not in a hospital...

...just back to training, who knew that forgetting an ' could be so disaterous. well another day of being sore and dreaming of a thai massage, my back is quite stiff today due to what i believe is from the clinching. clinching is the wrestling part of thaiboxing were most of the time you are trying to either grab your opponents head and pull it down so you have the option of kneeing them in the face or head (not violent at all). it also uses diffent techniques to try and trip or throw your opponent, then there is the much simplier move of just kneeing them in the side or chest. luckily we train nice here so there isn't any knees to the head or hard throws and any knees to the body are with the thigh so it isn't as hard as your actual knee. but your neck still suffers the same from constantly lifting your head up. i never even got that last thai massage i was dreaming about since a buddy said he was going to the beach and i couldn't turn an offer like that down, so this massage is a long time coming. i might try and convince a few friends to come along as well to make im not distracting this time.

the last few days have been alright, i didn't really do too much in celebration of the king. we kept on making half plans to go here or go there to see a festival but never really did anything. during the day we spent a long time at one of the guys places that had a pool. i wish i had set my video camera up to capture the stupidy that was happening. it was pretty much just a few hours of us thinking or creative ways of jumping into the pool trying to balace on the floating objects in the water. when we got to three people on top of each others shoulders trying to land on a large air mattress we decided that was probably as far as we should push it since the water is only about 5 feet deep (and since i was the smallest i was always the person on the top). a bunch of us also went to central in order to find some ice cream (since a lot of the shops were closed nearby for the holiday), and boy did we find it. after a massive massive sundae type dessert we then went to the market and filled ourselves the rest of the way with fresh donuts and danishes from the bakery. i felt good though cause later on that evening i managed to resist the banana pancakes with honey with supper that some of the guys gave into. the night before we went to patong since we didn't have to train in the morning and hanging out there till the wee hours of the morning (spending too much money). im going to have to start setting a set budget for me cause that money (even though it is cheap here) tends to leave me far to quickly. some friends that ive made here are leaving on monday so hopefully for the next week i won't be as tempted to go out and spend money all the time.

well im off to try and convince people of operation "make back feel better", until next time...