"We Are All Birds For Today"

All I can say is.... "THE FREE BIRD LEAPS ON THE BACK OF THE WIND!!" joke. Ah yes, The speech choir competition! A day where all the ABMA and SOE students come together and shout with emotion! It was truly a day of excitement.

Honestly, we only had little practice done for our speech choir, so of course, the end-result wasn't really satisfying. It was tiresome, stressful and filled with pressure; but nonetheless, I had the time of my life since I was doing it with my ever so lovely block!! This isn’t sarcastic, I swear. Love you guys!

Our performance started great and spine-chilling with us singing “Hanging Tree” followed by the speech itself. We were very powerful at the start, but towards the end, we all sort of died down. Plus, the fact that we had no AVP… was kind of embarrassing… We actually didn’t know we were supposed to have an AVP… but theres nothing we can do about it anymore, so we all decided to learn from this mistake and move on.

Even though our performance was a little let down, I still had my own favorite part, that was the part where we shouted “FREEDOM!!” I felt the adrenaline rush through my veins! It was really good to shout that time since we were all nervous. I hoped our end was going to be my favorite but alas, it did not end so well hahaha…

As for the other block…. They all killed it. I loved every performance shown by the other blocks. You could truly feel the emotions that came with it. My favorite performance was by ABMA152 and ABMA155, no bias but they gave the best performance for me.

Even though we didn’t win and had huge mistakes, I know we tried our best and that we learned from this event. Congrats to all those who won and participated!

"Life as a Public Speaker"

I never could recall as to how I turned out to be a self-proclaimed public speaker, all I remember is that, I wanted to be able to speak well in front of others, and that's about it. Since I grew up with a family whose language consists of nothing but 80% english and just 20% tagalog, I never really did have a hard time with the english language.

I don't know how I did it or what I did to become confident in terms of my speaking skills, but I sure as hell know that I wasn't like this before. I used to suck at speaking in front of an audience or speaking in general. I never really liked when the teacher called me out in class and I had to awkwardly answer the questions she gave me.

Looking back at where I was before and comparing it to the present me, I'm quite shocked at the results. I am profoundly appalled as to how I've leanred to love and invest my time in using my speaking skills. That's why I was thrilled to hear that there was going to be a public speaking class during the third term.

Though I was so excited to finally go to my first class in the 3rd term- which is EPUBSP2- I found myself at the most unpleasant situation. Sir Deeno, my professor in EPUBSP2, asked me to step out since I realized that I wasn't enrolled yet!!! It was embarassing to have a first impression like. Still, in the end I have high hopes that Sir Deeno has changed his view of me from all the hard work I put into class.

After all those hard work and nervous breakdowns on every speech in the class, I was chosen to be one of the representatives in the Public Speaking Competition. I was so nervous! But nonetheless, enthusiastic as to what the outcome will be.

I was with five of my other blockmates, namely; Joshua Francisco, Mel Tambunan, Stephanie Kung, JM Fonacier, and Raph Caguicla. We had to make a 5 minute speech about the quote Albert Camus nade "Integrity has no need of rules". It was hard at first and I honestly didn't know where to start, but with the help of my parents, friends, and professors, I got to finish my speech.

To say, I wasn't really expecting something big on the day of the competition; I just gave it my all and hopefully pass the subject HAHAHA! But, something amazing happened! Me, Joshua and Steph got int the finals! Imagine that! three members from our block got in? Amazing, right?

Even though we didn't win in the end, I got to learn so much from just one competition and I got to spend it with these awesome and intellectual people! Congrats to us ABMA154 and as well to the other public speakers in the competition!

Zombie Movie Turned Wrong

Before going into the main topic of this blogpost, I just wanted to state that I'm not a very big fan of pinoy movies, to be honest. I'd rather watch anything but filipino movies at that point... "Why? As a Filipino yourself, Shouldn't you be proud of what your country produces?" Well, not really.

To be fair in judgement, the Philippines isn't as "progressive" in terms of being in the film industry. In fact, there are a lot more Filipino Indie movies worth watching than the ones produced my entertainment companies. To say, the Filipino film industry lacks in creativity, seriousness, equipment, and especially the money to be able to produce a movie that can go on par with an American or Hollywood made movie. So , whenever I watch a Pinoy made movie... I just feel off or feel like it's going to be a waste of money (lol)

So, we go to the main topic at hand, I will give my opinion to the Filipino I just watched recently, "Zombadings".... All I could say by the end and during the movie was.... No. I wasn't very pleased with the plot, cinematography, and content of the story... But I have to give credit on the so-called "creativity" of  the movie... I mean, combining a bunch of frivolous men, witches, and zombies in one movie is just absurd. So if I was a professional critique on movies... I wouldn't expect a high score to be the outcome. Of course, this is my opinion.

