I started this about page about last week, I haven’t finished the layout, but I thought it would be nice to share with you the work that I put in. I hope you find it quite amusing.
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I have been told in my writings and in normal conversation that I am a one-liner. I assume you know everything that I am about to say, and I put topics in about 10 words or less. Rather than confuse you with a long biography, I will attempt to write 101 things about my past. The first go will indicate the ones that have most shaped me bceause they were the first to pop up. I will also attempt to write 101 things about me that you might not find amusing or didn’t quite make it. So here goes.
1. I was born on the 8th of February in the year 1983.
2. My Dad’s english name was Sary.
3. My Mom’s english name was Len.
4. I am aware that my mother’s maiden name was Thol Tep.
5. She is the only Cambodian I know with a middle name.
6. I do not have a middle name.
7. I was born on a refugee camp in Thailand.
8. My parents are Cambodian.
9. Which makes me a Cambodian.
10. I guess that makes me a ‘Fugee.
11. I have one older brother who was born on Christmas of 1980.
12. I was told I was 16 pounds when I was born, I really don’t believe it.
13. I have no recollection of Thailand, Cambodia, the Philliphines, or even the flight that took me here.
14. My mother gave birth to another son, but do to complications in her womb, he died not too long after.
15. She also tried again in 1988 but the same tragedy occured.
16. As far back as I can remember is when I was 4.
17. I think the first memory I can remember back was one night I was in the back of my parents car, it was raining, and my dad was picking up chairs from some guy’s trash and was claiming it.
18. I came from humble beginnings and I don’t think my parents came to the states with anything.
19. My family was sponsored by a spanish immigrant family who went through the same complications that we have been through.
20. We lived in several different places in Providence, RI, and my mother went through different jobs.
21. She told me before I could speak, that everyday she had to walk to work for hours just to get to her first job.
22. And that is why she probably kept me away from Federal Hill even to this day.
23. Our first home to ourselves was some first floor apartment in the same neighborhood in Providence not far from Cranston St.
24. My first toy got crushed by a car at the driveway of the apartment that I was living. I didn’t know what to say in the right language, so I watched and just let it happen.
25. For the longest time, I believed these 4 brothers were my cousins, but despised them when I was young because they would steal my toys.
26. When we did leave that apartment, my dad bought a three story house 4 streets down.
27. My first pet was a cat that we did not name.
28. On my first day of school, I was brave enough to walk past the neighbor’s dog.
29. On my second day of school, I ran past the neighbor’s dog but fell and got bruises on my face and was late to school.
30. During elementary school, I used to look forward to field trips.
31. I used to lie to my teachers about my vacations just because every kid seemed to have a good story and I didn’t.
32. When we did go on vacation, we drove to Virginia, and when we returned, our house was robbed when we were gone. I lost my TV, VCR, and cat.
33. I learned to read at a higher level very young. I normally went through middle school books so fast, I thought I was the only one.
34. My mom did yell at me once because all I bought was books and she couldn’t afford to keep paying as fast as I was reading them.
35. I grew up watching Saved by The Bell, Family Matters, Voltron, Power Rangers and 90210.
36. I didn’t own a CD until I was 12, but I grew up on Michael Jackson, late pop 80’s, New Kids on The Block, Kris Kross.
37. I was in a mixed classroom when I was in second grade. They combined smart second graders together with average third graders.
38. My second pet was a cat named Julee.
39. I grew up playing Mario Bros., Street Fighter, and Sega Genesis games.
40. I was a skinny kid who didn’t like his mom’s food, and I didn’t play sports because my neighborhood wasn’t safe.
41. Super Mario Bros. 3 was probably the best christmas gift I ever got.
42. My summers consisted of riding bikes everyday and looking forward to the free lunch program at the local church or elementary school.
43. My first concert was when I went to see Color Me Badd at Rocky Point.
44. When I was young, I was familiar with all the gang names and who they looked like.
45. When a dude gets shot in ‘da hood, they take his shoes and hang over electrical wires to symbolize that he never made it out. As a kid, I never knew what those shoes meant that lined up my street.
