up late again..

Yay, I got my internet up again. For some reason it has been either down or slow as hell lately. Anyways, this past weekend was pretty fun. Friday night, We went out to eat for Tim's birthday at O'Charleys. I ran into this chick that gave me a wrong number like 3 years ago, lol. We chatted it up for a bit and I gave her my number hoping she would come party with us, lol. But of course she never called =(. I had a few drinks while eating and by the time we got back to my house, I passed the fck out. I woke up after an hour or so to a bunch of old faces in my house. The night eventually died out so I called up this new guy in town with a Gsr swapped hatch. His car was running 8.80's and I figured it would be a very close race. Long story short, I win 2 out of 3 races, about 1/2 car each time. I was pretty happy, considering I thought he was gonna smoke me =P

I worked all day Saturday and get off at 9. I meet up with Matt after work, which was weird considering he never comes to hang out. I guess him and psycho are getting to it and he needed time off. Anyways, we head to Harrisburg to go party at my Uncle's for his birthday. I was running on 2dots of gas and not a dollar to my name, with the intention of going there and playing poker, haha! We walk in and have a few drinks and eat before I tried to get a poker game going. I had played with these guys before and lost nearly $200 in about an hour. It was pretty depressing, but you learn from your mistakes. This time going into it, I knew I was a better player and had my uncle stake me for $100. After playing for awhile, I was doing pretty good and look down at my hand and see AQos. I raise it up to $5 and the table folds around to the BB, who puts in a reraise of $15. I sit and ponder for a few minutes before folding the hand. Next thing I know, jackass across the table reaches into the muck and turns my hand over! I was soo pissed off, and I really didnt know what to do besides bitch him out. Needless to say, by the end of the night, that douche bag was down over $600 and I ended leaving with $240. I gave $100 of it back to my uncle and walked out with $140, woo hoo!

Sunday afternoon we turn on football and I make a few phone calls and we got a cash game started. We had never played cash games at my house before so I decided to try it out. In a few hours the table had built up a bankroll of about $180. We were down to 3 players, and I was short stacked. I had bought in twice for $40 and was down about $20. We start playing real fast because the cutoff was at 7pm. As the last hand was dealt, I was hoping to catch something that would regain my losses. I about shit my pants would I look down and see AA!! I raise it to $5 and both players call. Flop comes out xxA; not really the flop I was looking for since it kinda killed the action. The action is checked to me and I bet out another $5 and Matt folds and Sean calls. He checks it to me and I wait awhile before I announce "all-in." He ponders for awhile, and I was hoping he thought I was trying to steal the pot, but he eventually folds. I was pretty bummed, but I still won a nice pot. After counting my chips, I was down .75cents lol! I just spent 5 hours playing poker to lose .75cents. O well, it is better then losing $40. I think I am addicted to cash games now =D

...I have more to add to this blog but it is 2:30 in the am and I have class at 10! so I better hit the sack. Good night.

we will miss ya bud.

Tonight was my friend Brandon's last night in town. He is moving to Chicago to live with his fiance and work up there. It kinda happened all of a sudden, but I guess when opportunity calls, you answer. I was suppose to close at work today, but I called in so I could make it out to the bars and have some drinks. I have to open tomorrow at 730am, so closing + drinking, then trying to wake up at 7am wouldnt of worked out anyways. I got him to take a flaming shot of 151, but dumbass blew it out before he drank it, lol. Brandon, I wish you well man and hope you do good up there. So in the past couple of months, I've had 2 pretty close friends move away. To add to that, one of my best friends got a girlfriend and doesnt hang out anymore. =(.

Times like these, make me wonder why I ever moved back from Florida. I had fun down there, but I always got homesick. I just wish I had the financial stability to move to the city and start fresh. I would love to live in Las Vegas, NYC, or even LA. I just feel that I have so much more potential then southern Illinois. If my life were a book, I want it to be worth reading. I want to be able to look back on these blogs and say "good job tuan, you accomplished your goals and now youre living your life the way you wrote it."

My Life Goals:

1. To have my name known by many people.
2. To share my life with someone I love.
3. To have a seat at the final table of the WSOP
4. To travel the world.
5. Meet Carrie Underwood and make a lasting impression that she will always remember.
6. To be a very wealthy person.
7. At the end of my life, to be able to look back on my life as meaningful and complete.

