je

je is descendant of Abraham. Where story of Old Testament talks about.
I am not sure old testament talks about Je story the whole time
There were 12 descendants of Abraham.

Abraham was from tigris river. Where Iraq is right now. God told him to go to west river bank of Jordan which is where Israel is right now.

THere was a big famine so 12 descendants of Abraham all went to Egypt and became slave for 500 years. Then je came back to their homeland, promised land by God.

There were people living in that area when Abraham showed up

Land of CAnaan, was  biblical name for ancient palestine according to google dictionary

Je got kicked out 70AD

Je started coming back in 1860

Je believe in God.

Je exiled many times

1943 granted


This is the God that Muslim and Christianity believe too

Then how do you explain asians, blacks?

Tippr and sellhapplee

Today was my first day with tippr. I learned the power of job satisfaction and happiness. It wins over money. Four new hires were at the training today and two team leaders. Team leaders and two new hires all talked about leaving high paying job for happiness for their life even if it means taking a huge pay cut. I started thinking about that quite of bit along with what Aimee Carpenter had said long time ago ;Leaving 70k job for less than 40k to me was un thinkable. When I found out about the unexpectedly low commission percentage from one of tippr employee I was shocked that so many people were fond of working here and talked about great things. I was simply pissed that I let go of Cbeyond's 95k offer. I was screaming inside. Then, things started to get better when I started talking to new hires about pay structure. Commission was actually five percent. One guy has been there for over three months and he was still only getting paid 17.50 without commission and bonus. I thought it was very odd considering my offer includes those as an independent contractor. Big turnaround was when the real training began with Marty who had great reputation and successful track record for building sales team in his life, many talks of millions, including mentoring founders ofTableau and zillow. Since I researched those firms, my respect for Marty grew. Real deal breaker was his patience to listen, humble presence and open minded coaching style. He really reminded me of Ed Love who I looked up to and copied to have my greatest success with student
painters in my latest year as a general manager. I guess I am definitely spoiled in a sense of always having great working environment with much autonomy. Compared to what these people complain about their working environment, my resentment and impatience toward working with Jessica and Grace was not so bad after all. I have been blaming on losing passion to work with young college students and painting industry, perhaps my fall was simply due to my complacency based on my spoiled presence for wanting more fun. Abby definitely spoke of that difference between us. Looking back I wonder if that had anything to do with our split. My guess is no, but it did lead to showing her my weakness of falling into mild depression and thinking about breakup to bounce back in my life. A that time I was too blinded to see what
outcome it would bring. Enough about Abby. Her presence in my life is fading away rapidly. Now I see her much weaker than ever before due to her still having a boyfriend without real interest and her inability to control her emotion and blaming me of playing games. But I still care for her dearly, perhaps I'm choosing a path of resentment momentarily.




Enough


Great interview today. Mathias is a big chicken and if I decide to hire him, I will spend much time ripping his stupid emoployee attitude out of him. I am no sure how talented he is, however, follow up call with Ken will tell me much lucid picture. My wish is that he is willing to learn as he goes and become a valuable asset for API work and web application. I also find him to be a gate to meet more talented people in Information technology field and android developers. I do like his personality in his ability to solve a puzzle. The big question is how diligent he is and how good of a student he can be to get coached by Ken and Hassan.

One red flag was that he has very limited experience with php. He is a java specialist. Since all of our work is done with php, that is gonna take some time to either adjust or write a whole new one.

Daivd's lack of preparation really tested my patience, his interviewing skills showed much mediocrity. Given the benefit of doubt that he does not have any experience, I kept my mouth shut and praised him. It is my fault for not training him. I must make a note to either train him or find work that suits his skill more.
It is embarrassing to show my anger or frustration towRds david front of Katy and ilan because I really what them to see that I have been working very hard to control my emotion past two months. I must talk to him with ease and discipline, he try's to get away with his tongue way too often. I must lead by example.

Embrace, let go, grab on tight, look up, stand tall, bow, respect and smille with confidence.

My Value and hindsight

I have been spending a lot of time with Mind Mapping. It is a diagram used to represent my ideas in order to solve a problem, get clear with idea, visualize my thoughts, systematizing my opinion in structural format. I was also told that it helps remember things twice more during study.

