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APAD 033: A tent – a toilet tent!

Posted by The Insider on Apr 11, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Mellow Yellow Monday | 3 comments

My friends Mumsified and PinayWifeSpeaks were in a secondhand items warehouse recently and enjoying the items sold there when PinayWifeSpeaks called my attention and led me to this tent. A quick look at this tent made us both giggle as we imagined how a person can sleep in a vertical tent like this. We went home still puzzled at this odd-looking tent.

So when I arrived home I showed the above picture to my husband and got the answer – this is a shower/toilet tent! But of course – shower/toilet tents may not be the most essential camping gear required when you go on camping but it is a very useful piece of to own anyway. If purchased with a portable toilet kit, these pieces of equipment make camping a more pleasant experience. I would’ve gone back to buy it but we don’t go camping here in Cambodia anyway. There are no public camping sites either.

APAD 029: Khmenglish

Posted by The Insider on Apr 7, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Signs | 11 comments

APAD 027: Hello, moto!

Posted by The Insider on Apr 5, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, That's My World | 1 comment

This is a typical traffic scene in Phnom Penh.

Moto-dop (motorcycle taxi) driver wearing crash helmet, check.

How many people can a moto-dop hold/carry? This is a favourite subject of discussion amongst expats and tourists here in Cambodia.

It depends. With cargos, or without? hahaha.
But in this particular picture, can you make a guess?

Answer: A grand total of 4, excluding the driver. A woman, presumably the mother, sat side-saddle with a toddler standling on her lap, check (very dangerous!). A little girl squished between her and the driver, check. Plus another girl in front of the driver, with the pink plastic bank, probably sitting on the gas tank, check. Actually, last year, I have seen and photographed a moto-dop with eight 8 people on it. Unbelievable!

Now you imagine that.

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!