Thursday, April 17, 2008

Day 4 (Wednesday)@Rawai, Phuket

Beautiful morning today! I gopt up at 6.30am to walk to the gym. Im really starting to take in the surroundings now! Extremely lovely! Just as i almost reached Rawai beach, i met Martin on his motorbike. He stopped on the opposite side of the road & called out to give me a lift. We small talked on the way there and i asked him is true that they have an IKEA in every town? (Martin is from Sweden), He laughed out loud and said Yeah, there is a LOT of IKEAs in Sweden & he agreed that the meatballs are pretty darn good too! :-)

Our morning class was very good!! Joy taught us more how to block a punch & give back with an elbow to the opponent's face! We felt Joy was warming up to me & bro's antics. He looked very amused. I tripped & fell in the ring while trying to left kick Joy! Argh! So embarrassing! Got hit by Joy left, right, centre!! He'll yell “Block! Block! Hands strong!” I kept shutting my eyes out of reflex each time he hits, he told me “ Look, Eye open , No Fear!” Me & bro sparred together again... It was a really good session. We all had a good laugh!

Met Linda today, we trained together for the afternoon session. She's a tough lady! She's a Federal Police Officer from NZ, based in Brisbane. She's in the Australian S.W.A.T. !!! COOL ! Linda was so kind to offer me a ride home after we went for our pasar malam tour near the gym... I brought her around to have a look at Goong's and she stared in awe at Goong's pet squirrel! Linda has never seen a squirrel! She asked me if we have squirrels in Malaysia, i said yup, their everywhere! Even my dad keeps a few in our garden! She was almost shocked to hear when i told her my dad leaves fruits in the garden to feed & attract squirrels to come :-)

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