25 Random Things About Me

Pardon the pink font color, I just can't help it.  Hehehe.

1.  I have two names- Sharon Beaulah.  I rarely use my second name - the exceptions being official documents, exam papers, and my Yahoo  - because it always gets misspelled or mispronounced, making me cringe every time either happens.  For everyday dealings, I use my first name and my surname, and I like it that way.
2. When I was about five years old, I was forced to attend a staff meeting in my dad's office because the big boss had closed the main door  and I was too scared to open it.  Since then, I've never liked meetings. 
3. My piano teacher sat beside me the first time I played in church because I was petrified with fear.   I played "Hear Those Lovely Bells".
4. The violin has never been my best friend.  I was specifically told by my violin teacher that my fingers were meant for the piano and the piano alone. I played the violin on only one occasion - my brother's graduation from grade school - and I had to be coaxed by my piano teacher. 
5. The saying "what you see is what you get" has never been  applicable to me.
6. I was mistaken for a foreigner by the graduate program coordinator of the Dept of Biochem in UP Manila.  I was asked to present my student visa during my interview at the grad school.  Hahahaha.
7. When I was doing my undergrad thesis, I cried my little heart out in the animal room because my once-flawless legs were riddled with bites from parasites that lived in my rats' fur.
8. I spend inadvertently long periods of time when shopping for things for my kikay kit because  I always check the ingredients of each item before buying it.  The effort paid off when, one day, I found out that a popular local brand of cosmetics listed polyacrylamide as one of the ingredients in their products. Polyacrylamide is one of the ingredients for making PAGE and SDS-PAGE gels (for protein separation).  I always wear double gloves when handling such gels for fear of getting Parkinson's later in life.  There's no way that reagent's getting within 10 meters of my face. 
9. I like matching sleepwear, for some weird reason.
10. I like matching sheets.  They look orderly and neat.  Hehe.
11. I've never had a crush on any of my profs from college to grad school.
12. I love everything pink.  If I could, then I would probably formulate an SDS-PAGE staining solution that would give pink-colored bands.
13. Having my nails done is something I do often because it makes me feel soothed and rejuvenated.
14. I splurged my first salary from my first job on a whole-body scrub.  It was worth the expense.
15. I can always be relied on to consume large amounts of sweets - particularly chocolates.
16. Since I'm never good with numbers, I've developed this compulsion to solve a single problem for at least 10  times.  The results have to be the same, or I'll start all over again.  I suppose I'll never grow out of that. :D
17. I gorge on food whenever I get upset.
18. I can't go to sleep without putting on my eye cream, a must-have for every woman above 25 (that's according to my best friend Vannie).
19. Shopping is one heartbreak therapy that works wonders for me. 
20. I heart gay lingo.
21. Spending an entire night in the lab is something I'm really looking forward to next semester.  It's not all work, you know.  I can always watch movies and eat while waiting for my sample run to be complete.
22. I've always been attracted to intelligent guys with a great sense of humor.  They're an endangered species.
23. When I obtained my first SDS-PAGE gel, I felt as if I were looking at an tiny work of art - one that I painted myself.   The bands were so beautiful that I thought I was looking at perfection itself.
24. Item # 23 may seem corny to some people but it's quite an achievement for me, given that fact that I spent  long hours trying to find which protein isolation method worked best under the present lab conditions. 
25. I'm happily single and unattached.  I don't give myself a deadline on getting married (I know some people who do) because I believe that a woman can have roles in life other than those of being a wife and mother.  Satisfaction, contentment and happiness can also be achieved in other areas.  I would rather stay single for the rest of my life and discover something that would benefit future generations than the other way around.  Hehe.