BORN in Saigon, Vietnam
20 May 1979
EMIGRATES to Chicago, Illinois
MOVES to San Jose, California
MAKES "Super-Spider-Bear" and "Radioactive Sharks" comics
1985
WINS Fourth Place, Hot Dog Magazine's Transformers story contest
1989
WINS Third Place, Nintendo Power Magazine's "Writer's Showcase"
1991
INCLUDED in Shattered Reflections: An Anthology of Poetry from Independence High School published by The Center for Literary Arts, San Jose State University
STARTS RECORDING nearly every new "Simpsons" episode
1994
WINS "Best Actor" award at Independence High School for Tom Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie"
WINS Honorable Mention, Villa Montalvo Young Writers' Prose Award
ENTERS UC Berkeley
STUDIES abroad at the University of Birmingham, UK
TRAVELS throughout Europe, especially Italy and France
MAKES "Yes and Notebook" comics
1998
WINS an Art Department Honors Studio for comics paintings (subsequently lost when new professors arrive and space needed from awardees with lowest nomination scores)
April - May 1999
MAKES "Sounding Board," a piece using recordable greeting cards, for new professor Shawn Brixey's "Temporal Structures" class
20 May 1999
GRADUATES from UC Berkeley 20 years after coming to America
BA in Art and English
Oct - Nov 2000
EXHIBITS "House of Cards," revision of 'Sounding Board," at New Fangle 2000. First curated art exhibition.