Photos of the New Zealand Cambodian Community at the Auckland International Cultural Festival and Khmer New Years 2005.
Archive for Cambodia
Siem Pang Cycling Trip Xmas 2004
I shall begin this post with a joke I used to find somewhat funny from my childhood. It’s a ‘what’s the definition joke’:
Joker: What’s the definition of pain?
Jokee: I dunno, you’re the funny guy, what?
Joker: Falling out of a tree and landing on a bicycle with no seat.
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Robbers slip back into town
Phnom Penh: Robbers who strike while wearing only underwear, their bodies slathered with oil to make them slippery and harder to catch, have resurfaced in southern Cambodia.
Police thought they had quashed the “underwear gang” last year, with residents starting a community watch program, said Takeo province police chief Sok Tum Sok Tum, but the thieves resurfaced when the villagers stopped. – AP
The Clogosphere
Cambodian + Blogger = Clogger (see the Clogger Google group)
The Wired article, Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia (July 20, 2005), is about Khmers in Cambodia (as opposed to foreigners in Cambodia or overseas Cambodians) getting into blogs. One such blog is Youth Vision, a blog infinitely more popular than the one you are reading now.
A comprehensive list of Cambodian blogs, expat and local, can be found at the Global Voices wiki in the Cambodia entry.
Khmer Chess
There is an interesting social phenomena where I work – the chess club. Every lunch time, after work, and in the weekends, a group of staff gather around a chess board in the car port. The chess board is placed on a desk and the players sit on the desk across from each other. The call of the chess board is heeded by all, from the top to the bottom, from Park Director to the guard (and the guard’s sidekicks – his brothers), as well as ex-staff who have left the project but not Thy Holy Chess Board. The rules are not “International Chess Rules”, at least as the chess playing super-computer Deep Blue would know them, but Khmer chess rules, which I still haven’t managed to work out and so get thoroughly thrashed.
Pchum Ben 2004 – Koh Satin
Whilst the Christian world gets ready to celebrate Xmas, Ban Lung in Buddhist Cambodia doesn’t. Even in Phnom Penh there will be some shops, particularly major businesses that may have some sort of Xmas display. In fact it took the sound of a truck reversing to the tune of Silent Night the other day to jolt me awaken to the fact that Xmas is almost here. Read the rest of this entry »
Update on where and whats about
Hello y’all,
Let me start where I left off in my last email, way back in April. At that time I was about to go to Vietnam. Well I went to Saigon and the Mekong Delta (all in the very southern part of Vietnam) and the top 3 impressions I come away with were: Read the rest of this entry »
Dog gives birth to kitten
People have flocked to a small village on the outskirts of Cambodia’s capital after a man claimed that his ten-year-old pet dog has defied nature and the ancient tradition of her species reviling cats and given birth to a kitten. Read the rest of this entry »
The man with no clothes
A long-haired teenage boy in south-eastern Cambodia has insisted on living nude since he was a toddler, according to local media. Read the rest of this entry »
Bananas bend interrogation rules
April 3, 2004/Phnom Penh: Police in Cambodia have been accused of extracting confessions from two teenagers by force-feeding them bananas until they felt sick. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Khmer New Year 2004
April 13-15 is Khmer New Year, the most celebrated annual event in Cambodia. With only a week to go employee attendance has started to drop off and the noise level at night increase. Read the rest of this entry »
Questions
A question of great importance has been weighing on my mind lately. You know those type of questions? The ones we all have to face at some time or another in our lives. Questions of existence. Questions with different answers for different people in different times. Questions debated fiercely. The question bothering me lately is such a question: Read the rest of this entry »
Cambodia Stage Two
Working in the environment sector, I am realising how much time us usually city dwellers spend indoors! Lately my work, and leisure, has been taking me into the outdoors. Read the rest of this entry »
Ban Lung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Last you heard I was in Strasbourg, France. I made it to Germany, down to Switzerland and Italy then across to southern France. I had a fantastic time in Europe thanks to many of you.Now I have taken up the position in Ban Lung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. Arriving back in Cambodia was a shock to the system after ultra-developed France. It is like two completely separate worlds. Read the rest of this entry »
Back to SE Asia
Leaving Sri Lanka one of the airport security guards asked me for money! Wow, I thought, if only I had some illegal substances to smuggle, maybe it wouldn’t be that hard after all.Back to Bangkok and over to Cambodia, this time via Koh Kong. Read the rest of this entry »
