October 16th 2013

Sup Guys, lm greedy.

But l think lm smart enough to get everything l want in time. If l could have everything right now - l dunno if it'd be fun after a few years. Odd timing that Pokemon X Y just came out as my life analogy about goals relates to Pokemon.

If you bought the new Pokemon game and you were just handed a ton of Level 100 Uber Pokemon w all the perfect moves and types and stats and you just walked up to the Elite 4 and kicked their ass and won the game - Pokemon wouldn't be a fun game. That's life. If you just started w having it all. Tons of money - friends everywhere - awesome sexy as fuck cool as shit girlfriend and you were just genius when it came to everything..... life wouldn't be fun.

Having goals is exciting, its fun, you feel amazing when you accomplish them but in the very end, its not the title or the bragging rights of accomplishing the goal that is truly what is most satisfying. It was the journey getting there. From starting from nothing to being 'The very best - that no one ever was' lol. But for real, thats why every game of Pokemon - tho w the same formula they've been using since 1996 - its exciting again. You're jumping in from having ONE SINGLE POKEMON and you get so excited to catch, train, battle and become a better Pokemon Trainer. You learn, you test, you battle, you reach your goal slowly by beating the next Gym Leader and tho we've been doing it since 1996. It doesn't get old - because the journey is exciting.

l have A LOT of goals in life. A lot of careers l'd like to try on the side because they'd be fun. Some are pretty profitable, some arent but its not on the money. Its about trying it out. Its exciting and thats why life is so fun. Outside of career goals, competition in general is always exciting. Theres always someone out there better than me which makes me know - l didnt master this yet. l also think lm subconciously(but lm not since lm talking about it therefore showing lm conciously aware of it but lemme finish) insecure of my intelligence. So by beating others in something we both are highly invested in - l feel smart. Outsmarting people at a tournament - any tournament - wrestling, bboying, gaming just anything.... feels amazing. And plus that excited nervous feeling of competing is very exciting.

lm like addicted to the nervous excited feeling. Lucky me - it can be attained in a lot of ways.

Life is fun. When l have enough money that l dont NEED to work another day in my life, when lm destroying people in all my competition related interests and l've played around w all career routes l want to play w.... l'll be truely happy not because l have everything but l'll have the memories of a crazy adventure of how l got there.

It'll also all be documented here lol.

Along w having everything - my mentality towards failure has completely changed. When l was younger, there was always that 'what if l fail this test, where do l go from here?' but when it comes to having a career that isn't a thought. Its 'l know lm gonna take care of this - just whats the best route of taking care of this problem?'. Failing doesn't really happen in the real world. l dont think anyway. Unless you get fired which in real estate - doesnt really happen unless l do something ridiculous. l like thinking like this. l've always been very confident but now lm a problem solving monster.


OK SO MY WEEK!!

Tues started the day taking Allison to school and had a massive overload w work mostly cause l wanted to prepare for the coming week ahead. Hit up every single client and agent l've been working w lately just to keep everything updated and in check. l was up early and doing a lot and kinda overwhelmed myself. Kinda ended up passing out at 5pm. Got a lot done tho lol.

Weds l woke up at 230am and had a long night catching up on learning more on Street Fighter 4. Just that game is the perfect fighting game. The world's most popular fighting game by far. For EVO2013(biggest fighting game competition of every year) for every 3 people that entered Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 - 4 people entered Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition ver.2012. For as much as l've grown around the game and improved. l have A LOT to work on. Basic anti air(besides anti air Ultra 1 Akuma as l have that on reaction but not Shoryuken lol) - footsies and high execution. Watching Ultra David and Ultra Chen's channel and watching so much. Learning so much and playing Street Fighter 4 as well.


http://www.youtube.com/user/UltraChenTV/videos?view=0&flow=grid&live_view=500&sort=da

Did a lot of reading and Vicky came over pretty early. Had a bum day as l love it and ate pizza, watched Pretty Little Liars and nap lol. Eating mad icecream, ramen and watching movies. Watched Quarantine which is a very dope movie and slept more lol. Yea we didnt really dooooo much haha but whatever. Its how l like it. Simple and chill. Very happy she came through.

