Hehe, what a week has that been, pffffff
Xmas celebrations started here on Xmaseve with parties all over..... I went to in total 4 parties that evening/night. Among, have to say, also a birthday celebration. The evening before two bosses of Simon Cabaret celebrated their birthdays with a white party at the More Bar in centre Paradise Complex here in Patong. Quite an affair, because the whole Simon crowd turned out ofcourse.
A crowd by the way I was seeing much more of this last week, and can tell you, not at all booring!
Normally I spend Xmas eve with my mum, but last year I didn't, because we were going to travel together to my sister the next day for a special Xmas lunch she had organised for our direct family. Sadly two weeks later my mother passed away, so in fact we al have been very hapy to have celebrated that Xmas with her in a special way: for a long time my brother and sister and me celebrating together, and O what did my mother enjoyed that!!
Well, one of the reasons being here is that I wanted to add a very new series of memories connected with those days of Xmas, and New Year, BUT not to forget her...which is, I found out, quite impossible. It hits you at the most unexpected moments, so also during all these parties I went to during Xmas.
In the next couple of days I wil download new pictures, made during these last weeks, so you can have a look at them at your leisure!
Last year, on the 31st I made a trip with my mother along all the places she enjoyed visiting when she was living in The Hague with my father and after that with us children.
This time I went on a special gay trip, yea yea, with Kik, with Club One Seven, and as last year (march) it turned out into a very cool, and fun excursion. With lots of swimming below the cliffs of one of the ilands.
We had to hurry back to Patong, just to be in time to drop Kik of at Simon Cabaret, because he had two shows to play. The show must allways go on, is something they live by here, hehe.
After having taken a shower myself, I went to the area of Paradise complex, also known as the gay area here, to wait for Kik and to celebrate the new year together.
I waited in the Orchid Bar, the place were we met for the first time on the first day of my last previous stay in Patong last march (5th). He arrived 5 minutes before midnight, haha... I had ordered a special bottle of sparkling white wine and together with the owner and another friend we settled for the arrival of 2008.
Just before the clock hit 12 I asked Kik to give our friendshipring back to me, and I put it on the table next of me, together with my own. He loked pussled and maybe even a little bit frightend...cruel?? well, read on!
At midnight I wished him a splendid New Year and 2008 hoping that all his wishes may come true! He then wished me in a special way the same for me and while the other two present could only look on, we fel in eachothers arms....then I asked him if he would like to marry me, and he said YES!
Only then I put the ring back on his finger, and he did the same with mine.tears in our eyes, and also, I found out in the two onlookers who got the meening and were very much enjoying it al.
I told Kik, now he had said yes I would like to marry him on the 7th of October this year, which also happens to be my 50th birthday. I was allready planning a damn nice party then, so now I could add this as the new highlight of that event...if ofcourse all goes well, hehe.
Ofcourse, we both tried to hit the phone to call the people we care most about and after some toruble I at least managed to call my close family and best friends to wish them a happy new year and tell them the good news. I thank them al for their support and feeling happy for me!!
After all that calling and finishing the bottle of wine and an extra load of wine from the woner, we set out to circle the bars to wish the people we know there also a happy new year.....in the end ofcourse we wound up with the Simon Gang, as I sometimes like to call them, and hit on Galaxy, the thai disco here...and it was allmost daylight and new year in Nethwerlands, when we fell a sleep, satisfied but exhausted.
On the 1th Kik first visited Temple to do his new year prayers and after we went to visit his mother and brother at Kamala, were I asked her if she had any objections. After a couple of questions in english and a lot of thai words exchanging she warmly agreed and said she was happy for us.
First we needed to explain that men could marry eachother in Holland and that that was excactly what I intended to do with Kik, on the 7th of October. That I was not interested in a fake marriage or just a blessing ceremony, men have here in Thailand but that I wanted only the real thing for him and me.
The evning of the 1th went roughly the same way as the 31th, hehe, with the exception that this time we, Kik and I, because I was invited to join , had to change in a special kind of outfit. After having done so, we went to Paradise, and all of the Simon Cabaret people met there with the big boss of Simon, and in parade roughly 60/80 people all dressed a like, ventured inside the gay street and visited the main bars and cabaret places there as a group. Being the only farang (white guy) in the Simon delegation, I got some atention from tourists and hotel/bar owner, who were wondering what I did in the Simon crowd. Well, it seems that they accept me fully and see them as one of them, in a way that is, as the friend, boyfriend of Kik.
And its great fun to witnes how organisations like Simon, go to relations elsewhere in patong, to wish the owners a happy and prosperous new year! Handing out gifts to the owner and most senior staff and ofcourse receiving back as well.
I understood that this excercise was and is a tradition of Simons on the first day of the new year.
After the whole bunch tooko over the More Bar and after having drunk that place empty most of us went, O yes, again, the Galaxy.
But this time, Kik and I managed to leave earlier then other days, saying I wa snot feeling well...so we manged to be in bed by 4 am in the morning...waking up 10 hours later!!
Hapy now, because I so needed a decent night sleep I can assure you!
Also I ned to get back in some kind of normal ritm again, because that had gone out of the window this last week.
So, also happy to fill in , though I know it has been a long story again, the last weeks events a little bit.
Next time I hope also to download pictures made that time, and maybe add some more stories, but definitly shorter ones, haha
HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS AND THAT YOU ALL MAY HAVE A BLESsED, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR AND THAT WISDOM MIGHT BE YOUR LEAD!
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