I miss my student life. Life of learning was fun. Looking back, never really complained about being a student. I shall go back to school one day.

I have 5 Values. Through rigorous mind mapping of self analysis or digging deep into who I am, I have came to these five.

1. Confidence - this I find it to be my most important value. If I said I am confident all the time, I may be misleading. However, it is the most important trait about who I am. I believe in survival of fittest. I believe in unfair world.  It is simply matter of 'go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined'. I am who I am today because of my self confidence and listening and building relationship with people who share the same.

2. Drive and Ambition
It is in me who I am. I share the same trait like everybody else. Talk about wanting to be a child again, wanting be a college student again. Something about present is not a satisfactory. Looking to the past with condition of inadequacy. Can't change the past. Looking to the future and knowing what I want and sprinting towards that is AMBITION. Drive is the fuel that pushes to be reach my ambition.  Not being satisfied completely with my present allows me to set a new vision to create a next chapter of my life.

3. Decisiveness
choosing, deciding takes rigorous approach and definitely takes quite of bit of time. I know what I want, but I do not know which option will take me there best. Making sure opportunity cost is smaller than my first choice, careful selection. However, once the decision is made, I stick by it. I like it. I am satisfied. I am happy there because it gives me what I want.  This is something that I noticed from dates that I have been having with these girls. I am not afraid to make a plan and execute. Then I remembered that I used to show indecisiveness to Abby driven by my desire for more attention. I remember she did not like that and I just did not realize how much she did not like that.

4. Self Respect

I like who I am not because I have done, but because of what I have not done. Because for the possibilities that are filled in my head. I never understood what 'self respect' was until I came across people who were not afraid to show who they are. My desire for authenticity to be who I am, never  to conforming to others due to weakness or pressure of negative judgement. Loving myself often driven by my accomplishments but it was wrong. It should be driven by my character. As I grow, things that I accomplish should accumulate too, but what if it doesn't. what if there is a set back?  Shall I just crumble and be miserable? or fight back and rise above challenge. It's not my ability to get to the top, it is my character that will make a difference. Setback with Studentpainters and Abby definitely took that away from me for in Jan and Feb. I did not like myself or who I was becoming. I never felt that about myself before. So I put an end to it. I decided what I'm going to focus on. It was like dancing. I just close my eyes and let the music take me away and flow. I just let myself ride the adrenaline and just go out and do it. Nothing to be shy about. This is who I am. One after another, starting with talking to John Sechrest, Louisa' coffee on Tuesdays, Rick, connecting with people, building network, startup weekend in 

Portland, meeting VJ, things started happening and rolling. However, this is only the beginning. There are still so many people to meet, so much to accomplish. Not giving crap about any negativity, not being afraid to be judged is self respect.

Happiness

Excitement and stimulation makes me happy. However, that is not the only thing. It is simply matter of feeling good about myself through fighting the challenge, overcoming obstacles and winning. Giving my all and knowing that. Happiness is not something that I can have always, all the time. That is why it is valued. It comes and goes away. Sometimes, there is long epoch. It gets really tough and hard. The pain hurts. But all of that is ok. Misery is a choice. one step at a time. Smile, think positive, keep my head up and energize. It's part of maturing. 

Weird things happened.
Supposed to meet with Abby today, but did not happen. She asked me to bring her stuff. I said i'm not home yet. she got upset. She said I am playing games. Seeing the message as I am coming out of the shower, shocked me. WTF. Short conversation with Ilan made me understand her probable assumption from what I had said. I should have just said 'I will look into it'  Ilan assumed that she still cares. I agreed. We have not seen each other for a very long time. I'm sure she is little nervous like I am. Not a good idea to meet today. I want us to be both excited to see each other. Curious about what each other been up to. Absolute comfortable space. Keep it short and sweet. Fuck. I'm tired of talking about playing games. I just want simple honest communication. We do have a long history together. Before I would have been all caught up in anxiety. Why do I feel so calm right now? Have I moved on without knowing about it? Then why do I even bother wanting to see Abby?

Seattle startup poker2.0

It was definitely interesting Tuesday. Unexpected full day with Lindsey is definitely the highlight.

