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Sad

aznjavi — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46:09 +0000

I just found out today my grandfather had passed away a few days ago. He lived to 92 I believe. It saddens me that I didn’t get to see him for the past 13 years. I really wish my trip to Taiwan with my mom wouldn’t have been cancelled. We were suppose to fly back to Taiwan on 10/30 for two weeks. I could have gotten to see him before he left us. I know this is life but it’s never easy when a family member passes away. I just hope my mom will be ok.

Bored

aznjavi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:56:46 +0000

It’s that time of the year when the weather is changing. It seems like my mood changes along with the weather. I’m happy when it’s warm and get depressed as the weather gets cooler. You think i have the S.A.D syndrome? Actually it’s probably a combination of girl issues along with the weather changing. Girls are evil. I don’t know how to fix my issues so I think i’m gonna try to see a shrink. I hope my work health benefits covers it.

I don’t usually listen to Japanese songs, but this one ish really good.

Hottie of the month: Raquel Gibson

Another Year

aznjavi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:08:21 +0000

I can’t believe another year has gone by right before my eyes. I am officially 32 years old today!! I’m not the type that gets scared about aging. I mean I barely look 21 I think and most of the guys don’t need to worry about the biological clock. I just want to say thank you mom and dad for passing down the great genes. No white hair yet either…knock on wood. I had a great year and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in plan for me.

Check out this orchestrated version of Down by Jay Sean. It’s a beautiful version orchestrated by this dude named Aakash Gandhi. Pretty chilled stuff. Also, here is the latest by John Mayer. It’s called Who Says. Another chilling jam.

Humm, what else is new? Our softball team finished the season with a respectable record of 3-4. This is pretty good considering we started the season 0-4. We have high expectations for next season. Next sport is volleyball. I doubt I will play though. I’m not that good, but I will play if they need players. Winter sport is basketball and I’m definitely in for that. Although our team will probably blow since it has to be people within our group. Lets just say our group doesn’t have too much athleticism. I’m gonna be the A.I for our team. Shoot first and pass if I really need to.

GLD update 104.26

MGM update 11.68

MIA

aznjavi — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:48:41 +0000

I’ve been missing in action this past few weeks. It’s been a very busy Summer for me and hopefully I’ll be able to write some stuff on a more consistent basis.

Looking for a job? Here is a great idea. How about starting up your own food truck? Check out this Kogi website. Everything on the menu looks unbelievably delicious. Kogi trucks first started in SoCal and I believe they will soon start up couple trucks out here in NYC. The people who started this Kogi stuff only started last year. It took about a year to allow them to make enough profit to expand to the east coast. They have 3 trucks that’s at three different locations operating from Tuesday to Saturday (Sun & Mon off). They have a set schedule where the trucks will be stationed each day and they only work 3 hours per day. Not a bad deal in my opinion. Each truck sells out on a daily basis with the quantities they prepared for. This meaning they are profiting on a fixed income plan for now. I have no idea how much each truck profits, but assuming each profits just say $500 per day. $500X3Trucks=$1500X4days=$6000per week and you do the rest of the math. Not bad for working 4 days for 3 hours a day. The concept is easy, but the key to success starts with the chef. People will come if the food is good. That is and will always be the key to a successful business. Who wants in?

This site will be very useful for you if you live in JC or Hoboken. I discovered Central Avenue Wines last week and I found out they make deliveries to your doorstep for free if you live in JC or Hoboken. I no longer have to spend $12 for a 12-pack of Coors light or $12 for a 6-pack of import beers. The liquor prices around where I live is absolutely ridiculous. I can now get my beer much cheaper and all I have to do is carry it from my front door steps. How convenient!!

I can’t wait for the basketball season to start. I just purchased 5 sets of Knicks tickets. Knicks offense will be a lot of fun to watch just like last season. The run and gun style will make Knicks one of the highest scoring teams in the NBA this season. I don’t have much care for defense. I’ll be happy if either the Knicks or the Nets can make it to the playoffs. I highly doubt the Nets will do much this season. They just don’t have the depth in their lineup and they lost VC. Knicks might make the playoffs this season. They will probably be at the bottom if they somehow make it, but it’ll be nice watching a Knicks playoff game at MSG. My tickets include Phoenix, Golden State, Portland, Oklahoma City, and the Clippers.

