and an ability to pick up just about anything you put in front of them

Come on ladies don't put yourselfs down.. you're amazing

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!!

I believe every member on here has some interesting things that has happened to them or have a dream of what they would like to do or places they would like to go?

So if you are normally shy then this is the time to come out of your shell.

[scott&ligaya]

ok what have I done that might be of interest

Decorated by the Queen

Escorted the Queen Mother to RACE MEETINGS several times, very gracious lady

Survived the tsunami (jogging on beach 30 minutes before it hit Bali)

Used to play rugby against Prince Andrew (dirty player)

Donated bone marrow in 2001, recipient is in Canada and is still healthy.

[aposhark]

.......but her "knowledge" is fascinating to me and her "common sense" far outweighs mine. I think this a trait of all our asawas.. great common sense and an ability to pick up just about anything you put in front of them

Come on ladies don't put yourselfs down.. you're amazing

Yes Scott, I have her common sense to witness every day soon.

There's something mesmorising about our Filipinas......::

[Eljohno]

ok what have I done that might be of interest

Decorated by the Queen

Escorted the Queen Mother to RACE MEETINGS several times, very gracious lady

Survived the tsunami (jogging on beach 30 minutes before it hit Bali)

Used to play rugby against Prince Andrew (dirty player)

Donated bone marrow in 2001, recipient is in Canada and is still healthy.

Well done on the bone marrow i heard its painful

Wow you were actually there on the beach just before it hit Bali? When it hit where on the island where you??

You are the first person i have chatted with to be near where it hit, frightening!!

[scott&ligaya]

I was actually up the hill a couple of hundred yards in Starbucks. Bali was not too crazy comopared to Aceh and other areas but still a very unnerving experience. Later that day I spoke to some divers who were in the ocean at the time and ended up nearly a mile from their dive boat but all okay.

[Jay&Zobel]

[QUOTE=Eljohno;127091]Thought i would start a thread where people can post interesting things that might have happened to them or someone they know.

Maybe you appeared on a tv show, played a certain sport for your country/county/region, maybe you got an award you are proud of or it can just be something quirky?


QUOTE]


lol...
When I was in Gradeschool, I joined lots of school competitions/events and won the following:
Colgate Best Perfect Teeth
Essay Competitions & Spelling Bees
Girls' Chess Events: 1st
And a consistent honour student
and others lol

Highschool...
I lost the spark Was bullied and intimidated hahaha

College:
Doing well

After College:
I flunked Certified Public Accountants Board Exams hehehe


Now:
I am a wife & a mother - whooohooo BEST ACHIEVEMENTS EVER!!!!

[Eljohno]

[quote=Jay&Zobel;127795]

Thought i would start a thread where people can post interesting things that might have happened to them or someone they know.

Maybe you appeared on a tv show, played a certain sport for your country/county/region, maybe you got an award you are proud of or it can just be something quirky?


QUOTE]


lol...
When I was in Gradeschool, I joined lots of school competitions/events and won the following:
Colgate Best Perfect Teeth
Essay Competitions & Spelling Bees
Girls' Chess Events: 1st
And a consistent honour student
and others lol

Highschool...
I lost the spark Was bullied and intimidated hahaha

College:
Doing well

After College:
I flunked Certified Public Accountants Board Exams hehehe


Now:
I am a wife & a mother - whooohooo BEST ACHIEVEMENTS EVER!!!!

Do you still play chess? It is a game i have never played much and was better at checkers..

Being a mum is a great thing which i am sure you get loads of pleasure and a wife can be hard work especially when married to guys from Uk/Ireland

[Jay&Zobel]

[QUOTE=Eljohno;127826]

Do you still play chess? It is a game i have never played much and was better at checkers..

Yes I still play chess from time to time. Prevents my brain from being rusty lol... You should try sometime... It's fun!

[QUOTE=Eljohno;127826]

Being a mum is a great thing which i am sure you get loads of pleasure and a wife can be hard work especially when married to guys from Uk/Ireland

I couldn't agree more

[irobot]

Irobot..." Sunny...Different From The Rest... "

Hi Again Friends... Firstly no I am not Johnny Rotten Robot...he he he, and it is a shame Clevedon Main School is remebered for this.But as far as I saw it done the best with what it had. But it is all part of History now...I got an A+ in Hotwiring...

When I was younger we went to Cornwall on our holidays to a tiny fishing cove with the classic thatched roofed cottages call Cadwith Cove, Near The Lizard... and I met and it was my very first pub lock in weeeeee!!! even though I was on orange juice and packets of crisps at the time and the host was Rodney Bewes... from the Likely Lads T.V. show, he owned a fisherman's cottage there...Phil...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/likelylads/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ho...s-holiday.html

[Sim11UK]

Irobot..." Sunny...Different From The Rest... "

Hi Again Friends... Firstly no I am not Johnny Rotten Robot...he he he, and it is a shame Clevedon Main School is remebered for this.But as far as I saw it done the best with what it had. But it is all part of History now...I got an A+ in Hotwiring...

