So today I put my hip in the very capable beer loving hands of Canadian Brian D Kendall, the proprietor of Tranquility - Relaxation, Rejuvenation & Rehabilitation. It turns out that my hip, which I could hardly rotate has become the victim of my determined mind. It has been overworked as a direct result of the imbalance created by my over enthusiasm at Rawai Muay Thai. The upshot was that the right side of my hip was a full inch higher than the left side - ouch.
However, with some very skillful, quite painful manipulation of my spine and then a deep breath and a twist - ping - my hip is back to horizontalis normalus.
Brian D Kendall, I salute you and may your beer always be the loving and properly cold nectar that you so deserve!
This means that I am no longer able to train for two days....... However, this cloud that seems to be following me around has at least started offering a consistent, and seemingly improving, silver lining......
The past couple of days I have become acquainted with a rather interesting young lady from Singapore who goes by the playfully self created name of Cleopatra Zou Zou. It made me laugh that she has an alter ego and that she blushed and was a little bit embarassed about when I lightly quizzed her about it. (Hmmmm, Is this the norm? Am I missing out on something here? Does everyone have a silent inner super hero type character going on? Is this what I've been missing out on? Or is this an Asian thing? Or maybe it's just "Her" thing? What would my alter ego go by the name of? Would I wear a cape? Maybe a donkey jacket? Possibly some retractable flares? Oh God, stop this right now David.....).
My goodness, anyway, by some bizarre coincidence we seem to share a group of friends from days gone by. (It's weird how when two pasts collide there is definitely something, I don't know what, maybe spiritual is the word, going on, maybe it's just the mind trying to piece things together like a parallel universe style jigsaw - I'll have to come back to those colliding thoughts). Zou Zou is also at Rawai Muay Thai and she too has a similar injury to myself, which doesn't surprise me as she definitely gives as good as she gets. Anyway, the main upshot is that we get along very well and we'll be starting tomorrow off at The Royal Phuket Yacht Club - we decided that if we can't work out we should at least treat ourselves to a decent breakfast to start off the day - I may even have a glass of wine - with breakfast.... stranger things have happened, maybe a bucks fizz - probably just a coffee. But at the very least I'll have some rather delightful company with some intelligent conversation thrown in.
Which reminds me, I introduced the idea of Vodka Espresso's to a whole new generation at the dinner table last night.... Peoples eyes were lighting up..... Just they wait until they try one. Have you ever tried one? Big respects to Jesse. My version involves a shot of espresso, about half a tea spoon of brown sugar and a shot of vodka, preferably from the freezer - and then - bang, in one! Have two.
So it seems to me/be, that by putting oneself into a position to improve oneself, making the most of this opportunity that we call life, putting yourself out there, this naturally creates and opens up new worlds of possibilities, it even gets help from the broken pieces of past ones.
It also never ceases to amaze me just how small this world really is and how we are all pretty much inter connected together.
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