A Charming Smile

She gets a very charming smile.

From Banteay Meanrith Primary school a few hundreds metres from Cambodia-Thailand border.

On the way to Banteay Meanchey

How heavy a pick-up can hold? In Cambodia, it varies from driver to driver. As long as you can get the luggage or even passengers on your truck, it is what the car can hold. The guys on the top of the load were not making a challenge to be there, but it just because it is cheaper than to be inside the cabin and of course the death ratio is also higher than to be in the inside when accident happens. The photo was taken while I was on the way to Banteay Meachey on Christmas Eve.

Double Date

I will be not in Phnom Penh on either Christmas eve or Christmas, since I gotta go to Banteay Meanchey Province with a group of Japanese donors come to see our library activities there. But at least in an hour from now, I will have a double date with my best friend, the girl he is in love and my beloved girlfriend. This time, I am the one to choose the place and I hope that this time my friend can convey his feeling to the person he chooses to be his soul mate. Wish you good luck, man.

Cheap Reading Materials

Last weekend I found a place where I can acquire magazines, books and even some DVDs in a very relatively cheap price. With Riel 1,000 ($0.25) you can get an issue of TIME that would cost you $5 at bookstore, though you have to wait it about a month later after its release and its cover is detached.

I bought One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa and read by Bill Clinton when he was at Yale University, and The Summon by John Grisham. I don’t think I will be able to finish them before the end of this year, since I want to finish Clinton’s autography: My Life first. I also got 4 issues of TIME and 2 issues of Economist.

What surprised me was that the dealer is Fulbright alumna and now working as a consultant. Getting married to a Japanese woman with whom he conversing in Chinese makes him even more uncommon person to be a dealer whom I expect to be. He met his wife in China when he was doing exchange program there. He said he is going to start a shop in a mall soon to be opened.

My Life, Bill Clinton

Yesterday my girlfriend, her friend and I decided to dine together at my favourite Chinese restaurant-Yi Xian, but it was too early to go there and we had just bitten fried minced fish with veggies at Olympic market. Browsing in International Book Centre appeared to be a good option to kill the time after we had to be out from Monument Book at the closing time. I had just been there a few weeks ago finding no interesting book, and this time I had no intention to make any purchase. After browsing around about 30 minutes, one of the books piled up on the floor probably to be shelved catch my eye. My Life, Bill Clinton. I wanted the book once when I saw it in a bookstore in Bangkok airport last 2 years. But I did not buy it because the hardcover was so costly at that time. I am not sure I can finish reading this nearly a-thousand-page autobiography. Now I am at Chapter Five.

Introduction

Tumnei means spare time in Khmer-my mother tongue. This blog is nothing more than my personal journals. Let’s see how much I can commit to this online journal.