- hetalia_penpals has such a wonderful concept behind it. Getting to meet people from all around the world, learning about cultures, getting to use awesome stationary, adding friends to your LJ and flailing about Hetalia? It couldn't get better than this. I'm adding my own post soon~
- Been obsessed with the Winter Olympics like whoah. Well, mostly the ice skating bits and whatever comes on whenever I turn on my TV. I kind of almost want to see a nation that nobody expected ever to win the medal count, though. Like Canada, or Spain, or even Brazil or something like that. It's always the same feud between the Russians and the Americans, and the Germans kicking ass alongside. I get a little tired of it. On a random kind of depressing but nonetheless hilariously cute note, I found out that Costa Rica has only won three Olympic medals. Ever. And that was for swimming with the same two sisters who aren't even Costa Ricans by birth or by ethnicity. orz.
- I sometimes wonder why my parents chose to live in such a cramped space in the city when there's so many beautiful areas in the mountains to build a little house on. The one place that I went to today was absolutely breathtaking. Granted, it's significantly more expensive, but still. And... then again, my house is actually pretty decent and nice compared to other areas around San Pedro and I even have a flowering tree and christophenes outside of my window. Yeah, shutting up now. XD
- What's not cool though is mosquitoes. Gah. They're all over the place around this time and I've been itchy and it's nasty.
- Oh! And Robles de Sabana are flowering now. They're special.
- I found some old pictures from about three years ago back when I was taking tango lessons and I've lost a lot of weight since then! In fact, some of the shirts and jeans that I wear now are so ridiculously loose on me. :D
- My brother has this neat little book called Numbers which contains hilarious, surprising and sometimes downright depressing statistics. I thought I'd share some with you guys. Have to warn you though, most of them aren't innocent at all and I don't mean to offend anyone with them. Oh yeah, and the authors are British, in case anyone is wondering why he picks on the Brits so much. But the best part is some of them even scream Hetalia. XD
- Number of fast food outlets in the USA: 300,000 o
- Percentage of US males that live of a diet almost exclusively of beer and fast food: 34
- Number of times the average Briton has sex in his or her life: 2,580
- Average length of sex in the UK: 21 minutes (compare to 30 minutes in Brazil and 14 minutes in Italy /nosebleeds
- Average number of sexual partners each Briton as in a lifetime: between 5 and 9
- Average number of times French people have sex every year: 130 (the most in Europe) /nosebleeds even more
- Number of times people have sex around the world every day: 120 million
- Amount of money spent in Britain by men buying things to say sorry to their partners: 18 billion dollars
- Percentage of ex-Londoners who had more sex as a result of moving to the countryside: 41
- Percentage of the UK population that is drunk at any one time: 0.7
- Minutes per day the average German laughs: 6
- Minutes per day the average Italian laughs: 19 /oh lol
- Percentage of British males who believe in aliens: 58
- Number of spiders we eat accidently at night in an average lifetime: 8
- Number of calories you burn every hour by banging your head against a wall: 150
- Percentage of people who have stolen something in their lives: 42
- If Barbie were human, she'd be 7 feet 2 inches tall, with a neck twice as long as normal and the measurements 39-23-33
- Percentage of Britons who sleep naked: 51
- Square feet of forest lost in Central America for every quarter-pound hamburger produced: 55
- Percentage of the American gross domestic product that is accounted for by lawsuit: 2.3 (721 dollars per American)
- Number of British people who volunteer some of their time: 23 million
- Percentage that tea makes up of the average intake of fluids in the UK: 42
- Amount the US government borrows every day: $1.35 billion
- Percentage of Americans who have appeared on TV: 25
- Number of floppy disks British Telecom estimates can store a digital version of every experience in an 80-year life:
7,142,857,142,860,000. /oh wow
- Number of different relationships that Hallmark makes cards for: 105
- Estimated numbers of languages used in the world: about 6,000
-Amount of soap used by Europeans every year: 200,000 tons
- Average number of different kinds of soap most Japanese women have at home at any one time: 30
- Miles of spaghetti eaten by the average Italian every year: 82
- Americans who claim that have been abducted by aliens: 3.7 million
- Number of verses in the Greek national anthem: 158
And there's so many more but I kinda burned myself out after that.
Oh, and before I forget again.
Day 03 → Your favorite television show
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 3 - Your favorite television show
I don't watch a lot of TV now, but I did back in the day. Ocassionally, I'll tune in to some series I used to be a loyal follower of like Grey's Anatomy or CSI or Friends or something like that. But I do enjoy historical series.
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Day 4 - Your favorite book
I don't have a favorite! XD Sorry. But I do love the Harry Potter series, any Phillipa Greggory book, and random reads that I find around the house or that friends recommend. If I have to name one...A Respectable Trade by Phillipa Greggory.
Day 5 - Your favorite quote
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimmy Hendrix.
Powerful, powerful quote that I heard during a Shakira concert, actually. XD I guess it's just my own little way of reassuring myself that almost all things can be done if people are moved by them. That's how powerful love is.