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| Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
I'm currently in Krabi. It's not that great here. Touristy, over developed, and overpriced. I'm staying two nights before I move on to less developed and nicer looking islands in the south before I get to Malaysia.
I've been on Ko Lanta for the past 4 days. It's beautiful little island near Ko Phi Phi but much much less developed and way cheaper. However, I think that will change soon since Thailand is about to advertise the island next year. Soon it will end up like Phuket! The island was great though. I went with my British friend and two French girls we meet. Stayed in a bungalow on the beach so now I am nice and tan. We rented bikes one day and biked around. Interesting island and it was nice to see local thai life but biking in this heat is rough. I had to stop for water every ten minutes (plus I'm way out of shape) but getting to this secluded beach and this viewpoint of the island was well worth it. The French girls were loads of fun and sad to see them go but now I must be moving on.
The greatest story ever told:
On my last night on Ko Phi Phi, my friends and I decided to get pissed (like that Mo?). Plus it was my friend Marti's 23rd birthdaty and since I couldn't get to Miami in time, I had to drink a few for her as I promised! Getting drunk in Thailand usually means drinking buckets. (ie drinking a sand pale full of whiskey, red bull and coke). So after we drank about four of those (2 for 1!!), we left and meet our dutch friends at Thai boxing. There anyone who boxed would get a free bucket. Now, any time you think you have a good idea while drunk, usually it's a pretty bad idea. Well, I had a "good idea" and faster than you knew I was in that ring with gloves and a mask one facing another drunk tourist that was double my size.
We both agreed to go easy, especially since this was going to be my first time being hit by another human being. My "coach" was the Dutch girl. I think she was more pumped about this than me and I don't know why she didn't do it! But there I was. The first round went ok and I actually got a lot of punches him and got him on the floor. Then came round two and I think he stoppd going easy. After the first hit, I wondered how people could do this for a living? That shit hurts even when you are drunk!
After about five minutes, the ref called the fight in favor of the OTHER guy. This solicited a lot of BOOs from the crowd. I was excited that I may have officially lost but in the eyes of the crowd I won. Afterwards, people came up to me and congradulated me for getting up there with a guy twice my size. One bloke even bought me a drink. The word wanker was used a lot to describe the other guy. I won the hearts of the crowd. A good ego boost.
The next morning though was not so great. I am still sore in my jaw, back, and next from that night and the next day I could barely move. However, I'd do it all over again and this is the coolest thing I've done on my trip so far besides hike the Grand Canyon.
-Matt
ps- sorry for such a long wait between post. I forgot to copy my last post onto here.
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