January12th 2017

Sup Guys, Im sick of winter.

I want pool parties. I want bbqs. I want to have people over the background for drinks, random food lm trying to make and hookah. I hate winter.

12/21 Weds late night was just doing Street Fighter 5 deep into Thurs. Very fun times testing a lot of shit.

Thurs still up from playing Street Fighter 5 throughout the night, watched Ep 10 of Sherlock. Show is so dope. Played some matches of Street Fighter 5 w JustinR and glad to catch up and theory craft w him and then did some Magic the Gathering reading as l was curious bout Commander, Pauper and other formats. Finally knocked out after that.

Friday got up around midnight. Great. Read up a ton on Commander and then Modern and my Affinity Deck isnt changing much at all. Made lobster and watched shows and then back to working on my Akuma in Street Fighter 5. Still 5050 if lm gonna use Akuma or Necalli as my main. BOTH l enjoy a lot. Necalli is more straight forward but Akuma, having the fireballs back, the 50 options when landing a hit or when your opponent is on defense, lm loving it.

Afterwords, worked on paperwork for buying Brown’s house. Hit the bank to deposit checks and cash and hit Mary’s to drop off a Christmas gift. Got food and hit home to eat and sleep.

Got up to get Alex and Vee and hit Philly. Dropped Vee off at Bonchon as she was gonna eat and drink there and we hit Vince’s place to hang, hookah and do wine. Talked ideas for a while as well as talking bout anime and our favorites and it lead to a ‘you gotta watch’ convo lol. Really good times there and then me and Alex hit back to get Vee. Well we stopped in Bonchon for free wings, thank you Chris. Stuffed face and hung out for a lil. Hit back home and reset my entire PC to make things fast and fresh again. Bought the Commander deck on Magic the Gathering online - Built from Scratch. I like the idea of the deck a lot and played into Sat morning.

Sat got up late and hit Domkey’s to trade gifts w Domkey Hack and Adam. Laughed hard as our gifts were great and Hack even gave us all a framed photo of himself. Had drinks, ate and smoked hookah and just had a really really nice evening w everyone. Just talking bout all sorts of shit and just having a simple night together w friends. You guys all know l love my party nights but when people say ‘what are you gonna do when youre too old to party’, it’ll be nights like this. I can do it any night and who knows, I may switch it up to have more hang out nights like this in 2017. We planned out skiing and Halal guys too.

Sunday hit Rita’s for Christmas eatings. Stuffed face and smoked hookah and hung out watching shows. Won $15 betting on the name of the type of Dragon Steve Aoki had in his fish tank in the show Tanked lol. I always win. Very good time hanging out and hit home to play Street Fighter 5 and then Overwatch w the Scumbag Squad all night. Overwatch has been our game for a while now.

12/26 Monday got up early and hit Domkey’s and jumped in Rosie’s car. We hit Blue Mt where l went snowboarding last yr. It was me and Dom’s first time skiing and Rosie is still new to it. Got our gear and met some of Rosie’s family and hit the slopes. So first, bunny hill. Pretty good. Felt comfy and l had SOME control after l understood how to turn. Later on, started doing the more serious slopes and started to get my ass kicked again. Rosie and Domkey seemed fine. I was solely trying to survive to the bottom. Had fun and skii’ed(<- real word?!) all day and afterwards we hit Philly.

Media opening of Halal Guy and I-CE-NY. So got free food thanks to David and Kenny and stuffed face. I already really like Halal food so naturally l liked it a lot. Afterwards, we got free rolled icecream at I-CE-NY. Tuan and Val turned out to work there too. Saw some friends, hung out and ate rolled icecream which was mad good. Got strawberry and its cool to see them make it and know its so fresh and simple and then the small chunks of strawberry. Was sooo good.

Ended the trip by smoking hookah at Domkey’s and the 3 of us just hung out for another 2 hours. Really fun day and tiring day w those 2. Ended the night catching up on gaming news and watching Monsters Inside me while reading. Finally passed out at 7am.

Tues got up at 6pm and just worked all evening. At night the Scumbag Squad got on and it was Overwatch time. So we got some Koreans on our team again hahahahha l love all my Korean friends…. Had a full squad of 6 of us and hopped on Rank. 6 wins 0 losses. FUCKK YEAAAAA was loving life. Ranked me up big time mostly due to the winstreak bonuses. So when you win in Overwatch, you get like 17-25 points. But when you are on a winstreak… it goes into the 30s 40s…. Eventually l hit 55+ points in a single game. So good.

Was watching Breaking Bad on the side and when the guys got off, just caught up w my gaming news and played Street Fighter 5 into weds.

Weds went to sleep midday and got up late. Party time as Paola was DJing. So got OJ and hit AC and got our room. Friends came through but then Paola said to hit her room for pregame. Brought over the drinks and hookah and met some of Paola’s friends and remembered some from before. Introduced myself and started drinking. This suite was RIDICULOUS!!!!!

