As you all know, WSOP 2006 is about to start any minute and I am intended to follow it quite closely this year. I’ve been waiting for it for the past 3 weeks, reading the rules, schedules and a couple of behind the scenes interviews.

As it goes, a watched pot never boils, and I was really watching my pot. However, once an event you’ve been waiting for starts there’s practically no way to hold it back. It gains speed and you hardly even notice it till it’s all gone.

I did not want that to happen to me while I was waiting for WSOP. That is exactly my brand new countdown counter is for. Installed a couple of days ago, it used to show how many days, hours and even minutes are left till the WSOP. Now the counter is showing the time of the next event and how many days are left the main event.

Actually, I am even hoping to get a free DVD with 2005 WSOP recorded if this blog returns visitors to the authors of the counter… I hope I can still win it.

Hurray! I am back… It’s been quite a while and a busy time, but now I am again ready to blog and share what is hot and what is not around me.
I decided to devote this post to my favourite Smiley face as I just managed to find out the exact date when it was used for the first time - 19th September 1982. Isn’t that amazing?
The funny part, however, is that in Japan they use their own version of smilies which are really cute, something like ^-^. Looks very Japanese to me