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Monday, March 12, 2007

what happened to ski?

Waiting for girlfriend to get off work so I can go et with her so I figure I'll post something.

I've been living in Thailand since November (except for 3 weeks during xmas time).  I have a nice little simple apartment on the island of Koh Samui.  Thailand has been really wonderful, it is the most beautiful and fun place I have ever been.  Being here has really been great.  I've learned FAR more since graduation than I ever did at Millikin.  the school really was a bubble in many ways.  I still had a lot of good times but I wonder what was going on outside the bubble. 

I've gotten really into electronic music.  I dunno how or why.  I really just get a good feeling of ecstasy after drinking a few buckets of vodka redbull and dancing my ass off.  There are tons of open air clubs here in addition to raves going on in the Jungle+on the beach regularily.  Everyone here is friendly and it is nice since you can dance with just about anyone and smile.  Theres also a lot of random sex to be had here w/ thais and Europeans.  I always thought sex means something but now I don't anymore.  It means whatever you want it to mean.  Numbers are really irrelevant although could possibly mean something in terms of probabilities, but they don't mean anything concretely. 

Anyway, I got a bit sick of different girls on most nights I went out.  Just seemed like the same thing over and over, still fun, but just needed a break.  Also I had a conversation with a Thai girl that really made me think about sleeping with Thais.  It went something like this

"Nick why don't you pay me for sex"
"Huh?"
"We have sex a lot now an you never pay me, why not"
"Well, why don't you pay me for sex?"
"Its different"
"I need money, I poor, u have money"

It was a bit strange, I was always real nice to her, kind, funny, paid for any dates, etc...I left Bangkok that day and didn't see her again, cute girl though. 

So after enough crazy nights that nothing even seemed crazy anymore, I got girlfriend.  She is Thai, has a decent amount of personal money, works at a dive shop and does bikini modeling.  She also speaks english very well and is not a hooker, which as two things that people take for granted in the USA, but are all too rare here.

I started playing Poker again after a 3 month break.  PartyPoker is having a promotion for its top players and is going to give me a $20,000 bonus for playing a lot this month.  I hit the ground running and made $25K from cards in my 1st week (not including any bonus).  After that  I ran /played like garbage and lost $10K.  So, up $15K + potential bonus in 2 weeks.  I've been playing 10-12 tables for 6-8 hours a day with buyins from $400-$2000 per table and have been going relatively crazy.   My mood after winning $25K in a week and losing $10K is substantially different but If I can keep it up I should be able to avg $500 an hour, which is real fucked up.  Makes me think about point of money+charity stuff.  In 1 hour I could keep a family from Laos alive for a year.  Or I could put it into stocks and make 10% per year and when I die give it away and be way more beneficial.  Or I could just give it to my kids and let them figure it out.  Or I could blow it all on drugs.  Still not sure if one has more intrinsic worth than the others.

Right now I am ranked #13 on PartyPoker in terms of how much I play+the level I play at.  I am proud of myself sometimes.  Sometimes I am ashamed I didn't get as good as music as I wanted to.   I need to keep it up until April, after that I will probably take a vacation from my vacation and go travel to Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam and do some scuba diving.

If I work very hard this year I think I will have enough to retire in Thailand at 24 if I want.   I doubt I will, but that would still be something.

Also there has been tons of action regarding Poker/international banking legislation.  The Poker boom will be over within 2 years.  I am almost positive.  A lot of good american players have already begun losing due poker sites making it difficult for the bad players to redeposit money.  I am lucky since I am abroad so I can still play on PartyPoker against terrible Europeans. 

Anyway I might come home in July.

-Nick










Friday, November 17, 2006

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Oh my god, I'm moving to the west coast.  Thats all there is to it.  People here kick ass.

 


Monday, October 30, 2006

went to the coolest place the other day.  $25 charity to Afgani Kids to entry to this upstairs place.  All u can eat middle eastern food w/ 4 bands+ a belly dancer taking turns on stage.  The place was like Peter Pan, like didn't even feel like I was in the city at all.  It was like a kickass treehouse.  I didn't get pics though.  I go back this wednesday and get more pics.  I just ordered a new camera, so I'm stoked for that since mine kinda blows. 

Racism is bad.  I think we learned that for sure freshman year, and hopefulyl before that.  but if theres any doubt u should come to vancouver.  Sooo international, so accepting.  I love how many people from EVERY culture there are here and how many events there are.  I think for the first time I've become a liberal on a lot of issues.  I'd love to live here potentially.