Had a great time drinking in the suite, the guys playing pool, doing some hookah, girls taking selfies in the nice suite. It was a good time haha. Before midnight we hit downstairs and got into VIP and just partied, danced and did shots. Julie’s squad is just crazy so they were just going apeshit in VIP. Paola’s music was always hype and just had a good time acting retarded. Some of the guys went out to find girls and pulling girls into VIP is tooooo easy. Had a good time partying till people started knocking out lol. We hit back to the room where we hung out, tried to revive the dead people and later on hit back to Paola’s room for another after party. Sang songs all night while smoking hookah till close to 7am. JustinJ came back from being MIA again lol. I have no idea where he always goes. Passed out finally by 8am…..

Thurs left AC late from sleeping so late. Got Nicah from the airport and we met up w Andy and Allison for ramen. KP came to join us too. Stuffed face and omggg soo0o good. Had a good time hanging w everyone and decided to hit back to Allison/Andy’s to hookah and chill. Vince came and joined us and just bummed it for a few hours talking bout tons of shit while smoking hookah. l really do love Allison/Andy’s new place. I’m such an awesome real estate agent.

Friday got up and me and Nicah ran errands alll day. FINALLY found the 2 Planeswalker decks for Kaladesh set and hit back to eat and teach her Magic the Gathering. Later on we had a pregame at Nicah’s which was a lot of fun. A lot of singing again and Nicah’s Dad sent her the Taboo game which we were playing like crazy. Very fun pregame and then we headed out to Rumor.

Just had everyone meet up at the bar, got drinks and hit the hip hop room to act like I have problems for 2 hours. Just danced w friends and always fun seeing who is into who. I like being childish. At the nightclub, its just acceptable and fun to be like that. Outside of the club, I’m immature lol. Ended the night w Nicah and Angie coming back to eat food and chill.

Sat we slept in like crazy. New Years Eve and all we did was sleep. We got up to eat at Landmark because its good and cheap for lunch on the weekends and then we hit back to sleep again lol. Got up finally at damn 7pm and hit pregame at Nicah’s friends. Made some drops of last minute ticket sales and then hit up The Piazza for New Years. Vicetones was playing(who me and Nicah selected when asked between DJ’s) and the music was ridiculously amazing.

Everyone seemed to be in VIP and ran around to find friends in VIP spots to drink. Next to my usual asian squad, was my Russian squad lol. Jeff Fallon Jack and everyone else had VIP right next to the other table. So just had a really good time dancing and drinking there. Chugging beers like l was in college and going apeshit. Throwing beer all over people who stepped on my foot lol. Great times!! Partied there till 145am and then headed out to Coda.

Thank you Mario for getting us in. Paola was DJing so partied on stage w her all night. Just had a really good time and the crowd was so drunk lol. I mean, if everyone has Open bar all night, expect everyone to abuse it. Partied there till 3am and got McDonalds and then had an after party at Nicah’s. Hookah, food and just making Paola’s brother’s friend look like a white supremacist lol. Glad people were down to hang afterwards and just had a good time being w everyone as l needed more social time.

1/1 New Years Day - Sunday was useless. We got up and played Magic the Gathering on and off. I was using the Blue Green Planeswalker deck while she was using the Red White Planeswalker deck. Mine was focused on Energy management while hers was vehicle focused which seems mad fun. Watched some Pretty Little Liars. Watched the new Sherlock and did some work and back to bed lol.

Monday we didnt do shit either. Did some work online. Played some Magic the Gathering. Watched some Code Geass. I think so much partying and gaming just wore me out. Cooked some food and hung out till 3am before leaving Nicah’s aass to finally get home for a lil bit lol.

Tues started packing for Magfest and doing mad Magic the Gathering reading about sealed in Kaladesh. It doesnt take long to catch up on Magic the Gathering is what l like about it. Experience is different but just getting the idea of a set can be learned quickly. Did mad work since l wouldn’t be doing much work the next 5 days again. Got a hoagie, wine and dropped off my broken Anker charger which their customer service is amazing. Working w new clients for a lil and took a nap.

Got up to play Overwatch for a while and yooo one win------ 70 POINTS aoirsuhgaoirhga thats 3 games in 1. That was on the 9th winstreak. Rich came through to pick up stuff and hung out for a while. Did more Overwatch and yayyy hit Platinum league. Finally. Now onto Diamond.

Weds started on work and hit homes w Mellissa in Northern Liberties and saw some potential. Good hanging out w her as always and catching up. Next up, Allison’s hotpot night. So got Nicah and hit Allison/Andy’s spot for food!! Had drinks and stuffed face w hotpot and it was sooo good!! The soup base they used was already amazing and then all the stuff in there is classic and amazing. Lit the hookah and just had a really good time playing Taboo all night. Laughing hard as we did guys vs girls. Guys won by 2 points l think. Using the dice rules makes it more interesting too. Just nice having a night w everyone on a weekday.

