I was born on 30 April 1975 in Ubon, the capital of a north-eastern province of Thailand. Because I was adopted I know little about my parents except that my genetic mother was twenty-one and my genetic father thirty years her senior. Some time between then and the end of 1976 they placed me in the Ave Maria Orphange in Si Sa Ket where I was to stay until adopted by my mother and father later in that year.
Having been adopted by my mother and father I had a turbulent childhood and attended the following three schools in Adelaide:
- Klemzig Primary School
- Gilles Street Primary School
- Campbelltown High School
After Year 10 I shifted to New South Wales to live with my father in Colo Heights (my mother and father had since then separated) where I completed my HSC at Colo High School in North Richmond. I achieved a TER of 85.65% which mean that my score was 15% higher than the average for all those students taking it in the year that I took it.
Since then I've had jobs as a kitchen hand, checkout operator and programmer.