Donald Trump - Fuck Him

 I see that a bunch of Indian friends are going to be voting for Trump and it still amazes me that they would vote for him.

Here are a few reasons not to vote for Trump

Demagoguery is defined as a manipulative approach — often associated with dictators and sleazy politicians — that appeals to the worst nature of people. Demagoguery isn’t based on reason, issues, and doing the right thing; it’s based on stirring up fear and hatred to control people. For example, a person who stirs up a fear of immigrants to distract from other issues is using demagoguery. Demagoguery is one of the most negative aspects of politics.

Misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination. 

Xenophobia is a severe aversion to foreigners, strangers, their politics and cultures. Often the term xenophobia is used interchangeably with racism.

If given a chance he will deport every non-white skinned person he could.  Just listen to Steven Miller his advisor talk about foreigners. 

Indians are highly educated and intelligent but when I hear that you are voting for Trump it just tells me you are a dumb motherfucker.  I want to shake each one of you asking what the fuck is the matter with you.  

I just don't get it.  Is it simply tax policy so you can get some more money in your pocket.  What appeals you to this idiot that you would vote for him.  You would never allow him to babysit your daughters and yet you want him to be the president of the USA.  Crazy. 

I agree with snoop on Trump:

If you like that nigger, you motherfckin' racist. Fuck you and fuck him, and fuck Kanye too. 

Well said Snoop.  Fuck you dumbass Trump supporters.  I hate all you dumb motherfuckers.

I won't even try and convince you to change your vote because you people are too stupid to underatand anything.  So yes.  FUCK YOU!

Getting Old

You never realize the problems of getting older until you get to that point.  Here are some of the changes that have happened to me.

I never took care of my diabetes very well when I was younger and I used to have a blood sugar A1C of around 10-11.  My last reading was 6.4

But not taking care of those issues has caused me problems.  In case you get diabetes you should take it seriously and take extra ordinary care of yourself.

Currently I lost 80% of vision in my right eye.  This is because diabetes causes blood vessels to form on your eye and then blood vessels disappear.  This causes your retina to move out of place.  This happened to me and then I had to have surgery and it was unabled to be moved back into place so I have now lost 80% of.vision in that eye.

I get very tried by 6pm everyday and I take a nap from 6pm to 8pm. I never did this before so I guess this must be part of getting old.  

The biggest loss so far has been this loss of vision in my right eye.  The CML diagnosis also is not a big deal.  You just accept the fact that you die a few years earlier than you are supposed to.  

I see a friend in detroit who has an A1C of 9 or more and he is young and does not take his diabetes seriously just like me and I see how he will progress to issues just like I had.

I talked to him and explained how important it is to take care of blood sugar and hopefully he will change and not get problems like I have.  

City of Philadelphia

I ran an apartment complex during the last 2 summers and I never realized how many rules need to be followed in City of Philadelphia.

I am unsure if all large cities have so many rules as City of Philadelphia.  But the costs to own an apartment complex in Philadelphia is crazy.  Yearly sprinkler Inspections that cost tens of thousands of dollars.  Yearly backflow flow testing.  Yearly fire inspection.  Yearly renewal of rental licenses for each individual apartment.  

I have been to MSB (Muncipal Service Building) so many times to resolve issues.  The staff is amazingly helpful at MSB.  But I never realized that so many rules had to be followed by multifamily complex owners.  I salute all the owners that fallow all the rules in these major cities.  I never realized how much work is involved.  

I am not sure if this is a Big City thing.  I cannot imagine that small cities also follow all these regulations.

Sage Creek Townhomes

We are working on a project in Denton TX and building 163 townhomes.  

The approval process took us 2 years from the city.  

People are always complaining about the cost of housing and based on our experience of getting the approvals from the city, there is zero chance for housing costs to reduce.  

For a 35 million dollar project we spent $600,000 just to get the city approval to build the project. 

Then there is so much unnecessary regulations that need to be followed that costs millions in additional costs.

The only way housing costs will fall is if we get a major recession. I just do not see any other way.

