Rohan slept in again and I played poker sessions and went to the gym. There was more poker in the afternoon, which was highlighted by us quitting all our tables and focusing on playing a fish at $5/$10 heads-up. He paid for our drinks in the evening and a bit more. We started about 4pm, went out for dinner, went to a seedy bar and then came back and hung out in the spa. We [...]

A new champion of the libertarian cause has emerged out of the UK in the last few weeks. Daniel Hannen entered the public eye when he unleashed on Gordon Brown in the European parliament in late March. He has since been appearing on US cable networks and other media, getting his ideas out there.

Late night trips to the police station and midnight poker sessions caught up with Rohan and he basically didn’t leave the room for 24 hours sleeping an lazing around. I took the opportunity to go to the markets on my own and do a bunch of personal and present shopping. I think I actually started to get pretty good at the whole negotiation thing, in the end I was just saying a price until they [...]

We decided for the afternoon we’d take a walk up to Sham Shui Po and check out what was going on there. It took longer than we thought to get there and we lost our way a little bit, but ended up finding our bearings and coming across the markets we were after. There was more of a fresh fruit and electronics focus and lots of things we hadn’t seen before. There were people selling [...]