Srinivas Nimmagadda

Most of us do everything we can for our kids.  In fact I would say they become a priority once we have kids and all other priorities drop to the sidelines.  

Once day Srinivas came to my office because he owed me money from our card game and on a laptop he opened up Google Maps and was showing me a bunch of lands that he had bought in India, he was bragging.  I did not care and I just said great and never thought about it again.

But now that Srinivas Nimagadda and his wife are getting divorced he has been saying he has no money for the kids.  I do not care that he is getting a divorce, but your kids have to be a priority.

All the land and stuff you bought should be for the benefit of your kids and no other priority should even matter.  No new wife, no girlfriend, nothing should matter more than your kids.  Sell the land in India put aside enough to take care of your kids until these finish college.  

He has some good friends, Prasad Chukkapalli, Naveen Yerneni, and others.  Why the hell are you not advising him to take care of his kids first.  All you people have kids.  You people need to talk some sense into Srinivas and tell him to take care of kids during these divorce proceedings.  

People fall in and out of love and divorce happens but that should not effect your love and responsibility for your kids.

Cheating

 We play cards among our friends for relatively high stakes.  The richest person in that group is a person we play with by the name of Krishna Prasad Katragadda (We all call him KP).  

When we play at those stakes there has to be a sense of fair play.  But KP will constantly give his game for other people that are good to play his hand, as an example he will give it to Naveen Yerneni.  Now Naveen has already seen his 13 cards so he knows what those 13 cards are and he can play KP hand accordingly.  To me, this is nothing more than CHEATING.  Every time I see this shit happen my blood boils.  It is out right cheating, but nobody says anything to KP because they all figure they might benefit from him somehow.

But wrong is wrong.  KP what you are doing is CHEATING, CHEATING, CHEATING.  

There is no way KP would ever win against me without CHEATING like this.  He does this nonsense all the time.  Once in a while would be OK, but doing it all the time is just plain fucked up.

Sometime I wonder what the hell goes on in KP's mind.  This is a sport and you need to play by the rules and win or lose accordingly.  Keep improving if you lose and see what you did wrong and try to improve.  Just because you are rich and nobody will say anything to you does not give you the right to CHEAT.

Because of all the stuff that he has been doing I have stopping playing with him and he is playing with what I call the dollar batch.  They play a dollar a point.  Let him play for small stakes and he can cheat all he wants, I do not care.

But if you are going to play with me, then play fair and make it an honest game.  By the way there is zero percentage chance you can ever beat me.  ZERO.  You suck as a player and never learn from your mistakes.  

Dallas Bound

 I am thinking of moving to a warmer client.  My daughter keeps getting runny nose the entirety of the winter in Michigan and I think a move to Dallas will solve this problem for her.  She never has a runny nose during warm weather here in Michigan.

The doctor claims she has cold weather rhinitis.  

Still debating on the move, but as we get closer to cold weather I will need to make a decision.

But I think a move to Dallas makes sense.

Keeping Kids Busy

I hang out with a lot of college kids and guess what, they do not listen.  I used to tell about all the times where I had failed and what I would have done different.  I thought being honest and truthful would inspire the kids and make sure that they do not make the same mistakes as I did.  Guess what?

Kids, do not listen, at least the ones I hang with.  Or they selectively listen and only hear what they want to hear.

I think the best way to make sure kids do not mess up is to keep them super busy with activities and do not give them any free time where they can mess up.

I do that with my daughter and I keep her busy all day, even during the summer.

My daughters current schedule is:

M-F Summer Sports camp 9am - 3pm

M evenings horse camp

Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - 1.5 hours of personal trainer sessions to work on general fitness and agility,

Tuesday and Thursday 4pm - 6pm - Tutor - to make sure she keeps learning

This leaves Wednesday Evenings free and Saturday and Sunday free most of the day.  

I am thinking of adding 2 sports trainings during the weekend so that she will be occupied half of the day.

I plan on keeping her busy like this until she gets to college.

A busy kid is a kid that cannot get in trouble.

Why Having Too Money Can Make You A Shitty Dad

I have known 3 billionaire families in my life and almost all of them have the exact same issues.

My friend Srinu in India and his family have huge money and are also Billionaires.  Last time we calculated their net worth, it was around 250,000,000 and that was in 1995.  We filled in an application to get the McDonalds franchise to India and own all McDonalds in India.  During that time I was given access to their accountant and I filled in their application myself.  That 250,000,000 dollars in 1995 has now turned into billions. 

But his dad was so busy with business he never bothered to raise his son and instead would give lectures to him once in a while under the guise of parenting.  So what did his dad get by being a bad parent.  I know Srinu is a heavy drug user and last time I told him what he was doing was wrong, he told me that he cannot even sleep without taking drugs and he does not think he can stop now.  

