Here I am, sitting in the Benja Restaurant having a small and healthy salad before school. Survived yesterday thankfully, but I tell you it was hell. I felt like crap all day and wanted to vomit out my intestines. I was also very hot all the time and even the airconditioning didn't save my ass. But lets not talk about yesterday anymore.
We're off to school in 5 minutes now. I had my salad and now I'm waiting for Ilkka to come down here so we can leave. Society & Law - course today again. I think the course is really interesting.
After school we are heading to MBK once again, we have to buy some white shirts for tomorrow. We have a course tomorrow where white shirt is a must. The teacher told us so last time.
Well gotta go now. Keeping the blog short this time.
-Tommy
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Not every Tuktuk guy is full of shit. Last night we went to Khao San Road, what a surprise. After that we wanted to go to some after hours bar. So we had to face our eternal nemesis, the Tuktuk guy. So, bursting self confidence we approached him. We told him that we don't want to have anything to do with pingpong, gogo, hookers and such shit like that. Apparently he understood, but of course at first he tried to take us to a gogo bar. We went inside and quickly walked back, and refused to accept this place. Then he took us to this small place, which was really nice. For our surprise he joined us inside and started to drink with us from the Whiskey bottle we ordered, hmm, nice?! Well of course we all got very drunk and had a blast. At some point of the night I disappeared and Tommy tried to call me, I didn't answer. Then he called our Tuktuk guy, who answered. Apparently he and I were at bathroom, and he was helping me to puke. I have no recollection of such happenings, but I have a small glimpse of me vomiting all over the Tuktuk close to our place. Obviously the Tuktuk guy didn't approve, and suddenly we became the most hated guys in the world in his eyes, or at least I did.
I woke up something like 10:30AM really drunk. The whole morning was total insanity, I couldn't tell whether I was drunk or tired or something. Then we went downstairs and ordered Pizza from the lobby of our apartment. They have nice home-delivery system, where the food guy brings the food from the place we pick. Then it began, we ordered cleaning today. We had to evacuate our place, because of 3 Thai girls came to clean it. We went to pool, but I felt really bad and had to come back upstairs. Now I'm sitting at our living room writing this, whilst 3 Thai girls work their way through our apartment. I feel like puking, but most likely the girl in our bathroom wouldn't approve me doing so. No song, no nothing today. Don't have fun, I won't.
-Ilkka
I woke up something like 10:30AM really drunk. The whole morning was total insanity, I couldn't tell whether I was drunk or tired or something. Then we went downstairs and ordered Pizza from the lobby of our apartment. They have nice home-delivery system, where the food guy brings the food from the place we pick. Then it began, we ordered cleaning today. We had to evacuate our place, because of 3 Thai girls came to clean it. We went to pool, but I felt really bad and had to come back upstairs. Now I'm sitting at our living room writing this, whilst 3 Thai girls work their way through our apartment. I feel like puking, but most likely the girl in our bathroom wouldn't approve me doing so. No song, no nothing today. Don't have fun, I won't.
-Ilkka
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Alcohol ban in Thailand
Surprisingly once again, it is actually saturday. In Thailand it has been The drinking day for us. We usually go out on saturday evenings, rather than friday, because in Thailand saturday is a work/school day for a big majority of people. It would actually be for us too, but we chose not to take any courses on saturday, for some obvious reasons of course.
There might not be so much people out partying on fridays than saturdays so we keep ourselves to saturday. Sometimes both days, but mainly not.
Today we woke up around nine or ten in the morning. Not too much after that we found ourselves on the tennis court. The sun was shining very hot, and 1 hour of tennis really got us wet. It was a manly event, I tell you. Finally I actually got some color on my skin, just 2 hours of sun in Bangkok for me so far, and already colored like a brownie. It really feels good.
Yesterday started the royal cremation of HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana here in Thailand. She was highly liked amongst the thai people, and most of the thais are paying their respect to the princess by dressing in black clothes during this period. The period lasts for 6 days according to the royal family. Today was the great ceremony in Bangkok, million people watched it live I've heard, and a lot more on the television. If you're interested, read more here : News of the event
Maybe the worst thing for us is really that alcohol is prohibited under this period. It is true. There is no selling of alcohol, officially, and bars should be closed, but not if they serve food. You know what, most bars serve food here. Atleast those we have been to. I believe that there is some bars in Bangkok that will serve beer for us today. We are going to find out this sometime now.