Haircut, walking the dog, visiting my house for the first time, running into Katy, and small talk.

Poker2.0 was as I expected. Nothing super fancy. Majority guys, few girls grabbing tables to play poker and getting to know each other a bit. It was definitely not a networking focused which is quite different from other events. People are more for the poker, game itself, enjoying the time and small talk with people around them. My guess is that these are already well established entrepreneurs who do not have huge need.

There was an occasion where people stood up in front of the room to introduced themselves and talk. apparently Lindsey went up but I missed it.

She was definitely not shy or was weak. She rarely stood by my side. She did her own thing. I liked that. We did not even sit at the same table for the poker which makes sense.

Finding her the invitation from Bob was not as challenging as I expected. I guess majority had to do with her provious accomplishment with her startup and fact that she got a funding from angel investor.

I am not sure if I enjoy her presence or admire her personality. Either way, I would like the friendship.

I met few people that I wanted to meet. Since I have done bit of research on what these people have created and what problem they are solving, all I had to do was put the name to the face.

I met Dan from maptini. A mind mapping app for iPhone and iPad. I was very excited to find that he was sitting next to me for the poker and we quickly got to know each other as soon as I showed my interest in mind mapping. He took my card and later sent me couple promo code to download the app for free. I accidentally ended up paying for it. Bummer.


Lease is going to end soon. End of July. Current tentative plan is to live with Katy. Her parsimonious drive for living will drive us to out of city. I am not quite sure aout all of this. I have not put whole lot of thought into it. I always thought that Abby and I will be living together. Katy told me that she is planning on moving to California. It is ironic for so many reasons.

Ilan asked me today whether I want to pick a girl amongst those I have been dating to get serious.

This constant sickness and headache is really restricting me from thinking, I desire for congnitive enhancement. Lately YC hacker new is really catching my attention.

Words and Action

It is very easy to talk about it compare to act it. It is the act that brings the most tangible results. It is the act that makes it last.

The choices that we make decides who we become.

Can't have certainty, but by committing, the illusion of certainty gets created. It is good enough.

Set the priority straight. Tackle them one at a time.
Do not live this precious life with pleasure of lessening the burden.
Live this precious life feeling the pleasure of satisfaction knowing that I did a great job.

Absolute honesty with myself is a hard one.  My wants do not necessarily line up with what people consider it be morally good.

I consider myself as a good person with genuine heart. Where do I draw the line?

I am sorry for what I have done. But if I am really sorry would I have done it in first place? What is this temptation? God's infinite wisdom gave me an uncertainty and curiosity. When will it ever end?

Love? is there a such thing? People say that word too lightly to really measure its depth. Your love floats on the top while mine is still sinking so deep it is a dot to my eyes.

My bad judgment gave me the experience. Experience gave me the good judgement.


I am not measure by the height I have risen, but the depth I have climbed.


Dream as if I will live forever, live as if I will die today


It will all be ok in the end, if it's not ok it's not the end


no excuses, play like a champion


Do not ask what motivation can do for you, ask what you can do for your motivation


I do not see what I have done, I only see what remains to be done


someone who know how will always have a job, someone who knows why will always be 
the boss


it takes ability to get to the top, but it takes character to stay there


Creativity is essential, losing is unacceptable, quitting is unthinkable, victory is inevitable 

Full DAY

6am.
Wake up to Katy closing the front door. I already planned to go work out in the morning. Check email on ipad. Eyes wide awake!! because I got an invitation to Poker2.0
It's been 7 days since I had a morning work out. It's time to work out twice a day!!
640am.
Still in bed. Eyes open. no more ipad. still laying in bed. thinking... having a serious internal battle about getting up to go to the gym or skip gym, skip sack of seattle and just go to interview @ 1030am.

646am:
Thinking about living the to the fullest.
"Chi, if you really want to be an entrepreneur laying in bed to be lazy is not gonna get you there"
"Shut up. Leave me alone"
"Dude, you are wide awake, went to bed early to wake up on time to go the gym"
"bed feels so nice. I just want to lay here and close my eyes"
"OMG!! you have to be in Louisa's 8am! how much sleep are you gonna get?"
"that's true. I might as well get up now and get a full day going. Schedule is booked all day. i'm gonna feel great about myself at the end of the day."
"Good call"

6:47am
I finally get up, got dressed for gym. Packed my stuff and opened the door. Chill breeze body feels.
"fuck it. going to bed" back under the blanket.

