in lack of a good name: P P P

 

First off, i would like to thank these 2 guys to fix my broken laptop screen and give me equipment to fix my camera! That was pretty cool, or blazin’ what ever expression you prefer 😉 I got invited to play Didgeridoo in front of a whole kindergarten school 🙂 The crowded Kata beach of Phuket  And me making best of it 😉 Patong, the redlight district…and no i have not seen a Pingpong show…and i am not sure i willstill Patong, but its a different aspect 😀  Thai snacks, sadly i haven’t found insects yet…My time in Phuket i spent making my stcw95 certificate which allows me to work on comercial boats now, as some of you already know. But my free time i spend with Diego and Julia. Diego was another couchsurfer at my host and Julia is an italian girl i picked up sitting alone on the beach. We had a lot of fun together, going from one jamsessio to the next. Diego plays amazing guitar and Julia works @Italian Job it Kata, wich serves great hot Chocolate and coffee. Julia 🙂   And Diego Well, then my camera broke down… 😦 but Ole is a clever fellow, he used his phone instead, not as often but at least i can give a few more impressions Of this: I want one of these! they are amazing! The Buddha here needs to cover its face because there is so much dust from the building sitethe Belltree   Survival at sea day at my STCW-course And so i leave the russian-italian mass tourist place of Phuket, the umbrellas are down, and Ole takes a 24h busride…and is in chiang mai…goes to the Monastery (see last entry)…and is here now!

Eye and her friend took me up to Doi Sutep. And Doi Pui, where there is a small little mountain village

From there we went to Wat Doi Suthep. A beautiful monastery on top of the mountain.
Random fact: the stairs have 308 steps

Ole receiving a blessed wristband There is more than just hitting a gong, you can pet it to 🙂
the  result is just as  powerful…a wisdom for life? 
Fred and George

Ringing the lucky bells for Eye’s birthday

After that, i experienced normal daylife in Chiang Mai…
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Chicken on bikes!

Look at this face, thats the real Willy Wonka! i am sure! the Dickhead bike 😀 

Going to the GIANT night market @ChiangMai Walking Street on Sunday…WOW…so many shops and people…incredible

i just couldn’t resist 😉

this actually tasted better than i expected and yes the redone is a pure fruit+ice strawberry shake from fresh strawberries 😛

 

Ok I really want to buy one of these awesome shirts!
Please write in the comments which one!
THANK YOU!!! 😀 😀 😀 

Maybe this is a good description for many Thai people And this is a smart band setup in a busy road 🙂

Ok guys and girls, i know the last 10 minutes have been a lot of input, but brace yourselves for the Thailand POSTCARD QUIZ:

1.)Which of these beautiful woman is in fact a guy? O.o

Number 1? Number 2? Number3? (black dress) or Number4??

 

2.)What in gods Name is this?

3.) How is PPP a good title for this post?
Be Creative!

Write a comment!
I only respect comments that tell me what shirt looks best 😛

So my dear reader thats all the pictures i had…well almost i deleted a few…in fact i uploaded so many pictures in this post, WordPress does not allow me to add more…so i have to delete a picture to give you the sunset you deserve after this joyride 🙂

So Long ole

Here you go! You deserved it! Thank you for reading. Please Comment if you want to get a postcard, or have questions, or like me, or follow me, or ask for pictures of something, or give me a task, or recommend something, or tell me to write about something you are really interested about, or introduce yourself, in short give me FEEDBACK…please 🙂 

p.s. i totally forgot to tell you that i start my education as a Thai-Masseur tomorrow…and no that has nothing to do with a happy ending.
p.p.s. hang on a moment who said a massage with a happy ending has to be sexual? i hope all my clients will have happy ending of their massage…i don’t want unhappy clients, they don’t tip 😀

Accept, Accept, Accept – a meditation retreat

Acknowledge,
Thinking, thinking, thinking,
sitting, sitting, sitting,
Rising, falling, rising, falling,
annoying noise in the background..accept!
Hearing the timer
stretching
Standing standing standin
getting ready to walk
raising, moving, setting,
raising, moving, setting
feeling anger…accept
raising, moving, falling,
thinking about what i will do when i come back to germany
-You are here now! Be in the present moment! Accept!

This is basically my head for the last 10 days.
And this is what was going on with my body
-Waking up at 4.00 am
-meditation: walking, sitting, walking, sitting
-breakfast at 6.30am
-sweeping the courtyard for 15 minutes
-Meditation
-lunch at 10.30am
-sweep the yard for 30minutes
-meditation
-report to the teacher at 5.30pm
-meditation
-go to bed at 10pm

No talking allowed, no books, no internet, no diary
just meditation!
Everybody, except for the Monks was wearing completely white clothing.

Does this sound like prison?
well prison is more luxurious 😉
But I can recommend it to anybody who wants to find out something about himself!

The whole Vipassana retreat was in the Monastery Wat Rampoeng in Chiang Mai.
Thank you Kuno for telling me about this place!

An introduction to Buddhist teaching:

Life is Suffering!

When a baby is born, does it laugh?
No it cries!
We suffer when
-we are born
-we are sick
-we are aging
-we die
and
-we loose a loved one
-we have to be together with somebody we hate

why did i divide these two?
The first 4 are nonself causes, we cannot influence them, not even Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed… could resist aging and dying (lets not argue about getting sick)

The second 2 are, as you probably guessed Self inflicted problems.

The 3 causes of suffering

-Anger
-Ignorance
-Attachment/Desire
If you compare these 3 to the 7 deadly sins from christianity you will find a lot of similarities.

The ways to overcome suffering are:
Wisdom, Love and Compassion.
These are achieved through effort.

Thats it 😉

The retreat actually shows you suffering:
Pain in Knees etc, thoughts, emotions….
accept, accept, accept

This develops a mindfulness to your body…really good stuff.

But i don’t want to write a book here …yet 😉

But i want to show you some pictures 🙂

every building has dragons in front, they themself are eaten by other animals…i have not yet understood the symbolic 🙂
The Pagoda: it took me 40 minutes to walk aroundThe Gong: when hit it produces a very cool vibrating deep sound, when stroked on the middle a humming 

The most beautiful but hardest place to meditate, crawling with ants, and mosquitoes, just so much distraction!! The library, my standard meditating spot, cool and mosquito free 🙂The Buddha of the Library Amazing Woodwork, i don’t know how much you would pay for this !handworked! door in Germany…the monastery was full of it!!

The technique of the “mindful prostration” on the top, which was the “warm-up” for the mind before each meditation session 4 times a day.
And of the walking 🙂

After the 10 days, i am staying with Ay (left) now, a exchange student who spent 1 year in my village in germany…but more from that the next days 🙂

So long
Ole 🙂

Phuket, a piece of…

Thailand?
Europe?
Russia, Italy… this island is made for tourism.

I arrived here 10 days ago and now i am leaving to Chiang Mai.

In Phuket i finished my STCW95 course, which allows me to work on comercial boats (see facebook pictures 🙂 )

I played a lot of didgeridoo.
I was invited to play in front of the school of my Couchsurfing host, in several jam sessions and on a reggae concert.
Thank you Gali for this amazing instrument that will always remind me of Hampi.

I met many very nice people, saw a lot of ladyboys and prostitutes and drove a lot of scooter.
I will post the pictures soon, or at least some…the sand in my camera does not want me to use it anymore, maybe there is a talented guy in bangkok who.can fix it 🙂

one last thing:
i will finally go and stay in a monastery for 10 days in chiang mai, starting monday or tuesday.
–> Don’t worry 😉

so long Ole