The Filipina journalist

Thea is a journalist who has great interest in war and in peace, and probably everything else in between.

From drug raids to fire calls, to politics and entertainment (is there a difference?), to  rallies, a coup de etat, decades-long war, and several other bombing incidents, Thea has witnessed the glory and the tragedy of life.

She used to work as breaking news reporter for INQUIRER.net, the online arm of leading newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer. She is now with web giant Yahoo!,  as a producer/content editor for Yahoo! Philippines-Southeast Asia.

A forever fan of Spice Girls, Beatles, and Eraserheads (a weird combination, don’t you think?), Thea assumes she is pop culture and avante-garde (Yoko Ono?) personified.

The child in her remains, and she will always love the lessons she got from Dr. Seuss and Michael Bond for “A Bear Called Paddington.”

She got her BS Development Communication degree at the country’s premiere academic institution, the University of the Philippines (Los Banos); an editor of the UPLB Perspective; also a member of UP Sibol, socio-civic organization aimed at “uplifting the lives of the marginalized sectors of the society [preamble].”

She is the only child of a beautiful woman, Celia Fuentebella.

She is now happily engaged to Nicolo Masakayan (whom she loves to call Nixlove) who now works as Philosophy instructor in UPLB. They have a bear-son named Padingtun.