So, you’re bored of the 9-5 drudgery of life in the civilized western world of say the UK, USA or Australia. The weather sucks, the women are fat and gobby and the price of an unhealthy lifestyle is astronomically expensive. That pension plan is …
Sequins, spangles and sweaters: The Return of Glamazon (or, Not Your Usual Thursday Night Out in Phnom Penh)
It was a night of stilettos, glitter and feathers.
There were men who looked like girls and girls who looked like men. And men who wanted to …
While popping a batch of popcorn for a lunchtime snack and with a dinner party at our home only hours away, I make the startling discovery that we were really, really low on propane.
As in,almost completely out of gas.
This may not sound …
Easy come? Easy go? Keep a bag packed. You never know.
Should you stay? Should you go? Prayers go unanswered by old St. Joe.
First, let me preface my ridiculous rhyming by saying that things in life are never so sly and succinct as they …
Here is a brief insight on my life and of my few years as a troubled teenager in Cambodia, for whoever might give a damn and be patient enough to read the cluttered product of a foggy mind.
Yes, I think you’re getting more …
Bumping on my mountain bike along a rock-strewn path beneath the Japanese Bridge leading into Kandal province, I heard a bizarre lowing sound from behind. Assuming it was some goofball Cambodian guy on a motorbike with one of the amusing custom horns one …
New Year comes but once a year, well, 3 times if you live in Cambodia. Finally the last one is done and dusted, ready for the rains, which made their timely appearance the day after.
Most expats welcome the holiday, but dread the …
The last couple of articles I have written for this esteemed website could be perceived by some as being a little cynical or perhaps at times even a touch vitriolic. To even the score the following story is nicer: a pleasant piece to prove …
When you find yourself pulling electrical wires from sockets of blasting speakers in a furious attempt to remove the Formula Milk promotion company that are set up just inside the front gates of the school in which you work-at least for now anyway-and …
So I grabbed a copy of the April 2013 Bayon Pearnik while departing one of my favorite lunch spots today.
As I was flipping through the magazine’s highlights (the hostess bar ads), I ran across an article on page 28 titled “Stages of Foreign …
