Chillin in koh phi phi

So the beach party on friday night was pretty good, it was a 3 bucket night with a solid hangover the next day. Saturday was definitly a beach day. I slept in til 2 pm. Sat on the beach and wrote postcards for a few hours. IT was Milka Kit and Stephs last night here so we didnt wanna go too hard because they had alot of traveling to do today. MIlka had an 18 hour bus ride to kuala Lumpur, malaysia. And kit and steph had a 12 hour to Bangkok. So we went to a small beach party and split a few buckets there then went to a bar called "tiger bar" and had a free bucket there. The owner of that bar recommended we go to a beach bar called "Appache" so we went there and OMG there were litterally 100 ppl there, the place was packed! Within 15 mins i ran into my buds from calgary who i was supposed to meet earlier that day but didnt. So we stayed there for an hour and had another bucket, so much for not drinking much last night:S I ended up getting back to my room around 3:30 am. I feel pretty shitty today. Milka left at 9am so i said bye to her. Kit and steph didnt have to leave til 2 so we had lunch together. This hangover has put me in a bad mood, i find that i'm annoyed by everything today. Crying baby in the restaurant, street bike racing on tv instead of soccer, the rain, the food. Its just a bad day altogether, one of those days that i wish i was just at home in poco laying on my bed watching Lost or family guy. I'm gonna meet the guys from calgary in a bit and check out their place and maybe stay with them. I'm thinkin i might just pay the extra 100 bhat ($3) and stay in a place with a/c and satilite tv. I feel like being comfortable for the next few days. I gotta start reading the diving text book and i dont wanna do it in a sweaty room. I'm kinda gettin bored of this island, I'm leavin in 3 days, I'm only staying because i gotta do the diving. I dont think I'm gonna drink for the next 3 days, even tho the guys are gonna want to.

Koh phi phi is Awesome!

So i have left patong beach in puket and came to koh phi phi. I'm really glad i did too! Koh phi phi is a small island that is very tropical. Its so small that you can walk pretty much anywhere really quick. There is nothing motorized here, ppl get around on pedal bikes. That bars here are pretty sweet and there are beach partys every night! This island is wayyyyy less commercial than all the other places i've been, way less pushy sales people too. My first night I went out by myself and met some fun irish people, i love partying with the irish! We ended up at a beach party at the end of the night. That night i had 3 buckets and about 4 beers so i wasnt feelin to good the next morning. The next day Kit and Steph came over so I kinda showed them around. The 3 of us went out for some buckets last night but called it an ealy night because today we went on a 8 hour island tour which included alot of snorkeling and kyacking. I went to the beach where the movie "the beach" with leo dicaprio was filmed, it was pretty nice. I saw alot of crazy looking fish today and a shark swam right beside me which was pretty sweet. O ya and we went to a place called mokey beach and there were monkeys all over the beach, i fed some of them and got a few pics too! There is a huge beach party tonight with 4 dj's and buckets are 2 for the price of one so its gonna get a lil messy:S I'm gonna start my open water diving course tomorrow night so i can get in at least 2 dives here. I think I'm gonna stay til Wednesday. Milka, Kit, and Steph all leave on Sunday so that kinda sucks, they are all really nice and i had some good times with them. The guys from calgary are commin here tomorrow afternoon so that worked out pretty good actually. On wednesday I'm gonna go to a place called Krabi and stay a day or 2 there, then Railey beach for a day then after that i have to do a boarder run to malaysia to get my passport stamped. You can only stay in a country for 30 days straight so to make my trip work i gotta quickly go down to malaysia.

