Robin Rivero

Up Integrated School, Attended 1980 - 1992, Class of 1992

L'Alliance française de Toulouse midi-Pyrénées, France, 1997

University Of The Philippines, Diliman, Attended 1997 - 2008, Class of 2008, Master's Degree, English Studies: Creative Writing
University Of The Philippines, Diliman, Attended 1992 - 1997, Class of 1997, Bachelor's Degree, European Languages: French; Minor: English Studies

freelance writer/France Travel Expense Preauditor

National Geographic Society, Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting (KUTING), Bayan Knights

cats, comic books, anime, RPGs, collectible card games, poetry, children's literature, women's autobiography, Japanese culture

The North China Lover (Marguerite Duras), Sputnik Sweetheart (Murakami Haruki), Seeing Through Places (Mary Gordon), A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle), Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard), A Grain of Poetry (Herbert Kohl...thanks, Naya!), A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway), Gates of Fire and all the other Steven Pressfield novels. Pressfield rocks, I tell you! He wrote the more riveting account of the battle of Thermopylae! And the Spartans frikkin had armor :p

Labyrinth, Flight of Dragons, The Last Unicorn, Swan Lake (TOEI adaptation), Clash of the Titans, Neverending Story, Hook, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix trilogy, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind, Les Choristes, les films de Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sea Prince and Fire Child, Field of Dreams :)

David Bowie, Dave Mathews Band, Tori Amos, Enya, Sinead O'Connor, Loreena McKennitt, Maire Brennan, Clannad, Simon & Garfunkel, l'arc~en~ciel, Yoko Kanno anime OSTs

Thursday is "Lie to Me" night with Myke!!! Ahem... Recently enjoyed the first season of Big Bang Theory, loved the fourth season of Doctor Who. My all time favorites: The Super Robot anime, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fairy Tale Theater, Robin Hood (starring Michael Praed), Beauty and the Beast (starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman), Kindred: The Embraced, CSI, The Amazing Race

Virgo

Im Naru Aewen I-Awar... Trenarich e-narniath. Hebin in riniath.

Je crois encore en choses impossibles.

"...I've an eyeful of fish-scale and star." - Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

"And at this place in the ways
I wait for song.
My poem-hand still, on the paper,
all night long.
Poems in throat and hand, asleep,
and my storm beating strong."
-- Muriel Rukeyser, "This Place in the Ways"

The JI Snoops - Junior Inquirer school correspondents from 1998-2001 - the best batch of young writers I've ever had the pleasure of working with :)

Other Junior Inquirer contacts

Etel friends from Voyager and Xmen

IBMers and members of my Nomad family

Bayan Knights and other worthy heroes :)

Myke's friends, my sister's friends, other friends and Romans :p

People I've lost touch with (mea culpa)