Thurs took Allison to class and ate and worked and then immedietly pced to house showings in Philly w Lisa. Got my new hookah also which I LOVE. Its the EXACT hookah they use at Byblos. Byblos is a medit restaurant/hookah lounge in Center Philly and its just a dope spot in general. Always loved their hookahs and its a hard plastic vase rather than fragile glass vase. Screw on mid section and can be converted to a 2, 3 or 4 hose hookah. Very smart.

http://www.myasaray.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1013&DEPARTMENT_ID=46

Hit up Oyster House which l've gone to once b4 w Hack and met up w Adam and Mike. Dude.. HAPPY HOUR $1 Oysters $1 Clams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 OMFGGGG SOOOOO FUCKING GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 Ok so.... the ones l had from the grocery store... yea... maybe never again. Food preparation is huge. l would LOVE to learn to prepare clams and oysters, have them near frozen and have the sauces like that on my own. It'd be cheaper, l can have it and home and have friends over and treat them. But yooo.... one day. l gotta learn but for now..... lm going to nice places to eat oysters and clams. Def gonna hit the Buck Hotel for their nice seafood buffet. I LOVE EATING AMAZING FOOD lol but l think everyone does but l def became a foodie. Its just.... when you're older, you get bored of a lot of things you like and you need uncommon stuff to make life fun. You eat everyday. Enjoy it right? Awesome time chilling w Mike and Adam and good seeing Mike as l havent seen him in a while. Had some drinks, oyster shots(pretty good actually) and it was nice besides finding out my car was towed lol. Parked in a 20 min only oops $205..... sux but from all the traffic violations l make.... l owe MILLIONS TO THE LAWWWWW!!!!111

So Adam helped take me to the car impound and got my car out and hit up Eric's to play Street Fighter 4, bring him a fightstick so he could train his roomates and smoked hookah. Ended up playing for hours and chilling w him and Joe and had a really good time being out. Very chill evening and we had a lot of fun. Def a chill night and glad l got to try out my new hookah w friends just as l got it.

Hit home and had to go to sleep as l was tired from being out all day.

Fri woke up and showered and hit up VA and traffic holy shit... so theres rain, theres rush hour and then there was the FUCKING TRUCKERS PROTEST. Just inconsiderate douchbags - blocking traffic on purpose in protest. Twice l saw vehicles just turned sideways on the highway blocking off 2 lanes just to create traffic which it did as after passing this vehicle, there was no traffic. Glad to see one of the people doing it getting arrested. But yea.... was on the road for 5.5 hours rather than 3.5 to get to VA because of this shit. Blocking traffic doesn't help your cause. It just makes society hate you. People are late to work or late to come home, late to meetings, late to see friends and have less time to spend w them(me) and what if someone was in my car who needed to get to the hospital? Would someone suffer more because of a protest? Its just not right and its very ignorant.

So anyway, got to VA and met up w Siweon for pho. Finally had pho in forever and first time seeing her since my birthday week in April. Really good catching up and eating pho and we planned to visit Mario and get him gifts jokingly for his birthday and surprise that he will be a Dad in several months. So we got him a card and some stuff and visited Mario and smoked hookah and had champagne to celebrate. First time seeing Mario since Bounme's 4th of July party. Chilled and caught up and had a really good night w Mario and Siweon and it was simple and nice. Just talking bout old times from a year ago to when we all first started chilling. Later on, pced out and hit up Bounme's birthday in Baltimore.

So from work and all the driving..... l wanted to go apeshit. And w the squadron that came out for Bounme's birthday - that was easy. So first there was tons of friends there who l havent seen since Bounme's July 4th party. ISK guys and gamers and other dancers and kinda just went apeshit not caring about any opinions whatsoever. Ran around w friends, battling, acting like retards and running around the club just being wild.

Mike Lisby was DJing so the music was mad hype as well. Blew out my right shoulder crump battling w Vee and Bounme lol. Just people were cheering us on w our satire of crumping and kinda overdid it. Vee and me were super tag team partners again like the old days just acting retarded all over. The world was zoned out because of how fun it was. Running around mostly w Adam Oscar and Bounme as well. Took funny pics and videos and seriously..... l was burnt the fuck out for how much fun l was having from being so hype. lm seriously obsessed w my friends.

Ended the night getting Korean BBQ which is always an awesome way to end the night. Its just sooo fucking good and also refreshing. Also Oscar puking in the car hahhahah and then Adam pulling outta the parking garage w Bounme screaming 'OscarrrrRrr NoOoOoo0oOo BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!11' LOL him laughing made me laugh so hard. He has one of those laughs ya know? But yea Korean BBQ was dope and had a good ending to such a fun night. What an amazing day minus the traffic lol.

