Although she laments that her name is oftentimes misspelled and mispronounced, Edelrita Rizo is quite glad that it is very, very hard to have a name match in a criminal database.

The camera was very kind and cooperative for this picture. Thank God!

She was three years old when she first picked up a syllable book and started reading, with perfect enunciation of “ah-eh-ee-oh-ooh,” much to her parents’ surprise. This affinity for words stayed with her as she grew up, now bringing her to the doors of adobo Magazine as a staff writer.

A wide-reader and a sometimes-eloquent speaker, Edz, as she is known to most people these days, started writing her own novels when she was eight, spending her allowance on notebooks and black pens. However, her obsessive-compulsive self prevented her from ever finishing one because she hated seeing streaks of correction liquid, ink blots, and erasures on her works – she’d tear out a page and start over whenever she made an error. By her estimates, she has wasted almost two thousand pages of notebook paper in a span of three years. Mother Nature would be appalled.

Thankfully, the computer age has dawned and her works are now documented online and on her hard drive. A few of her works could also be seen in magazines, which you have to scour bookstores to find.

She doesn’t consider herself a music lover nor a fan of specific types and genres of movies – she prefers the term “appreciator.” Although she keeps an open mind about them, indie movies are not her absolute cup of tea. She’d gladly choose cheesy chick flicks or high-adrenaline action movies simply because they are easier to watch. She admits this will probably make her seem shallow. But she doesn’t mind – for her, movies are meant to be enjoyed. She’ll leave her pondering brain cells for books and editorials. Oh, and for movies like Inception.

Nowadays she dabbles in advertising and the arts with her friends – if they are not playing DotA, that is.

Edz believes she can conquer the world – only if she could get out of her lazy rut and start doing it.