: lights travel faster than my fingers on the ivory velvet of your belly :

me: ruby

Born with the name Ruby Olalo the early morning of January 11, 1982, Ruby resides in Project 6, Quezon City. The exact address remains a secret, but here's a clue: her house has a green gate. Used to be black, but her mother figured the color was too depressing.

Living in a family of 6, she hates meeting new people since she has to answer the proverbial question "How does it feel to have a twin?", not to mention that she has NO social skills. She graduated high school at St. James College of Quezon City and she is currently a fourth year student at De La Salle University Main in smog city Taft, taking up Literature. She used to be taking up a double-degree course in English and Literature, but she dropped English Education after so many failed attempts to learn how to come up with a good lecture, and how to write a lecture properly in a blackboard. Her favorite subjects are English and anything related to writing, and she extremely hates anything related to Math and Science. She proved that by failing Chemistry for the first trimester. She has to take it again! (blech) In a lighter note, she failed Fologic and Spanish also. 

A homebody, Ruby prefers reading, listening to music, thinking, and writing all the time. She ocassionally writes essays and reviews on her other passion: music. She loves words that are "watery" and the melody and structure is one of the significant things she considers when constructing poetry. Living in a family who each have their own loves of music, her music choices are quite diverse, although people mistake it as weird for her to like both alternative music and boybands. Her alternative picks are songs by the Goo Goo Dolls, Garbage, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, and the like. Mellow alternative music is what inspires her to write the most and would most likely stop her from walking in the middle of the road if she hears a good one. Her pop music picks are songs by Boyzone, Aqua, and those Thai pop music singers like Bazoo, Dome, and etc. When it comes to poetry, she is very much in-love with the writings of J.Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto, the two masterminds behind Ladlad, an anthology of Philippine Gay Writing. Among the two, Danton Remoto's poetry is what influences her the most. 

Ruby's dream is to be a published writer someday, or at least find her name and writings printed on one of those slim volumes that are found in the "Philippine Publications" section in National Bookstore. If that happens, she could finally die in peace. She has already been published (most usually, electronically) in such websites like JoJo Soyria De Vera's Poetry Wall, The Inkblot, and Dalityapi's online literary folio, Makata. Her poem "Cigarette Tints" was published by the International Library of Poetry in one of their anthologies that no one will probably buy but her, and so is "Reminiscing" in volume 3 of In Our Own Words:A Generation Defining Itself. She also recently proved herself as a desperate writer by submitting an entry to the prestigious Palanca awards, ignoring the fact that young budding poets who have probably won before will be competing with her. Nevertheless, she is currently struggling to improve her writing style to please herself and others.

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