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Introducing Uncle Dan

Uncle Dan

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Since Brice added this feature, I figured I might want to add something about myself, so that people who aren’t familiar with the inside jokes we toss around might not get the wrong opinion of me. There’s a fair possibility that they really believe I think I’m godly, and the people on this site are my digital worshippers.

Unlikely, but then you never know. ;)

Anyway, my name is Daniel Nguyen-Phuoc. My story actually starts with my parents. They are both Vietnamese, and left Vietnam after high school to study abroad. Unfortunately, within a year of their leaving, Saigon was captured by the NVA, and they got messages from their families saying “Come to Boston, we have no money to support you.”  They met there, and my sister and I were the result. We were born in Houston, my parents having moved there for my dad’s job. He was working for an oil company at the time, and they had interests in Indonesia… so when I was 3-4 years old, I moved there.

I went to the British International School there, which my parents preferred over the American one because it was more disciplined, and I stayed there until I graduated from the International Baccalaureate. I went back to the US to attend university at the University of Michigan -Ann Arbor. It was, overall, a failure, but I found the experience to be a maturing and learning one.  By then, my parents had moved to Zürich, Switzerland, and had me stay with them while I worked out what I could do. After a couple of months learning German, we found that hospitality colleges were the only higher education facilities teaching fully in English, so I started within a month or so later.

Two years onwards, I’ve almost graduated from my degree, and see my life continuing onwards to more countries and places. I take interest in a lot of things, but especially meeting new people and having new experiences… I also like to write and talk a lot about things I’m interested in, so I hope you’re also interested in what I am.


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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Introduction 

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  1. 11
    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    December 1st, 2007 at 2:08 am

    Serious Cat!! How come not Geek Cat? lol

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  2. 12
    kristine
    kristine Says:
    December 1st, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    i have a feeling serious cat is the same person as brice. or is my guess the stupidest guess ever made on tckid? lol.

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  3. 13
    Sindhu
    Sindhu Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Just curious… but what makes you say the British International school is more “disciplined” than the American one in Jakarta? :)

    (You know I had to ask, being a JIS alumni. Heheh.)

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  4. 14
    Uncle Dan
    Uncle Dan Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    My parents thought so, haha. But then, JIS had lots of stories of its student body being a little more out of control than we were. :P

    Besides the obvious of course, being that we had uniforms. It’s a sign of other control measures.

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  5. 15
    starburst
    starburst Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    Uncle Dan, what’s your degree in? How is it?

    You’ve whetted my curiosity.

    My parents also believed the British schools in S’pore and HK to be more disciplined than the American ones - the uniform policies were probably a factor.

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  6. 16
    mmmmmm
    mmmmmm Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Omg Uncle Dan is the evangelist of house music? Does that mean you can do tecktonik dance??? AHHHHHHHH *fall to my knees and bow

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  7. 17
    Uncle Dan
    Uncle Dan Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Oh sorry Starburst, didn’t see that and it’s been ages.

    My current degree is in International Hospitality and Business Management, or something like that. Recent graduate, looking for a job. The experience of getting the degree was honestly unique and unforgettable, because it was like going back to international school, full of lots of nationalities and TCKs.

    … Can I do the Tecktonic dance? This?

    I can rave dance, which is a little similar, but simpler. It only actually looks good in the dark with glowsticks and stuff.

    Oh, and the music in the background is not house, it’s electro. Not sure if that’s what you mean. Anyway, I learned to dance in Jakarta clubs, which mostly play Trance and *some* House. So it’s kind of different.

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