With huge plans set for myself this month I unfortunately haven’t knuckled down and worked as hard as I most likely should of.  A friend I made whilst travelling Europe in 2007 came over from Canada with two of her friends that I had not met before. They were kindly offered a place to crash at my friend Alex’s house and we tried to show them as good as a time as Perth can offer, being the quiet little city it is. (shout out to Julie, Katie and Allison) Hopefully the girls will put some of the photos they took on facebook so I can post some up here.

We had some pretty big nights out including St Patrick’s day which involved everyone starting drinking at midday, I don’t think I made it past 9 that night before I decided to call it quits and head home in my drunken state. Highlights of that night included me buying a huge round of shots for all my friends and making a new friend, hello to the very small leprechaun who must of been.. 3-4 feet shorter then me.

I really got on well with both of Julies friends and will hopefully travel up to Canada sometime in the near future to catch up with them again, more about my travel plans later.

Poker – A mix of not feeling like working and enjoying my free time a little too much has led to a very unproductive month with very good results, so I will not complain.

As far as my new coaching/staking deal is going, I haven’t played near as much volume as I should of mainly due to very poor games running and my lack of desire to play rather then enjoy the company of good friends. Now that the Canadians have moved on I will hopefully be diving in head first and putting in some solid volume for the remainder of the month. As far as the hands that I have played go I am very happy with my results and couldn’t ask for more.

Basketball - We played our semi final game v the top team in the league and unfortunately lost by 6 points even after holding a lead with 4 minutes left in the game. I think we ran out of legs but probably played the best game we had played all season. Congratulations to the other team who should go on to win the league undefeated throughout the entire season, a valiant effort!

I am hoping to start playing in 2 teams when the next casual season rocks around, the more I play the closer I will be towards achieving some of my goals of losing weight and getting closer to dunking a basketball.

General – As I mentioned in my previous blog I opened up a share trading account, without doing much research I bought a decent chunk of shares which have done reasonably well so far.

The table above represents the % change of the 5 shares that I bought since buying them. I bought roughly the same $ value of 5 different shares in a variety of differing sectors, some being blue chip shares (big companies) which I plan on holding long term as well as some more speculative shares which have shown the greatest % change thus far as expected. I am hopefully going to do a ton of reading on the subject and perhaps get into some day trading on the side of poker.

On a tangent I have decided I probably wont be going to the USA in June as I had earlier planned on, I have decided I want to stay home / get a few more things in order and setup a good routine in terms of eating, work, exercise and other activities before I reward myself with a trip overseas.

Thanks to everyone that has been reading my blog so far, it means a lot to me and feel free to comment and let me know your thoughts!

Michael