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- Fri May 01, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: Family, children and relationships
- Topic: Khmer-medium private school in PP?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2524
Khmer-medium private school in PP?
My Khmer nephew is six years old and finishing up his first year in Kindergarten at Cambodia Adventist School in PP Thmey (from home now). The family is working class and CAS is the best they could afford in that price range. Despite our hope that he would pick up English throughout the year, and my...
- Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:53 am
- Forum: Cars and Bikes
- Topic: Why shouldn't a backpacker buy a Chinese knock-off moto?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2514
Re: Why shouldn't a backpacker buy a Chinese knock-off moto?
Most backpackers recover around 100% of their initial investments in their bikes when they resell, minus repairs, which typically account for 10%-20% of the purchase price. Renting is just throwing money out the window. If I only had two weeks to make it from A to B, I would be a lot more concerned ...
- Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:12 pm
- Forum: Cars and Bikes
- Topic: Why shouldn't a backpacker buy a Chinese knock-off moto?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2514
Why shouldn't a backpacker buy a Chinese knock-off moto?
I've had mixed experiences with buying second-hand bikes in PP and after one particular lemon, I've vowed to start prioritizing quality over bargain to the best of my ability to assess. But that was always as a working professional, thinking as a long-term investor, with ever an eye to efficient use...
- Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: Cars and Bikes
- Topic: motorbiking in Cam vs. VN?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1889
Re: motorbiking in Cam vs. VN?
I really appreciate the thought-out response, Indiana, thanks very much. Great stuff.
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: Cars and Bikes
- Topic: motorbiking in Cam vs. VN?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1889
motorbiking in Cam vs. VN?
Six years ago I moved to PP and learned to operate a motorbike, comfortably driving through all seasons and conditions through PP, the big highways out-of-town and to a much more limited degree, occasional off-roading. I'm planning a road trip from HCMC to Hanoi - going to stick to smaller, paved ro...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:05 pm
- Forum: Cambodia Speakeasy
- Topic: If you could do it all over again.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7493
Re: If you could do it all over again.
I don't regret coming here 6 years ago, but I do feel like I came at the end of an era and I don't think I'd be as inclined to stay if I stepped off a plane today. I'm of a wave of expats who, for whatever reason, tried to put as much distance as possible between ourselves and the coiffed, predictab...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:31 pm
- Forum: Cambodian History and Culture
- Topic: Southeast Asian culture? Or Khmer Rouge legacy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3853
Southeast Asian culture? Or Khmer Rouge legacy?
I've been in Cambodia for a few years now but have spent very little time in neighboring countries. Sometimes I wonder how many of the psychological "cultural differences" to my home country I've come to recognize about life here are generalizable to other Asian or Southeast Asian settings and how m...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:39 pm
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Life changing, seeking healthcare planning advice
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3821
Life changing, seeking healthcare planning advice
I'm looking for advice and ideally, some kind of guide to financial planning for healthcare costs as a single, long-term expat in Cambodia. I'm in my early 30s, generally healthy and active but starting to notice some signs of wear and tear. For the last few years I've been teaching here year-to-yea...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: Family, children and relationships
- Topic: "Would you put down the damn phone already?"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7813
"Would you put down the damn phone already?"
So I'm in the early stages of seeing a new Khmer woman and things are great except that the amount of time she spends on social media is slowly driving me crazy. Dinner, traffic, movie theater, foreplay.... The first few times I brought it up she laughed it off and when I pressed a little harder she...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:46 am
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Alt. routes between SR and PP?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2977
Re: Alt. routes between SR and PP?
Thanks for the input, everyone. Obviously I'm eyeing NR5, but other than a bridge on Highway 61 pretty close from PP, I don't see a means of crossing over to NR6 and I don't want to swing all the way out to Battambang. Is there an artery somewhere between Kampong Chhnang city (or any other point wes...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:10 pm
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Alt. routes between SR and PP?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2977
Alt. routes between SR and PP?
I'm heading up to Siem Reap in a few weeks and thought for the hell of it I'd make the trip by moto. A few years ago I drove down to SHV just gunning it along National Road #4 on a 50cc scooter which, in addition to requiring frequent dives into the ditch to give way to idiots, left little to be des...
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Staff Room
- Topic: "My daddy fight me..." - anything we can do?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9518
"My daddy fight me..." - anything we can do?
Does anyone here work for a school that has some kind of policy in place for protecting...or at least addressing...violence committed against children at home? I've had a number of suspected domestic abuse cases so far this year, which I immediately reported up the ladder where they seemingly went n...
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:06 am
- Forum: Family, children and relationships
- Topic: Back to dating Westerners after failed Khmer relationship?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13443
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:11 pm
- Forum: Family, children and relationships
- Topic: Back to dating Westerners after failed Khmer relationship?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13443
Re: Back to dating Westerners after failed Khmer relationship?
Okay, let me try this again. I used to date in a certain way. I looked down on other ways of dating. I came here...that changed. I became a totally different person in the process. But I liked it; it felt good somehow in a foreign but fitting sort of way. Now I'm single...sorta...and I feel caught i...