== jp ==

photo taken 11.2007

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born in the Philippines... moved to the Bay Area in 1980... I have one younger sister... grew up in the East Bay (510); Fremont/Union City area... went to Pioneer, New Haven (changed to Ceasar Chavez now), Marshall, Horner and Irvington elementary/middle/jr. high/high schools... experienced growing up in a hip-hop and r&b culture, was into hoop, dancing/breakin, graffiti and dj/mixing... graduated from high school c/o 1995... got my first mac in 1997, a Performa 6400... had the best job ever as a valet parking attendant at Washington Hospital...graduated from SJSU with BA digital media art 2000... lost 5 years of my life being in a relationship... worked all over Silicon Valley as a graphic artist after college (Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Stanford University, Hayward, Fremont) ... spent 2001 through 2005 doing stupid twenty-something-year old things while trying to figure myself and my life out... vacationed to Melbourne, Australia in 2001... met Shrinkage and most of my closest friends in 2001... went to new york for the first time in 2003... started playing yu-gi-oh in 2003... moved into an apartment right by Union City BART in 2003... bought a Scion tC in 2004... got a second job working for Starbucks Coffee in 2004... moved to Ocean Beach, San Diego in September 2005... became self-employed as a web designer in 2005... became vegetarian starting year of 2006... rescued Foxy from the animal shelter October, 2006.... got the keys to my condo in San Diego, right by the ocean in July, 2007...