Back in time in my mind

It’s time to take a ride back in time in my mind. :)

A couple of years back, I used to have this old webcam setup in my room that folks would take pictures on when they came over. If you’ve been to my house lately, you know that I have people write on my walls whenever they drop on by. Well, the webcam was sort of a precursor to writing on my walls. Anyway, I totally forgot that I saved all of those pictures and the other day I came across the folder where I stored them.

Here’s a little known fact: Doobybrain.com (or at least the idea for the site before the domain name was bought) actually got started because of these webcam photos. I originally wanted a page that would show all of the photos in order, and once I got that up and running, the updating of links just came naturally. But if anybody is a long-time reader, you might remember the first page which was a dark crimson-red with no sides and a nice javascript clock that swirled around your mouse cursor. Hehe. :P

The photos are so funny and they bring back so many good memories, such as:

• random shots of me being totally retarded
• the day that JeffChin and K.Ho came over
• My current Timbuk2 bag when it was new!
• Harrison and Lilian coming over after school and totally whoring the camera
• early photos of those dark-rimmed glasses (my grandpa’s)
• THE. BIG. GREEN. PENCIL.
• The self-made (and un-painted) picture frame that Steph, TiffWong, and Melanie all made use of
• Calvin and Cindy
• being stupid with all of my crazy hats
• the triplets (Danica, Yelena, TiffLiu) being so entertained by Joey (and the webcam)
• TiffLiu’s prized cherry pin
• The missing Jesus shirt (from Urban Outfitters)
• Ann Shi, when we first started hanging out
• The introduction of Vanilla Coke (and drinking it with Bran)
• My old paper-clip-weight glasses — I lost those at Summer Conference 2002)
• The week when I had to change my phone 4 different times!
• Dying my hair midnight blue with Anna (and putting tin foil on my head)
• Me and my cousins, Vivian and Aric, being totally retarded
• THE. ORANGE. GUN.
• The first photo of Joyce Shen’s writing + drawing of Homestar on my desk — it’s still here!
• …all of the videos and animated gifs that came from these pictures…

I put the image together in that way so that it can be made into a life poster.

Click on the image above to see larger versions and check to see if maybe you are in it!