Off for Children

with a WARNING that says 'Keep off reach of children!' Anovahtalaga! lol!

Scratching my head

Feminine wash. Normal, common, in groceries...

Masculine wash!? WTF! Ngek!

Shop you mean?

Fire Training

'The importance of portable fire extinguishers?'

Answer: 'Your first line of DEFIANCE!'

I had to try. I wanted to put out this fire.

You dunk a sheet of heavy burlap in water...

Then you slowly lay it on top of the fire. In principle, it would work on small fires.

Here's Noelene firing the powder fire extinguisher. I was scared to try it because my Junya Watanabe shoes might get soiled with the white powder. hehehe!

Our group photo.

The Meal Schedule

This made me laugh:

MEAL SCHEDULE

23 Apr 08
(09:00-17:30)):
Full Day Meeting Package at Boardroom.The Trainers need the room from 08:00-18:30

08:30 :
Early Bird Coffee Break at Foyer, lots of fresh fruits

10:45:
AM Coffee Break at Foyer, lots of fresh fruits

12:45or13:00:
Khmer Tasting Set Lunch at (name of resto)

15:30:
PM Coffee Break at Foyer, Pre-set up

Time (TBA):
Nipples and drink to be ready and deliver to Wat Atwear


Care for some nips, anyone?

Crocs doing an Aiza Seguerra

Naloka ako dito!

I'm back! A little funny thing below. It made me laugh so hard.

Alin, alin? Alin ang naiba? Isipin kung alin ang naiba?
Sabihin, sabihin. Sabihin kung alin. Sabihin kung alin ang naiba!

Thanks to peer!

First Aid - Day 2 with Mrs. Manila

This is our instructor.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mrs. Manila Prak. Odiva! I love her na!

moi and 'kiddo'

widodo and 'kiddo', quiet a popular kid.

How to recucitate a choking baby. I learned a lot from this training.

Indra with the most terrible nose job weve seen so far.

Hemlich manuever when the casualty fainted.

Phnom Penh Poodle

moi at our resto stop for some breakfast and pee pee. We left Siem Reap around 5 so I was very hungry

Fate and Kauro, Loven's client from the Angkor Children's Hospital.

We arrived in Phnom Penh, checked in the guest house. I opened the tv...

Big mistake! I don't know what to make of her. Poodle gone wild? May mga isnow-isnow effect pa o! Hihihihi!

Third world avant-garde? Nakakaloka sya! I wonder sino kaya stylist nya? Paging Patrick Ty.

Moi at the lobby and very ready for shopping (see the empty Longchamp bag).

Trip in Khmer

Another proof that Filipino stars are invading the Khmer conciousness. Tadaah! Trip was being shown on national tv and dubbed in Khmer. I haven't watched this back home but I was mersmerized with this Khmer version. Jericho Rosales had a bit role here and I think this is where he and Heart had some sparks flying before she left John. Just my hunch.

Marvin Agustin

John Pratts

Heart Evangelista

Kristine Hermosa

Desiree del Valle

The group with Onemig Bondoc. He was very popular before, I wonder what happened to him?

Croc Wars

This croc store has 2 billboards with a croc picture on top.

It even has stuffed 'smiling' crocs displayed prominently in front of the store.

Di ba bongga?!


Well, well, well! Look do we have here! The nerd!

This croc store BESIDE it has also 3 billboards with an even bigger croc picture.

Let the croc wars begin!

Food Face

Went to the grocery recently and saw some very interesting food packaging there.

This I could understand with drawing of a boy's face. He's a milk boy. The graphic is iconic and I could imagine this printed in a T-shirt.

But this made me really scartch my head:

Ngek! Wat is dis? Cynthia Luster's crackers?! It looks like a packaging for shampoo or conditioner.

My Pringles is possesed by this guy! He looks like an extra from Star Trek. I want my Pringles packaging baaaaaaaaack!

Yummy moon cakes like the moon face of the model. Yucky ah! Imagine if it's Kris Aquino or Boy Abunda in there, mas yucky!

Jo Ramos is ishdatchu?! Waaaaaah! I guess, presidential daughter look-alike make good food packaging models. I better search for a Jackie Ejercito clone in some ice cream packages or something to complete my collection.

I lost my appetite which is good for my diet, eh.

My 3rd Month

Yup, officially it's my 3rd month here in Cambodia, the land of the Apsaras, linga, Angkor Wat, tuktuk and hundreds and hundreds of silk. Honestly, i get sick seeing all the silk stuff being sold everywhere. I don't find it special, anymore. Ha! But that's just only me and I know silk is divine and special and all.

