Various odds and ends about Angela
This has always been a rather blank page, mostly because I’ve fallen out of the “art” of talking about oneself on websites. It felt so easy back in the days of purple backgrounds and cyan text, and stories about Barbies and Kens and teenyboppery love. (I’m kidding. We didn’t have the Internet when I started writing as a kid.) So let’s see.
I’m Angela. I love the Internet, good books, and good food. I don’t like pretentious people and bad grammar. I’ve been writing since I was seven, and making websites since I was 15, way back in 1998 when we got an Internet connection. I grew up in the Philippines, and started working in the IT industry when I graduated with a Computer Science degree. Right now I’m working at Yahoo! as a web developer and I have moved to Singapore for it. I tinker with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in my day job. I play with them as a hobby, along with PHP. ♥ (You can see my forays into web development in Indiscripts, my tech blog and scripts archive.)
I haven’t written anything of significant length (that is not a journal entry) since I was in fourth year high school (when I was 16). Since then, I have written a few poems, and the very random and sporadic short story. But reading and writing is my first love; I’m just “out of practice” when it comes to creative writing. I’m seeking to correct that. How? That’s what my blog is for: chronicling my path back to creative writing. To some degree.
On the Pursuit of Writing
Most of my writing has been when I was younger. My first story was one where my sister’s Kira and Ken and my own Barbie and Ken(…ji, since we can’t really have two male dolls of the same name, can we? So mine was Kenji!) along with their younger sisters (read: other dolls) go on a hiking trip. The girls get lost, the women faint, and the men save the girls from being sacrificed alive to the scorpion God. Fun! Then they all go back home in a helicopter.
It was very well received by my family. How could they not? My sister and I went on to making plays. I continued on to write stories. Teenyboppery stories, of high school girls in love/hate situations where the boy is actually really crazy about them… back when I pretty much had no knowledge of love than that guy back in second grade who drew really well, up to Devon Sawa.
By the time I was (actually) in high school, my stories then took on another turn, infused with a lot of fantasy elements. I published a trilogy in the school newspaper where I also served, first as a staffer and then literary editor, and then on to being editor-in-chief. The first story (a standalone, really) was well-received, which led to the other two parts. Everything else (maybe around, oh, a dozen stories) was always in perpetual sprucing-up-phase.
And in college? I took up Computer Science, which led me far from my literary aspirations (long story there). I also discovered that thing called a Boyfriend, and alas, he wasn’t inclined towards intellectual discourse and the intricacies of plots. But well, Because I Loved Him™ I was blind to the fact that he wasn’t good for my literary aspirations. Until I woke up, of course. By then I was deep in college thesis, and then work.
Now, I’m working to reclaim that which I’ve forgotten: that easy flow from ideas to written words, that mindset of one who writes, the habits that one accustomed to writing has. It’s not easy, battling with responsibilities, a social life, work, and other hobbies. But it’ll get there in time, and the journey, I know, will always be thrilling.
angela is
angela is a dork • angela is a really helpful and functional tool • angela is coming in for the kill • angela is a natural graph editor with layouting algorithms • angela is unlikely • angela is testing a program • angela is looking for the right people • angela is involved in an experiment monitoring the brain impulses of several unknown people • angela is sometimes excessive • angela is a princess of the magical kingdom of altena • angela is able to move matter using her mind • angela is interested in using the medium of language • angela is not visible from the entrance gate • angela is the sistah for the new millenium • angela is still waiting • angela is a darling 20″ artist porcelain doll • angela is a comely teenager who’s about to flower into a young beauty • angela is quite intriguing • angela is waking up • angela is on at 3 pm • angela is taking the country by storm • angela is experiencing a lot of pain • angela is crazy • angela is alive • angela is a dreamgirl • angela is a writer
