With this blank blog box in front of me, I am trying to think of where to begin this post. I clearly have been a bit absent this blog. Sorry :( I do intend to be more diligent but sometimes diligence and I are not the best of friends. That being said, here goes.
This week marks the end of my first semester here in sticky, hot Singapore. I have made a film, I have auditioned for a play that I'll be in next semester here at the school and I have learned some more Chinese language...again, so freakin' hard. I have also, as I write this, obtained food poisoning twice. To be honest, I think it is from the two times I have had western style fish and chips in both Malaysia and also in Thailand. NEVER AGAIN!!!! It is the worst feeling in the world to have food poisoning. I am sure you can all imagine the symptoms and I care not to explain. Let's just say, OUCH!!!!
Also, I went to the FULL MOON PARTY at Haad Rin on Ko Pha Ngan (a tropical Thai island in the Gulf of Thailand). This was literally the biggest pary I have ever seen in all my life. There were apparently a good 8 - 10,000 people there soaking in the night and soaking in a lot of other things as well. One thing that got soaked in my trip there was my camera. Not only soaked but dented at the zoom as well. I have bought a new one already but let's just say that I said some words my grandma wouldn't want me to post on here so I will refrain. This party was help along the entire stretch of the beach and getting there was a cheap 600 Baht return on a speed ferry. Getting away...not so easy. I was there with my beautiful friend Caitlin in all her glory and we arrived there at approximately 9:00pm. The place was nearly empty. By 11:00 pm or so, it was a very different story. By 3:00am, a much more different story yet. Now, one does not typically go for a one hour thai massage in the throngs of a party, but Caitlin and I did and it was the best idea ever. Kind of surreal to have crazy load music and people screaming and being ridiculous directly outside the window where you are twisted in some weird position feeling amazingly relaxed. Oh yeah!!!! Best idea ever!
The exit from the party
Let's just say that at 3:00am people get a little crazy and especially when they want to get home from this crazy party. I climbed down a ladder at 330am and joined the masses of other party goers. You have a certain colour ticket around your neck and the hundreds of people who are waiting crowd the boat whenever one arrives to find out if it is for pink, or blue or yellow or green tickets. Thank god the pink one was one of the first. Everyone looked like goldfish at a stream in an amusement park that people are feeding those little fish food pellets to. ONE BIG MESS!!!!! However we arrived back on Koh Samui and began the journey to find the lovely place my parents had rented and were sound asleep inside I mean, a really nice place. If I had had to return to some awful hostel I would have cried for sure.
I am safe, it was fun and I am happy I went. I would never go again though. Maybe I am getting old, maybe I don't like to party anymore, who knows. I just know that I do not need to see that beach and that party ever again.
Take Care
Michael
