Heart Walk

Posted by bert at 01:12 PM on September 1, 2005 in ME.

I know there are other pressing matters currently going on in the world (say... Louisiana?)

We're doing a heartwalk in LA, and trying to raise money... so any donation to support my fat asian butt walking through 90+ degree weather is appreciated too =)

http://heartwalkla.kintera.org/lacountyca/bktong

If you wanna donate to hurricane stricken areas instead.

www.redcross.org i believe has plenty of links

or you can organize your own FOOD and Clothing or CASH drive in your local area.  (i'm doing one at work)  and at then end Red Cross will graciously accept.

Remember your donations are (1) tax deductible and (2) employee matchable.

so please remember both.  Thanks!

 

THANKS EVERYONE!!!

i collected $250 towards the Heart Association.  in the process, i sprained my ankle at the 1K mark, so walked 4k on my bum ankle.  But it was for a good cause!!!

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Vindication!!!

Posted by bert at 09:42 PM on September 2, 2005 in ME, Poker.

I've pretty much taken the better part of the last 3 months off from playing poker online.  (maybe just once or twice since the bad beat i took at the WSOP).

tonight is my vindication night.  My 2nd large tournaments since WSOP, and 20+2 Limit Holdem game.  I played nearly flawless poker for the better part of 4 hours, making maybe one mistake chasing an open ended straight draw.   I made one bad beat against a stort stacked player when we were down to 20 people.   (he had kk and i had qq,  flop was KJT, river A, so i had a straight to beat his set.) He was shortstacked so i had to call.

and you know what...  I pretty much had table command for the last 1.5 hours of the game.  And i knew what to do with it, and it felt great.

Lets see how great i Really am..  (after i cashout $1800 of it =p)

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Different Year, Same Team

Posted by bert at 11:22 AM on September 5, 2005 in ME.

Watched the NC State/ VTech game yesterday.

Our defense played like world beaters, giving up only 200 or so yards to the Hokies.  Our defense also played like idiots, commiiting stupid penalties during key 3rd down plays that would have forced the hokies to kick.  Instead they gave up a fresh set of downs on 4 seperate occassions,  including one idiotic running into the kicker penalty that allowed vtech to grind an additional 2 minutes off of the clock near the end of the game.

We caught a fair catch at our own 1/2 yard line because darrell blackman didn't know where he was...  

just shot ourselves in the foot, and were still within 4 points and a last ditch effort of the win.   We played good and i have lots of hope for the rest of the season considering we opened against teh ACC's best team this season.   hopefully we can use this as inspiration the rest of the year and a pointed reminder that we need to play a DISCIPLINED brand of football.   chucky, please stop shooting ourselves in teh foot!.

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Do you care about black people?

Posted by bert at 08:46 AM on September 6, 2005 in ME.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300165.html well.. apparantly the hurricane katrina disaster has now turned into a racial battle. Thanks to Veteran Political Commentator Kanye West.

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More Katrina stuff...

Posted by bert at 10:46 PM on September 6, 2005 in ME.

so... michael brown has been a resounding failure when the recovery process in Louisiana is concerned.   I'm not going to bash him, but when both political parties can't justify his behavior... it's probably not a good sign.

The reason i write this today is not because of michael brown sucking hard core, but news of his replacement in charge.

"...Since then, Brown has been eclipsed by his boss, Chertoff -- who flew overnight Sunday to take charge of integrating military with civilian efforts -- and by a new deputy, U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, whom Chertoff named yesterday to take charge of federal recovery efforts in New Orleans."

wait.. what's that you ask?  don't you have a roommate by the last name of allen who's dad is in the coast guard?  why yes i do..  Lucas's dad is one in the same at the Thadeus Allen now in charge of the reconstruction of Louisiana.   Well..  if from what his previous record indicates..  the people in the southern gulf coastal area whill have a very compassionate man looking out for their well-being.  That's more than i can say for Mike Brown.

 

read the article here

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501590_pf.html

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Andre Agassi/ James Blake Match

Posted by bert at 10:10 PM on September 7, 2005 in ME.

ok..  if you missed it... you missed the greatest tennis match these two eyes have ever seen.

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well.. i got a kick out of it.

Posted by bert at 02:49 PM on September 12, 2005 in ME.

http://fu-news.blogspot.com/

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So Where's the Cheddar?

