Who am I?

People misjudge me as half Chinese. The truth is I'm half Japanese. Maybe it's because there are a lot of Chinese in our country ever since or maybe they don't know the difference between the looks of the Chinese and the Japanese. Other people thought I'm just a pure Filipino with yellow skin and look like Chinese because of my last name "Reyes" and my middle name is also a Filipino name, "Sumalacay". To be clear, I'm using my Mother's maiden name. Why? It's a long story, but I'm about to use my Father's last name soon. You'll know everything when you read through this.
So here it is. My LONG introduction about myself:

Hi I'm Eri Sumalacay Reyes. I'm 20 years old  and a senior standing at the University of the Philippines Diliman. I'm taking up Bachelor of Sports Science, and I just have one more semester to finish my course (hopefully). Like what I've said above, I am a FilJap. My father is the pure-blood Japanese (Fumio Yamada); while my mom is the pure-blood Filipino (Ma. Rosanna Reyes). The reason I'm using my mother's maiden name is because they got married seven years after I got here in this world. Thus, I'm a legitimated individual. Soon enough, I'll be using the name Eri Yamada, and my nationality will change into Filipino-Japanese (Dual Citizen).

Hobbies and Sports:

My first hobby is to play piano. I started playing piano at the age of 3 and music is my thing. My teacher and other piano teachers told my mom that I could be a prodigy in piano because I'm a fast learner. I did perform some piano pieces that most beginners can't play it yet. I took voice lesson too and can also sing well like my mom (she's a singer, by the way). Me and my parents thought musician will be my future occupation, but then they saw more of my abilities.

(Can't find any pics of me playing piano in my hardive :( )

Same as the time I learned to play piano, I became a dancer too. My first kind of dance I learned is Ballet and still continue to be until age 16. In our ballet school, I was the most flexible dancer. I was also a fast learner in our class, which made me catch up with the older juniors. Because of that, I got some of the major roles in most of our dance recitals. At this time, my parents thought of me as a gifted artist, and I can build up my art school in the future. But these are not the only ones.

At the age of 8, I've become a skater. At first I don't like to skate, but because of the assistant coach who assists me, it pushed me to be one. That was the time me and my dad skate. She told my parents that I was a fast learner, and she could see through me that I have potential in skating. "Who knows your daughter could be an Olympic skater?" she said. Surprisingly, the assistant coach was partly correct.  I go a bunch of gold medals from different competitions and even got crowned as the Ice Princess 2005. But that was it and never become an Olympic skater. I stopped at the age of 13 because the place, where I used to train, got bulldozed, and it was moved to Mall of Asia (very far I know).

Then at the age of 16, I asked my mom to enroll me in artistic gymnastics because I want to learn to do the tumblings. She enrolled me, but the coach told me that I was way better to enroll in Rhythmic Gymnastics (RG) than in artistic because of my outstanding flexibility level. So then I moved to RG. My coach lets me joined the NCR to Palarong Pambansa. Amazingly, I got a bronze medal but never went to Palarong Pambansa

Me practicing for the NCR Meet to Palarong Pambansa

I give up almost everything that I enrolled when I went to college (sad) except for one, dancing. I continued to become a dancer in UP Filipiniana Dance Group. It was not a ballet school anymore. It is a folk and jazz group. Until now I'm still part of the group and realized that maybe dancing is my real thing. At this point, my parents still think that I can build my art school soon but I told them that I wanted to become a doctor or scientist. I'm curious about how our mind and body works and can able to do these things; wondering what our mind and body's limitation.

This photo was taken during our Kinsarap Sumayaw Concert @ UP Theatre

Likes and Dislikes:

When it comes to food, I like Japanese food over Filipino food. I got my dad's taste of food lol. I also like French and Italian Food. 

I like to compose music (not lyrical). I'm also a very techie person. I love to edit photos, videos, and music. I'm also a gamer like my father, but he's more of card games; I'm more of computer games. 

Movies? yes. I love science fiction or non-fiction movies. I also love watching anime movies

Adventure is my most favorite one. I love to discover new things around me. If I'm just a millionaire and have much time, I'll go around the world and see our beautiful nature (Nature is LOVE).

When it comes to dislikes, first is I'm not fond of reading books. I easily get asleep whenever I read except science and educational books. 

Second is crabs, animal blood and other exotic food because I'm allergic to them :(.

Third, locked up in the house and school and never can go adventure.

Fourth, overstress. Sickness can get through me faster both physically and emotionally.

Last, Pain. Too much pain for me can lead me grievously ill.

So I guess that's enough to tell about me :D