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A friend needed a life-timeline from a friend.

Kuan.. here you are.

1987 :: Born January 1st, the morning after a champagne only party at my parents house in Fairfax VA. (my mother didn’t drink for all you wonderers out there)

1987, July :: Very proud to say, I took my first steps.  I refused to crawl.. my parent’s said I wanted to be like everyone else.  (damn conformist).  This unbridled brazinity (maybe a word) gave me the scar that now sits quietly adjacent my left eye.

1987-1990 :: Literally no memory.  This is okay, as I’ve been told it was a very trying time for me.  Apparently I cried and pooped a lot, who wants to remember that?  Oh yeah I got a baby brother!

1990-1993 :: Climbed all things I could get my grubby paws around.  No specific events come to mind.  This may also be a blessing.. I may have been a terror.

1994 :: Spring Hill Elementary school.  I begin to realize girls exist as their own species. Hobbit = first book every read to me (that I understood).  Hobbit simultaneously becomes favorite book of all time.  Hobbit gets read to me each night for 2 years.

1995 :: I only wore sleeveless shirts.  Wasn’t particularly buff, just didn’t like sleeves.  Never understood the cold my be the cause of my persistent colds.  (I swear I had responsible parents, I was just stubborn).

1996 :: BLIZZARD!! There was so much snow, school was out for two weeks.  Enter my first mac computer.  I remember it was a desktop, beige and clunky but totally awesome.

2001 :: Freshmen year, high school.  First Tuesday of classes, planes hit two buildings I didn’t know existed.  Start watching the news, regularly.  Pick up the Washington Post everyday.  Dad so pumped about this.  Download first patch for a video game.  I remember it was Unreal Tournament III.. one of their only mac releases.  The patch was a cd crack.

2002 :: A sniper attacks 7 people block from my high school, we go into lock down.  We remain this way  for a month when the sniper gets caught.  Purchase a Powerbook 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4.  With 1.25 GB of RAM it steamrolls the competition.  And it’s silver, which is cool.

2003 :: Editor of our lit mag.

2004 :: Spend time in the Dominican Republic doing service work.  Learn Spanish I will forget in the months that follow.  In those months, however, I fell in love with Dori.

2005 :: Senior year, I take advanced Java programming.  Learn what a boolean is.  Graduate from Georgetown Preparatory High School for boys in May.  Begin at Syracuse University in the Fall and realize the world is much larger than I thought.

2007 :: Introduced to Flash and Photoshop.  Always knew what they were but didn’t know how to use them.

2008 :: Take a Flash and Photoshop class, through which I get my first and present design job and brother goes to college, yikes.

Present :: Have first blog.  Know and love technology.  Still a mac enthusiast.  Still working on my kick ass Powerbook G4 I got 6 years ago.  In fact, writing this word with it.  Still with Dori.

You’re welcome Kuan

- Drew

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