OK.. Its been a while since i made my presence felt in the fantastical online community.. Even though nobody reads my diary anyway............. So after swimming with huge parrot bumpheads and making eyes at evasive black reef tip sharks.. we depart from our tropical island commune... back to Singapore/// here we are living in a huge high rise block of flats with 360 panoramas of the city, the port.. and the swaths of people..... jetting in and out of their corners having a brief meal betwixt buisness deals ooh.... Rach went to Perth and flew out into the night:
We'll collect those lonely parts and set them down
You come here to me........
After a night in a lonely hostel.... off to Chiang Mai to meet the enigma and mystery they call the Brain of Giles and his Valentine.. after wandering a myriad collection of streets in Thailand i arrive back at my hostel in a semi drunken state only to see his face against the black night calling my name so we swonce off for drinks, chats.... and end up in the armpit of Chiang Mai..... SPICEY nightclub.... dear mother of Love this place is where you come to shit out your humanity and self respect.... not Graham and Marelle anyway.. me: i ended up in a pathetic catatonic stupor... when will i learn some level of restraint?
met them the next day for a lovely day of walking and WAT exploration.. where we were blessed by a Buddist Monk... marvelled at the intricate architecture.. and wandered the streets... sitting for drinks by the river pong before... watching some Muay Thai ranging from kids to powerful athletes.. its technical also brutal.. the men love it.. they go crazy the arena is old and dilapidated.. i love it too... bloodied faces......... entertainment
So the next day we depart at 8.30 for some Elephant riding... up in to the mountains... north of Chiang Mai.....my elephant is tiny and small.. maybe a lady boy elephante..... Graham and Marelle have a huge mutha of an Elephant which Graham quickly sets his will to commanding.. with considerable sucess. on seeing those two jellies on this huge beast i have to stop and consider the advice of Creighton Abrams "When eating an elephant take one bite at a time." mmmmmhhhh as it turns out Graham was partially consumed by the ticks on its hairy head... but i have no doubt that the elephant could have been eaten whole if they set their minds to it.. no doubt.. alas enough of these thoughts... the Elephant ride took us on a short loop round the jungle road.. with various elephants stopping off for a snack of leaf or such type... After Lunch we make the excursion to the waterfall through the jungle; betwixt this we stop off at Hmong village tribes.. they sell Coca cola, they are used to tourists..... so not much of an ethnographic encounter.. interesting nonetheless.. Our journey contines though a myriad collection of river rocks, bamboo bridges and challenging scrambles..... we are rewarded by the refreshing splendour of a giant jungle waterfall in which i swim like a dungong.... and graham joins me... amazing...... We Trek back..... through the jungle over a hill extending above the surrounding terrain .. ofering the eye grand Vistas of the valleys and mountains beyond................................................................
Back to Camp for White Water Rafting.. at this point i am in danger of shortcircuiting from the tiredness in my legs... Graham and I sit at the top of the raft. Marelle at the back... some girls are betwixt of our persons!! we paddled downstream to be met by powerful awesome waves they nearly sucked us over.... i couldn't stop from laughing.. forget the log flume this was serious fun being in the midst of this power was awesome, thrilling.. bashed from side to side.... without life jacket it would be excitingly dangerous .. maybe you would drown.. whoa!
Today i visited the famous Wat .U Mong Thera Jan... an old set of Buddist tunnels with Shines at every turn.. It was like being in the midst of something old.. mysterious.. the dark tunnels lit by candles... the waft of incense everywhere.. monks, prayers chanting.. in the darkness... Buddas dimly lighted by the candlelight, obscured by the waft of insense smoke, murials on the wall.. completly awesome.... so Thailand has been amazing so far.. living up to its tag Awesome Thailand.. heading to Laos soon i think.. a river trip down the Mekong to the Ancient Indochine city of Luang Prabang...
Adios
It's in the way that she walks, her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts the, she puts the weights into my little heart
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