Muay Thai, The Final Day

It is our last day at Rawai Muay Thai and it started off with a bang.

A very loud bang as our computers fell onto the tile floor that is.  Oh, and on to our 1 terabyte external hard drive with all our photos from Fiji and China sitting inside.

What Happened?

For the past two weeks we have been setting our computers on the TV stand on top of the DVD player.  Today was no different, except our soft neoprene computer case was sitting on it hanging over the edge just ever so slightly.   We had slept in today knowing that we were going to take the morning off from training.  We had set up a visit an Orphanage run by Phuket Childwatch with Diana the owner of Rawai Muay Thai.  We were going on a field trip instead of boxing. Much to my joy.

Our Working Environment, not the safest for our Computers

We were running a little late and after quickly answering my last email, I scooped our two computers off of the bed and set them on top of the DVD player and neoprene case.

Crash!

It was only a couple of seconds after turning around that I heard the crash. “Uh-oh, that can’t be good.”

Both computers fell two feet to the ground.   At first everything seemed okay  Until we took a look at our hard drive.

Dave had just mentioned that he had better back up his photos onto another drive the other day.  Isn’t that always the way.

We haven’t used our online storage when travelling because it is too slow for uploading on the turtle like Internet servers that we so often encounter.  But we do make sure to have a couple of back up plans.  The problem is that Fiji and China were fast paced travels and we didn’t have much time to do anything other than manage to put up our posts and sent tweets and facebook updates from our iPhone.

Our Broken Hard Drive-yes, I turned the photo upside down so you could read "warranty void if broken "

Any technical and extra stuff had to be put on hold.

Once Muay Thai was over, our first order of business was to take care of all the little things that need to be done. Like backing up our photos.

We just about had a heart attack when we looked at the crushed casing and saw that the computers landed directly on the spot stating “warranty void if broken.”  The seal was broken right down the middle of these words!

Orphanage Put’s it All in Perspective

We didn’t have time to assess that damage as we had to leave for the orphanage.  So we left thinking that all our photos were gone, we were down $300 bucks for a new hard drive and we weren’t sure of the damage to our computers.  Mine received a nice little dent that can’t be good for it’s internal organs.

We had a wonderful time at the orphanage and it put everything into Perspective.

There are a lot more things to worry about than a few lost photos and a little money.  There are children in need whose parents are sitting in jail while they are being raised by strangers.  There are kids that don’t have hope for the future and very little opportunity to go to school or find a job when they grow up. There are children stuck in the system that aren’t given opportunities.

Luckily there are places like Child Watch Phuket that are doing their part to make life easier for families in need and giving children a chance at a normal and healthy future.

We wrote more about Child Watch Phuket in Rawai Muay Thai Gives Back.

After our visit to the orphanage, we asked Diana to drop us off at the mall.  It looks like we were going to miss our final session of boxing today as well.  We weren’t sure if our hard drive survived and if it did, it wasn’t going to last long so we had to buy a new one.

Luckily, Thailand is progressing at lightening speed and there is an Apple Store in the Central Festival Mall in Phuket Town.  We bought two 500 gig hard drives and returned via Songthaew to Rawai beach.

Note: Phuket is expensive to get around. Tuk Tuk drivers have joined forces and there are minimum fares everywhere.  To take a tuk tuk to Rawai from Phuket you can pay 400-500 baht ($13-$15)  However, you can take a songthaew all over the island for 20 baht per person (less than $1) It may take longer, but you can save a lot of money while getting to chat with the local people.

We had to laugh on our way home with our new friend Shane and Eve.  The women in the tuk tuk were fascinated with Eve’s legs.  The kept grabbing them and rubbing them and saying something in Thai that we couldn’t understand.  Eve was great, she just grabbed their legs back, smiled and said things like yes, I do Muay Thai.  I am pretty sure they were impressed with her muscles.  It was amazing.  Where else does a complete stranger just grab a persons leg and examine it in public like they had never seen anything like it.

Only in Asia baby.

Update:
Our hard drive held on and we were able to transfer all our images over to the new hard drives and they are backed DVD’s too. We won’t be losing any of our images from China anytime soon.
The computers are working and that is a testament to Mac products.  My computer handled a pretty nasty dent, but I guess that titanium body did it’s job.

More posts on Muay Thai Training

• Rawai Muay Thai, Will We Make it?
• Wai Kru Ceremony
• Hot and Sweaty at Rawai Muay Thai
• Muay Thai Training, It’s Getting Harder!
• Kickboxing with Rawai Muay Thai

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Bungalows At Rawai Muay Thai on the Premises

Delux with Air conditioning:

• Weekly Rate: 5000 Baht ($166 Can/US) that is only $23 per day
• Daily Rate:  1000 Baht ($33 Can/US)

Shared Twin Rooms – Fan Only

• Weekly Rate: 1500 Baht ($50 Can/US) per person that is $7 per day
• Daily Rate: 300 Baht ($10 Can/US) per person

Training

• 3000 Baht ($100 US/Can) per week- $14 per day.
• 500 Baht ($16 US/Can) per day

Training includes:

• up to 3 group classes per day.
• Classes are two hours in length.
• Unlimited use of weights, and training machines.

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