What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Perfect happiness is living life in accordance to your passions with such drive and purpose. Perfect happiness is waking up in the morning and the first thing that greets you is the face of the one you love. The same face that you will see last at the end of the day. There will be an offspring or two that will drive you crazy, a lil cozy home that you can call your own that breathes your personality, and friends that you have for life. You can’t really ask for anything more.
What is your greatest fear?
Failure. I fear that my life will accumulate to nothing; that is, not to say that I will measure success in terms of wealth and possessions. By failure, I mean a life of no movement, no substance, and of misery. A life that is no longer yours. By failure, what I meant was the inability to maximize your potential and to truly live your life the way you want to live it.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Jane Austen, Albert Camus, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Pablo Neruda, Billie Holiday.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I think too much. I think to the point of exhaustion.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Love, loyalty, and affection.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Hahahaha. Abstinence and to some extent patience.
What is your favorite journey?
It would have to be the one that started on November 22, 1982, that I pray will continue on for a long, long time. A journey that I hope that will continue to be fruitful and meaningful till the last flicker of life’s ember.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
None. You’ve got to be happy with what you’ve got. [Hahahahaha]. But my least favorite is my forehead.
Which words or phrases do you must overuse?
For some reason lately I’ve been quite a potty mouth. I’d say tangina a lot and shit.
What is your greatest regret?
Hmmm. In various instances, I should have been more aggressive and forthright with things. I don’t like to dwell on the what ifs and the should have beens.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Chismosa, Chismoso! My family, my future hubby, my future family and my real friends.
When and where were you happiest?
When I am in the company of the ones I love.
Which talent would you most like to have?
To be the greatest mother to my [future] children.
What is your current state of mind?
I would like to shut off distractions for now, which I find very difficult. I don’t want to exacerbate things, waste my time for things I have no control over. I’ve to gear myself up to getting my license. Afterwards, I’ve to pursue my grad studies.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Not a damn thing. You’ve got to be happy with what you’ve got.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Life’s yet to unfold…But if I could fast-forward and if god grants me then it would be my children.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
A bird.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I’ll repeat what Quincy Jones said, “When you are not able to turn darkness into light. It is a choice.” I would also say poverty. Nothing deters your spirit more than poverty.
What is your favorite occupation?
Any where you can creatively express yourself.
What is your marked characteristic?
Never-ending curiosity, love pats, my loud laugh, lip movements.
What quality you most like in a man?
The ability to express and convey what he truly thinks and feels without thinking it as a sign of weakness. Also, a big heart and an open mind.
What quality do you most like in a woman?
An honest heart, depth of understanding, forgiving, inner and outer beauty.
Who are your favorite writers?
Pablo Neruda, Laura Esquivel, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I would have to say the Little Prince in Saint-Exupery’s tale.
Who are your heroes in real life?
I don’t know about heroes. But I admire Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Jose Rizal, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.
What is it that you most dislike?
I hate bullshit!
How would you like to die?
Uuuum. I would like to die peacefully in my sleep after seeing the sunset, having wine and dinner with family and friends, sharing nostalgic stories and laughing, kissing and hugging each one of them, and making sweet, rawr passionate love with my man.
What is your motto?
In Robert Frost’s words he states “life goes on”. There’s the “I’d rather say, ‘I’m sorry I did it’ than ‘I wish I had,’ “and “live each day as if it was the last”.