It is fricking saturday and most likely we have to be without our life elixir, yes, alcohol. I really need alcohol after such a rough week. And I can't get anything done without it. So, I got a song for you, explaining my relationship with alcohol.
This time the album version and not a live one. Just because I think the live videos on youtube weren't good, and Jagger didn't pull the song off very well either.
On the haunt for the missing beers.
-Tommy
There might not be so much people out partying on fridays than saturdays so we keep ourselves to saturday. Sometimes both days, but mainly not.
Today we woke up around nine or ten in the morning. Not too much after that we found ourselves on the tennis court. The sun was shining very hot, and 1 hour of tennis really got us wet. It was a manly event, I tell you. Finally I actually got some color on my skin, just 2 hours of sun in Bangkok for me so far, and already colored like a brownie. It really feels good.
Yesterday started the royal cremation of HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana here in Thailand. She was highly liked amongst the thai people, and most of the thais are paying their respect to the princess by dressing in black clothes during this period. The period lasts for 6 days according to the royal family. Today was the great ceremony in Bangkok, million people watched it live I've heard, and a lot more on the television. If you're interested, read more here : News of the event
Maybe the worst thing for us is really that alcohol is prohibited under this period. It is true. There is no selling of alcohol, officially, and bars should be closed, but not if they serve food. You know what, most bars serve food here. Atleast those we have been to. I believe that there is some bars in Bangkok that will serve beer for us today. We are going to find out this sometime now.
It is fricking saturday and most likely we have to be without our life elixir, yes, alcohol. I really need alcohol after such a rough week. And I can't get anything done without it. So, I got a song for you, explaining my relationship with alcohol.
This time the album version and not a live one. Just because I think the live videos on youtube weren't good, and Jagger didn't pull the song off very well either.
On the haunt for the missing beers.
-Tommy
I sold my soul for a T-shirt slogan.
It's been a week since I wrote last time. Well naturally I had a huge hangover Sunday, and couldn't do shit. Then school, gym & stuff on Monday. Then drunk again on Tuesday. Tuesday after normal bars closed, we went to these after hours bars, which are open until like 10AM. So naturally we were there until something like 8AM. One of the most sickest experiences of my life, was to walk outside from a bar, when the sun was shining already. Obviously the Whiskey bottle we ordered 4AM didn't help the situation at all. So basically at taxi I was sleeping and leaning on Tommy, I win. Wednesday is somewhat hazy and unpleasant... And so forth... Friday we took easy and went to school, gym and played tennis.
So then we come to Saturday. I woke up something like 10AM. We went to play tennis at 11AM. After tennis we took tuna salads from the restaurant downstairs. That's pretty much today. I've been playing a lot of poker today, as well as every day this week. It's going nice, and I'm getting my bankroll to acceptable levels slowly, but steady. But I cheated little on the bankroll management and moved to bigger levels, before I had planned. This was because, it was simply impossible for me to continue to play on the level I was playing, since I was making bad moves, only because the money didn't hurt me in anyway. At the moment, I'm drinking beer, chilling and taking some poker sessions. Tonight we're heading out, no idea where. They have the Queen's funeral now, so basically everything should be closed, and no alcohol is to be sold anywhere. Tho in Thailand, no one refuses when you offer them money, so they sell under the table. But let's Youtube little. First I'll put a song from Disco Ensemble, called Eyes Of A Ghost. I've seen this band several times live, guaranteed good gig!
The music video is made by the guy who uploaded it. He used footage from the Disco Ensemble DVD. Second I'd like to put songs called Threat Letter Typewriter and This Is My Head Exploding from Disco Ensemble, now live versions.
Now let's head to more serious stuff. Tool - The Grudge. The coolest spot of the song is at 7:42, where Maynard shrieks for 20 seconds without any disturbance in the voice, wow. Wonder who can do the same.
Tool - The Pot.
Finally, but certainly not least, Tool - Vicarious.
This is the only non-live Tool song I put. The music video is guaranteed Tool quality. I've seen Tool live only once, but certainly will not remain the same. Tool is the greatest band in the world in my opinion. Enjoy !