GoodBye Bangkok Hello Puket

So on my last day in bangkok i didnt really do much. I slept in past my 1230 checkout because i was hung over. I had to get on a bus at 530 to ride over night to puket. so around 330 i decided to get a massage because i hadn't had one yet (and no there was no happy ending, get your mind outta the gutter) This was a legit authentic thai massage. It cost me $6 canadian for an hour. So after that i went and waited for my bus. I met a nice brother and sister from Cali who were also goin to puket. So the bus we took was pretty nice it was all air conditions and had movies and stuff, we then had to take a connector for the last 4 hours of the trip which really sucked. It was supposed to be jsut ppl who had booked legit through a travel agent but the guy running the bus kept picking up anyone he could to make some extra cash, he had ppl standing in the isle which im sure is not something he should have been doing. So because he was scamming our trip took a total of 14 hours when it should have been about 10 which was pretty weak.When we got dropped off we met a girl from finland who also was with us from the start, the 4 of us have been hanging out for the last few days which is pretty sweet. I'm staying in a nice guest house for 250 bhat which has a/c, a tv shower with hot water and it's really clean. That is the biggest steal ever for 250 bhat, i didnt even get all that for 400 bhat in bangkok. So durring the day we just went to our local beach. It was alright, the water wasnt really nice. At night we went out to party! There is a whole road they close off and its just constant bars and nightlife, i ahve never seen partying like this anywhere! Including Vegas. There are girls trying to pick up guys for free drinks and whatever else they can get out of them in every single bar, the ratio of girls to guys is easily 3 to 1. They pretty much attack you when you walk into the bar. It sounds like its something I would like but its not cool. They are only out for one thing and I'm not down for that. it was kinda good that me and Kit ( the brother from Cali) had Steph (his sister) and Milka (from finland) with us to look like we were already kinda taken. We ended up meeting up with Mick and connor who i partied with in my last night in bangkok and some girls who the 3 of us also partied with that night. haha i introduced myself to them when i saw them in puket not knowing that i met them in bangkok they laughed at me and said "Jackson from Vancouver" right? hahaha so we had a crew of about 15 of us at a few bars we were hoping around to, we ended at a bar where we were paying less than a dollar for a beer and about 2 dollars for a strong whisky coke. The bar tenders were buying us all free drinks and they even lit the bar on fire. I ended up gettin home at 5 am that morning. I called Mick today to ask when he and the rest of the guys got home and he said they went to an after hours and got in at quarter to 10, lol. Today i went to a really nice beach about 15 mins away where the water was blue. This beach was amazing! I rented a boogie boad too which was fun. It wasnt all fun tho today.... Today i saw something i have never witnessed in person before. A dead body got dragged out of the water and on to shore:S I ahve never seen a dead body a foot infront of me before so it was kind of a shock. it weas a man in his 70's and judging by the colour of his skin he had been dead for a while. My guess is that he had a heart attack. There were red flags up today which means you shouldnt really be swimming in there. When its like that i dont swim where i cant touch but i guess he didnt use that rule. It kinda put a damper on the rest of my day. After that i bustedout some tunes on the beach to try and change the mood. After the beach we got showered up and the 4 of us walked around beach street and grabbed some dinner. We're takin it easy tongiht because we're gonna do an elephat trek tomorrow. We were supposed to do it this morning but Kit was huggin that toilet for about 4 hours this morning, lol. After the trek i gotta pack up my stuff and head to ko phi phi. Google that place and check out some pics, its gonna be amazing. O ya by the way the shopping here is rediculous girls, everytime i see the shoes, handbags, and bathingsuits all for less than $7 i laugh and think of the ones who didnt wanna come to thailand. I took some pics for ya which i'll post in a few days. I def laughed today when i was looking at a wall of hundreds of girls bakini's all under $10. Alright I'm outta here, hopefully i didnt leave anything out. I'll be posting in the next few days.

