26th May 2006 1:43 AM
Hello guys, been to a few places since last update so a fair amount to tell.
Leaving tokyo was a bit of a pain, filght was at 10 and had to do various stuff like checkout, get cash and get to airport. so got up early but immediately our p,ans are foiled by the fact that we have to wait till 7 to get cash due to stupid japenese ATMs, mad dashing and much stress later we get to airport about 9:20, only to find our flight to Hong Kong has been delayed by 11 hours due to bad weather (later found out it was a typhoon over southern china) this would mena missing our connecting flight. but thankfully the air nippon guys got us on a direct flight to Bangkok which left at 11 that morining, so result there.
Only spent one evening in Bangkok as we were getting pretty beech hungry and headed for Pattaya, cause we had heard so much about the place.
now then...pattaya, they have a saying they are found of and have it on Tshirts and things "good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to pattaya" however this isnt strictly true. i will tell you who goes to pattaya, very sad and old unattractive men who long ago gave up on the chance any form of female company they didnt have to pay for.
There are alot of attractive females in pattaya, a whole world of eye candy. but every girl has her price, now you think im over reacting. no no its true every single girl in the ton can be bought, and that really starts todampen your spirits after a while. whenever you walk past a bar about there is a deafening chorus form about 10 hostesses shouting in a horribly thrill high pitched voice "HEEELLLLOOOO WEEEELLLLCCCCOOOMMMEEE!!! SEXY MEN!!!!!!" and then run out into the street to grab you, was starting to resort to a few kung fu blocks in order to avoid them after a while. and they are everywhere.
now some of you might be thnking it sounds great, but not really my bag.
ngiht life consists of going to a bar and either chatting to random drunk guys or prostitutes. very first night, went to a strange white fairly upmarket club and there was a random transvestite show with an enourmously fat man stripping (a horror to end all horros, i have photos). and of ladyboys they are out in there droves in pattaya. in fact when we were there it was the venue for the miss world competition (for transvestites).
did see some very funny sites, as all the afore mentioned large old unnactractive men lose all inhibitons and leap around like lunnatics, i spent half my tme on nights out laughing in peoples faces.
the main beech in pattaya is fairly unpleasent due to all the boats that hang in the bay, but a bit further south is anothrt beech which is alot nicer and had a couple of good afternoons there. deckchairs and people always coming round offering various services (clean services mind you) I went jet skiing while paul had a pedicure.
But we fled pattaya after fto not too long andf returned to Bangkok, atually tried to see a few sights this time, but getting to the west where all the temples and Wat's are is a nightmare, the metro isnt allowed there cause its holy and the traffice is abbysmal. saw one decent Wat with the largest recling buddha or something, was deffiantely a big buddha. and few other things.
Everywher eyou go people are trying to catch you out, "the temple is closed, come to my tuk tuk, we take you to different temple" etc. basic rule is, nevre get in a tuk tuk with anyone who tlaks to you on the street, hailing one down is fine.
Visited some cool markets and picked up some random stuff quite cheap, well some stuff is cheap thailand is an odd place. some things are very cheap while others are ridiculusly expensive, yet there is no pattern to the expensive and cheap things, accomadation = cheap, deoderant = expensive. i dont know....
even went to small arms market where untold amoutn of pistols riffles and things have shos, and little street vendors sell sights and holsters.
went to find a metal club i had heard about, and managed to find it. but it was closed on a tusday and only open fri and sat (which is rubbish in a cpaital city) so maybe next time (great decor on the front of it though, very D&D).
then we took the boat south to Surat Thani, which is the ferry point to get to Ko Samui.
ahhh Ko samui, gorgeous place, we are at Lamui beech, about a K long and absolutely everything you expect froem a tropical island, gorgeous sand and water. our room is right on the beech and there are great restaurants right down the road. so far pretty perfect.i have no idea how we can stay where we are and in this enviroment for about 7 pounds a night. its ridiculous.
Caught a night of Muay Thai our first night here, whch wansnt bad, 7 fights of varying violence and even a couple of Ong Bak moments (for those who havent seen Ong Bak, you suck, go and watch it).
Weather is bit variable as we are heading into the rainy season, (should be july but it seems to want to get an early start). but got a fair amount of time here and nice to wake up whenever and not rush out to do the next thing on the agenda. doing absolutely nothing for once is pretty damn nice, i replenshed my readng material so we are allll teh good, hope i can get back into the doing nothing attitude after 7 weeks of mad dahsing, dont think there should be a problem though
And tomorrow might go scuba diving, neevr doen it before but screw this "in a pool" crap, going straight out to the furthest islands and jumping right in (excuse the pun).
And why is it everyone decides to ahve their bitrthdays while im away???
i leave you with HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
Law
