
Name: Gemma Truman 
Age: 17 (August 21 1981)
Nationality: American
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Present Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Ethnicity: Thai-German
Languages: English (native), Thai (acquired), French (studied), 
trying to study Latin
Height: 5'8" (170 cm.)
Weight: none of your business
Hair: brownish (dyed golden brown), very fine and at the shoulder 
Eyes: dark brown, short-sighted, with contacts or glasses
Physique: "healthy." You disagree you die.
School: Ruamrudee International School
Grade: 12 (Senior Class of 1999)
Courses: AP English, Psychology, Consumer Math, Journalism I and II, 
Religion XII, P.E.
Grades: I'm a B+ to A to student
Activities: the Jeremiah Singers (contralto), Writing Center (Student 
Director), Student Technician, Forensics (oral interpretation, solo acting, original 
oratory)
Graduation: June 3 1999
Destination: Northern Illinois University at Dekalb or Rockford College.
Hobbies and Interests: writing, reading, 
music, amateur philosophy, computers, amateur web design, food and dining, cinema, 
watching NHL/NBA/NFL
Likes: blue, purple, paradoxes, e-mail, writing (including web 
sites), chocolate, ice cream (chocolate and peanut butter), cappucinos, music and singing, 
my boyfriend Somchart, roses, romance, my backpack, Beavis and Butthead, Madonna's new 
album, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (music and movie), Pierce Brosnan, suave-smelling 
cologne, quiet coffee shops, The Phantom of the Opera, volleyball, Dilbert, Doonesbury, No 
Doubt, The Eagles, patriotism, individuality, Microsoft, angels, Italy (especially the art 
and the food), dim sum, cats, dreams, Lancome's Tresor, Acqua di Gio, Tommy Hilfiger, 
winters, decorative and handwriting fonts
Dislikes: teenyboppers, spelling mistakes, snobs, 
disturbing/illegible fonts, immaturity, science, rave, techno, math, pop culture, 
overexposure, too moody/cheerful people/sites, "loud" stuff, trends, hypocrites, 
Thai music (as in all these amateurs making albums and posing as professionals), the 
Titanic and Leonardo DiCaprio craze, musk, bellbottoms, trends (yak!), spiders, body 
piercing, Hanson, discotheques, and the word "obsession" taken waaay too 
lightly, and the color pink
Fave Literature: The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston 
Leroux), The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli), Robert Frost poetry, Robert Fulghum 
books
Fave Music: No Doubt, The Eagles, Jon Secada, Savage Garden, Ricky 
Martin, Boyz II Men, Green Day, Peter Cetera, Air Supply, Radiohead, Eric Clapton, Alanis 
Morissette, Bon Jovi, Kenny G, Lisa Loeb, Madonna, Vivaldi, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, 
Mozart