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Community College Career - Patrick "Audio" Lew
Posted by AlternativePatrick in on August 17, 2006 at 2:44 AM




Audio's "Band in the Box" to play music and community college with has earned him infamy and fame in news articles documented on his personal webpage. Although he has attended two community colleges and somewhat accomplished his musical and college career there, he may be remembered for the community colleges he went to, but refused to accept and attend. But there were fun times along the way, as Patrick "Audio" Lew just recently returned to City College of San Francisco (CCSF).

A long-time musician playing music in his band Audio Rage, Patrick started his own musical project Audio Rage, a local Bay Area organization of musicians that could also boast future CCSF and Skyline College students such as Eddie Blackburn (AKA the Rising Legend), Zack Huang and David "Knuckles" Arceo. When Patrick decided to go to college, he was invited in the spring of 2004 to participate in CCSF Phelan/Ocean's college campus to "try out."

He went onto to study music, computers and electronic art at City College of San Francisco and filled out his online college application to go to CCSF in August 2004.

On August 17, 2004, he made his community college debut as he became good friends with his classmate in the Asian American Studies classroom, Zack Huang. He and Zack were close musician buddies, and played music in Patrick's one-man band Audio Rage on MIDI keyboards. He and Zack would spend the next few months studying at CCSF's community college campus in smaller events before Patrick Lew decided he wanted to "fit in" with the CCSF college crowd.

Patrick would take some time off from City College of San Francisco playing music in his band Audio Rage and setting up his music profile on various music webpages such as PureVolume.com. He also had personal hardships to face, as he became estranged with his then-girlfriends Mikko and Amy in love & romance relationships. But music and college was what Patrick was focusing on in his career.

Patrick returned to CCSF, and teamed with his best friend Zack. After working their way around the community college rankings, Patrick and Zack crossed paths with the Band Geeks club, a right-wing music club of Chinese rock musicians on campus. Roland Wong was the head of this music club and invited Patrick Lew to join while Zack didn't. What occurred was a series of bad moments (as Patrick wrote on his Audio Rage Band journal) where he wasn't allowed to perform or play music in any of the big events at CCSF on campus. Two embarassing experiences, one at Talent Quest 2004 and Ori-Wave 2004 saw Patrick ending up not getting Anne Wong (a girl he met at these CCSF community college events) as his girl and being taken advantage of by the Band Geeks club.

Patrick and Zack remained a huge team but by early 2005, each community college student began to be pushed on their own in CCSF's college division. Patrick began taking an American Music History class, but ended up getting rejected by two of his classmates Annie Tran and Jenna Andrews at the community college and on Audio Rage's music profile on the social-networking website MySpace.com. Patrick then aligned himself in CCSF Phelan/Ocean community college's political scene, as Patrick had to "take sides" with either the ISO or the Sparticists. When he was blackballed by Martin Smith to join the Spariticists, he was a member of both political groups at the time, the ISO ended up kicking him out of the CCSF community college's political stable. Politics was a hobby of Patrick's to get into the social circle at CCSF, but it did not work out.

While fighting to survive community college life at CCSF, Patrick and his one-man band Audio Rage headed to the music store and Audio Rage's musical workshop to record demo versions for the music to Audio Rage's third (and upcoming) album, "Revenge." He recruited some session musicians from an ad in the paper or trying to get his good friend Eddie Blackburn to play music (i.e. guitar) when making the music and band.

In the summer of 2005, back at CCSF, Patrick began a short-term relationship with his classmate from Psychology class Hiroko Yunami. One memorable afternoon on June 24, 2005 at the community college, Patrick was hanging out with his Math E3 classmate Rachel...In a romantic date sort of way. This community college experience at CCSF marked the first "official" moment where Patrick Lew had a White girl in his love & romance life...Although Rachel and Patrick never dated or were in a relationship together at CCSF or this community college campus.

Patrick Lew continued to compete in CCSF until late 2005. He began to tease a HEEL turn when his frustrations with getting rejected by women in his personal life began to happen in community college. In September 2005, he was linked with his good buddy Alvin Villarente in CCSF/community college storylines. However on October 22, 2005, Patrick Lew and CCSF mutually agreed to part ways. At the time, Lew said he was more interested in a career in music. However, Patrick would tour other smaller colleges...Including setting up his own music school again, School of Audio Rage over the next few months...Before signing with Skyline College in November 2005.

With a college application that promised a better social life and education to his resume, Patrick Lew wasted little time earning the attention of the school, of who, along with David "Knuckles" Arceo, formed a notorious circle of friends at Skyline College in San Mateo's community college with various Skyline kids to live a "party hard" lifestyle on campus. Besides brawling with Skyline College students like Aaron Cheng and Dino Machete, Patrick Lew began teaming up with David Arceo and John Lim before finally getting his "shot" at getting a girlfriend/wife in February 2006.

Although Shannon Misfud and Patrick Lew were in the Writing 826 class together, they soon began to develop a short-term alliance as friends. Patrick apparently had a crush on Shannon, but she had a boyfriend. Although Patrick's love life was on the rocks, him and Arceo were in Reading 826 class together doing book report assignments and reading music magazines to complete the course. Patrick, also played music with his friends Anthony and Marian at this community college and talked about forming a rock band. However, while Lew's time at Skyline College was filled with good moments, he never quite accomplished much during his tenure at this community college compared to CCSF despite living the "high life."

Patrick and David also attended Skyline College's big event, a musical performance and concert featuring local Bay Area rap artists and DJs such as Mac & AK playing music in the community college's bigger college events at Skyline, on February 18, 2006.

Unfortunately, Patrick's time at Skyline College didn't last long in his college career. In late February of 2006, Patrick had major disputes with the community college's faculty and his real-life enemy Aaron Cheng, whom Aaron was putting moves on his crush Shannon. Patrick had signed a college application that allowed him to leave whenever to go to another community college. A "locker room" fight with Aaron Cheng, which Aaron actually did "steal" Shannon Misfud away from Patrick at the community college and ruined his chances of having a love prospect in his love & romance life, was brutal. It led to Patrick being suspended from Skyline College, and he would never appear in Skyline's community college again. On March 10, 2006, Patrick left Skyline and their community college in disgust over an event known as the "Skyline Screwjob."

Lew would however, make a few more appearances for Skyline College's CSM house shows in April and May before dissapearing again. This time, he would reappear at CCSF for his college career. Although he is expected to reform with Zack in his community college's circle of friends at City College, so far Patrick has been linked with various college storylines with his friends Paris Fields, Rocky Chan and others when doing community college social activities on campus.



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