Christmas eve

The other night I went to a shopping mall of bars, it was going to the oshawa center but instead of old navy and the bay, you had your choice of drinking establishment. It was the strangest experience that I have ever had. Every single bar was packed as well, there was already any room to move around. I had to hold my drink above my head, because the few times that I held it lower it was spilt.

then I came back to near my hotel, basically on my street there are hotels and restaurants. After 1am, bars and restaurants aren't allowed to sell booze, but most of the restaurants sell after hours. So, after being in the shopping malls of bars, I came back to near my hotel and hung out on the street until 5 in the morning sitting on mats and buying beer from a man behind a truck. The cops came by twice but basically everyone stands up and starts to walk away, people start picking up the mats. Then soon as the cops pass the mats get rolled out again and people start to sit down again.

I also stood by the main intersection with this guy that I have met, who has decided that he is going to start a tuk tuk business in Boston.

more pics

so I finally getting around to putting up some more pics, they are mainly of the ones that I took in chaing mai, pics from koh tao and koh phangan and some of bangkok will come later.

pics of one of the temples that I saw, a waterfall, and the ocean this is what it looked like for a couple of days of my stay

pics

these are some pics from my train ride to chiang mai, one of is of the bunks that i had to sleep in and then some coverings from the temple again.

koh phangan

Hello everyone

so, I am leaving in about 20 mins to go over to koh tao. koh phangan has been nice, I would say it was about equal of the number of nice days to crappy days. Hopefully it will be a little nicer in koh tao for when I am there. But, we will have to wait and see .

Didn't really do that much here, other than sit on the beach, I was going to go out fishing one day but that got cancelled because of the water being so rough and it was like for the next couple of days. I should have taken a thai cooking class, but you know lying on the beach, and drinking chang beer was pretty good

I would like to come back to koh phangan again, but maybe stay a different part of the becah. Haad Rinn is nice, but the beach is a complete mess, and I don't think it helps that every month there is massive party that people come to. But, I think I would try and come back to try the full moon thing all over again, I am sure it will be a bit different, then walking up the beach knowing that their two girls still out there.


thats all I have to say for now, I am sorry that their aren't more pics, but the internet is really slow here, I will try in koh tao if not I will try and put all of them up when I am back in bangkok
kevin

full moon

so, it is the day after the full moon party. my dreams of waking up in a tatoo party and getting some moon tattoo were crushed

But, unforutenly the day before the party, I was sitting in my hammock, when I heard this girl screaming. I went out to the beach to check it out and there was this big crowd of people standing around. when I got closer I noticed that they were giving mouth to mouth to a girl, they got her breathing again and took her off to a car, then as I was walking away, they pulled another girl from the water. they quickly took her away. A guy starts saying that the there were 6 people in the water and they found 4. when i woke up the next morning they were boarding up the becah, they were putting a fence up so that we couldn't go swimming and that durning the full moon party it would keep the party goers away from the beach. also there were two crosses sitting in the middle of the beach, they never did find the two girls

so full moon night, was basically like every other night in haad rin, there were a lot more people in the streets and in the bars, and a lot more buckets were consumed (a bucket is a bucket that we use to make sand castles with, but instead filled with sand, it is filled with either rum, whiskey, or vodka, then approiate mix but also a thing of red bull, its kind of disgusting, it tastes like cough syrup, well, I am sure about the vodka one)but that was it, there were some djs down at the other end of the beach, but that was pretty much.

maybe I will try and come back and go to other full moon, next year.

koh phangan

so, here are some photos from koh phangan, it is a picture of the place that I am staying, my view from my hammock and a cat, that comes and sits with me everything morning.

the stress of beach life

so, for the second day that I have been here, it is pissing raining out. so, I will probably spend the next day going from bar to bar, watching the movies that they are playing today.

But, so far nothing much to report on , other then I get up in the morning, I get in my hammock, and stay there until breakfast, then go back to the hammock, and then I go for a swim, which then I just lie on the beach, go for a swim, lie on the beach, go for a swim, get a beer, back to the hammock, read a book, go for a swim.

I think you pretty much get the idea, so I have done this for the last six days, and I will be here for four more days and then onto the next place,

but, as you can see my life is pretty hard.

tan escalated from freckle to burn

so, who was the idiot that fell asleep in his hammock without people on sunscreen that would be me. Yeah yesterday, i got up and went for a walk along the beach and then came back to the hut, and lied down in the hammock and woke up about an hour of later. I looked fine, so I got up and put some sun tan lotion on and went to the beach. But, the problems of travelling alone is that you can't get those hard to reach places, like the back. So, I have sunburn across the middle of my back, bottom part of my stomach and my knee caps. plus, I have a subunrn on the back my knee caps, because i am idiot and didn't proberly apply the suntan lotion. I think i need to get the kiddy kind that is purple colouration to it , so that you can see where you have put it.

plus, my underarms aren't really tanning, but just freckling, which I didn't really have freckles there before. i thought these freckles were suppose to go away

I use to love fire drills when I was in school

so, the other day before I headed for the beach, I headed over to the canadian embassy to find out what I had to do register to vote, because even though I am not going to be there for the first year of this government I still feel the need to vote. So, i took a taxi over, and there were times during this ride that i thought I was going to die, the taxi was go off the highway, going to hit another car.