Via IMDB, the summary of the movie follows:
Remington is in love with Hannah but she finds him lazy and uncouth. Then he starts to change. Suddenly he is becoming neater, nicer, more sensitive. Is he doing it for her? Or is something beyond his control changing him into someone he is not? He discovers that his gradual transformation is tied to something he did long ago, to childhood transgressions and curses uttered in graveyards. Hannah falls for the new and improved Remington, but he starts falling for someone else. As the ghosts of Remington's past come to haunt him, so do the the Zombadings. Undead, fabulous, they threaten to rock this sleepy town to death.

A Romantic Movie Actually Worth Seeing

Despite my distaste for romantic movies, there are a few movies that make my list of "Romantic Movies Worth Watching" and Overboard makes the cut for my list. The movie itself is old since it was madde in 1987(and way before I was born), but nonetheless, I take joy in watching this movie.

You can actually give this movie the "Old but Gold" award. I mean, I was only six years old when I first watched this movie with my mom.and of course, I couldn't understand anything from the movie since I was an ignorant child back then. I got to watch it again when I was 14 and by that time, I was a little mature, but still... some of the romantic and cheesy scenes made me cringe. The last time I watched this movie was during this year; It was Christmas break and me and my mom just wanted to spend the day together and chill in the house, so we scanned through our DVD collection and surprisingly, the DVD of the movie came up. We were enthralled when we both saw it, so we decided to watch it.

The film was a clever comedy - with the star chemistry working very nicely between the leads (one wishes they would try another comedy again soon). The slow discovery by Goldie/Joanna of her real being and natural decency is a pleasure to watch. Russell is fine realizing that he is in love with his creation, and desperately scared of her recovering her actual past. MacDowell does well in his bits (especially his last shot), but he's missing from most of the film because he is not in proximity of the main action on land. But Herrmann's revelations of super-ego is fun, as is the conclusion of his attempted seizure of power.

Via, IMDB, The summary of  Overboard is basically a cruel but beautiful heiress screws over a hired carpenter, who later is the first one to find her when she gets amnesia. Looking for a little revenge he convinces her that she's his wife. (I don't want to spoil everything for those who haven't eatched it yet!)

A fuzzy Bear With a Warm Heart

I grew up loving book, thus, I got to read a few books about Paddington's tales and viewed them to be humorically interesting as a child, Of course, books from my childhood never left my memories; so when I heard that Paddington was going to be adapted into a movie, I got very thrilled. Things that relates to my childhood always excites me when I hear of them in the present. I don't really recall why that happens, but nonetheless, I always look forward to relieving the bits from my childhood. 

When I saw the teaser for the movie, I literally just went "Awwe!!!" due to the fuzzy bear that was Paddington. Though I was quite nervous of th content that was going to be shown in the movie and how it would turn out, I still was very excited to watch it on the big screen.

When it came out in 2014, I watched it with my cousin and sisters. My sisters were doubtful in watching a kids movie but I told them not to be reluctant since I was sure it was going to be fun to watch. So we all watched the movie and it turned out to have great content!

Via IMDB, The summary of the story follows:
"A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kind Brown family, who read the label around his neck ('Please look after this bear. Thank you.') and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist."

In the end, watching the movie was very satisfying, and my sisters and cousin agreed too. The movie had a very nice feel of a family that cared for one another despite the unexpected intrusion of a cute and polite bear in their life, they still titled him as a true family member. 

Watching it for the first time was thrilling enough, so I'm glad I got to watch it again in my class!

"Runway Kings and Queens"

I'm that person who would always be in the prod or be backstage when it comes to event so I would have never thought I would be a part of a pageant, or even have the thought in participating in one, but my thoughts failed me when I was asked to join the SOMA Pageant 2016.

In the past, I hated the concept of pageants and how frivolous it was when they did the QnA portions. In all honesty, pageants used to be idiotic in my view like; what benefitss does it have to society? "Does the winner really gain an important title just because she's pretty with a rockin' bod?" I asked these questions over and over in my mind whenever I see someone watching BB. Pilipinas or Ms. Universe. When I heard that APC has a pageant for EVERY course, inlcuding a mixed one for all the courses, I immediately rolled my eyes.