46. I went to school one day with my pants on backwards like Kris Kross.
47. We moved into an actual house in Cranston which we still live in, in 1992.
48. My cat, Julee gave birth to about 9 kittens since we had her. Seeing a kitten being born looks painful.
49. My first month in Cranston, I placed second in the school spelling bee.
50. I also placed second in the following two years after.
51. I started to play Clarinet in 5th grade, but quit because of high school band.
52. My first computer was a 386DX at 40 mhz. It had no CD rom, sound card or modem.
53. I first learned to program in QBasic, and was also able to write batch files, configure config.sys and autoexec.bat and know all the commands for DOS prompt because Windows wasn’t useful enough.
54. When I first got a modem, the first thing I downloaded was the demo for Quake.
55. The first movie I went to was “Street Fighter”.
56. I listened to alternative in the 5th and 6th grade, just like everybody else
57. I had my first real crush on a girl in 6th grade.
58. I was the ultimate geek in middle school.
59. I slightly started getting into trouble in 7th grade, but I had fun.
60. I also went through 3 girlfriends in 7th grade. None of which I talk to today.
61. I started wearing glasses for near sightedness in 7th grade.
62. I was a lil thug. I wore hats all the time to hide my hair, and occasionally wore size 40 pants.
63. I got really into hip-hop around ‘94 and ‘95, mostly Bad Boy and Wu-Tang stuff.
64. I hung out at the malls all night on Fridays, it was the only thing I looked forward to.
65. The first time I got high was when I was 14. I will never get that same high again.
66. The first time I got drunk was when I was 14. I had about 12 shots of whiskey and drank it like coke.
67. That same night, I puked in a McDonald’s restaurant. First the bathroom and then the dining room.
68. I did not have a hangover the next day I went to school.
69. I lost most of my friends from the transition to high school.
70. I got really into Pro Wrestling when it became popular.
71. I got into weight lifting cuz I got somewhat fat the summer before high school.
72. I got really into modern rock my second year of high school, and was influenced by bands like U2, Rage, and Radiohead.
73. I believe it helped spark creative thinking into believing that you didn’t always have to follow what you think everybody thinks you should do. You did what your mind felt was in peace.
74. I started amateur wrestling in sophomore year of high school. I weighed back then 125 pounds.
75. My first job was for Walgreens. I remember looking forward to turning 16, just so I could keep a job after school.
76. Up till that day, if I had 100 dollars I wouldn’t know what to do with it. I was definitely overwhelmed with the money I was earning every week, since I never received an allowance as a kid.
77. I would often sneak to the bank and cash the paychecks myself for fear that my mother would deposit them into my savings account.
78. I remember how friendly and fast I was able to adapt to my job, and it reminded me when I learned to read so well as a kid.
79. At the school’s diversity bash, I sang 2 Nirvana songs, and got a glimpse of rock stardom. To this day, I am itching to go back to the stage.
80. During the summer before my Junior year, I would often head to free concerts offered by the local radio station. I would look forward to these concerts each week to mosh and crowdsurf. We called each other the BRU mosh crew.
81. The first time I crowdsurfed I blacked out when I fell into the mosh pit at a concert for The Flys. They were doing a cover of “Crazy Train”.
82. My first screen name on AOL was sva40972094 or something. I chose SarinVa316 because Steve Austin the wrestler was popular at the time and I haven’t had to change it since.
83. Around the same time that AOL was popular, I broke my computer and did a summer’s worth of IMing on just a keyboard. It it not as easy as it sounds
84. My first girlfriend in high school was when I was a Junior. She was a froshman, and she didn’t know better because I wasn’t her type.
85. Alot of people ask me where my orange font came from. It came from her, I tried to change it, but it just became a habit.
85. My first cell phone was a Nokia 5190. I was probably one of the first kids in my school to regularly have one, and I had an orange faceplate to stand out.
86. I failed my first driving test when I didn’t stop completely at stop signs. I was a laughing stock of many jokes.
87. I once died my hair completly “nuclear red”. It was the color of Ronald McDonald. My mom disowned me for weeks and would not drive me anywhere for a month.
88. I started looking at colleges my senior year, and thought that I would never be able to go any cool ones because they seemed expensive.
89. My first kiss was from my friend Amanda in my mom’s car.
90. I got my red Accord around Christmas, and at first I didn’t think too much of it because my mom’s car was spacy and luxurious. However all my friends were extremely jealous because it was sporty looking and better than most of the cars in the high school lot. It was also a very good chick magnet.
