Here are 175 things about me you may or may not have known about me and probably don’t care.  Brought out by boredom. 

1. I’m an Army Brat

2. I have four grey hairs.  3 on top, one in my side burn

3. I shave everyday

4. I didn’t need to start shaving regularly (twice a week at least) till I was 25

5. I’m 27 years old.

6. Out of 25 guy friends/acquaintances in our circle in high school.  23 joined the military, or tried to, after college or high school.  One went to Law school.  I’m the other one.

7. I own a pair of shot put shoes.

8. I’ve never been able to fully explain why I have a pair of shot put shoes.

9. I lose my wallet or keys at least 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes. It completely annoys my roommate.

10. My roommate carries an extra License cause of the enormous chance I’ll lose mine.

11. I can’t grow a full beard

12. Mango is my favorite food.

13. Dr. Pepper is my preferred drink of choice

14. I have had a mullet 3 times in my life.

15. I have had 6 cars.

16. I am a “has been” jock.

17. I had a driver’s license with a mullet.

18. For nearly 7 years, I basically had one haircut a year.

19. That stopped in 2001.

20. I used to grow only one sideburn for extended periods of time to see if anyone would notice.

21.  I only had one sideburn during Road Rules.

22.  Blair was the only one, including people who ever emailed me, that ever noticed.

23.  My sports number for baseball growing up was 5.

24. My mother is from Thailand.

25. At one point in time I had 40 pairs of jeans. (If you include 8 pairs of jean shorts.)

26. I only wore 3 of them.

27.  I still have two pairs of them, with the hope someday, that I may be able to fit in them again.

28. It fascinates me that I have yet to go to a KISS, Eagles, Phish or Boss concert when I’ve seen Backstreet Boys, Nsync, and Usher each twice.

20.  For my first two years in high school, my calves were bigger than my thighs.

21.  I’ve broken my nose twice, within 3 months of each other

22. I had a deviated septum from them with over 95% closure in my right nostril.

23.  My appointment for getting my wisdom teeth out was in February of 1995.

24.  I missed that appointment due to a wrestling meet.

25. I waited till March of 2000, a week before I was released from my parents insurance, to get them out.  All four surfaced three years before and were sideways.

26. I’ve had roughly 8 driver’s licenses. First one was in Tennessee. The rest were Kansas.

27. I grew up in North Carolina, California and Hawaii.  I didn’t get my first real jacket until I was 13.

28.  I used my college ID for discounts until I was 25.

29.  It wasn’t by choice.  I had lost the wallet with my ID’s

30.  I’ve taken classes at 5 different colleges.

31.  Gatorade citrus cooler is my old standby of sports performance drinks.

32.  I went over year without drinking water except for two bottles of Panna and the occasional water fountain at halftime or after a soccer game, but I usually had sports performance drinks or Dr. Pepper on hand.

33. I went through college without ever eating a French fry or potato chip.

34.  I’m first generation Asian and have been knowingly using chopsticks wrong for 26 years, and have yet to even try to correct this.

35. I would rather go thirsty than have a diet cola.

36.  I’ve had diet coke three times in my life as I can recall.  Each in a different decade.

37.  My middle name is Eric.

38.  I used to introduce myself as “Steve E Meinke” when I was younger.

39.  I was called “Stevie” because of that till I was 9.

40.  Tom Petty’s “the waiting” is my first audio memory.  I was two.

41.  Animal House is my first visual memory.  I was 1.5.  I swear.  It was at the drive-in

42.  I was asleep for most of it.  I awoke during the angel/devil scene with the high school girl who stuffed her bra.

43.  I didn’t learn to swim until I was 9.

44.  Lifeguard certified at 17.

45.  I only eat beef jerky if I’m driving for more than 2 hours.

46.  I sing when I drive.  Loud.  While dancing.

47.  I am the first person on my mothers’ side to graduate from college.

49.  This little exercise is kind of fun, and will probably spurn extended articles

50.  I lost my virginity at Morehead St. University.  I swear to god.

51.  I’m pretty sure I sucked at that moment.

52.  The tallest full blooded Asian person I’ve ever scene in person was 6’5.

53.  She was a woman.

54.  She was my cousin’s next door neighbor in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  She then became our next door neighbor in California by sheer coincidence.