If any of trump policies are implemented I expect a major recession which will eventually cause housing prices to fall below replacement value since there will be so many foreclosures.

Tariffs will cause an increase in material prices

Deportations will cause a major increase in labor costs

National debt is getting close to a tipping point where we will be at a point of no return.  Major inflation will also cause costs to spiral out of control.  

I keep trying to think of policies that can decrease housing costs and the only way is to:

Reduce regulation - Highly unlikely

Reduce tariffs - Seems unlikely

Reduce national debt - Seems unlikely

Recession - Seems like a posability

I will start making videos of the entire process of building from land clearing to vertical construction. So hopefully others can learn from our experience.  

Card game rules

I hear rules are going to be introduced into the card game before it continues again.

Here are rules I suggest 

1) Do not give advice if someone should play or drop a hand

2) No advice on what cards to discard

3) No observing more than 1 persons hand

4) All settlements done same day as game day and no more accounts maintained.  

5) No one else can take your cards and play for you.

These are the exact same rules as Dallas group.  So I suggest same rules for Novi game.

Rummy Game Dead in Novi

We used to play rummy when I was in Michigan almost everyday.  But the group was composed of mostly multi-millionaires and one billionaire.  Of course there was a limited number of average people also.  What used to happen in that game was that the billionaire lost most of the time so there was never a reason for the game to break up.

But I think the game in Michigan is officially broken.  All because one players inability to improve.  We have a player, D****, who plays and has lost a lot over the last one year.  

Rummy is an interesting game.  Easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.  The thin line between winning and losing is very small.

I was there 2 weeks ago and won a lot and I was there last week and won a lot again.

But I realized this game was going to break up because of D****.  He plays way too many games and does not follow simple rules and he is just an average person and losing that amount is a big deal for him.

I offered to pay for his losses if he followed a set of rules I established.   Here is what I sent him:

I will pay for your losses today if you follow these rules

No playing single life games

Minimum to play is life with triplet or a joker with minimum 2 good life pair chances

2 triplet games ok to play if 2 or 3 card shows. If giving count on 2 triplet games stop playing those hands

That's it.  

In 2 deck games play very tight as far as discards. In 3 deck games it does not matter

After I sent the above he comes back to me and says that those rules work for others and not for him.  At that mmoment I realized he will never improve as a player and continue to lose.  The rules I established above are the basic rules to follow so you can win.  

Anyway we have one player that has been winning consistently for last one days named S*****.  Not that he is great player but just that he is running hot.  Incredibly hot.  I will give one game as an example.  He had a triplet and a joker.  He had QK of clubs and A2 of hearts K's triplet and two 44.  First card he gets was a 4 of hearts.  So he has two triplets and joker.  What he did not know was that I dropped and I had A and J of clubs.  So his chance for life was literally the 3 of hearts.  Next card he gets 3 of hearts.  12 made.  I figured ok.  His chance to show if very little because thr JA of clubs is gone so he has two 10 of clubs and the last 4 of hearts. Boom he gets 4 of hearts.  Show.

That is how hot he was running and has been running.  So today K********* sent out a message saying for S***** not to come to the game anymore because he has been winning.  Not accusing him of any wrong doing but simply that he is running to hot and winning.  But the real problem is D**** and his inability to improve.

Anyway I think the game in Michigan is dead all because of a bad player and his inability to improve his game.  

Good CLL

Apparently I have the good CLL.  I have chromosome 13 abnormality.  Apparently this is the best version to have. I have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years.  

Initially they were saying 5 to 10 years.  So I guess getting another 5 to 10 years is a good thing.  

Recently I have been getting these dark marks on my face that a lot my relatives have.  So I was wondering if this is a genetic thing that nobody has realized.  

Lack of Energy

 One of the symptoms of my cancer is that I sleep a lot.  Probably around 12 to 15 hours a day.

If you know me you know that I usually never get tired and I used to sleep maybe 6 hours a day at most for years and years.

Sleeping now so much is really annoying.  

Not sure if the body is shutting down and trying to protect itself or the body knows it is dying and shutting down. 

I read somewhere you know when you are going to die.  Your body will tell you.  