91. I graduated high school in 2001 and decided to go to the University of New Hampshire because I wanted to branch out.
92. I finally got to see Radiohead in concert that summer.
93. I went to Freshman Camp, and moved to Durham in September, it was peaceful living in a freshman dorm, cuz it was like alot of people were instantly your friend.
94. I did all the typical freshman things, did some things to get involved, but I did not drink or party too much.
95. I joined SCAN and met my good buddy Phil.
96. Doing SCAN stuff with Phil got me to the friends I still see now.
97. At spring festivus, I got really hammered off wild turkey and sang Whitney Houston songs while upside down on a chair. I believe that was the night my drinking career was born.
98. I was asked to join the Gables from my roommate who I haven’t even known for a week yet. It was a toss up decision, and thankfully it has worked out.
99. During the summer, I picked up a job interning for an office at the Department of Environmental Management, I have learned many professional mannerisms from there, and I hope my third summer will be the same.
100. I dropped out of computer science and settled onto business my sophomore year of college.
101. The summer before my junior year, I got into a car accident when I took a left turn without really looking and a van hit me. I was pretty lucky to come out considering the car is pretty much gone.
So there, that was 101 things about my past that not many people know about. I know people don’t really hear these things about me, it’s because so many people just don’t know how to react. Sometimes I tell them these things and most of the time they are just speechless. It’s not something I expect, and we’re all old enough to just laugh at it.
So here are 101 things about me that you probably won’t find amusing. These didn’t quite make the above list and are now mostly confessions. Now this is completely random, and some of it is probably made up or even ripped off.
1. I used to be able to speak Khmer, but now can’t simply because I grew out of it. If my mom were to speak to me, I could pick it up, but I sure can’t speak it to anybody else anymore.
2. I guess I have always been short.
3. I naturally don’t have alot of hair on my body. Girls like that.
4. I remember being so skinny the veins in my arms would pop out. If you are ever skinny, don’t ever bulk up, it is harder to go back than the effort it took you to get bulky.
5. I write with my right hand, but put my left sock on first.
6. I have a birthmark in a location few are allowed to see.
7. I wear a size 9 shoe, but more than likely go one size up cuz I don’t know better.
8. I still park crooked.
9. I like the feeling after you sneeze.
10. When I yawn, my eyes tear up.
11. If you stop touching your hair, it stops itching.
12. Every so often, my think my ear is sensitive and would much rather keep the volume at a low.
13. Sometimes I shower twice a day.
14. I like warmth, but only when there is no or low humidity.
15. I still have never been on the other side of the Mississippi.
16. I used to not eat lunch, so I could save money and buy comic books.
17. I used the ABACABB code in Mortal Kombat just so I could see blood.
18. Michael Jackson is hands down the best dancer ever lived.
19. I have watched “The Goonies” too many times I can’t remember the lines.
20. I wanted to vote for Bush in 1992.
21. I had dreams of being a pimp when I was in 2nd grade.
22. I also had horrible dreams of Golden Buddha statues with big boobies coming to scare me.
23. I like to watch people kiss to see if they mess up.
24. I don’t think I was taught how to walk correctly, I run really loud.
25. I wore Hanes briefs as a kid, but none of the cool comic book superheroes.
26. I can’t swim in the deep end for shit. My mother took me to the beach probably once every 2 years, and in middle school I was afraid of the deep end because the kids would push me in.
27. I always thought RI was boring, but I didn’t live in New Hampshire.
28. When I watched the tv show “Flipper” I would imagine growing up by the shore and having a girlfriend who looked like Jessica Alba.
29. I learned to read music and play the clarinet while I was getting into hip-hop. I guess that is why I can pick it up so easily.
