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[Sep. 30th, 2006|05:01 pm] |
This is my favorite quotes and my About Me, saved on my Livejournal, because I plan on editing both:
"When you gamble for fun, you've already won!"
-American Gaming Association commercial
"Abraham Lincoln once said, 'If you are a racist...I will attack you with the North.'"
-Michael Scott, The Office
"I'm part of the KR3W!"
-Michael Shinzaki
"Welcome to motherfuckin' college education!"
-Xzibit
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
-Richard Dawkins
"We roll dice, life is a gamble. Make me a million dollars, make you an example."
-Transplants, the band
"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just."
-Lou Krieger
"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens."
-Unknown
"It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter."
-Stu Ungar
"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent."
-David Mamet, playwright
"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score."
-Stu Ungar
I have a girlfriend named Kyla. She’s my boo. I luhhh her. (Aww!)
I have always been a competitive and creative lad. In the past I have self taught myself many useless skills, such as how to juggle three different shaped objects (but not knives and torches, yet), and how to solve a Rubik’s cube in less than one minute (32 seconds). I also consider myself a Scrabble whiz (559 is my high score) and I once won 8th place in a San Diego County-wide chess tournament at the age of twelve (I won 7/8 matches en route). On a whim, I quit high school soccer and baseball cold turkey and took up tennis and academic league from scratch. Six months later I was academic league varsity captain and one of the Union Tribune’s top 25 ranked tennis players in all of San Diego. Before you lock me into the Asian stereotype for good, you should know that despite being 100% Japanese, I was chopsticks incapable until the ripe age of sixteen. That’s right, for my entire childhood I ate rice with a fork (gasp!) like a retarded fuck!
I don’t quite know what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, but it sure as hell ain’t working. After scooping ice cream and telemarketing, I’ve pretty much decided that I’m over the concept of work. Throughout my adolescent years I gave serious thought to professional stand-up comedy, but I couldn’t stand the thought of getting barraged with tomatoes on a nightly basis. I spend a lot of my idle time playing online poker because it’s an excuse not to work. I've made 1k in one night a couple of times this summer. I'm in the process of paying for my college tuition via No Limit Texas Holdem! I am also Vice President and shareowner of a San Diego based clothing company called Atavism Entertainment that was launched in the Spring of 2006. Hopefully one of the three aforementioned professions skyrocket to insta-success.
I'm basically just an honest and well-wishing kiddo, though oftentimes devious and sometimes badass. I like to indulge, but I always cherish. There are times when I can truly apply myself to a task, and there are times when I skate along the path of least resistance. Sometimes I wish the world was more peaceful, less hungry, and less oil dependent. Sometimes I eat Mexican food and nap on the couch with my dogs and actively ignore the problems of the world. I am so thankful that my parents raised me secular, because ironically it has ultimately led me to live a more powerful, meaningful, freethinking and free life.
In the last month of school last year I attended 27 minutes of class, which I calculated to be 1.08% of the possible time I could have attended. I can also honestly declare that I've been arrested on the UCLA campus. Long story.
My nicknames include but aren't limited to: Dark Horse, Mikey Starfruit, Super Boss, Sextar, The Triple Triple, Coin Laundry, Quad Trips, Parallax, Makeshift Rider, and Kid Atavism. |
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