Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain
Have you ever asked yourself if you could fit a full size bike into the trunk of a 2004 Toyota Camry???
Well the answer is yes.
I bought a bike from Wal-Mart last night…It cost me $118
Surprisingly, it went straight into my trunk without any problem. I put the back seats down and it slipped right in.
Thursday after school, I’ll see how long the four mile ride to campus takes.
For now, the bike is sitting in my music room (a.k.a. the 4th bedroom of my apartment)
When I am productive AND physically active during a day, I feel great. I don’t feel good if I’m only productive or only active.
I’ve recently had a busy schedule:
-Wake up, class till 2:30pm.
-Work on business projects w/ associates away from campus.
-6:30pm – leave associates, go to job from 7 till 10:00pm.
-Workout till 11:00pm.
-Go home, eat my first meal of the day.
-Do a little more work, wrap up the day, sleep.
While I’ve theoretically been productive all day, I don’t FEEL it. This is because my workouts are not intense enough or long enough these days, they are also late at night. A combination of not eating and entire days spent working on a computer leave me feeling weak and unmotivated at the gym.
I’ve got a lot of bus riding and car driving in my schedule now. This needs to stop.
I am going to cut out my 4 mile bus rides to campus and start riding a bike (which I need to buy). Going to and from campus everyday will now be an 8 mile roundtrip by bike. This can replace the cardio portion of my workouts.
For this plan to work, I need to:
-Wake up earlier
-Eat a PROPER breakfast
-Buy a bike
I went to a wedding in Houston this weekend. There I met a friend who recently bought a Mercedes S55 AMG and a Mercedes SL600 (you read right: six hundred). Together these two cars cost well over $200,000.
I was tossed the keys to the S55 AMG and I played around in it.
I had been drinking, so the most I did was rev it up. There’s a very excited Neville inside that car:
As I came back to Austin on Sunday night, I posted up some quotes in my room. The wall to the left of my desk is now my “Motivation Wall”
There are also several quotes posted around random areas of my room, like near my mirror:
My favorite short quote on there is:
“I’m a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it”
–Thomas Jefferson
My favorite long quote on there is:
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better be running.”
–Taken from TheKirkReport.
-Nev
There is me, Neville Medhora, and there is Enwon Inc.
Type “Enwon” into Google and it suggests searching for “Enron” instead. Yes, I am fully aware there is a phonetic similarity between the two names.
Enwon Inc. is a legal entity created to signify the doings of Neville Medhora. I like having a holding company to report earnings under. It may not be completely necessary now, but it will be in the future.
Enwon was created through the phonetic translation of the letter and number combination “N-1” which was a shortened version of my first website: Neville1.com
It stuck.
I get asked all the time if I recognize the striking resemblence “Enwon” has to the scandal-stricken company “Enron”…yes, and I don’t mind it.
1.) People always take a second-glance at the name.
2.) After that second glance, people NEVER forget the name.
BECAUSE OF THIS SITE, I HAVE:
Thank you Blog. Sorry I can’t tell you everything right now, all my current ventures are confidential for the time being.
Sincerely,
-Nev
My attempt to crash the I C 2 Corporate Governance Conference was very successful.
I was tipped off about the conference by “Bob” on Wednesday night.
Thursday morning I whipped out my suit and headed over to the Barton Creek Resort and found the conference. Every single person in the room was either a CEO or member of a corporate board….and often times many boards at once. EVERYONE. In fact, “Regular” people weren’t even invited.
I purposely showed up 5 minutes late so I could rush in past the registration people. It worked. Everyone had huge nametags around their necks except me…..but it didn’t really cause any problems. I was spotted talking to some prominent figures, so no one questioned me after that.
I met tons of people there….and not ordinary people. When I asked “What do you do”…the typical response would begin with :
“I own…(insert big company here)“
or
“I founded…(insert big company here)”
or
“I am the director of…(insert big company here)”
There were LOTS of very prominent figures present, but the most well known was Herb Kelleher, the famous founder of Southwest Airlines. I got to meet, talk and sit next to Herb Kelleher.
Not a very clear picture, but that’s Herb speaking.
Here is me (with the goofiest smile ever) with Herb Kelleher:
After he was done speaking, he sat down at a mostly empty table. I left my table and went to sit closer to Herb. I snapped this quick video to prove how close I was to him!
The rest of the speakers were great, but Herb was the BEST.
