Kings,cops and coloured shirts

wanna start off with that i saw an amazing film lastnight,Law Obainding Citizen,i think it was called,with jamie foxx,it was really good!! check it out if it you can..

If u been to the movies in Thailand,then u know that before the movies starts,all of the people inside the cinema have to stand up and watch a 5 minute movie in celebration to his majesty the king,i really like that the thais r so proud of their country,everyday at 18.00 o clock,all the channels play the national anthem and ofcourse pictures of the king,i remember one time,a guy ask me if we have a king in sweden,and i said yeah sure.

Then he wanted to see a picture,but i said i didnt have one on me,and he was schocked..

-you dont like your king?

i said he is ok,but if they would know about our relationship with our king,i mean he is like a mascot almost,and all the shit he gets in the media,and hey baberiba and stuff,he is like a joke for most of us.

Here its VERY different, you want an exampel??

Ok,some years ago there was one man from switzerland,that was drunk and he drew a moustach on a painting of the king,and the thais that saw this,beat the shit out of him,and he got 60 years in the can!

2 years ago the king turned 80(on a monday),and it was a huge celebration,and all the people here dressed in yellow shirts to honour the king(thats the colour of the royal house) and they kept on with that,so every monday,if u walked the streets everything was yellow,it looked amazing,then only a while after he got sick,and was in hospital for a while,and when he had recovered,he made a public appereance wearing a pink shirt,and this was a wednesday,so then all the people started wearing pink shirts on wedenesdays!!!!and it kept on like this so on thursdays the had blue shirts,but after a while only the yellow mondays remained.

but last year i was here i put on my yellow shirt,because it was monday,but i was told to change right away!! I didnt understand,but as u probably know,there is political clasches in thailand at the moment,and the people are divivded in to 2 groups:1.the people that support thaksin(ex president)they wear red shirts!! 2.the people that dont support him,they wear yellow shirts.

So if u wear any of these shirts u risk to get your azz kicked or worse if u meet the wrong people..

Today was a normal day I guess,did some forensic work,shot some pictures of a crime scene and..U wondering whats going on huh?

If u followed my blog than u know about my motorbike beeing stolen(but returned)and the police needed some pictures of where i parked the bike the night of the theaft,and i would get my papers back from the cops.

So i went there and thought I would be in and out in 5 minutes,but i was wrong as usuall..

I was shown to his office and when i got there he was interrogating 2 handcuffed youngsters,apparently they had stolen a car,but when i got there he took care of me instead of finishing of with them,and when i gave him my memorycard containing my pictures,he saw some of me boxing and then i was fucked:)one million questions and the afternoon and my plans of starbucks before training was gone in the wind..but it was really interesting spending the afternoon at the station,a lot of badlooking guys in cuffs and they even had a big poster with pictures of wanted people,the guy at the top is worth 5 million bath!!!I will definetely keep an eye up for him!!

wow this turned out to become a long post,but back again on the king and country proud thing,

Its sad that we swedes dont show so much proudness for our country and heritage,I`ve been reading a lot lately about our history,and we got a lot of things to be proud of,we could easily had become a part of denmark at some occacions if some smart and brave people didnt succed with their tasks and battles.wort thinking about i think.

At last i would like to gratulate Sandra Och Pelle and welcome little Eddie in this world!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Live the King

Henke

p.s. the picture is from the poster of the gala on the 19:of december,me and my opponet.

sweet sunday

Today is Sunday,and that means HOLIDAY!!!,the gym is closed on sundays,so i went to the beach with some friends,and it was really hot today,but when i sat down in my beach chair,all the fuckin clouds in thailand came to greet me....so im still as white as the day i arrived at the airport one month ago!!
But white is what everybody here wants to be!,u will never see a thai licking sun at a beach,instead they like to bring an umbrella if its sunny,or why not a skimask..still remember first time i saw a guy with a skimask,in the middle of the day,i was inside a 7 eleven and he came in,and i thought he was robbing the place(to many movies),but all he wanted was a pack of smokes..its rather easy i guess,the poor people working in the ricefields and so on,they got really black skin,but the rich and glamourous stays inside during the day,wich gives them white skin,so basically the darker skin u got,the poorer u are.and all the beutiful people in the soap operas wich is playing 24/7 here is ofcourse very white.So all u ladies leaving for thailand,be aware when u buy skinproducts in the stores here(bodylotion etc..)almost all products contains somekind of whitening lotion!!

