Sperm on the Move

It’s my last year of  high school and I am a goaltender with the Belleville Bulls and the Trenton Bobcats.  I had my right knee operated on, and as I said previously my girl friend at the time was sleeping with another guy….and not being honest about it. Needless to say, that was going no where very very fast.

So, I am moving into my new billets place but I accidently walk in to the wrong apartment, and it turns out….that would be one of the biggest and longest mistakes of my life.  I walked in to JC’s apartment (no not Jesus Christ) later I found out she thought she was related to the family some how.  So….one friday evening after settling into my new surroundings, I was turning 19 years of age, and having lived on my own for a few years already….I am still very tender to the ways of the world, I mean after all…I was only turning 19.  I am very insecure especially since I am still rebounding from my then 2 year relationship which had ended very badly.  So, its Friday evening, I am working at the Belleville Bulls Summer Hockey Camp as a goalie coach, JC ends up coming over to my new apartment, and we have a pretty happy party.  Now I am still under age, and really I had never drank before.  I think this is where I got the liking for Rye, Crown Royal to be exact.

So I am pretty drunk, JC is mixing the drinks..making mine strong and hers weak…and one thing leads to another and we are kissing touching caressing on the couch, floor her apartment, and finally into her bed.  I am rather taken with the attention I am receiving, I mean after all this woman is 10 years my senior and a Catholic School teacher to boot.  I mean wow!!  Here we are in bed…and I can not seal the deal.  No not boozers droop, but the fact she is terrified of getting pregnant.  I respect that fear…not to worry I say, I have a condom, and no, that is not good enough, it could break.  Ok that is fair.  What, I can put it inside of you…but not move it around!  What?  Well if it were to break…I could get pregnant.  Mmm well ok.  How about move it slowly?  Nope…just put it inside.  Ah ok!

So, as the evening ends with an incredible case of blue balls, I find myself wondering what the heck!!  We do not see one another for a couple of days, and the next time I see her, she tells me she is going on the pill…just in case.  I say in case what?  I get told that I may be able to put it inside her again…but not really move it around…you know, in case the condom breaks.  After all she wants to save it for the wedding night.  Ah Ah…ok I say.  So once again why going on the pill?  She explains to me that just in case she gives me a hand job and I cum on her…she is worried they may crawl inside her, and get her pregnant.

So, there is more to this story, this is really only the first month or so of what would turn into a marriage that ends in disaster, one that till this day I am still paying for.  But I want you to sit back and close your eyes…and think.  Ready….she is a school teacher!  She teaches your children…and she thinks sperm might crawl inside her and get her pregnant….she was 28 years of age when we met….she feed booze to a minor…and she is hopefully not teaching Sex Ed to anyone!!

So this is Part 2 to my ramblings and confessions.  Remember the truth shall set you free….and I am hoping to receive some freedom, so I can carry on my life, with a lovely amazing crazy beautiful woman!!

A couple of nights ago, I wandered through, and started checking out some of the dishes that are offered.  BBQ’s pork, beef, chicken, Eel, Sting rays, beetles, noodles, and some of the most amazing home made fruit shakes.  Oh and of course, the chicken in the egg…steamed, which I have not had the fortitude to try…but I have heard it is very tasty.

As I wandered to work this morning, I thought I would check and see what the aftermath is like at the night market.  Sure enough, work is where many live, tarps and cots, but there is the odd shop open and willing to serve the crazy bald guy with the camera.  This morning, I watched my favourite stall owner, loading what I thought was bottles of gasoline, but it turned out to be used water bottles, funnel, and a cup or so of home made Rice Wine.  He is filling the bottles so it can go on ice and chilled for this evenings business hours.  Of course, I was offered a taste, or bottle free or at a price, I could tell I recognized enough to be treated as a friend, and welcomed to take pictures and ask questions.

The Night Market should not be missed….the food, drink is good…and the cost is out of this world…dinner being $5,000 Riel, or $1.25 USD, though the chicken wings are no where near as good as the Ripe Tides in Campbell River!!

Sunset on The South China Sea

From the small town streets of Ontario Canada, to world travels in the Navy, and now, here I am spending many days on this small relaxing tropical Island in the South China Sea…who could imagined.

Back in high school I can remember my guidance counsellor Mr French, explain to me that I would amount to nothing, I was a dreamer, and I needed to settle down and get my career path picked, which of course meant that big house, wife, 2.5 kids, and bills and bills.  Well I tried it Mr French and it was not for me.  Actually I tried two wives, the first did not last, and the second well she drove me into the ground…as she continues to try, which will be another story.  But needless to say, I think I am doing ok for myself.

