< ? 100 Things # >

1. I have a tattoo. It's a tribal rosebud. It didn't hurt that much.

2. The first single i ever bought was Why can't I Be You (The Cure), but the first album was Elton John's Ice On Fire.

3. My favourite colours are green, pink and orange.

4. I hate mushrooms.

5. I've watched Gilda dozens of times. The same goes with The Breakfast Club, but that's more of a generation passion.

6. I read a lot. And i read fast.

7. I can drink up to four black rhum & coke drinks before making a complete fool of myself.

8. I've recently discovered i like gin&tonics.

9. I spend at least a third of my days listening to music.

10. I'm half Irish, and it shows, though not physically.

11. I speak French and I love listening to French people speaking English.

12. I wear a little Coco Chanel all the time.

13. I am left handed.

14. I'm a leftist.

15. First (big) concert was David Bowie. Madrid, Glass Spider Tour.

16. I hardly ever eat anything for breakfast.

17. I am very afraid of any type of bug.

18. I've had quite a few boyfriends and I keep a good relationship with most of them.

19. I've never been to Paris.

20. My voice changes when i'm on the phone.

21. When i go into a shop and i don't find anything i'd buy, i feel extremely good. This rarely happens.

22. I lost my virginity not knowing i was a virgin.

23. I don't wear glasses but sometimes i wish i did.

24. I smoke one pack a day.

25. I have one sister, six years older than me, whom i adore.

26. I have two nieces and one godaugther.

27. I wish i could sing.

28. My first pet was a cat called Tiger. It was my sister's, actually. Then i got a dog called Luna. I still miss her.

29. I'm terrible at sports and exercise in general.

30. I hate my ankles and my arms.

31. My stomach is good, though.

32. I am very good at playing charades.

33. I've always wanted to write novels and children's books.

34. I was a tv presenter for a children's show during a year and a half.

35. I spent a year in Québec when i was 16. That year changed my life.

36. I wrote a short novel when i was 20 because i needed and intellectual challenge after dropping temporarily out of university.

37. I'm terrified of walking on my own after dark.

38. My favourite word is ambivalence.

39. I have a song written for me. On tape. It made me cry on a plane when i first listened to it.

40. I have crushes on John Cusack and Jude Law.

41. I've never been on a blind date.

42. My favourite food is still pasta. I enjoy eating. My mother in law doesn't agree with that.

43. I cry too easily.

44. I blush way too easily.

45. I shocked my mother for the first time when she overheard my Barbie have sex with my friend's Ken.

46. I talk to myself when i'm alone.

47. I went on a shoplifting spree when i was 15 years old.

48. I don't like spices.

49. I like fast food. And sometimes i crave for it.

50. I saw What Have I Done To Deserve This, by Almodovar, when i was (very) under-aged.

51. I was a Northen Exposure addict and i was desperate to live in Alaska for a long time. Even before i lived in Canada.

52. I look a lot like my father.

53. But i talk exactly like my sister.

54. A boss made me cry once. I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it.

55. I love clothes. And i have a great fashion sense in my own parallel world.

56. I read The Neverending Story in one day.

57. I stopped thinking i was young when i turned 24. I'm 28.

58. I get nervous every time i have to go to the doctor.

59. I'm not religious at all. I believe in love, sex and great clothes.

60. My sister taught me how to swim.

61. One of my worst fears is losing someone in my family.

62. I take politics seriously and most of the times i get angry watching the news.

63. I am proud of my blog.

64. I play The Sims. A lot, according to my boyfriend. Never enough, if you ask me.

65. I don't play any other computer game, except maybe the odd round of Tetris.

66. I have skates that i don't use. I'd like to skate more often.

67. I am in love.

68. I like men that can dance. Or at least keep the rythm.

69. I don't believe in revenge. I've learned that the hard way.

70. I love spending money and i'm dangerous.

71. My friends are my life.

72. I am shy but brave. And viceversa.

73. I hate Maths.

74. I love Literature and Science

75. I think the best place for listening to music is in a car, on your own.

76. I consider myself lazy. I'm not proud of this.

77. My dream job is to write for a magazine and travel a lot.

78. My real name is not Uma. My friends call me something else but that isn't my official name either.

79. I'm learning how to save my money now.

80. I love children.

81. And i'd like to have kids of my own some time.

82. I might even get married some day.

83. I studied ballet for a few years as a child.

84. Then i quit because of a (very) mean teacher.

85. I smoke joints every once in while.

86. I hate other drugs, such as coke and pills.

87. I'm childish.

88. People don't usually think i am. But they're wrong!

89. I like changing my hair style.

90. That has cost me a few crying trips to the hairdresser.

91. When i was a teenager some people said i looked like Penélope Cruz.

92. No, i don't look like her.

93. When i was a child i used to daydream about the year 2000 and how my life would be then.

94. I was disappointed with the year 2000.

95. But 1997 was the worst of my life.

96. I've been broken-hearted at least three times.

97. I'm funny about books. I treat them like treasures and i don't like people folding the pages.

98. I also like the smell of new books.

99. I have a great time with my boyfriend. We crack up laughing so often people don't think we've been so long together.

100. I want a Playstation.

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