Wednesday, February 23, 2005

jus heard a delication from the radio about someone talking abot how they are gonna get the results for today. o levels to be exact..

it jsu sends my mind to a whirlwind. back to the days in my secondary sch. where everything was so carefree. wasnt much to think about, wasnt much to want to achieve. all i was doing is jus play and play and play.... now, age 22, can feel the pressure. time to grow up eh? well, taking my degree now, but somehow feeling kinda useless. looking at my roommate sometimes putting so much pressure on himself to perhaps get a good job. or maybe even more. tell u frankly, sometimes its scary the way he push themselves. anyway, back to me. so yeah.. not been doing much. still trying to upstart my birdnestshop.com. getting a few stumbling blocks and non commitmment from a few parties including myself.... oh well.. i dun knoe.. jus feel useless sometimes, but yet at the same time, i wouldnt really say so, as i have my plans too..... hopefully starting a new business that has never been in the market before( will inform u guys when it kickstart).

been having critics abt it, but yet, somehow i feel confident abt it.. oh well.. gotta wait and see.. cant do much as i need relavant parties to move their asses!...


worse come to worse, go back help my dad do his birdnest house... that will make me rich enough... i dun knoe, jus wanna do a few things myself, like my own business....

wadever...

i dun evern knoe wtf i am writing.. so.. wadever.. =)
Andry at 2:52 PM

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

happy chinese new year for eveyone thts reading this. =)

here is an article tht i feels its very helpful or somewhat interesting. its from one of the best poker player of all time who had recently passsed away due to heart failure(if i am not wrong) with the name of doyle bunson. i fairly love the last part, perhaps i will learn tht stunt one day.

thiking of which my dad always from young tells me of tactics to escape certain situation especially in indonesia, i always think, nonsense, he is talking too much rubbish. but from this dtory below, perhaps security is not to be taken for granted. singapore is very safe, but not in indonesia. =)..

how to escape a robbery:

One of the worst nightmaresAnd I got home with them safely. Almost.One of the worst nightmares, not only for a poker player, but for any citizen is a home invasion. It was midnight. As I left my car, heading for my door, I was confronted by two men and a gun. They wanted the keys. I flung them far into the bushes, but not far enough. One of the men retrieved them. I decided I simply wasn't going inside the house. No way. So, I faked a heart attack. It was a convincing act, and they bought into it. But that didn't send them scurrying into the night. They simply unlocked the door and dragged me through it.Naturally, we have all sorts of security features, as most high-stakes players do. One of those was a delayed alarm, which had been set by Louise, who was upstairs sleeping. When I didn't deactivate it, the alarm sounded, just as I'd hoped.They demanded to know how to turn it off. I kept feigning semi-consciousness and giving them the wrong combinations, asking them to call the paramedics. Sympathy from them was not forthcoming, however. I was pistol whipped and they broke my nose in the process. My face was badly cut up when Louise came downstairs to investigate the commotion.The phone rang.
"That's the alarm company," one of the men growled. "Tell them everything's all right or we'll kill you right now!"It was, indeed, the security company, responding to a standard electronically transmitted alert. In order to determine whether this was a false alarm, they asked for a password that would let them know everything was OK. Louise took the call and had the presence of mind to give the wrong password, just as I had. But, instead of this providing the correct clue that something was terribly amiss at the Brunson's residence, the woman on the other end admonished Louise, saying she had been given the wrong password. "Yes, I know," Louise confirmed politely, hoping the intruders wouldn't divine the direction of the phone conversation. She again repeated the invalid code and hung up.
Phone rings againNow, you'd think that was enough to send help on its way. But, no. The phone rings again. And again it's the security company. This time one of the robbers answers and tries, pathetically, to sound like a woman. He is told that the code previously given is invalid. Belatedly, the agent gets suspicious and figures it out. Finally, she hangs up and calls the police.Slamming the phone down, the robber losses his cool, charging back into the room where the other bandit has a gun to my head."Don't kill him, kill me!" It's my dear Louise's voice. When the man had stepped back from me, she had jumped between me and the gun. The robbers seemed flabbergasted. They threatened us again, then took chips and some money from my pockets. They didn't search the house, and they wouldn't have found any cash there, anyway. I don't keep cash at home, mostly because it could endanger my family. They sensed they were running out of time, and so they fled.Even through the pain, one thought struck home - it was my astonishment at just how courageous Louise is. I'd always known she was like that, but this night set a new standard.By the way, I'd learned that heart attack trick from another legendary gambler, Titanic Thompson. It was in his book. But he would take it a step further, coming out with a hidden pistol. They say he killed five guys that tried to rob him.

Andry at 7:48 PM