Regarding Escalators and Expats: A Rejoinder to Gavinmac
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Regarding Escalators and Expats: A Rejoinder to Gavinmac
As promised, James Giacometti is back on the front page of K440 with the latest of his bi-weekly Saturday columns.
Today, he uses the hesitancy of provincial Khmers to board a Phnom Penh mall escalator as a metaphor for the expat experience.
http://bit.ly/15SLRWK
Today, he uses the hesitancy of provincial Khmers to board a Phnom Penh mall escalator as a metaphor for the expat experience.
http://bit.ly/15SLRWK
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I laid a bet a while back that James would last here, when at the time he was being ripped into and people were counting the days until Cambodia would chew him up and spit him out.
Well Cambodia is still chewing, and James seems to be enjoying it.
His sense of humour, and his observations have always been interesting and funny, and I'm happy to see him taking a place on the front page.
I could be making more money as a chef in NZ or Aussie than I can here, but the opportunities that I have had here.....training young women to open a cafe, managing a hotel, and opening our own family restaurant.....are experiences that have been far more rewarding and interesting than what my life back home offered. I took the escalator not because I was running from anything, or because of any dissatisfaction back home, but simply because it was there to be taken, and I was curious. Time will tell if my families future is here, or if another escalator will take us elsewhere, but getting on that expat escalator was one of the best things I've ever done.
Well Cambodia is still chewing, and James seems to be enjoying it.
His sense of humour, and his observations have always been interesting and funny, and I'm happy to see him taking a place on the front page.
I could be making more money as a chef in NZ or Aussie than I can here, but the opportunities that I have had here.....training young women to open a cafe, managing a hotel, and opening our own family restaurant.....are experiences that have been far more rewarding and interesting than what my life back home offered. I took the escalator not because I was running from anything, or because of any dissatisfaction back home, but simply because it was there to be taken, and I was curious. Time will tell if my families future is here, or if another escalator will take us elsewhere, but getting on that expat escalator was one of the best things I've ever done.
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.
Great thing about escalators is that when they break they still work as stairs.
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But only when you want to go up.Joe Preem wrote:Great thing about escalators is that when they break they still work as stairs.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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I just reread my article. It now seems to me that it could be read with a negative tone towards Gavinmac. That was not my intention. Only polite disagreement here.
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I just reread my article. It now seems to me that it could be read with a negative tone towards Gavinmac. That was not my intention. Only polite disagreement here.
You got me. Imagine, I read and edited that essay about 10 times before giving it to KiR. Yet, two English teachers missed that grammar mistake.vladimir wrote:Most of us expats couldn’t give a fat babies ass what these people back home think.’
I think you mean ‘a fat baby’s ass’.
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I enjoyed reading that positive outlook on things and empathized with many points. However, when I first visited here I was doing better than ever in my career and things were on the up. At the same time, after being in the region for a few months and Cambodia for just a few weeks, my whole outlook changed. When I returned home I started despising the commute to work on the tube, the high-pressure busy as hell lifestyle I had, and the all-too-common in the west escapes from this reality. In some ways I wish I had stayed a bit longer and had more means to get properly grounded here, but that could have killed me. I have few regrets about moving here, I miss friends and family and wish they weren't so far away, but I love this country and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
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What does this have to do with me? It reminds me of authors who put the names of famous authors in the title of their books to try to get people to read them.
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Nothing, I'm sure you are quite capable of using an escalator. One thing missing from the article is that locals don't just stop at the bottom of escalators, they stop at the top too, blocking anyone else behind them. I'd love to see the reaction if they tried that shit on a London tube escalator, stand on the wrong side on one of them and you're likely to get punched.gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me?
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If you're Khmer then the best place in the whole world to stand still and start f*cking around with your smart phone is either the top of flight of busy stairs or the bottom of a flight of busy stairs.Lucky Lucan wrote:Nothing, I'm sure you are quite capable of using an escalator. One thing missing from the article is that locals don't just stop at the bottom of escalators, they stop at the top too, blocking anyone else behind them. I'd love to see the reaction if they tried that shit on a London tube escalator, stand on the wrong side on one of them and you're likely to get punched.gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me?
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That was a good read! I liked it a lot.
Now, this part freaked me out! It's as if you read my mind....
Now, this part freaked me out! It's as if you read my mind....
I have chill bumps still..I fear the unscrupulous will see this as an effective way to pick up women. They will lurk about Sovanna on the weekends and seek out the rural women standing aghast in front of escalators. There, they shall endeavor to assist one up, hoping to win her heart, or perhaps something else.
LoL, I was waiting for some witty retort about one of your articles, but it never came.... Strange to see your name on it...gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me?
Yep. If you're Khmer. No one else does that. Only happens in Cambodia.keeping_it_riel wrote:If you're Khmer then the best place in the whole world to stand still and start f*cking around with your smart phone is either the top of flight of busy stairs or the bottom of a flight of busy stairs.Lucky Lucan wrote:Nothing, I'm sure you are quite capable of using an escalator. One thing missing from the article is that locals don't just stop at the bottom of escalators, they stop at the top too, blocking anyone else behind them. I'd love to see the reaction if they tried that shit on a London tube escalator, stand on the wrong side on one of them and you're likely to get punched.gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me?
Why are so many expats prejudiced against the people who live in the countries they relocate too? It's fucking bizarre.
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Cough. Cough. I think it's been a while since anyone sighted your sense of humour, gm...gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me? It reminds me of authors who put the names of famous authors in the title of their books to try to get people to read them. I apologize to any Gavinmac readers who read that thinking it might be entertaining.
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These are just facts, Joe. I believe even Wikipedia mentions this specifically.Joe Preem wrote:Yep. If you're Khmer. No one else does that. Only happens in Cambodia.keeping_it_riel wrote:If you're Khmer then the best place in the whole world to stand still and start f*cking around with your smart phone is either the top of flight of busy stairs or the bottom of a flight of busy stairs.Lucky Lucan wrote:Nothing, I'm sure you are quite capable of using an escalator. One thing missing from the article is that locals don't just stop at the bottom of escalators, they stop at the top too, blocking anyone else behind them. I'd love to see the reaction if they tried that shit on a London tube escalator, stand on the wrong side on one of them and you're likely to get punched.gavinmac wrote:What does this have to do with me?
Why are so many expats prejudiced against the people who live in the countries they relocate too? It's fucking bizarre.
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