So here comes third term, everyone was excited for SOMA week and I was too. Me and my block were ready for APPROJ and we were filled with excitement. It was just a normal day when an acquaintance of mine walked up to us and said "Hey guys!! Are any of you interested to join this coming SOMA Pageant?" and we all exchanged looks for a moment and most of us laughed and declined. Our block nominated Josh, Alex, Rachel, and Nikki to join the Pageant but they declined as well.

A month into the 3rd term, the screening for candidates opened, and we forced Rachel to join (Insert evil laugh here), and I told her I would do her make-up. Nikki and Alex followed suit when another friend of ours asked them to join, so they did. During the time Nikki was asked to join, the recruiter asked me to join as well, but I declined right away. A day after, he went up to me again, and asked me again. So something came up in my mind "What if I joined?", I laughed at myself when I though about it actually.

But weeks after weeks, I kept thinking about it. I realized I spent too much in the shadows and backstage... I was curious to what standing on stage really felt like... So I had this urge to join... and so I did. I joined the pageant, but with a heavy heart. It felt like among the people who joined, I had the least drive to win or to cooperate. When  I saw my co-candidates pactice with so much passion, I told myself to straighten up as well. I learned a lot from them and our coordinators; from the proper posture from answering the QnA's correctly. Sooner or later, the rehearsals we had daily became something to look forward to in my everyday life.

After weeks of practicing and hard work, it was a day before SOMA week, and all of us were nervous to walk on the stage with so many people. It was March 29, the Pre-Pageant. We started of with the intro were we introduce ourselves by partners, then next was the ramps. First ramp was the business attire and then on to the sports attire, then the last bit was the QnA part. To say, every candidate di their best.

2nd day of our ramp was officially the start of SOMA week, our theme wear. From colorful birds down to a fierce and elegant snake, we were all dressed amazingly thanks to our designers.

Finally the coronation night, the night all of us have been waiting for. Our intro was a dance and we were all shy to do the moves, but we gladly did it in the end. From there, we had to change into our sports wear, then to the formal wear. They announced the Top 5 and I was gladly in it along with two of my other blockmates!

In the end, we have our 2nd runner-up's - Princess Joy Labad & Muigs Macavinta, 1st runner-up's - Me & Alex Oliveros (My blockmate), and our Mr. and Ms. SOMA 2016 - Megan Olpindo & Leo Guinid!! 

We all had our share of victory, and I'm so glad I got to join and meet these hardworking people. A memory I will never truly forget!

Sana Dati

Out of all the movie or drama genres, I have one that I really don’t like watching; the typical love story with a married (or soon-to-be) couple with the relationship wrecker, aka the typical 3-way love story. When I was watching the movie, I felt the need to punch a guy in the face.

Sana Dati focuses on the love triangle happening between the cameraman, Dennis (Paulo Avelino), a novice wedding videographer serendipitously hired to cover the wedding of Andrea (Lovi Poe), the last love of his older brother Andrew (Benjamin Alves). Andrea weds Robert (TJ Trinidad), a failed politician-turned-businessman she met during an election campaign. Through Andrea, Dennis finally understands the reason behind his brother’s sudden decision to leave their family. Through Dennis, Andrea discovers another way to relive the perfect love that was abruptly terminated by fate’s cruelty.

First of all, the girl protagonist is really brainless. There are so much more ways to handle that situation in a calm and demeaning manner but she chose to run away and make her family feel bad as if she acted like they never cared for her. Secondly, she had the GUTS to flirt with her DEAD ex’s little brother? Not only that but she requested that they run away together? WOW GIRL, you need Jesus. I was actually really happy that Dennis left and never looked back and Andrea ended up with Robert anyway. I don’t understand how and why Andrea is stupid enough to leave her family again when the guy she has is already so perfect but… Who am I to judge when I haven’t faced love at a true view point. When the movie was nearing its end, Andrea chose to try and love Robert back, she left Dennis and Andrew behind and actually TRIED. I was only happy with the ending, the rest of the plot where… no.

I hate the plot, really. But the cinematography and the way that they delivered the story was amazing and awe-dropping. Despite it being an indie film, it was very well made and you can really tell that the film crew made so much effort in the scenes. A job well done to the director.

RPG Metanoia

I had a very good childhood; playing outside, getting dirty from playing on the dusty grass and being soaked in sweat from the heat of the sun, I had the privilege to play with video games too but that still didn’t stop me from playing outside physically. Seeing that concept in a movie really made me keen on watching it some more.