Hi Irobot it was quite a status symbol to say Sid Vicious went to our school.
I thought they were a great band...Just a pity his life turned out, the way it did.

[joebloggs]

I thought they were a great band...Just a pity his life turned out, the way it did.

I didn't like them, i liked the more melodic superior Manc band, The Buzzcocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1vQPEBlnI

[Sim11UK]

I didn't like them, i liked the more melodic superior Manc band, The Buzzcocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1vQPEBlnI

Yes a great band Joe. ...My all time favourites, were another Manc band...The Smiths

[joebloggs]

Yes a great band Joe. ...My all time favourites, were another Manc band...The Smiths

I've walked passed 'Salford boys club' many times on my way home from college..( live about 3 miles away from it)

i'm sure johnny marr must have been influenced a lot by the buzzcocks

[joebloggs]

talking about the smiths, that brings back a memory, my misses mom is/was head of a department at Palawan state uni, and many years ago, she had a class on a Saturday, and i started chatting to some of her students on-line,. and i asked one of them what music they listened to they said 'the smiths'

so there is at least one pinoy somewhere in the phils listening to ' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want'

[Florge]

hmmm... I am currently a movie star???? LOL... and I am the only one watching my movies... LOL... ergo, I'm the only one that thinks I'm famous!

[Tawi2]

Newbie,just joined today,interesting things about me?Followed the Marco Polo silk-route when I was 19,overland through europe to China,did most of the journey alone Stayed with the Badjao once in Sulu&Jolo for 3 months,including going "Back-door" to Sabah one night with a boatful of Pinays/pinoys going to Malaysia to work illegallySaw the secondary eruptions of Mayon back in 1993.Been in Jackie Chans "Drunken masters 2"also was in a lager advert in Hong Kong even though I am teetotal Climbed the highest Mountain in South East asia Mt Kinabalu,also been to the Himalayas,Hindu Kush,Pamirs,Karakorams etc,few other bits'and'pieces but I have only been back in the UK from pinas for a few days,my heads still mush,jet-lagged

[Piamed]

HAHA! I really liked the Smiths. The boy with the thorn in his side was great. No idea what it was about though!

[keithAngel]

I drank tea with the Eldest Grandson of Chiang Kai Shek on the Burma border 5 years ago

[Tawi2]

I shook hands with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala,never had a cuppa chai with the old guy though but I did get to spin some of the prayer wheels though(sadly my wishes werent answered,Jennifer Lopez married some other guy)

[Sim11UK]

talking about the smiths, that brings back a memory, my misses mom is/was head of a department at Palawan state uni, and many years ago, she had a class on a Saturday, and i started chatting to some of her students on-line,. and i asked one of them what music they listened to they said 'the smiths'

so there is at least one pinoy somewhere in the phils listening to ' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want'

Haha! I'm sure all the troubled youth of the Philippines listen to The Smiths.

Yeah many bands have cited the Buzzcocks as a major influence.


To the starter of this thread...Eljohno, it's a special day for him, he is 40today HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[joebloggs]

To the starter of this thread...Eljohno, it's a special day for him, he is 40today HAPPY BIRTHDAY

and it's happy birthday 2 me, 2 people remembered, they sent me cards

i don't want to be reminded i'm a year older

[Sim11UK]

and it's happy birthday 2 me, 2 people remembered, they sent me cards

i don't want to be reminded i'm a year older

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to you too Joe, our favourite Manc...would you care to reveal how old?

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS! to pacificelectric & nhic-nhic as well.

[Pepe n Pilar]

and it's happy birthday 2 me, 2 people remembered, they sent me cards

i don't want to be reminded i'm a year older

Happy Birthday Joebloggs..

[joebloggs]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to you too Joe, our favourite Manc...would you care to reveal how old?

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS! to pacificelectric & nhic-nhic as well.

younger than you

thou i'm not saying by how much, a gentleman never reveals his age

[misscarie]

Before i iron my baby's clothes ... let me greet you a Happy Happy Birthday Joe

[Eljohno]

Haha! I'm sure all the troubled youth of the Philippines listen to The Smiths.

Yeah many bands have cited the Buzzcocks as a major influence.


To the starter of this thread...Eljohno, it's a special day for him, he is 40today HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Thanks for your birthday wish, just when i was getting used to being 30 i have turned 40

[Jay&Zobel]

Painom na mga pre! lol

HAPPY BDAY TO YOU BOTH!