Posts by The Insider

APAD 183: Scratch

Posted by The Insider on Sep 25, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, sights, That's My World | 1 comment

Scratch my back, please, mum.

APAD 182: Lok Ta Dambang Kranhoung

Posted by The Insider on Sep 24, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, sights, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 0 comments

Howdy, my friends.

Please excuse my absence. I just got back from a successful surgical mission in Poipet, a border town northwest of Cambodia. Operation Smile Cambodia and its team of local and international volunteers traveled to Poipet for eight days to provide free surgeries to children and adults alike born with clefts and other deformities.

Poipet is an 8-hour bus drive from Phnom Penh, passing through provinces such as Kampong Chhnang, Pursat, and Battambang. The statue below is known as Lok Ta Dambang Kranhoung.

The statue of Lok Ta Dambang Kranhoung sits in the roundabout of Battambang along National Road 5.

“Lok Ta” means grandfather, “Dambang” means stick, and “KraNgoung” refers to a kind of black wood which is very precious and strong.

APAD 181: Thirst-quencher

Posted by The Insider on Sep 4, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

Someone has got a cold and a sore throat but insisted having a cold drink.

Thirsty! Time for tai-krochma-teuk’o. Iced tea with lemon-lime.

APAD 180: Monks walk

Posted by The Insider on Sep 3, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, sights, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

The sight of monks with shaved head (and eyebrows) clad in orange robes, and holding bright yellow umbrellas, never fail to catch my attention. These two I saw this morning are no exceptions. Every morning each day, Buddhist monks quietly go out of wats (pagodas, or temples), most of the times on bare feet, to their community to solicit or collect alms.

And how fast they walk, too!

These alms come in the form of food or other offerings. For the monks, this is the only food they will have for that day. They’re not allowed to have food till the next day again. For the devout Buddhists, it is one of the ways they can earn good merits, or karma, in other words.

APAD 179: Romorque

Posted by The Insider on Sep 2, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cycle 2, sights, That's My World, transportation, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

These girls are  off to work travelling by romorque to the market to sell their produce. I had a good shot of them when they pulled over beside the tuk-tuk (another kind of romorque but differently built),

A romorque is a motorcycle pulling a trailer. It is most commonly used by the working class, especially outside Cambodia. The yellow sign is not related to my story today but serves as part of the photo’s background.