A THAI BOX HERE, A THAI BOX THERE........


last night we went to see some thai boxing. when we hopped on the back of the ute to head over to see where it was these candians caught the taxi too and told us that the thai boxing they saw was obviously staged and fake like wrestling.

so after we got there i was thinking "god i really wished he didn't tell me that."


then the second fight came on and i tell you what- if they are faking it then they deserve bloody oscars! there was blood and spit and they were nearly falling out of the ring. (as you can see from the photos we were pretty close!)

the thai locals were screaming and really getting into it as well.

the best thing about the whole night was easily when this one guy who was really buff and had all these tatts, beat the shit out of this guy who was like my size, and when the fight finished, he got down on his knees in front of the bloke with blood all coming out of him and bowed down at his feet and almost like kissed his feet twice and then got up and hugged him. and not like a piss weak man-hug. he really HUGGGED him. it was so nice to see REAL sportmans ship.

you could tell that although he had just beaten him sensless, that if they were all at the pub drinking and someone hassled the guy for losing, the one that beat him would have been the first guy over there to defend him. it was really nice.


there were two soldiers killed in the south of thailand the other day, and then i went over to ko phangan, Now we are back in the southern islands and there has been a bombing in bali again.

we are in Phi Phi island and it is still being reconstructed. it is easily the most beautiful island i have ever seen, and they are really doing there bit to rebuild after the tsnaumi.

if you ask the locals no-one will admit where the tsnaumi hit. they will say "oh no, not here over there..." they only see it as a negative thing that has kept people away. (although in phuket they did have tsnaumi post cards ??????)


missing everyone heaps and heaps. am going to look into maybe pushing my flight back half a week or so because i want some tim eto explore this island before i go to china. if i cant push my ticket back i am heading off to china tommmorow...

xO