Weldon Chen's Personal Bio Page

Weldon's Personal Bio Page

Okay, so you want to know more about me.
I wonder where I should begin.

I was born on the cold sunless night of December 7, 1972. As my Mom will testify, the doctor predicted that I would be born near if not on the 24th. Heh. Me, a X-mas baby. In any case, I was ready a lot earlier. My mom experienced labor at around midnight, and after 6 hours of labor, I was born. This is a story she never fails to remind me. I was born at 4 pounds and 4 ounces. My lungs were undeveloped and I has to be placed on a respirator for 2 weeks until I could live on my own.

Because of this, I'd like to thank:

My parents for the original DNA data sequences,
My Mom for the hours of labor as well as the twenty pound weight gain after the birth,
The March of Dimes for their support for the respirator,
And people like you who support organizations such as the March of Dimes. :-)

I was pretty much a remarkable child. I started talking by 6 months, and I was speaking fluent Chinese by the age on 1. Then, at about age 5, I took my first journey into the Dark Side. I won't go into any details because anything I say can (and will) be used in a court of law. :-) Soooo, during the age of 5-15 I went through my Evil stage. Just your basic extortion, smuggling, piracy, black mail, ritualistic mutilation, black magic, and lack of repect for God and the Law.

Went to Elementary school, learned to read and speak English fluently (while forgetting all vestages of Chinese)
I met my best friend for life Billy Jordon (who happened to be beating me up at the time)
Got into computers, (Apple IIe and IBM-PCs)
Became a loyal trekkie, and a wanna-be Jedi knight and got into Role-playing games (No relation to the Ritualistic mutilation, and black magic. I was into that WAY before I was into D&D.)
and finally fencing (I'm fairly good with the long sword.).

At around age 15 My life turned itself around. I gained a girlfriend. It seems that she had a crush on me for a while, and thanks to my friends (You know who you are!), somehow gotten me to take her out for dinner and the movies. And we stayed a couple for two years of the roughest times in high school. During that time I learned, Spirituality Symbolism, allegory, fine classical music, the power of Art, and quite simply the best time in my whole life.

I left for Berkeley in the spring of '92, failed and got kicked out, fought my way back in, eventually graduated from school with B.S. degree, and now have a job at Sony.

Weldon's Homepage (granakrs@mindspring.com)