Wordless Wednesday: Favourite spot
Max’s favourite spot during her favourite time of the day (siesta).
Our World Tuesday: Kampot riverside
During the Chinese New Year, my husband and I drove to Kampot for a daytrip. Kampot is a sleepy town in the southern coast of Cambodia. It has the kind of sleepiness that lure a city-dweller to its small-town and chill atmosphere.
My husband and I left Phnom Penh very early in the morning and arrived in Kampot around 10am. It was cold (perhaps below 15C) early morning and it was breezy all the way through. Hagrid, our Honda motorbike, was running smoothly.
The weather was actually very pleasant and great for a motorbike ride around Kampot town and Kep. A trip to these towns wouldn’t be complete without a meal at our favourite Espresso Cafe and Kim Ly’s restaurant.
This is one of our favourite spots in Kampot – the promenade at the riverside. We chanced upon these floating in the water:
Kampot riverside view.
In the background you can see the outline of Phnom Bokor (Bokor Mountain) and the new bridge in the middle-ground. In the foreground are “floats” in the shape of rumdul, Cambodia’s national flower.
Monday Mellow Yellows: Toy
And I’m back again to blogging again. Hello, friends. How have you all been doing?
Hope everyone is well 🙂
Here’s my youngest dog and out of the three we have at home, this one’s very chill and not fussy. And he loves his toys tremendously.
Red and his favourite toy, Snoopydog, sleeping soundly next to each other.
Looks like Snoopydog needs another wash.
Hello, 2016!
Well, the new year is here and hopefully I’d be more successful in posting regularly 🙂
I can’t believe that we are about to end the first month of the year. Whew, time just flew by. So how is everybody? Did you all have a great holiday celebration? Did you get lots of pressies? I know you did 😉
One of my expat-friends here got himself peavey classic 30 (or something similar) for Christmas, something that he’s been longing for a long time. He’s into music production (he’s got gigs with his group and they do a lot of recordings), and boy, this lad couldn’t be more thrilled when his wife surprised him. So we expect more noise, errr, music, I mean, from him in the coming days.
A simple Christmas celebration
It’s the day before Christmas and, just like what we did last year, we will be offline for a few days to celebrate the holidays quietly.
We didn’t put up the Christmas tree, we didn’t make any lists or shop for presents, and we won’t be preparing special treats. Instead, we are going for a simpler, more enjoyable holidays. For the past three years we have avoided the holiday fuss, the mad rush, and the crazy mass-commercialism the holiday season bring, and we intend to do so in the coming years.
Somewhere, someone is wishing for the latest gadget, a luxury-brand bag, or that awesome scott ian music accessory. My husband and I wish to celebrate simply and without much fuss, like enjoying Christmas dinner that we prepared ourselves and have a movie-marathon. Not bad, eh?
Anyways, I wish you all a very merry Christmas. May the new year 2016 be better, brighter and kinder to us and the whole world.
Our World Tuesday: Statue
Just a random photo I took while visiting a local wat (Buddhist temple) in one of our weekend rides outside Phnom Penh.
I don’t know for sure who this man is supposed to represent but he could be representing the many patrons and/or donors of this wat.
Behind the statue of a well-dressed man are images of the Buddha. There were many of them, in different sizes, too.
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