55.  I sing in the shower. Loud.

56.  I have the smallest ears of anyone I’ve ever met.

57.  I went to the emergency room at least 4 times more my first five years of life, than the last 22.

58. I can drink tap water in Thailand with no problem.

59. Gin and tonic is my cocktail of choice.

60.  25% of my beer selection is determined by time of year and location.

61.  25% is determined by specials

62.  I rarely get hangovers.

63.  I order my steaks Medium Rare and my burgers medium.

64.  I’ve got magnificent feet.  Except for my heels which can get Grand Canyon type of nasty.

65.  The longest I’ve ever had my PS2 on continuously was 2.5 months.  A power outage caused it to stop.

66.  I still have the Handsome Reward.

67.  When I was younger I wanted to be a baseball player/superhero/comedy writer

68.  I am 27 and want to be a baseball player/superhero/comedy writer.

69. I still giggle sometimes at the number 69.

70.  My sister, 11 years younger, is taller than me.

71.  I wear a 10.5

72.  I dressed in drag for the first time in 4th grade.

73.  My first kindergarten was a full day kindergarten.  We had nap time after lunch.  The teacher never woke me after lunch and had a rule for the other kids not to wake me.  She wouldn’t wake me till it was right before the bell.  Apparently I was too much for her to handle the whole day and was also a heavy sleeper.

74.  My parents never found out.

75.  I moved midway though kindergarten.

76.  I went to two high schools.  First three years at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  The last one was Leavenworth high in    Leavenworth, Kansas.

77.  Melissa Etheridge and Les Nesman from WKRP also went to Leavenworth.

78. I turned down my ROTC scholarship.

79.  I avoided the West Point Representatives at all times in High school. 

80.  I am one of two Asian guys that will probably ever be on Real World or Road Rules.

81.  My first baseball glove was for right-handers.

82.  I’m left handed.

83.  I played my first two baseball games ever with that glove.

84.  I peirced my ear myself when I was 12.

85.  I never had an earring.

86.  My sister and I are the only people with any ethnic genes on my dad’s side of the family.

87.  Myself, my sister, and three cousins are the only people with white genes on my moms side of the family.

88.  My mother goes by Oi.  She has a sister named Toi.

89.  Their closest first cousin, the only other family member that lives in the US, is named Joy....I am not making this up.

90.  My favorite movie of all time is Ferris Bueller’s day off.

91.  The Never-ending Story was the first movie I ever cried at.  When Artex drowned in the swamps of sadness.  “Come boy.  Come along now boy.  Artex?  What’s wrong?!  Your sinking!.....ARTEEEEEEEX!!!!!

92.  Field of Dreams is the second movie I ever cried at.

93.  I’ve been to the field of dreams in Dyersville, IA.

94.  I’ve also been to the world’s largest toy tractor factory in Dyersville, IA

95.  I did not have a fun time at the toy tractor factory.

96.  I’ve puked twice in my life by eating as much food as I can. Once in 4th grade in an eating contest against James Kuwihara.  And once when I was 17 at a Luby’s cafeteria.

97.  The longest I ever went without puking was the time period in between the above mentioned fact.

98.  I’m allergic to a medicine, of which I forgot the name of it, which is commonly used to treat pneumonia.

99.  From 17 to 22 the only time I puked was from fact number 98..

100.  I never puked from alcohol in college. Not even the 21st birthday.

101.  I suck at basketball.

102.  Darts is also included on the list.

103. The class of which I’ve retained the most knowledge from college is photography. Followed by Graphic Design classes.

104.  The most retentive stuff I learned in high school was my health class in 9th grade.

105.  I learned to write from a typewriter.

106.  I still use typewriter “a”s when I write.

107.  I stopped using typewriter “g”’s in third grade cause teachers would mark me off for writing it.

108.  I have terrible penmanship.

109.  I got 25 out of 26 on a penmanship grade cause I didn’t know how to write “Q” in cursive.  Billy Madison also had the same exact problem.  I chuckled.

