MY WORLD OF 5 ILLUMINATING THINGS

Senhor Jose wondered if we could be called half-silly if we cut our silliness in half. I'll take the challenge as blog guinea pig and hereby cut by one-half my previous illluminating silliness just so we could wrap all these crap and move on to find my moron, not so much to find if I am half-silly, really, because I'd rather be full, say fool.

5 Proofs Of My Athleticism:
- In 5th grade, I was timed 12 secs. in the 100m sprint and 1:08 in the 400m dash.
- Still in 5th grade, I was the star of the school in this local sport called alalandoy.
- I played organized basketball thru college; in one backyard league I even earned the nickname NBA because of flashy moves.
- I occasionally ice skate, rockclimb (belaying), kayak and snowboard.
- I recently beat a neighbor in a singles match of tennis. The kid was the top seed of their school's tennis team.

5 Proofs Of My Athletefootesism: the preceding are misleading because I cannot:
- layup a basketball with my left coming from a dribble with my left;
- tread on water;
- toss a voleyball;
- finish a bowling game without a canal;
- properly hold a billiard cue.

5 Stupidest Things I Did When I Was Young & Stupid:
- I was in 4th grade when I tried to look at the scorching sun through a magnifying glass. Half the world heard me scream;
- I was in 5th grade, it was a Sunday, and waiting for my 1st trip to the beach when I decided to prepare myself against my friends' advise that I can't open my eyes underwater. I put a good amount of rocksalt in my right eye. Result: the miserable eye got swollen, I did not go to the beach, and my Dad hit me in the head;
- Summer vacation after my 5th grade, the whole family went to my dad's province up north. One day I was biking when I heard this group of local kids singing an uppitty song in their dialect. I easily caught the tune and the lyrics and I was singing the song on my way home. At the dinner table that night, I proudly burst into song with my newly-learned song. All hell broke loose; the lyrics of the song turned out to be "your shit sucks, la-la-la, your shit sucks!"
- In 6th grade, I tried to test my toughness by jumping into the swimming pool chest first. If I had 9 lives, I left the pool with 8 more;
- I was wooing two girls in 1st yr. college and one day in February I sent each of them a Valentine card. Both got the card intended for the other. Those cards were my curse. I did not get either of them, nor any other girl my entire 1st yr in college.

5 Books I Will Add To My Bookshelf Collection
- Gargantua & Pantagruel by F. Rabelais
- History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Balthasar And Blimunda by Senhor Jose Saramago
- Confessions by St. Augustine
- Sakura, Johansson and Wilson, editors

5 CD Tracks I Last Listened To, Intently
- Oh!, by Dave Matthews
- The Green Groves of Erin, by YoYo Ma
- Ribbons In The Sky, by Stevie wonder
- One, by U2
- Livin' On A Prayer, (new arrangement), by Bon Jovi featuring Olivia d' Abo