The movie revolves around an avid online game named Nico who as an eleven year old boy lives a normal child's life. But when he is playing the MMORPG (Massively Multi-players Online Role Playing Game) called Metanoia, he is an unpredictable vagabond armed with a magic yoyo and with uncanny speed and agility in his skill set. Nico got low self-esteem and is only getting his guts from playing Metanoia. That is why when he and his friends were faced with an adversity from the local boys, he felt his world shattered. But they found a saving grace from a new friend which inspired them to continue their online endeavor. However, the Metanoia network was infected with a virus affecting the whole internet, most computers and the minds of gamers all over the world. It's up to Nico, his friends and the other remaining Metanoia players to stop the virus from taking control of the online and offline world. But to do that, Nico must muster his courage, and discover the true hero he really is.

RPG Metanoia is the first 3d-Animation Film that the Philippine’s has ever produced, and with a proud Filipino blood running in my veins, I would say this film is one of the major breakthrough of the Philippines in terms of producing an animation film. The movie showed the very culture of the Philippines, even in the game itself, they showed characteristics of how the Filipino’s dress and the weapons were even more fascinating.

Aside from the interesting plot-line, I loved how the movie showed the values of a kid and the importance of kids being able to find out who they are and what they really want to do in life. Kids nowadays are so busy with technology and we always see parents complaining about that; always saying that when they were kids, they would play outside. I feel bad for the youth nowadays actually… With all the obstructions and technology, I doubt they’d be able to feel what a childhood is really supposed to be like.

Some people detest the movie for its corny animation, but really, it’s better than you think… The animation itself is actually outstanding since it’s the first 3d-animation movie our country has produced. I believe RPG Metanoia is a movie that is highly worth to watch to get in touch with your Filipino roots.

Turn Left Turn Right

Turn Left Turn Tight is based on the best-selling illustrated love story of the same name by renowned Taiwanese author/artist, Jimmy Liao.

The story revolves around dashing John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), an inspiring violinist and Eve Choi (Gigi Leung), a professional translator. Like millions living in a large city, John and Eve lead lives of solitude. Despite staying in the same apartment building, their paths never cross. One day, while walking around a fountain in the park, they finally bump into each other... and it's love at first sight! Unfortunately, a sudden shower cuts the encounter short. They manage to exchange telephone numbers but the rain renders the phone numbers illegible.

Aside from the sappy and kind-of idiotic coincidental encounters that the two main-characters have gone through with and also from those cringe worthy ending scene where they finally found out that they live right next to each other with the help of a freaky earthquake that magically breaks down the wall of their apartment that separates them; the story was humorous in my view. Humorous in a sense that I just laugh at the scenes and not go “awww”, because honestly… The movie was really… too corny in a sense?

First is with that “Rain” incident; they wrote down and exchanged phone numbers on a piece of paper but then it got smudged by the rain. They ended up getting sick and ordering the same food, from the SAME restaurant… I mean… Seriously? YOU GUYS LIVE NEXT TO EACH OTHER. There is over 90/100% possibility that they could have seen each other when going out or something. Another thing are those “supporting” characters; June and Dr. Hu… Seriously? They were just really annoying. I found it funny that they ended up together though, that was actually expected.

I’m not biased or anything since I love watching movies… but this movie… If I had to choose watching any drama love movie, I’d never choose this or even include this in my list of options.

Parasyte

I have always been a fan of gore and bloody films; seeing Parasyte live-action with real looking effects made it even better. I’m actually fond of anime and I’ve already watched the series but the live-action movie did not disappoint at all.

Taken from Wikipedia, “Parasyte” is a science fiction horror manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki, and published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1988 to 1995. The manga was published in North America by first Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kodansha Comics USA. The manga has been adapted into two live-action films in Japan in 2014 and 2015. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse, titled Parasyte -the maxim- aired in Japan between October 2014 and March 2015.

It starts with a 17-year old boy named Shinichi Izumi, who lives with his mother and father in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo. One night, worm-like creatures called Parasites appear on Earth, taking over the brains of human hosts by entering through their ears or noses. One Parasite attempts to crawl into Shinichi's ear while he sleeps, but fails as Shinichi is wearing headphones, and enters his body by burrowing into his arm instead. In the Japanese version, it takes over his right hand and is named MigiBecause Shinichi was able to prevent Migi from travelling further up into his brain, both beings retain their separate intellect and personality. As the duo encounter other Parasites, they capitalize on their strange situation and gradually form a strong bond, working together to survive. This gives them an edge in battling other Parasites who frequently attack the pair upon realization that Shinichi's human brain is still intact. Shinichi feels compelled to fight other Parasites, who devour humans as food, while enlisting Migi's help.

