Sunday, September 6, 2009

Love-40, baht for My Piggie Bank

So, after 3 days of straight monsoon season sideways rain and lightning, we decided to get off our asses at the first sight of Sunlight. That came Sunday morning. We decided we were gonna start playing tennis. Neither of us have any extensive background in Tennis, so we figured it was a good sport to take up. We bought two rackets at 700 baht a piece (roughly 20 bucks), a tube of balls at 80 baht (2 dollars) and, of course, every REAL tennis player needs sweatbands for their heads and arms. When playing such an intense, physically demanding, mentally explosive, emotionally draining sport like tennis, one tends to perspire at an alarming rate. Especially when you are like me and push yourself to the absolute maximum edge of human resilience and ability. What I am trying to say is, you sweat HARD when you are kicking SERIOUS ASS. Check the photos of us working up a hard sweat.


Unfortunately for all you sports enthusiasts, Maris didn't have time to capture my cat-like reflexes and fluent, almost angelic, court-side movement. She attempted to take a reel of photos, unfortunately they only came out as a blur.

After a couple hours of tennis we decided we would rest in the park. We stumbled upon a man selling little ceramic Asian-inspired piggie banks. Maris picked out a Hello Kitty bank and I found a cool little Alien guy. So we sat under a tree on a mat and painted them. It was breezy, a nice rest from sweating on the court. We had food and finished our piggie banks. We got them glazed, let them dry, then went back out on the court. We can't get enough Tennis! We are going again tonight. We need to get in shape and have better hobbies than sitting in our "apartment" watching the Die Hard trilogy on "Filmax". After the second day in a row of the movie Surf Ninjas, a person really begins to realize that some things in life just aren't worth living. If you don't understand, go pick up a copy of the movie Surf Ninjas featuring a young Rob Schnieder, and watch it twice in 24 hours. It will really make you realize how bad life can get.

Anyhow, we had a great day and realize we both now have a new "passion" to play tennis. So we are going to practice a lot and eventually join the circuit. Because sports aren't worth a damn unless you are making ungodly amounts of money playing them, that's what I've always said. Til next time.

_Brock

Posted by BrockTalkinThai at 7:47 PM

2 comments:

  1. BrianSeptember 9, 2009 at 10:55 AM

    i thought you'd like to know that i laughed out loud at your surf ninjas story... and when I say LOL, I never mean it. this time i do
    LOL

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  2. BrockTalkinThaiSeptember 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM

    For the first 10 minutes I thought it was ninja turtles, I was pretty excited. Then I realized that it was all a sham. So bad. So very very bad.

    _Brock

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The Beginning

The Beginning

I am a 25 year old, southern Gent. I've been bothered by the fact that I've not traveled the world or even left the country, sans a trip to Cancun when I was in High School, but that was so muddled with tequila and strip clubs (sorry mom), that It doesn't REALLY count- that I have decided to take a adventure across the globe with the love of my life.

All I needed was a motivator, I needed someone to push me to travel and tell me, "Now's the time to do this, and we should totally do it". She came, she said those magic words and now we've got our bags packed, watching the calendar.
 
I had intentions on moving to New York City with my girlfriend. We are both really big into music and both have a spot in our hearts for the city. The opportunity escaped us after having our hopes deflated by the freaky rent prices there. We kind of ditched the New York idea immediately following a trip there and the mention of Thailand. 

We had always tossed around the idea of traveling together. I knew I wanted to travel with her. The first place she mentioned was Thailand, and after 20 minutes on Craigslist, checking out places and prices, we were sold (prob not the best way to chose where you want to spend your life, but that's just how it happened, and this is my story). Thailand it was.

So here we are 6 months later, a ticket for Bangkok dated August 4th in our hands. When people ask us how long we will be in Thailand, we say "Indefinitely". We are ready for a life change, something that might coax us into never coming back.

I have been dreaming of the sand and the crystal beaches since we mentioned the move, I have also had nightmares of being locked up and having to deal with a girlfriend who has been kidnapped by some crazy python handler, but those are just dreams.

The truth is, I have never been so excited and nervous at the same time for anything in my life. Right, now as I sit on my couch in South Knoxville looking out the window at the homemade bird feeders we made, on a hot Sunday afternoon, it blows my mind to think that in a little under two months, I might be laying in the sand with the tide riding up my mini bathing suit, with some concoction of a random Thai's design to sip in one hand, watching long-tailed boats float over the horizon, holding the love of my life in the other.

I expect to be shocked, excited, impressed, disappointed, lost, scared, found, happy, comfortable, uncomfortable, drunk, frightened, enlightened, ready to come home, ready to stay forever- all at different times on this journey.  

But one thing that will never change will be when I am an old man, maybe back in South Knoxville, sitting on my porch in a rocking chair with my old wife, widdling some crazy little thing old men on porches widdle, I will be able to look over to my wife and ask, "Remember that time we went into that local bar in Thailand and we saw that Thai Prostitute perform that "Ping-Pong show?" I am glad we shared that moment together."  

And she will say, "Brock that's disgusting" and then smile a little bit.


_Brock