About

Lindley Agustin is a fourth year Journalism student from UP Diliman. He is a member of the UP Journalism Club and UP  Christian Brotherhood International (UP-CBI). He finished his high school in New Era University. He is interested in writing novels, essays, short stories and other literary genres. He also plays the piano, is engaged in photography, badminton and bowling, and listening to different movie scores. He likes reading novels, magazines, and classic books.

As fancy dreams, he wants to: (1) write and publish a young adult novel series; (2) reach Colombia; and (3) learn how to speak Cantonese.

Favorite Quotation:  “Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”
–Abraham Lincoln

And perhaps one of the best ways to know one is through the most bizarre. Welcome to my life.

1. I suffer from hematophobia. Blood impales me, it weakens my senses. I would see darkness.

2. I am slightly color-blind.

3. I was born at four pounds (which I think is under the normal weight) but was fat during childhood (I can show some photos)

4. I was a painter before. I only became my writer, with all expressions and emotions shifting to this craft, when I unexpectedly got a medal for being the Writer of the Year during gradeschool. That’s the urge, the motivation.

5. I am defective at pronouncing the ‘R’ sound.

6. Physics was my favorite subject in high school.

7. The first and only major offense I have done during elementary was being mistaken as the one who pushed my female classmate, bruising her. I was gravely affected by it.

8. Here are my ambitions before journalism: (1) painter; (2) scientist; (3) detective; (4) fiction writer; (5) wizard!; (7) flight attendant; and (8) chef

Journalism could take me to each of those in bits and pieces, I’m sure. *winks*

9. It has been taught to me that reading in a moving vehicle, and under a dim light strains vision. I do both but I still possess a 20/20 vision. Yay for me!

10. I hate yogurts, and lactobacilla (spell check…) drinks, for no big reason at all

11.   I used to collect toys taken from fastfood chains. My favorite collection then was the Snoopy Around the World figurines.

12. And I am active in church, very much active. If there’s a sakristan job in our religion, I MIGHT probably be one. It’s a cherished familial quality.