story of my life
This is just a little story of how I came about leading up to
what I am currently doing. It will be updated as my life goes on.
My mom was born in the Philippines. She was
setup with a Filipino man by her parents and they were married.
It was what you call an arranged marriage. Later they divorced
and in 1980 she moved with my aunt to California where she met a
Filipino man. They were later married in 1981. In March of 1982
while 7 months pregnant with me she and my father were driving
home after going out to dinner and got into a car accident. My
mother was rushed to the hospital where they had to do a c-
section on her or else she and I would have been dead. Since they
took my mother out of the car first my father died.
My mother than decided to move to New York to
live in Manhattan. After a few months she moved to Ohio. In the
same year she moved back to New york to stay with her cousin.
Then she moved to the apartment my uncle was living at. He had
come to New York a few years before my mom came to the United
States. We lived at the apartment in Rego Park with my uncle and
grandmother. Another uncle came from the Philippines to live with
us. All the while we lived there she had 3 boyfriends. I went to
Montessori school for pre-school. I then went to Our Lady of the
Angeles school. In that school they had me take a test to see if
I was to be put in kindergarten or in first grade. They told me
that I was to skip kindergarten and go to first grade. I got good
grades. When I was in 3rd grade they told me that I had to repeat
3rd grade again even though my grades showed that I could advance
into 4th grade. My grades were all good. They were just doing
that becuase I didn't go to kindergarten and they just wanted my
mom's money. My mom took me out of that school and sent me to
P.S. 102. I started in that school in 3rd grade. That school only
went until 5th grade so I graduated that school in 5th grade.
During 5th grade I was in the chorus club (singing). During this
time my mom and I moved into our own apartment diagonally across
from where we were living. We lived there for a little until one
of my uncle came to live with us. My mom was also dating a 4th
guy. After graduating P.S. 102 I went to Ascension school. During
this time my mom, uncle, and I moved across the street from where
we were living to a condominium where I finally got my own room.
I graduated that school and went to St. Agnes Academic High
School.
St. Agnes is an all girls school. I tried out
for the basketball team my first two years there but didn't make
it. I ended up joining the Multi-culture Club. It is a club where
you go on trips to different clutural events and you eat foods
from different countries. One place we went to was to the Jewish
Heritage Museum. In my junior year I did the walk for breast
cancer. I also joined the multi-culture club again, the art club,
the Future Teachers of America club (club for people who want to
become a teacher), library club, and Teens For Life club (club
for those against abortion). I was also awarded a pin and
certificate for doing over the required number of hours for
community service. I was also choosen to do something for
spanish. I don't remember what it was but I had to go to another
high school and answer questions on a paper. It was like taking a
test in spanish class. I got a pin and a certificate for my
participation. The reason I was choosen was because I got the
highest grade in spanish class.
In March of 1999 my mom and her 4th boyfriend
finally got married after 9 years of dating. In June of the same
year we moved to upstate NY (Rockland County). I left my high
school after 3 years and went to Ramapo High School. In the fall
of 1999 we bought a labrador retriever named Leo. After
graduating I went to Dominican College to study teaching. I
dormed at that school. I met my first boyfriend online while I
was staying there. My grades dropped because of this and I was
missing lots of classes. I ended up going back home the following
year and attending SUNY Rockland Community College where I met my
friend Phoung. We also got another dog in 2001, a golden
retriever named Mikey. I continued to do teaching but my grades
weren't any better. My mom then told me to take up computers
because I was always online or playing games on the computer. The
following year, 2002, I changed my major to Computer Information
Systems (CSI). That year my grades went up so much. I had a
1.something gpa and it went up to a 3.something. I was on
academic probation to getting mostly As and a few Bs in my
classes. I then decided to stick to my major. I was also invloved
in creating websites as a hobby and loved doing that that I
decided to do that. I took classes that invloved in creating
websites like, HTML, PHP/MySQL, and JavaScript. I also took Java
and Visual Basics. I graduated in 2004 with an associate's degree
in CIS. In this same year my mom and my step-father got a
divorce. My mom then decided to move to California to be closer
to her new boyfriend.
Her boyfriend is a guy who is cousins with the
husband of one of my mom's cousin. He was at the hospital the day
I was born. They new each other before that. We stayed with him
for awhile until they bought a house together in Alhambra, CA. We
had our golden retriever with us. The labrador retriever stayed
with my step-father. I attended Pasadena City College in
Pasadena, CA. In January of 2005 I met a guy online and we
started going out. I broke up with my previous boyfriend from New
York. In May of 2006 my grandmother passed away. She was living
in the Philippines at the time. Before she died she had said that
she wanted all her kids to come see her. My mom went there from
California, One of my uncle from New York moved to the
Philippines to take care of her. The other one went there.
Another uncle came from Germany. My aunt from Chicago couldn't go
because of her daughter. She is 9 and would not let her go
without her and she is too young to go to the funeral if there
was to be one. When my mom was there my grandmother told her at
the hospital that she wants her and I to move to Chicago to be
closer to my aunt. She is the youngest in the family and my
grandmothers favorite.
We decided to build a house in Plano, IL. My
mom and I were gonna build a house and right in front of our
house my aunt, uncle, and cousin were gonna build their house. We
were gonna fence the two houses in one big fence. The closing of
that house was in January of 2007. We couldn't sell our house in
California so we couldn't make the closing in Illinois. We ended
up giving up the two houses and losing our down payment. My uncle
lost $5,000 and my mom lost $15,000. We finally sold our house in
California in March of 2007 and we bought a townhome in Aurora,
IL, 3 walking blocks away from where my aunt, uncle, and cousin
live. It is in the same community called Liberty Square. This
house may be smaller than our previous 2 houses, 5 bedrooms,2 1/2
bathrooms in New York and 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in California,
and have only 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom upstairs and 1 bathroom
downstairs but we love it because we are close to family.
I attended North Central College
in Naperville, IL and graduated June of 2010 with a bachelor's
degree in Computer Science. I would love to have a website where
people can sign up for hosting and go to so they can order a
website package where I would create a website for them (whether
coding only or I code and install) or I would install a blog,
message board, picture gallery, or something for them, or I would
create a site for them that I would maintain like I didn't create
the Mia and
Kompany website but I do help to maintain it. I add pictures of
the jewelry she makes and I also add the pictures of all the
magazines that the jewelry is featured in. I would like to do
this and get paid for doing this. Right now I maintain this site
and the Green
Hype Fanlistings Collective and all of it's fanlistings,
namelistings, hatelistings, and physical fanlistings.