Day 130

Bungee jumped today. Scariest thing ive ever done. Your basically fighting every human survival instinct ever. Do not try and kill yourself. Do not go up higher than you need to. Do not jump off things higher than your head. Do not do all of the above backwards. Obviously im making these up, apart from the do not try and kill yourself thing.

The first time i jumped i wasn't scared. I got tied in. Waddled over to the platform. Looked over (my stomach dropped a little. 50 metres is very high) Then 5,4,3,2,1 i jumped off. Now i had decided not to think and just do. This is what i did. However, after you jump you think, and then you panic, and then you are overwhelmed by sheer unadulterated fear. I had never felt so afraid in my life. For those 3 seconds your in free fall you don't feel the rope on your legs. You don't see the rope. Your too busy watching the water come up to greet you with a big smile which says 'your mine now bitch'. For those 3 seconds i thought i was gonna die. Then the rope tugs and you slow down. Your hand scrapes the top of the water 'not today bitch' and after your stomach catches up with the rest of your body, you are overpowered by this sense of euphoria. Like you survived to live another day. Obviously this feeling is over in a second. You realise you were never in real danger. All that's left to do, is do it again, to get that same adrenaline rush. So that's what i did. I did it again. Backwards.

Second time was much harder. I had to wait for countless victims to chuck them selves off the platform. Then it was my go. I had wanted to do a roof jump. They tie you in to a harness instead so your legs a free. That way you can run and jump of the edge. Sounded much more fun. Its cost double so i didn't bother. My mate talked me into doing it backwards. I wasn't too thrilled but we both decided to do it. I was first. Now if its hard to go to the edge, look down and then leap off its even harder to go to the edge, turn around, lean back with the guy holding onto you and then watch his hands let go. I wasn't ready, the guy holding me knew i wasn't ready, the people in the Que knew i wasn't ready. In that 0.5 seconds after he let me go i think i shouted every curse word i had in my vocabulary and some words i just made up. All of them aimed at the man who had just let me die. I watched the platform rush away from me and again i felt like i was going to die. And like last time, the sudden rush of adrenaline swept over me and i was once again safe and sound being man handled into a boat. Easily the scariest thing Ive done, ever! that includes skydiving which is a peace of cake in comparison. Next stop is the 233metre bungee in Macau. Nearly 5 times what i just did...