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26 August 2008 - In Thailand: - My first time visiting this country was back in the early 2005, right after the tsunami had strike, I remember that I've escaped Bangkok after only 2 days of permanence and went directly to Phuket for island hopping close by and found my piece of paradise. Now, after 3 years, im back again: Bangkok really sucks big time, shit man it fucking sucks, it's like one of the worst polluted city of china with the difference that the roads are even smaller. Noises and loudness everywhere, dumb asses who change the car's muffler because they believe the lauder it is the more performant their car will be (actually i sold cars for 2 years and installing a racing exhaust system just adds only up to 5% hp). Anyways, the positive side came when I got to visit the cultural heritage that I've missed years back: the big golden buddha (wat pho) and the ancient temple (wat arun), the floating market and some boat trip up and down the river. Secondly I tripped to Ayuttaya in another province of Thailand and visited again ruins of more ancient temples. Indeed, I still cant tell if you can see more temples or more pictures of the king&queen along your way: probably u'll be fed up after counting hundreds of them. Finally I got on the beach in a place called Hua Hin, which seems to be a Phuket in miniature, although the sea is greenish and quite dirty, the sand is white and soft. I will be soon visiting a thai boy in KohSamui who I met 2 years ago in Hongkong: at that time he said he owns a restaurant on the beach, so i'll pay him a visit as I still have his direction in my addressbook since then! I'll probably end my thai trip within a month if nothing interesting comes up, otherwise, go for a visa run. Last thing, this time I've learnt couple of survival thai words: sawadeekaa(hello) , kapkunkaa(thanks) , pom (I) rak (love) kun (love) (i love you).
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28 August 2008 - From Chumphon - Im in a place somewhere around the center/south part of thailand, I took a night train from Hua Hin, a 3rd class ticket for 200baht and I ended up getting free whiskey shots and drunk together with 2 workers from the countryside of Yala. The 3rd class was smelly and dirty with instects on the floor, we were all crumpled against each other and I forced myself to stay awake in order to take care of my little backpack. Walked all around this town and decided to continue my trip to samui, so I got something to eat, actually a complete meal, some thai noodles with soup, vegetables, soy, chopped chicken for the price of 25baht (0.40 cent$) in one of those lolcal places set up like it was a camp site. I then opened my small diary and wrote few notes, walked other couple of kilometers and consumed 1 liter of water (sweating so much that i didnt even had to take a pee) to find an internet place where I couldnt even plug my laptop. Then Im now using their crap pc, updating my blog manually: I open the ftp site, drag the index.html file onto the desktop and open it with a notepad application, seek into the code and write p class=parrightmenu which make sense according to the css coding style page, I add these notes, some other html code, save replace the index file and thank the lady who let me use the pc for free as I told her Im a vagabund (which she believed, by seeing my bag and that I only carried the clothes that I was wearing with me). I'll go to the train station and will continue to south. That was me again, Alan Rooster.

30 August 2008 - In Koh Samui - My friend Toppy was happy to see me again after two years since he showed up in a friend's house in hongkong. He welcomed me like one of his best friend and took good care of me. The bad news is that he'll be traveling to Bangkok soon so guess what, I must move out again....Aww ... it seems like I cant get to stay in a place for more than few days. Why is it like that? I don't know. Anyway , Samui Island it's all about fucking tourists nothing special about its beaches, unless you visit those tiny islands nearby. Not only the sluts around have no respect and verbally harass almost everyone, but as well the rest of the people who have any kind of business on the island, they will try to sell you if not sex, something else, whether trips packages, souvenirs, clothes, motorbike for rent , taxis , buses, everything seems to be for sale and ready for you to choose among a vast collection. If you are white foreigner, they wont let you in peace when you walk. There are parties, yes, best deejays coming from all around thailand and also from abroad, but i dont see anything interesting in going to a crazy party watching a bunch of idiots getting drunk all together. Okey what the heck, you're right , let's not always criticize, so if you want to read some nice fairytales about this place, just click off my website and search something else on google. Bye!

10 September 2008 - It's cold and cloudy - We are at the tropics, but it's still cold for me: I would have never imagined that Thailand could have been this cold and while during these days many storms have been passing by, I had to use a lovely grey light jumper when driving the motorbike and during the evening time. Im really tired of this weather and I can't wait to see the sun shining again, the humidity making me sweat and having to wear not only than a swimming trunks. Is Apollo sick? Please my hero, get back on the lorry soon and drive the big fireball like the old times! I miss you.

15 September 2008 - Survived the full moon party - In Koh Phagnan, Thailand, It's the night when the moon is on its brightest and clearest side, when between 10.000 and 30.000 people gather together in a 1.5km of beach stretch for the biggest party in the world. It has been taking place for more than 30 years once per month. Here it follows my review on common myths and facts that must be clarified: It's true you can find few kind of different drugs and in somewhat large quantities, but it's false that you can find every kind of drug and that almost every person does drug at the party. It's false that there are people of every age and nationality, as the main affluence comes from western countries and the minority is asian, the average age is 22-23 years old. It's false that this party is dangerous and unsafe, there are in fact many efr and red cross, safety zones and staff ready to soccurr, people also take good care of eachother, taxi and boat transfer drivers are ready to be patient and available with the drunk and stoned guys. Adictionally, no one is forcing people to take drugs and there is no "party-moral-code" where you need to go wild in order to enjoy the night.I was there with Toppy, Bee and other thai friends. We enjoyed trying out the bucket drinking style which consists in mixing different type of alcohol in a small bucket and then share it with your fellas. Obviously as alcohol flaws like waterfalls, you'll see people collapsing everywhere. Overall it has been a very original experience for my first time, but in the end there is nothing so awesome in seeing bunch of teenagers getting hi and vomiting onto each other. By the way that was it from Thailand, I'll be off soon to my next stop.

Videos:

Title: Adios Thailand 08
Download: Click HERE with right button and select "save target as..." (or watch it on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B438GSkbWIQ)
Year and location: September 2008, Thailand
Description: Assorted clips of my month trip in Thailand, touching bangkok, ayutthaya, hua hin, chumphon, suratthani and finally ko samui.
Size: 230 Mb Format: .wmv 16:9 DVD Duration: 11:00 mins
Credits: Video editing: Alan Rooster ; Camera: Alan Rooster, Toppy. ; Soundtrack: Mika - Relax , Dido - do you have a little time, Sheryl crowe - makes you happy ; Special thanks: Toppy, Nichaon, Aey, Bee, Siranee, Jeab, Naam

- Full-moon-party video (coming soon...)

Bangkok photogallery:

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<< Left, The big buddha in Wat Pho temple, the statue is reeeeally huge, impressive!

>> Right, on the roof of the government building where my friends were working. Department of correction Bangkok

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Ayutthaya photogallery:

<< Left, Nichaon and her daughter, my friends from Bangkok having a thai icecream

>> Right, Funny , Alan Rooster in front of an army of roosters

Hua Hin, Chumphon and Surat Thani photogallery:

<< Left, see those 2 portraits inserted in the decoration , they are the queen and the king of thailand. You can see thousands of them everywhere in every town and even in people's places.

>> Right, Hua Hin , on the east coast , 200km south of Bangkok, you can enjoy great sunsets and very soft white sand!

Koh Samui photogallery:

<< What the hell is that ? While I was in Surat Thani, waiting the bus to the ferry boat to Samui, I observed a strange phenomenon, looked like an eclipse, but having no knowledge regarding these type of astronomical events, I found it strange to visualize the perfectly circular rainbow at the edge of that kind of dark cloud surrounding the sun in the center. Well Im very happy about the picture, I think it's very rare to assist at one of this celestial events and Im glad I had the chance to capture it with my camera. The date was 28 or 29 August if im not wrong.

___me and Toppy______Toppy's house and motorbike_____me @ waterfalls___________me temple________

__me @ full moon party__Bee and her friends full moon__toppy, me , a ladyboy____me and Holger @ lamai____

miss samui 06 eating thaishitchips

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