My Birthday

My birthday festivities started on the eve of my birthday when we went out to a discoteque for a goodbye party for our friend Maya. At first they didnt let me in to the club because you have to be 20 to get in. (which is odd because steve is two days younger than me and they let him in) but luckily Marco came and talked to the bouncer and pointed to the large group of people and said "they all came for his birthday, if you dont let him in we all leave" so they let me through.

Then it turns out that i got a 20% discount for it being my birthday, so all the money was handed to me to buy the first bottle. There were two clubs right next to each other. One called Demo and the other called Funky Villa. Funky played hip hop, but it was WAYY too crowded to really dance, so i spent more time at Demo which played House and Techno.

The next morning I had wake up for class
It was Thai class, so they taught me how to say its my birthday in Thai and taught everyone how to tell me happy birthday. I also learned how to ask girls out on a date, and got promptly told by my TA that she had a boyfriend. But it was all in good fun. Then a few people took me out for ice cream between classes and we demolished an ice cream cake. We then had cuisine class, which was boring as hell, but luckily i picked up Time, Newsweek and Readers Digest before class and i read those.

After class i went to get my haircut. I figured a birthday was a good day for that. Its just shorter now, no really big style changes. Then i returned to the apartment, grabbed my mountain dew from Johnnys fridge and took it to the roof to consume it. Great view, low smog that day. And it tasted heavenly. You may or may not have already known that i am a Mountain Dew addict. They dont have MD here. at all. cannot be found. Johnny picked up a few cans in the airport when he came back from the Philippines. The Philippeno Mountain Dew tastes slightly different than American, it has a slight after taste that is akin to the taste of diet MD, but that didnt ruin the magic of the moment.

Then we went out for Mexican food. I dont know why we hit up Mexican when we were in thailand, but its what i was craving and it was good. There are very few mexican places in the city, so the one nearest us was in the Khao San area, which I'm not very fond of, but it was a short cab ride and the food is inexpensive. So about 10 of us headed there. It was a small place, so we filled it up.
They had a big sombrero on the wall and i asked them to take it down so i could wear it. They let me :D they also put double tequila in my margaritas. I had never had a margarita before, and they werent bad. I think the salt on the rim is odd, but strangely enjoyable.

After the Mexican place we went back to the apartment, and headed up to the roof. I had some moonshine whiskey that i purchased from a tribe that is a days hike from any roads and near the Burmese boarder that i was saving for the occasion. Its quite delicious and very sweet tasting. its also at least 100 proof. Because of its sweet flavor it mixes very well with soda, and actually adds to the flavor, rather than needing to be hidden by flavors. We played the card game Yanif until the early hours of the morning.