7 Reasons Why You Really Shouldn’t Move to Cambodia
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I know a Cambodian kid who made an iPad from some twigs, scrap metal, and a coconut rind.
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MacDara !!!!!!!!!gavinmac wrote:I know a Cambodian kid who made an iPad from some twigs, scrap metal, and a coconut rind.
Rated R for Ricecakes
The iPad (-generation) is the exceptional highlight of passive consumption, completely loosing the capability to be intellectually productive (or so to say: Use their brains for more then swiping).
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There are plenty of toy shops around these days.v12 wrote:
Kids are more forced to learn and use their own imagination/fantasy because far less ready-made toys are available.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I agree with you on that, though the amount of money and grandparents to generate a toy waterfall for the little ones is still limited.Lucky Lucan wrote:There are plenty of toy shops around these days.v12 wrote:
Kids are more forced to learn and use their own imagination/fantasy because far less ready-made toys are available.
does anyone know cambodian fairy tales, that are told to kids? (i mean things like poor little girl meets prince, nice prince bumps into dragon or their counterparts)
any source ont he internet?
are they different, or things like ali baba etc...?
who saves the cambodian cinderella ? a prince ?
who mauls the cambodian riding hood - a wolf, a soi dog ?
and are the tales similar in thailand, burma, cambodia, laos...?
if anyone knows ...?
any source ont he internet?
are they different, or things like ali baba etc...?
who saves the cambodian cinderella ? a prince ?
who mauls the cambodian riding hood - a wolf, a soi dog ?
and are the tales similar in thailand, burma, cambodia, laos...?
if anyone knows ...?
There are plenty. They make them into B grade movies.dotty wrote:does anyone know cambodian fairy tales, that are told to kids? (i mean things like poor little girl meets prince, nice prince bumps into dragon or their counterparts)
any source ont he internet?
are they different, or things like ali baba etc...?
who saves the cambodian cinderella ? a prince ?
who mauls the cambodian riding hood - a wolf, a soi dog ?
and are the tales similar in thailand, burma, cambodia, laos...?
if anyone knows ...?
Tales of princes and beautiful young women, love, betrayal, witch craft, magic, manipulative parents, jealousy, loss etc.
There are also giant/ogre like monster men, ghosts, giant snakes, and other historical fantasy elements.
Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
I think parents go right in for the "kmauch/arb" ghost stories to make their kids stay indoors at night.
Managed to flummox a Cambodian adult who truly believed in such phantoms when I challenged why "arb's" don't appear to exist further abroad ... I offered them the olive branch that perhaps arb's don't have passports ...
Sorry, getting back on point - fairy stories/horror stories - same same to our Khmer chums as far as I know, will interrogate t'missus later for princess related classical stories.
Managed to flummox a Cambodian adult who truly believed in such phantoms when I challenged why "arb's" don't appear to exist further abroad ... I offered them the olive branch that perhaps arb's don't have passports ...
Sorry, getting back on point - fairy stories/horror stories - same same to our Khmer chums as far as I know, will interrogate t'missus later for princess related classical stories.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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You can buy loads of them at newsstands for about a dollar a piece. They are illustrated and have both Khmer and English in them. Some of the ghosts here, for example the Arp, are found in other countries throughout the region, they are called Krasue in Thailand for example.MoodyMac wrote:There are plenty. They make them into B grade movies.dotty wrote:does anyone know cambodian fairy tales, that are told to kids? (i mean things like poor little girl meets prince, nice prince bumps into dragon or their counterparts)
any source ont he internet?
are they different, or things like ali baba etc...?
who saves the cambodian cinderella ? a prince ?
who mauls the cambodian riding hood - a wolf, a soi dog ?
and are the tales similar in thailand, burma, cambodia, laos...?
if anyone knows ...?
Tales of princes and beautiful young women, love, betrayal, witch craft, magic, manipulative parents, jealousy, loss etc.
There are also giant/ogre like monster men, ghosts, giant snakes, and other historical fantasy elements.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasue - krasue the female spirit and her male (thai) counterpart krahang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krahang ... "Like Krasue it lives the life of a normal villager during the day.[6]"
both are about possession of people... at night...
at day they live as a villager...
and in the night they possess someone, doing nothing good then...
both are about possession of people... at night...
at day they live as a villager...
and in the night they possess someone, doing nothing good then...
there are no western fairy tales, where someone got possessed ?
guys were turned into frogs, or other innocent animals, but possessed and going nuts was not ?
guys were turned into frogs, or other innocent animals, but possessed and going nuts was not ?
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Why would there be any western fairy tales? You should buy a few of the books, they are often very odd and have no discernible moral to the stories that I can figure out.
From your link you can see that the Thai story has Khmer roots:
From your link you can see that the Thai story has Khmer roots:
wiki wrote:In Thailand, there is a legend of a certain Khmer princess becoming the Krasue in centuries past after having been executed by burning. The marriage to a powerful Siamese nobleman had been arranged for this Khmer lady following the defeat of her people in war. She was very distressed, however, for she was in love with one of the conquering soldiers, a younger man of a lower status. Eventually she was caught with her lover and the offended Siamese aristocrat sentenced her to death by burning. Shortly before the execution the princess got a Khmer sorceress to cast a magic spell over her to allow her body to be unharmed by the flames. The spell was powerful, but its effect arrived too late, when most of the body of the princess had been burnt except for her head and some of her viscera. Thenceforward the non-charred remains were cursed to continue living as the Krasue ghost.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
not western tales, but similar topics...
...as most popular one - STEPmother... (cinderella, snowwhite, hansel & gretel)...
...getting chatty with a stranger (riding hood)
...greed (the fisher and his wife, mrs holle, with the bedding and the tar)
...creepy animals aint all bad (frog prince or with the bear and the sisters rose-red and snow-white or so)
...empathy(star talers, little match girl, oliver twist)
...true values (hans in luck)
...as most popular one - STEPmother... (cinderella, snowwhite, hansel & gretel)...
...getting chatty with a stranger (riding hood)
...greed (the fisher and his wife, mrs holle, with the bedding and the tar)
...creepy animals aint all bad (frog prince or with the bear and the sisters rose-red and snow-white or so)
...empathy(star talers, little match girl, oliver twist)
...true values (hans in luck)
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Forty years old and no resume or current, transferable job skills? Something tells me he's about to learn the true meaning of the word failure. What are you gong to do for a living back in Blighty, Trismegistus? Just thank God that you don't have kids.Lucky Lucan wrote:Another bitter individual returns home with his tail between his legs while blaming Cambodia for his utter failure. How pathetic.Trismegistus wrote:
That's it, I'm done with Tefl in SEAsia now, 7 yrs of this shite, in Thailand and Cambodia - enough is enough, just can't face it anymore!
So I'm heading back to UK on a one-way ticket to take my chances.
Cambodia has gotta be the most retarded country on the planet - and as soon as the aid plug is pulled, it will revert back to monkey jungle again.
It has the biggest collection of retards in a single space, and the ex-pats are especially fuckwitted too.
That's like, your opinion, man.
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