underestimation

A lot of people are telling me that I don't have a real job, I totally disagree obv. I'm tired to explain and justify myself, and I'm sure that a lot of people underestimate the amount of hours and effort that I put into all this. I have been doing some sick hours, like really sick hours.. I think if I could trade my life for just a month with someone else who doesn't believe me and does a 'regular' office job that he would die after two weeks, I'm pretty sure of that... my schedule is so insane right now, that I know I'll have a burnout after 2 months, which is pretty normal I think. I wake up around 13.00, grind until 18.00 online, take a shower, have dinner and then I grind from 20.00 to 5.00am live, just count the hours, you'll figure it out.. and that has been the case for the past week in Singapore. I've done an office job myself for a period, I know what I'm doing right now is way tougher, so I can compare. If you're not a true believer, I challenge you to try it yourself :) So telling me, you have an easy life, trust me, it's a big big underestimation.

I had one evening off though, on Munchu's birthday, we decided to take a day off and went on a drinking binge, went to Clarke at some pub, who had a very good live music band and then went to our regular thai club lol :) and then ended up at a nice BBQ place at Geylang somewhere.. it was a really fun night.

Ryu

14 hour workdays

yah I know.. I've been horribly lazy lately, and my mind was totally not into playing anything at all.. but that changed now since my relocation to Singapore.. I've been grinding 14 hours a day, back to being the robot I suppose to be. Have to give my sincere thanks to Jeffery for arranging everything for me (although he's getting some share of my action, which is obv. +EV lol), but still, it's awesome to have someone like him around to show me the ropes over here. Can't say I've been running hot last couple days, bad beats galore, massive swings, but it's ok, I'm still up and I'm sure my hot run will come soon ;)

My singaporean friends are teasing me so much lately, don't know why :p and they brought me to some random thai disco over here, guess they wanted to make me feel at home lol

thought the place was pretty horrible haha, but anyways, I did have a good time with them around, although when I see all these singaporeans spewing 250$ on a bottle, it still feels abnormal, since it's only like 50$ in Bangkok, but well, have to adjust your game right ;) have to just lag it up a bit ^-^ oh and the thai girls around were pretty hot also, pretty much asian style flavour, light skin, tall, nice legs :) anyyyywwaaays.. gotta go work work work again, wishing you all good luck.

Ryu

the next episode

life has been bizarre lately.. mostly because I'm not in the right mindset to play much poker, so I haven't really put in any effort in playing.. the thing is, when I feel I shouldn't play, I really don't play at all, which has saved me already a lot of money in the past. Mindset is so important in every (important) decision or choice you make in life imo. I've been thinking about future a lot lately, and the way things are going in Thailand, I think it's time for a little break from it.. don't get me wrong, it's awesome over here.. always people to hang out with, always places to go party and always room for movies and cuddles ;) but now I kind of feel like I should rather put more effort in building up some funds instead of wasting my time doing nothing. Just feels like I'm standing still and not moving on that's all I guess.. so currently arranging things to move over to Singapore, and hang out with my friends over there while having a good internet connection to play some serious poker (but yeah still, not taking high limit shots :p). I guess I really wanna make an effort in changing my life for a bit, so I hope I'll be reporting from Singapore in few days soon :)

cheers,

Ryu

Happy New Year!

First of all wish you all a happy new year... may 2010 be one that marks your life.

As usual it's been ages that I've make a new post, but I've been quite busy travelling around and doing so much different stuff..

I stayed in Boston for a while, but things just didn't work out over there, so I currently I got back to Thailand, to be with my grinding family over here to put my life in perspective. I took a student visa and applied to a thai school learn thai full time, really want to put an effort into it and be fluent with another language. I had to travel to Singapore to make a short visa run, didn't plan to do much over there, but Jeffery managed to bring me to all these (fishy) live games, and I quite crushed I might say, so I made a bit of pocket money while doing my run :) It was also awesome to meet my buddies over there.. shoutouts to Jason and Munchu obv. hope to be there again soon.

Currently a belgian friend is here for holidays for a few weeks, here in Thailand, so I've been partying it up quite a bit :) New Years eve was very crowded but fun, and we litterly let a lot of alcohol flow down our throats. I also installed a dual screen now, to make my grind station a bit more relaxing to grind on, and somehow it's been successful, haven't had a losing session since then yet haha, variance :p

so what are my new years resolutions for 2010?

1. grind my way to 200K

2. no more taking shots on 25/50 or higher :p

3. be less lazy and more pro-active

4. enjoy life, and be a good person

5. post more? lol

Ryu Dang