happy new years!

well then, im on a role with this blogging thing. last night was an incredible night filled with beauty and chaos. hanging out with clem, rich, and isabelle (clem's two friends) we went from one beach bar/restaurant party to another. we started off the night at independent bo (i dont' understand why the bo is there cause it really doesnt' stink) which is a great little bungelow place that reminds me of pirates of a caribbean movie. we actually stayed there the first night when waiting for a bungelow near rich and clem and it was quite interesting. its a place that first of all you have to walk along this wooden path/probably shouldn't still be standing pieces of wood whenever the tide is up. when you come around one corner you just see a mass aray of wooden board and bungelows amongst the jungle with bright colors painted everywhere with stuff hanging from everything. the paths leading up to the bungelows (which arn't in any order or rythm, just strewed about everywhere) are just what im sure were dirt steps (very steep at times) with concrete poured on them very messylike and then also painted bright colors. like i said we only stayed there the first night, which was plenty enough just to experience it (doors wouldn't close and aparently there were monkeys around that might take your stuff, windows with no glass, showers that were just an old bathtub out side with a sign that said "pool" above it and countless other quirks). well anyways, like i said we started there for about an hour or so...we choose to start there of course cause they were offering free food (which we were too late for anyways). so after there fire show was finished and we met a couple people we moved onto another (none of which were as awsome in appearance). we just strolled the beach for a while (making buckets at 7eleven cause its cheaper) and ate burgers out of the back of trucks (very good). then when it was getting closer to midnight we decided to look for one of these lanterns that everyone was sending off into the air (like a lampshade with a fire wired in at the bottom to make it rise). after a search that was turning a little frantic cause we thought we would be too late, we found a couple. me and clem were going to light off one and rich and isabelle were going to light off the other (and no me and clem didnt' look into each other's eyes while we did it). after a little confusion on how too and a wind that started to pick up that we thought was going to ruin ours and send it to the ground crash and burning (you don't want this cause aparently it is suppose to symbolize how your year is going to be) me and clem got ours off and it floated away perfect (good sign, though starting the year in thailand by itself was a good sign i think for the year to come). of course while all this is happening for the last half hour there have been fireworks being set off on the beach (really sketchy sometimes with how they shoot up and some not exploding right). so while rich and isabelle are getting theirs going, i hear a large explosion behind me (louder than should be for the fireworks) and it was another miss fire one, which just sent the balls of fire that normally explode in the air all pretty like through the crowd. it happened behind me and i was squating down to help rich and isabelle so i didn't see it but i heard the explosion and then instantly felt a hot something hit me on the lower back (where my t-shirt was just lifted up a bit cause i was squatting down). i quickly batted it away and only got a little burn and saw everybody else in the crowd jumping away from these things and then jumping on them to put them out. just after/during all this is happening i hear people counting down and then yelling happy new years, i look up as rich and isabelle are just letting go of theirs (it sails away pefect aswell) and see the sky just full of these things, along with tons of fireworks going off in the sky. with all the people cheering, loud music and explosions it was really quite choatic-like but still the energy was amazing and the visual was just spectacular. so after we were saying our happy new years to each other (and of course chuk de khap'ing each other (thats cheers in thai and we were holding buckets)) we went back to being on guard for these crazy fireworks (we had placed our selves evenly away from fireworks being shot up on each side about 50 feet away). there was only one more close call (where i had to pull out my matrix move as one just sailed over my face as i leaned way back/threw myself to the ground (literally im sure it was an inch above my face and was going downwards too and ended up resting right behind my head on the sand where it landed). so yah, after that great ringing in the new years we started strolling around again. we made it to a place where they also had a shooting range where you shot these spring powered guns that shot little rubber bullets at a furby-like stuffed animal. if you knock it down you get it, so off course my neck was just full of them since im just an excellent marksmen (then had a string attached to them that you could wear around your neck). this place also had a live band that was really good and were playing covers songs. they were really great musicians and on the last song they all did there solo part where they show off. everyone of them just blew me away with their abilities (including/especially the guitar player that began ripping it up only to bring the guitar up to his mouth and started playing just as fast for about 10 seconds with his teeth picking the strings). the rest of the night was not nearly as exciting as we just went from bar to bar to sitting on the beach just hanging out as the night settled. after we watched the sun come up (first sunrise of the year) we called it quits and went to sleep. so yah, now its a few hours later and im already up writing in my blog cause for some reason i couldn't sleep anymore (and i didn't even drink much redbull). i think im going to head to 7eleven now and get one of there excellent chicken steak bbq burgers and head to the beach now, so until next time...