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Simply Bobby

 

  By nature, I'm just a guy who looks for fun and enjoys meeting people. I have had quite a few hobbies in my life like Philosophy, Language study, sports (boxing, wrestling etc) as well as basketball and football. In the last few years though, I have loved traveling. I have traveled to Thailand about six times already and found that it is a place of warmth and passion. Like many other people, I found many friends from being online and through these pages you will hopefully enjoy reading about my experiences. Most of what I write will be about Thailand and NYC friends and experiences.

In a time span of a few years, I hope to travel to Cambodia, Burma and the Philipines. I may have an eye out for settling in either Cambodia, Thailand or the Philipines. As for Burma, I think the people are having a really hard time. I'd like to experience this for myself and if indeed I can help, I will.

I have written many songs as well as recorded many. I have written poetry and some short stories. It seems that I like to dabble in many things. I am, I have found out, a jack of all trades and master of none. Well, on with the website and hopefully your enjoyment!

                                                

These are from a very lovely Thai lady named Mam. She is the one in the story, "The kidnapping." She touched my heart with this gesture of kindness and friendship!

 

**Crazy Pete**

 

  pete 1 pete 2 pete and me

One of my friends just became famous-well, sort of. His name's Pete and he's one of the more kind hearted people in this
otherwise heartless world. He's full of energy and sees the world sometimes from a slightly different perpective. Well, I'll let
you find out for yourself by clicking the links below.
 
 
 
The perfect mixer    Bowled over    Dusk of the drummer  Macalay  NYtimes  NYtimes2
Funny video about Pete!
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**John O'Brien**
(I knew John pretty well and this is the result of too much teasing by thoughtless human beings!

Two murder/suicides strangely echoed each other. In 1993, John O'Brien asked members of his stuttering self-help group where the heart is located in a person's chest. The next day he brought a handgun to the New York subway equipment facility where he worked. He shot a co-worker in the head, killing him instantly, and then shot his supervisor in the chest, leg, abdomen, and back. The supervisor lived. O'Brien then killed himself with a shot to his heart.

O'Brien stuttered severely. He had been denied a promotion because of his speech, but co-workers didn't know whether his victims had ridiculed him. Friends described O'Brien as "an unbelievably nice guy," "quiet," who "never bothered anyone."
 
Trio Linked By Tragedy   
     John O'Brien kept mum even when he played football with acquaintances or rode the apartment elevator with longtime neighbors. There was a simple reason, according to colleagues, neighbors and family: O'Brien, 37, had a speech impediment so severe, he was too embarrassed to talk, to date or even to reach out for friends.A portrait of silent anger and isolation emerged yesterday after the Transit Authority employee apparently went berserk, killing a colleague and...
 
A Blast of Silent Anger Gunman isolated, bitter about speech defect   
     John O'Brien kept mum even when he played football with acquaintances or rode the apartment elevator with longtime neighbors. There was a simple reason, according to colleagues, neighbors and family: O'Brien, 37, had a speech impediment so severe, he was too embarrassed to talk, to date or even to reach out for friends. A portrait of silent anger and isolation emerged yesterday after the Transit Authority employee apparently went berserk, killing a colleague and...
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Danny Boggs
When is my dad coming home Li'l girl asks.
Full story of the tragedy that happened to this wonderful guy
who I happened to have the pleasure of knowing, can be found
in these links:
Nydailynews Subwayblogger
And here's a link to his wife's blog that she started shortly after
his passing. griefcase 
 
Marvin Franklin
 
 
Read about this this talented man by clicking the links below: 
 
Artist by day, a transit worker is killed by his night job. 
 
Marvin Franklin: Second MTA Worker Killed in Five Days

Marvin Franklin at the New York Transit Museum 

 
 
Back when I was growing up in the Sunset park area of Brooklyn, there were a large number of gangs. Actually, there were gangs in every borough. To give you an Idea what it was like back then, I have links to information, pictures and video's. I knew many of these gang bangers back then.
 
Thanks to Kingklast and others for much of these links!
 
**Pictures and information **
Streetgangs 
egradioonline.com
 
 
**Video's* *
 
1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 1)    1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 2)     1st Annual Outlaw Reunion (part 3)
 
Shidoshi John Manniel is the founder of the Kar-Do-Jitsu-Ryu
(I knew John pretty well and many of the guys he trained
 
You can find more diverse gang video's by clicking on Kingklast's name above. I'll add others as I find them. 
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Combat training
I studied boxing for 2 years from coach Gregory based from the lunar boxing
club (Now defunct?).
 
 

One of the most brutal arts I ever learned or had to use in real fights.
Tony Cecchine is an exceptional coach. I studied about 2 years with him.
 
He also has a youtube account.

 
I trained with Craig Kukkuk for three years and Renzo Gracie for two years. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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