The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
I appear to have contracted the PLAGUE!!!
This is a result of what seemed like hours of torture from two inept Thai beauty therapist. I thought that getting a wax from highly trained specialists would give me that smooth-chested, male-model look I was going for. Instead I got two ladies who I'm sure had never seen a hairy chest and didn't know a tub of hot (read - cold) wax from a jar of peanut butter. The end result, in addition to what you can see above, is what I'm sure will be years of mental anguish.
Right, first up, I still find myself on Koh Samui. I've been up to a number of things since my last post, however I'm sorry to report that it seems I am too great a pussy to persevere at the Muay Thai thing for more than 5 days. I blame this on the fact that the people who come to Thailand specifically for Thai boxing training are all meat heads. In all honesty however they also tend to be better fighters than I. Half of them are on the professional K1 circuit in Europe and after 5 days I thought I was going to die. My shins looked like they had been painted black(er) and I had trouble moving. Thus I have given up and taken up the far more fulfilling lifestyle of sleeping til 12, getting drunk and eating frozen snickers bars.
Marcelle has been a lovely host and has shown me the what's-what and who's-who of the island. A host of activities have been undertaken in the last couple of weeks including this kid picking off more than he can chew:
A couple of weeks ago I also attended my first full moon party and thought it my obligation to get trashed. I achieved this goal particularly well if I must say so although the speed boat trip back to Samui at 6:30AM was not so much fun.
I've also been scooting around the Island on a scooter. This is both fun and potentially maiming. There is something very liberating though about riding around in shorts, thongs and no helmet on sandy, wet roads with a group of people who either don't understand the concept of road rules or just don't care.
Anyways, I've done other stuff as well but that can wait for the next exciting installment. Plans for the immediate future include a few weeks in Cambodia or Laos followed by another short to medium period of drunkenness and then UK hoe (I may also travel to the UK....).
I'll leave you with a few random Samui photos:
Later internet.