If you purchased some stocks about 8-12 months ago, you are probably a very happy camper right now. Especially if you bought some Apple and Google. Apple was at a low point of 82.58 once and now it’s at 184. Google was at once 262 and it rebounded to 494. All within a matter of 8 months. I mean not everybody will have that kind of money to invest at a time when the economy was struggling, but just imagine if you had the guts to lay some money down on something. Even my own company Barclays Capital rebounded from a once low 3.07 to 23. I’m hitting myself for not believing my own firm. In any case, I do have some GLD that I purchased at 83. It’s now starting to climb again and I’m hoping it gets to 150 by end of next year. It’s at 97 right now. As we all know GLD is very volatile and requires close attention. Nope!! I was not worried one bit. I knew gold would never dip below a certain point. It’s the backup/last resort to our paper currency. Our economy is still couple years away from fully recovering. The progress maybe starting, but it will require time to get back to how we were once. GLD was at its lowest point back in 2005 and that was also where the economy was steady and the market was hot. Everybody wanted to get into finance then. People will again want to get back into finance within the next 5 years. It’s just the way things work. Everybody is always looking for that goldmine stock. I believe that stock will be MGM. MGM was at 96 almost exactly 2 years ago. With the economy crisis, people thought MGM would go down. It hit a low 1.89 in March of this year and slowly rebounded. It’s been hovering around 12.50-13.50 recently. This is still very cheap for purchase. The casino business goes obviously goes with the flow of our economy. If you ever been to Vegas, then you would know more than half of the strip is owned by MGM. MGM clearing is the powerhouse in the casino industry and it will only rebound from now on. Buy it now and keep it for 5 years. It should be above 50 in couple of years and i’m hoping it’ll get back up to 90 within 5 years. It’s my long term investment. Buy some yourself people!! Have no fear. My motto is ”Scare money don’t make money”.

Busy Month

aznjavi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:32:03 +0000

August has been a fun, eventful, and a tiring month. Haven’t been home much on the weekends. I have been away to Baltimore one weekend and Vegas on another weekend. Not to mention all the partying done during the week nights after work. We also started our corporate softball league in Aug. We are 0-3 right now, but we are optimistic that we will win one game before the season is over. We have 4 more games so I got my fingers crossed. Honestly, I really don’t think we’ll win one. We really really really suck!! Win or lose, we always have a great time hanging out after the games in Hoboken. I did lose my wallet in Hoboken so that’s the only bad thing that’s happened for me this Summer. My $400 wallet!! My boy Victor is getting married this weekend so we are taking him out Thursday night for a small bachelor party nyc style. Good thing I was able to take this Friday off. We are also going to the Rutgers season opening game on Labor Day. It’s gonna be a good game. We are playing Cincinnati. Another eventful weekend coming ups. Our pool will be closing on Labor Day too. I’m glad in a way cuz people are so damn loud, but I will miss chilling by the pool myself. I will be back with more stuff next week when things slow down for me. Enjoy your weekend~

Girls Girls Girls

aznjavi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:21:28 +0000

I haven’t partied in Hoboken for awhile now. I have always preferred heading into the city as to Hoboken. Well, I think I will be hanging out in Hoboken more often after what i experienced last night. We were at this bar called Mulligan’s for a charity event and I have say I was impressed. The girl ratio was about 7-3. Girls girls girls….Mostly white girls since Mulligan’s is an Irish bar and Hoboken is known as a white town (I don’t discriminate…I love all girls =). It’s the place to be if you are a single guy. I’m not sure if it was just that bar, but I have a feeling there are more single girls living in Hoboken than guys. Yes!!

We got our @ss pounded in our first corp league softball game on Thursday. We lost 14-4. Every team is required to have two girls on the team and this sucks because our group is 90% guys. One of the girls on our team has never played softball before and has no idea what the rules are. The other girl is a pretty good athlete, but she can’t really hit. Our girls were big time liabilities and 3 of the guys on the team also never played softball before. There is no way we can win a game if 5 of the players on our team don’t know how to play. I know it’s all for fun, but it’s embarrassing having the guys strike out multiple times in a softball game. I batted lead off and went 2 for 3. Had a triple and a single. I played 3rd base and it felt good making some plays out there. I had the hot corner and I was glad I made no errors. Next game is this coming Thursday and I have a feeling we’ll get pounded again. Win or lose, we all get together in Hoboken after the game for drinks. It’s good times and it will be sweeter if we find a way to win the next game.

This has been a busy busy month so far and it will only get busier for me this next couple weeks. Suppose to head down to Baltimore next weekend to feast on some crabs and catch an Orioles game. The following weekend is Vegas weekend with the boys and that could potentially get crazy and become dangerous. Vegas+Five Single Guys+Booz=Trouble

Time to share some videos with you….

Cool Rides

My girl Natalie

New York, I Love You Trailer (Great casting for this movie and the best part about this movie is that it’s about life in NYC)

The Blind Side is based on a true story of Michael Oher. He was drafted in this years NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens. A very moving story.

