"Rob, come have a drink, party with us!"

Luckily I went to sleep rather early last night. Around 0.15 am I shut of the TV and lights. I must have fallen a sleep immidiatly. Till I was woken up by lots of noise outdoors, like it came from right under me. I thought “O NO, not again”. I put on my sarong and took a peek outside my door and guess what? My neighbours just got home and wanted to celebrate a farewell party of one of the guys going back home to northern Thailand. They appologised deeply to have waken me up.
Well, couldn’t sleep right away anymore so I decided to smoke a cigarette on my balcony and watch the events go on next door. Within minutes they started to appologise again for my miscomfort and then the guy who supposidly lives there appeared, saw me and immidiatly invited me over to join and drink with them on the departure of his ‘brother’ back north. (One never knows if its a real brother or a feel-like-a-brother person). O well, why not I thought, Kik not being home still, I put on shorts and a t-shirt and joined the festivities.
Thai like to make a party for whatever occasion. And be it 9 pm or 4 am, they go for it. In the kitchen delicious food was being prepared and before I knew I was sitting with ladyboys all around me and a few guys (who mostly work as go go boys in Paradise complex, not all of them being gay by the way) and drinking to the one upstairs, packing his suitcase for his departure not much later.
When dawn broke, the guy who’s leaving we just celebrated, had left already for an hour or so, the party broke up. All went quite in my little street again and I managed to fall a sleep again, in my own bed, with Kik this time.
He came back late, as is often the case, because some of his friends called him to come over for a talk, and as most Thai would do, he went. And as is mostly the case here, it becomes late, or early, depending from the point you look at it.
Quite a different lifestyle I find myself into, which is a good experience in itself. Thank God I already slept 4 hours though☺ !