Life's too short to be afraid. Take a pill to numb the pain.
-Ilkka
So then we come to Saturday. I woke up something like 10AM. We went to play tennis at 11AM. After tennis we took tuna salads from the restaurant downstairs. That's pretty much today. I've been playing a lot of poker today, as well as every day this week. It's going nice, and I'm getting my bankroll to acceptable levels slowly, but steady. But I cheated little on the bankroll management and moved to bigger levels, before I had planned. This was because, it was simply impossible for me to continue to play on the level I was playing, since I was making bad moves, only because the money didn't hurt me in anyway. At the moment, I'm drinking beer, chilling and taking some poker sessions. Tonight we're heading out, no idea where. They have the Queen's funeral now, so basically everything should be closed, and no alcohol is to be sold anywhere. Tho in Thailand, no one refuses when you offer them money, so they sell under the table. But let's Youtube little. First I'll put a song from Disco Ensemble, called Eyes Of A Ghost. I've seen this band several times live, guaranteed good gig!
The music video is made by the guy who uploaded it. He used footage from the Disco Ensemble DVD. Second I'd like to put songs called Threat Letter Typewriter and This Is My Head Exploding from Disco Ensemble, now live versions.
Now let's head to more serious stuff. Tool - The Grudge. The coolest spot of the song is at 7:42, where Maynard shrieks for 20 seconds without any disturbance in the voice, wow. Wonder who can do the same.
Tool - The Pot.
Finally, but certainly not least, Tool - Vicarious.
This is the only non-live Tool song I put. The music video is guaranteed Tool quality. I've seen Tool live only once, but certainly will not remain the same. Tool is the greatest band in the world in my opinion. Enjoy !
Life's too short to be afraid. Take a pill to numb the pain.
-Ilkka
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Tuesday's Gone
Tuesday everyone. Sorry I haven't written anything in a few days, but in my defence, I've been really busy with school, shopping and entertainment. Or maybe I've just been lazy. I guess you'll never know.
Yesterday we went to Pantip Plaza, basically a big shopping centre packed with IT stuff, mostly there were actually nothing more, well electronics okay. It was the place we were looking for, we have been in the search of a VGA-cable for 3 weeks now and nowhere had it been found yet. Pantip was a gold mine, instantly we found it and purchased of course.
After Pantip we went walking in the search for a place to eat. We found a local restaurant, not so crowded with westerners. I ordered some chicken with sweet & sour sauce. I have to tell you, it was the best sweet & sour chicken I've ever had, simply amazing. And the price was, well, cheap as usual. It was about 6 in the evening and it is the worst traffic on the streets, so there were no hope in getting a taxi to take us home. We had to go for a beer, what a tragedy.
We got on a tuk-tuk and told the chauffeur to take us to some bar, no Go-Go, no naked girls and so on. We drove for a while and he took us to a bar, well, it didn't open until 9, and the place looked quite fishy in my opinion. So what other place did we know, of course Patpong. This time we got to the real shopping street called Patpong, there were a lot of stuff for a low price, but we just wanted to drink a beer. So while walking down the road some thai people dragged us practically inside a bar. Yes, we got our beers, amazing.
The bar was KISS-bar in Patpong. Inside we noticed that there were alot of girls dancing in bikinis. Unfortunately, maybe, taking photos was not allowed so I can't show you pictures. The bar itself was quite nice, with good music, such as Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n' Roses. We actually didn't mind the girls too much, but we were given the option to buy the girls, to go dancing or whatever you do, it is up to the girl. No thanks for us. There were some local thai men also having a blast I can imagine.
Here is the best live version of Welcome to the Jungle, best GNR concert ever. '88 in Ritz.
Today was a good day at school, just like yesterday, nothing to complain really there. Today I got really dissapointed at the Benja Restaurant, which is the restaurant downstairs. Before school I ordered a Ham and Cheese sandwich as a breakfast. We were in a hurry, but still I had to wait 15 minutes, and then the guy comes and says theyre out of ham. WTF? Come on, why didn't he know it instantly. Well I behaved very correctly and just told him that we need to go to school so we can not wait anymore. I actually paid for the sandwich but didn't get the item. Soon we will be heading to the gym again, and after that I will go and find out the story of my sandwich.
