Our Birthday... 001, 508 & 002 June 2006

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to our Birthday Celebration!

Shabu Shabu Time!

Shabu-Shabu: しゃぶしゃぶ), also spelled syabu-syabu, is a Japanese variant of hot pot. The dish is related to sukiyaki in style, where both uses thinly sliced meat and vegetables, and usually served with dipping sauces. However, it is starkly different in taste; shabu-shabu is more savory and less sweet than sukiyaki. It is considered a winter dish but is eaten year-round.

Yeah, it's pretty simple to make, but a damn bitch to clean up! I don't know why we need 4 dishes per person... I think it would have been better if we just used one bowl for all the stuff. Mix the rice, all the sauces, and the shabu-shabu up and then you're all set! I figured there mus have been over 45 stupid dishes not including the other bullshit serving plates and trays to clean up. Thank god I didnt have to wash the dishes! Love ya fella!

Selling shacks on ebay! ¿QUE?

Yes, you heard me right. We've listed our first dirty shit hole of a house on ebay! Start price was at 99 cents, and we're now at $103.50!!! Haha, so for those of you out there that have said they always wanted to own a home.... here's your chance! If you want to follow this auction, click the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4463228473&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

Home Loan Experts

Ok, besides my venture with Tho I've also started with a mortgage company by the name of Home Loan Experts. Some of you might have heard of our sister company World Savings, which was just acquired by the 4th largest bank nationwide Wachovia. Being that I've been in the mortgage biz the past 10 years, that's all I know so I guess I need to stay in this arena. Plus I need to feed MLI with more funds so we can acquire more properties Ok, I think I just realized that I haven't linked or discussed my other venture. I've seem to sent an email to family, but not really told anyone else about my company. My friend and I decided to open our own REI (real estate investment) company. We've been working on deals and buying long term deals the past couple of years, but we recently decided to take the next step and start doing other types of short term REI's. So we've created our company Major League Investors, LLC. If you wanna check out our site, you can go to www.wearemli.com . Yes, there are errors all over that site! If you want, just shoot either of us an email on changes or suggestions, we loved to hear anything anyone has to say, including negative feedback! Since I don't have a college education to fall back on... I'm still doing loans, since thats my background the past 10 years, besides it has been very lucrative for me.

Duck tongues anyone?

Ok, so Lam and I were picking up some stuff at 99 Ranch Market. For those of you who dont know (you white peeps) it's an Asian market. Anyways, we were shopping for some stuff for our Thursday night dinner. Well while I was waiting for Lam, I was checking out some of the weird stuff they had in stock. You know, the usual stuff like fish heads for 99 cents a pound, or that cool looking fish sauce that shows the fish eye balls in the bottle, or how about Ox tails (is that shit really an Ox's tail?) Who'd wanna eat something that was close to an Ox ass? No me, thats for sure! So tell me, who in the hell eats Duck Tongues? First of all, it's gotta be a crime to rip out the tongues off these poor little ducks, then its gotta be a damn felony for trying to sell this shit for $12.00 a pound! All I know, that aint from my peeps... that's gotta be the Chinese! I'll ask one of my good friends Timmy if he eats that. Hell, this guy eats dirty chicken feet!

Found this video clip from our Honeymoon. Hanauma Bay baby!

The past couple of months, Lam and I have been attending these Thursday nite dinners. Between David & Teresa's house, Chung's place, now we've been added to the rotation to cook for the group. And by the end of the nite it becomes a drinking session for no damn reason.



Cheers!





As you can see, after a few bottles it can settle everyone down...

Our first trip to Indy! Yup, another costly trip to buy more ugly houses! I love my job! This is a view of the skyline of downtown Indianapolis. Lam's friend and bridemaid from our wedding lives here and is currently attending dental school at IUPUI. (Don't ask what it stands for, I already forgot.) Anyways, if you look at the first set of buildings next to the canal, I think thats where Karrie lives. I have to hand it to her, she was a big help in this trip and very welcoming! So she earned the nick name, "Hostess with the Mostess". Anyways, she showed us around town, took us out to eat everyday, and of course we couldn't go without clubing. Yeah, Tho loved that idea!




