APAD 275: The Smiling Faces of Bayon Temple
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the giant smiling faces of Bayon Temple, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Angkor Wat is amazing but Bayon is a stand-out and my personal favourite. It is a temple like no other and worth going there to see them. Again and again.
These giant faces, looking in four directions, are hoisted in 52 towers representing the provinces of what was once the Great Khmer Empire. As to who the faces represent remain a mystery up to now.
Standing there – in awe – looking at these stone faces that are looming down on you is just memorable. The history, the beauty, as well as the architectural marvel is just unbelievable. The stone faces seem to look at you at any angle. Why, I could just stand there and stare back at the faces all day! Well, I’ll stop if I get hungry, to be honest 🙂
APAD 274: Flowers, flowers!
A friend of mine owns a flower stall at Psah Thmey (Central Market). Most of her flowers are from Thailand and Vietnam.
Aren’t they lovely? I love their choices of flowers and how they arrange them together in one neat basket.
APAD 273: A specious someone
My husband and I had a good laugh when we spotted this sign on a tuktuk yesterday parked just a block away from the Russian Market. I instantly took a photo but my husband posted it first to his blog, lol.
Just what exactly is specious?
A combination of “SPECIAL” and “PRECIOUS” equals to “SPECIOUS”?
To most native English speakers, “specious” isn’t exactly a nice word to label someone so I’m wondering why it’s used to this birthday person. I am assuming though that the sign is probably (a) an example of a KHMENGLISH (or ENGRISH), (b) a funny prank, or (c) a revenge for annoying someone.
But whatever the reasons are, it just goes to show that the tuktuk’s potential as an advertising tool is huge.
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APAD 272: Ready-to-wear
Random shots from the dry-goods section of the Psah Thmey (Central Market) in Phnom Penh. Most, if not all, of these RTWs, that stands for ready-to-wear, are surplus (branded) from the many garment factories in the city.
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APAD 270: A Buddhist monk and his umbrella
In Theravada Buddhist countries like Cambodia, Buddhist monks still rely on receiving alms for most of their food. At the early hours of the morning each day till before noon, monks leave the wats (temples) to do their rounds, like what this monk is doing:
I found this monk walking along the stretch of Monivong Boulevard, stopping at every hotel and shops that dot this road, patiently and quietly waiting for the alms. They don’t talk at all, and they don’t say thank you. Sometimes the monks are accompanied by an achar (a lay person) who support them by carrying their load.
Another interesting note is that the Cambodians here don’t use umbrellas to protect them from the heat. Only monks do. Which is why I often get strange looks whenever I run errands using my umbrella on hot days.
APAD 269: Great day for cycling in the Penh
The sky is bright and the weather sunny. These two brave cyclists had no trouble traversing Phnom Penh’s newly-opened sky bridge number two, Spean akas Prampi Makara, or the January 7th Bridge.
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