About Me

When I was in kindergarten, I tried writing then US President George Bush and Osama bin Laden, pleading them to stop the war on terror. Fast forward a few years, I participated in my first protest, holding a piece of paper with the words "GLORIA RESIGN."

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When I was not immersed in current events, I was writing. One of my grade school teachers noticed that I had a knack for words and told me that I truly am a writer.

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Perhaps I embraced that thought too much that when the time came to choose school clubs, I enlisted for the campus paper and stayed with it for much of my life up to high school. When it was time to choose what degrees we'll be taking in college, among my top choices was journalism.

 

While in journalism school, I worked my way to the top of TomasinoWeb, the online student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, where I may or may not have terrorized our writers.

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After graduation, I got accepted to the law schools of the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines. I chose UP, but eventually dropped out to go back to my roots — journalism.

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It was a wild ride working in the media. I have been to the ruins of Marawi City, gatecrashed parties that President Duterte was attending, spent a night outside a senator's office, and reported live from Hong Kong while on vacation.

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In 2020, the pandemic fried my brain, which led me to seek an escape from journalism. But just after a month, I thought that there can be no sitting idly by as the world burned — so I returned.

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I am now navigating the insides of a world I used to just observe and report on, and enjoying just getting by.