Took massage last night(120b) felt sorry for the old lady,my legs were a mess,the weeks hard training had made all the muscles all cramped up and rockhard,she lasted 40 minutes then she had to take a break.it seemed lika a legit massageplace,but then the boss of the place asked me if i wanted to go upstairs,for a more intimate massage.
-Many beutiful girls upstairs,he said.
Im fine,I responded,just really need a good massage..

Last night i ate at a mexican restaurant,then i went to the movies,i saw Surrogates,with Bruce Willis,wasnt good at all,like a rip off of I ROBOT.
thats how i spend my saturdays night out here in thailand..
Its 1 month until its time to step into the ring,so now all focus is on training,and its a tough life,i have to start watch my wheight to,and thats one of the hardest things,like torture really,you train like a madman and your body is screaming for food,but you cant eat how much u want and more sad,what u want:( after some weeks u could kill for a pizza...
The worst wheightloss i have made,was at the last Swedish Championship,I was gonna fight at -81kg,so ihad to cut down 5kgs and it was a struggle,more on the pshycological level then then fhysical,i dreamt about food all the time.
But i just barely made the wheigh inn,in the morning,and then i could eat to get my power back for the fight,and it turned out i was gonna fight like 18.00 o clock,and i won the fight,and made it to the finals,I got back to the hotel at around 20,00 an when i checked my wheight the scale said 86,4kg!!! and next morning we had to check wheight again for the finalfights,so i had to loose 5.5kg in a few hours,now that was a struggle...
But this time im fighting in -86kg,so it wont be to bad,actually im like 82kg now,so ihave some muscles to gain.

now its time to looka the game thats playing..liverpool man u!!!!!!!!!!
fridens liljor
henke

My new hobby

Just finished a meal of chicken with cashewnuts,and this is my new hobby,by now i train 2 sessions a day,and my brain has got used to this very monotom lifestyle,eat,train,sleep,eat..

I started the day with a morning run,and came back and had a protein shake,and then took a nap(zzz)woke up and went to Carrefour(a big supermarketchain,from france i think)
and they have food court,this is the shit!!! u charge a foodcreditcard wit an amount of your choice,and then u can use it in any of the 25 small foodshops,its mainly thaifood,but they have sushi,pasta,pizza aswell(i had all 3 today..)
but its a really good idea,we should have that in sweden.
After that i went inside the supermarket,and bought egg,minced pork(for my morning omelette)
anf coffee and some other stuff,got back to my room and had a big cup of coffee and read my book,this is my youga of the day,a good book and coffee,its so relaxing..
Then i took my bike to training,and today was my best session so far,my trainers arms gave up after 4 rounds,from the pounding of my kicks,tha last rounds i was only allowed to knee..

wow,itr getting late,and im off to say goodbye to a friend who is leaving tomorrow.

ha det bäst allihop!!

henke

Some sweet and some sour..

Just got back from a flee market,i love thai markets,a lot of funny games,and second hand clothes(u can find some cool vintage tshirts..) i almost won at bingo,i split the win with another guy,so we had to draw sticks and his stick was unfortunatly longer than mine:(

But i took the lose lika a man and bought an ice cream!!

Now im sitting and chilling as usual at Sanya Apartments,Sanya is my friend Skylabs sister,so this is my 2 home here,they have beutiful rooms,kingsize bed,sofa,tv,aircon,fridge,dvd,tv,the works for only 490 B=100kr per natt!!!

Ok,enough with the commercials(did i mention the splendid coffee they have;)

I really miss my brothers company,and its gonna be a while until i can speak swedish with someone.

So whats been going on?

Ok,i start with a funny thing,last day at the camp,a big fat arab came,and wanted to fight me,right now right here he said!! ha ha,all the coaches got excited,and i stood up and said bring it,but instead he got back on his bike and took off..he he there is a lot of idiots in this town i guess..