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone, a good cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd original.
Today we are going to go to the Royal City Avenue, or RCA, to see some bars and whatever we find there of course. Maybe first we go out for a good ol' steak or whatever. Probably we will go to Jameson once again to see our friends play for a while. We just don't know yet.
All we know is that RCA watch out. The boys are back in town.
-Tommy
Yesterday we went to Pantip Plaza, basically a big shopping centre packed with IT stuff, mostly there were actually nothing more, well electronics okay. It was the place we were looking for, we have been in the search of a VGA-cable for 3 weeks now and nowhere had it been found yet. Pantip was a gold mine, instantly we found it and purchased of course.
After Pantip we went walking in the search for a place to eat. We found a local restaurant, not so crowded with westerners. I ordered some chicken with sweet & sour sauce. I have to tell you, it was the best sweet & sour chicken I've ever had, simply amazing. And the price was, well, cheap as usual. It was about 6 in the evening and it is the worst traffic on the streets, so there were no hope in getting a taxi to take us home. We had to go for a beer, what a tragedy.
We got on a tuk-tuk and told the chauffeur to take us to some bar, no Go-Go, no naked girls and so on. We drove for a while and he took us to a bar, well, it didn't open until 9, and the place looked quite fishy in my opinion. So what other place did we know, of course Patpong. This time we got to the real shopping street called Patpong, there were a lot of stuff for a low price, but we just wanted to drink a beer. So while walking down the road some thai people dragged us practically inside a bar. Yes, we got our beers, amazing.
The bar was KISS-bar in Patpong. Inside we noticed that there were alot of girls dancing in bikinis. Unfortunately, maybe, taking photos was not allowed so I can't show you pictures. The bar itself was quite nice, with good music, such as Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n' Roses. We actually didn't mind the girls too much, but we were given the option to buy the girls, to go dancing or whatever you do, it is up to the girl. No thanks for us. There were some local thai men also having a blast I can imagine.
Here is the best live version of Welcome to the Jungle, best GNR concert ever. '88 in Ritz.
Today was a good day at school, just like yesterday, nothing to complain really there. Today I got really dissapointed at the Benja Restaurant, which is the restaurant downstairs. Before school I ordered a Ham and Cheese sandwich as a breakfast. We were in a hurry, but still I had to wait 15 minutes, and then the guy comes and says theyre out of ham. WTF? Come on, why didn't he know it instantly. Well I behaved very correctly and just told him that we need to go to school so we can not wait anymore. I actually paid for the sandwich but didn't get the item. Soon we will be heading to the gym again, and after that I will go and find out the story of my sandwich.
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone, a good cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd original.
Today we are going to go to the Royal City Avenue, or RCA, to see some bars and whatever we find there of course. Maybe first we go out for a good ol' steak or whatever. Probably we will go to Jameson once again to see our friends play for a while. We just don't know yet.
All we know is that RCA watch out. The boys are back in town.
-Tommy
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Domestic Saturday
Last night was the first night in Bangkok, that I actually slept the usual 8 hours and didn't even go to bed so late. I fell asleep at 2 o' clock. Great improvement from the normal 4-6 o' clock here in Thailand. So I woke up to this noise and I was like FUUUUUUUU. I went to the kitchen and I found Ilkka there, he had been cleaning the apartment like really early in the morning, I guess he was on drugs or something. That just isn't human behaviour I think. Well he left the dishes for me, which I finished later in the day like a good slave. Today we went to the gym and had an very intensive training, heavy weights and much sweat. I enjoyed it a lot, and I am sure Ilkka liked it as well. He has really improved in the gym stuff, gained some power and muscles.
After the gym I took a shower and noticed that I had only 1 clean set of clothes left, and I've already bought tons of clothes. So it was definitely time to do some laundry today. It is easy to do laundry, but the only shitty stuff here is that laundry costs money, well not much, but still 100 baht for laundry and drying per time is expensive in my opinion.
We put the clothes in the tumbledryer for like 40 minutes, and on the maximum power and heat which is more than enough back home in Finland. After 40 minutes we checked back, and the clothes were soaking wet. I was pissed and almost ended up at MBK again to buy some new clothes. In the end, we took our clothes to the apartment and dried them in the rooms with maximum aircondition. worked out fine.