6:50am
Chisung Lee! get up! get up! get up! get up! get up!

6:52am
 Out the house. my wrist feel much better now. I still can't do bench press but no problem on dumbells and incline press. Chest, shoulder, arms and abs today. Non-stop full on.

7:58am
Headed to Louisa's bakery for Sack of Seattle. Light up a cigarette. After one puff. Regret. 'shit I should be drinking protein shake or eating some boiled egg'

8:00am
Nobody is here except for on. So much for arriving on time! I could have stayed at the gym longer! People started showing up. Many familiar faces. I met Rob Mathewson, CEO of Geedra. Cool guy. very focused eyes. Told him about stitching images from Realplaces.com and he says he already got something like that working. I told him about my app being beneficial for his business. he agrees and immediately gives me his card.
Talked to Rick about equity share. He told me about dilusion, operating agreement and how to divide up the percentage with issuing more stocks within the company. I loved that idea. He says that is what corporates do. His explanation was so easy to understand compared to wikipedia article about c-corp.

930am
Arrive at home. Make rice. Eat ox-tail soup with kimchi. worried about my breath for the interview. well.. i need to eat healthy. chew gum. Katy's on the phone. She's working hard lately. She likes her work again. she is having fun because her people are bringing results. I am very happy for her.

1030am
Arrived at 10 inc. These fuckers making me wait again. reading their blog on my phone. I love the blog whoever wrote it. sooo inspirational. I highly recommend it.

11am
We talk details. My story. Their story and current client. Compensation plan. working the way up to running the office manager position. Heard this structure before from American Income. Their facebook and people show that they have a great fun culture here. Many young folks. I can make it up to 80- 100k compensation in a year. If start today. next year this time is when I start making big bucks. considering... Had Numerous interviews... all boring except for interviews for startups. Is it in my blood? or they just really suck at making interview interesting. Was I like that too?  Company structure here fits my experience. I will do well here. What if I get bored with it. Residential, fiber optic, internet, tv, no cold calling, provided hot leads, I just need to go close... only thing that sounds cool here is fiber optic. What about government regulation on non-competition between communication companies? what about Century link merger with Qwest? Qwest is such a boring brand now.... What about verizon FiOS?
We will see. still got Tippr and Cbeyond interviews to take care of.

12:15pm
arrived at the driver licensing place.
"Oh.... we don't do tabs here.... you have to go here..."

12:45pm
arrived at the License Tab place
"Oh... you can't get a tab because you have to take the emission test."

1:05pm
"Pay 15 bucks, passed the test"

1:25pm
Got the tab. Went to Barnes and Noble to sit down on a desk to work on stuff. No desk. Drive over to Starbucks that I found on google map from my phone. I park.. walk over.. shit. it's a drive thru.
Fuck it. I walk over to next block. Found a starbucks in the shopping mall. Surprisingly fast wi-fi. They must have qwest fiber optic? heheheh

2:00pm
Hella WIRED.... no not like on energy drink... Wired to the screen, keyboard, bunch of tabs open, hella emails, back and forth with ipad and phone. Introduced Lindsey to Bob. Filed LLC. did not pay because hella stuff to ask a lawyer tomorrow. Got ibis world account working. made expense report on google doc to figure out valuation.

419pm
Time to go home. Get out of this suit.
Hella long conversation with mother. Thanks to google voice 2cents per min :)
511pm

Time to run hella. Time to sweat hella.

Alex gave me many tips for the drug test.

I've never done official drug test before.

It's good for me. It only makes me want to run harder, faster and stronger.

6:30pm
feeling more sick. Damn Cigarette. Not a good time to get sick. Lay on Katy's bed while she is on video chat with SPN ppl.

640pm
Katy: "CHI! don't have a date at 7?"
me: "Shit" Jump out of the bed.
cleaned the car to make it look impressive in a short amount of time. now i'm hella rushing

655pm
out of the house

658pm
Liz calls.
ME: i'm 1 min away!

7pm
Picked her up. She looks quite pretty from far away.

