Hello! I’m Adrianne P., a 40-something-year old nerdette of many trades. I like writing, reading, art, traveling, exploring, observing, and problem solving.
I started creating my web presence in the late 1990s, when my first website, a Dragonball Z fanfic, was hosted on the now-defunct Geocities. I loved watching DBZ back then through (pirated) fansub VHS tapes and began admiring the female characters there. Chi-Chi, Bulma, Videl, Pan, Android 19, Marron. Somehow, Bulma inspired me that female techies can happen in real life, and I decided to pursue technology. I earned my BFA in Visual Communications back in 2006, concentrating more towards Digital Design.
Looking back in these twenty-plus years… almost thirty years, actually, I’m really amazed how far I’ve come from being a small hobby-only anime fanfic site into a personal space with all other separate websites in them. I may have lost momentum, but at the same time, the passion and fire in building and having fun with these websites is still there. When the domain for The ADRICULOUS Life ended in late March 2024, I thought about quitting the decades-long personal blog/sites scene altogether. After all, most of us who were in this scene were young women in their late teens and twenties. Today, we’re all past the “young” ages and many of us began to live life.
Some of us got married and started building their own families. Some of us have dedicated ourselves to our own careers. Some of us just got into a whole different field of interest. Because of these and other reasons, we end up abandoning our personal blogs/sites and some just simply close down their sites and move on with their lives. I’ve been here and there, more active on my other sites than my personal one, but in this case, I’m still here.
I’m fluent in two languages and somewhat proficient in a third language: Filipino (native), English (2nd language), and Japanese (semi-proficient). But because this is a space catered on a global scale, I’ll be sticking with English.
My hobbies & Interests
I talked about my super-brief history of my web presence and the websites I built. I don’t keep a record of the types of sites that I built and the subjects they present, mainly because I did a lot of experimenting. I still stuck with WordPress, even though I tried other blogging/CMS platforms like Jekyll and Hugo, and even tried headless CMS, too.
The hobbies and interests here should give you an idea about the types of websites that I made these past two-ish decades:
- Anime & Manga
- Video Games
- Writing (fan)fiction
- Reading
- Art
- Photography
- Traveling
- Cooking (?)
Those are my basics. There’s probably more interests that I have, but they’re very minor and not that important to be listed.
Also, once in awhile, I read about the latest trends and news in the web dev industry and beyond. I have my own DevCard to prove it.
