Last day or two poker has floated back into my mind. I think that my passion, the will of fire is returning to me. Now I will try to put myself into position to be able to grind an hour or two a day and do some poker study. We will see how I feel when I start playing again and lose a couple of buyins, but my head does feel a lot better after this little break.
Yesterday I arrived in Phuket City. It is not really the touristy place to be as far as beaches and nightlife go, but before we head out from here I am hoping to take a look at some of the temples here. They also apparently have the largest sitting buddha in the world.. going to google it now.
While here I've read three books that I really wanted to get around to. First, I read The God Delusion. This book was magnificent, really thoroughly explained thoughts from the author about his views on the world and religion from an accomplished atheist scientist's perspective. Most of what he wrote were things I had atleast touched on in my own mind, but he expounded and brought quite a bit of new information to the arguments. I highly recommend this book to everyone with even the slightest intellectual leanings.
Second, I read the children's fiction called The Lightning Thief of the series Percy Jackson and The Olympians. I heard quite a bit about this book being in a similar vein to the Harry Potter series, which I really like, so I read this book with high hopes. And I did enjoy this book, but the writing style is decidedly more simplistic and juvenile than the later HP books. I'm curious to know of much of a parallel this series has with the HP series, who's writing gradually got more complex and adult as the books progressed. I hope so.. we'll see!
Finally, I plowed through The Kite Runner very quickly. I don't want to say too much except that this book was a very good drama focusing around the life, from boyhood through adulthood, of an Afghan man with a troubled childhood. At 18 he and his father are forced to take refuge in America when the Russkis come through. Eventually, he returns to see what the Taliban have done to his country and to try and right the wrongs of his own past in his now wartorn homeland. Its likely you will learn a thing or two about the Afghan way of life as well.
Everything has gone quite smoothly so far, though on the 2nd night I was here my uncle and I were chillin on the sidewalk drinking some beers at 4am when a street fight erupts 10 foot away! These fucking crazy thais are brawling, knocking over 4 street vendor carts and 3 motorbikes. They fall onto my uncle and I and our little plastic chairs just collapse, and one of those little thai palms half squished my right nut GOD DAMN IT. Luckily, I was running a pretty good buzz so the pain was dulled, and as of now I'm completely recovered from this dramatic incident.
Also, I should probably see some actual historical stuff soon. Baby steps.
ps brett, I still have no idea where I'm going to be when you arrive..will keep u posted.
pps I'm sporadicly using lan-cafe computers, so no one do any xfers with me or anything until feb 15th or unless you know me well and we can confirm somehow. just a warning
i'm flying to thailand thursday morning.. can't really feel that excited atm but I'm sure i'll improve if I Can get some sleep. experiencing insomnia in a big way atm lawl..
So turns out I was still feeling super shitty, and I've still been making tilty and bad plays. Hopefully I'll be able to sort it out soon..
In other news, I just finished watched The Majestic with Jim Carrey (my favorite actor by far..). I had never seen this movie before and wow.. it was freaking amazing.. I loved it soooooooo much I just had to make a blog entry about it.
I'm going to see what else of Carrey's I've missed out on
Like seriously I feel really good after watching this movie.. it was just a damn good flick.
can't believe I didn't just not play the past 2 days instead of playing and tilting so much... its just that I only have until the 13th to grind seriously and then i may not even be able to play for a whole month.. so wtf.. I let myself play..and i lose another 10 bi
i erased the spoiler just cuz I'm feeling much better now
Struggled to win a hand all day today, 'n I have a lil bit of spew going on too. I didn't have any trouble playing a lot atleast.. 5k hands today. I have decided to take a different approach and instead of having a minimum daily hand requirement I will have a daily hand cap and goal for a while. for now Its at 5k.. lets see how much I play tomorrow.
I somehow managed to lose 10 buyins in nonshowdown in 5k hands today. Luckily only down 180bb though. I don't even know or care about wtf is going on atm.. just going to grind and try not to be tilted until I'm feeling better about things I guess. Just have to be careful not to bust or w/e haha
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