Introduction

Hi, my full name is Martin Deocate Nguyen. If you’re rather attentive you’d notice that my blog’s name is just my first name in reverse. Story about that is just that I remember seeing an old Facebook post years ago saying your new name is your name in reverse. I found that Nitram had a nice ring to it, so I often use it at my online alias nowadays. And it’s funny too, cause sometimes i’m just minding my own business on online games and people will message me and say “Hi Martin” acting as they know me just because they deducted my names was just in reverse, those were fun times.

Anyhow, when it comes to upbringing there’s not much to say really. I grew up from 1 to 5 in Sacramento then we moved to Elk Grove and still live here up to now. School was definitely an interesting ride up until I had to move to a different track/scheduling to accommodate for my family’s vacation trips. When I switched to this track I was often picked on for some reason from 4th grade till 6th grade. It was annoying to have to deal with it, but I still made some good friends from that track. So I’m also grateful for having that switch too.

As for gifts, I guess it can be said that I always try to help my friends by acting as a sort of counselor for them. I’d let them vent their problems onto me and I would try to help them feel better and what not. But as for academic gifts, I honestly can’t say anything for that unless procrastination is counted?

Struggles would definitely be something like living under my sister’s shadow. She always had good grades and so I would be expected to do the same. But for me it was difficult because I was never an academic type of person, I never had any true passions to make me want to pursue a greater knowledge and anything that I learned just went from one ear to another. So in turn I got grounded for bad grades and often went on time outs by a wall and was restricted from games and TV. Which in turn further degraded my will to learn to the point of “what’s the point of trying?”

Breakthrough was right about when I reached 8th grade something mentally just clicked in my head and I was trying a bit more to not fail or get Ds in classes. Some lessons and concepts made a little more sense and stayed in my head more too.