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Why Cambodia Isn’t A Playground
There was a documentary I saw about Spike Milligan and the depression that had blighted much of his life. He’d been brought up in India and moved to England when he was 15. It had a terrible effect on him….
Beaten Up and Robbed: A Dramatik Monolog of True Cambodia
Meanwhile, over on St. 63 … It was five of the A.M. in the city of Phnom Penh and I was crawling home. My hands were darkened by dust, by dirt, by the debris of urban peasantry, by scattered piles…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat 14: The Cambodia ‘Casanova’
So what was I doing over Christmas? I spurned all the invites to parties as I hadn’t heard from my poor phoneless waif and I was so worried about her; I suspected – rightly – that she was too weak…
InterNed in Cambodia: The World, Developing
I hit the street with an uncertain stride, endeavoring earnestly to be both confident and casual, as if I wasn’t the same sad wreck of a man who’d been so boldly abused aboard an airliner that day. I believe I’d…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat 11: The Look of Love
In the last couple of articles I’ve been focussing on the voluntary work I was doing, leaving my ‘love-life’ in abeyance. I guess it’s time to return to that topic now. I’m about five months into my life in Phnom…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat 6: Visa Travels, Getting Hired and Bars
As my first month in Cambodia came to a close I had finally lined up some English-teaching hours at one university spread across three campuses along with a weekend Masters’ course at another university. Just before I started, however, I…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat (4)
photo courtesy of Stickman Bangkok Some weeks the ‘plot’ will move on; other weeks it will go deeper. This week’s article reproduces further notes I took during my first week in Phnom Penh. It is my reflections on some of…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat (3)
These are extracts from a chapter I entitled, Where the Bad Are Good and the Good Very Bad (which will continue into part 4). It took me about, let’s say, six hours from decamping from my guesthouse/flophouse to finding my…
Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, April 27, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 49. Friday night’s jackpot will be a stunning $13,877. There are now just five face down cards remaining. One of those five cards is the jackpot-winning Joker. Another card is an Ace…
How to Win Friends in the Bar Game
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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….