But for now, I am just Tuan Pham. Going to college for something that I will never be happy doing. I want to make my family proud of me and know that all my stupid decisions in life aren't gonna weigh me down. I WILL make a name for myself and not settle for just being "normal."

back to bloggin, calms the soul

Ive been slacking on this bloggin business for the past month. I will try and keep this more updated then I have been. Anyways, I still have my s2k (refer to previous blog). The douche bag flaked at the last second. He had me call up the bank and get everything ready and ended up backing out at the last second. The initial asking price was 16k and i dropped it down to 15300. He agreed and said he would cut me a check that coming Monday. Then he calls me Monday and said his bank will only give me 14300. So I said "no go." and the deal was killed. O well.... I threw her on Autotrader 2 days ago, so it should be gone soon. Hopefully the coming winter wont kill my sale too much.

We had a blackout when I came into work today. I started my shift at 4pm and at about 5:30, all the electricity in the store/mall/whole block went out. Apparently a semi hit one of the nearby transformers. It was actually pretty fun, we ran around the store with flashlights and just screwing around. I accidentally set off an alarm when I pulled the cords off of one of the cameras for shits and giggles (i didnt think it had power going to it, lol.) Anyways, up til 7pm, we had no power, so they let a bunch of people go home, and I thought that meant me. I drive all the way home and start tuning into the CMA awards. Then I get a phone call telling me I needed to stay til the power turns back on so I can close =/. I went back there and didnt leave til about 9:10.

I got a letter in the mail a few days ago telling me that I needed to pay a $5 ticket for a parking violation on campus. I didnt think anything of it, since I'm pretty sure they dont have late fees on the ticket. Anyways, I go to register for my classes next semester and it tells me I am restricted because of a ticket, LOL. I tried to go pay it the same day, but the lady wasnt there. So memo to myself, GET IT TAKEN CARE OF SOON OR YOUR CLASSES WILL BE FULL!

On to my love.. life of lack thereof, lol. I really started to fall for this girl that hung around me alot for the past few weeks. We've been friends (i know, shouldnt of even bothered) for awhile and I've always had an attraction to her. But she just seems to jump from guy to guy, and it bothers me, but I really have no say. Sluts, whores, hoes, etc are real turnoffs to me. But shes an exception(why does this sound so bad...), I really care about her alot, and sometimes I come off as a dick for the things I say to her. But I only say it so maybe she could slow herself down. You dont get a trophy for peaking in your teens. I dont know why I bother letting it get to me, cause I know damn well, if we ever got together, I would get my heartbroken. That in itself should be enough for me to stop caring about it. I called her a couple times last week, and each time she was in a different town with a different guy, but tried to be shady about it. Good thing I play so much damn poker, I can tell when somebody is hiding something, lol. I havent talked to her at all since then. It sucks, but o well. There are more fish in the sea. Too bad I'm a horrible fisherman.

stook maybe be sold, yay....

This weekend is pretty boring overall. We didnt really do much friday night, I just had some friends over and we drank a bit at mi casa. I turned $10 into $130+ on Pstars, only to lose it back in a few hours, doh! They really need to do something with the 48hour withdraw limit crap, I would be up so much in $$ if I could just pull the money out whenever I wanted.

I woke up Saturday morning to 2 missed calls from a 270 area code. I called the number back and it was a guy interested in buying my car. He said that he was 100% on buying it and will come pick it up Wednesday. I was like.. DAMN, it was kinda out of nowhere. So I've been car shopping and I think I found what I want; an 01 Electron Blue Prelude =D. The guy is asking $9500 because it has "light hail damage" and the car books for $10500. So I think I can get the car for about $8k or so. I'm just so ready to get rid of the S, I've had it way too long. I hope he comes through with it unlike all the flakers I've had recently.

Anyways, we went to Bdubs to watch the UFC fight Saturday night. It was pretty fun, except for the rigged Hold'em they have there, lol. I dont know how many times my pocket pairs or KA lost to random junk. O well. Its all in good fun. I spent way too much money this weekend on food and what not. I'm pretty disappointed in myself for doing that. I've been good with eating at home and saving my money for the past month (except for Pstars, lol).

But I guess that pretty much sums up my weekend. It was pretty boring, but next weekend is the cage fight and 17th floor so that should make up for it! I just napped about 5hours so now I cant sleep. Maybe I'll do my homework =P

jus another

So I thought I lost my bank card today so I called in and reported it lost. About 5minutes later, I find it on the kitchen counter. =/. Now I have to wait a week for the new card to come in because they already cancelled my current card, lol. Also, I cant get a temporary card because I opened my account in Florida and now I live in Illinois. =(. On the brighter side, I got the charge from DirectTv taken off and disputed. Those asshats were suppose to call me today and never did, so I took it upon myself to call my bank and file an unauthorized charge claim. Yay.

