Elementary School Crushes

I was a questionable child, I was easily influenced. in fact, I still am.

Oi...


anyways I had a few crushes when I was in Elementary school, but all in the 6th grade.

their names were Jessica Andrews

and Chia...somethingasianchoo.

I blame Dan on both counts, he "influenced" me to take interest in them.

"Yo you should go out with Jessica Andrew's she's got the same last name as your first name!"

so I decided to keep it in the back of my mind, a thought, but I started to grow feelings.

I dunno how it happened, but maybe cause I didn't show interest Dan gave up "influencing" and moved onto another target.

Her name was Chia she was from china I think.
anyways here's the story:

she came into class one day, Mrs. Staten introduced her. "Her name is chia, she's from china, and she's here for a while. Make her feel welcome."

This was during our Challenge 24 sessions, so we'd play 24, a game that had 4 numbers, and you had to use addition subtraction multiplication and division to get to 24, it was hard, but I was really good at it. Chia was put into our group, and I didn't really talk to her, I was quite shy.

After a couple rounds, the girls group invited chia over. Dan took me aside and started talking to me
"Dude Chia totally digs you."
"What are you talking about?" I say.
"Yeah didn't you see the way she holds your hand?"
"Uh, no? she isn't holding my hand."
"Yeah she is, during 24, you always slap first, and then her hand lightly falls onto yours."
"Woah you're right."
"Of course."

so I started to have a crush on Chia, unfortunately a friend of mine, Cara M, Found out but kept it a secret.

later on, during lunch (a couple weeks later) Cara's table (which had Chia) and Andy's table (which had me) got into a fight. and Andy said something to Cara that embarrassed her.

so Cara yelled out real loud "WHAT ANDREW LIKES CHIA?"

the room got quiet. if the room had darkened. you could see me and chia Glow red in embarrassment.

Later Chia took me aside, told me she had no interest in me, I understood.

we didn't really talk, I stopped trying to play hard in Challenge 24. Chia got to finals and beat Roxanne.

she moved to Pennsylvania I think because her dad moved their to business,

but of course, a broken heart Andrew Nguyen thought "she left cuz of me..."

End Story.

Indiana Robotics Invitational

Indiana is probably a favorite of mine.

2 reasons:

• Robots
• Indiana Jones

anyways I first went to IRI in 06 when I was in robotics. it was fun, it was relaxed the people i wanted to see went and I became good friends with Baxter O'Brien, and Justin Mann (great people)

we won the judges award that year. though sean lavery was the only one to accept it.

in 06 we created a video in the car ride, this was during the whole "riding dirty" phase. haha.
Worst Music Video Ever


I went again in 07 this time with a larger crew. from what I remember:

• Justin
• baxter
• me
• heidi
• dave
• sean
• lori
• allie
• mj
• gdawg
• robbie
  
• ted
• mike wherley
• Dan H
• Nick Sorrenson

anyways we made quite an impression there. on the field and off.
we did pretty well. we made it to eliminations and didn't get far

at the talent show I decided to sing a song "crazy little thing called love" by Queen. great song

it was intended to be a serious performance, but seeing as I am not that great of a vocalist and Just learned the song, I thought I'd turn it to a comedic performance to help fortify my playing abilities.



we did great, honorable mention, scarred dave lavery for life.

when we left from Indiana

we made a few more videos

Team Ramrod, and Team Hot Stuff, fight against terrorism

The Origins of Andrew physically, and mentally.

this is short story of a former past I do not wish to dwelve upon.

anyone watch How I met your mother? well you guys know who robin is right? Robin...Sparkles perhaps?

yes I was formerly a childhood music sensation I had great cover hits of the backstreet boys and N*Sync (N*Sync > Backstreet Boys most def)

haha it was my sister's birthday, and me and daniel being cheap asses (but we were only like 8 or 10 or anything in between)

and we wanted to sing her a song

so Daniel and I covered I want you back by N*Sync.

here are some pictures.


Daniel also did the Homer simpson running man

he got splinters in his arm. and we got scattered applause.

end story (and career)

The Neighbors

the Jancuskas(sp?) the Mirabellas and Josie.


there's one story I had with the jancuskas, I'm willing to share I call this one the library.

first off, take my living room and add a bunch of childrens book and place it on every surface. One of the girls sat on the lower stair case
And I came from the top.

I would come to her and say "I have to die I have to die "

"die" put in the right context in Vietnamese means to urinate.

she would mistake me for "You want to Die?!"

and I would respond "No I need to go to the bathroom"

"oh second door down the hall to your left."

then my sister would come out of no where "You told him to die?!!?"

and freak out.

I don't see the funniness in it now. but when I was 6 anything was funny haha

End Story

The Mirabellas,

I'm sure they didnt like us. we were weird, they were weird.

Julia, daniels Unspoken love.

unfortunatly he didnt know how to act around girls, so he'd insult her alot on the bus (yikes).

we did hang out a lot it was fun, we played games, I get sick at their house cuz of the cats.

we'd always tease daniel, "Oh look your girlfriend is at the bus stop why not go meet her" etc.

then they moved, They probably got sick of us.

but they send us christmas cards every year.

