Fun Facts!
This is Noreen's go-to disposable vape.
What is Fog Formula Lychee Ice?
While working at Story Cafe, a popular brunch spot in Richmond, Noreen was scheduled once a week for this weekly music night.
What is classic HK Pop night?
This is Noreen's preferred spirit.
Bonus 50 points if you can guess their favourite (Filipino) brand.
What is gin?
Bonus 50 points: Ginebra San Miguel
Noreen's current position within Sulong UBC.
What is the chairperson?
This is Noreen's family's hometown in the Philippines.
What is Baguio City?
In the controversial and tone-deaf manga and anime series, Hetalia: Axis Powers, nation states and empires were characterized as personified characters. As a teenager, Noreen's fictional character crush is a state that no longer exists today.
What is Prussia?
At Pacific Poke, Noreen's favourite non-protein topping is known for its pungent, spicy, fermented flavour.
What is Cucumber Kimchi?
In Noreen's opinion, this is the best place to get coffee on UBC campus.
What is Great Dane Coffee?
Noreen's ex broke up with them the day after the first Worker's Appreciation Lunch of the term and the day before this important red letter date/mobilization.
What is the 53rd Anniversary of Martial Law?
Noreen was born in Canada, but growing up their first language was not English. In addition to Tagalog, they were using this language at home fluently before attending elementary school.
What is Ilocano?
Noreen has played this the Japanese mobile game, Fate Grand Order, since high school. These two characters share the same name of their Noble Phantasm, Enuma Elish.
Who are Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
Noreen worked as a server and bartender (and really everything front-of house) at SSP, a restaurant company at YVR airport. This terminal is despised by Noreen due to the cash dispensing machine being a 20-minute walk away from their workplace(s).
What is the domestic terminal?
This Canadian liquor served straight on the rocks with a splash of water is Noreen's go-to drink to get into Tito-mode for karaoke.
What is Crown Royal?
Prior to joining Sulong, Noreen attended and participated in an Educational Discussion facilitated by Anakbayan in 2020. This would change their view on the conditions of Filipinos living in their diaspora and motivate them to eventually join the revolutionary struggle.
What is Philippine Society and Revolution?
During their family trip to the Philippines in 2023, Noreen and their family travelled to Buscalan, Kalinga Province to get traditional "batok" tattoos by the Indigenous artists there. These are the names of Noreen's "batok" tattoos.
What are the centipede and snake skin tattoos?
Noreen was an active member of their high school dragon boat team, Quantum Blue, and later in university, UBC Current. Before their retirement in 2022, this was their preferred paddle side.
What is the right side?
Prior to working at Starbucks Sea Island Way, Noreen worked at another Starbucks location when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the store to close and paid workers that isolated during lockdown.
What is Starbucks Dunbar?
While working as a bartender at SSP (a restaurant company at YVR) Noreen has been sprayed with beer by changing kegs multiple times... This particular beer has a distinct smell and is associated with...very bad memories.
What is any IPA (nasty)?
This work written by Jose Maria Sison is currently Noreen's favourite Educational Discussion. It teaches Filipino revolutionaries how we must ideologically remould ourselves to better serve the masses.
What is Araling Aktibista (ARAK)?
On the morning of their mom's flight to the Philippines, Pua got into trouble by tearing up papers that were left on Noreen's mom's bed, including this important legal document.
What is their dad's death certificate?
While Noreen was participating in their high school dance team, they also competed while training professionally at two different dance studios in Metro Vancouver. This was one of them.
Bonus 50 points if you can answer both
What is Studio 604 or Freshgroove Productions?
Noreen experienced their first double-shift (working two jobs in one day) back in high school by starting their shift at Goodbowl, a restaurant in Richmond, and finishing their second late night shift at this local Vancouver attraction.
What is the PNE?
This was Noreen's go-to STANDARD Starbucks drink. Bonus 50 points if you get the type of espresso right. Extra bonus 50 points if you remember the old name and recipe.
What is a Shaken Espresso?
Bonus 50 points: Blonde espresso
Extra Bonus points: Venti size double shot espresso (5 shots with the old recipe)
This is Noreen's lifelong dream.
What is witnessing the end of Imperialism, Bureaucrat Capitalism, and Feudalism, the three basic problems plaguing the Philippines within their lifetime?
Due to what is believed to be CPTSD symptoms, Noreen suffered from severe memory loss to the point of forgetting almost their entire childhood until this specific year.
What is 2016?