Two years ago, I thought it would be interesting if I compiled a list of the 100 weirdest/strangest/unique people I know. After some track keeping, I concluded that I knew about 1,500 people. Half of them are peers in the US, like friends and people I met from school. A fourth to a third are peers in other countries like Taiwan, South Africa, and cousins etc. And the last fourth to a fifth are elders.
To pick 100 out of that list isn’t an easy job. After 40 people, it became harder and harder who should be on the list, as people become more “normal.” It was hard too for the criteria on the rankings. At first I realized some people appeared high on the list because they were annoying (and hence their weirdness stands out). Then I decided that the dominant criteria should be “least likely to have existed.” Some people are strangely annoying, but you can find these annoying people elsewhere. The people on this list are irreplaceable by other fellow beings. I realize there is certainly no “normal” person, but there is usually a bell curve, and if your behaviors are few standard deviations aways from the average person, you are on this list.
Being on this list can be a good thing or a bad thing. It depends on what kind of life you want to lead. Many of my best friends and people I respect the most are on this list.
If you think you shouldn’t be on this list, then perhaps I simply know too much about you. If you think you Should have been on this list, then I’m sorry for not knowing you well enough. I’m a pretty straight forward person and I just put out what I observe. If I was on this list too, I would probably rate myself to be number 6.
This is a revised list to what I created 2 years ago. Let me know if I forgot you!
1. Steven Wallace
2. Mike Liu
3. Nicholas Perrett (2004-2005)
4. Thomas Timigravis Chan
5. Tim Rosenbaum
6. Mike Xu
7. Chan Hsu (2004-2005)
8. John Liu
9. Angel Poon
10. Michael Stevens
11. Wayne Silby
12. Felicia Hom (2004-2005)
13. Bryant Raminez
14. Elaine Chung
15. Plamena Pehlivanova
16. Jun Loayza
17. Jessica Cheung
18. Dave Liu
19. Tosen Morohunfola
20. Philip Chiung
21. Kelsey Williams
22. Damon Appleblatt (2004-2005)
23. Vivian She
24. Femi Morohunfola
25. Ryuto Kawai
26. Amy Tran
27. James Potts
28. Tim Chen
29. Gabriel Mizarhi
30. Winston Wang
31. Chen Mei
32. Lorna Apper
33. Mikhail Kats
34. Jacqueline Laird
35. Drew Steranko
36. Andrew Kwok
37. Amy Zheng
38. Jamie Lee (guy)
39. Fangfang Lao
40. Danny Lam
41. Sunjae Kwon
42. Michael Cox
43. Nicholas Chen
44. Shin Kadota
45. Hamilton Harn (2002-2004)
46. Vincent Lai
47. Ryan King
48. Austin Proll
49. Karl Johnson-Picket
50. Emmett Drummond
51. Ryan Geist
52. Thomas Chan
53. Dale Tolley
54. Vincent Chen
55. Mathew Crooks
56. Stacey Jer
57. Alex Adams
58. Fred Kim
59. Victor Shyu
60. Stuysonnie Lam
61. Zhetou Luo
62. Eagle Yeh
63. Justin Copp
64. Dart Scorza
65. Tina Han
66. James Han
67. Yi Chou
68. Chelsea Q
69. Roy Natian
70. Elaine Chung
71. Patrick Frickleton
72. Derek Sun
73. Crystal Durham
74. This Billy kid from South Pasadena High, Class 2008
75. Daniel Agalsoff
76. Charles Tian
77. Frances Au-yang
78.Derek Gillette
79.Jason Kuo
80.Jake Jacobs
81Christina Nock
82.Bo Han
83.David Lu
84.Felicia Chen
85.Amy Lee
86.Eric Min
87.Katherine Siew
88.Caroline Chen
89.Stephen Johnson
90.Pam Liu
91.Boya Fu
92.Curtis Cherrington
93.Christine Louis
94.Richard Guo
95.Michael Wang
96.Kevin Tran
97.Karen Chan
98.Kierstin Yang
99.Michael Moore
100. Jade Salty
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