Thursday I played some accordion w/ my friends band.  Was fun, I learned the god father theme and "Breaking the girl" and then just played some I-IV-V's with them.  We were just in a  cafe, but was nice. 

Saturday was nice to, halloween party (I was Father Underpants) actually brought camera to this.  I just learned how to post xanga pics today so I'll try and post some if anyone still reads these.  If not its a good journal I guess.

I'm taking the GRE on friday I wanna get a masters in philosophy and try and be a prof.  Schools I sending to=UofI,Duke,Flordia State, Uiniversity of British Colombia.  I gotta travel 3.5 hours to get to the GRE place since GRE is not popular in Canada :(.  But I guess where its being offered is kinda  anice tourist island, so maybe I'll do something there.  Also I don't understand all u people who are good at english.  I take a bunch of practice tests for this bastard and keep sucking hard on the verbal.  Stupid words. It seems theres nothign I can do.  I don't understand the fucking words they write.  If I can be 22 years old and never heard those words before this god forsaken test they are of no good in society.

Poker+affiliate biz=meh.  Internet marketing is a pain in the ass especially if u have no idea what you're doing.  I still get the checks for $2K per month for my share from what I've already done and hopefulyl that will never stop and I can be lazy because I am getting kinda sick of actually marketing+ now that the legislation is (somewhat) in effect I need to find a way to reach European players and particulaily Sweedish.  If you know anyone who is fluent in dutch please let me know.  I'm thinking of doing some translation and trying to get a bit of the Sweedish market but meh, I might just not.

October has been my first major bad run with Poker.  I'm still up a few thousand for the month but, its been frustrating as hell.  I moved up to pretty high stakes (4 tables at a time of $1000 entry if anyone remotely cares), and feel I can play with the people there, but stupid luck is killing me and has made me a bit depressed although logically I have no idea why.  Some days I make/ lose enough money to buy a decent car and its definately taking a toll on my sanity.  Hopefully I'll hit some good luck soon.  If not I have enough money saved up from my previous gambles that I don't need to work for a few years, so whatever.  I realized I don't really wanna be rich though.  I just want a hot wife and a job I like doing and friends.  I guess being rich accomplishes 2 of those things (gold digger+ nothing) but not exactly in the manner I want.  It works really well for some people I think, but money just really doesn't buy what I want (except for freedom and that doesn't take that much).  Hmm, kinda confusing therem but maybe u get it.

Also I think when I hear someone brag about making money gambling the first thing I want to do is see them lose it.  Not sure how this applies to my brags, but I got a guess, so I shhhhhhh.

Thailand Nov 22nd-Feb 22nd  FUCK YES.  ZOMG.  I heard so many good things.  Meeting my friend Brett there too.  So stoked. 

I feel I've failed as a musician on some level, I gave it my all, but I don't think its worth any more time.  It will just be a hobby I think. 

OK heres a riddle.  I douldn't solve it so I just looked at the solution, but its a pretty good breain teaser

 

Three logicians, who each use perfect logic, have a number written on their foreheads. None of them know what their own number is and are not allowed to tell eachother (obviously). They do know that each number is unique integer and that the sum of the lesser two equals the third. They stand in a circle and look at eachother's numbers. After a couple seconds of thought, one of the logicians asks the others if they know what their numbers are. After they say that they do not know, he announces, "My number is 50."

What are the numbers on the other 2 logicians' foreheads.

Answer underneath in white

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log c figured out his number is 50, so we know a + b= 50. of all the numbers that add to 50, 20 and 30 are the only ones that allow for c to figure it out.with a-20,b-30, c must be 10 or 50,if c were 10, then b would know b was 10 or 30, and he cant be 10, so he would know hes 30. but b doesnt know his number so c then knows he is 50.

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Friday, September 29, 2006

holla

edit: I'm never posting again drunjk.


Monday, September 25, 2006

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

 

LOST $3,000 GAMBLING TODAY.  FUUUCK. 

I TOOK THE PAST 3 DAYS OFF TO CELEBREATE MY SWEET 20hr = +15k sessionS.  HOW DO I GET REPAID.  BAAAHHHHH.  I want a job where I don't lose money.

 

oh well,

I should be able to win it back tommorrow...

 

 



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