110. The smell of cooked carrots triggers a gag reflex.

111. I went to an experimental elementary school from first to third grade.

112.  My first girlfriend was named Michelle.  It was in kindergarten.

113.  I had a crush on a girl named Starr in third grade.

114.  I had a crush on Annette and Carla Ann from 4th to 6th.

116.  Yvonne Abrizado, and girl named Christy in 7th grade.

117.  Any girl who talked to me from 8th to 11 grades.

118.  My mother used to nanny kids in Leavenworth Ks,  They were all white with American parents.

119.  They preferred to watch Thai Karaoke on DVD than Barney.

120.  I find that hysterical.

121.  My aunt used to dress my two cousins and me alike as if we were triplets.

122. I’ve had built four forts in my life.

123.  Those aren’t counting household forts built out of sofa cushions or blankets stretched from the sofa and the coffee table.

124.  My first tape ever was a bootleg copy of Prince my dad got for me from Korea.

125. The first tape I ever bought myself was a Thai bootleg copy of Penny Lover” by Lionel Ritchie.

126. My first record ever was Thriller.

127. My first cd’s ever were at Christmas. Roxanne, Wilson Philips, MC Hammer, and Vanilla Ice.

128.  That was in 1990. Cd’s hovered from 18-25 dollars back then.

129.  I didn’t buy another cd for 3 years.

130.  It was Clannad.  I bought it at a Sam Goody my sophomore year.  I bought it because it had a cool song that was played in a Volkswagen commercial.

131. I made a copy of the song to my friend Megan Matthews.  It was the only mixed tape I ever made for a girl.

132.  Carla Ann Takaki (from 114) was the first girl ever to give me a mixed tape.  It was in 6th grade it consisted mostly of INXS and Poison songs.  She liked me too but never admitted it.

133. They were my favorite bands at the time.

134. She was teased so much by the other classmates she cried and never talked to me again. I moved three months later.

135. My roommate was the last girl to give me a mixed tape.

136.  You can make fun, but I damn love Red Lobster.

137.  My dad missed 65% of my baseball and soccer games from 1st-3rd grade.

138. He missed maybe 15% from 4th -8th grade.

139. In my first three years of high school (football, soccer, wrestling, baseball) he missed 10%.

140. My senior year he missed none.

141.  My mom used to refuse to go to my little league soccer and baseball games because I was the loudest most obnoxious kid on the field.  She was embarrassed.

142.  In Hawaii,(86-91) my mom used to make baby outfits with florescent colored fabric that had prints of Geckos with sunglasses and Roaches with Sandals.

143.  She used to use my sister as a model and sell them at flea markets.  They were quite popular.

144.  She made enough $$$ to fund two summer-long trips to Thailand.

145.  In 2001, in Columbia, Missouri.  I saw a little baby wear the hat that my mother made twelve years before.

146.  I’ve eaten at 4 establishments that were on Food Network’s  Top ten places in the US for stuffing yourself.

147.  I’ve used the urinal stalls at two of the “top ten truck stops in the world”.

148. I got perfect attendance three times.

149.  First song I ever cried at was Mike and the Mechanics “say it loud”

150.   I ran 16 miles a week when I was 12.

151. I thought was training for the 1996 Olympics

152.  I watched the 1996 Olympics from my parents blue couch in Leavenworth Kansas. Shirtless.  I was lying on my back with a bag of chips on my stomach and a bugle sticking out of my bellybutton.

153.  That was the last potato chip I ate for 5 years.

154.  At that point I stopped eating French fries.

155.  I started eating fries again in January of 2001 in Morocco

156.  I still haven’t eaten potato chips.   Okay, maybe three or four times.

157.  Baked lays don’t count.

158.  One summer I averaged 10-12 Dr. Peppers a day.

159.  That was during the period of time when I banned fries and chips from my diet, cause I thought it was unhealthy.

160.  I still don’t understand my logic in that thinking.

161.  I’m not a health food junkie.

162.  But I rarely eat junk food.

163.  About 50% of the time when I cut my nails, I always forget to cut my left index finger nail, and don’t realize it until a day or two later.

164.  I still have no idea why I do this

165.  For 3 years i kept two cameras (one automatic, one SLR) and a video camera with me at all times.

166. I stopped when my car got stolen.

167.  I laughed when it happened.

168.  So did matt.

169.  I ate rocky road ice cream that night.

170.  Rocky road was one of my nicknames at the restaurant I worked at during college.

171.  My fashion since in 9th grade could best be described as “Color Me Badd” (solid bright colored t-shirt under a bright and different colored shirt.