Jackson

My last full day in bangkok

Yesterday was pretty decent. I loaded up about 4 movies to my ipod because i have a long bus ride to puket tonight at 6 and i dont get there til 10 am tomorrow. I'm pretty stoked to be gettin outta bangkok. Yesterday i went for a long walk around the city and met some ppl from london who just got back from a year and a hald in new zealand, its cool talkin to ppl fro other countries, you learn so much! haha i noticed that all the toilets here have no toilet paper which i thought was kinda weird then i noticed that they all have hoses with spray nozels haha it wasnt until yesterday that i put 2 and 2 together, lol. So being my last night in bangkok i decided to get hammered, no like blackout drunk but still hammered so i bought a bucket on koh san to pregame with. A bucket is a small pail with ice, rum (or vodka) coke and redbull. Its pretty much the best invention ever. So on the side of the street there are lotsa ppl sitting on stools with their buckets so i made some friends with these girls from croatia and these 2 guys from ireland. The guys are flying to puket today so im gonna meet up with them when i get there tomorrow. When i was sitting there these lil girls would try and play me in either thumb wars or rock paper scissors. I lost 100 bhat in a thumb war but i won 60 bhat in rock paper scissors, lol. so after 2 buckets we decided to go to an irish bar, it was fun but i knew i was getting too drunk so i decided to walk back to my hostel, i stopped at a 7/11 and got a hot dog and a bunch of chocolate which i found in my room this morning. I woke up a half an hour past check out but thye didnt have my credit card so i didnt really care. I went for a really in depth walk down koh san today looking at all the stuff to buy and realized that all the girls would absolutly love it here, seriously girls you should come here for a week and just load up on clothes. I almost wanna just take pictures and take orders for all of ya! O ya i forgot to mention i was walkin down the street the other day and i was sweating bullets and i saw a beauty salon, so being the beauty that i am i went in there and got my head shaved. It feels so much better already:) Man i cant wait to get outta here, only 3 more hours:) I'll have some really nice pictures when i get to puket for sure, so much nicer than dirty bangkok.

Almost done in Bangkok

Yesterday wasnt too eventfull. Got up and had some breakfast which was an omlet sandwich. Basically it was egs tomato and cucumber and cheese on bread, lol. Went and bought 3 pairs of shorts and 3 t's. Then went to my buds house and watched lords of dogtown (great movie) they didnt wanna go to MBK mall so i went my self. Grabbed some socks, cellphone charger, usb stick to load my pics, soap, shaving cream and all that kinda shower stuff. That mall is the biggest shopping center i have ever seen, i've never been to west edmonton mall but i know this one has more stores for sure, you wouldnt be able to see it all in a day, not a chance. On my way back i rode in a tuk tuk with a really nice thai guy named "Alek" he talked about being honest with ppl and the importance of friendship. He said that tuk tuk drivers get a bad name because of the mafia and what not which is true. He said that any time i wanted to go somewhere or hang out and drink or if i ever needed to know something to just call him. I kinda did him a favor. See here in Thailand all the cab drivers and tuk tuk drivers get commissions when they bring tourists to places. He needed to bring a tourist to this one place to get this "coupon" or something. All i had to do was go into this suit store and look around for 5 mins and he would get hooked up. I didnt really care so i did it to help him out. He was so grateful he said he would buy me dinner or a drink or whatever i wanted. I said a water would be great so he pulled over at a 7/11 and grabed me a sprite. He was a really nice guy. So finally i got back to my new place which i like. O ya i forgot to mention i realized that i was spending too much money in bangkok so i had to make some changes to my spending habits. No more a/c and cable tv in my room which would normally cost 460 bhat (30 for ever dollar approx) and no more 120 bhat meals. Instead i would stay in rooms with just a fan and i would have meals for no more than 60 bhat. So that night i decided that i would just take it easy, i loaded the movie eurotrip to my ipod, grabed a pad thai for 25 bhat and 2 beers from 7/11 and just watched a movie in my new room. I like my new room because its a double bed with a fan and marbel floors for only 200 bhat. The curtains are light tho so they blow all over the place durring the night which kinda sucks but iu'm on the 4th floor so its alright. O ya and with the 200 bhat room you get no bathroom so you have a shared bathroom and shower facility which i dont mind at all because its like that in school and in sports. Today I'm gonna go check out some travel prices to go to puket i think. I'm gonna leave tomorrow night, i gotta get outta bangkok, there is nothing to do here but shop and party, no beaches or anything like that. When i get down there eventually i'll have to do whats called a "boarder run". You can only stay in this country for 30 days so what i have to do is take a bus to malaysia, get my passport stamped and then go back into thailand, lol. Once i do that i'll move on to the other side of the country to koh tao. Well i think i've said enought for today.

