Some Quirks

Teeth obsession
Creepy Crap and Floss Your Way Out Of Pain sound familiar? I go crazy whenever I feel pain in my jaw or inside my mouth. The urge to go to Tita Mayang (my superstar dentist—she used to be Janice de Belen’s antagonist in Flor de Luna) is so hard to fight. After installing my onlay vectris turgis last week, we pinky-promised that I’d whiten my teeth with her after I get rich.

Gum injections, anyone?
Tita Mayang has a way of injecting anaesthesia that is completely painless. Since I was a kid she’d use the baby dental needle. She always keeps me distracted with her Video Sunglasses (it looks like a pair of sunglasses but has screens inside). God but my unforgettable dental moment was when I felt a needle up my nose. Ick.

I read magazines from back to front
I’m a quarter Japanese. It’s totally justified.

I can survive eating my mom’s lasagna for a week
Leftovers are heaven—especially my mom’s lasagna with its two-sauce goodness of tomatoes and cream. So when my brother and I move out of here, we know what we’ll be eating all the time. It’s cold milk and tasteless cereal in the morning and pasta and sauce for lunch and dinner.

Face recognition and comparison
All my life I’ve been told that I resemble Sunshine Dizon (so-and-so number of pounds ago). Since then, I’ve had done research on faces. In the course of my Googling I’ve found out that each person looks similarly to six other people. So there are seven people in the world who resemble each other.

So at yesterday’s funeral, I’ve been at it again—face recognition and comparison I mean. My friend is showing me the photo of his American girlfriend who just rings the bell for Fraulein Maria/Julie Andrews. I had to stop myself from gagging.