In   high  school,  she  studied   and  lived   in  a  convent. Then  she  studied  at  the  University  of  the  Philippines in  Diliman   from  College  to  Graduate  School.  After  graduate  school,   she  worked  as   a  biblical researcher,   writing  biblical   interpretative   short   stories   for   supplementary    educational   magazines  for  five  years.   She   quit  bible research/writing work, which  she  believed  was  giving  her  an  overdose  of   saintliness  to  work  as  an    investigative-  reporter-cum- features  writer  for  a   national   newspaper.  Her   exposure   to  the  subculture  in  the   newspaper world   had  influenced   her  and   transformed  her   significantly.   She   had  evolved  extensively   since  then towards  full  maturity  She  has    learned   many   lessons  from  living  a  life which  was   far  from being  comfortable. Now, her   life  has  changed  a  lot in  the  many  years  of   maturity  and  understanding.    It is  entirely  different  from  her   convent  internship   life   in high school.   But  she   has   no  regrets.  Only  a  wealth  of  experience  that  she’d  love  to  share with  others,  especially   friends and  colleagues. 

She  is   the  high integrity  type, very principled.   She never borrows  money,  has  no debt other than  her  monthly  credit  card bills,  and   has   been a good role model all  her   life.  She   dislikes negativity, complainers,  and  her  outlook is always up.  She  seeks to find the goodness in everyone, never harping on  anyone’s  bad traits,  rather seeing the good  in  every  human  being,   even  forgiving people who perhaps shouldn't be forgiven.  She  often gives   way to common sense in an effort to  merge and  understand;     

She  wants  to be happy, in the simplest way.  She  is   a unique (one of a kind) human being, having been told  such  many times by many people that she  has   come in contact with.

The things that make her  happiest are giving and having it really appreciated.  She  is  such   a generous person,  restricted  only  by  her  very  limited  capacity  to  give.  There is nothing that makes her happier  than when she  can give, or make,  or   do   something that she   knows  another will really appreciate. Her  ideal day is one when she  has  accomplished something good.  She   works  really  hard – for  others  and  herself.  And   when she  finds something that she  knows will make someone else happy, that makes  her  happy,  too. 

Her   actions  and reactions  depend  much  on  the  situation  and  circumstances.   But  she    normally   creates   the  circumstances  to which  other  people react.  Happy  or   sad,   she is   even-tempered.     She is   deeply respectful of   the   psychological and physical space  required  by  other  people. She  expects  the same from them, too. She  can also be passionate, playful and tremendously excited about  new  things  and events, such  as  knowing  other  exciting  personalities.

As  far  as  she  is   concerned,  the  foundation   of  any  good  relationship,   whether  friendship  or  romantic  intimacy,   is  mutual  trust.  It  can’t  be  a  one-sided  trust.  She  is   also  very  appreciative  and  forgiving.   Humans  err. A   few   unintentional   mistakes,   a  few  minor  transgressions   are  still  pardonable  for  the  sake  of  all  concerned.    

She  is  very health   conscious  now  and tries  to eat right,  and  live  right. She  is  far from being boring because  she   can  always  come  up  with  some  exciting  ideas  that  are  plausible  and  implementable  and  she   tries   them  out  most  of  the  time.    She  believe that one should try to experience everything at least once in her  life in order to have lived to one's maximum potential.

Her  tastes are simple. She   enjoys  music -- live concerts and CDs – with interests including pop,  classical,  and jazz.  Reading is also a favorite pastime, particularly  biographies  and  literature.  She  also enjoys  movies and videos, especially  science-fiction  films,  romantic comedies,  and foreign films that bring the viewer into a new setting.

She   likes   fruits,   coffee, tea, Chinese and  Spanish   food, pizzas, sunshine, new age music, jazz, metaphysics, archeology, anthropology, spirituality,  intellectual conversations, romance, emotions, cool  colors, sunsets,  nice beach, rainbows,  cold   weather,  Egyptians pyramids,  and  Maya civilization, Babylon....Stonehenge... and   most  of  all   democratic  freedom  (!)

Her    hobbies  and   skills   include:   cooking, (She   loves  to  invent  recipes  that   her   relatives  and  friends   copy)    listening  to  music,  playing  the guitar,  aerobics  dancing   and  reading.

She  abhors    terrorism, homicidal bombings,  any  form  of    verbal  or    physical   abuse   and  violence.  She  is  for  peace  and   global  democratic  freedom.  And  there’s  one  more  maddening   thing  next  to   terrorism .   Here  in  these   small  islands  in   the   equator,   the   typhoon  belt  of  the  world,   there  is   rampant,  frenzied,  seemingly   untamable   illegal  logging  in  the  last   remaining   virgin  forest  in   the  country,  the  Sierra  Madre.  Here,  a   few   scrupulous  people   are uncontrollably   cutting  off  the   trees   with  their  huge, powerful  saws,  to   sell  the  timber   to   scrupulous   businessmen,  and   leveling  off  the   mountains  to  build  new  communes  of  new  loggers  for  the  logging   company (usually  close  relatives  and   acquaintances  who  have  the  same  purpose --  making  a  profit  by  selling  lumber.  An   aerial   view  of   the   mountains  show   large   patches   of   denuded  sections  of  mountain   tops,   various   ongoing   constructions  of    housing  communities, etc.  The   forests   are   disappearing   to  give  way  to  the   so-called  developmental   projects   that  ignores  the   harmful  environmental    consequences.  The  Philippines  has  only  three (3%)  forest  cover  left.   

Deforestation – why is  it  so  difficult  to  explain  to  the  forest  folks  that  their  logging   activities  in the  forests   lead  to  flash  floods,  the    submerging  of   smaller  islands,  and  global  warming, and  the  melting  of   ice caps  in  the  polar  regions,  and  ozone  depletion,    the   drying  up  of   rivers, lakes   and   watersheds  that  feed  urban   water  dams. 

Environmental  work  is  everybody’s  concern.