Happy 6th Year Annivesary to my Blog

Today is July 23rd and it is a very special day for this blog. Today is the 6th year anniversary since I have started this blog. Every year, I try to commemorate this date. It feels like yesterday when I started this blog. So much has changed that I do not know where to begin. Plus, I am not even sure what to write about when it comes to this date. The only thing I could write about is some update about my own life.
Since the start of this blog, a lot has changed. I have attended law school and finished it. I have moved back to Los Angeles. I have been quite lucky when it comes to employment. I am going to focus more about my employment. I am currently working as a Tax Attorney at one of the biggest tax firms in the U.S. I started working at my current employer about Twenty months ago. I started as a Case Specialist. Since I started at this job, I was able to progress in an incredible paste. Currently, I am the supervising attorney for all employment and corporate Tax issues at this firm. Currently, I have about seventy clients as my own cases and I am supervising over five hundred clients. I am the second best attorney and one of the youngest ones at this firm. Achieving such great accomplishment has not been easy. On average, I have been working about 70-80hrs a week including almost every Sunday.
If you would have asked me Six years that I would be working as a tax attorney, I would have never believed that statements. When I was in law school, I thought tax was the most boring area of law. As it turns out, Tax Law has been the most exciting area of law that I have experienced so far. For some reason, I am incredibly good at it too.
The reason that I find Tax Law to be so interesting is that you have an opportunity to have client from all aspects of the society. They all have different stories to share. Although the path to resolving their cases might be a bit similar to one another, but the stories behind them are unique and fascinating. What makes it even more interesting is the part where you apply the rules to these unique facts. Although there are times that the work load gets to you, but at the end you are never bored at this job. The last thing I would call this area of law is boring.
When you work as an attorney, you always keep track of the best and worst cases you have ever handled. The best settlement I have ever accomplished for my client has been wiping out $1.3 million dollars for my client. When I took over the case, it was in a pretty bad shape. The case was neglected for a while and it had been dragging for over four years. After six months of working on this case on daily basis, the client ended up not having to pay a dime on his liability. The worst case I have handled was this client from Utah. The client was this honest hard-working man who had gone through tough times. The IRS Revenue Officer levied this business into bankruptcy and there was nothing I could do to stop her. So, as you could see, there are some good times and bad times at this work like any other job.
Besides the employment, not much has been going on in my life. I have not traveled anywhere interesting. I went to South Beach Florida for five days. That’s about it. I lost my grandmother about six months ago who was one of the dearest people in my life. I did not write about it because I have not found the courage to deal with that issue. I feel very bad that I did not get to go to Jerusalem and see her one more time. She always had a special place in my heart. That is the only thing I could say about this.
On a much lighter note, the lease on my car was up, so I traded it for something much better. Although, I have realized that it probably was not a good idea to get that car. My goal for the next year is to improve my social life. Unfortunately, work has taken over every aspect of my life. I wake up 6 a.m. and leave home around 6:45 a.m. I return home around 10-11P.m and I go straight to bed. There is no room for anything else. So, I really need to improve that area.
Besides that, that is pretty much the development of my life. My plan for this blog is to find some times and improve the template a bit more. The blog went through some major makeover about eight months ago. However, I still do not feel that I am done. It is a work in progress. The biggest issue is finding the time to do it. The blog will be a lot more active, however that is contingent on the fact that I find the time to do it.
So, stay tuned!

Fifth Anniversary of my Blog-Wow!