30. I hate how my hair doesn’t do what I want it to do.
31. I don’t type as fast as I should.
32. I am ticklish on my back, but only on suprise.
33. I can make beats by slapping my elbow on parts of my body.
34. I can’t whistle, but my mom is an expert.
35. I confess that the longer I have been 21, the bigger my gut has been.
36. I have always been known to work more than anybody else, but spend it all at the titty bar.
37. I think accents are fun, but can get really annoying.
38. I have a brother but I go between feeling like the only child, to the neglected one.
39. I am an aquarius.
40. If you ask me what my favorite color is, I really can’t tell you.
41. If you ask me what my favorite song is, I really can’t tell you.
42. I’ve smoked back when I was in middle school, but didn’t have the lungs to break myself in.
43. I was born Buddhist, but I am now quite confused.
44. I can get addicted to the internet very quickly.
45. I believe I have some type of OCD.
46. Me have ADD.
47. I don’t have any kids.
48. I eat eggs with soy sauce. So good.
49. I can be extremely selfish to the ones closest to me.
50. I don’t know any of my grandparent’s names.
51. There are plently of times when I didn’t care when something harmed me, physically, emotionally. Brushing your shoulders off is a strong aspect I don’t ever want anyone to endure.
52. I would like to get to know you.
53. I enjoy hot things.
54. I squint when I read street signs.
55. I have never broken a bone, milk does a body good.
56. I have a passion for singing, but the only time I think my voice sounds good is when I’m amplified over a microphone. Can’t practice too much if those aren’t built into a car eh?
57. I look at a piano and it makes sense. I wish I could just wing it out.
58. I am somewhat alright with math, but calculus and algebra can kiss my ass.
59. I have no patience for cooking.
60. I think the only milfs worth going for are teachers and secretarys.
61. The Blair Witch Project scared the bejesus out of me, guess I am gullible.
62. I hope one day, my kids won’t see the things I saw on tv growing up.
63. I sometimes go into McDonald’s and head for the straw dispenser. When noone is looking, I touch all the straws.
64. I sometimes cringe when I think about eating something with my hands after I paid with cash.
65. I never found Monty Python to be that funny.
66. I guess I hate outdoor life, but could get used to it.
67. I hate Cambodian food.
68. I feel pity for those who share my birthday.
69. I masturbate to get those demons out of the closet.
70. I used to like Keystone Light.
71. I didn’t have a cellphone for a while so I wouldn’t have to pay for it.
72. Given happiness on all levels, you will see how romantic I am.
73. You are all spectators in my game.
74. I used to be able to do a split.
75. Everytime my mom was angry at me as a kid she would quickly remind me that she found me in a pile of cow shit when she was running away from her country. I was gullible and believed her out of sympathy.
76. I can never keep a best friend long enough before losing them.
77. I have never taken physics.
78. When I hear somebody likes me, it is quite like, wtf did I do.
79. My favorite workplace (DEM) was downcity Providence, so I enjoyed being around Italians and feeling like part of the mob that runs the damn joint.
80. I admit when I had to drive places for work, I would take the long way back.
81. My mom’s tubes are tied.
82. Sometimes when I eat carbs at night, I wake up hungry.
83. I think winter is only enjoyable in the city, and summer is enjoyable wherever you are.
84. I used to watch infomercials because they get really into it.
85. I don’t like fish because I can taste the bones in my mouth.
86. If I had it, I would give it all up to be an international model.
87. Sometimes strawberries, pineapples and I can be too sweet.
88. When I think my IQ and maturity is insulted when I read Maxim, I go to the library and read Esquire.
89. I sometimes wish I was more into Asian culture, but I was from a small family who was forcefed American life faster than we realized.
90. Seeing how my mom can be so happy these days, I wonder what bothered her when I was a kid. I am scared that she is ‘adjusted’.
91. When people don’t respect things of mine, I secretly wish they would feel my wrath.
92. Sometimes I see people I know and I don’t say hi to them.
93. There have been times I have went idle just so I don’t get any returning IMs.
94. I have had a share of nicknames including The Va, Syringe, Lethal Injection, Sarin Gas, Rusty, Dusty, Sariney.
95. My closest girlfriends would always claim that they made up Sariney. I haven’t heard it in two years. I guess I am losing that charm.
96. I did it for the nookie.
97. Last Christmas I put on a Santa Claus mask, and I said to three of my ladies, ‘ho, ho, ho.’ They didn’t think it was funny.
98. The Shawshank Redemption was the movie that got me to like movies again. The Matrix Reloaded made me hate them again.
99. I often have the urge to do a running hip check into those who ride bikes.
100. I am uncut.
101. At most times, I don’t know what I want.
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