End Story.

Josie:

I don't remember much about her, she lived across the street, was into pokemon as much as us, supposedly blamed us for stealing her Blastoise haha.

she had cats too, I'm allergic to them ><

puffed up eyes laying on the couches wheezing, that's the last I remember coming back from her house.

End Story.

How I Met Dan Carew

Dan Carew has been my best friend since 6th grade (2000)

This is how i met him.

he moved here from Madison, New Jersey.

he was a pasty white kid from Joisey. haha

anyways I was a really smart kid. but smart comes at a cost, I unfortunately had no friends. so my teacher had a parent conference with my mom, and told her:

"andrew is an exceptional student he knows his stuff. but between you and me, he isn't quite social. I think he should interact with some kids in class. here's a new students number, dan carew, I want him to call dan and have some sort of play date."

I'm sure dan's mom got the same story regarding a play date haha.

the next day I call dan carew.

"Hi this is andrew."
"Hi this is mr. carew, did you want to talk to dan??"
"yeah."
"Hi this is dan"
"Hey Dan this is andrew, we both have the same teacher. do you want to hang out sometime?"
"yeah sure."

the friday of the same week, I come over to his house.

it was a big place, I proceed to tell him, "Dude you live in a mansion."

so from then on I always tell people dan carew lives on the rich side of Summerfield dr.

as dan gave me the tour of the house he ends it in his room.

Ow ow...not the way you think haha.

now this guy has a history of unclean rooms, I'm not going to lie to you (I did). he just moved here, and his room was already a mess.

So dan takes a look at me, and asks, "Do you know karate moves? Hi-yah!"

he tries to do these fake punch moves.

I punch him in the face.

he falls on the bed gets back up looks at me.
he looked like this after I punched him

"dude that was awesome." he said

we've been freinds ever since.

GEOOORRGIAAAA!

there are many a story that come from georgia:

here are a few.
The Bus, The Flasher, The Gay Man.

The Bus:

now the ride down to Georgia was supposed to be a 10 hour trip down.

it wound up being a 13 hour trip because part way through the bus went to hell and back and decided to think it was "overheating"

we were anxious to get out of the bus, it was horrible! we were watching "The Day After Tommorow"

now dan carew went to VCU 2 weeks before for robotics, and they saw this restaurant called
Tandor "your moms kitchen"

so they created Tandoor "chuck norris" quotes like "Tandoor is the reason Their was a day after tommorow."

Tandoor created the second ice age, with his penis"

"tandoor gave that woman Herpes."

but not so much negetive much more positive haha

anyways 8 hours in we had discovered a secret time, called stupid o'clock, Aaron Hickman I believe asked for the time, and Audrey answered Stupid O'clock, so from then on, they had continually yelled out stupid o'clock. it was rather annoying but we were too tired to complain.

end story

The Flasher:

now this is more my story, I had taken part in this one.

the plan was to room with Dan Carew and Chris Parker, but it messed up. I wound up rooming with David theurer, Brian Thompson, and phil blahblahblah, I wound up sleeping in the Crevace of the beds. anyways coincidentally the Peachtree Regional fell on the same weekend as St. Paddy's day. and who would've thought Holy CRAP, theres an Irish pub, The Loafing Leprechaun, outside our hotel!

haha the day of st. paddy's we had to stay in our rooms due to the drunks perusing the hallways.
phil decided "hey lets go wave at the drunk people"
andrew schmitt came in the room.

as we waved we saw two girls walking through the parking lot, 1 girl very attractive and cute, at least from a 7 story height. the other girl, eh...not so attractive.

the not so attractive girl tried to "impress us" with her karate moves, and almost fell on her butt trying. after giving up, she tried to play it cool, and proceeded to flash us!
don't worry, she was wearing a bra.

the shocking force of such event literally blew me across the room! I fell in between the beds, and Broke my glasses. that's why I had the feather on my glasses the next day, but I'll explain the feather in depth another time.

true story.

of course we were all like DID YOU SEE IT? NO SHE HAD A BRA ON! HAHA OMG THAT WAS FUNNY!

of course Andrew Schmitt replied with "No she didn't have her bra, I swear I saw little round thingies."

he was trying to say "No I saw her nipples when she flashed us."
we told him "Wtf NO, and kicked him out of our room."

end story.

The Gay Man:

I didnt really take part in this, but a few members from team 1002 had a team member who snuck off to this Game Store and was playing halo.

they, and our friend Aaron hickman dared dan to act gay, and try to hit on the guy.

I didnt hear what they said but I saw them all come back all giggly. I'm sure dan will tell more about it.

end story

Yes, The Day After Tommorow is in German

pokemon Cards and Legos

Pokemon Cards:

it started in the fourth grade, everyone was buying it, the tv show was awesome (ash's voice was very...raspy, it's less so now)

I had no cards, I was starting to get into it.

someone gave me an onix to start.

for my birthday and Xmas later I had gotten a hold of those pokemon decks, All great cards in there (blackout was my favorite, Zap sucked).











