Escritos do Coracao.
Writings from the Heart.
As taken from Valerie Oliveiro’s profile on UrbanWire:
“Val. The girl best remembered as the one with a long full name: Valerie Marie Janelle Natalie Oliveiro.
Valerie is blessed with a good voice. She’ll start singing Christmas songs even if it’s just May. Valerie would love to be on-air someday. Recording reviews for Lush 99.5fm in 2007 was absolute bliss to her.
Marie is the insightful and reflective girl who loves penning her thoughts down. She thinks that going anywhere without a notebook and a pen is a crime. She even has a dream diary so she can write down how her dream went. With the diary, she can trace if something she dreamt had come true. If you turn up at her door with chocolate, hugs and wine on the morning of her birthday, yet another one of Marie’s dream would have come true!
On 5 March, Marie once wrote about dreams in her personal diary:
“Dreams.
Are we influenced by what we remember from our dreams?
Or do we influence what happens in our dreams?
Do dreams show what could possibly happen?
Or do dreams project what we’re really thinking and hoping for?
A reflector or a reflection?”
Janelle hopes to be an arts writer. If that doesn’t work out, she could pull out an old long list of dream jobs such as marine-biologist (only because she loves dolphins), literature teacher, singer, newscaster, artist and the list goes on. Here were her thoughts on 29 March 2008:
”Now that I’ve entered the working world, I finally understand why the adults always reminisce about their hopes and dreams and ambitions of the past. When I asked to choose between what I like to do and another job that offers a better pay, my answer was a simple shrug. Naturally anyone who’s sane would choose a job that she or he prefers. I wonder if years later, my heart cringe when anyone asks me, “Hey, I thought you wanted to go into the radio industry when you were younger? If you could, would you go back in time and change careers? ”
Natalie has an eye for detail. She’s nurtured her artistic talent over the years – from the kid who draws on napkins while waiting for her food to the young lady who takes her canvas out to the park and draws. Warning: When you visit a museum with her, she may spout “arty-lingo” anytime or stop abruptly in front of an artwork without prior notice. Deep down inside she’s just yearning to reach out, run her fingers along the brushstrokes and feel the artist’s emotion that resulted in a stroke of brilliance.
Oliveiro is the listener that you’d seek for help: supportive, tolerant and understanding. You can even call her at 4am to talk. She can tell when someone is troubled. She wants to help people, talk to them and hear them out. Therefore she’ll know what’s bothering them and do her best to help them. At the end of the day, she’ll be able to cheer them up!
So add them all up and what do you get?
Val.
A 59-second interview with Val:
UW: Tell us more about yourself in just 59 seconds starting… NOW!
Val: *takes a deep breath, thus wasting 3 seconds*
I hardly eat vegetables!
I hate to get my feet wet.
I’d rather have a blanket to wrap around me than a bed without a blanket.
I want the red heart-shaped pillow from IKEA!
I can be easily cheered up with brownies and ice-cream.
I love red wine.
I secretly wonder if Singapore owns an atomic bomb. So cool!
I love writing.
I try not to say any swear words.
I can’t swim or cycle well enough to save my life.
Should I even be telling you that information?
My favourite thing about being sick is lying in bed with blanket and pillows snug tight around me.
If I was wealthy, I would live in Spain because it’s so beautiful. Barcelona, here I come!
*finally breathes in*
Was that enough?
UW: *glares at the official UrbanWire stopwatch* No. It was a nanosecond extra. You’re out.
Val: WHAT!?!”
This WordPress blog was created by Val on June 9, 2008 when she realised that her personal blogs held many poems, prose, stories and little fragments of writings that she would like to collate nicely. As such, please take note that writings posted here may be personal while others may have no co-relation to the situation she is in, although Val confesses that readers tend to be able to pick out certain similarities between characters in her writings and themselves. She would like to take this opportunity to reassure you, dear reader, that it may not be as it seems. Or is it really a depiction of life’s situations and those in it? Val urges you to read deeper, read deeper, delve in it and the gold you’ll find at the end will be the revelation of her true thoughts and feelings. And that, my friend, is not given out freely.
Enjoy.
Valerie Oliveiro
valeriemjo@gmail.com
