Greetings from Cambodia

Yay! Isn't it such a showoff to do that?! *LMAO*

Anyway, we've got more than 4GBs of photos, counting up till over 2000 pieces, thus will have to sort out the photos and pick the really nice ones before doing the travel posts. So right now, here's something light about the country.

1. When you're soaring above the sky of the country, you don't see trees nor any forests. You actually see lots of paddy fields. But in our case, since it's just after the harvesting season, lots of empty slots which used to be paddy fields. So literally, the land is flat. And when I mean flat, it really is FLAT. No mountains. No hills. Nothing. Nada. FLAT land!

2. Everyone asked us to exchange the money into USD. So we did. We changed 1k of RM into just a mere shit of just 312 USD. Blardy hell. But then again, we did get our money changed into some Cambodian Riels. And walah, I suggest whoever wanting to visit, just change your money into Riels. Reason? You'll feel filthy RICH! We exchanged 130RM to 143942.5 Riels. So imagine how much you can get from that 1kRM. *sniggering* Okay I'm just kidding. This is practically not practical. USD is widely used, and the Riels are basically coins in Malaysia.

3. About getting tanned. Alex went to Halong Bay in Vietnam for 3 days and came back a reddish man. Imagine us 3 spending 6 days in this country. Whoever wanting to get tanned *hinting Franky*, you're going to be so JEALOUS! *sniggering*

4. On Cambodian language. They literally speak longer language. Bless them. Good luck translated into Khmer language is "sox-sa-pine" or "sam-long-nor". Okay, maybe that's not long enough. But in the bus that we took from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, the bus conductor spoke 10 sentences of Khmer to just 3 English sentences. "We have now reached Phnom Penh. Thank you for choosing our company. We wish you a good stay in Phnom Penh." And, in her Khmer language, it's looooooooong. *sniggering*

5. About the people. There's literally no obese dude. No lies. Small they are, black they can be, but they're not fat. How envious. Envy envy envy! A size 'L' to them is a size 'M' to me, urgh, I need to shed some weight before I can even wear those t-shirts I bought.

6. On food, I was told that the Khmer food are extra salty and all, no doubt, the food are quite salty, but I personally find it pretty nice. Especially the porridge. It's a must try. Malaysians can NEVER do such a porridge. Yea, even though Mum's cooking is the best in the world, but Cambodian porridge beats that. I'm not lying.

7. Given the long history of the Khmer Kingdom, the King today has no power. I'm surprised myself. We were told that he's 56 this year, and he's still single too! And yeap, he looks really YOUNG. The odd thing is, even though the King is powerless, Cambodians still respect him, perhaps because it's a puppet monarchy? It's the King's birthday 14th till 16th of May, am not exactly sure which date, but the government servants have 3 days of holidays.

8. We passed through some schools in Phnom Penh, and saw some school children wearing their uniforms. White tops and black bottoms or skirts. One thing I find surprising though, it seems like there's no rules to the skirts. Some girls wear skirts with pleats, while some just wear plain straights. And well, I also noticed some girls wearing high heels!

9. Well, I suppose it's the same everywhere in the world. But we are 3 single young guys travelling. Naturally there would be some man asking if we'd like some "boom-boom"(as how they call it). Hookers in Siem Reap go as low as 5USD, but those in Phnom Penh charge minimally 20USD. Nope I don't know how well they are, I'm too tired to even do a hand-job.

10. On contrary to what many believe, I don't get any Salmonellosis or Giardiasis or Schistosomiasis. Travellers' diarrhoea is common, had 2 attacks so far. But nothing more. Okay, fine, I was very particular about drinking that's why. *sniggering*

Now about the places we're visiting, Siem Reap holds the most beautiful place you could ever imagine. The Angkor is a MUST visit. They're just not what it's like in printed materials. It's really breath-taking. About Phnom Penh, so far it's been pretty good. Just that, with the chaotic traffic and the confusing roads, it's much convenient to just pay the tuk-tuk drivers to get you around.

More pictures coming up. Till then, ciao! Awkun.




ps: post supposedly needed to be up when we were in Phnom Penh, but the blardy connection cut me off at 30 minutes, and I just don't want to pay another USDollar for a 30 minute surfing. So erm, it's actually greetings from home after reaching home from Cambodia. *sniggering*