Kenny I stole a diglet and four energy cards from you.

*Edit* I had gotten ahold of blastoise and charizard through booster pack collection (greatest day[s] ever) and I traded an Alakazam for Venasaur.

I had them in my binder full of cards, ordered correctly by listing number.

one day me and Daniel were playing super smash brothers on the N64 and I accidentally hit a bottle of Gatorade off the table and onto my cards.

I freaked, and was devastated! I quickly cleaned up what I could I took out the rare cards I had acquired and let them out to dry.

Luckily all three of the starters were fine, (yeah bitches my charizard is resistant to water) unfortunately Machamp was not, the card was ruined, wrinkled the foil was peeling from the card

win and lose.

My sister worked at Zany brainy, they started a pokemon TCG League there.

It was fucking awesome. and not cuz my sister was the gym leader, I legitimately was a great "trainer" if you will.

you had this little "guide book" that had a squares on it, you get like 1 stamp for trading, 1 stamp for helping people and like 5 stamps for winning a match (1 for playing a match, so six total if you win)
when you reached every 20 or 25, you get a special card. and at 50 or 75 I don't remember, you get a Gym badge

So long story short.

I got all the gym badges, I got a bunch of pre-release cards and I sold all my cards last year. D:

and now I wish i had them back....good memories.

end story.

I had 4 hitmonchans

Legos:

I loved legos as a kid, my dad lied to me and said that he brought these legos from vietnam for me haha.

we'd always do a kind of role playing a city situation, we'd live in either a city or small town, me and Daniel would have sweet cars. we'd also be super heroes. who were good at karate, tae-kwan-do, or whatever.

every once and a while our cousin Christina would come over and we'd have her play too. she always owned a restaurant and cooked for us.. haha.

every time Daniel plays, he always has a girlfriend, and he'd always have them "making out in bed".


ok it wasn't that ridiculous but you get the gist.

he wasn't even 7 yet.

LOL




End story

Change in posts:

Hey I've decided to post 2 a week, I'll have one every tuesday and Thursday
*Midnight of Tuesday, so monday night likewise for thursday*

it'll be like DLC Release for the Xbox360 and PS3.


I put celebration into google and this is what I got, before I clicked it I thought it was a bunch of dudes....boy was I wrong.

The Origins of Andrew physically, and mentally.

as far as I can remember the few memories I have of my childhood start around the age of 4, here's a few of them.


The Hole in my head:

Well it's not physically a hole in my head, but it's a scar. I've had this since pretty much, 4 years old. Jesus. anyways here's the scoop.

I was just a little kid then, bout Yay high *gestures about 3 feet* anyways I had neighbors, from what I remember their last name were the janowskis? Jancuskas? I don't remember, I should feel horrible for not remembering. they had three daughters, one older than me, one about my age, and another about my brothers age.

we were in my house

KTN-Kitchen
DR-Dinning Room
LR-Living Room

the red line depicts the path taken, variable speeds ranging from 4mph to 5mph
haha not really.

but the picture is true, We were running playing tag but I decided to run in a circle. about the 4th or 5th time around I was dumb and closed my eyes before entering the kitchen, I hit right where the blue circle is, It was a pretty devastating I heard screams from the 3 girls before I blacked out.

4 hours later I woke up in pain, the scent of lemon salt and blood came from my forehead. I had no idea what remedies my parents performed on me, but to my fragile 4 year old body, I couldn't handle any of it, I woke up screaming it was rather horrible.

from then on I had always been asked about it, I would tell people I ran into a wall, I sounded pathetic, but does it sound more pathetic when I mention I was being chased by girls?

end story.


Literal Sensory-

as a kid I always thought Literally, for example I thought a ford explorer was literally a car that can explore areas other cars can't. dumb

~there's a few other ones but I can't remember I'll edit it later~

but this one also relates to the J family from earlier. we had headed over to our neighbors house to have a play date! but they were sick! they had chicken pox! of course at the time, I had no idea what chicken pox, as a kid, when I hear the word chicken I think cooked chicken.

so when the mother told me "I'm sorry 'blah blah' can't come out to play, she has chicken pox."

of course my childlike senses instantly thought A bucket of chicken. you know the generic looking one a red and white stripped (vertically) bucket full of chicken.

"Oooh I want chicken pox, does it taste good?" I say.

my mom tells me chicken pox is a sickness. but then she thought "Andrew hasn't had it yet."

the next morning I had chicken pox.

End story.


Finger in the stick:

I'm overweight I'm not going to deny it. I always thought about how it happened. it was pretty much an increase in McDonalds intake and quitting the soccer team D:

but I recently remembered a past me and some really bad habits.

be it Sucking my thumb and rubbing my right ear to go to bed (solved when my parents put pepper on my thumb every night haha)

but when I was a kid I loved butter. unfortunately I had no limits to my butter intake. I wound up eating butter straight from the stick. my parents caught me one day struggling to grab a stick of butter from the counter in my kitchen.

it was sad.

end story.