So l never wish for success because thats something l should be doing on my own. However opportunity is part luck and part putting yourself out there to have opportunity given to you. So l do wish for opportunity and lately...... its ridiculous how many opportunities are open to me. l can be VERY selective which is nice but overall.... l just wanna focus 100% on real estate for another 2 years before trying to pick up something on the side or finding a way to take nightlife on a bigger level than just promoting and helping friends in their business as well. Event planning, managing or something.
But yea.... when it comes to success. Things have been all over the place. lm usually a really positive person besides my hater mode lately but l usually just have a lot of confidence. This gut sinking doubt feeling really sux but maybe its cause lm just hungry. lm getting no sleep and when l do eat, l try to eat A LOT because l dont know when l'll be eating again. Theres days where l'll wake up at 9am and at 5pm l'll realize l'm starving cause l didn't eat. Along w the lack of sleep, this is killing my metabolism.
After l get my NJ real estate license and get more accepted offers so my workload isn't as high, l plan to go hardcore working out to get my body back in shape but for now, l have a lot to take care of. l just need to kick ass little more.
l know, just like everything else in the past - lm making right now a much bigger deal than it really is. When lm a bit older and life is amazing career wise, l'll laugh at how worried l was right now. lm scared and excited and its that whole lost feeling that makes things - interesting.
Wish me luck. lm wishing for more opportunities.
Tues l spent the rest of the night watching all 5 episodes of Wild Russia on History Channel. l love Animal Planet's documentary shows so much. Too bad, its also being invaded by trash tv but..... if thats whats getting ratings, from a business stand point, it makes sense. Give people what they need and make money. Even if they need trash tv. Vicky came over later on at night and we watched Pretty Little Liars and The Walking Dead while having some late night dinner. Very good times as always as chill as it is.
We keep getting it close to well done. l want medium rare. l love my meat primitive lol. Just feels right. Eating steak w my hands feels right too. If l could eat at Fogo de chau w my hands without being disrespectful, l would. We napped at the end b4 she pced home.
Thurs met up w MikeD and talked about a lot of things real estate related. Had a good italian hoagie and always a good time catching up w him in person. l talk to him all the time on the phone email and text but l see him maybe 8 times a yr. Got a lot planned w him for the future tho.
Hit home and watched the History Channel like crazy and later on hit up EricS's place to play Street Fighter 4 and hookah. Played A LOT of matches and had a good time. Always facing his Ken w my Akuma, Cammy and Zangief. l would maybe mess w Guile a bit more but we'll see. lm waiting for Ultra Street Fighter 4 to drop this summer to see if l wanna pick up another character, maybe try out Oni again or re-try Guile or Adon or something. Very good times chilling w Eric and Joe came to chill for a bit as well. Pced out late night after a lot of playing and footage watching.
Friday drove Allison to work and chilled and studied Gamerbee vs Infiltration as Infiltration who plays Akuma beats Gamerbee often and Gamerbee was in my Pool for the tournament. Later on Jieun picked me up as she was at Brown's b4 he got home and she wanted to go to the mall.
Hit up the mall w Jieun and talked bout partying and for her birthday plans. Had a good time running around looking for strapless bras lol. Afterwards, she dropped me off and l chilled for a bit organizing crap and then hit up Whisper.
Met up w Brown Jieun Chris and Chris' friend and had a good night on the dance floor. Thank you Amy as always for the hook ups. Very much appreciated. Just acting stupid and laughing at this one dude who thought he was sooo slick who kept creeping out the girls. If we are obviously a group together and she moves away frantically, why would you try again when you KNOW she was not interested in dancing w you. Anyway, partied late and lm glad they came through. l just felt like acting retarded in public and the dance floor is always a good excuse to do so.
Ended the night hitting up the hotel room and Alem had some space so l visited and chilled w him, Trevor and Suzi was there. l was like whaaa as l didnt know Suzi was getting into gaming. So had a good night, smoking hookah and playing games and had a dope hang out till 630am.
Sat woke up to phone calls as a client wanted to see a home that day as it just got put on the market. Sadly l was at the tournament w people depending on me as l was the one who booked the room for everyone and l prepaid already for my tournament entry and fee for coming($45 total pre paid) along w being an hour away from the home. Lucky for me, Mary was able to see the home w him and then l ran around taking care of more stuff.
