Ten years ago, it was 1996. Take this survey and see how many
things have changed since then.

1) How old were you?
THEN: 14
NOW: 24

2) Where did you go to school?
THEN: Ateneo High School
NOW: The Marine Science Institute, UP-Diliman

3) Where did you work?
THEN: Too young to work
NOW: Too young to leave school haha. Ateneo de Manila.

4) Where did you live?
THEN: I'm actually not sure (I've moved more times than I can easily count), but I think...BF Resort, Las Pinas
NOW: Palos Verdes, Antipolo

5) How was your hairstyle?
THEN: Short but unbelievably messy (I didn't use hairstyling products then)
NOW: Gone back to not using any products on my hair, and I'm growing it to near-shoulder length

6) Did you wear braces?
THEN: No
NOW: No

7) Did you wear contacts?
THEN: No
NOW: No

8) Did you wear glasses?
THEN: No
NOW: Yes

9) Who was your best friend?
THEN: Jumbo, JR and Paolo
NOW: Jumbo, JR and JP

10) Which of your pets were still alive?
THEN: Whoa, just thought about it and...I didn't have any pets at that time. Sad.
NOW: Coozie, Reika, Wakka (all mongrels), my babies Deedlit (pomeranian-spitz) and Yuffie (chihuahua-shitzu), and a new dog that I'm beginning to really like, Ichigo (doberman-pit bull). Yup, me like hybrids haha

11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend?
THEN: None
NOW: None. Sad. Haha

12) Who was your celebrity crush?
THEN: In 1996? I don't remember.
NOW: Katharine McPhee, Angela Aki

13) Who was your regular-person crush?
THEN: None
NOW: A few pretty people here and there...there are a lot of them in Ateneo hehe

14) How many piercings did you have?
THEN: None
NOW: None

15) How many tattoos did you have?
THEN: None
NOW: None

16) What was your favorite band/singer?
THEN: Alanis Morissette, Mariah Carey, Jewel
NOW: Tori Amos, Cynthia Alexander, Enya

17) What was your favorite movie?
THEN: Now and Then, The Joy Luck Club
NOW: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Shakespeare in Love

18) What was your favorite song?
THEN: All the songs in Mariah's Daydream and Alanis's Jagged Little Pill, Who Will Save Your Soul?, I Love You Always Forever
NOW: Crazy (Patsy Cline), Into the West (Annie Lennox)

19) What was your favorite TV Show?
THEN: Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Nanny
NOW: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Will & Grace, CSI, American Idol

20) Had you smoked cigarettes?
THEN: No
NOW: No

21) Had you gotten drunk?
THEN: No
NOW: I don't really think I got drunk that time... (defensive haha)

22) Had you DRIVEN?
THEN: No
NOW: Yes

23) If so which car?
THEN: N/A
NOW: Family car, Mazda pickup

24) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2006?
Nope. Back in '96 I had no idea what I wanted to be ten years in the future.

25) What you looked like?
THEN: Right now, I have no pics of myself back then. The same, just a bit slimmer, unruly hair
NOW: