Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thailand

Went to Phuket with bro on january 17th-22th-
It was fun, went for Muay Thai, Jet Ski, and swimming!

Yeah, Muay Thai was tough.. bloody hell, the warm up is like skipping for 1/2 an hour?! With some kind off weird old skool- heavy skipping rope or maybe I should put it ..skipping pipe?? The irritating part is the rope is too long! I can't shorten it (cause I'll need to unscrew d nat) so I ended up swinging it harder and positioning me hands further away from my body for like 1/2 hour, and sometimes my palm gets caught in between the holder. aargh!

The rope aside, the workout was kind of fun, cause I learned new stuff such as elbows and knees. Also, they play nice music at the background- old school rock. Great stuff! Seriously the skipping is so boring.. good thing they play nice music.

After like training for 2 days ..2 days ONLY, my calves are done. I can't walk. seriously, going down the stairs is a torture. I'd actually plan to go for more classes but my legs are dead, damn. It's the skipping.. gee why do they hav to skip so long? On the other hand, i'm quite happy I managed to work my calves, usually I don't feel it sore during legs workout.

I'd say their training is more cardio based: pads workout (kicks n punches as instructed), 3-4 rounds of bag workout- last 30 seconds fast non-stop punches or kicks, cool down. Well that's for me cause I'm new. Old timers get to spar. Downside is, they don't teach you much techniques, well, they do correct ur knees and elbows, but A is still a better coach. =p

I was actually thinking of going there to have fun, like, learn some new stuff and not so tiring workout. Thought they are gonna be more lenient towards new comers. Well in the website they mentioned you don't have to be 100% fit and that there are beach goers n people who just wanted to have fun n get some workout join. yeah rite.. uuh tertipu pulak. Or maybe I shouldnt skip properly in the begining so they wouldn't torture me seeing that I'm a noob. lol.
Plus I'm not the kind to say i'm too tired for the next workout, i'll feel bad or smth or in mandarin: bu hao yi si, so I'll hang on till the end.. >_<


From left: Pat, me, Shuki


3rd Day-
Walked to Muay Thai center in the morning to train (training starts 7.30am), Pat the instructor offered me a lift back, which was cool! Save moi $ from taking motorbike taxis and my legs. thank God. Should have ask earlier for transport. =p

Later in the evening around 4.30pm, me and bro went for a swim; was waiting for the sun to go down.. dun wanna get sunburn or tan. haha. We were the only weirdos walking around with sunglasses , sunblock and umbrella. Had dinner, did some shopping, rented a crappy jeep, went back to our little room to watch TV, and just when we were about to sleep, Pat messsaged asking ur to join them at a bar in Rawai beach. After a bout of yeses and no we decided to go. Which we were glad we did, it was entertaining!

At the bar: there is this dude that hits the tambourine on the bar table (tambourine and shakers provided by bar) which alarms the workers.. haha. and he kept doing that on and off. and took off his shirt n dance inside the bar The workers are so cute and sporting, they too played around with funny man, snatching tambourines, ass hitting, dancing. ooh, they can dance really well! On of the male worker, sorta sissyfied- which actually makes him adorable! can really dance, effeminate style~

I had a glass of water at the begining.. didnt want to drink alchohol, one thing is the calories, another is I can't have full control of myself when I drink which leads to ..stuffs.. and I don't really like not being in full control.. I'll give into temptations. and dissappoint people.. I hate to think of that, it makes me sad. Anyway, I did ordered a Long Island Tea, cause I don't wanna sit there and get bored like the last time I went with A. And I'm glad I did. i kind of drank it really fast, one of the guys was like, wow, slow down, u're gonna go drunk like that. I prefer drinking it fast and get over with it..for alchohols at least. it's not smth i'd like to sip on slowly. cause it's bitter. haha. lame-nya. Bro ordered orange juice/ pineapple juice, can't really remember..haha. Then when I ordered my share of alchohol, he got himself a Singha.

4th day-
Woke up because of gastric, felt bad in the mouth, then I remembered I didn't brush my tongue n teeth after the drink, and the alchohol smell stayed. yucks can't stand it, went and brush till it's pink and clean. felt much better. took 2 tablets of Marlox Plus.

Went to Patong beach, walked around, at a really slow pace and dragging my legs cause my freaking calves are hurting like hell. It's like 30% of my normal walking pace. ugh, irritating. And the sun was soooo hot! it's burning! Can't imagine how those westerners stand the heat; walking around in bikinis, some with seriously sun burned skin. Ouch. @_@


Our crappy powerless jeep


Ordered lunch, which took really loooong to prepare. Good thing we ordered a drink, which we can sip while waiting for the food.

Tried the leg reflextory massage; was thinking maybe I can massage the sore away from my calf muscle.Well, it didn't help much. And I did a really stupid thing by bathing right after the massage (they used tiger balm) and going into a rather cool air-conditioned room. I sort of felt really cold and have to set the heater really high when bathing.. but didn't realize I was sick till the next day.

Went to Go-Go bar at night. Watched some 'performance', and pole dance. Left the place cause bored. Checked out d ladyboys on the street. Wow, they are tall and some are really pretty; their dress are really nice too! I want I want~ Saw a couple dressed SM style.. and didn't look nice in it. ==lll Gackt looks nicer la. gyahaha.

5th day-
Woke up with a heavy head, and thought it's just morning groggy-ness and maybe I should go exercise to wake myself up, turned out I'd fever. Only realise it after a bout of swimming and jet skiing. ==lll didn't do much this day, cause I'm sick.. went to watch the sunset at viewing point in Rawai beach.. didn't enjoy it cause I'm sick. I think I caught a cold cause everytime I bath I felt really bad, like, cold bad.. I need boiling hot water to momentary feel better. Really shouldn't have bath right after massage. Oh, and I had sore thorat too.. and a bit of gastric.

6th day-
Fever still there but better, sore throat, calves hurt.. Anyway it's the last day, just have to survive the journey back and rest.



The next few days my fever's gone but I was attacked by phlem, cough, and generally felt weak. Still, I went for weight workout the 7th day. yeah call me crazy. i like doin the opposite, like workout when sick, go gym during major holidays. Couldn't run without my water tumbler, throat was burning up.. next day went for kickboxing, I was out of breath, dizzy, and nauseatic, damn must be all those antibiotics I'm taking. I took a total of 2 rounds of antibiotics. my good cells are so gone..

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