Would-be high school English teacher, former marketing assistant & copywriter for Cebu-based real-estate developers and giant bumblebees, ambivalent creative writer, mother of Athelstan Emil, Xavier Lourenço and Himaya Amarantha, wife of Criocksz, erstwhile--and would like to be again--I.T. professional.

Backyard bootlegger of just about anything that can be burnt on a cd-rom, for personal use only, of course. Once encoded countless theses, reports and dissertations to pay for college tuition. Learned most graphics and layout programs hands-on, back when there were no "XYZ for Dummies" books. Learned web design and coding via tutorials on the net, reverse-engineering web pages that I thought were cool at the time.

Learned BASIC programming on a Radio Shack TRS-80. Once believed in STI's slogan "First we'll train you, then we'll hire you" and studied COBOL programming in the early-80's in Cebu. First computer was an IBM XT compatible that ran on two 5¼ floppy disk drives, with MS DOS 4.0 and Wordstar 3.0.

As a writer attended various workshops around the country until I became too old for most of them. Been published in several national magazines, proof of which exist only in these magazines archives, as mine have been consigned to the left-behind corners of gypsyhood. I do have proof of Homelife's honor, two in fact, as 2000 was the year both their suppliers came up with the plaques consigned, which both ended up with the winners who now have one sitting on their shelves and one hanging on their walls.

These facts may or may not be in my résumé, but I certify that all of them are in fact true and correct.