We ordered 비빔밥 and 불닭. she does not eat much. Neither did I. Left over was more than food we ate. Too busy chatting. Fun conversations. She is hella into cosmetics and fashion. Many common things about our past. I can relate, she can too. She was accused of Narcissistic from her adopted mother who she disowned. no. Mother disowned her. Crazy story.
She is super nice. seem naive. But when she started talking about her life story and opinion about her friend who got married to 30 year old, I was very impressed. see the potential for 2nd date.

945pm
dropped her home in belltown. felt comfortable with her. She doesn't like my music. big surprise... heheh. only one girl that I know... I like her... :) but she is better friend than a girlfriend. "we will never be together" she said to me few times. now I believe it. She is too cool and valuable to risk it with romance.

1030pm
Still texting with Liz. feeling more sick. I think I am catching a cold.

1032pm
Ilan Asks about the date
as i'm sharing story...

1033pm
Katy texts me about the date

1034pm
Alex calls me about the date..


I AM SO spoiled and lucky to have great friends who actually care to ask about me and wait to listen out of true curiosity. Thanks guys. Our bond and love grown a lot in past couple months.

Tomorrow is full on running. workout. 2 qt bottle cranberry juice(ALEX: 100% cranberyy not.from.concentrate unsweetened..o! And no alcohol)  Lots of water.
Niacin and vitamin C.
1148pm

Can't go to sleep because I literally have to pee every 10 minutes from all the tea and water I drank to get myself well.

1215am
Looking up Tippr, LivingSocial and Groupon to find a cool thing for Thursday date with Jenifer. Conversation with David about lawyer i'm meeting tomorrow and LLC legitimacy. I argued that our legitimacy will come with our company performance. He says to look up 'legitimate'

Legitimate: Conforming to the law  or to rules 

 

1:12am
Time to go to bed. Fall a sleep to TED unless House or Castle is out!!

GOOD NIGHT WORLD!!!

Hiking With Ilan

Mt Washington. 

Exit 34 i-90

4 mile hike.

Wore yaks to walk on the snow half way.

Mila was having a great time.

topics we covered: Childhood dreams, relationship text book that Greg left. Ilan's work scenario, not looking so optimistic, sellhapplee - license registration, benefit, bank account, appme - vj is in mexico. tippr - interview offer, amazon - referral recruiting team. Discussion between amazon and tippr.

Google trend 

Korean Grocery. - 2 jars of kimchi. Korean pancake mix, variety of small dishes. Ilan really liked the pressed fish. Picked up ox-tail because ilan wanted oxtail soup. Box of ramen that does not contain Msg (became really particular about that since ex-girl friend)

Mood: excellent

Why: because it was never about lack of Abby. It was about lack of myself. 

mission: keep following the dream, stay busy and stay happy.

outcome: what Matt Solimono (stranger I carpooled with to portland)  and I talked about will come true.

First investment by Hasan

Hasan made his first investment to the business. He purchased an iPhone4 for David. It shows how much he is committed. I must treat it with respect and care because his commitment is still vulnerable as he was mentioning about his friend wanting to create an app that he thought was a idea.

David spent $9 recurring monthly plan for Unfunddle
I have the first design UI in my hand on the iPad. I can now prove that there is an app called Sellhapplee!!!


We shared our vision today. I should have been first one to show up with the agenda but I slacked. Bad Chisung. Too much enjoying the fun time last night.

Hasan's vision: making a fortune where he would be set for life. 100k year to replace his current job is the goal. He does not like his job. He is detached for few reasons. 1. Hate the bright light. He likes to work in the dark. complete dark. 2. Boss is a dick

David's vision: Pay off student loan. Have money to go travel with Christan. He really loves her.

Chisung's vision: cool thing to do is create something out of nothing. Making my conceptual idea a reality. I want to fight against the doubters to prove them wrong. But here is a big problem. NOBODY is doubting me. Not a single person. This is definitely a good thing and good image about myself. Many people don't have that luxury. I feel more of the pressure to save myself from embarrassment of disappointing them. Then I would really feel like a loser.


Remember Chisung, about your cool thing. How cool would it be for me to say

"I founded a business and it is profitable!"

