I’m feeling bored of my life. I want to do something special.

August 20th, 2006 at 12:00am

Well I haven’t moved very far since my last entry…I am still here on this island in Southern Thailand. I have been very busy though – it’s amazing how busy you can be when you’re not working actually! After I finished my fast I spent a week eating delicious healthy food and relaxing, and then I got straight into it. I started a Hand Reflexology course which I have since finished, and it was really a good course. I took the course with Sarah and Jackeh, 2 English people who have been living in Taiwan for the last year teaching English. At the same time I started doing a new website for a friend of mine as a sort of exchange in lieu of money. I am getting my massage classes for free and he’s getting a website. It’s a great idea in theory, but people who have never done a website have no idea how much work is behind it. I spent ten days working on it and that was my limit. I started to remember what being in front of a computer all day feels like – how terrible! I’m not sure how I managed to have the time to do a site for someone else when I have not had the time to re-do my own in the last two years, but life does get in the way of everything, doesn’t it?

What else – well I started offering Chinese Cupping here as a way to hopefully fund my stay. It’s a great treatment to help release toxins from the body, and everybody at the Spa is here for just that, so I am hoping that I have a good base of customers. For those of you who don’t know what Cupping is, here is a bit of my spiel:

Cupping is a traditional therapy that remains favored by millions of people throughout the world because it is a time-honored, safe, comfortable and effective treatment for many health disorders. Cupping is a technique used in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for certain health conditions. Glass or bamboo cups are placed on the skin with suction, which is believed to influence the flow of both Qi and Blood throughout the body and or meridians.

So that has been really good. In between that I have been trying to go for walks on the beach, get massage (of course), eat healthy food, read a bit, and socialize. It’s quite a schedule!

Now I am back fasting again, hopefully for the last time during my stay here, but there are still more toxins to get rid of and I’m here and I have the time, so why not? I am now on my fourth day of a still undetermined length of time (Everyone keeps asking me how long?? You just have to take it day by day and listen to your body.) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I did a liver/gallstone flush in between there somewhere and I had really strong cleansing reactions to that (was quite sick for a few days after), so I know the liver is an area for me that needs more work, i.e. another reason for fasting again.

The timing could not have been more perfect for this new fast to begin. I had 6 Italian guys staying at the same place as me for over 2 weeks, and every night they came home at all hours with Thai prostitutes and were just generally very loud and very annoying. When the prostitutes left in the morning they would sit around and laugh about them which made it even worse. I never spoke to them or even looked at them – what total scum. And what’s really sad is that there are so many otherwise normal foreigners here doing exactly the same thing. They look like nice, clean-cut mama’s boys but they are just out here paying as little as they can for sex. And yes I know these guys were paying so little because I heard them negotiating the price outside my room on multiple occasions. Welcome to Thailand. Anyway they left the first day I started my fast. Thank you!

On a good note, I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up on movies and tv shows that I’ve missed while living on an island, and Thailand is the perfect pirated-DVD heaven for that. If the movie isn’t all that good, I highly suggest turning on the English subtitles and watching the film with an entirely new script. You see, these DVDs here come out while the movie is still in the theatres so the subtitles have to be written or created by a computer program. They don’t always get the exact translation, and the result can be highly entertaining. I will leave you with an excerpt from the film ‘Be Cool’ starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman., a movie I can only recommend as a pure comedy when the subtitles are on. The following dialogue between them goes with the ‘real’ conversation first followed by how the subtitles played it:

Edie?
Chili?

So glad you came.
How are you doing?

Well, you were right there when it happened weren’t you?
Well, I was in the Men’s.

But you were with him in his last hour.
I’ve had him cremated and I want to do something special with his ashes, you know, something he would like. Do you have any ideas?
Well, nothing that makes sense.

Say, Edie, is that an Aerosmith tattoo on your back?
Yeah, you know I followed them on tour, right.
So you were a groupie?
No man, much worse. I did their laundry.
They traveled with their own washer and dryer.

Lily?
John?

Are you looking for me?
Are you ok?

Ah, you know my problem.
I can help you with nothing.

I’m feeling bored of my life. I want to do something special. I need a genius idea.
Couldn’t be.

Lily, don’t you it’s hurt?
No, you know that.

You cook for yourself?
That sucks.
I’m not interested of others.

Entry Filed under: Koh Samui,South,Thailand