About Me

Hello and thank you for Stumbling Upon my blog! My name is Annie; last name pending. I was born and raised in a Catholic, conservative, Vietnamese family. That should say a lot already, but there’s more to each and every one of us than a mere handful of adjectives, so here is me in a few sentences:

I was born in New York City, and I could have grown up there, but when it was time to enter Kindergarten, my dad decided it was safest to raise me in suburbia. Thus, here I am with a supposedly cleaner mind and a more enriched childhood than city children. In truth I am less cultured than most my age and am admittedly dysfunctional in many of today’s most popular fields such as reality TV, electronic music, and aggressive sports. Ask me about my favorite Stravinsky ballet score or how I received an “A” on a four-part chorale composing assignment when I turned in a tango for violin and piano in Theory I, however, and I instantly turn into sunshine.

My interests reside in music: how to play it, how it’s written, and how to share it. It started with piano lessons from my mom at age 4 and lived on Japanese video game music and Sailor Moon for years until I finally understood what I loved about music in high school when I took Theory I: everything. One day I shall earn myself an Artist Diploma Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance and hang it on the wall across my toilet.

Though that is where I would like for my studies to go toward, I regrettably am not a one-trick pony. I have a responsibility to my community to dispense medicine as people refer to me as “Doctor” and a responsibility to God to share the Good News by example. Frankly I have a potty mouth, so that’s rather difficult. However, prayer is powerful and I would like to see myself ten years down the road living happily being enveloped in God's graces, by having good credit, and by having mastered Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Piano Concerto. I hope I am now interesting enough for us to be friends! (Or unrequited readers, however that may work.)

-Annie

PS: This page was written in rounded binary form. Ba-dum. Ching!