Carlitos 101 • Facts about Carlitos01. I'm a son, and a brother, and a boyfriend, and a friend, and an immigrant, and a graphic designer, and an entrepeneur, and a philosopher, and a writer, and a musician, and an artist, and I'm a bit crazy, in my very own way. 02. I love old music and I like to listen to it aloud when I 'm at home alone. 03. I..m passionate about life, art, and business. 04. I..m addicted to notebooks. It must have something to do with all the possibilities of bound blank pages. 05. The smell of freshly done laundry makes me feel good. 06. I hate being in a rush. Having plenty of time to waste greatly improves the quality of life, in my opinion. 07. I hate fast food, including McDonalds and Burger King. 08. If I had to pick a place to be it would be elsewhere, most of the time. 09. I love competition. 10. I like watching photographs of my childhood... I was a very happy nene and they prove it. 11. I love music. And I usually have a theme music playing in my head when I walk or drive around. 12. I learned to drive when I was 13 years old. 13. I like waking up in the morning during winter and seeing everything covered in snow. White, untouched. And then going back to bed. 14. I love being the first one to know the good news, and having to keep the secret. 15. Walking along the street and smiling at someone I don..t know and receiving a smile in return is fun. 16. I love coming back home and being welcomed as if I was missed. 17. I love Gerber..s apple sauce. 18. Roses are my favorite flowers. 19. I like tidying up my room and finding all the useless junk from my past I..ve collected and I didn..t have the heart to throw away. Being overwhelmed by memories and sitting there for hours, forgetting why I opened the drawer, in the first place. 20. I..m a very tactile persone: I love touching smooth surfaces. 21. Hablo español. 22. I often feel the urge to write down my feelings to be able to see them from an objective point of view. This is why I always keep a sketchbook with me. This helps me and probably prevents me from becoming raving mad. 23. I love starting new projects.... but it..s very hard for me to finish them. I..m a very artistic person and I just cannot help being a perfectionist. 24. I attended a Catholic elementary school. I used to hate it because I did not have any contact with girls until I was 15 years old. When I started attending high school I was afraid of women to death. Thruought the years I..ve realized how lucky I was for attending a catholic school, it gave me very strong morals and values, and best of all, it made me value women. 25. I'm a marathon runner. I ran the half marathon in 2007 and I'm training to run the Chicago marathon in 2008. The half marathon was pretty hard, I almost gave up, but I was sent an angel to keep motivated and running, I still remember those sweet and motivating words: "come on baby you can do it!" 26. I often spend the whole night reading, because during the day I prefer doing something else. Nights keep me concentrated. 27. I was born on December 31st at 11 in the morning. 28. I hardly give second chances. Everybody is amazed of how strict I am about this. 29. I pray at least once a week. 30. I..ve been about to die several times in my life. When I was about 3 years old I got so sick that I spent several days at the hospital. Doctors told my mom that I was in real danger and that they didn..t know what to do to save my life. My mom took me to the Temple of "La Virgen de San Juan De Los Lagos" (Jalisco, Mexico) looking for a miracle to happen. At the front of the altar she got on her knees, took me on her arms, prayed, and while she was crying she promissed the Virgin that if I survived, she would go back to the temple at least once a year to thank her for saving my life. Since then I..ve been my mom..s miracle babyboy. 31. I love boxes. I love opening boxes, because of all the expectations that come with them. 32. I..m myope. I need glasses but never wear them because I don..t like them. Sometimes I like not being able to see well, shadowy world is fun! 33. I like silver better than gold. 34. I have never had problems falling asleep. You give me 5 minutes and I..m sleeping. 35. I love travelling by train and watching out of the window. Most of my ideas came out in those moments. 36. I emigrated from Mexico when I was 17 years old without speaking a word of English. If I didn..t get into college within 1 year , my parents would send me back to Mexico to continue my education. The thought of me being away from my family scared me to death so worked my ass off and got into an English school and learned this freaking language in about 3 months. My teachers were so surprissed of my ease to learn and my excelent grades that I was awarded with a 2 year college scholarship. 37. When I was a child I used to think that it wasn..t me who was growing, but my clothes that were getting smaller and smaller. 38. I..m addicted to chocolate. 39. My first job was as a dish washer. 