Gabriela - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I loooooooove Music, and I love performing! But I also want to help improve the state of Education (particularly Music Ed.) in the Philippines. Also, I've always wanted to write a book that will "change someone's life" ... and I also want to raise a beautiful family (I've grown up in an extremely close family, I wouldn't know how to live outside of one)... Who says I can't do all those things in one lifetime? :)"Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine; only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate... It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learnt to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, one way or another, has not lived in vain." -- Zoltan Kodaly, 1966

My Interests

classical music, taekwondo, reading, singing, playing the piano, swimming, DOGS! esp. rottweilers, philately, collecting sponge stickers & travel brochures (esp. from Scotland, Germany, Austria, etc.), watching movies with my family!! oooh and I've recently been introduced to the wonderful, fascinating world of BILLIARDS... I love the fact that our college is only a 3 min. walk away from the UPAA's billiard hall hehe

I'd like to meet:

collegemates, old school mates, old and new friends! :) Check out http://sopraninigabi.multiply.comOf course, there's Leonidas and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, MICHAEL FASSBENDER a.k.a. Stelios of 300, Bach, Schubert, Schumann and other great composers, Louisa May Alcott, Anne Boleyn the 2nd wife of Henry VIII, Maria Callas, GABRIEL BYRNE, Billy Crudup, Frank Herbert the creator of DUNE and Matthew MacFadyen of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!! :)

Music:

Anne Sofie von Otter is LUFF! She's AMAZING! Also Cecilia Bartoli, Kathleen Battle & Natalie Dessay ... anything by Hans Zimmer... movie soundtracks (Lion King, Braveheart, Gladiator, etc.), currently obsessing over Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben... lieder, kundimans... used to be a pretty big fan of Charlotte Church (hehehe), Josh Groban, Mario Frangoulis, Maksim, William Joseph

Movies:

300!???!!!!!! The Guardian, Stage Beauty, Pride and Prejudice, Iron Jawed Angel, Million Dollar Baby, The Parent Trap (because it's about TWINS!), The Emperor's Club, The Passion, The Last Samurai, Little Women, A Little Princess, The Last of the Mohicans, Legally Blonde, The Patriot, Braveheart, Amadeus, Center Stage

Television:

Jeopardy, Travellers, Alias... I don't get to watch t.v. much :(

Books:

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (think Frank Miller's 300 in novel form) The Kite Runner, I Capture The Castle, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Sleeping with Schubert, Frank Herbert's DUNE, Jane Austen (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, and PERSUASION!!!) also Agatha Christie (especially AND THEN THERE WERE NONE), a few classic romance novels by Susan Elizabeth Philipps & Julia Quinn, the SHOPAHOLIC series by Sophie Kinsella, Joshua Harris books, Orson Scott Card's ENDER'S GAME and Alvin Maker series

Heroes:

My parents... Gabriela Silang (my namesake!)... Hua Mulan... Louisa May Alcott