Priorities.
1. Find an API guy
2. Solid business model, company structure, financial model, goals, mission,
3. Make it a real business by starting with license, LLC
4. quit stressing over money - remind yourself that you are doing something very meaningful. I am not measured by height I have risen but the depth I have climbed.
5. Website!!!! for God's sake!!

Sellhapplee

Today has been devoted for my passion project Sellhapplee. Mobile app that allows me to post an item on ebay in 10 seconds.

Currently building a business plan/model.

Hit a block with most effective way to generate customers.
2nd question will be to keep them.

Most important scale is iphone users in our target market. 

Portland.Startupweekend.org Sellhapplee

Hello World!

http://facebook.com/sellhapplee

http://twitter.com/sellhapplee
http://sellhapplee.com
Real Problem - Youtube - Chris Testimonial
Team members - Youtube - Developers 
Team Members - Youtube - Front end

Hasan, David and I arrived in #PDXSW (portland.startupweekend.org) at 530pm Friday

There were many people standing around networking already. I immediately went for the pizza and soda to fulfill my needs. 

I spotted someone who is standing alone, not talking to anyone, seemed shy. Typical tech person behavior and my kind of person to go have interesting conversation with. His name is Kim Pedersen. His skill set is best use for communicating with servers with 3rd party applications.  I talked to several people.

Built special relationship with Kim and Pekay (ex intel, MBA, Programmer, Entrepreneur) throughout the weekend. Really cool people.

7pm.

After introduction of PDXSW staff and sponsors. Da da dannnn... the PITCH!! begins

90 participants. 40 people pitched their idea to form a team acting as a CEO. 12 ideas were voted by the participants. I was one of the 12!

9pm. 

Formed a team. 

David Gonzales - coFounder, Web 

Cecelia Fresh, Web content, PR

Hasan Edain, iPhone Developer

Market Research

Chisung Lee - Founder/CEO

Ken Gengler, API 

Great group of people, many years of experience and variety of skills. Great idea. It is all matter of execution.

10pm. 

Team introduction and defining role and expectation.

Chisung sharing vision and getting people excited about the goal for the weekend.

Inserting everyone to take ownership.

Organize schedule and set goals for the weekened.

11pm.

Get to work. Mentors visit to give us certain guidance. 

12am

Everyone Leave. Lights out.

SATURDAY

8am

Let the day begin.

Team huddle - update on our task and setting detailed goals.

9am - 3pm

ahhh... so many crazy roller coaster things happen. Many roadblocks and overcoming them. Many different opinions and arguments.  So many different approach to go about it. The biggest thing that we overcame was to figuring out API for each target ecommerce sites that and having a deep knowledge of what works and what does not and why. There was one point where except for the developers we were all looking for different venues of ecommerce sites with solid API available for us.

Realizing complication with Amazon was a bit of a disappointment. Realizing that how much of puzzle solving that Ken had to do was gratifying.

4pm.

Back to our original tasks because we were behind at this point from our goal. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube ready. Reaching out to friends, family and SW community to get 25 LIKES. Logo design and rebranding company name. Market research survey and appropriate question. 

7pm 

Reaching out to Amazon/eBay powersellers for direct questions and generating prospect list. Inspiring market research people to get on the phone to talk to sellers failed because they thought calling people on middle of Saturday was rude. I was frustrated but had to hold back. Many moments of frustration and anxiety. 1. We are working as a team, not my dictatorship. 2. Everyone had to feel valued 3. I have been wrong before.

10pm

Emotional control needed to calm my impatience.

Success ons eBay server sandbox connection. iPhone app prototype built

11:45pm

SCREAM of excitement!! We are connected!! It is finally working

Our mobile app took a photo ipod cord, typed in description and price, and successfully uploaded to eBay in this simple 1,2,3 step!!

I got a notification into my gmail inbox! 

ipod was posted into the ebay sandbox.

12:00am

Lights out. See you all tomorrow.

Pekay gave us a ride to downtown Portland to meet up with Alex. Saturday night out. Guys/Gals in their fancy attractive clothes ready to dance. David and I were carrying our big bags full of laptop and notes, not dressed for typical Saturday night bar scene. We didn't care. We enjoyed the view a lot.

