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This is the air con in my home office and it seems as though it's found new tenants. The sparrows have found a way in from the outside and are setting up shop so to speak. I couldn't work out a few days ago why their tweeting and fluttering about sounded so close, but a […]
On a recent visit to Cambodia I spotted the old Hotel International Phnom Penh from my own hotel's balcony. Obviously this old girl has seen much better days and must have been an elegant hotel in its heyday. Sadly though, I couldn't locate any old photos of the Hotel International Phnom Penh in prime condition, […]
Could this be the newest trend in marketing children's clothing? An "up yours" sort of attitude? "If you don't like our gear well too bad, up yours!" Recently seen in Parkson District 1
Me: "I'll have the smoked beef and cheddar baguette with salad and a cappuccino please. But can you bring the cappuccino after you bring the baguette, not before?" Waiter: "You want a tall latte?" Me: "No, I want a cappuccino, but don't bring it right now, bring it later." Waiter: "OK, you want a tall […]
To the uninitiated this may not look all that appetising, however, this is one of my favourite things to eat. It's xoi ga, or sticky rice and chicken. In this version the chicken is mixed with mushroom, tiny shrimps and a quail egg and encased in the sticky rice which in turn is wrapped in […]
This is on Le Loi near the corner of Pasteur Sts in downtown Sia Gon yesterday at 4pm after a deluge inundated the city. Fortunately these types of flash flooding usually dissipate soon after the rain stops.
I just downloaded a new camera app to my mobile phone which has some really neat effects. The app. is called "Paper Camera" and I think I'm going to have some fun with it so stay tuned for more image uploads.
These curtain or towel rod holders have more uses than I realised.
500 metres into Cambodia and the paved highway of Viet Nam is but a fond memory
This morning we were stuck in a traffic gridlock so dense we didn’t move for just over one hour. To people living in Sai Gon this type of occurrence is only too familiar, particularly when you happen to be on a main arterial road leading to a bottleneck such as a bridge or major intersection. […]
Whoever would have thought it, hot dogs as “Love” food. Taken in the foyer of Thang Long cinema, Cao Thang, District 3.
It seems they have been working for years to complete this park, but finally it looks as if it’s coming to completion. It is being built to honour Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in protest on this intersection on June 10, 1963.
At the risk of being branded sexist or sex-obsessed there are some signs around this city that just give me a good laugh. I simply can’t help relating the word play back to my aussie humour roots. For instance, there is the “box” series such as the well known… and the newer… and then, lo […]