My life in a nutshell
Emmanuel Vistro was born on the 11th of November 1981 in Quezon City,
Metro Manila Philippines. He graduated in 1995 from elementary and
proceeded to continue his high school studies at the University of
Saint Tomas (University of Sto. Tomas) high school. (USTHS) At this
time he acquired his first IBM Compatible Personal Computer as a gift
for graduating from elementary.
During his 2 year stay, he was
kicked out of USTHS due to his rebellious attitude and non-Catholic
views in 1997. He was re-enrolled in another Catholic based high school
where he was again kicked out due to rebellious activities and punching
the principal for cutting his hair in 1998.
During the same year
he took an Advanced Placement Test from the Department of Higher
Education where he passed the high school level and could continue on
to college without any credentials from high school. He skipped one
whole year of high school and was ready for college. During his free
time until the next batch of college entries were accepted, he started
to learn HTML scripting and went on to do small jobs for small
companies.
He was deciding to return to UST for his college
education and start fresh in the realm of Fine Arts. During that time
he had upgraded from his first computer by working on several small
jobs to an Intel Celeron 400 Mhz. His computer enthusiasm led him to
another college and another line of work which was Computer Programming.
Emmanuel
also called Em or Eman during this time enrolled in one of Asias First
and Largest Computer College, AMA Computer College. He left his passion
of art and opted for a profitable career during this time. He stayed
for 6 years in a 3 year course due to constantly failing college
mathematics with the likes of Discreet Mathematics and Assembly
Language Programming. He published the first PC game ever developed in
a college in 2003. Then in April of 2006 he moved to Canada to pursue
greater opportunities and left the programming world.
In
September of 2006 he enrolled in the School of Communication Arts,
Digital Media Arts at Seneca@York. He successfully passed the
examinations and proceeded to return to college in January of 2007
after missing the first week of classes.
In April of 2007 he and
several of his good friends from Seneca@York started a creative
collective called Provoke Digital Media Solutions. He now looks to
Craig’s List Toronto to fund his daily living. He is now called “Manny”
buy all his Canadian peers and lives with this Mother, Father and
Sister who sponsored him to migrate to Canada.
