Edna

Cram Elementary, Attended 1978 - 1985
Clement Middle, Attended 1987 - 1988
Redlands Senior High, Attended 1988 - 1991, Class of 1991

University of California - Irvine, Attended 1991 - 1996, Class of 1996, Bachelor's Degree, biological sciences and social ecology

pie chef/ marathon gal

San Francisco Road Runners Club, AIDS/ LifeCycle, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate

cycling, running, swimming, reading, writing, traveling, cooking, baking, yoga, movies, checking out fresh produce at local farmers markets, sudoku puzzles, politics and current events

A Rage for Justice, I'm the One That I Want (Margaret Cho's Autobiography), America is in the Heart, On a Bed of Rice, Warrior Lessons, The Secret Life of Bees, It's Not About the Bike (Lance Armstrong's first book), Every Second Counts (Lance Armstrong's second book), sudoku books, anything by e. lynn harris and Jessica Hagedorn; basically anything printed, I will get my hands on it and read it!

Bend It Like Beckham, Better Luck Tommorrow, The Debut, Manhattan, Back To The Future, The Wedding Singer, Vertigo, The Hours, Farenheit 9-11, Cinderella (the one with Paolo Monteblan...mmmm...), Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2

jazz, old school hip hop, 80s tunes, R & B, OPM (original Pilipino Music)...basically anything that I can pretty much dance to or have to listen to if I have to put my bike on a trainer and ride indoors...BTW does the musical interludes in NPR programs count?

Sex and The City, The West Wing, Coupling (the BBC version), The Simpsons, Game Ka Na Ba (if anyone has the Filipino Channel), Korean soap operas with English subtitles, Popcorn Zen (a show showing film shorts by Asian American filmmakers), Meet The Press, Project Runway, anything on CSPAN or those public networks showing legislative hearings in local and state government (yes I still am a political junkie)

Aquarius

Southern Cali gal now calling Northern Cali home. I'm am so not your typical Pinay. I happen to be jocky, goofy, smart, goal oriented and focused. I'm the kind you don't find that often as a prize at the bottom of a cereal box; kind of like a Golden Ticket in a Willie Wonka bar. I have a nutty, somewhat sardonic and somewhat brainy sense of humor that makes some people scratch their head. But yes, I tell crass jokes too. There are certain things I don't mess around with. I take my athletics, activism and politics real seriously mostly because they are my passions in life. I don't settle for anything less making me rather picky about most things although I am very open minded about a lot of things. I am very stubborn and hard headed, earning me the Tagalog monkier "Tigas Ulo" (translated to hard head). I can be sweet as pie but if you cross my path, the result will be rather ugly. I do however make damn good pie...ask any of my friends. Even though I'm the type of gal to give you a 10 year plan on what I want to do in my life, I still find a moment to just be free and let it all go and just see where my life takes me.

So in short, I can make you laugh until your sides burst, challenge your brain until you have a migrane, make you ride up or run up a steep hill or long flat course until you cry "uncle!" from pain or boredom, fatten you up with my latest pastry creation, encourage you to reach for the sun, moon, stars and then some; talk smack to you if you cross my path, take any book or magazine you have and just read it, tell you and take you to lovely dive spots especially in San Francisco, make you eat GU and balut (optional), and just be the best person that I can ever be and hopefully leave a lovely footprint in your heart and hopefully in turn you can give me a sizeable campaign contribution when I run for public office one day.

Hmmm...here's my long list- Frida Khalo, Senator Barak Obama from Illinois, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, Michael J. Fox, Magic Johnson, former Texas governor Ann Richards, Janet Evans, Joan Benoit Samuelson (first American woman to win the Women's Marathon in the 1984 Olympics, the first time this event premiered), Karen Carpenter Phinney (U.S. Olympic Cyclist), Lance Armstrong, Eddy Merckx (5 time Tour de France winner), Jose Llana, Corazon Aquino, and Paolo Monteblan. Now realistically- folks to cycle and run with, folks who are passionate at what they do, someone I can museum hop with (especially those that like modern art), someone to help me brush up on my fledgling Tagalog skills and feed my sudoku addiction (I will literally take the page with the puzzles in the newspaper to solve the sudoku puzzle and you won't get it back! Puhahahaha!). If you are willing to listen to NPR and be a guinea pig for my latest pie, I would love to meet you too!