40. I don..t have a sense of direction of any kind. I get lost very easily, I don..t remember places I have been before and I like it, because I always look at places as if it was my first time there. 41. My favorite quote is "Hola mi amor como te fue hoy?" -By my Mama-. 42. I have the nickname of Carlitos, most people call me that. 43. I..m addicted to coffe. 44. I love to drive, but when I do, I scare my passengers to death.. 45. I love to get phone calls, emails or letters from my loved ones. 46. I always want to know how things work. And why and where and when... 47. I think quality is better than quantity. In any case. 48. I hate diets. I prefer full-fat. 49. I..m afraid of memory loss. I think that experiences and memories are what people are really made of. I am what I..ve been. And if I forgot it, I would be nothing. 50. I like to put aftershave lotion all over my face after a shower, even if I don..t shave. 51. Sometimes I don..t know if what I live is real. 52. At 13, I was overweight. 53. I get distracted easily. If I..m doing something after a couple of minutes I..ll remeber that maybe in the bottom of the closet I still have that nice little something that I forgot about. Then I..ll dig in the closet, take pictures, edit pictures, have a break, eat something and totally forget about that other thing I was doing. 54. Sometimes I..d like to stop people in the street to take pictures of them, but I just don..t have the guts. I think somehow I would like to show them my work before shooting, so that I could prove them I..m not some kind of crazy punk. 55. Sometimes I just don..t care. 56. When I..m in a train I try not to touch anything. I hate dirt. I hate touching something that looks dirty. 57. I never EVER give up. 58. I think that Jason is scarier than Freddy, because you don..t know how his face looks like. 59. I..m a very determined person. I know what I want and I go for it. 60. I live inside a creative mind. It..s a strange place, but I love it. 61 Having to tell people I know they..ve lied to me is something I would gladly avoid. So sometimes I just disappear from their lives instead of telling them. 62. Breaking or losing objects I..m very fond of makes me sad. 63. I..m often messy, but every time I start a new project I need everything around me to be perfectly tidy. 64. I like to be among happy people. Some people spend most of their time looking bored and angry and they think this makes them somehow better. I pity them. 65. I love christmas lights and I keep them up after xmas until they are dead. 66. I never say bad words. There are other ways to offend that are way more effective. 67. I prefer cash over checks. 68. I find people pretending they know what they are talking about quite annoying. 69. I used to think I was the only member of my kind. 70. The beach is one of my favorite places - I love the ocean!. 71. When Bambie..s mum dies I cry. 72. People sometimes give for granted what I do for them. They usually don..t do it twice. 73. I never watch TV. It bores me. 75. When I was a kid I used to think I was adopted. 76. I have two younger and one older siblings. 77. I have a dog called Nina. 78. I always wait the second ring before answering the phone. 79. I wash my hands at least 5 times a day. 80. I believe in the supernatural. I have sensed the presence of ghosts many times and I discovered that I was gifted with some kind of "sixth sense". I have predicted many things that have happened to people close to me and I can feel what my loved ones feel although they are away from me. 81. I make lists for everything: to do lists, what to put in the bag, who to call... 82. I..m extremely energetic, all the time, most of the time. 83. The person that I most admire is my dad. 84. My favorite hobbies include playing the guitar, writing, and reading. 85. Most of my friends live in another city or country 86. I was a choir nerd growing up, I was the lead guitar of my choir. 87. I played the guitar for quite a while but now my fingers are all fucked up. 88. I drink at least one cup of coffe a day. 89. I..m truly, madly, crazily, wildly, deeply in love with Tanya. 90. As a kid, one of the things I wanted most badly was a Super Nintendo. 91. I freak out if I don..t have any cornflakes in the house. 92. I usually wash my car on sundays. 93. If I could bring one thing to a deserted island, it would be a guitar. 94. I cannot stand racist people. 95. I never wear jewelry, not even a watch, nothing. 96. I don..t drink, smoke, nor use drugs. Never, ever. 97. I love bubble baths more than showers, especially in winter. 98. If I could I would be traveling all year round. 99. It took me about 1 hour to write all this crap. 100. I have huge problems finding a definition to describe myself. 101. I never say too much about myself. That..s why I find strange that people who only looked at this site feel like they know me. There is very little of me here.
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