YES. THIS VIDEO IS REAL
28 March 2011
04 March 2011
CAMBODIAN DANCE PARTY
Yesterday we happened upon this group of people getting their groove on and today along the side of the road there were hundreds of people doing the same dance to music pumping out of a PA set up in the median. Wow, too bad I didn't get a video of that.
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03 March 2011
WEEK 9: Cambodia
After two months of travel to Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore I have posted a few times and have about ten half started blog posts in my drafts folder. I can never make time to get back to them so I Just canned them. Now I'll sit in front of the computer until this one is done or I fall asleep. And kids, there will be some swearing in this one.
So I was in Cambodia seven years ago with my friend Randall. This was a great time since the country reminded me of one of my favorite movies Mad Max. Well, The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) if you want to get picky. I do not mean that everyone had mohawks, assless chaps and football pads and crossbowed you for a litre of petrol and no, Tina Turner wasn't there, that was thunderdome (Mad Max 3). It was and still is dusty, bombed out and depleted with lots of whacked out cars everywhere.
We were only in the country for four days and pretty much just saw the highlights which include Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, an ancient buddhist temple complex, that is pretty much the coolest place in all of Southeast Asia, and in the capitol city of Phnom Penh there were Tuol Sleng prison and The Killing Fields which are the ever so uplifting reminders of that commie bastard Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge genocide.
The only other redeeming quality, beside the people, of this otherwise post apocalypticly nightmarish capitol city is/was Boeung Kak, this huge lake with a bunch of guest houses parked along the east shore so as to have a good view of the setting sun.
So I was in Cambodia seven years ago with my friend Randall. This was a great time since the country reminded me of one of my favorite movies Mad Max. Well, The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) if you want to get picky. I do not mean that everyone had mohawks, assless chaps and football pads and crossbowed you for a litre of petrol and no, Tina Turner wasn't there, that was thunderdome (Mad Max 3). It was and still is dusty, bombed out and depleted with lots of whacked out cars everywhere.
We were only in the country for four days and pretty much just saw the highlights which include Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, an ancient buddhist temple complex, that is pretty much the coolest place in all of Southeast Asia, and in the capitol city of Phnom Penh there were Tuol Sleng prison and The Killing Fields which are the ever so uplifting reminders of that commie bastard Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge genocide.
The only other redeeming quality, beside the people, of this otherwise post apocalypticly nightmarish capitol city is/was Boeung Kak, this huge lake with a bunch of guest houses parked along the east shore so as to have a good view of the setting sun.
Relaxing
Peaceful
Nice big lake for sitting by and having a beer with some pals, a nice boat ride, go fishing maybe?
A good place to have around some would say.
"WRONG! Fill that fucker with sand".
That's what some backward ass dipshit thought was a great idea. "We don't need a lake. That's just hippie crap. Fill her with sand and we'll put up a mall and a parking lot."
We'll just relocate the people that live along the shores.
This is real. It's the stuff you can't just make up.
The proposed development
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