5'7", 194 lbs
One year after I left Boston Scientific, promising to everyone to go on and improve. Evaluation and progress reports:
Social skills, Eye Sea Yoo:
When I was at BSC, some people gave me a hard time and put a lot of pressure on me. This made me want to improve and be better. Two of the most notable ones were Nick and Eye Sea Yoo. Both would call me "cheetoh". Nick is a very loud guy and my sister was like a sister to him. Having knew Sheng before me he was surprised that I'm quiet. I felt a lot of pressure to be social because I'm Sheng's brother and Sheng was material control's crazy social girl.
Eye Sea Yoo is a loud and crazy girl, the second craziest Hmong girl I have ever met (the craziest one of course is Nuyeen Thao). She came to my attention one day and I stopped by to listen to her life's story, see what she's all about, what did she want and if I can do anything for her.
I was just some unhealthy quiet nice guy with severe anxieties, sleep apnea and hormone imbalances. I just wanted to work and didn't want to talk or be bothered by anyone. I had a hard time dealing with Nick and Eye's loud personalities which made me nervous. Eye probably thought that I had a crush on her. She was either playing around or was interested and loss it and moved on when she felt I didn't like her. Let's be honest, I don't know her full story but she seems like a great girl. I intended to become friends after I left BSC but nothing came out of it.
Oh well, I'm sure she has a great boyfriend and great friends in her life including the good people of BSC material control. They are better friends and better representatives of material control than me. I hope she would see me as just another material control guy that's kinda shy that she used to work with and not a guy that disappointed her. That's a bad feeling if a girl holds a grudge against you. I tried my best. It was not an easy last week for me at BSC, I was extremely nervous but came to get her number to be polite and because of course she is a great girl.
Eye Sea Yoo was a girl that was at BSC with the slipcoat department for a relatively short time of three years, about 5 months more than me. She was an extremely wild and friendly girl who would be very happy sometimes and sometimes seems sad. She came there around early 2012 and the clean room was still under Lue Yang before it went to JD, me, Noel and currently a girl. One of her predecessor was a pretty white girl in HPC, who NGTA's James and I blocked the way once.
I am sending Eye here to put a closure on this case. This girl pushed me hard and there is not a lot that are like her. Because of her craziness, I tried harder and went on and met great girls like Mai. I also finally reconnected with Olivia after eight years. Why was I so afraid of speaking to Olivia back then? She is just some cool Mexican girl. Today I am trying to be more friendly to the people around me because of the great people I met at BSC. Eye, thank you. You are a special girl to me. I can take this off my back and move on now. I am always a friend if I am ever called upon.
I failed but this case made me better. When a girl feel like you might not like her, she will end up not even wanting to be friends. I was in no shape to do better, I tried my best and knew the result that first day when I texted Monica that some Hmong girl at work might like me. Even though Eye left, others came in through her.
I am involved in more activities now, such as fishing, boating, hunting etc. (and of course came out to Branson) and so I'm a little bit more social now. At my new job, the work culture is great and everyone is very friendly. Of the girls, I intend to get to know the Ethiopian and Hmong girl better. For some reason the Hmong girl reminds me of the crazy Nuyeen and I get nervous but I can't be anti-social anymore. I can't let them down like I let down Gloria, Pia, Eye Sea Yoo, Nuyeen etc.
At BSC with material control, we had a great loud Asian leader. This guy talks as much as the loud Nick. Now, we have another great Asian leader at my new job. He wants to inspire people, want to preach about being nice to people because you never know what kind of connections they might have, he wants us to improve our public speaking and social skills. The public speaking is going to suck but the girls and some of the guys hate it too so we will all go through it together. A lot of them are also from BSC so I already knew a few which is good.
Biochemical researches progress report:
Experience and potential: 16 years experience. Tons of academic rewards and money to be made, but very difficult and complicated problems to solve.
I have been researching the neuro-endocrine system for almost sixteen years. In the last few weeks I looked at Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate but it looks like this goes nowhere. Will need to do a thorough breakdown of the metabolic pathways and look at recharging obstacles.
Big progresses were made this year when all the different biochemicals levels were finally scientifically identified.
Professional American Draughts:
Experience and potential: 14 years experience, strong master level but not yet world class/grandmaster level. Little money to be made, just a hobby.
The great Alfredo Mercado will join Eric and myself in 2016 in Branson for the ACF 3 move Nationals. Lorne might also show up. Himhim has expressed an interest in coming out to be the party host, he may be bringing a couple women with him for us if he makes it. I believe in our champions, we will come to win.
Alfredo is training very hard at the moment, utilizing every resources out there including Eric's site and my databases. It's not as serious for me, my ideal goal is to go through all the wins and draws in all 28 databases. In 2007 I asked Russian programmer Alexander Svirin to add an import function to Aurora while studying the Brazilian style and in 2010 I used the import function to complete the 3 move database, extracting the entire Nemesis opening book.
In 2012 Russian mafia member Alexander "fawz" Krasavica and his brother, owner of a Moscow strip club sent the 10 piece database on a hard drive to me over night. I have used the 10 piece database in some analysis in the 3 move database.
In 2015 I compiled 28 databases from various sources to use with a modified version of a training method advocated by former 3 move world champion Alexander Moiseyev. Earlier today professor Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer of the University of Alberta, Department of Computing Science sent me some additional matches and I added them to the databases. I've also started digitizing and incorporating Mr.Moiseyev's book and several others into the database.
Current databases: AM 733, AJ 746, AA 33, AL 1,115, BC 315, DO 539, DL 733, EH 289, EL 1,381, JF 494, JW 740, LK 182, MP 98, MT 1,289, ML 118, MB 262, NR 170, NB 524, RJ 252, RM 470, RS 320, RY 304, RK 845, SG 265, SL 61, SS 190, WH 799, WR 412
Hobbies and sports progress report:
I switched over to deer bow hunting, an expensive but can be exciting sport. It's also something to talk about in social circles. This is my first real season, hoping to get a deer by Thanksgiving. We are focusing on the East Bethal area.
Weight training, I can lift a lot more than when I used to train with Tsuki at BSC. Have been working and hunting lately so have been taking a break for a while.
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, I want to go back into the martial arts world soon. I've been in jiu-jitsu and judo schools over a decade over when MMA wasn't as popular and mainstream like it is today.
IT, jobs, education:
Job wise, I am only working four days for a total of 32 hours a week but I still make more than BSC production people use to make on a 40 hour regular week. This works out perfect for me because I can choose to do overtime up to 64 hours a week and just put it on the weekdays. I will use that three day weekend to study IT after hunting season.
I have my cousin's notes and of course people like Eric Strange and Monica to give me advice. Should I become a network engineer like Monica? Or should I look at database works since I already like working with databases type of stuff. Monica is my current top female advisor, she landed a 97 k job with the Mayo Clinic but due to health reasons, she had to resign and go with a less stressful 63 k job working for the city government now.
Setbacks:
As you all know, I'm a very very heavy drinker. I was convicted of a DWI last month. Before the DWI, I had almost 40 grand but that took a lot of money from me. I will come back stronger and back on track. I will learn from this.