The plot itself is so typically fiction-like; with his mother and dad dying and leaving him to fend for his own, still, its story contents are actually very good as compared to others. I also liked the relationship and bond formed between Shinichi and Migi. Their relationship had some symbolic significance too; as a human , they’re made with a sense of urgency to protect themselves from harm from the likes of Migi’s kind, yet he still chooses to stay with the said parasyte. Migi on the other hand feels strongly for Shinichi; seeing he didn’t fully take over Shinichi’s human form, he developed human senses from Shinichi’s side. Both sides had a strong bond which was tested out when Migi was offered to join his kind as one, but declined and killed the other parasyte in order to protect Shinichi.

Parasyte has a lot of corny and predictable plot twists and turns but nonetheless, the content and flow is just right for a gore fan like me.

Jon Santos

I have to be honest, I was really feeling lazy and I didn’t want to attend because of it, but it’s a good thing I did. I was expecting it to be boring and I was expecting to fall asleep, but Jon Santos kept me awake and lively the whole time.

I got to find out who this “Jon Santos” person is and to say, I was actually thrilled in listening to his story.  An actor, comedian, host, ‘legal’ impersonator and entertainer; Jon Santos has talents that a million would dare kill for. Besides his humorous personality on stage, he told us that he wasn’t actually funny when he’s off stage. That fact surprised me since most comedians have quite the hilarious personality off-stage. Jon is also a writer and has been writing since his college days in UP Diliman and is not writing his own shows. It was even said by the people “In the Philippine scene, nobody is anybody until he or she is done by Jon Santos”.

It was a hard journey for Jon Santos; He started off as an Econ student, but never found satisfaction with being just that. While he was still a student, he started doing shows with Willie Nepomuceno and Tessie Tomas as a supporting role. Both impersonators gradually tell him to choose the path he wants, which was doing shows. And so, Jon Santos followed the path he thought he would never pursue. In a Philippine Entertainment Portal article, the article goes to say that “only a select few can be so hilarious that they’re famous for whom they’re not in real life. Performers like Willie Nepomuceno, Tessie Tomas, and Jon Santos have all been successful in this field. It’s a wonder that they can perfectly imitate not just one but various personalities in different fields” and he was listed as the top 3 in the industry, ranking below Willie Nepomuceno and Tessie Tomas, both of whom were Jon Santos’s mentors. The article further states that Jon is “one of the few actors who can impersonate a man or a woman with perfect ease and gusto”.

You can say Jon Santos has earned many fans during his talk and as well as the respect of many youth for standing up for his own passion and going against the flow of his life.

Cheers and Chants

I was pretty indifferent when Ms. Joyce told us we were going to have a cheer’s and chants competition, but since it was required, I didn’t really have any choice to back out whatsoever.

It was all really tiring to be honest. They merged my block with another one so we were this big group of ABMA students cheering and shouting all over the place. In the beginning of the semester, we had to choose two team leaders; Josh and Nina. They did a good job to actually bring the group together, they were open to others opinion and was able to make the members cooperate willingly.

Our practices were often held in the classroom, if not, then we would go to the auditorium or the activity room in the ground floor. When the day of the competition came, I wasn’t nervous until I was actually on stage. We we’re all in all black and we had an orange bandana on our right arm; we also had a military effect by adding black and orange paint on our faces. Heck, I was even late during the morning. In all honesty, I sucked during the performance and made a lot of mistakes. Despite it being tiring, our chants and cheers were really neat. We started off with our own version of “We will Rock You” by Queen, then a whole lot of others like peanut butter resees cup and other original chants. The last part , we had to spell out “Tigers” using tiger printed cardboards made by me and Rachel, but sadly, was a big failure when we performed it LOL. We didn’t win any place at the end but all of us gave it our all and that’s enough to for us to be satisfied.

I wouldn’t say this was one of the ‘most memorable’ event that I had during the third term, but it was fun to experience, especially because we had another block with us.

Plagarism

Plagiarisms, we often hear that word in the literature and journalism world and the word actually familiar to writers. But for those who don’t have knowledge of what it actually mean, this post was meant for you; what does the word ‘plaigarism’, actually mean?

In the dictionary, ‘plagiarism’ is described as “an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author”. This, in my case, is exactly correct as to dealing with meanings.