Sat woke up and hit up Skyzone for dodgeball trampoline but the place was packed and we couldn't play till later in the day, so bailed and Adam and Bounme got custom EHookahs. Its tasty def and l like that its 100% health risk free and you can smoke it anywhere. Setting up the hookah is tiring and messy and l burn shit time to time. Sorry Mario! But yea, hit back and had a lil bbq, smoking hookah and playing games. The guys were all getting Pokemon X Y so it was dope to check it out. Had a good time playing the guys in Street Fighter 4.... SMOKIN ASSHOLESSSS!!!111 Lol but they dont play as religiously as l do.

Had a good time, eating, gaming, hookah and ehookah and playing dice games. Watching anime and playing around, eating and junk. Later on pced out and said late to the guys. Hit DC to meet up w friends at Aqua. MichelleW's sorority was throwing an event there and thought it'd be nice to see many of them l havent seen in years. Also Anna was going and l havent seen her in over a yr. Went through and found friends and caught up and other bboys made it out as well. Ran around dancing w Michelle's sorority and randos and good meeting people through Michelle and Anna. Last time l was at Aqua was Boogie Bots 2nd year anniversary and that night was wild. Had a lot of fun dancing all night and l was totally burnt out by the time l left. Always good seeing old friends and making new ones. Just in general... glad l got the spend my weekend really dancing. Drove home late night and got back at around 5am and ate and passed out.

Sunday woke up and Brown got me as we worked on more proxy decks and hit up Hack's to play Magic. So me Brown SteveC Scott McG and Hack played a lot of Magic the Gathering Standard. Having so much fun w it now that we proxy decks w the ID scanner lol. Def loving Magic so much again.

Its crazy how the game changed in fun ways for me growing up. From using all 5 colors as a kid and just throwing in the biggest monsters we could find to understanding it makes sense to use 1-3 colors. So not all colors, less big monsters brawling it out. Then learning what metagame was which we all understand it, just dont know the term metagame exists unless you compete in something. Now its full high level play. Predicting opponent movement and playstyle. Also knowing the styles of decks out there.

Had a really good time chilling and later on Jeni and Jieun came through. Jieun was even learning through games of me vs Brown. Its very overwhelming to start and we shoulda taught her w simplier decks to get concepts through one step at a time. Stayed till late and pced out and looked up stuff on Pokemon all night.

Mon woke up and got Pokemon cause lm impulsive. Yea..... lm stupid. lm gonna try to get into competitive Pokemon again. Even tho since Pokemon Black and White, l said l never would again and if l got Pokemon again, l'd play it for fun, battle friends for fun... that was it. Well l cant do that. If lm gonna play, lm gonna play competitively or not play at all. l dont play Starcraft 2 or League of Legends. Because if lm gonna keep playing it, l'd have to fully commit and l enjoy other things more. Street Fighter 4 and Magic the Gathering.... and Pokemon again. The good thing about all these games though is because they are so big and popular, they arent going anywhere and your skills carry over years to year. Akuma skills carry over somewhat game to game. Pokemon transfer over so if you do build a nearly perfect Uber(highest level) Pokemon, you got him forever. Magic the Gathering, when you build a high level Modern/Legacy Deck.... those decks rarely change year to year. Its fun to compete and competiting at high levels is exciting.

Wrote up an offer w a client at the office while taking care of a lot of work in general. Monday is crazy day for me. Sced house showings for the week. Calling and putting in other verbal offers and such. Big night but set myself up for the week. A lot of stuff was accomplished. Wish me lucky guys. A lot of luck.

Spent the rest of the night watching AquaSilk's Zangief body players online and he's mad funny too. Playing Pokemon and playing GTA V online w the guys lol. Took care of booking some showings as well. Played like all night lol. Also messing w Smogon University Pokemon Simulator since you can make 'perfect' pokemon and so l can test what kinda pokemon l want

Tues just took it easy. Booking my showings for allll afternoon and night Sat. Taking care of stuff for my closing for weds and making lots of calls about offers. Playing Pokemon Y and GTA V online w the guys all afternoon. Doing so much reading on my gaming. Its soooo much information lol. But yea... not much of a tues haha. But its a good day.

Late.