New begginins need a new look

Today as I was seeing some of my old pics I realised I need an action plan; a plan for me to get motivated about life once again (like in the pictures i was seeing). After some thought I came up with these resolutions:
1. Start taking my poker talents more seriously and make it in the World Series of Poker next year.
2. Get a new bike and bike like in the old days...I love biking and it makes me look and feel good.
3. No girls in my life at least for a year. No need for that B.S. right now.
4. Get a pet, preferably a dog.
5. By summer 2007 get into boxing in Florida Jack's.

So usually I like to change my look when I want to change (as most of you know) so I just cut my hair. I am gonna grow my beard a little bit. So here you have it...the new and improved EVolvedHomoSapien!

Enjoying the moment

Yesterday night we started with a friendly game of poker; this time we had the infamous Nick in the table. I was looking to play agaisnt him to check my skills.

Well, it went as i expected, i had the game, at first i was low on chips so i realised i had to make a stand so i start being more agresive. Mika tried to imitate my game which worked on the other guys but i just used it to give him enough confidence so when i would need his chips i know how to steal them.
It was kinda hard getting chips since everyone was playing really conservative-even after i busted Steve's balls more than once in front of the girls to make him bet.
At the end it was down to Mika and I, he had most of the chips, i had may be a quater of his. He started really agressive, I KNEW he had nothing but i was folding to boost his confidence more so he would go all in when i need him to. I was like magic, i caught him twice when he tried to bluff so i was now the chip leader. Finally i won with an allin from him.

Later we went down clubbing with Ali's friend. We met with Ali at the entrance of Ultra, it was a nice place, alot of gorgeus women but i wasn't feeling it. Later we went to districk, there i saw a gorgeus young drunk asian girl she was just what i needed to get my stress off, but all the guys were all ver her and i wasn't in the ass kissing mode.

In a nutshell, it was a lame night for me, Mika was bombed and having fun, I envied him a little bit; how he can just be happy and live in the moment while all that's going thru my head are all these shitty problems. I took him later to some chinese food, there we ate like there was no tomorow, we had two dishes of beef with chew mein, a dish of sour chicked, and some rice as well, we were eating an enjoying it. We were enjoying the moment.

Introducing Iysam

Well, some may not know that evolvedhomosapien (E.V.) has a brother living in the southern hemisphere, taking all of E.V.'s money while attending the most expensive Uni in Chile. Well, now you know.
Well, I will not keep my identity secret, however, that will not help you finding E.V.'s identity, since we have different last names (long story). Anyways, I will be contributing from time to time to this blog, giving an "objective" view of how it is for an international student to live in Chile.
Anyways, I had a discertation about Colombia for my Power and Government class and I did a video. I have uploaded it, however, it is of lower quality than it really is. The difference really shows up at the end, when the fast pace starts. In this version just about one third of what is supposed to be shown per second is shown, so that takes a lot of the thrilling factor. I used the lowest possible tools doing the movie, that is the Windows Movie Maker.
"Colombia..." the movie
Enjoy!, and please tell me what you think.

The whiteboard.

When I entered my department I was surprised by what i saw, it was a breakthrough, the answer to my questions, it was not the whiteboardthat i installed yesterday; it was what was written on it.

I had been having this problem in the department - it was very hard to motivate my guys. I tried talking to them, paying attention to whjat they were saying but nothing. GFinally, I decided to get a huge white board, 96" x 48". i hd it installed at the entrance of the department.

First I was hesitant of what to write down. After a little meditation i came up with something; metrics, question of the day and an activity board. As for what surprised me was that I actually had some replies on the board, I was amazed. Also, they started popping in my office with ideas of what to do to improve the system. It was a glorious day.

Using NLP in Poker night

Yesterday I was handicapped; my neck was stiff. I don't know what was the resaon, either I slept bad or it was my new AC in my office. Anyways, I couldn't go out so all i did the entire day was go to the driving class and play Call of Duty 2. At night Mika called me to see what's up- we agreed to meet for a house poker game. I met his friend Steve in his house. He was a nice guy, I liked him but I was surprised Mika had friends that were no snakes as his other friends, Ali....etc.

We took off to Jason's house around 10:30, we passed by the liqor store but it was closed- what a dissapointment. It was 5 of us, 5 dollars per head, so we were playin for a 25 dollar pot, i was there just for fun. It was Jason, Steve, Mika, I and Jenna. Jenna is some girl they knew from school. I was surprised when Mika told me that everyone in the table made out with her because she looked like such a nice girl. Now she was Steve's girlfriend; poor guy.