Now my other question is, why do people do plagiarism? It’s pretty easy to think about it if you see it in a perspective. If you really don’t want to think, well, here’s an example; imagine yourself having a thesis paper due in just 4 days. Of course you would feel stressed and panicked because you can’t just write a whole thesis paper by yourself within the span of four days, so you’re left with limited options, either you copy and paste, let someone else do your work, or not do them at all. The effects of being a lazy person can also be an example to the topic at hand, if you get too lazy, you get discouraged in writing and studying. So, you reach that brink wherein you just want things over with so you copy someone else’s work. This method is still the same with having someone else doing your work, since another person made the piece, you need to credit them- not you-THEM. The true authors are the ones who receive the recognition, not the people who get paid in cash just because they did.

Plagiarism is already one of the major problems in this world; people copy articles, interviews, and even lines from books without having to put proper credits. Sadly people don’t even care about sources and credts anymore.

Nick Joaquin

Nick Joaquin– also known as Quijano de Manila or Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin– was a Filipino novelist, writer, playwright, poet, and biographer who uses the heritage of the Filipino people as his inspiration and topic for writing his work. Joaquin is very well known for his short stories and novels in the english language– like May Day Eve, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, etc.– and was awarded with the title "National artist of the Philippines for Literature."

Born in the old district of Paco Manila, Joaquin originally started of as a proofreader for the Philippines Free Press and rose up the ladder in becoming a contributing editor and essayist under "Manila Old-Timer". After World War II Joaquin worked as a journalist, gaining fame as a reporter for the Free Press. In 1970 he left the Philippines Free Press and went on to edit Asia-Philippine Leader. During the reign of Ferdinand Marcos, who had won presidency in 1965, corruption started to fuel opposition to his administration. When martial law was declared in 1972 Joaquin was subsequently suspended. He then became the editor of the Philippine Graphic magazine and publisher of the Women's Weekly.

It was during 1943 when Joaquin started writing short stories, poems, and essays. The said author was awarded several times throughout his years as a writer; His essay 'La Naval de Manila' (1943) won in a contest sponsored by the Dominicans; 'Guardia de Honor' was declared the best story of the year in 1949, he received in 1963 the Araw ng Maynila Award, and in 1966 he was conferred the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature, Broadcast and Journalism. In 1976 Joaquin was declared a National Artist.

Nick Joaquin has touched and inspired so many Filipino writers and artists. In fact, he is the most anthologized of all Philippine authors.

Who am I?

Daughter,  sister,  student,  artist,  fangirl,  and  probably  a  nerd;  These  are  the  few  things  that  would  probably  describe  me  in  a  literal  sense.  Of course,  there  is  a  more  complex  description  in each  category  that  I  used  to  described  myself.  I  am  a daughter  that  was  born  here  in  Manila,  from  the womb  of  my  very  loving  mother,  Anna  Marie  Gratela,  who is now  annulled  to  my  father named  Othello Dave(not disturbed to actually open it to others be quite honest), who resides in Davao.  I  am  a  sister,  the  youngest  sibling,  with  my  two  older  twin  sisters  who  seem  to  baby  me  in  the  most  unusual  way,  and  my  brother who  taught  me  how  to  curse  and  punch  a  guy  in  the  face  whenever  there  is  a  need  to. I  am  a student–  well,  I'd  like  to  call  myself  a  struggling  multimedia  art  student  in  APC–  who  strives  to get  in  the  Dean’s  List  in  the  years  of  my  study. Hopefully,  I  don’t  get  an ‘R’  or  a  ‘0’  along  the  way.  I  am  an  artist,  be  it  in  traditional,  digital, or  performing,  who loves  spending  her  time  in  front  of  a  canvas , a  computer,  playing  and experimenting  with  all  the  adobe  programs  with  utmost  curiosity.  I  am  a  fangirl,  who  squeals  like  a  10  year  old,  whenever  I  see  my  favorite  Korean  boy  groups  or  fictional  husbands  do  even  the  most  little  things.  I  am  a  nerd,  who  loves  reading  books  and  watches  fictional  or  non-fictional  series.  Heck,  if  I  had  a  choice  between  living  in the Middle-earth  ,  where  I  could  possibly  reside  with  elves  in  Mirkwood  and  finally  get  to  marry  Legolas,  or  this  normal earth  stuck in reality.  I'd  have  no second  thoughts  of  choosing  my  first  option  at  all.  There  is  a  lot  of  things  I  like  to  describe myself  as,  but  the  most  important  detail in my description  is  my  name.  Hi,  I'm  Chelsea  Dave.