So practiced w some friends and Ike came through along w Andres and his friends. Found Team PIE along w Arturo to set up the Salty Suite in my room again. Got the rooms and started moving furniture w friends from one room to another. Sadly since we didnt have both rooms for friday night and they were so booked, they didnt have connected rooms which would have been EXTREMELY convienent as we would slide it through ONE DOOR rather than out the door, across hallways and through more doors. But w enough team work, we got it set up quick.
Played some matches w my friend Eric, a really good Zangief player who does very well at the tournaments learning some tricks w Zangief. Followed up thankfully to Alem who heard my name being called downstairs as they were starting my pool much earlier. It read 6pm on the board but it was 430pm when it started. lm glad he was there and not sure why it started an hour and half early. Would have sucked to pay for nothing. Anyway, lost to an EMP member who used Rufus. Was doing well in the start, zoning and DPing jump ins but then when he did get in, l was getting blown up. Later on beat an Abel player throwing him like crazy and corner pressure was just on point. People l played in the hotel rooms through the day earlier told me they thought my corner pressure game w airfireballs into a guess(they have to block the airfireball on their wake up and then guess what attack is coming IMMEDIETLY after its blocked, high, low, headthrow, throw, bait) was really good. If you didnt have a way to escape all options which could be a losing option itself as bait is to bait a DP(invicible move that beats all options but loses to simply being blocked) and then you get knocked down and back into the vortex.
Vicky came over and brought food for me and friends because shes awesome and tried to convince her again to talk on stream w me and pretend she plays Street Fighter 4 and is from Australia lol. Arturo set up stream and l got to play matches and commentate and through the night, l got to commentate A LOT!! l love commentating as its just straight up fun, its fun to analyze and socialize w friends and the audience and its fun to just make jokes, make fun of people for looking like people and getting hype on big money matches or grudge matches. Had icebox matches in the start so loser got ice to fill the bathtub of ice so we could keep the beer and liquor cold lol. Later on my room got packed.
Got to chill w everyone freely and it was a good time and thank you Poem for helping getting us a second set up together. Had a lot of fun chilling w Alem, Trevor, Suzi, Ike, Andres, Andres' squad and Team PIE. Also really got to know Arturo this time around. Made some new friends, bet on some matches and had a really good time. Had my hookah running all night and friends made me drinks throughout the night and l got pretty drunk towards the end.
Making fun of a high level Dhalsim player as he was talking on stream next to me about Dhalsim's Ultra 2 for over 3 minutes and he looked like Bill Cosby so l just started making jokes w a Bill Cosby accent. He was cool about it.
Vicky was known as the 'Australian Asian girl' as l did convince some people she was from Australi and she jokingly talks w an accent for fun and people really just believed it. One guy, who l kept calling J Brown cause his name was something like that, kept saying on stream l had the hottest girl of the entire fighting game community hahaha. Much appreciated.
Salty Suite ended around 5am and we cleaned up, moved furniture around and passed out. Poem knocked on our door later on as people were snoring too loud in his room hahaha.
Sunday woke up rushing to brush my teeth, look clean and check out. Said late to everyone and drove Ike to the train station. Very good times chilling w him again. Crazy we met two years ago facing each other at a local tournament. Hit my open house w Amie in Newtown and learned the home as quickly as l could. $750,000 home so picking up any walk ins as clients would be AMAZING. Met a lot of people, repeated a lot of information l heard Amie drop and lm pretty proud of my listening and repeating skills. Real estate def trained me A LOT to memorize information quickly. Got along especially well w two walk ins. Always a good thing when l make them laugh and they ask if l have a card on me. Real estate has been slow due to it being winter as its terrible every single damn winter but l wont be so stupid when l make money this spring-fall. Esp w Christmas, Valentines Day and my sister's bday and Vicky's bday..... winter time is a costly season.
Hit hom and only had a lil time to chill and then hit up Ryan's. Got to Home depot first to get him a gift card for a house warming gift as this is the second time he's used me as his real estate agent and he also gave me a referal that lead to a closing deal. Got in and watched History channel w him and Lori. It was a surprise going away party for Alex. Bill and his girlfriend, along w Ron and Corey coming through. Had a good hang out and watched Ron perform some of his tracks. The reason they're really good isn't just because the lyrics are funny but the song itself does have a good catchy flow. Like..... it really is music just w ridiculous lyrics. Watching clips of random shit and eating Lori's velvet birthday cake. Had a great time chilling w everyone and it was nice to spend a night w Alex before he moves to Cali. lm sure l'll see him when hes home again.