We started playing, I started conservative so I could get some tells and know what type of players they were. After 2 hands I knew I had this game. First, I had to put Mika's state somewhere that he wouldn't win so i started busting his balls and I used a time distortion pattern to make him feel he lost already; he was the first one out. Then Steve and Jason were no problem at all, they were playing on the first level and as we know i play on the third level. If you curious what they are:
Level one: you play what you have
Level two: you play what your opponent has
Level three: you play what your opponent thinks you have

I had a 3 4 suited and I just called from the dealer button. I got an inside straight from the flop; I needed a 5. Jason bet 100, Steve and Mika called and I followed suit. It was a 5 on the turn, I got the straight. They all checked, I bet 200, they called expect Jason. The river was 8, Mika bet 200, steve called and I raised to 800. After 5 minutes of hesitation they all folded. At that time even tho I had the straight I wanted to make them angry and play foolish so I just uncovered the 3. They were so angry I knew it worked. So after half an hour they were out, it was down to meand Jenna.

She was a hard coockie to break- she was playing just good cards and very little bluffs. I had to break her if I wanted to win. I start playig really agreesive with bad hands like 7 2 and 3 4 and stealing the blinds. then I got 3 of a kind, I wanted her to bet big, so what I did I wanted to get in her mind. I told her: " You know Jenna I can't remember the last time I lost a game. Can you REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU LOST? WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE?" and i jut put a fake smile. It worked since she bet big, I took half her chips. After that I played super agressive, Finally I beat her with a pocket 9s.

It was a good night, it reaffirmed me that I had a talent in poker and I shouldn't quit.

5-hour meeting...what's next?

I was in the office half an hour late-it was OK, everything is OK, I have a very relaxed boss; Lucin. As long as I do my job he doesn't care what I do. The morning was really hectic, first I had to get an extension cord for the camera since the battery dies after 2 hours and we needed continous recording of the robot working. Suposedly there is a problem with the packing robot, however, every single time i am around it just works fine so i just installed the camera, hopefullyI will able to see what problem they are talking about.

Later, Lucian called me to his office to tell me about the auditor that was coming to my department to talk to some of my guys. So I just rushed and talked to them to make sure they put their stuff together and not be caught by surprise. When I was at the TTC, I was doing some internal audits in several yards. I never got why everyone hated my guts so much since I was thre to help them out- surely I do know now. I then found out that luckily the auditor talked to Dave, the lead mechanic, very profesional individul; so I knew I was fine.

Finally, after talking to Lucian about the march report that i was preparing, I went to my office to get something in my belly and relax for 5 minutes. I barely finished my pasta and Fern was knocking at my door in a white-stripe blue golf shirt, it was his day off and obviously he was pissed that Zak called him for themeeting since it was the only day he had with his wife.

Me: "Come in Fern."
Fern: "I don't know if Zak told you but we have a meeting at 12 to talk about the printers' scheduling."

At that time I remembered Zak's email talking about that. I was the PM guy, not a process engineer. I am a big picture guy, not the one looking for the daily technbical problems.

Me: "Alright, let's go."

Zak wasn't in the meeting room, he then gave me a call saying hat he was going to be 20 minutes late because he was with the auditor. So we started the meeting without him...after 40 minutes he showed up. This meeting seemed to take forever; we were in that room till 5:30 o clock, that's a FIVE-HOUR meeting!

When it was done I noticed that Lucian wasn't alright so I went to check on him and he was really pissed how Zak is stealing me from his department. He first stole Octavian; the project engineer, now he wanted me. After Lucian entered Zak's office, I heard some yelling and after 20 minutes he came out. I just made sure he was ok and not fired. After Diego's resignation the last thing I needed was Lucian to quit. Diego, the production manager, resigned today. I was surprised because he is the best person in the plant. After he told me the news, I just had to ask him why, he replied that the job was aking too much time from him and he had no time for his kids, wife and friends. That takes a lot of courage, just to resign from a good position and dedicate yourself to your family, I envied his determination and courage a little bit.

IKEA; simply doesn't make sense.

Today I got my IKEA funiture. I am still trying to compute how I blew $1,500 on IKEA furniture. Well, amazingly it took me 3 hours to assemble 4 chairs and a coffee table for which the instructions were way off. I was thinking how good an idea it is to open a website for assembling IKEA stuff, something like BetterIKEAmanuals.com, this website would contain proper catalogues for assemblying IKEA furniture, these catalougues would include proper descriptions instead of caveman drawings.

After assembling the furniture I went online to play poker at partypoker.com, i started with $100 after 10 minutes i was at $122, after 40 minutes i was at $189, it all seemed going well and i was ruling over the table-or so I thought. I got pocket kings; this is the second most hated hand in my personal list. My most hated hand is ace king (a.k.a. big slick) yes i know you will be saying these are the best hands, but I have had bad luck with them, that is why I call ace king "Anna Kournikova"; it looks good but it never wins.

So once I got it I raised to $5, 3 guys called. After the flop of ace, queen and five, one guy raised $8 so I reraised to $20; don't ask me why, I have my retarded moments as everyone else. The turn was an ace-bad news. By now I KNEW he had at least three aces, he had me beat and i was drawing dead, however, for some unexplainable out-of-this-universe reason i bet $50 and of course he called me. The river was some low number, he bet $20 and Mr. Stupid right here called and lost to a full house; aces full of queens. After that it went down the hill and I lost all of it. Lesson learned - always keep your cool.