Wanna know me?

Hello there!

Let me start this with an apology as I have mistakenly submitted an article that was not supposed to be submitted here. A while ago, I received a notification that my article was not approved and I expected it. I laughed inside thinking how silly that circumstance was. My little niece was playing around dragging my chair, hugging me, and filling me with kisses like she always does. Then suddenly I mistakenly clicked on this community which was next to the community it was supposed to be submitted. I am deeply sorry about that.

Enough with the dramatic explanation. So here it goes.

Hi everyone! My name is Jem and the people around fondly call me the same. I am twenty-one years young (haha) soon turning to be twenty-two. I have curly, thick natural hair and most of the time it gets frizzy. I don't have a fair complexion as I have a brown-toned skin. In the Philippines, we call it kayumanggi or morena, and yes I am from the Philippines and I am a proud Filipina. I like tea over coffee, but I drink coffee anyway when the tea is unavailable. I like food so much that I spend most of my time of the day inside the kitchen cooking anything edible. Funny it is, that at times I make innovations of some recipes and it oftentimes doesn't look palatable but my family eat it anyway (how supportive of them). I started writing just anything that comes to mind when I was in third grade. I could still remember the content, though not entirely. I wrote there how I hated my classmates as they kept bullying me, and guess what it was a poem with rhyme. How incredible that was! So it went on just that, I wrote about just anything that comes to mind. Not until I am in my high school years that I got lazy to write down the thoughts in my head. I kept it inside. But my mother played a great role in rescuing me from that drowning timidness (hahaha). So to make the story short, I now am writing again. I usually write random thoughts at the back page of my school notebooks and workbooks (I don't know why tho).

I love music the way I love food, but it seems like music does not love me back with the same intensity.

I play sports but I don't excel so much in it, just an average player. By the way, I am a frustrated archer. I don't know why but I really love to excel in archery as much as in darts. I like hitting things (just kidding!).

I love gardening too. Since I love eating foods and making them. I like to grow my own ingredients as much as possible. I have an approximately 15 by 20 square meter garden in our backyard with a variety of vegetables and spices, thanks to my papang, you're the best father.

I also love painting, and this time I guess it loved me back a little bit more than music. I like to paint landscapes and abstracts. It gives me a sense of peace. And I love nature too.

Did I share too much of myself? I guess not. Please stop me from typing more. If only I could insert emojis here, I'd put more than a dozen.

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