Ok some of those April Fools pranks I can’t write about and perhaps are best kept to yourselves… but thanks anyway… who needs friends when I see what some of you did to each other…

Played in an online poker tournament last week, was doing pretty well, playing consistent poker and not taking too many unnecessary risks.  Until I lost a big chunk of my stack when my set of kings got beaten – can you believe it?

I was so sure that I had the hand won and there was no ways I was backing out, not with such a strong hand.  Thats poker for you.  You have to back your strong hands because otherwise you don’t win.  But once in a while someone else at the table also has a strong hand!

Anyway I never really recovered from that loss and slowly got elbowed out of the tourney… will just forget that one and move on… it happens!

I have started reading the book “A thousand splendid suns” by Khaled Hosseini.  After reading “The kite runner” and watching the movie, I decided to try his second book.  I enjoy his writing, its simple and straight forward, and his story telling is fantastic!

Reading about life in Afghanistan and what has happened there over history, is quite shocking!  I just cannot understand why or how people can stoop to such levels of violence and ugliness.  It makes me really appreciate everything that I have in my life and just how privileged I have been.