Although this is might be a month overdue, but last month was the fifth year anniversary of my blog. I cannot believe that five years have passed since I started this blog. I started this blog when the Lebanon War of 2006 started. This was my way of expressing my opinion about what was happening. I am looking at some of the posts I put up and it feels like I am rewinding my life and history at the same time. It’s been HALF A DECADE since I started this blog. It is still unbelievable. I started this blog with the same picture and I must admit it is truly an amazing picture. Well, here is a small little update with regards to what has happened to my life since I started this blog.
Throughout these five years, my life went through tremendous changes. I made a lot of friends and a lot of enemies because of this blog. Of course the content of this blog caused some sudden discomfort to terrorist-apologists up in Berkeley and Leftist numb-nuts who were truly sick in the head. When I say sick in the head, I mean sick. They resorted to all sorts of sick and psychotic acts that ranged from prank-calling and at one point death threats. Of course, the main perpetrator was finally identified last year and the coward quickly disappeared. Of course, these cowards would disappear the second they are identified because they are as I like to call them “chicken bullies”. That means they are the type of bullies who are bullies online and in hiding and they would never show their face due to the fact that they know they are the scum of the society themselves. However, like I said, as soon as the main perpetrator was identified, I never heard from any of them EVER AGAIN! So much for protectors of justice and humanity as they claimed to be!!
During the past five years, I started and finished law school in San Diego. I moved to back to Los Angeles and I took the California Bar Exam for the first time and I failed with only four points missing. That was truly a hard thing to go through. Then I went through the appeal process. The appeal process was unsuccessful and I decided to retake the bar exam one more time even though I had a good job in Marketing. Of course, this time I passed and at the time I was working at a Civil Litigation Law Firm in Los Angeles. However, I really did not enjoy working at the firm and I quickly started searching for a better job with much better pay. That’s where I found my current employer which is a Tax Firm. In law school, I hated Tax. I never understood it and I thought it was the most boring area of law. However, due to our current economy and the lucrative salary, I decided to take this job.
I quickly realized that Tax is truly the best field because I was good with numbers. I busted my behind for three months. I worked 15-16 hours a day. I even worked on Sundays and I did not take a single day off. Even when I was sick I showed up to work. All the hard work quickly paid off because I was able to advance in the company in the fastest paste possible. Within only four months, I was promoted to supervising attorney. I also ranked fourth best attorney in the firm. I became the “go-to-guy” who got all the hard complicated cases or high profile clients. I have about 140 cases for myself and supervising over 600 cases. I have the highest case load and the biggest team and I have been here for only eight months. Although the working hours did not improve and it actually got worse, but the salary definitely improved.
Besides the respect, quick advancement, and of course great salary, this job provided me with an opportunity to help a lot of people. Our clients range from all aspects of the society and listening to their story truly teaches you a lot about life. The satisfaction of helping people is really priceless. When you assist a client and provide them with successful results, you could hear their voice and how appreciative they are, and there are no words that could express my feelings at that moment. I had a client breaking down and cry when I gave her the good news. That in itself is worth all the hard work you put in to resolve the cases.
Besides the career changes and moving, my life took a lot of interesting turns. I would be lying if I say at times I did not think about quitting. However, constant hard work and putting in many hours pays off at the end and this is what exactly happened to my life. Although being happy could be a very vague terms to use because there are many different kind of happiness, look at the past five years, I could confirm that I am very happy with my life.
Well, five years has passed since I started this blog and I have covered many news article and world events and wrote my opinion about them. We are living in a very volatile time. I must say, I have zero intention of quitting this blog. So, stay tuned for hopefully many more years to come.

Two Years Anniversary of My Blog

I cannot believe two years has passed. July 23rd is the two years anniversary of the beginning of the journey to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Two years ago at this day, I started this blog with this(click here for the article) article and started it with the same picture. I started this blog with hope to find a way to manifest my thoughts into writing in a search to find peace. I was under the impression that I can somehow find an explanation for what is taking place around me by writing about it. In the past two years, a lot has changed. My life has gone through major and different stages. I have found many friends as result of this blog and I have lost some too. I guess some people do not like the way I think because it insults the way they live in this country. It has been an interesting two years of life and I have learned a lot in the process. It has been a very colorful two years and somehow I did not reflect these changes in my blog. Here is some information regarding the past two year of my blog:
There have been more than 40,000 hit to the site. On average, I have received 38-50 hits a day; the maximum amount of hit on a single day has been 558 hits and the minimum has been 3. I have posted about 121 posts. So far this year I have written about 35 articles. During 2007, I wrote about 72 articles. On average, I wrote about 4-6 articles a month. Recently I have slowed down in writing new articles. Most of the subjects I have written about are Israel with 47 tags, IDF on second place with 21 tags, and Iran on third place with 17 tags. These are the subjects that I am most passionate about, no wonder they have taken over my blog. Last year, thanks to Anti-Semites and Terrorist-Apologists’ childish and destructive behavior, I was forced to turn on the comment moderator. This had a huge impact in terms of preventing discussions. I have received prank phone calls, threats to my life, and many have attempted to use threat to prevent me from expressing my opinion. The blog has gone through 2 makeovers, however during last year; I did not change the blog’s design. I think I am happy with this design.
What future will bring? Even though I have been slowing down in terms of writing articles, however I have no intention of shutting down this blog. I have not really written about my personal life and it has been more focused on political matter, I will try to shift the subject too. I will also have guest writers too and I believe the articles will be law related articles. I am trying to find a way to write about my experiences as a kid. I will not change the design of the blog; however I will add more links to the side and take some off. I will also disable the comment moderator very soon. This will encourage more immediate discussion and the commentators would see their comment as soon as they submit it. I still have not decided the exact date.
In the end, this year and end of this year, the world is will witness a lot of events that will unfold in front of our eyes. I have a feeling that none of these events will be pleasant. However, I will continue writing about them.