Posted by bert at 06:10 PM on September 20, 2005 in ME.

I'm going to sound like an ass here... so..  oh well here goes.  (but no disrespect to the people of New Orleans)

I think it's an AMAZING gesture that our government has asked for and received $200 billion PLUS dollars for the aid of those stranded by Hurricane Katrina.  Additionally, this just shows that we have very big hearts and relatively deep pockets...

 

BUT!!!!   how come we can't seem to find a few billion (25) for the continueing support of education, or how the cause against curing AIDS and other diseases (15 bil), or towards the war effort (100 bil), or destroying nuclear weapons (5 bil), or...  yeah.. you get teh picture..

Yeah i know we had a huge natural disaster, but when asking for money to IMPROVE OUR SOCIETY, it seems that it has been like pulling teeth.  I'm not slamming the Gov for being able to support the Katrina Victims with this 200 Bil.. but for me to hear that we can find this level of funding within a month of the travesty... well..   what about our other national objectives?

yeah.. i'm playing devil's advocate.. so sue me.  I think this would be teh best question we could ask W.   Where are those tree hugging liberals too afraid to ask a tough question that makes them look bad in the public eye?

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the GMATS

Posted by bert at 09:24 PM on September 27, 2005 in ME.

ok.. so i haven't posted in awhile.. but i have good reason.

First off.. i'm taking the gmats tomorrow.  So obviously i've been studying for them.  ok.. enough there.

work has been hectic too (working about 50-60 hours a week).  so not much time left over for the self.   That which I do have i used playing and watching football over the weekend, and going to that amazing comdey fest over the weekend.

That show was awesome and Carlos Mencia definitely got a new fan because of it.  I know i'll be watching his show every wed. =P

or tivo'ing.

In the mean time...  i've realized that i can't concentrate on studying as well as i used to..   2 hours a time   What's REALLY weird is that i can do my work for about 5 hours straight without really realizing it..  weird huh?

Ok..  i've been rocking out to the new Foo Fighters Album recently.... with a splash of Weezer and IZ.  

Saw 40 year old virgin the other night with a few friends.  Was a freaking riot.  afterwards just hung out with the crew. 

So...  i've been thinking about this awhile..  with the seattle thing...(and i'm bored of writing practice essays so..)

I've lived in Cali like 2 years or... and had an offer to move to seattle.  good job.. good people. good pay.. really no reason not to take it, but i passed on it anyway.  it's why i can't seem to figure out.. Sure, my program matching my offer was a good thing.. and I was very happy they felt they needed me to stay...  but... 

so yeah.... like i said.. I dunno.  I thought about my friends here for a bit... and I love them to pieces, even their retarded little quirks.  I have my own little inner council out over here, and then those that i can see me getting to know a whole lot better.  I think that this is why in the end i chose to stay.  For the people I know now.   I've never really been a permanent person anywhere I have ever lived.  I guess i wouldn't ever really be comfortable living some place for over 6 years (Lets see..  NJ 6 years, Indiana 8 months, PA 2 years, Mundelein 3 years, Arlington Heights 6 yeras, North Carolina 5 years,  Cali 2 years).  I feel like one of my biggest regrets (though uncontrollable by me) has been that I don't have any of those "back when we were babies" stories.   I am no longer friends with anyone I knew prior to moving to Arlington Heights (5th Grade).   I've accumulated a good group of really good friends that I love to keep in touch with, but it seems they all don't know each other.  Wally, Kathy, Lauren, Luke, Drew, Jeff, Milhouse, Anne, Bob, Dave, Andy, Christina, and I may even hesitate to say Anna.  Like i said..  Very few of these cross with each other, and I think this is just odd.   I guess what i'm saying is that I stayed to give my current group of peeps a chance at being greater than good friends.  Sure some of them will always be with me.  but why not a bigger group of them?   I dunno... maybe i'm idealistic.  maybe i do go to business school.   But i think i felt an obligation to myself to live out the cali life for the time being i guess.

Besides.. i'm young and Seattle has no surfing =)

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So it's official

Posted by bert at 11:27 PM on September 28, 2005 in ME.

I'm so freaking excited about this...

and now it's official..

We're going next month to doggysit suzy's dogs =)  so exciting!  oh yeah.. her parents live on diamond head (the island of oahu in hawaii =P).  Can't wait =P

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