Afterwards, me and Nicah hit Bounme’s in Maryland to hang out and sleep before Magfest.

Thurs got up early for Magfest and we were lucky to go mad early. Good parking spot and upgraded our room to get a dead center view of the little town. Unpacked, relaxed and then later on hit Magic the Gathering section for Learn Magic for Nicah but we were way ahead of the basics. Entered the sealed event and my first pack, got Depala, Pilot Exemplar. Wow… l was going red white aggro vehicles no matter what and then l got her… for real?!

So went hardcore into that and won 2-0 against all 3 opponents. Only mini 8man pools but still a 1st place. The thing about playing Limited(sealed and draft) is that Red and White are the best colors for it. They have good sturdy creatures at low cost. First strike is very powerful in the 2/2-4/4 battles, aggro is more powerful in Limited since it’s more fundamental Magic and they both have simple straight forward combat tricks. Built to crash won me a game just by +3/+3 and Trample overrunning at 1/1 chump blocker. Won another pack and $12 in Magfest dollars which is $1 each but can be used at the vendors.

Shopped around for posters and stickers and stuff. Bounme got me a Reinhardt sticker dawwWws. Lots of cool shit and man…. I shoulda got a Harry Potter wand. Hit the game room and we played games all night. Old games, new games and cool indie games. Played all night and just had fun messing w tons of fighting games but also doing other random stuff. Ended the night smoking hookah and hanging out late night.

Friday got up and we went shopping hardcore. Just running around, checking things out at Magfest in general and just had a good time bouncing around w friends. There was a for fun single elimination random character each round Street Fighter 5 tournament. I beat my first and second opponent and lost to the third. Was mad fun and got Birdie a lot. Basic strat that Bounme was rocking too… Anti air and footsies. Later on more friends came through to hang out and drink. Offering Won Soju since he is our Korean Overwatch God lol. Got posters and shit. Me and the guys talked mad Overwatch and smoked and drank while the girls ran around to shop. Just a simple party night all night w friends.

Sat got up and more shopping!! Yayyyy afterwards, more hanging out in the game room for a while. Hit back to the room to hookah as other played different games and me and Gabe prepared for the Street Fighter 5 tournament. Chill hang out and relaxed and felt warmed up.

Hit downstairs and we entered the tournament. 81 players. Atleast they had 4 set ups running at all times. Passed 3 opponents leading into Top 8. Lost to a Zangief in Top 8 and then had to face Gabe in Losers bracket. I beat him and moved on to lose to a Laura player. So many Laura’s lately in tournament. Ended up in 5th place and Gabe took 7th. Top8BoizzzzZz lol.

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Till Top 8 where it became double elimination. A little odd.

Afterwards, hit back to the room and it took forever for our pizza’s to come since there was so many orders. The Zelda Orchestra was playing outside our room which was awesome to have a great view of it and we didnt even have to go anywhere. I loved our room so much. Afterwards, party time. Just a simple night of drinks, hookah and a bunch of good friends. Partied late and just was happy to be w a bunch of friends l dont get to see as often as l use to back when l still danced.

Sunday got up and we hit back to Baltimore. Me and Nicah got food at a seafood spot for Lobster rolls. Thanks boob :) meal was amazing. Hit back to Nicah’s to sleep. Got up to eat and watch Code Geass for a bit and then back to sleep lol.

1/9 Monday got up and dropped off Nicah to work. Hit home to do a ton of work and did a lot of reading for Magic the Gathering. So crazy how fast it is to catch up on. Got dinner w my family since my Dad is going back to China for a lil bit. Afterwards, hit Philly to check out rentals w Zack and found one that has great potential. Glad he hit me up.

Next hit Long’s to talk about events coming up and pick up money from past events. Hype that we’re gonna be more involved with some events soon. As tiring as some events can be, its still fun and exciting. Met up w Andy and we got Halal guys to go and bubble tea from Teado before dropping him off. Happy Birthday Andy. Hit Nicah’s to eat Halal guys and have bubble tea and we watched shows before knocking out.

Tues slept in like crazy and then later dropped her off to class. Hit home to do mad work and at night played Overwatch w the Scumbag Squad. We did ok but my rank stayed the same overall. Caught up hardcore on my gaming news and did reading and watched shows into weds.

Weds finally went to bed at 11am. Got up at 7pm and did some work and got a bath and hopped on Overwatch w the Scumbag Squad again. We did pretty good but we did have more of our A team on. Felt good but now lm starting to see the higher level players now that all our ranks are getting higher. Hit a new peak rank of 2676. 3000 is Diamond which is my current goal for Season 3. Did mad readings all night for gaming, Magic the Gathering and other junk while watching Vikings and Fresh off the Boat. Made fried rice and then started on Street Fighter 5.

Late.