For someone like me this symptom is very annoying and being tired all the time sucks.

Cancer and Dying

I got diagnosed with CLL a type of leukemia.  From what I have read lifespan is anywhere from 2 years to 10 years from diagnosis.  

Humm.  When the doctor told me I was pretty casual and I think the doctor was expecting a much bigger reaction from me.  

But from what I see when you have a finite lifespan I have much less to worry about than someone that is going to live for another 20 or 30 years.  

I am very tired nowadays I am guessing it is a side effect of the cancer.  I sleep at least 12 hours a day. 

I think I will have more to say later about getting cancer.  

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.

PEMA Wellness - My Experience

About the only real problem I have had most of my life is being overweight.  I signed up for bariatric surgery and had paid for it, and been cleared for surgery.  So I was all set to go, but I had this persistent cough that would not go away, so I had to wait awhile until the cough cleared up.

Vasant, my roommate from India called and had been bugging me about coming to PEMA Wellness since he had been here and it is owned by his aunt.  I really blew him off and our families vacationed in Paris for 2 weeks and Vasant kept telling about PEMA Wellness and finally I made a decision to just leave everything and go.  I am booked to stay here 6 weeks.

I met a few other people and they stay here for 2 weeks and it looks like most guests stay for 1 to 2 weeks to tune their body back into shape. 

So here I am day 2 completed of PEMA Wellness and I wanted to share with you my experience so others can use this information to get healthier.

Here is PEMA Wellness website: http://www.pemawellness.co/Index/index

My first impressions:

It is beautiful.  They really went all out.  If I had money, this is the kind of place that I would build.  The details are just amazing.  They have a Koi Pond where some of the fish cost $50,000 per fish.  Really this place is just spectacular.  It sits on top of hill all by itself overlooking the ocean.

It is still under construction and I feel they made a mistake by using a cement finish on the structure, at least on the outside.  Even when it is fully finished it will look like it is under construction because of the finish.  I am sure the finish gives it a zero maintenance, but having a few colors on the outside would make this place just stand out and it would be even more beautiful.

First Day:

On the first day they weigh you and and give you a BMI and what an ideal BMI should be for your height.

Mine was 48 and I should be 24 and weighed: 142.85 Kilos or 314 Pounds.  I will keep everyone updated on what the loss is as I stay for 6 weeks on my first trip.  They do weigh you everyday, but I do not see much use in that since there will be a quick weight loss and then a plateau and then you will lose weight very slowly.  On day 2 there was a 1KG or 2.2 pound weightloss, but that could due to so many variations and do not take that as a true weight loss.  I think weekly assessments are just fine to judge the progress.

One more thing, every meal has been fantastic and even the service and presentation are top notch.  I am usually very critical on these type of things, but just excellent.  the CEO of Landmark and Lifestyle, Vipin Sethi, was here with his group for about 2 weeks and he must have traveled and  went to he best places and even his group was raving about the excellent food and the presentation.  They said during the 2 weeks there were here, not a single meal was repeated.

 

Above is Day 1 Lunch

 

One of the Juices, to the side is infused water.  Everyday is a new type of infused water.  Day 1 was apple and Cinnamon and Day 2 was Coriander Seeds.

 

Day 2 Lunch

  

Day 1 Dinner

 

Juice, usually given at 2pm.  I heard I am not getting anymore juices and they will switch me to fruit instead, since I am Diabetic

 

View from the Dining room.

I just got a 5am wake up call so I have to go now, but I will take more pictures and write more later today.  I also get a message that everybody wants to see the food picture along with the slip and I will start taking those pictures from now on.

Priya with Hero Krishna

Here is a picture of Priya with Hero Krishna and Vijayanirmalla:

Priya Videos in India

Here is Priya Singing:












Priya at a Baseball Game:



Priya Cleaning Rice:



Priya Chilling and eating snacks:





Priya eating coconut chutney



Priya Massaging Grandma



Priya Sweeping



Priya Telling stories in her own language



Priya awake at 4am when she first went to India



Priya Intrigued by a snail in India



Priya being silly and crawling on the floor: