Je me réveille vers les 6am mais décide de rester échoué dans mon lit jusqu'à 10h. Mes amis sont à leurs cours de plongée mais moi j'ai décidé de dépenser dans un tattoo. J'ai toujours rêvé d'un dragon asiatique mais me sentais tricheur de le faire ailleurs qu'en asie.
J'adore l'océan par contre. Je me promet donc de revenir un jour faire mon cours de plongée ici, et de retourner aux Philippines car je n'ai pas vu le nord avec les géants rice paddys.
Je me lève et marche les petites ruelles de sable jonchées de nids de poules innondés vers la "grand rue", celle en ciment avec les speed bumps pour faire ralentir les touristes qui se louent des motos. Des restos, buanderies, magasins, cliniques servent de murs.
Après un petit déjeuner je vais au tattoo shop où mon artiste termine le dessins de mon tattoo. Il ne laisse pas parraître grande expression, mais sa soeur est vraiment fière du résultat. Après tout, c'est pas un signe astrologique en Thaï ou le nom de ma mère; c'est un dragon naga à 3 têtes, sortit de leur mythologie.
C'est un petit détail que j'aime apporter à mes derniers tattoos: je m'assure que l'encreur a autant envi de le faire que moi, et l'attention aux détails est accrue, je crois.
On négocie le prix et on s'y met. Je suis couché sur une chaise confo comme on a à Montréal, recouverte d'une couverte Bob Marley. Les 2 premières heures sont moins douloureuses que je le croyais, moins qu'à la machine. Peut-être à cause que c'est sur mon épaule et non sur une jambe ou l'intérieur de bras comme à l'habitude.
Après 3 heures le tattoueur me demande dans un anglais cassé combien de temps je compte rester sur l'île.
"3 days, why?"
"We finish tomorow ok?"
"Yeah no problems"
"Thank you"
Il me nettoie et se lève en massant son épaule. Vrai que sa position avait l'air moins que comfortable.
Déjà très satisfait du résultat. On termine la soirée en soupant et jasant entre amis et 3 français rencontrés au cours de plongée.
Le jour suivant fût une répetition du précédent, sauf avec beaucoup, énormément de pluie. Un québécois rencontré au hazard nous dit qu'il devrait pleuvoir toute la semaine.
On termine mon tattoo. La soeur rit de moi, me demande si je suis tombé endormit, car je suis resté immobile tout le long. 3 heures de plus il a fallu. Ils prennent mon tattoo en photo, toujours un signe que le tattoueur est satisfait de son travail, selon moi.
Je suis à l'autre bout du monde avec 4 amis, mais je commence à rechercher la solitude comme j'avais développé l'habitude à Montréal. Je m'enferme dans ma chambre pour lire au lieu de jaser de rien... Je me dit qu'il est temps de partir bientôt. Les moments les plus forts à mes yeux depuis mon départ sont quand j'étais complètement seul et perdu, laissé à moi-même et mes pensées.
Mais bon, Damien et Marc partent demain. On va faire la fête une dernière fois. je commence à scruter mon Lonely Planet pour des sensations fortes en direction de Bangkok et ensuite le Cambodge.
Je termine ces lignes sur mon bol de toilette. Mon estomac n'aime pas la bouffe Thaï autant que moi, non plus leurs bières cheap hehehe.
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Monday, 26 November 2012
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Koh Tao day 2
Waking up in Koh Tao at 8am instead of 6 told me I was finally getting out of my workshop-shift lifestyle from back home.
A swish of warm water from my bottle of water, and a flashback from last night... Marc took me one block out of the main street -pretty much in the jungle - where we listened to the loudest bullfrog concert ever witnessed by humans.
I decide to walk a little bit instead of eating breakfast at my hotel, and come accross a litke french bakery, with wi-fi, espensive poutine, and Anthony chilling.
A little check-up on facebook, messagrs from my worried parents warning me about High Bar.
After the breakfast I cross the street to the bamboo tattoo place and talk about what I am looking for as my next ink. Two heavily-tattooes brothers work the shop and their sister works the reception, with her joyful kid and a sweet pitbull greeting us.
After we decide on the subject, the style and the place, she tells me that the brother to tattoo me is not present so she asks me to come back the next day, not too early. I play with the kid a little bit and take my leave.
Me and Anthony decide to go snorkeling by ourselves near our beach. Crabs walk the rocks, sea cucumbers populate the seafloor, and small fish abound.
We saw some cool ones though, a school of maybe 20 blue and yellow fish eating frantically. I also spotted a hermit crab as big as a pineapple and managed to get some cool pictures with Anthony's underwater camera.
After maybe 30 minutes of swimming and diving I got pretty tired and climbed on a rock to rest. Climbing down I sled and cut the bottom of my foot on a shell or coral.
I walked back to our resort and asked the dive shop for their first-aid kit. I cleaned the cut thoroughly, applied some polysporin, put some plasters on the cut and taped everything with some ribbons I brought exaclty for that.
Going back to my room I meet Rachel, an adopted chinese girl that grew up on Rhode Island. She's 29, been traveling for 2 years, and knows all the tricks. We share a meal and chat.
She later leaves for High Bar and I join my gang, they are all tired from their dives. We write a song on the ukulele while laughin our asses off and all go back to bed.
A swish of warm water from my bottle of water, and a flashback from last night... Marc took me one block out of the main street -pretty much in the jungle - where we listened to the loudest bullfrog concert ever witnessed by humans.
I decide to walk a little bit instead of eating breakfast at my hotel, and come accross a litke french bakery, with wi-fi, espensive poutine, and Anthony chilling.
A little check-up on facebook, messagrs from my worried parents warning me about High Bar.
After the breakfast I cross the street to the bamboo tattoo place and talk about what I am looking for as my next ink. Two heavily-tattooes brothers work the shop and their sister works the reception, with her joyful kid and a sweet pitbull greeting us.
After we decide on the subject, the style and the place, she tells me that the brother to tattoo me is not present so she asks me to come back the next day, not too early. I play with the kid a little bit and take my leave.
Me and Anthony decide to go snorkeling by ourselves near our beach. Crabs walk the rocks, sea cucumbers populate the seafloor, and small fish abound.
We saw some cool ones though, a school of maybe 20 blue and yellow fish eating frantically. I also spotted a hermit crab as big as a pineapple and managed to get some cool pictures with Anthony's underwater camera.
After maybe 30 minutes of swimming and diving I got pretty tired and climbed on a rock to rest. Climbing down I sled and cut the bottom of my foot on a shell or coral.
I walked back to our resort and asked the dive shop for their first-aid kit. I cleaned the cut thoroughly, applied some polysporin, put some plasters on the cut and taped everything with some ribbons I brought exaclty for that.
Going back to my room I meet Rachel, an adopted chinese girl that grew up on Rhode Island. She's 29, been traveling for 2 years, and knows all the tricks. We share a meal and chat.
She later leaves for High Bar and I join my gang, they are all tired from their dives. We write a song on the ukulele while laughin our asses off and all go back to bed.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Les gens que j'aime.
My goal for this blog was to be a motivator for other people and myself, and to write regularly. A week in, and I already am facing writer's block.
I figured I should write about people that inspire me, but I didn't want to write about some celebrity I've never even shook hands with.
Enter this post.
This dude on the picture. I love this guy. A lot of people do too. Why? Genuine good guy, happy-go-lucky, funny... And a good friend.
Met this guy through a co-worker some 6 years ago. Also was in the circle of friends of "the big ex", and so we got to party together a bunch, and that's how I got to really know him.
He's a perfect exemple of "never too late". I think he's 30, not sure. Started tattooing this summer, seemingly out of the blue. We haven't approached the subject yet, but I suspect he got sick of his 9 to 5 job and decided to put his artistic talent to good use, and at the same time go with one of his passions.
I'm sure he talked it through with the wife (she's pretty awesome too) and so, at an age where most people start settling down and seek security, he took the plunge and decided to do what he liked instead - at a pay cut I'm sure (being an apprentice and all).
As far as we know, we only have one life to live. Why waste it doing something you don't really like, or can't stand at all?
If you're worried about the money, here's a pointer: stop comparing yourself to other people. Mind you, I don't have kids to take care of...
I guess it's one of the important choices to make. Time? Money? Passion? Like a rock-paper-scissors of life.
Age is just a number. Money is, too.
Stay young at heart
I figured I should write about people that inspire me, but I didn't want to write about some celebrity I've never even shook hands with.
Enter this post.
This dude on the picture. I love this guy. A lot of people do too. Why? Genuine good guy, happy-go-lucky, funny... And a good friend.
Met this guy through a co-worker some 6 years ago. Also was in the circle of friends of "the big ex", and so we got to party together a bunch, and that's how I got to really know him.
He's a perfect exemple of "never too late". I think he's 30, not sure. Started tattooing this summer, seemingly out of the blue. We haven't approached the subject yet, but I suspect he got sick of his 9 to 5 job and decided to put his artistic talent to good use, and at the same time go with one of his passions.
I'm sure he talked it through with the wife (she's pretty awesome too) and so, at an age where most people start settling down and seek security, he took the plunge and decided to do what he liked instead - at a pay cut I'm sure (being an apprentice and all).
As far as we know, we only have one life to live. Why waste it doing something you don't really like, or can't stand at all?
If you're worried about the money, here's a pointer: stop comparing yourself to other people. Mind you, I don't have kids to take care of...
I guess it's one of the important choices to make. Time? Money? Passion? Like a rock-paper-scissors of life.
Age is just a number. Money is, too.
Stay young at heart
Angus works at Sin City MTL.
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