And now for something not so funny,i got the schedule for the world championship next week,and an email from the swedish headcoach,and all of the fighters have to stay at a certain hotel(luxury),they booked up all 700 rooms for us,and its gonna be real expensive it turns out,i have to stay there for 2 weeks and ofcourse im payin for it myself...sucks big time!!!!

ok,now its time to go to the market and buy a watermelon shake and something to eat,and ofcourse some weetabix for breakfast tomorrow.

warn greetings from mr lingnoi

not a nice awakening...

woke up this morning(not a blue song;),in the middle of the night,someone was banging on my door,and lights flashing outside,as i opened the door,i saw 3 police officers,and my stomach turned around,and my blood froze,is was barely awake,but the only thing i could think about,was that something happened to freddie,but it turned out that some idiot had stole my motorbike,infact he was sitting on the pavement,handcuffed and apolagizing..

a few hours earlier he had stolen my bike,i had forgot to lock the handlebar,so he had walked away with it and then outside,his girlfriend started her motorbike,and he had, held on the her so they could get away,but lucky for me,someone had seem them and he understood that they probably had stolen it,since the engine wasnt running.

I had to go with them to the police station,and i knew that this would take a while,im no stranger to the police station here,infact i was there last week,and paid fines(i intend to forget my helmet:) and last week it took me a hour to sort things out,so i knew this would take a while...

9 o clock in the morning i could go home,and i couldnt go back to sleep,because of the light,and the fact that they are building a new hotel on my backyard..so you could just imagine how my training was...i sucked!!

Anyway,now its soon 21.00 in the night and its freddies last saturday here,so i guess maybe we go out and check things out

Ha en trevlig helg där hemma o veva på ni på stadt,så gästerna får krossad is!!!he he'

puss

no more beach

Siting here eating my bowl of weetabix,just chilling before its of to training,the weather is getting hotter now,and i cant spend the days outside anymore in the daytime,i did that mistake yesterday,it was a really nice day,so we went to the beach,i was in the shade all the time,and afterwards i put on my shoes and ran straight to the gym from the beach,and i was feeling really lame from all the heat,and when i came to the gym,i felt it was a mistake to have spend the day at the beach,and now,the trainers push me more everyday.

So last night training started with 50 kicks per leg,i really like to start work the bag,to get my rythm and pace,but no no,and after the kicks straight in to the ring to work the pads,5 rounds and 2 rounds of boxing,and then 200 knees on the bag,i was a mess after this,so there is no more beach for me now,i have to realize im not here backpacking;)

But last night was a lot of fun,i got freetickets for a CARABAO concert(once again its good to hang with skylab),they are like Thailands answer to Gyllene tider..he he,exept they are all bikers,so all the bikers in thailand was there,including bandidos,HA and those guys so there were like 50 policemen,because there is always a lot of fighting at their concerts,and skylab was gonna go with us so for us there was a 100% chance of us ending up in a fight.But he couldnt come,so it was for the better.

On monday freddie is going back home,so thats sad and i will miss his company alot,but then i can start put 100% focus on my training,wich is good,now its like 5 weeks left for my rumble in the ring,so it feels good.

ok,time to finnish my coffe and then its of to gladiatorschool;)

love u all

hanky

Basic Life

Right now the rain is poring down outside,and I just saw that Denmark came out as winners from last nights bout with Sweden,that sucks..

Life over here is good as always,its pretty basic and my days intend to look the same,day by day..

i wake up,as always to late..i have to stop my latenight pokersessions! and then i take my bike and speed of to my brothers hotel,and there we eat,and drink coffee and chill out,and then its time for training,and 3 hours later when the training is finished,we go and eat somewhere,last night we treated us with a real nice seafood restaurant,where we ate 2 big snappers and oysters and raw tigershrimps as starters,and a nice crisp chardonnay..very nice and unfortunatly very expensive too..

And in the evenings we mostly hangout on the terrace of the hotel,reading books or playing online poker.So exxept from training im not doing much over here.

I lost 4kg already,and my stamina has increased alot in this little time,my trainers want me to fight soon,but my headtrainer(Becker)back home,says no fights before the IMFA In Bangkok next month,and he is probably right,2 years ago i was gonna compete in the IMFA,but 2o days

before i had a fight and i injured my knee,and couldnt fight for over a year,so it gor the best that i relax and focus for tje IMFA.

I already have a fight scheduled for the 19 of december,its looks to be a really big gala,Posters is already out here,they usually put out posters and advertise 1 week before the fightnights.

I gonna fight a italian guy named christian,i have seen him fight before in bangkok on the tsunami charity gala,so he is gonna be a tough one to crack,I`ve seen pictures of him with several belts.Seems like a good fight,and i think the money will be good(it will pay my ticket to bali).

