Wee Kev's Blog

Well it’s another morning and another hangover.  Last night was a foam party on the beach….. madness.  Aaron and I took the thrifty route and made our own buckets from the grocery store.  (They sell buckets on the beach that have a flask of your favorite alcohol and a can of soda and usually a bottle of red bull.)  We drank them on the shore away from the party scene, where it was a little more scenic and a lot less hectic.  As the night moved on we made our way over to catch the fire show, these guys were the best I’ve scene yet.  This was definitely where the party was happening on the island, it turned from ~20 people when we sat down to hundreds and hundreds within an hour.  Unfortunately it was mostly guys who all appeared to have cooridnated some kind of muscle shirt dress code… pretty ridiculous.  We got lucky enough to be joined by what appeared to be the only Thai people at the party.  So we ended up drinking/dancing with a gay Thai guy and his sister for the rest of the night. Which turned out to be the best part of the night and far more socially acceptable here than it woulda been back home. Then the foam appeared, which looked like fun and actually was, but in reality it was just a sea of sticky sandy foam and ALOT of guys.  After 4-5 trips into the foam, it was time to wash off in the ocean/sea toilet and head home. 

On a more responsible note, yesterday we finalized our merchant paperwork and should be processing credit cards within a day or 2. We only had to sign a contract and return it, but that took ages.  We went down to the internet place and they were charging $.80/page to print and $1.50/page to scan and our contract was 9 pages! That’s like 2 nights accomodation.  So we opted out and tried to figure out how to do it digitally.  A joint effort and 2 hours of googling later we finally accomplished a task that should take a matter of seconds.  Our site still has a few bugs and cosmetic issues to work out, but it’s mostly complete. I also finished up the rest of my Thai anki set, so I can read and write it now, though at a snails pace. Since I hardly know any words, I don’t really comprehend much of what I’m reading yet either.  It’s fun studying a new language, I kinda got Japanese burn out and it’s really nice to start something new for a bit.  I’m hoping armed with the knowledge I have about how to learn the first one, the second should be far far easier.  Though this tone thing is a bit tricky and a real foreign concept for a farang.