Tho and I both love "hole-in-the-wall" places to eat! We found this joint off the main street, looked pretty cool on the outside so we thought we'd give it a shot. As you can see, it's the size of a hole in the wall literally. The damn jukebox took up half of this place...






and the other half was being used by Tho's monster breaded beef steak sandwich. I had the 1 pound hamburger, the seasoning was great! Dont bother eating the bun, it'll just waste space!





Here's our triplex, again another great deal!
Paid $41,000
Value $70,000
Will quadruple in value within the next couple of years!




There's Tho acting a fool, and yes he's sober... Can't you tell?











I guess bathrooms aren't the highest of importance when it comes to renters in Indiana. I cant figure out why in the hell they would put such a low window next to the toilet. Can you imagine waiving to your neighbor while cranking out some Mr. Hanky's... Check out that closet, oh I mean shower. Might was well take a shower in the sick, it's about the same size.







Check out this bathroom, look at that old school tub. The great thing about renting to Section 8 tenants, the quality of the house doesn't need to be very high. Infact our property manager suggested we keep that tub, and just clean it and the tenants would be happy with it. I'd love to try out that toilet, looks like it can save me some time... I can shit and wash my hands at the same time. That'll cut it down by 45 seconds.






This one is pretty bad, but still seen worse!








Looks like the previous tenant had to leave in a hurry and left all his clothes...



...he even left his pet mouse.





There's Tho and our property manager Krystal, and a contractor bidding on the repairs for the house. As you can see Tho's already starting to use his negotiating tactics on his ass! Little does this guy know, but he aint gonna like Tho by the end of this day!




This is one of the cheaper homes we picked up. It's located outside of the Downtown area, they are soon declaring this area "Historical". I have no clue what that means, but I do know it will more than double our value! We paid $16,000 for this guy only because my partner knows how to negotiate like a Jew! (No offense to the Bagels out there) But the true value of this home is approx. $50,000.




You thought the outside looked like shit, check this kitchen out! We've seen worse...





For those of you that don't know this creep, this is my partner, "Tho". Pronounced "Ta". Look how hard this guy works, on our whole flight to Indy he was working on our website. Notice how he's holding the pen, since he's pretty picky when it comes to design, I figure I best let him handle the site.





Tho thought it would be cool to take a picture of this tower thing , I have no clue what it is but I guess he's right it's kind of cool.

Valentines Day Temecula Valley Balloon Ride

That's my cuz Joshy. He's holding the best handmade Christmas ornament! About 2 months ago he attended Halloween costume party in Strong Beach. He wore a pink Carebear costume to the party and got his ass jumped! These assholes broke his nose and did a job on him. As you can see the ornament is him 2 months ago with a busted up face. Merry Christmas Josh!

Ok, it's been a long time since my last post.... we sold our pad and moved down the street to Mission Viejo. During the move we came across this mess in our shower drain. I saw a couple of hairs on the top of the drain, and being the good husband that I am, I decided to clean it up. So as I pulled on it, I noticed some resistance. So I proceeded on pulling Lams hair out of the shower drain, and out came this pile of Lams hair, mixed with shower grime, lime, and all sorts of shit! The good thing was, it didnt smell bad... kind of smelt like shampoo. The damn thing had to weigh at least a 1/2 a pound.

That's Mr. Lemon and myself acting stupid after a nice refreshing weekend in LV. This had to be the first time in a long time, I haven't loss a lot of cash! I'm feeling kind of proud of myself! This is what happens kids when you make ugly faces too much, it sticks and it wont go away!

Happy Birthday Janelle!
Yeah, we celebrated my lil cuzins b-day on Thanksgiving, she got hooked up with a Cabbage Patch Kid and a New iPod Nano! If it were me, I'd drop that dumb Cabbage on it's head and listen to my jams with my new Nano!

My sister in-laws know how to grub! You can lose a finger if you try to grab the wrong piece, they always want the big crab, or large corn, or fatest fish...

Eye-C-U
Thought I would try taking a macro photo of my eye ball. I couldn't tell if it was focused, but if you look closely you can see the camera in the reflection of my eye.