BIRTHDATE: February 6, 1980

BIRTHPLACE: Oxnard, California

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Rochester, New York

FAMILY: Parents Rofulo and Adelina, older sister Abigail, younger sister Melissa

LOVE LIFE: Married to Joe Connolly (one year and still going)

EDUCATION: Vallejo High School--Class of 1998 (go Apaches!); Academy of Art University--Class of 2003, with a BFA in Illustration.

AMBITION: To someday animate and produce my own cartoons; backup plan to develop a comic strip or do freelance work as an illustrator.

CURRENT OCCUPATION: Barista at Starbucks (quite a fun job, really).

PERSONAL TIDBITS:

• I grew up in a military family...actually, my dad was the only one working for the military (U.S. Navy), my mom is an accountant. During the early years of my childhood, my dad would move our family to wherever he was stationed at; I have lived in seven different places total: Oxnard, Alameda (both in California), Hawaii (near Pearl Harbor), Vallejo, Concord and Daly City (also in California), and Arlington, Massachusetts (near Boston). I now live in Rochester, New York with my husband.

• I've been described by friends as intelligent, sweet, kind, and honest. I was once nicknamed "the brain" once because I was a hard worker and knew how to do the work given to me.

• I have sort of a mixed background. Techincally I am a Filipina, but my dad's ancestors were Spanish and my mom's ancestors were Chinese.

• I'm kind of a musical person. My taste in music is pretty wide. I listen to alternative rock, pop, hip-hop, classical, jazz, and trance. I've also played the saxophone when I was in junior high...now I kinda miss it.

• Filipino, Chinese, and Mexican are among my favorite types of food (although I can eat anything--I'm not afraid to try new things, as long as they don't look too strange :D ).

• Blue is my favorite color. Sailor Mercury (my fave Sailor Scout) has always been associated with blue, and my friends from high school have told me that I look like her. I kind of consider her my alter ego.

• I am a total anime freak. Not totally qualified to be an otaku, but I can't help watchin' dem Japanese cartoons. Or reading English-translated mangas (my current favorites are Kare Kano by Masami Tsuda and Fake by Sanami Matoh).

Drawing (made in Photoshop) of me with my husband. Aren't we a cute couple? ^_^

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