This is the big one I’m waiting for. Thundercats the movie. Although it’s not due out until sometime next year. Van Diesel, Brad Pitt, and Hugh Jackman star in it and it will def be a huge hit.

Some of you may know I’m fascinated with vampires. Check out this trailer.

This looks fun. Tommy showed me this today and I’m in for next year.

Songs of the week: Daylight by Matt & Kim and Every Girl (Click here) by Young Money

Hotties of the week: Alice Greczyn & Nina Moric

Alice

Nina

Porn Star of the week: My Girl Mia Lina – Google her yourself. I can’t post too many of her pics since not too many of them have clothes on…ha

Aqua makes a come back. They have a new song out and it’s called Back to the 80′S. It’s nothing special.

It’s gonna be freaken hot when you wake up Monday morning. Suppose to be hot and muggy and it might reach 100 degrees with the humidity factor. I know I’m ordering take out tomorrow at lunch time. Tomorrow will be a day where you’ll be sweating the moment you step outside. It’s gonna be nasty. Not much to look forward to this next few days. I have a project due and I’m not looking forward to that at all. Oh well, life’s a bitch sometimes. Have a nice week people and stay out of trouble. I’m outz~

Disappointed

aznjavi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:04:06 +0000

I’m still hurting after losing our championship game last night. We lost by 5 points and the game could have gone either way. We were up by 3 points at half time and came out flat in the second half. Regardless of how badly we played in the second half, we were only down by 1 point with 22 seconds left. Obviously we missed and had to foul. We were hoping they miss some free throws, but they were pretty clutch down the stretch. We were down by 3 with 11 seconds left and again we missed. We fouled again and they made both free throws again. That’s how close the game was. It hurts a lot getting so far and losing by just one possession. We are taking the Summer off and coming back for the Fall season. Summer is only 6 games and many of us have vacations coming up. It’s not worth paying the league fee ($120)and not be able to play 1/3 of the games for the most of us.

On another note, my employer barcap has sponsored us for our softball team. Our first game is tomorrow and i’m looking forward to kick some @ss. I’m penciled in at 3rd base and the lead off spot. I had one inside the park HR last year and i’m going for 3 this season.

Eli Manning will be the highest paid player in NFL???? Are you fking kidding me? Don’t get me wrong, I like Eli a lot but I don’t think he deserves that kind of money. Not even Brady and Peyton Manning gets that kinda money. Eli lives in Hoboken right now and I’m taking a wild guess that he will buy himself a nice 100 bedroom mansion somewhere around here.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been released from the North Koreans. Bill Clinton looked like a Hero just going there to speak to Kim Jong-il. The North Koreans were going to release them anyways. They just wanted the Americans to suck up to them and apologize in our deepest sorrow and showing them sympathy for what Laura and Euna did. I guess in the end it’s all about getting them back home safely. Isn’t Lisa Ling much better looking than Laura? Laura’s face look like she ran into a wall growing up. I ran into a poll one time myself and I think I broke my nose and I didn’t realize it. Yeah, i’m pretty fking stupid. If my nose looks funny next time you see me, you know why….

Championship Game

aznjavi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:16:47 +0000

We won our second round of the playoffs tonight. Just like the Vegas line, we won by 6 points. We should have won by 9 points if it wasn’t for a stupid miracle half court bank shot with 8 seconds left to the game. I knew we were the better team going into this game and we proved it from start to finish. We all played with confidence and we were bombing away from the 3-point land throughout the game. We made 11 threes in the first half alone. We lead by 14 points at half time and Tequila Shooters made a run in the second half and got within 4 points!! We then buckled down on the defense and made few clutch plays in the last minute of the game. It was a beautiful game. Both teams had great players making plays and it all came down to the defense. The better team held up in the end and proved we are no fluke. Championship game is next Tuesday night at the prime time spot in Hoboken. 9pm is tip off. Stop by if you want to see us celebrate by 10pm. It’s our destiny this season and we won’t be satisfied with anything less than the title and the 6 foot trophy!! We also get one hour of open bar at a date of our choice in Hoboken. Feels good to be good at something. Happy Friday all!! Beer GARDEN after work tomorrow so stop by for some Oktoberfest beer. See you guys tomorrow night. I’m outz for now~

Free Woman

aznjavi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Amanda Gatti was released from jail today. They ruled Gatti’s death a suicide. I still have no idea how in the world he could have strangled himself with a purse. I want details!!!

Big Poppy

aznjavi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:54:37 +0000

Big Poppy is the next name that’s been linked to the 03′testing for steroids. It’s funny how names slowly just keeps popping up in the news. I mean we already had an idea he was juiced. Just look at his stats for this season and compare it against his earlier seasons. It’s not even comparable. Another one bites the dust. Who’s next?