Born and raised in the city of Manila,
Philippines, I arrived on the shores of
New York in the year 1994. Now fully
acclimated to American culture, I wake
up to the steady humming comfort of
my computer, eat a continuous supply
of Taco Bell's steak supreme chalupas,
snore through derivatives and loop
algorithms at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, take my daily fix of anything
with rice, call Ron, write back all of the
twenty thousand outdated and
meaningless e-mails, run out of things
to occupy procrastination time, finally
do productive work passionately in the
wee hours of the morning, and sleep to
the sweet humming of my computer life
line.