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APAD 025: Sunday drive-by shot

Posted by The Insider on Apr 3, 2011 in A Photo a Day | 0 comments

This is the traffic situation this morning as we approach the roundabout near the Chroy Changvar Bridge, aka, the Japanese-Cambodian Friendship Bridge, coming from France Street. It’s a totally different scene come regular days.

APAD 024: Greens and yellows

Posted by The Insider on Apr 2, 2011 in A Photo a Day | 0 comments

This is where I buy my vegetables – they’re fresh and cheap. The market is small (like a talipapa in the Philippines) but one can find almost every thing there. The fresh produce come from the small farmers in the countryside except for a few others such as broccolis, carrots, and cauliflowers that are from Vietnam and Thailand.

For a budget of only 20,000riels (US$5), I could purchase a week’s supply of vegetables.The prices of these vegetables would’ve been cheaper if not for those greedy middlemen who buy cheap and sell for big profits.

APAD 023: Floating village at night

Posted by The Insider on Apr 1, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Skywatch Friday | 4 comments

One balmy night at the floating village at Chroy Changvar Peninsula.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

This very picture I took while on a boat cruise reminded me of the first four lines from a sonnet in Don Quixote (Chapter 34), a Miguel Cervantes literary masterpiece. It goes this way:

At midnight, in the silence, when the eyes

Of happier mortals balmy slumbers close,

The weary tale of my unnumbered woes

To Chloris and to Heaven is wont to rise.

More sky photos at Skywatch Friday.

APAD 022: Money-laundering it is not!

Posted by The Insider on Mar 31, 2011 in Addicted to Meme, APAD, Signs | 15 comments

My husband and I were on our way back home from doing some shopping at the Russian Market when he decided to take another route. If it wasn’t for his brilliant idea to take the back streets of Mao Tse Tung Boulevard, we wouldn’t have seen the above sign. It made our day 🙂

What kind of place is a “loandry”?
I’m sure a lot of you have funny ideas and interpretations brewing in your head, come and share it with me!