2011 May | Inside Cambodia

APAD 061: Winter melons in Cambodia

Posted by The Insider on May 9, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, food, Mellow Yellow Monday | 6 comments

Took this photo using my old Kodak Instamatic camera. When the negatives were printed, most of the prints have this yellow colouring on them. I wonder why.

Winter melons look like cucumber, only they are larger in size and paler in skin (peeling). Often used as a vegetable when unripe (used in soups) and eaten as a fruit when it’s already ripe and sweet. Winter melons are commonly grown in rural Cambodia, especially those near the river banks.

APAD 060: Sleeping soundly under the shady tree

Posted by The Insider on May 8, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Angkor Wat, Cambodia life, Shadow Shot Sunday, travel | 7 comments

We hired this tuktuk to take us around the Angkor Wat complex in Siem Reap province some years ago. We stopped to look at the temples and when we came back this is what we saw. The tree provided shade to the tuktuk, while the driver slept soundly on a hot summer day. He might already be in dreamland at the time I took this photo so we decided not to wake him up. It didn’t take awhile before he woke up though, and so, we were on our way to see the other temples in our itinerary.

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APAD 058: A sunny day, with cloudy sky

Posted by The Insider on May 6, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Skywatch Friday, travel | 3 comments

It was a beautiful day, and my husband and I were driving home from a quick getaway in Kep province. Kep is a beach-town, more popular for its seafood than beaches, down in the southern coast of Cambodia. Upon reaching Angtasom, the half-way point between Kep province and Phnom Penh, we took a different route this time, an asphalted road (national road #2) Tramkak that led us to Takeo. We were greeted by this solitary sign and two girls on a bicycle, as we took the long, almost empty road that brought us back to Phnom Penh.

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APAD 057: Stop…..!!

Posted by The Insider on May 5, 2011 in Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Signs, Wordless Wednesday | 8 comments

This is the first Khmer word in Khmer script that I learned to read and write – “chhuop“, or stop.
It is composed of only 3 letters, with a symbol ‘. The third letter is “bo” (or letter b, it’s equivalent in the Roman alphabet). If it has the symbol ‘ written on top of that letter, it means it’s a short b (it pronounced almost sounding like the letter p). Anyways, please excuse my blabberings 🙂

I wonder though if these STOP/CHHUOP signs are installed on the streets, to compliment the red traffic lights, would some Khmer drivers actually stop from running on red lights? Just a thought.

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