Jackson

First full day in Bangkok

So today i took a cab to koh san road from my airport hotel. It was so intimidating that i resistated to get outta my cab. So i got out and had to find a place to stay. I had no idea what to do so i started talkin to some british guys. They were lokin so we all kinda jsut looked together. Finally i just picked one and they kept lookin. I got my room and put all my stuff in there and decided to hit up the famous kohsan road. O ya the place i picked is a street above koh san. So anyways i start walkin this zoo of a street. litterally it is a zoo, if you have ever been to mexico and gone through the markets there picture that but ten times more aggressive and poor. So I'm lookin aroudn for the bars and finally i had enough and asked these guys so we got to talkin and they were from canada, 3 from calgary and 1 was actually from holland ( theres 2 things i hate racists and the dutch! haha lil austin powers joke there) So we hung out for the day and went swimming on the top of their hotel's pool which was pretty sweet, it had a swim up bar which was a huge plus. So then we went out for some dinner and stuff, i have yet to try some authentic thai food, this morning i had american style breakfast which included to cocktail weiners that were not cooked. and for dinner i had a burger and fries. The guys told me to get the runs over with but im too much of a pussy so far. There were some nice british girls ( i said nice not nice looking) at the pool that wanted to go to a Ping Pong show with us. We ended up goin to the show but not with them. The 5 of is hopped in 2 tuk tuks and ripped it to the ping pong show. A tuk tuk ride is one intense experience look it up on the internet if you dont know what one is. The show was pretty crazy, i was tired so i kinda just wanted to get outta there. I dont really find thai girls attractive so it didnt really do anything for me. I pretty much just felt bad for them that they had to do stuff like that to make money. Stripping is one thing but degrading yourself like that is pretty harsh. I asked a girl if she was a lady boy and she was really pissed. gave me dirty looks all night. I can honestly say that I'm pretty turned off by all thai girls here, they are all out to make a buck and its kinda... i duno what word i wanna use but i just dont like it. Haha one kinda funny thing was that my buddy ryan got a piece of a banana shot at his mouth:S man was i happy i was sitting 2 feet to the left of him, lol. I liked it better in Vegas where all the strippers were so rich that they would be nice to you and hang out even if you didnt give them money. Plus they were good looking. Tomorrow I'm gona go meet the guys and hit up MBK mall. I'm told i wont even get through the whole mall in a day. I'll get that cable for my camera so i'll be able to put my pics on here. Not too sure if im still gonna go to indo anymore, i kinda wanna stay with these guys, maybe when they go to malaysia and cambodia i'll go to indo. I dunno i guess we'll see.

Got here safe.

Hey Everyone!

After a nice 24 hours of being awake i am here at my airport hotel bloggin away. It smells pretty bad here but I'm sure i'll get used to it. On a sad note, i forgot the cable to my camera that transfers the pics to the comp, so i either have to have one sent to my hotel from my rents or try and buy one. Tomorrow morning i'm gonna head to koh san road and so some shopping. I'll probably stay at a hotel just a block away from there for a night then try and find a flight to Indonesia. The flights were alright. I watched Sex and the City, which by the way is a very good movie, you would never think so. Then i watched shine a light, a movie about a rolling stones concert done my Martin scorecesee. Then i watched the maid of honor. Trust me there were not too many options. Dont really know what more to say cuz i just got here. I miss all of ya back at home!

Hey Everyone!

Hey!

I thought this would be the best way to check out how my trip is goin. I'm gonna write updates and post some pics, maybe the odd video when i get a chance.