My emerging man-boobs April 7, 2005
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , trackbackI found a fat man in my mirror today. I realize now that I have not been to the gym since about October last year! The reason is that if I don’t exercise I get lethargic and I therefore sleep long enough not to have the time to feel guilty about not doing any exercise. When I do exercise I feel great, full of energy and motivated to work yet because I’ve spent so long at the the gym I don’t have the time to actually do the work. Life is never fair.
I also can’t escape the restaurant trap. When Tik is with me it’s great to go to a nice romantic restaurant, pay a few baht, listen to some good music, enjoy a beautiful view of the lake, forget about dirty dishes. Restaurants are a great alternative to foreplay. When I’m alone it hardly seems neccessary to seek a foreplay alternative, or to bother cooking for myself so I’m making the most of three delivery services exclusive to my village. I have a cafe 20 metres down the road which has always sold out of the Pad Thai, regardless of the time of day I request it so I live there on a staple diet of seafood-fried-rice. I have a pink restaurant - affectionately known by the farangs here as ‘the pink restaurant’ with an expensive but varied choice of western foods, and we also have a gourmet pizza delivery offered by my favourite French restaurant.
The odds of me revisiting that slender, supple physique of last October are surely stacked against me. We are now experiencing the hottest month of the year and I am sitting in my main room with 5 fans and my air conditioning on. I can compare the daily humidity by the number of time I change T-shirts or the number of rubber items in my house which melt beyond use. I must invest in a more durable plastic doll in the future I guess.
Nonetheless on Sunday I’ll be living it up in a few hotels in the north of Thailand. I’ve allocated 10 days to; consolidate my Thai, begin a drawing course, get my websites organized and get through my Douglas Adams books. I’ll work a few hours in the morning whilst Tik is also busy and I’ll be free to spend the rest of my days and evenings with her. This should be my great opportunity to get back into shape at the hotel’s air-conditioned gym.
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