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Soul-Stirring Sharon - Part 2
About maybe 6,000. I have signed around 6,000 pictures. And, I have been guilty because I haven't done anything for about three months because I had to catch up with so many things. But in my shooting I just had fun signing the pictures. During my free time I'd just sit down and write while making chika. It's asking so little of you, pasalamat ka nga they're interested in your picture even if it takes a while. I make it a point to sign those because I cannot answer all their e-mails. That's why we also try to answer all the possible questions through the site. I'm only human, and I am not Supergirl. I cannot really answer all their e-mails even if I wanted to. So the least that I could really do is send them a picture every now and then. And I really like to sign everything personally, I never asked anyone to sign anything for me. I enjoy doing it. It's not a chore, it's not something that I have to put up with. And the mails come from all over the world so it's fun. The people here in the house help me out. They have fun just putting it in an envelope, sticking the names, and going to the post-office. How has the Sharon Web site helped you? Well for the first time, everybody from all over the world has instant access to information about me or the latest news about me, and that's very important. You want to keep them updated and you want to let them know when a new record or movie will be coming out or when there's a new article in a newspaper. So a lot of Filipinos in other countries, who have probably been homesick for some time, get to know this information. It also helps and somehow they can interact with each other at the MEGA forum. They can talk with each other, or fight (giggles). It's just fun, it's very exciting and very inspiring. When you see all of a sudden, huh, a fan in Sweden. It's all over and it's so touching. From your photo captions, messages, and articles, I really liked the article you wrote about Julio Iglesias. Yeah, I really love him. It was the least I could do because he really did something no regular superstar would do for someone who is not even of the same caliber. He's a very sweet guy and how could I forget that. Your prose is engaging. Really, I'm a frustrated writer. When did you discover your love for writing? Grade school. When I was in Boston we were given two months to do this paper which was 30% of our grade. I was taking up literary works. Ever since I've always liked anything about reading and essay writing. I've always been interested in that, and I always took to it very naturally.
I also like to read books about the Chinese cultural revolution, biographies. I have this new favorite author who is a very gifted Indian writer. Her name is Shoba De. And I have all her books that I ordered from India. She writes beautiful English, very natural. I also like Barbara Gonzales, Jessica Zafra, and Julie Yap-Daza. I don't like heavy duty writing in which you have to figure out what they're trying to say. I like natural writing because it's easy reading, inspiring and it fills your soul. I always love to write, I always love to read, I can be a stockholder at Amazon. Have you published any column? Oh no, no, no, no. Only when I was in Boston and Ricky Lo asked me to write every now and then. I did two articles for the Philippine Star. It was a way to keep them informed. How do you envision your site in the future? Well, Ronnie is always the first to know about whatever's new. You know what I appreciate in Ronnie is that he is the first one to suggest whatever he thinks would be good for the site. He's so well-informed and he doesn't think twice about sharing with his clients. How has the Internet changed your lifestyle? The big effect of the Net on me is it opened all these doors to more information about anything under the sun. I love searching, you know, like let's see a villa in the South of France. Let's go to Provence, and then you see what's for rent and then you fantasize "Oh, some day I can live in that villa." With my e-mail, it's fun to be in touch with family and friends. |
I write the way I talk, so it's very natural. If I asked someone to write something and pretended it was me you would know it wasn't me, if you knew me well enough. So it was for two months and I did it over a weekend. It was a literary critique of a book we chose that had to be approved by the professor. It was the bonus second story in Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. And I said "Huh?" It was a good grade I got over one weekend because I like to read very much about anything that has to do with history, literature or these American, English literary figures.