list of 3 // looking back on 10 years

activism is what i do as a citizen and human being.
-susan sontag

about 10 years ago i:
1. met my life partner
2. caused a cataclysm on campus
3. worked on my last issue of MONSOON

about 9 years ago i:
1. worked at 3 different design firms within 1 year
2. met my future business partner
3. creatively died

about 8 years ago i:
1. married my life partner
2. met isangmahal and formed 2tongues as a result
3. said fuck you to “da man” and “da industry” (aka – birth of atomic kitchen)

about 7 years ago i:
1. recorded & released Broken Speak
2. traveled to New York for the first time
3. started to look for this mythical nation called asian america thru spoken word

about 6 years ago i:
1. wanted to end atomic kitchen
2. unofficially started mango tribe
3. did not have the millennium child i wanted; nor did the world end

about 5 years ago i:
1. APIA SUMMIT 2001 in Seattle!!!
2. knew i had to make some serious changes in my life
3. moved into Freedom Road Co-op

about 4 years ago i:
1. had a big blowout with a really good friend in a parking lot
the night before the open dress for sisters in the smoke
2. traveled to India; bonded with the “soy chai club”
3. traveled to Chiang Mai, Luang Prabang & Malaysia

about 3 years ago i:
1. had a run-in with the culture police in Ho Chi Minh City
2. was sick of spoken word
3. had the final 2Tongues show in Chicago

about 2 years ago i:
1. turned 30 on my INS birthday
2. officially left Mango Tribe
3. realized the end of one friendship so i cut off about 30 inches of hair

about 1 year ago i:
1. discovered my real birthday; Saggitarrius/Blue Crystal Storm
2. returned to Cambodia after 25 years
3. discovered movement thru Butoh

today i…
1. am surrounded by fragmentation
2. want to move to warmer climates
3. miss mars all the time