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Welcome to my page. Feel free to take a few minutes of your time and get to know me better.

I'm very social but I prefer to keep my circle of friends a bit small.

Besides working to help people see, I spend much of my time learning new hobbies, staying fit, traveling to new places, and improving myself. Right now I’m taking salsa lessons as well as cooking and giving massages. I love what I do especially working with kids. It's very rewarding to help kids see well which allow them to play sports and do well in school.

I’m a challenge, a bit elusive, vibrant, funny, fun to be with, sarcastic, not afraid to put you in your place or have a little verbal sparring back and forth. I’m very opened-minded with a positive outlook, a risk-taker who is always up for an adventure. I’m driven with anything I set my mind to. One of my favorite quotes: “you can’t re-live the past, the future is determined by what you do today, so NOW is the only time"

I make a lot of mistakes, but I don't see them as a failures, I see them as learning lessons. I believe that the only men who do not fail are those that do not try. The following story of Thomas Edison really inspired me.

After Thomas Edison's first 5,000 experiments failed while
trying to develop the carbon impregnated filament which
would light the first incandescent light bulb a young
journalist came to interview him and
said, "Mr. Edison, why do you persist in wasting your
time in these foolish experiments? Everybody knows
that there's no future in electric light." Edison
said, "Young man, you don't understand how the world
works, but I want to tell you something. I have not
failed at all. I have successfully identified 5,000
ways which will not work, which puts me just 5,000
ways closer to the way which will work."

I love to win. I don't win to beat others. I win to succeed in reaching a goal or getting what I want.

Whenever I have tough time making decisions or taking actions, I refer to these phrases for self motivation:

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly… who knows the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have known neither victory nor defeat.” ---TEDDY ROOSEVELT.“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." This last two or three or four repetitions, that’s what makes the muscles grow. That’s what divides one from a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can’t go through it, forget it. And that’s what most people lack: having the guts – the guts to go in and just say… “I don’t care what happens.” I have no fear of fainting in the gym… I threw up many times when I was working out. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s all worth it. Arnold Schwarzenegger You miss a hundred percent of the shots you don’t take, Wayne Gretzky

Some random facts about me:

I was once detained at the border of Mexico, and no I was not trafficking drugs. I love yorkies, not because they are cute, but because they are feisty. I had my picture taken by NYPD on the side of the street. I'm a master of multi tasking, but one thing I cannot do very well is talking on the phone while driving. I have a crap load of dummies/idiots books: etiquette, magic tricks, kickboxing, bartending, finance, investing, world history. my most recent acquisition "guitar for dummies" helped me play "jingle bell", 30 min after messing with guitar for the first time, not too shabby. I'm all about DIY, even for something that I’m terrible at. But I will only do it once so I can brag that I’ve done it. So from now on I will never lay another wood or tile flooring, build another lightening fast computer, install another ceiling fan, set up another track lighting, install another bass thumping car system, paint my living room..... I guess the novelty wears off the second time around. I love DVD box set more than TIVO. When I was 3, I wondered off and climbed to the top floor of an office building (still under construction) I was crying at the edge of the roof and a construction worker rescued me. This was told by my mom and I don't remember any of it. I had a surgery on my stomach when I was little, not for appendicitis, but to repair the broken lining that held the stomach in place, after doing lots of jumping jacks on a full stomach. I used to be the biggest Christian hater, but last year I received Jesus Christ as my savior.

Some hard lessons I learn from the past:

It is better to give than to receive, and besides, you don't have to send a thank-you notes. A journey of a thousand miles begins with my Dad saying, " I know a shortcut" If you decide to live in NYC, buy a UPS truck, this way you get to park anywhere you want. you know you live in a high-crime area when there isn't a doughnut shop around. Spend each day as if it were your last and you'll be broke by sunset. If you take the road less traveled, soon your car will need front-end alignment. The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the length of the reach. Those who say, "Good things come to those who wait," have never had a slow waitress in a restaurant that serves lousy food. a key chain in a device that allows you to lose several keys all at once rather than one here and one there. breakfast is the most important meal of the day. If you're not home by that time, you're in trouble. if you want your shoes to last longer, take bigger steps. In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water. In a developed country, don't breath the air. misers aren't fun to live with, but they make a wonderful ancestors. never buy dvd movies on the sidewalk from a man who is out of breath. never drop your contact lens during tap dancing class. Never fall in love with a tennis player. To her, love means nothing. Never get into a fist fight with an ugly person. He has nothing to lose. Never wave to a friend at an auction. Remember the first rule in chemistry class: Don't lick the spoon. When you go to court, you're putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. Riding subway in NYC during the rush hour and you get your shirt pressed for free. The best way to look young is to hang around with very old people. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. The nice thing about wearing boots is that your socks don't have to match. Never play cards with a man named slim. To prevent injuring your thumb while hammering, have your gf/wife hold the nails. Use the last key in the bunch because that's the one that will unlock the door. You know that you're overworked when your driver's license photo looks better than you. You will enjoy amusement parks particularly if your hobby is waiting in lines. You've got to worry about some of the guys that show up to enlist. Especially the ones who attempt to pronounce the eye chart. I asked the clerk to show me the self-help section and she said, " If I did, that would defeat the whole purpose." I asked what the best-paid writers write and he told me, "prescriptions"