Narcisa

A lot of my family members are jockeying for the title of being my number one fan, but I consider my childhood sweetheart (first and last) the most rabid of them all. He asked me to write a little about myself and post a current photo (which he directed and took), just so people will know I’m not a creature from another planet with two heads, and such. 

I’m a very private person, so I won’t talk much about my personal life. Suffice it to say I am very much unavailable, ergo, not single, and very much a family woman.

Writing is my first love. I am very precocious, as my Dad, Charlie (yes, I call my parents by their nicknames, it’s an eighties thing, mom is Fran) tells it. I first learned to read when I was two and at six I could solve Calculus problems. I’m very good with Maths, I enjoy Investment Mathematics very much, but writing stories is my passion. I love telling stories, I love creating worlds into which my readers can disappear for a while. It does not give me a sense of power, rather, humility in recognizing that I was given a gift to entertain people in my own way.

I trained as a journalist and creative writer at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in the mid-1990s and I was born in 1977, the year of the Water Snake in the Chinese Zodiac Calendar, but the creatures terrify me. I will never understand why some people care for them as pets (though I have nothing against them).

I’ve lived in three continents already, but I can say wherever my sweetheart is is home to me. I love boats and travel, the beach, the sun, and the rain. This is why I can say I live in a locale that’s ideal for me: we have summer for a few months, the rainy season for a few more, and cool, dry winters (without snow, mind you) for the rest of the year.

I’ll  do a Holden Caulfield now and shut my virtual trap at this point. I’m like his parents, whom, as he describes it, are touchy as heck. I really don’t like talking about myself much, but my sweetie dangled an irresistible deal in front of me: a ride on his German handmade bike along the beach on a private island for my birthday in exchange for this vignette. It comes with a lot of photo opportunities, so I took the bait. By the way, photography is my other passion. I love graphic arts, too, and I love doing layouts (it’s part of my duties at work in Marketing and Communications).

‘Til then!