Expat Life

APAD 108: Re-purposed

Posted by The Insider on Mar 27, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life, cheap eats, Cycle 2, Expat Life, sights, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 3 comments

Great use for a mason jar. Makes for a pretty table centrepiece.

APAD 102: Go In… or not?

Posted by The Insider on Mar 14, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cycle 2, Expat Life, sights, Signs of Times, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 0 comments

I’m late! I’m late! Yet again. And I missed two consecutive weeks of Signs, if I am not mistaken.

No, I’m still here in Cambodia. No, I did not fall in a manhole (or sink hole, knock on wood). I’m just feeling a bit tired and cranky these days. The summer heat is just getting to me and all I want is creep back to my bed and turn the aircon machine on.

Anyhoot, here is my entry.

Go In Hotel. How straight-forward is that? Lol.

I found this hotel sign when my husband and I got lost looking for the plastic chairs shop along Kampuchea Krom area. I had a giggle at the sign. It’s uniquely Khmer, hahaha.

APAD 101: Eerie

Posted by The Insider on Mar 13, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, sights, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 4 comments

A very old Buddhist stupa guarded by a five-headed naga (water serpent).

APAD 100: Altar

Posted by The Insider on Mar 12, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, Our World Tuesday, sights, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 1 comment

APAD 099: Nom pang

Posted by The Insider on Mar 11, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Cycle 2, Expat Life, food, sights, That's My World, What's On in Cambodia | 1 comment

I remembered taking this photo almost a month ago. My husband, younger brother and I left our house very early in the morning to drive out of Phnom Penh heading west.

It was a Sunday, and the whole country is celebrating the Chinese New Year. We were supposed to turn left at a junction where there is a small but bustling market. It’s called the Prek Phnov market. Anything and everything can be bought there.

Had the lady in colourful shirt not moved you would’ve seen some more nom pang (a local French bread) stacked neatly. My brother called it the “great wall of bread”.

To her right, which is not seen in the photo, are huge baskets of nom pang and another set of neatly stacked nom pang. Nom pang is really great with Khmer curry, or simply toasted over charcoal and dipped in condensed milk. A local sandwich known as nom pang pate is also a popular streetfood here. A pate is the Khmer version of the western meatloaf.

APAD 091: Crochet mini-hearts applique

Posted by The Insider on Feb 18, 2013 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cycle 2, Expat Life, That's My World | 2 comments

Last week I signed up at Stash-Buster Challenge and my first ever project was the crochet mini hearts applique.

Since it was close to the Valentine’s day, I used these mini-hearts as embellishments for my Valentine’s card and gift tags or mini-bookmarks that you see below:

Yes, I’m “crafty” like that 🙂

I used brown kraft card stock, washi tapes, rubber stamps, metallic pen and baker’s twines. They were all hand-punched, hand-drawn and hand-stamped. Yes, I’m one of those followers of the handmade movement 🙂