From the beautiful tropical diverse archipelago of Indonesia, Drago was born in Jakarta in 1988 (Year of Dragon) to a Chinese Indonesian (Peranakan) middle-class parents.
Drago grew up just like most babies did for a few years until he was cared for by his grandmother and nannies for most of his next young life. His dad was diagnosed with brain cancer, and both of his parents had to focus on the cure until his dad passed when he was 5 years old.
His father’s passing left him with his own mother, who at her 30s, was forced to take over her husband’s business. They inherited a good amount of fortune. The big part of the wish was that most of the fortunes were actually intended for Drago’s future and it was supposed to be managed by the mother until he reached adulthood. That fortune all vaporized due to the mother’s mismanagement and the 2008 financial crisis took it all.
From his elementary to high school life, Drago mainly took care of diverse different personas of nannies as his single mother was busy with her job. During this time, he was raised by people in his family, hoping to be a great man. His father was a bastard who went from nobody into someone who built a Small Business, trained people to work with him, and paid the tuition of his own siblings to study in the United States. In addition, Drago’s birthdate for generally superstitious Asian families is very auspicious. So, here, we have a family that hopes for this little emperor to bring back the glory of his father.
Just as how Asian tiger moms treat their boys, Drago’s typical week as an elementary student kid is full of courses. He went to St. Fransiskus (Saint Francis of Assisi), the best Catholic elementary school in the town. He would go to school in the morning, finish by noon, take a break, and take many extracurricular courses. With the school, he took additional group studies and drawing or music. Outside the school he took additional courses in Math, English and Mandarin (which he hates and never really learn). In his weekends he would spent time playing video games with either two or three of his friends who were very dear to him.
Outside of the circles of his three friends, he was socially very awkward. He bullied others and was bullied by other people a lot, mainly girls. He didn’t really relate with other boys too much as most of them formed groups and played soccer. His academic was relatively good as he graduated the Elementary school with his Math score at top #6 of the school. Teachers in general loved him while those that didn’t will get a personal visit from his mother to their house. A lot of his times during school recess was actually spent in library, reading encyclopedia as socializing with other students were rather bothersome to him. A good friendship with 2-3 others who respected and cared for him deeply was more than enough.