But, i finally made it to the canadian embassy, I started to walk up to the building where they are located. I walk into the building and show id to the women and all of sudden an alram starts going off. That day was the day that the building decided to practice fire drill. So, i had to go out and wait for everything to be finished. Now, they were keeping track of everyone did, and I have to say that the canadian embassy didn't do their best. The alram was pulled at 11:00am and the best time was 11:07( but that was the cafe on the main floor so they had unfair advantage) and the last time posted was 11:27, and the canadian embassy clocked in at 11:24.

Then I felt really safe when I was actually in the canadian embassy because their metal detecter kept on going off and the person just kept on waving them in.

snake bites

so, I am waiting for my bus to the south, where I will be hanging out on the beaches.

the other day I caught a train to chiang mai, and when I get there, it was raining and was going to rain for the next week, so i hop back on the train and came back to bangkok. But before I left I went on a trek where I rode elephant, bamboo raft. on the bamboo raft we saw a couple of snakes and all I could think of was what I read in a book

1- assume all snakes are vemous
2-using a tenser bandage or a piece of clothing, apply presure to the area, and wrap up towards your head
3- have someone try to remember the markings of the snake
4- do not panic, get yourself to hostipal, there are vacusations for most snake bites

well, my bus is here I should go but I promise i will post photos soon, my card isn't full yet

Midnight train to chaing mai

i can't really remember the words to midnight train to georgia, but I think it had something to do with falling in love or giving up some dreams. I didn't give up my dream, and I didn't fall in love, I just thought it had a nice ring to it.

someone came around and started putting down the seats and forming beds, as soon as they started, formation of a party in the dining lounge started. I didn't go up right away I stayed back, and talked to a thai women who told me that I was like her son, "big boy" she kept on saying and each time she said she put her arms into a postion that I have decided is the unerivsal sign for being fat. she then started say something about her son head is always in the fridge, which I found funny to hear because my father use to tell me that. ,

I decided at one point I wanted to get a beer, so I decided to head up to the party. as i walked in there were christmas lights on the ceiling and they had turned off the lights and they were flashing like the disco tech that I was at the night before and because of the british and canadian teens tour group dancing it was hard to get by. Once I got my beer there wasn't really a place to sit, so I sat down on a cooler with one of the crew workers, he smoked a cigarette as he told me stories about wokring on the train. this makes me kind of curious to work on a boat going back and from new zealand to australia. at one point I looked up and saw a dutch women in the middle of the asile singing at the top of her longs to neil diamonds sweet caroline, her husband joined, but stood up with their video camera and filmed her, this was quite funny to watch. but after that everyone joined in for group sing along of brown eyed girl

after I decided to leave the party, I went back to the train car, and I was sleeping on the top bunk so I climbed up and realised that all that was keeping me up there were two straps, which weren't well postioned. they were both down near my legs, so even if the train took a sharp turn I was still probably going to fly flat on my face. also, one of the straps kept on coming on attached.

the next couple of days will be spent on overnight trains and buses, back to bangkok, and then down towards the south to lie on the beach and work on the glovers tan. so far I haven't taned, I just have blothces of brown spots from my freckles forming together

pics very soon

why is my mouth burning

as I type, my mouth is burning from the spicy tuna salad that I just had. there were whole chunks of chilies in it.

So, today I got up and walked over to Wat Pho, a Buddhist temple that has reclining Buddha in it. but, little did I know that it was the Kings birthday today, so all temples were closed down until 1pm. a tuk tuk driver offered to take me around to some of the other Buddha statues, which he did but then all of sudden we pulled into a shop which they tried to sell me a suit. as, I am sitting in the back of the tuk tuk, guys were bringing out fabrics, and showing me designs that they thought would look good on me. After saying "no, I don't need a suit right now" he drove me back to wat pho were I walked around and looked at reclining Buddha, as I was walking around the rest of the temple, I saw that there was a massage school. So, in I went, and first glance it seemed like I was walking into the sweat shops of a massage palor, because there was rows and rows of tables. which I was then introduced to masusit, which was a 60 year old women. but after half an hour, I felt great

so, i was going to up to chaig mai tomorrow, but I forgot to take my malaria pill today, so I am going up on tuesday.

kevin

ps- I will be putting some pics up later