This is extremely hard for me as quite a number of you know so much about me. So it's safe to assume these are ten things the average member who isn't a close friend of mine might not have heard or read about already that are to do with me. xD

1. I was nicknamed 'Flip-top lid' by my parents when I was really young because when I started talking, I wouldn't shut up. I still make concious efforts these days to stop talking at certain points. You can imagine how hard it is for me making a podcast. xP Despite this, I love conversation, so I think I'm at least tolerable. >_>;

2. I had a 'cackle' laugh as a kid that I got teased over heavily, and ever since I have not really had a specific laugh due to my insistence on changing it (successfully, I might add). Some people have noted this saying that I laugh differently all the time... I can't think of what a default laugh of mine would be like anymore. Even uncontrollable laughter changes for me. I don't know if this is normal or not.

3. When I was younger, my role model was Dave, my third-cousin who boarded at our house. He was a very good motorcycle racer, winning many races and multiple divisions, and I always wanted to be one too. I had all kinds of posters of my favourite motorbike racers on my wall at the time. Naturally, though, as I aged, girls replaced bikes and my dreams changed. I can still certainly appreciate a nice bike, though, and I look forward to returning to the bike races someday.

4. I am very good at keeping secrets and I do not use the world 'promise' lightly at all. I find these things to be very serious. When I was about seven or eight years old, I was told by a friend of mine that he liked a girl and told to keep it secret, and I told someone else, and they teased him about it. I lost my friend that day, and he wasn't my best friend or anything, but I learned a lesson quickly and to this day if I promise something, I mean it, and if I'm told a secret, I bloody keep it.

5. I have changed my avatar... once. Someone else has changed my avatar once, too. The latter person had my blessing, though.

6. I'm fairly certain I have been in hospital or a 'super clinic' (for surgery, so I count that) at least once every year of my life for the first eighteen years of my life. Because of my frequent visits to hospital and how many times I've been put under anaesthetic, the dentist was able to put me to sleep simply to remove some teeth. I woke up something like within five minutes of the time they expected me to!

7. I have been to every town in the North Island of New Zealand, and never set foot in the South Island at all. The closest I had gone to overseas before moving the the other end of the world (UK) was when I went to Great Barrier Island off the coast of North Island.

8. I once wrote an encyclopedia on Dinosaurs at around the age of nine or ten. It was a combination of information from about three or four different dinosaur books I had. It's presumably gone now - I think it was typed out on the 186 or 286 PC we had at the time.

9. Perhaps more common knowledge, but not so to some of our newer members - inspired by Final Fantasy and Lord of the Rings, I created my own world in high school. It has history, it has lore, it has religion, it has politics, it has characters, it has trade routes (I kid you not), it has villains, it has fantasy races unique to Aiyon... I have many, many maps and a few books on it, not to mention files. My dream is for it to be turned into both an RPG and an an MMORPG which, in my head, is very different to the MMORPGs seen today - imagination allows this, if hardware and money do not, ha!

10. According to all reviews I've been given, I give a fantastic shoulder/back massage. Only about five to ten people know this because only five or ten people have ever suggested I give them a massage (or been my girlfriend, thus meaning they don't need to ask). The last girl I massaged that wasn't Danielle was someone at work who demanded it of me jokingly so I gave her a 5-10 second massage and she actually groaned out loud right there in the office, and everyone just stared. It was embarrassing but hilarious. xD She insisted I give her more massages but I wouldn't do it because I was scared she might do it again. When I was about fifteen years old, before I properly understood exactly what 'power' I held in my hands, I gave a very attractive friend of mine a massage and within a minute or two her bra was off and she was lying on the ground requesting I cover a wider area. I mean, I liked her and I didn't get the hint. I was such a massive idiot back then. Either way, I still get asked for rubs and massages by Danielle on a regular basis. I do guys, too. Yes, go on, take that out of context, I know you want to. xP