Now im gonna order a big cup of coffee and read the last pages of "the lost symbol" of Dan Brown,its really good like all of his books,i know the movies suck,but the books is the shit.

ok have a nice day back home,and thanks to krikelin o nastic and sandy,who actually reads my posts;)

puss o kram på er.

Henke

A Portrait of a Legend

Thought i write a piece about one of my best friends SKYLAB.

Lets start with his name,even that has a story,the same week as he was born the first international Spacelab ,that was in orbit around earth,crashed down in the gulf of thailand,so his parents ended up naming him after the Spacelab wich was called SKYLAB.

He is born in a small village in the norteast of thailand,and started with Muay Thai when he was just a boy to help his family with money,I once asked him how old he was when he had his first fight,he dont remember the age ,only that he was 28kg!!!After some time he and his 2 brothers starting make a name for themselves in the Muay Thai scene,their fightingname beeing Chuknalai,at this time skylab used to change his name to get easy fights in small fighting venues,and when he fought he put his shorts on inside and out,because he had his real name on the shorts,but one time he forgot,and when they were gonna start fighting,his opponent glanced down at the shorts,and then turned around and climbed out of the ring:)

But at the age of 18 and over 150+ fights he stopped fighting,and he became head of his village and shortly over 2 nearby villages to.For those of u that dont understand what that means lets just start explaining about the life in the countryside of norteast thailand,its very tough,a life isnt worth as much as back home,and there is still killings between the villages,mostly over land disputes,and the head of ones village is like a godfather,sure the police comes if someone has been killed,but its the family of the involved that has to set the record straight,it always come down to money.

EXAMPLES:

ok,here is some stuff i experienced from my time up there.

1.Bad boy Ded boy

There was a young teen that got caught stealing motorbikes,he went to prison and once he was out,he got caught again,for the same thing,he got back in jail,and once out,the cops went to his home and found once again stolen bikes,they shoot him right there,in his home,there was some people that wanted the cops to go to prison,but the whole village voted about it and the cops went free....

2.Cash is King

a young boy in my village shot another young teen in the head,and their families had a big meeting the day after and the only subject was money,it ended up with that the family of the murdurer,had to pay the ded teens dad 150 000b(30 tusen kr) and 50 000b for the police,and one week later the dad of the ded teen drove in our camp,with the new car he bought,and he was actually smiling and showing of his new ride...sick

So the content of this is that the people are tough,and mostpart of the top Thaiboxers come from this poor part of thailand.

Ok,here is another story for u,Sometimes they have molam parties in thailand,and its just crazy,let me explain,take a ricefield,build a stage,book some bad perfomers,and invite all the nearby villages and u got a molam party,I`ve been to several and the record is 58 minutes...,thats how long it took before they started fighting,and i dont mean rallarsvingar and stuff,these guys got axes,knifes u name it..its really scary,im pretty sure some of the guys i`ve seen afterwards didnt make it,but now back to the story(skylabs sister told me this story at a party,they think its a real funny story)

ok,molam party,and one guy wants to fight with skylab and take over as head of one village,and they start. Skylabs weapon of choice is a machete,his opponents prefer an axe,not long into the fight skylabs slashes his opponent with a bad cut on his head,and he backs of,but at the next molam party,some guys come to skylab and says that the guy want a "rematch" and here is the funny part,when he walks up on skylab,he is wearing a big motorbike helmet,this was the end of the funny storie,and everybody was laughing,and i asked skylab what happend in the fight,and he said:aha,that funny to,because he had helmet but i cut him in the stomach!!i asked if he died,and the answer was maybe.

Wow this turned out to be a long post,and i havnt got far in my portrait of my friend,but maybe i will post a part 2 if soméone is intrested to know more.

time for bed i guess

henke

Living La Vida Loca

Sitting and sweating at freddies hotel as always(they got free internet,so i intend to stay here a lot..)

and the female staff is right now fighting about freddie and giving him dirty proposals,ha ha the ladies over here are something else!!Yesterday was a very relaxed Sunday,didnt do anything really,i realized i havnt relaxed since i got here,i really should take a day at the beach and go for a swim like a normal tourist..