I see the exact same thing repeating with my rich friend.  He is awesome at making money, but in my opinion a shitty dad.  Instead of supervising his kids himself, he will hire someone.  Two of the kids are crazy smart and got perfect scores on their ACT.  But they are also super lazy and their grade point average was below par and both kids got into subpar colleges for their level of intelligence.

Their dad will yell at the mom or he will blame Deepu who was hired to make sure that they do their work and submit it.  He will never take blame himself.

But who cares if he makes the family another 10 millions dollars.  There is nothing more important than your kids.  You need to look after them.  You need to vacation as a family with them.  You need to supervise their work.  You need to do the work and not just hire and pay people to do work for you.  Their is no better role model and teacher than you.

I blame the kids inability to get into an Ivy league as a failure of the dad.  He needs to have taken the time and done the work that was necessary for the kids to succeed.  

Kids Please Think

I have a lot of friends that are college bound and I play poker with them.  I have told them multiple times that their success will reflect on their family and their mom and dad more directly.  

I am not sure at their age that they reflect on my advice and take it to heart.  I am sure that are more worried about themselves and their fun.  

But I want you kids to reflect and excel at work and in education and not do anything bad because everything reflects on your family.

You get arrested for DUI or drug possession or generally any behavior that is frowned upon all reflect on your family.  

So no matter what you are about to do think about your family and how it will effect their reputation.  Most if not all have an excellent name in the community and it is your duty to make sure they do not have to bow their head in shame for any reason.

Most of you kids are about to go off on your own and will not have much supervision, but remember every action you make could effect your families reputation.  People are just waiting for you to fuck up, so they can talk badly about your family.  

Kiran, someone I Admire

Sometimes I wonder if you have unlimited money what you would do?

I mentioned before that I have a friend who I believe is a billionaire.  We have traveled to Hawaii and he barely left his room.  He used to travel a lot and have a lot of fun.  He used to go to Vegas and have fun.  He used to go to India and have fun.

But for all that money he has, I do not envy him.  But I do envy Kiran Basani.

I have a friend, Kiran Basani, who I admire very much.  His is rich, but knows how to enjoy his money.

He travels with his kids to India for 3 months every year during the summer.

He travels with his friends and family on 3 vacations a year minimum.  His vacations are always super nice and my mom loves to see his Facebook posts because he has such great pictures of activities that he does.

His kids are super but I think all that credit goes to his wife.  Both are so well behaved and great students.  They do not vape or do Clear.  There is a great deal of credit in this time and age that his kids do not vape or do clear, because I would say 90% of all the other kids I know do that.

Kiran wife is a great cook.  We will go to his house for dinner and his wife will make like 10 dishes on her own and not get is catered.  

If Kiran says he will do something he will do it.  He is a man of his word.

Weird Rich People

It has been a long time since I had an entry and I thought I would restart my blog again.  I have a friend that is crazy rich most likely even a billionaire or at a minimum worth hundreds of millions.

Let us get it out there that he has helped me a lot and I mean a lot.  He used to be very different a few years ago but has changed a lot over the last few years.  He used to do a lot of charity work and spend a ton on time and money trying to do good for the world.  But most o those activities failed and after multiple failures he has stopped trying now.

The weird thing about having money is that it allows you to be an asshole and people will not say anything to your face.  You can also not give a shit about what people say because there will always be others to try and be nice to you.  People are always there ready to be obsequious to you, thinking that they may benefit somehow.

Money should be used to bring comfort, happiness and safety to those around you.  It should not be used a cudgel.   

Let us get back to my friend, until a few years ago I used to see people talking very respectfully about him but after how he has been acting over the last few years that respect is gone among some of his friends.

We play cards for $5 dollars a point so you may win or lose a thousand or maybe on a super bad day maybe two thousand.  Every single person in the group we play with pays their losses instantly or maybe after a day.  It never goes longer than that.

This rich person lost 4500 over 3 days during the weekend and he did not pay.  I have texted him, Murli has texted him and he has not responded.  All the others who have lost have paid.  

Now people are saying things like, wadu only sulu kaburulu chepathadu (he only does useless talk, and it has no point, also wada at the beginning is used to show disrespect).    There is actually a lot more bad things people are saying about him.  I even texted him that people are saying these things about him.  He did not respond.

One of the persons that is owed money, called me and complained about him for 20 minutes.  After leading such a big life and having such a great name in the community how you can allow such talk about yourself.  I would be embarrassed to allow that type of talk.  The money is so small and inconsequential for him.

When you have billions or hundreds of millions, it is surprising that he does not pay his losses.  I am unsure what the hell he is thinking.  

But I have lost all respect for him after how he has been acting.  I used to jump when he calls and do any work that he needed or even his kids needed.  But I cannot do that for someone that I do not respect any more.

I have decided that I do not respect him any longer and will not deal with him anymore.  I am done.