About me

I’m basically a wanderer and, if I may say so, sort of a jack-of-all-trades…

I was born in Quezon City, one of the cities which make up the Philippine capital of Metro Manila.

I attended high school at Miriam College (formerly Maryknoll College) from 1986 until my graduation in 1990.

I acquired my Bachelor of Secondary Education, majoring in Social Studies, in 1996 from the University of the Philippines in Diliman (UP Diliman). Four years later, I received my graduate-level Diploma in Archaeology from the Archaeological Studies Program (ASP) of the same university.

In 2001, under the DAAD’s short-term scholarship program, I went to Germany to do research in connection with my M.A. in Prehistory at the University of Tübingen.

In 2003 I moved to Norway, where I tied the knot and settled down early in 2004.

At present I am living with my loving husband and our lovable little cairn terrier in the historic city of Trondheim. Here I am continuing with my studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), this time pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Maritime Archaeology, and at the same time working at the central post office and also as a freelance interpreter.

» Curriculum Vitae (in Norwegian)