Hit home afterwards and chilled w Allison talking bout how shes liking working at Cafe Soho and her plan for this coming school year. Gave her as much advice as l could and l think she'll be fine. Crazy how as early as this summer, she'll be on her own. lm pretty proud of her tho for how she turned out. Grades, social life, friends.... she did a good job lol.
Monday took care of work as l woke up which was kinda late. SteveC came over later and we play tested decks a bit and then followed it up w the tournament. So Allstars Collectibles is having Standard tournaments again which lm really happy about. Not to sound like a dick but a Magic the Gathering Tournament at Friday at 630pm isn't how l wanna spend my Friday night. Even if l play till 9 930pm.... the location is an hour from Philly and if l dont plan on going to Philly, lm even further away.
So yea.... Standard tournaments are better for me during the week and afternoons. Monday and Sat they will be hosting Standard Tournaments. Stomping Grounds here and there are holding stuff as well as March 2nd, they will be hosting a Standard Tournament at 1pm.
Well yea we've been outta Magic for like 2-3 months. So yea.... kinda didnt do so hot. Got mana fucked twice too. Lost to a player Adam, beat Steve and then lost again later. Enjoyed my game against SteveC tho when he dropped some walls to defend my rush and l had 2 'Rakdos Charm' which can do 1 damage to each player for each creature they control. l had 5 mana and 2 of them and then he Master of Waves increasing his creature count. 18 life and his 9 creatures, 18 damage exact hahaha.
Hit back and chilled and looked up and watched things on Magic. Talks of switching up decks and stuff. Just l dont really connect w a lot of the new decks. l like rushing people down, being on the offense, making people worry and plotting my final blow when they think they finally put up a big defense. We'll see. May switch back to Red Deck Wins or Red Devotion. We'll see.
Tues started my day off on the phone w clients as Vicky came over. Took care of work on and off through the day w her over and l felt bad to work while its our day together but shes understanding. We ate a really late lunch due to some.... distractions lol. Boston Market as we saw a KFC and yo... l love Boston Market but they arent around as they use to be. Def a good choice and ate amazing chicken w great sides. Its like thanxgiving all over again. We hit home to nap and then woke up later for shows and food.
Very simple evening w the girlfriend but l love it simple. Watched The Walking Dead, caught up on Pretty Little Liars and made a bit more food for watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Def a really good night. Wouldn't have spent it any other way.
Weds woke up late and just spent the day working. Overflooded as the winter set a lot of things back as usually l have a few clients going to closing while others looking at homes. Well everyone is looking at homes so sced time to see homes w all clients is getting a bit chaotic. Esp now, more than ever, most my clients can only see homes on weekends. l need to find them amazing homes asap. Lots of things happening in general w different career paths open. Real estate will be my main focus as l really believe l can do extremely well as l stick with it and learn more and gain bigger buyers. However, l am curious about other ways of making money in shorts amount of time. Pretty much being smart saves a lot of time. Chances to use my networking to gain profits seem possible again and l really do gotta benefit w what lm good at which is people.
Later me and Allison pced out to get her a late birthday gift of snow pants as shes really into snowboarding now. Good time as always spending time w her as these times are going to be more scarce soon. In just 7 months, she'll be in school and l wont get to chill w her as much. lm glad l did stay at home for that reason to be around for my sister. As much as l hate being home and cant wait to save up more to get my own place, plus the fact l'll need more than the average salary worker since lm on commision so l need extra money to be safe - l am glad l have been home to help out the family. Mostly my little sister w rides, advice, just being there in general.
Spending the rest of the night organizing things for clients. Trying to also look up info about fiance and re-reading other things in my email w other business opportunities. Gotta start studying for my NJ real estate license too.
EVERYTHING is just being delayed because lm trying to juggle too many things at once. At college and after, l was the king of multitasking. l also think l had a lot of luck on my side as things just happened to be on different times and days but lately, l think lm trying to juggle too much. Its ok, not like l completely broken down yet lol. Wish me luck tho. Testing the waters in so many things while trying to still do well in my current career w real estate, trying to be a good boyfriend, a good useful friend to my friends(mostly just networking) and have a fun social life all at once. Its kinda a lot.
Late.
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