Imperial Samui Chaweng

... he didnt think to chuck that at me!

We then had a few more boozes in a REALLY busy bar which was heaving with some Westerners. Must be a good place we thought. For every Westerner there was 2/3 Thai girls (not waitresses if you know what I mean) and a lot of the customers were single, old Europeans. Did actually see one guy take his "waitress" outside for a while... Anyways, we had a few more and called it a night. Drinks that is. Few more drinks. To give you an ...

... Party on Weds which was amazing. We had flourescent body art painted on us, drank buckets of vodka red bull and danced til 4am. It was an amazing experience and we're hoping to go to the Half Moon Party before we leave (This island is famous for its moon parties). Not much else to say as we've just been on the beach every day, there's bot much else to do here! Oh well...its a hard life. Added some more pics.

... hand how effective his (somewhat dogmatic and oh so righteous) teaching is. Many students there were deeply inspired by him. He is certainly impacting many people in a very positive way. Along with my criticism about his delivery method I must mention how much I enjoyed his intellectual capacities and his astonishingly wide knowledge of so many subjects. On the other hand, the ashram did feel somewhat cultish to me, and ...

... Emotionally, I find myself gravitating more and more to an unexplained state of complaining and dissatisfaction. Even though my life here is pretty simple and relatively comfortable, I find myself clinging to pointing out where things are not going well. This is certainly not a new state of being for me, but in the past it would happen in between periods of feeling content, grateful, and appreciative. Moreover, the general tendency for me in the past few years has been to be ...

... Instead I had to endure three days of this hell & so I thought I'd just get a cheap room with a telly! The cheap room, 10 quid which isn't cheap in Asia, was horrendous & was also right next to the boxing stadium which had an advert for tonights big fight on a thirty second loop from 10am til 11pm, so loud I couldn't even hear the telly! Eventually I checked into a nice hotel for a night- the final straw ...

... November which meant another big party on Haad Rin beach. It all started in 1987(ish) when some friend celebrated a birthday on the beautiful beach on the south of Phagnan. They had so much fun that they did the same again the next month, and so on, until it grew into the infamous 'full moon party' that it is today. We all got to Haad Rin early (because we were excited!) at about 4pm. Things were starting to warm up and by 10pm the party was in full flow ...

... of the tan being attractive and the boyfriend of whom, a lion of a man, who seemed to be constantly posing for a none existent fashion shoot in his speedo. Goof balls, all of them. We befriended a friendly German man who complimented our countrymen, asserting that the American backpackers were the most impressive in respect and intrepidity on his SE Asia travels thusfar . At least I think that's what he said, I might be misremembering ...

... was simply AMAZING! All wanted to again on a different part of the island, so thats a must. Me and Mike felt like Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry from James Bond - you work out who was who. There a loads of people selling all sorts of stuff on the beach, from necklaces, BBQd corn on the cob and ice creams to pasminas and prostitutes. Mike got talking to some of them and they were hilarious, most of all the all singing all dancing ice cream seller, "ice cream you scream...no ...

... wrong. Half way up the MOUNTAIN a guide met us and thank god he did other wise we'd all be dead now. It was like rock climbing. Carlene had a skirt on. We had to pull ourselves up with ropes. Ive never work so hard in my life. Took about an hour to reach the top. We were bloody knackered!!! At the top was a pool that you can swim in. Of course not researching the trip we werent prepared for that either. no towels and i ...