“Bob” and “Vinny” were both present at the conference. They are also both board members/CEO’s of very successful companies. I can’t give too much information about them, but both of them have companies undergoing extremely rapid growth. They are both very photogeneic:
The conference went from 10:00am till about 7:30pm. It was good food, good drinks, lots of mingling, learning and fun.
When I left, I couldn’t tell which car was mine. The Camry or the Mercedes SL500???
Well it’s Friday now. ‘Tis time to party!
-Nev
My attempt to crash the I C 2 Corporate Governance Conference was very successful.
I was tipped off about the conference by “Bob” on Wednesday night.
Thursday morning I whipped out my suit and headed over to the Barton Creek Resort and found the conference. Every single person in the room was either a CEO or member of a corporate board….and often times many boards at once. EVERYONE. In fact, “Regular” people weren’t even invited.
I purposely showed up 5 minutes late so I could rush in past the registration people. It worked. Everyone had huge nametags around their necks except me…..but it didn’t really cause any problems. I was spotted talking to some prominent figures, so no one questioned me after that.
I met tons of people there….and not ordinary people. When I asked “What do you do”…the typical response would begin with :
“I own…(insert big company here)“
or
“I founded…(insert big company here)”
or
“I am the director of…(insert big company here)”
There were LOTS of very prominent figures present, but the most well known was Herb Kelleher, the famous founder of Southwest Airlines. I got to meet, talk and sit next to Herb Kelleher.
Not a very clear picture, but that’s Herb speaking.
Here is me (with the goofiest smile ever) with Herb Kelleher:
After he was done speaking, he sat down at a mostly empty table. I left my table and went to sit closer to Herb. I snapped this quick video to prove how close I was to him!
The rest of the speakers were great, but Herb was the BEST.
“Bob” and “Vinny” were both present at the conference. They are also both board members/CEO’s of very successful companies. I can’t give too much information about them, but both of them have companies undergoing extremely rapid growth. They are both very photogeneic:
The conference went from 10:00am till about 7:30pm. It was good food, good drinks, lots of mingling, learning and fun.
When I left, I couldn’t tell which car was mine. The Camry or the Mercedes SL500???
Well it’s Friday now. ‘Tis time to party!
-Nev
My stock portfolio has gone into the 5-digit range in the last few days. Here is my portfolio as of Wednesday, 6-8-2005. The main factor in this is Dynegy (DYN). It keeps going up about 3% per day. I went from a 25% loss to a 9% gain in a few days.
Also, Thursday morning I will be crashing an exclusive entrepreneurial convention. “Bob” tipped me off that some pretty important people will be attending and speaking. I’ve got my suit ready, a black portfolio, business cards and a fake name tag….lets see if I can pull this off!
There is something about the city of Dubai and its “Big Thinking” that attracts me to it. Every new structure they build outdoes the last.
The newest additions to the Dubai coastline are two man-made islands in the shape of giant Palm leaves. They also have made 300 new islands in the shape of the world. A friend who lives in Dubai told me about this project and thought it was a bit crazy, so did I.
Now several years later the islands are nearing completion:
I’m sure when The World was proposed, many people doubted its feasibility. We’ll see who has the last laugh when the hyper-rich people of the world start paying for some of the most unique real estate on the planet.
The Palm’s are equally impressive. I never would have imagined such a thing:
-See time-lapse photography of The Palm construction here.
-More info on the Palms and The World: https://www.gizmag.com/go/3310/
One of the things I want to do in my lifetime is stay with family and friends at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. To me, it represents MUCH more than a simple hotel stay.
Every time I see a picture of the Burj Al Arab, it motivates me.
Click to enlarge each Burj Al Arab picture from Dubai which can be used as desktop wallpaper:
The BurjAlArab at Night:
Just glancing at the interior pictures can make me shudder:
One day you will find me vacationing at the Burj Al Arab. Look for me, I’ll be at the spa getting a massage.
-Nev
$22 – Tubing down river for 6 hours.
$13 – Food For Tubing.
$17.50 – CiCi’s Pizza.
$12 – Brunch at Moonshine’s with business associate.
$10 – Misc. Expenses.
22 – Miles I drove exploring East Austin. Just keeping my eyes opened to what’s around me.
2 – Amount of new business projects I worked on.
2 – Number of times cops have been called for excessive noise violations coming from my apartment this semester.
Bazillion – Number of motorcycles I saw at a bike rally this weekend in Austin.
14 – Number of new people met this weekend.