Todays training was as tough as ever,i started the day with a REALLY spicy thai dish,and then went to starbucks for a BIG cup of coffee,this resulted in 30 minutes nightnare in the toilet,i think i lost all the food i ate since i got here,maybe even the foccacia i ate at paginini before i went to the airport:)

So training was rough,since i had no energy in my poor body.

Just came back from a game of snooker with Skylab,he is such a character,last night 2 iraq guys where playing with their bikes and disturbing his snooker game,they didnt stop so he just did as he always does,he knocked them out,and then their friends wanted to call the police,but Skylab has his own idea...he called the police himself because he wanted money from the iraq guys,because he hurt his knuckles..i think i will write a post about him.

Now i will try my luck at pokerstars and then its of to bed.

Chok dee

Sponsors

U might think that somoene who is gonna compete for the national Swedish Team at the IMFA 2009 World Championship,that is held every year in Bangkok,shouldnt have to pay for the ticket down here,hotel,and training fees and on and on,..

Well the thing is that i have to pay for everything myself,i wouldnt be surprised if i had to pay some fee for competing aswell.

Therefore,i spend this summer working my ass of,so i can get down here,and theres been little time for me to train this summer,so now im not even close to my fightingshape,but i have 7 weeks so it wont be a problem.

But there is no need for me to be bitching about this,has been like this since i started train Muay Thai.

But there is some people back home,that helped me on my preparation for the IMFA Championship.

First of all i would like to thank my homecamp FightCampWarberg for always backing me up,and also Magnus and Björn At Kvantum for their help,and at last Johan the owner and founder of the new Fighting and Clothing Brand RING KING,wich i think will be very big soon.

And also to the people that has tried.

Kap kun kap

easy life

Hello si!!!

First of all i have to admit that i made a mistake in my last post,the camp im staying at now is called Sitjaipedtch,i wrote the post right after training,and i mixed up the names,i just came back from training now aswell,and lets just say i aint crisp...the trainers are really pushing me hard,me and my trainer start the day with a long run,all the way to the base of Buddha hill( a small mountain with a monestary on the top),and i run all the way to the top and then back again ,and then back to the camp,and ofcourse my trainer stay on his motorbike the whole time:)

Then i start of with some round at the bags,(1 round here is 4 minutes) and then its time for the pad rounds,and they are tough,almost only double kicks,and each round we finish of with 10 kicks per leg.

But i really likes this camp,i will go up nort this month to train at my other homecamp,but im thinking about staying at this camp for the duration of my stay.

Otherwise there is not much happening over here,im just chilling in the days,and tomorrow is sunday,so the camp is closed,so maybe its a good time to go to the beach and work on my tan:)

and take my first swim in the ocean...

Ok take care back home.

Hanky Panky

Lingnoi Sor. Plaenchit

Today has been a good day,went to bed early last night,but couldnt sleep,when its raining down here,its sure is raining,sounded like the roof of my room would cave in.

Woke up and went to freddies(my brother) room,and we had a coffee,and Skylab was already there,so i knew something was going down;) And after 15 minutes Ajarn came,he is a holy man,that does budda tatoes,and now it was freddies time to get one,or 2 as it turned out.

After 90 minutes of pain it was done,really beutiful,i will upload some pictures tomorrow,i need to buy something for my laptop first.

Sor.Pleanchit

I went to Sor. Plaenchit( camp) at 4 o clock,and I was really looking forward to kick some pads(been months since last time) I got a really good wibe when i got there,the trainers was really nice,and one even know who i was ,when i introduced myself as Lingnoi(small monkey,my nickname down here)

It was only me and a young thai ,training,its lowseason here now.(Perfect!!)

Started skipping rope and then hit the bag for a while,and then it was time to show my skills with the pads.

Felt a bit rusty in the beginning,but the thechnics were there and when i started loosing up,my kicks were getting back in shape.

The last round we were joking a round a bit and i showed my range of thechnics,and i got credit and big smiles from the others trainers.

And as he was massaging me with cold water after the pads,he asked me if i can fight next week,

i said i need 2 week to make power,so i guess i will fight in 2 weeks,and as i left he said:

Lingnoi Sor Plaenchit,see u tomorrow na?

So today has been a good day,and its only 8 o clock now.

So tomorrow i will upload some pics from over here.

Over and out from here,wich is paradise by the way;) he he

Henke