Went to a bar to grab a beer and talk about our exciting journey with Alex. Went to Alex's favorite Groovy House Club and danced. well Alex and I did. 

3am

in bed.

830am SUNDAY

bit of a late start and moving fast now. Lots of redbull and coffee :)

I started preparing power point for the presentation.

David, Ken and Hasan working intensely to polish up our app. 

1130am.

Team updates. Looks like AudioName, Grepic, Spotzie, Skitterlist are making serious movement. They are ahead of us in web design and social media set up. Time to catch up!!

3pm.

Exciting 35 Likes on facebook. Twitter messages going out and getting many followers.

Team huddle and present to team to test.

Everyone giving me many feedback and criticism. Things I need to work on.

Apparently, I've got too much energy and talking too fast. Slow it down and make it more clear.

330pm

Bad News. Bug was created after Hasan changed the buttons. Text saves but does not appear. Annoying at last minute crunch time. Decided to do the screenshot and live demo. I thought it was a bad idea to do screen shots. I still wanted to show the real one even it might crash. Hasan insisted.

4pm

Still believing that if things were my way it would be better but learned to let it go and move on to other important things. Proud of myself for self discipline and control :)

5pm

keynote. Guy from intel who invented USB. Poor presentation but deep meanings of not giving up and pushing was conveyed.

730pm

Presentation!! Judges were all entrepreneurs. Including Seseme Seed and Alex Payne who developed Twitter platform now building a online bank.

First group was spotzie. There asked many intense questions. Got me nervous a bit but no problem. Heart beating little fast but quite normal for prior to presentation. Reading over notes one more time. 

Presentation was bit frustrating because David was in control of powerpoint clicks as i'm presenting on the opposite side of the computer. He did not know when to click to follow my presentation and I constantly had to give him cues.

Passionate remarks was made. 

Judges asking many questions. First question was monetization based on our subscription model of $5 for 100 posting, saying it is too cheap. 

Then I said, then we will charge more as demand increases. 'Whole room laughs except for me' Judge gives up asking more question.

Different judges ask. I answer in simple responses and David and Hasan adds details. Fact that we could not show real demo with the phone made me feel less confident.

10pm. 

Judges made the decision. Team leaders come out and get this feedback. Direct, straightforward. Skitterlist (myreplay live) and Audioname were two finalists.

Audioname won with $2500 funding.

11pm

Touch new friends one more time. Couldn't stay longer to network because Hasan wanted to leave right away. bummer.

230am

In my room unpacking. can't sleep. Doing more promotions and touch up on social media marketing.

from Alicia

Alicia: What does your name mean?
Me: it means accomplish a goal. or get what you want. reach a goal or let the dream come true along that line meaning. It was written in chinese symbols in Korean. There are three symbols. 3rd one is just family name. (Lee or Yi)

Hasam

From the craigslist posting. David and I found a developer guy who writes in C objective and java. He has 20 years experience in computer science. He was not a super expert with iphone platform but better at it than android.

big push up, pull up days. I was in such a great mood when I got back home from Marysville. 

Patrick Santiago has a great app idea and he is looking for a developer. The research he has done so far is to look for the app that he wants to create.  I want to help him out. He was very careful about revealing his idea. He brought up 'NDR'  First gave me the impression of reminiscing when David and I first got started about Sellhapplee 

Going for a run with a girl. she's my favorite so far. But Her and I will never be together. She is too precious to date. Just keep her as a friend forever. She might blow me off. 

Forgetting about Abby. that's who I was thinking of earlier on the drive to Marysville. I was thinking of My app, APpme, and startupweekend on the way back from Marysville. I was thinking of Alicia and Niki while I was home. having fun making plans for tomorrow morning and possibly extending it out to lunch. Now All I think about myself. my future. My hobby, interest, happiness, excitement, stimulation, drive, satisfaction.

So many options

TED

Ruby

Building Target Market

Reading Emails

Google Reader

Wordpress:Chisunghapplee.com

ipad

seattle 2.0

pullups/pushups

I should sell my car but I really don't want to. Insurance is too high. But my money comes out in july. Then I can pay off the car, reduce the insurance. 3 more months of poverty.... well it could be 2 months too.