Posts Tagged "Mellow Yellow Monday"

APAD 228: Spiky

Posted by The Insider on Dec 26, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life | 5 comments

Here’s a close up of the yellowish-greenish free-loader in my garden. It looks scary, isn’t it?

Although this creepy-crawlie dude looks harmless, still it gives me the hibby-jibbies. And goose-bumps. {shivers}

APAD 223: Siomai

Posted by The Insider on Dec 19, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life, Expat Life, food, What's On in Cambodia | 0 comments

I always look forward to weekends in Phnom Penh where we get to dine out at a restaurant of our choice. More often than not, we go Chinese. And there is no shortage of authentic Chinese restaurants in the city.

I forgot how these are called in Khmer language but they are called “siomai” in the Philippines. My favourite. I could a dozen or more of this 🙂

APAD 214: Yellow-yellooow!

Posted by The Insider on Dec 5, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Expat Life, That's My World, transportation | 2 comments

I was out today so I’m late in posting this. I took the tuk-tuk (local motorised rickshaw) to go home. It was nearly 5pm, the sun was low. As its rays hit the trees that lined Monivong Boulevard, it made the leaves look golden yellow.

The traffic was moderate, but still very chaotic. We were following this vehicle with lots of cargo. I noticed the yellow string right away contrasting sharply against the black plastic packaging.

APAD 209: Orchids in the city

Posted by The Insider on Nov 28, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia, Cambodia life | 3 comments

Beautiful orchids, aren’t they?
They adorn the garden of the newly-opened spa in the same street where my little bro lives.

If I’m not mistaken, there was another business establishment in the same spot where the spa is now. I don’t remember it now but it might be a restaurant. Business in the city come and go. For every shop, restaurant, or spa that shuts down, a new one opens and takes its place. Just like that; a cycle of sorts.

APAD 204: Send in the clown!

Posted by The Insider on Nov 21, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Expat Life, people, What's On in Cambodia | 4 comments

For some reason, I don’t like clowns. I am afraid of them, I kid you not, especially in the “OMG, this crazy clown is going to kill me” kind of sense.I don’t even know how or when this started. Maybe this is due to the many popular horror movies I watched when I was younger – much more these days – where clowns are portrayed as scary, evil characters.

However, this one looked friendly enough and least scary, unlike those clowns I see in movies with ghastly make ups and exaggerated features that usually terrify me:

I met him during one of the Fun Fairs organised by a non-government NGO based in Phnom Penh. I don’t know his name but he was on stilts. Although he was smiling and trying to be pleasant, small kids were terrified of him…

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