Do you know how many people wish they were doing what I was doing right now.  I mean really…they spend years saving, skimping and trying to get as much money put away so they can come to places like this and spend days…not weeks and months as I do.  Really….kind of strange when you think about it.   Everyday, I listen to people speak of how much they hate their lives, wish they were free, and able to do as they wished.  They listened to people like Mr. French, prescribed to the house, 2.5 kids bills and bills…now they wish they were free to do as they wanted.  Is that why there are so many unhappy people in the world….yes I think so.

EcoSea Bungalows

If you are looking for a place to get away to, where life is simple…and easy…why not stop by and say hi to the small town Canadian Boy, the one who amounted to little…but is living life large.  I would like to say thank you to Mr. French, he tried to force it on me…and that is why I resisted.

Really though, what is great? Making lots of money? Owning big homes? Is greatness measured in the things one surround ones self with, or is by the number of truly great friends…even if that number is only one. So, really where did it all go wrong?

Maybe if I go back to my mid teens, when my first girl friend decided to cheat on my while I was away playing hockey. Or, was it simply that I was away or moved away at such a tender age, really if anyone out there wants to comment then please feel free.

As I sit here, I think what really defines a person is how they have loved and been loved. The North American way of counting materialistic things as being important is really sad. It really only makes people more unhappy. I know so many people with so very much in life, and yet they are still unhappy.

So, I will count the first strike against me, is my then girl friend Carolyn Day, high school sweet heart, sleeping (screwing, fucking) her friends brother, while I was in the hospital getting operated on as the first dent in my belief system.

Cambodian Wedding

There I lay, it’s three O clock in the morning, with the shrill sounds of the orient ripping through the peaceful early morning. Sounds and smells forgotten from what seems like a life time ago. Having spent many months living and working in South East Asia, I have a love for the people and customs though I can hard say I understand everything. I try to stay back and watch, I am that foreign observer who is in the back, watching, listening and inevitability snapping pictures at every thing I can possibly find.

Today’s treat for me is a real Cambodian Wedding and reception right out the front of the very place I am currently living. I am amazed with the traditional costumes, and ceremony that is taking place and as is the case for me at least, the sights of the most beautiful Asian woman, running about fussing with everything in order to make the day a special time for their friends who are joining union.

I fear that where I come from that special time has been overcast with trying to out due one another in costs, and lavish gifts., like everything else that happens back in the world from where I come. A place where people can not afford to live, where the rich continue to get richer and the poor even more poor…where people live on the streets and in their broken down cars because they can not afford the simple things such as rent and food.

Phnom Penh Airport

After 28 hours of travel time, I have arrived to what will be my new home for the foreseeable future. Even knowing what to expect has not totally prepared me for what I experienced last evening. Somethings are so familiar and others are totally new and unexpected. Firstly which was a shock was when I arrived at the dive center, there is almost a strip mall where once stood huts made of palm fronds, shocked is the word. Some of the places I would eat, socialize and drink at where there, names that I recognized however they looked foreign to me. The people are as friendly as ever, however my North American guard is still up, cautious as what to say, or whether to look at people as is the way in Vancouver ever fearful…this will revert back to the friendly manner I once had while living in South East Asia.

Surprisingly the temperature is cooler then I would have thought, though a big storm had blown through the day of my arrival so it is rather nice to give me a chance to get use to the temperatures…before they go through the roof. I am sitting on the balcony of my apartment, watching the huge number of scooters go past, amazed once again by the number of people and the various items people are comfortable of traveling with. Hoping one day soon, I too will be one of the masses traveling who knows where in the throngs of people.

The last thing to add is, if you have the opportunity to flight on Korean Airlines do not pass up the chance. I was treated very very well, and the services was extremely well done, even though I was one of the ones in the cattle car. Though it was tight, I made my connection with little troubles, as did all of my luggage.

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Cambodia Flag

So far so good.  Things are falling into place like things were meant to be.  Sun was out yesterday, enjoyed dinner with friends, my drivers license made it to me in time.  What seriously…I was told most likely ten weeks, and a short 5 days later, I have the identification in my fingers!

Thinking of traveling to South East Asia, not sure, want information from someone who has done it, well this is my 4th trip to Asia, two with the Canadian Military, and now two post military time.  I am backpacking it, walking, busing, and whatever else it takes to get me where I want to be.

So far so good….hotel tonight, flight tomorrow.  Stay tuned for more!!

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