About

About

My first foray into blog writing was in 2008 on MySpace. My writing was primarily to promote the record label my friends and I started. I decided to take the shotgun approach and write about any and everything that came to mind. I placed no premium on quality control. As a result, our modest following (family, significant others, and friends from high school) read unfinished short stories, half-baked political essays, and meandering streams of consciousness. 95% of what I wrote was terrible but at least I posted somewhat consistently.

A couple of years later, I moved on to a Blogspot. I like to think at that point my writing had modestly improved, if for no other reason than the simple fact that I had written a fair number of blogs by then. My writing went from terrible to slightly less terrible which is a big deal in my book.

After I graduated from college, I moved back to Lakewood into my mom’s house. She needed help with the bills plus I couldn’t afford to live on my own. When I wasn’t commuting from Lakewood to Seattle to my two different jobs, seven days a week, I tried to write.

Finally, after months of feelings of post-graduation stagnation, I decided to take the huge step of finally buying a domain name and start writing “professionally” or rather more professional than I had been up to that point. The topics I wrote about ranged from the complexities of race, public speaking, and current events. I put more effort into these blogs which really meant I proofread more and took a long time to find the right word for each sentence.

Then the blogs started drying up. I’d go years without writing anything. My website became a gym membership that was never used. A tinge of guilt would wash over me when I occasionally thought about how I was throwing money away each year renewing my domain name. But for some reason, I could not bring myself to write. So much time had passed, so much had changed in my life and the world around me, I became fearful to express my mind. I was no longer the person I was when I started my blog and I wasn’t sure how to venture forward.

Enter global pandemic.

Being quarantined for the past five months has afforded me plenty of time to evaluate my life. I want to work for myself. I want to create for a living. I want to share my art with the world. And in my heart of hearts, I know that writing will lead me to this deliverance.

A little bit about myself:

  1. I am a husband and  father of two little boys both in diapers.
  2. I am a biracial Filipino American from Lakewood, Washington.
  3. I am in my second year of law school at SU.
  4. I have over twelve years of public speaking experience.
  5. In 2016, I gave a TEDX talk. Check it out here.
  6. I am left-handed.
  7. The corner three was my spot during high school basketball.
  8. I was a college dropout.
  9. I became an executive director at age 32.
  10. Ten years ago I would have never imagined I’d be where I am today. I wrote about it here.
  11. My American Revolutiona short memoir.
  12. My favorite food is pizza.
  13. I want to change the world.
  14. I’ve dedicated my life to self-improvement
  15. If I could have one super power, I’d want to heal people from simply touching them.