My heart definately skipped a beat tonight. I was on my way to the gym, and nearly smoked a motorcycle! I was getting ready to pull off of my road and I didn't see much through my blacked out windows (11pm at night); I edged out and saw a motorcycle flying up on my drivers side and he/she had to swerve to not hit me. I about shit my pants. I kept looking to make sure he/she didn't wreck, but I noticed that they were turning around so I gunned it. Haha. I parked behind Autozone and rolled my windows down. I kept hearing the bike flying up and down the road, it was nuts! O well, next time I'll make sure to roll my windows down. I just hope my car doesn't get vandalized or something. =(

Other then that, my day has been pretty boring. *sighs* Im so tired of work and school... Lady Luck where are you?

Bye Dinkers =(

So I slept in til 11:30 this morning and skipped my 10am class =/. I need to stop being so lazy, even though school sucks and you go through 4yrs of it to graduate and start off making 40k a year. Whoopdee doo. We got our tests back in ELT and I scored 75/100. I missed about 15 points because I didnt put my answers in engineering notation. Jeez, give me a break, I wrote it out for ya. At least I was doing the problems right.

I went home and sat around for awhile before mowing the lawn. I actually mowed the whole thing this time around, haha. Then I gave the s2k a full detail, that felt nice. There was so much dirt and grass in the fender wells from going off-road last weekend!

So I check my bank account to realize that DirecTV had pulled $366.73 out of my account! Those bastards! I called in and they said they charged me for an early termination fee + my month's worth of service. WTF?!?! I had their service for 2 weeks at most and I have shitty signal; so the tech came out to check it out. He confirmed that I had a weak signal and called it in. They said I wouldn't be charged for an early termination fee because it wasnt my fault that I had no signal. But they still charged me for the early termination anyways. She said if I wanted to dispute it, I would have to write a letter and sent it to them. FUCK THAT. I told her to check her notes and she confirmed that it said that I didn't have to pay the ETF. I told her that it was fraudulent for her them to say YES at first and then charged me. I chewed her ass out to no avail so I hung up and called back to talk to somebody else. She was more reasonable and told me that she would have somebody over at Account Management give me a call tomorrow. I'm so sick and tired of getting screwed by corporate companies, this is ridiculous. I need to become a lawyer and take on these stupid idiots. *vent*

To make my night even worse, I find out that Brittnee is leaving for Texas tomorrow. She didnt even bother to let me know so I could spend some time with her before she left. Some friend, huh? I don't know what to really think of it. I'm really upset that she's really going. I was always there for her when fuckface was making her cry. She could possibly be one of the most down to earth girls I've ever met in my life and now she's gone. Her stupid ass BF has brainwashed her to the point she just up and left her friends, family, and her life here for him. Why is it that all the quality girls are taken by the assholes? I'm honestly hurt that she didn't spend time with me or any of her friends before she left. It makes me feel as if I were never worth much to her, ouch. Brittnee, I'm gonna miss you like crazy. I'm gonna miss you whooping everyone ass in Guitar hero. I'm gonna miss your retarded comments (i.e. "this is what it looks like out of the bag"). I'm gonna miss you, period.

first entry

Well, I guess this will be my first entry into the blogging world. I figured this would be a good place for me to vent and keep a diary of things going in my life, so here goes nothing.

Today was suppose to be a great day. I was entered into a $530 no limit holdem tourney on Pokerstars with a 1st place payout of over $400k. I have been preparing myself all week for this and I was quite confident I would do well. Unfortunately, after about 2 hours into it, my 88 didnt hold up against KK and I was out. I dont even remember what place I was, but its not even worth talking about. I was quite pissed off, but whatever, shit happens. I will hit it someday soon and all my hard work will pay off.

Anyways, after that I went to hang out with Darrell over @ Carries. We went to play some baseball and it was pretty fun. I munched on some of Carrie's mom's cooking and it was mighty delicious. I hung out there for awhile to cool off from my poker misfortunes, then I went home to chill.

I ready to just hit it big and get the hell out of this area. I dont want to be average, I want to make my mark in this world. Mark my word, I am going to be rich or famous one day. And I will remember those close to me and those who screwed me.