Saturday, August 16, 2008
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Meimei first gained notoriety as a precocious toddler who used to amaze her parents' friends with her ability to read Newsweek and Reader's Digest on her own, which also led to teasing from said parents' friends' kids. As a middle schooler she scandalized her teachers with book reports on Danielle Steel and John Grisham; by the time she was in high school, she was reading Albert Camus and Jack Kerouac while still maintaining her social status as a dork.After four years as an English major at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa - where she overdosed on several literary theories regarding race, politics, and sexuality - she ended up binging on all sorts of books, from tawdry romance novels to genuinely inspiring Christian theology. Now a graduate of the prestigious Masters of Education program at Chaminade University, she continues to live, read, eat, and pray in Honolulu.
Judged purely by her bookshelves, The Scribe is a royalty-obsessed, chick lit-lovin,’ alterno-fantasy gal with comic strip tendencies. It’s an impressionist sketch of this thirty-something freelance writer living la vida Narnia in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Mei and Happy Scribe hit the ground writing at their high school pubroom, with a brief ‘zine stint on one-issue wonder “Biatche” thrown onstage at various grunge concerts.Eventually, The Scribe got her broadcast journalism degree at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, and maintained a heightened state of caffeination working in island television newsrooms. Other incarnations include radio newscaster, events emcee, and the robotic voice on certain medical and industrial training recordings. When not typing away like a madwoman on her laptop Toshi, she’s spending quality time with her beloved husband and their gigantic cat Lord Kittensley Furface.
