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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.
Best of luck my friends.
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Uptown . Jan 24 2010 05:03. Posts 3557 | | | |
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k2o4 United States. Jan 24 2010 05:05. Posts 4803 | | |
just arrived in phuket. we're on nai thon beach right now. where are you staying? we're thinking of renting a scooter.
have fun finding a place to grind, hehe. Hopefully you have a laptop and can find a good net connection somewhere.
the olympian movie is coming out and looks bad. feel like there's been a lot of movies like this lately trying to be the next harry potter and failing horribly. seeker of the dark (or something like that) comes to mind. such a crap movie.
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Jan 24 2010 05:10. Posts 5647 | | |
how the Carl Sagan did you read all those books in one day?
Sounds awesome, I'm planning to be over there for a grind-plus-holiday soon too, so good to hear others are getting along well. def let us know how you go finding a place |
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Naw I didn't read them in one day, just over the past week. ^^
Brettz0r, I figure we should meet up tomorrow? Do you have plans with your friends over here or what? I think it'd be cool to meet up at a beach tomorrow or somethin like that.
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 24 2010 06:12. Posts 4742 | | |
YOU NARUTO LOVER!!
KYYIJAIJ HACIBI!!
GUESS IM GOING WITH THE EIGHT TAIL!! WOOAH |
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Nazgul  Netherlands. Jan 24 2010 06:18. Posts 7080 | | |
A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones. Have fun thank me later. |
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Uptown . Jan 24 2010 06:21. Posts 3557 | | | |
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whamm! Albania. Jan 24 2010 07:06. Posts 11625 | | |
what no ladyboyz yet? fail |
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Naib Hungary. Jan 24 2010 11:03. Posts 968 | | |
| | On January 24 2010 05:18 Nazgul wrote:
A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones. Have fun thank me later. |
Quoted for emphasis, these books are the nuts. As in 'they even beat a Royal Flush' nuts. |
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nice I will check those books out soon :D
I played a game of pool with a ladyboy the other night, it was quite funny. we just never have a camera when we are going out to lately D: |
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YouGoTGoT United States. Jan 25 2010 09:46. Posts 1118 | | |
Wow i thought u were in my imaginary place that I visit when im tiliting super hard, it is also called Phuket City (pronounced FUCK-IT)
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haha its pretty close, and one time I called it fuck-it before I knew the pronounciation.. which resulted in a hearty LOL from some more experienced travellers. Its pronounced in the much less embarassin "poo-get" in reality LOL
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