Case in point, Noom was going to an 8 ball pool tournament on the Thursday and he brought me and Duncan (from England - see right (the girl is Nok but we'll get to her later)) and Michel (from Deutschland) along. The entry fee was 200 baht which is about a fiver so it was no really hardship. For your fiver you were guaranteed at least two rounds, probably about 10 games. Of course we didn't really know how to play 8 ball, but we fucking learned. I got whipped in the first round, did okay in the second and burned out in the third. Michel got a round further and then Duncan managed to come second somehow, taking a prize of 500 baht, beaten by the fella who beat me in my first round.
The nice thing about it was, because we came with Noom, we weren't just some idiot farangs, we were acceptable and they chatted with us. Lots of them had really good english and some of them even knew where Ireland is, which was pretty funny.
Even when Duncan kept beating them, there didn't seem to be any aggressiveness or animosity, though I'm sure at least once two guys were talking about us in Thai, though probably not saying much bad. I know the German girls did the same at least once or twice before they figured out I could speak at least some rudimentary German! Definitely got called Farang a few times, but it's not actually an offensive term, though often is used as such. This is conveyed more by context and tone, rather than the word itself.
Stumbled home about 3 in the morning, just me and Duncan. Everyone else went home as and when they got knocked out.
Friday being our last day we didn't do a whole hell of a lot until later that night. Two lads Chris and Matt came back from their trek. They were heading to Laos the next day, same as me and Duncan so we were kind of a group. We ordered some delivery food, I'd a chicken breadcrumb thing, and then headed out to Monkey Club which an astute reader might remember we got thrown out of about two weeks before . . . whoops . . . Managed to stay til the end this time.
We spent most of the night rocking out to the local thai rock band, which included a rock version of Lady Gaga, Bad Romance! And then Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out later on!
After they finished we met both the awesome singer dude and the hot singer girl. There was a picture of her somewhere, but it must have been on someone else's camera. Ah well!!!
I managed to get up on time, go to the shops, get breakfast and all that, but for Duncan and Chris it was a bit of a struggle. Still they managed it!
It was kinda sad to leave Spicy Thai, it was like a home for the last two weeks! Noom and Lpong are so awesome, if you come to Thailand, you have to stay with them, you'll love it! On the other hand, it was also cool to be heading off somewhere, even if it was in a tiny minivan with too many people, but we'll get to that in the next post!
Bye for Now,
Shane!
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