Being here is such a learning process. I learned so much. like:

1. If they ask you if you had 'lan' or you have eaten 'rai', they usually mean if you had 'lunch'or you have eaten 'rice'. In Khmer (kha-mai, silent 'r') they ask you 'Nyam bai hai?'.

2. Seafoods are fish, clams, squid, mussels, etc. from the sea. They are not 'sea'food if they came from the 'lake' or 'river'.

3. You are 'sengha' (handsome) or 'saat' (good, beautiful) if you wear a button-down long, sleeve shirt tucked into a pleated pants and paired with a nice, square-ish style leather shoes, 24 hours, 7 days, even while doing simple errands, at bars, disco or clubs.

4. Never think that just because it looks like beef or chicken it is beef or chicken. For all you know it could be snake or something else.

5. Fish from the lake or river never evolved. They all still look like they came from the Jurrasic period. Scary!


6. Never accept a Khmer wedding invitation. It's compulsory to give at least $20 as your gift. Much worse is if you accept a role in the wedding. It usually last 3 days and you have to be there all the time.

7. They never wear the same outfit they've worn to any formal events like parties or weddings. Girls spend hundred of dollars to get 'prettyfied' and spend hours in the salon to look like Mystica, Ethel Booba and Madam Auring (overly white foundation, double/triple false eyelashes galore, teased hair, etc...).

8. Never, under no circumstances, buy anything 'Khmer' formal wear.

Bo Parcon, isdatchu?

Louis Claparols, isdatchu?

9. Females can't touch the monks. But males can.

Loren Legarda inches away from the novice monks.

10.Pigs lounge when riding a motorcycle. I 'heart'pigs!

Lost in Translation

Let's start this post with the usual.

Strike the pose! hehehe

I'm wearing a Venezia jacket, Muji tank, my own designed pants...

and tattered designed Converse.

I had an LV sighting today.

LV Keepall

and also Bottega Veneta.

We decided you try Deja vu for dinner

Nice place.

Nice interior.

I was impressed with the food! Ang sarap. Kanamit!

Borbor moan. hehehe moan talaga, right? It's like chicken rice soup.

fresh orange juice. i drink this all day.

mixed seafood stir fry. Tender and juicy.

deep fried fish from the lake. Super crispy and the suka sauce is the right blend.

fish with vermicelli. Winner! There goes my pseudo-diet.

Night scenes in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Most of the time, the only picture that you imagine if you mention Cambodia is its war-torn image.

Well, it ain't so anymore.

To burn the heavy dinner we passed by the night market.

We were walking around and just browsing through the merchandise. And then I noticed that a girl and a guy was eyeing me. I couldn't understand what they were saying but I saw at the corner of my eye the guy pointing at me and the girl nodding in agreement. Hmmm...do they find my outfit funny? I told Fate, "Psst...those people are looking at me, promise!" to which she agreed coz she noticed it, too. I walked faster and turned a corner away from them.

I thought I lost them but then I didn't know the girl cut across the middle of one the store and caught us on the other side. I was surprised and amused when she asked sweetly, "Excuse me but I'd like to ask where did you get your jacket?". In the Philippines I get that a lot but it's the first time here. Fate and I just laughed it off. I was definitely amused!

So anyway, we really love this booth.

They sell such lovely water hyacinth woven stuff like baskets, containers and mats.

It's by an NGO group that employs women. So nice and for a good cause so I got a basket and a mat.

Then we went to the One Shop. Some of our friends were there.

Kim and the Brewster

Karen and Fate

Marie and Kim

Brewster is a funny guy. He says the weirdest of things innocently. Yeah, that's him with the dorky face. Anyway, that night he was introduced to Marie, a Japanese who works at Tara Angkor hotel. Brewster, after learning that Marie is Japanese greeted her 'Arigato osaymas' which means 'Thank you'.

Of course, Marie wondered why he was thanking her but only smiled and kept quiet. Loven pointed out to Brewster that his greeting was wrong and told him what it means.

Embarrased, he tried to save face and greeted Marie again.

He bowed and said 'Namaste!'

Yup, he got the 'hello' right but only in the wrong language. It's Indian.

A lot of people came to the shop. One even bought 2 buffalo horns.

Loven talking to the Russian (girl) and the Australian (boy) shopper.

Loven and moi

That's the dilemma with having a town like a United Colors of Benetton ad, communication gets confusing in funny ways. hehehe!