I had a twisted return to Phnom Penh. After working in China, a black, nasty, sexless fuckhole, I returned to Thailand with a sick mind bent on fucking filth and doing as many hard-drugs as possible, particularly Kettamine. I desperately screwed the nastiest lady-boy scum on Khoa San.
Plastered in shite after fucking a Shwarzenegger-jawed she-male makes you feel a little shitty, and when they leave a foot-long shitstain on your mattress as they slide their pooey arse off, you are no longer able to pretend you had a bad dream.
Leaving Khoa San on a mini-bus is another shitty experience. Sharing a bus with a bunch of peachy faced, chirpy fuckwits made me grimace Dirty Harry style throughout the trip. The backpacker is a filthy animal, prone to B.O. and should be treated like shite at all times. I sat next to one such freak and stunted his ‘gettin ta know ya’ shite by telling him I’d been having sex with strange men all week and thought I had AIDS. The e-mail swapping shitstain was fake sleeping within minutes, giving me the opportunity to open my legs unfeasibly wide and scowl at the rest of the scum.
Arriving at Poipet I was greeted by filth and poverty which made me happy. I got through immigration with the rest of the animals and thought of saying something foul to the Siem Reap bound fuckwits, instead I decided to give them all one long, last dirty look. No one noticed so I just walked off.
‘Urchins’ were available at my disposal to carry my bags to the hotel. If you’re on a tight budget as I was it’s best to get the little malnourished fucks to lug your shit to your hotel and then throw rocks or beat them off with sticks when you get there. I found the small ones go down like a bag of shit after one blow to the top of the spine. got myself a hotel and searched out some Kettamine. One small pharmacy out of the twenty or so I checked sold me a bottle for a ridiculous 500 Baht, a dusty, old, ‘made in Checzeslovakia’ bottle. Reuniting with my old friend Kettamine brought a tear to my eye as I slammed a fat line up my nose. Next, was to find some action. I banged a Vietnamese slag, hunted down some pharmaceuticals and found myself another slag. I joined my Khmer pro in finding some Ya Ba. I smoked all night with her and became blindingly horny. She sucked my cock with such furious enthusiasm, like a famine-fucked orphan on a chocolate éclair. When I awoke the next morning I remembered the dodgy sex and my face in her border-whore bucket. The next hard drug I was to acquire after my sordid misadventure was Anti-Retroviral pills.
I lay like a corpse, sick in my new apartment for the first month but I was still happy to be back and I had a good friend there to chat and snort K with… The very man in fact they would later hail as ‘The King of Kettamine’! A man capable of legendary K-holing, a pioneer! It was once said this man consumed seven pharmacies worth a day, had his own factory for his consumption and bathed in liquid Kettamine later sucking it down with a straw! I can personally vouch for 3 grammes in one go and 3 bottles in 2 and a half hours.
I found another great friend in XXXX. She was eager to bring the 440ers together, we chatted on the phone and she seemed great, we arranged a meeting and I was keen to see what I imagined as a 40ish, slightly dizzy blonde. She was young, gorgeous and funky. She too had made an error as to who I was, of course a much greater error. As I strutted into the cafe I indicated a Gin and tonic on the rocks with two straws to the waitress with a quick flex of my raging left bicep and a slow wink. As I straddled the chair backwards I pointed my finger at her, loaded gun style… and fired. When I blew the imaginary smoke from my index finger I saw her eye lashes flutter and her eyes roll to the back of her head. I too felt slightly light headed at my own extraordinary coolness.
We became good friends and she had the idea for a party for all 440ers to get together at her place. I liked the idea and hi-jacked it like a rat. The “Horse Party” brought together nearly all of the regulars and some later became solid friends. Pills were flowing and free kettamine was stacked high like a mountain on my coffee table and it took us (some of us) until late the next afternoon to finish it off.
XXXX later introduced me to two good people, ZZZ and YYY as we all sat at the Black Eagle bar one night drooling about good times and memories on drugs. ZZZ had the ingenious idea of buying us all pills and going back to mine for K. We bought some mushy pea looking pills from the acne-scarred lake side dealer so many of us are familiar with. We dropped them and lightly snorted K… I insisted we finish the rest of the K in big fat equal lines each. I scraped, chopped and lined them up as evenly as I thought possible and we all sucked the burning powder up our nostrils and crashed on the mattress.
It was a bottle that was quickly finished by the four of us and the lines were big (for the day)
We melted together, packed ourselves together tightly, cuddling, we felt like we were in a bubble from the world. We were in exactly the same dimension, everything was made of red, dancing squares and the room looked 10 times what it was. We all saw the same. We lay on the mattress for hours feeling like one big, flat, mattress animal. We were one loved up, fucked up creature, not four people. We had a psychic connection at one point; it was very, very strange…
After lying for hours barely moving except to pull each other tighter, we all, without a word to each other, spontaneously sprang up. We instantly realized how wrong it was not to be the flat animal in the bubble and, without a word again, and in synchrony, we fitted back into our gooey, bodily jig-saw and smiled away more hours… (hours/minutes? I don’t know, who knows?)
At one point XXXX broke the bubble by sitting up. There were questions of genuine interest from us of what it was like out there.. out of the bubble. She described a predictably strange world and encouraged us to sit up and see. No one wanted to see, nothing was worth the energy of sitting up and it was quite inconceivable at the time that there could be anywhere in the world possibly nicer than the bubble. The “Bubble” was born. The last two left the mattress at 2 P.M. the following afternoon.
Bubble parties, from then on, had to be every weekend. There were regulars, for whom doing something else just wasn’t thought about, wasn’t an option. There was druggy talk of a global bubble revolution. The parties were at one of three houses every weekend. I bought lighting to trip people out, good music and my (wow! Springs!) mattress went to every house on top of a packed tuk tuk.
Cards were given out to ensure only good people were admitted, if you were liked you got a member’s card and you were part of the weekly scene. It was good times with good, unpretentious people. You didn’t have to be “cool” you just had to be a good person. Dub, Brazilian D&B, Lemon Jelly, Trance, Hard House and Techno blasted out of my stereo, motorbikes roared up and down the alley next to my apartment, people shouted above the music and drugged-tapped people stumbled out of my apartment for months without a single neighborly complaint. The eagerness for the bubble parties brought the parties from the start of Friday to Saturday to Thursday to Monday. These were long weekend benders, sometimes taking us out of the house staggering Evil Dead style to take sketchy taxis so we could take massive lines of K and float like paraplegics in the pitch black warm waters of Sihanoukville.
Of course there were casualties. Collateral damage occurred to the young and foolish. One bouncy tattooed lady snorted the granddaddy of all lines and lost the use of her limbs. She had to be taken away.
One loudmouthed mockney boy-spastic arriving boasted of his monstrous drug exploits and then dropped stone cold dead after swallowing a small pill and snorting a baby girl line of K. He was barred from future gatherings and christened ‘King Bantam: Lord of all Lightweights.’
For anyone who hasn’t tried bubbling, I recommend you try it at least once. I had some of the best times of my life bubbling in Phnom Penh. But after a while I thought I was taking too much drugs, getting my life too fucked up and just going too far and I decided to leave.
What a stupid fucking thing to do! What’s too far in Phnom Penh!? I’ll be back to take it further and harder soon.
Discreet Bubble parties are still alive and kicking in PP thanks to a dedicated hard-core. Mothering NGO’s eradicating K from our beloved pharmacies will never stamp out the fun of fun lovers.