Hi everyone! I'm Rowena, call me Weng for short. Am an only child born and raised here in Cebu by a single mom. I have been living on my own since she died last December 2007. I finished Bachelors of Elementary Education, licensed to teach elementary school children but at the moment I am working full time as a "human switchboard" for one of the call centers here while studying full time for my Masters degree in special education major in hearing impairment. I have always been fascinated with stationeries and penpalling since I was little, I started penpalling when I was about 15, went hiatus during the college years but got back early this year. I love making and swapping fb's as well as label bags.

 

You May Find This Weird

 

But I have never celebrated my birthday, I grew up being taught that my birthday is just like any other day on the calendar. I've never blown any candle on any cake like everybody else, birthday gifts were foreign to me up till I was a teenager and friends made me handmade stuff as gifts. So if you look at my pictures you'll never find a tiny me in a party dress with a party hat .... that was just not common in our household. That even till now I get amazed when I received a gift even a birthday card.

 

Halloween is recognized here but not celebrated the same way in the US. We don't go trick or treats and halloween stuff [stickers, stationaries and what not are not common here, they exist but very hard to find].

 

Music, Movies, TV Shows

 

My friends think of me as an emo,rock,gothic chick when my earphones on then don't expect to have a care about my surroundings, I get lost in my own little bubble. lol. Currently have a whopping 60 GB of music files on my hard drive, I bring 32gig with me on my iPod Touch. So here's a few of the bands/artists that I listen to: Soul Asylum | Silverchair | Nirvana | The Calling | Lifehouse | Tonic | Trapt | The Fray | FM Static | The Damnwells | Black Lab | Nightwish | Lunik | Dashboard Confessional | Secondhand Serenade | Fallout Boy | Incubus | Deadstar .... and whole bunch more.

 

Movies: Moulin Rouge, Tristan and Isolde, Phantom of the Opera, A Lot Like Love, Serendipity, Pretty Woman, While You Were Sleeping, French Kiss, You've Got Mail, First Knight. Anything of the Arthurian Legend, Greek and Norse Mythology, and movies with the 17th and 18th century setting. I also love fairytales ... all time favorite is Beauty and the Beast.

 

TV Shows: Dawson's Creek, Charmed, Buffy, Angel, Roswell, Friends

 

Anime Mysterious Play [Fushigi Yuugi], Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca, Angel Sanctuary, Magic Knight Rayearth, Vision of Escaflowne, Hunter X Hunter, Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon ... hehehe

 

Books

 

My bookshelf is ever increasing and being the introvert that I am, I prefer to curl up on the couch with a good book than go out and get wasted somewhere on a Friday night. I love to read, plain and simple. My obsession right now to is to complete the entire Sweet Valley Collection from Sweet Valley Kids all the way to University (imagine what that part of my bookshelf already look like); am nowhere near completing it but it's safe to say am almost halfway. Am a fan of the Harry Potter, Twilight and Shopaholic series. The first set of books I finished reading at an early age say around 11 or 12 was the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (am a fan of the mystical, mythical and gothic). All time fave books though would be The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaardner, Phantom by Susan Kaye, An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher and Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner.

 

Just finished The Time Traveller's Wife a month ago and has not been able to start reading since. Am thinking of getting a headstart with "Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami.

 

Arts and Crafts

 

•Scrapbooking [traditional]

•Cross Stitch [I love mythical patterns, i.e. fairies, unicorns]

 

Hobbies

 

•Listening to music

•Reading

•Skateboarding [in the wee hours of the night, when no ones watching]

•Blogging

•Travelling [been to several Asian countries]

•Photography

 

Themes I Heart

 

•Pink and Brown

•Pink and Purple

•Pink and Black

•Pink and Light Blue

•Pink and White

•Vintage

•Black and White

•17th and 18th Century

•Kawaii

 

Wish List

They come in no specific order:

 

•Emily the Strange

•Jordi Labanda Journals | Notebooks | Lettersets

•Scrapbooking Goodies [patterned ribbons, flatback buttons, die cuts, cardstocks, mat stacks, stickers, rub-ons, 12x12 album]

•Rubber Stamps [Alphabets, numbers, border designs, fairies ... etc.]

•Diddl Notepads [A4,A5,A6,A7]

•Stamp Album [large ones]

•Starbucks Tumbler [pink and large]

•Snowglobes, fairy postcards, old castle postcards

•White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration and Moving Forward by Brandon Boyd

•From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss by Brandon Boyd

•DVD copy of the movie: The Song of Hiawatha