172. I have 553 songs or 21.4 hours worth of music of Guided By voices on my itunes

173.  I’m not really that HUGE of a Fan

174.  I would say I like Weezer more.

175.  They’re not on my itunes.

There might be some more of these types of things.  Expect some articles maybe to stem from them...

My bio, my being, my make up, Aveda.  My name is Steven.  People call me Steve.  My mom calls me Stebe.  She is Thai.  She also calls me fat. Many of my stories could involve her and her vicious rants of my current physical condition. Born in North Carolina and raised all over the country. me and my make up “DNA”

It all started back as a young lad as I recall, the third trimester.  I had overstayed my welcome for a couple weeks and out I came on march 27, 1977.  At a hulking 5 pounds 1oz. I came into the world.  There were several photos of me taken.  Fell out of a tree a few times.  Lived the life of a military brat.  Moved on average every 2.5 years till I was 18. I lived in 8 states and don’t have a commemorative collection spoon to any of them.

After moving around for years and years I settled down, for the time being, in Kansas.  Leavenworth.  Where I now consider myself.

“Your from Kansas?”

Many people ask.  Yes of which I reply with assorted retorts.

“Yup” or “That’s where all the half-Thai/half-white people hang out…all 5 of us” or “Yes and we’re proud, we just got electricity last week, and soon we’re going to get a Tele-Graph, soon. I’m excited I’ve been studying my Morse ever since I heard the news” That whole thing wasn’t funny at all.  I’ll cut that out later.

But actually I love Kansas.  It’s the land of Ahh’s.(I didn’t make that up.  It’s the damn tourism board)

Anyway after graduation from the afore mentioned Kansas, Leavenworth specifically, I ventured off to Westminster College, played soccer, of which all my goalkeeping records that I held, basically all of them, were broken by a kid this year.  But I’m not bitter.  Oh I’m not. seriously.  I mean good for him.  Records were meant to be broken. Even though it took him 4 years to break most of my records I set in two. Ha.  I just did a Boomer Esiason when he did game commentary when he was contesting how Todd Milanovich broke all his records because when Boomer played they ran the ball a lot more than Milanovich’s team did. Watch out though…I still have a year of eligibility left.

I also flirted with playing baseball.  But it wound up like flirting with the hot senior girl while you're a freshman in high school that you share algebra two with cause you’re a nerd. It never really happened. It wasn’t really flirting.  It was you just trying to look down her shirt while she was leaning over copying your homework.  I mean your in the picture. Actually, your not.  Your just the wall that the picture is on.  Same with me and baseball.  I was kind of in the picture, I wore the uniform and took pictures, in the extremely clean uniform.

After graduation studying Marketing and Advertising.  I moved to New York for the summer interning as a fact-finder/researcher for Pop-Up videos on VH1.  It was also my job to lift extremely heavy objects.  After my tenure I returned to Kansas.  Why you ask? Numerous reasons I suppose. Mountain climbing wasn’t one of them. Upon arrival I did nothing for a while.  I tried out for a couple pro soccer teams.  None of them panned out.  I started helping out coaching my sisters soccer team 10 and 11 year old girls.  It was supposed to be temporary.  Wound up doing it off and on for 5 years.  Led me to maybe think about getting a career in Teaching so I started substitute teaching.

Stop thinking to yourself, why is Steve writing details about piddly little crap and he skipped years and years of other stuff?” Answer: I need filler for my other sections.

I got on a show called Road Rules making me recognizable at all Gap’s, Abercrombie’s and food courts throughout the great plains. 

I then proceeded to gain 40 pounds in 5 months.  6 inches in 6 months.  Not of depression or anything but the formula of  (beer + lazyness) x (hours of playstation). 

Hence my mother calling me fat.

So now I’m here, in Kansas, soon to be New York City doing something.  Don’t know what it is exactly yet.  But it will be something. Random stats.

Height: 5 "11

Weight: 170

Hair: brown

eyes: sparkling

dimples: one on right cheek

shoes: 10.5

neck: 16.5

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