It is saturday now as you know, just played some poker on titan again, I hadn't really played in months before Bangkok, but somehow Ilkka is a good motivator. I've been playing the lowest limits of HU texas hold 'em, and I'm still on the winning path. Soon I'll be a millionaire. I also took a beer, no, a chang beer, the best in Thailand. Strong and cheap, just the way we like our women too. Chang also messes with your head easily.
I got to get ready for tonight's adventures, we are going to some fancy restaurant first, then watch our friends play in the Jameson pub, maybe some jamming, have to see what happens. Most importantly we are going to go to some clubs today, I predict that it will be a blast once more here in Thailand, just like anything else.
Well, club night, and this blog is all about the true things so I have a theme song for tonight you know.
The song is from a great Swedish Heavyrock group called Mustasch. The song is called I hunt alone.
-Tommy
After the gym I took a shower and noticed that I had only 1 clean set of clothes left, and I've already bought tons of clothes. So it was definitely time to do some laundry today. It is easy to do laundry, but the only shitty stuff here is that laundry costs money, well not much, but still 100 baht for laundry and drying per time is expensive in my opinion.
We put the clothes in the tumbledryer for like 40 minutes, and on the maximum power and heat which is more than enough back home in Finland. After 40 minutes we checked back, and the clothes were soaking wet. I was pissed and almost ended up at MBK again to buy some new clothes. In the end, we took our clothes to the apartment and dried them in the rooms with maximum aircondition. worked out fine.
It is saturday now as you know, just played some poker on titan again, I hadn't really played in months before Bangkok, but somehow Ilkka is a good motivator. I've been playing the lowest limits of HU texas hold 'em, and I'm still on the winning path. Soon I'll be a millionaire. I also took a beer, no, a chang beer, the best in Thailand. Strong and cheap, just the way we like our women too. Chang also messes with your head easily.
I got to get ready for tonight's adventures, we are going to some fancy restaurant first, then watch our friends play in the Jameson pub, maybe some jamming, have to see what happens. Most importantly we are going to go to some clubs today, I predict that it will be a blast once more here in Thailand, just like anything else.
Well, club night, and this blog is all about the true things so I have a theme song for tonight you know.
The song is from a great Swedish Heavyrock group called Mustasch. The song is called I hunt alone.
-Tommy
Pump it up!
We're heading out in like 30min. First we'll go to some restaurant to eat some dinner. After that we'll go to Jameson to check our friends play live. Then we'll head to some club. Hopefully everything goes well, which means, we won't order buckets of booze again. Poker's going really good. I had a really nice upswing day today, yay! Too bad I'm playing with a really tight bankroll management, so I'm playing quite small, compared to what I normally play. Luckily I need to win only 5 buy ins more to move up to next level. If nothing big happens, it should be within few days. First I'd like to put a really nice song from DJ Shadow, called Blood On The Motorway. One can really relax whilst listening to this.
Finally I'd like to put a really, really, legendary song from this Finnish rapper called Avain, nowadays he raps under name Asa. The song is called Yhdes Iltaan.
Oh well. Let's put one more because my Winamp shuffle decided to pick a really nice song. The song is from Velvet Revolver, called Fall To Pieces. I've seen the band quite few times. A really good live band, although I've always hoped that they would have had the voice of the singer louder, when playing live. I'm also very excited to know about their next singer, most likely won't be as good as Scott, but who knows.
-Ilkka
"Vaik on tuhansii kilometrei nyt meidän välillä. Aurinko piirtää tähdillä nimes kuun ympärillä."
Finally I'd like to put a really, really, legendary song from this Finnish rapper called Avain, nowadays he raps under name Asa. The song is called Yhdes Iltaan.
Oh well. Let's put one more because my Winamp shuffle decided to pick a really nice song. The song is from Velvet Revolver, called Fall To Pieces. I've seen the band quite few times. A really good live band, although I've always hoped that they would have had the voice of the singer louder, when playing live. I'm also very excited to know about their next singer, most likely won't be as good as Scott, but who knows.
-Ilkka
"Vaik on tuhansii kilometrei nyt meidän välillä. Aurinko piirtää tähdillä nimes kuun ympärillä."
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