How to be good in minecraft survival and PvP

Well, here comes my story :) So one day in Christmas eve I was searching videos on Youtube when one of my father's friends came over and said "do you know about minecraft?" and of I said no. He explained to me what it was about and I liked it :) so he downloaded it for me, at that time mineshafter.info wasn't that famous so i had to download it from torrent, at that time minecraft was on one of its early versions, i think it was like 1.4.6 (really old) and i didn't know about building or even crafting, i seriously did not know how to make wood planks so i started to research on youtube and found out a little more, then i found mineshafter and when i did the latest version was 1.6, i liked it a lot more and i could actually play in survival (I still din't know about multiplayer cracked servers) but I had to play in peaceful mode so mobs wouldn't scare me, later on I found this awesome server. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                     ...

Do you guys know how I started to play Minecraft? Well, so at first I saw it was really popular in my school and in YouTube. I saw a video of it and I thought it SUCKED . It was the worst game I saw in my live, everything had cubes and blocks, the animals were weird and the players were ugly. Then a week after Daniel came up with this weird idea "Frank, play Minecraft, this game is really cool." I said "NOPE, IT SUCKS AND NOTHING LOOKS COOL!!!" He told me "Please, just try, I'll teach you and we'll play together  ;D" So I downloaded it in Mineshafter.com (Trust me, it was one of the best things I've done in my life) I went to "Multiplayer" because that's what my friend Daniel told me. The two first weeks Daniel was always killing me, stealing my "iron and gold" and  and not teaching me anything me. Then the SUMMER came and he went somewhere else, I kept playing Minecraft to show him I could be better than hi...