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TRAVEL MEMOIR - LAURA DAL FARRA

 

You've found my nomadic journals and muay thai training memoirs. My style of living the nomadic life is one of fully living in the present, while investing, not grasping for the future. My mode of travel is one that focuses on quality experiences rather than travel materialism where the quantity of destinations override the experience. I also like to get silly sometimes.

Understanding Isaan Weddings

May 27, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 2 Comments

Pra Kru Yai buriram

    Approximately one week after my post Muay Thai In Limbo, I found out that Gai, my trainer was getting married within two weeks.  One of his oldest friends mentioned it to me and they had just found out that day.  If what I've been told is correct, Gai had recently found out.  Perhaps a few weeks prior, possibly a few months, no one I spoke to really knew.  This, from what I've been told by a number of people is normal.   Families and/or monks often deem that people are to marry and when, not the people dating.   In addition, the people who are getting married aren't obligated to tell their friends.  Many don't.   I've learned to stop … [Read more...]

Sexuality in Thailand – Lolito

May 20, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 9 Comments

sexuality in thailand

    Standard swim gear for women out here in Buriram isn't on par with the West, nor with the tourist areas of Thailand.  Country chicks tend to wear a t-shirt and shorts.  The community pool in the city has a regulation against this, so most girls wear full piece swimsuits.  Full piece swimsuits I couldn't imagine wearing when I'm sixty.  Full piece swimsuits I couldn't imagine wearing if I was sixty in 1960.  Bikinis seem to be out unless you're a hooker with the Farang-of-the-week-you-picked-up-in-Pattaya-and-brought-back-to-meet-your-family-to-prove-you-really-do-love-him.  And even that's rare.  They usually cover up too.   So, I've taken to wearing a mock … [Read more...]

Tales Of The Zombie Hooker

May 6, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 7 Comments

Green Hotel, Bangkok

    Determining what I was going to discuss on MBSB has proven to be more of a challenge than expected.  I'm hit with a lot of interesting moments, but what do I write about?  What is too much?   The protocol is to relay my truth, to not dance around things while maintaining an atmosphere of respect. At the very least, as much respect as I believe the situation allows while maintaining my truth.   Sensationalism is empty and weak.  An attempt to elicit attention, reaction in its most base form.  It lacks soul.   I want the reader to understand the context of the content on MBSB via my experiences, hence the personal nature of this site.  … [Read more...]

Muay Thai Training In Limbo

April 25, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra Leave a Comment

laura-dal-farra-muay-thai

    When I first started training with Gai a year ago, I called up one of my friends and shouted, 'He treats me like a chicken!'. This translates as - I was being taken care of.   Chicken fights can be big business out here and I've seen men treat their fowl with more respect and care than I've seen nak muays receive at a gym.   Nothing like looking at a bird and thinking, "Wow, one day I want what you've got" (minus having a feather shoved up my rectum then down my throat to make weight).   That being said, Thailand is a random place where the majority of the population lives in the present. Great while vacationing, a bit to get used to when you're … [Read more...]

Beginnings: The Kru II

April 13, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra Leave a Comment

muay thai gym buriram thailand

    Sometimes I follow that which I can't explain and that which makes absolutely no sense to the people around me. Often, those are the moves that I benefit from the most. I'm not saying my life becomes easier, I just grow. Meeting Gai and deciding to train with him was one of those moves.   The general protocol at a muay thai gym in Thailand is as follows:   Mornings - a 10 km run followed by bag work and three to five, five minute rounds on pads   Afternoons - a 5 - 10 km run (or 30 minutes skipping), bag work, five, five minute rounds on pads, clinching and/or sparring.   An average day of training may be approximately five to six … [Read more...]

Beginnings: The Kru

April 13, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 3 Comments

Lumpinee Stadium, Bangkok

    This is the only video I've been able to find of my trainer/kru. He comes in at 1.46 and at 1.54 gets KO'd.   When I saw this, it wasn't the KO that I took great note of, it was how hard he tried to get up.   His fight name is Sataban Tor Ratonakiet, nickname Gai and he never won a belt. Belts are cool, but not having one doesn't define you as a less than great fighter in my opinion. Neither does getting knocked out on YouTube. I equate it to assuming all the smartest kids got the best grades in school. Granted, some of them did, but not all of them. And realistically, fighting is like anything else, we all get knocked out eventually. But do we … [Read more...]

Beginnings: The City – Buriram, Isaan

April 13, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 12 Comments

Lampaimat Muay Thai

    The Buriram I live, may not be the Buriram you know.   More often than not, when I tell Thai nationals who aren't born of this region that I live in Buriram, my statement elicits a variety of mixed reactions - confusion, shock, and disdain generally being the top three.  Adding that I train muay thai doesn't work in my favour.   The region of Isaan, situated in the North East, is Thailand's poorest.   Buriram, in the southern hemisphere is one of the poorest provinces of the region - it's also one of the major suppliers of sex trade workers to Pattaya and Bangkok. Among the lower classes, a proportionate number of females work the bars and … [Read more...]

Beginnings: The Country – Thailand

April 13, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra Leave a Comment

Bangkok-Graffiti

    The Thailand I live, may not be the Thailand you know. I haven't been able to find a reference point for it in any literature I've found. I know few people who relate to it.   I train Muay Thai or Thai boxing, fulltime.   Tourist attractions and most things status quo rarely interest me. As a result, I've tried to follow my own path in this country, as well as within the culture of Muay Thai.   At the time of this writing, Thailand has been my base in Asia for approximately two years.   Thailand has changed me. At times I feel as though there is a Western me and an Eastern me, neither really fitting into either stereotyped … [Read more...]

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