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So I just oblige because they wait for it and bug me for the next one. This is from the meme “My Firsts,” though I’ve anonymized the names because unlike FB this blog is completely searchable:

My Firsts (The Cheating Meme)

These are my firsts. Copy and paste this note into your notes, delete my answers and fill yours in. Tag me back and anyone else whose "firsts" you wanna know about...

Your Firsts

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?

V1nc3nt C0rpu5, the son of the bicycle shop owner beside our store in Magallanes. I went to an all-girl school and didn't know any boys so I asked my mom to have his dad make him go with me. We were the same age but he turned out to be only in the 7th grade! He didn't talk. My high school bullies tricked us into going into the ballroom early so we got the "Adam & Eve Award" for being the first couple.

My dress was by J0el 3spin0. My fashion model sister took me to his house and gave him a page from a magazine to copy as her payment for doing a fashion show. The grownups seemed to like the dress. I thought I looked like a suman/caterpillar. But then that's just my aversion to dresses. Dear relatives, do NOT post the photos on FB.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?

I don't know what language they speak over there in that parallel universe. Maybe nanunanu?

3. What was your 1st alcoholic drink?

I have a faint memory of a family driver giving me beer when I was four. After that, punch at a family party where I locked myself in the bathroom at 9 years old saying, "Hindi ako lashhhennngggggggggggg!!"

4. What was your FIRST job?

Technical Support Specialist at Sykes Asia, not sure but I think this was the first ever call center in the Philippines. It was 1999 and I completely dorked out on being tech support for Microsoft and two scanner companies. I was there for a month. Long incredible story. As you can see, I don't have time for stories. :)

5. What was your FIRST car?

I'm psyched that the first car I really drove is an X3. We owned a Subaru Forester before that and that was before Dana drove it on The L Word, okay!

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?

No one. Nobody seems to text here, although Google did text me back when I asked it for the weather today. I love you too Google, can you just respond with a smiley face?

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?

A character in my story.

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?

Ms. Cenz0n. My sister typed labels for my notebooks (which I kept throughout the year) and it said "Ms. Sengsong"

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?

1989 to the then immaculate Boracay with my mother on an office trip. I talked her into letting me rent a windsurf and I got stuck far away from the beach. The caretaker windsurfed over and said, "Do you know how to swim?" I said yes so he took my windsurf from me and said, "Then swim!" That was a long, long swim back to shore.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?

Best friend is a tough call...childhood friends include Bekya, the maid's daughter from the mansion behind our house, Ariel Torres from the next-door sari-sari store, and John-John King, whose father ate our dogs.

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?

J3nny M0nastr1al's house at 17 Beg0nia Street, Magallanes Village, Makati in 1985. Curse my effin memory.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?

Crayon girl, to bug her about tonight's dinner reservations.

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?

A cousin’s wedding to a 14 year old girl. My siblings and I said the bread smelled like feet. I have never been in a wedding entourage. That is perfectly fine with me, thank you.

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?

feed the whiny ass cat

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?

Spandau Ballet, around 2000 when they came to Manila as old fogeys and Tony Hadley was fat and panting the whole time. We're building foundation, yeahhhh...pant pant pant...

16. FIRST tattoo?

1994, a baby gecko on my lower back because I got jealous that #2 was getting a tattoo of a scorpion because of the story of The Scorpion and the Turtle in the move The Crying Game. The tattoo artist supposedly inked Francis M, his name was M1ke Sambaj0n and he inked us in his house in Paco, Manila. The second tattoo is another story...

17. First piercing?

Ears, age 6, I think it was at a doctor's office. When I was a college freshman I told my parents my ear piercings closed so I could get two additional holes in my right ear. In 2001 I got a navel piercing with bad results. I use the scar to scare teenagers now. In 2007 I stopped wearing additional earrings when I started my Manhattan job. Sigh.

18. First foreign country you've been to?

Hong Kong 1993? In the hotel I threw a lit cigarette in the bathroom garbage and it caught fire. Myrza and I woke up to a smoky room and she was like, "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU SMOKED!!!" The smoke alarms didn't go off and we didn't die. That wasn't even the highlight of that trip. Bless me if Myrza doesn't remember what it was.

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing?

Flash Gordon - I fell asleep.

20. When was your FIRST detention?

In high school I thought it would be cool to hide a classmate's shoe but then she cried so the teacher told me to go  to the principal's office, I walked out of the room, circled the campus and came back after that period was over. :)

21. What was the first state you lived in?

New York!

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?

J3nny Luma1n, Ana La5can0 and Br3nda Dal15ay at room 3210 Veterinary Medicine Residence Hall in UP. It was the size of a bathroom with 2 bunkbeds and a long desk. We secretly cooked and convened at noon to share 1 can of sardines or Century tuna and rice among 4 people.

23. If you had one wish. What would it be?

WTF- what happened to the FIRST? My first wish was probably for someone to change my diaper asap.

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?

Now this is just cheating. You can't just change topics in the middle of a meme, even if it's ending. Who makes these things anyway? Fine: a 2-month Spanish language immersion course in Barcelona.

25. Who do you think will be the next person to post this?

You mean the first: Allan Banaag, then anyone who isn't vomiting from these endless memes

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