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Published: November 16th 2007
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My new house
15 bags of sand a month !!! not bad eh ? Well it's the evening now here and i have been sending business related e mails and on the telephone for long periods today. I went out into Lamai at about 11.30 last night and ended up playing darts until about 4am with Jay, a chap from Kent. We called it a draw at 2-2, playing for a beer for each leg, it was my idea to call it a draw on the night as he looked pretty p****d and i could quite easily have lost also !! He's a funny bloke and owns a bar in Lamai centre, so we will continue our duel pretty soon i would think ! (maybe tonight....he knows how to live it up, i hear you cry !)
So anyway i got up later today which is not a bad thing because i need to be up late in the evening, in order to be in contact with the UK up to 5pm at home, midnight here. Am starting to settle in a little more after all the aggravation with not being able to withdraw cash for a week (if you are planning to come here...inform your Bank, otherwise it's a bloody nightmare), flash floods and
heavy showers daily, although the worst appears to be over. Internet access was a problem until 2 days ago and the reason i have moved to my new house. Then of course, not content with all the problems and inconvenience i have experienced...i lose my bloody English Sim card which has some numbers which i may have lost permanently...a 3 and a half month trip for me was looking like it was going to end in 2 weeks, my resolve was seriously tested and although i have admitted this previously, my timing wasn't very good and the first big mistake i have made with regard to the business.
The weather has also made it difficult to plan anything without being permanently p**s wet through, "buy a coat ?" i have never seen persisent heavy monsoon rains in my life before and it made the rains we had back home in the Summer seem relatively tame. Even with a waterproof on you can't help but get drenched, i have not had a 'cold' in nearly 2 years and i started sneezing and had a headache and i thought a 'cold' was on the way, now that would have been the bloody "icing on the cake" for me at the time, but fortunately i was ok within 24 hours.
I went for a massage yesterday for the second time since i arrived in Samui from BKK. There were 3 shops close to each other, and they were professional bona fide places and wasn't sure which one to go in, well i drove past all three and turned around and stopped at the first one. I sat outside had a cig and a coffee, one of the girls was very prettty and friendly with a really nice way about her (nothing dodgy was going on by the way here !). So i went in took my shirt off and laid on the bed, a woman comes out from the back, well i wouldn't have thought Mike Tyson on steroids would have had much of a chance against her in the boxing ring. It was ok but i will maybe try somewhere else next time (nothing to do with the dodgy boiler of course), because the first massage i had done was by a bloke who allegedly is a teacher of Thai massage, but i need to get my back pain sorted out and as long as they know what they are doing i don't care what they look like ! The massages are usually very good and for 300 baht (just over £4) it aint bad, although it was advertised as 200 baht.....but obviously there was a price increase during my massage which they completely forgot to tell me about !
You actually get used to the Thai way of doing business and have to accept that many things are different including the roads. Well the roads here are worse than in Maltby in South Yorks...and that takes some doing, and you could be forgiven for thinking that all the worst and lunatic drivers are concentrated in a small island in the Gulf of Thailand. Oncoming traffic will overtake each other whether you are approaching on the other side of the road or it's completely clear...and you have to get out the way....and be thankful for the privilege ! Motorbikes and cars will just pull out from junctions at any moment so you have to be extremely careful, it really is quite dangerous and there are a lot of fatalities here, including one 3 days ago 300 yards up the road from my place. As long as you are sensible when driving you should be ok (touch wood...i actually physically did that then !). I don't think there is anything such thing as Health and Safety here but as long as you bear that in mind you should be fine.
Anyway will end this entry now, will write some more when i can be bothered or i fancy a bit of a 'moan' !!!
Later....
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jeanette
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moaning gord
ive read ur "blog" gord,very interesting...but omg u do waffle lol!!!!