A few days ago, a friend from 10,000+ kilometers away @dawidrams introduced me to this site, and since then I have been exploring the site, and now I have finally decided to introduce myself to you guys.
Hello, my name is Gia, an eighteen-year-old college student from Philippines. My friends call me “The G” as in G for game, because I am always game or open in trying out new things (as long as it is not illegal). I am often taken as some typical airhead girl because I look like one, and I don’t really believe that because I know I am not that kind, but here’s a picture so you could judge it yourselves:
So moving on, I am currently majoring in Psychology for my prelaw in a university in the City of Manila. I am actually an odd mix of so many things, like for example if you were living with me, in the morning, you would see me on the couch in my robe with a coffee in my hand watching the morning news and constantly ranting about socio-political issues reported or discussed on TV like a proper patriarch, but with an added twist of having on fleek eyebrows already set for the day like a supermodel with an early call time. Then at nights, you would see me either watching Kardashian clips, checking out top model or beauty pageant news on the internet, or reading a really philosophical novel.
Aside from those hobbies, I also have this passion in empowering women and continuing to advocate feminism, especially that I am from a Catholic country that it is conservative in a way that it somehow still doesn’t view women as equal with men despite the contributions of females especially mothers in households here. I have a blog that used to be full of feminist articles, but I had to reset it to come back with more encouraging and influential content which I am working on. You can tell that along with my passion for this advocacy also comes my love for writing, and I don’t just write based on feelings, but rather with research and intellectual substance for sure. I am even currently working on a short novel right now in hopes of having it win this really big contest by a known publishing house here and also to influence my fellow youth into being more aware of social issues that our country is facing.
I might have sounded really serious back there, but I swear, I am a fun person, or more like I-didn't-mean-to-be-funny funny due to my frequent accidents like falling from stairs twice within thirty minutes in the same restaurant in front of many people (true story, happened a few days ago), but at least I am here to write and I don’t think my clumsiness is going to affect that.
I am very excited to share with you my thoughts and how it is like to live here in my beautiful country!