Khmer Diary

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by boysaigon

i was fortunate to have tried both your pool (skill) and your BKT...lets hope i get to sample more little pleasures of life when we next meet again...cheers

Always a pleasure, my friend.

Why I consider you a friend rather than a brother. This is what Mahathir had to say when asked if he considers LKY a friend or a brother - 'A brother of course. Because friends you can choose'.

[ladiesassasin]

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QUOTE=Faidenk;8560591]Always a pleasure, my friend.

Why I consider you a friend rather than a brother. This is what Mahathir had to say when asked if he considers LKY a friend or a brother - 'A brother of course. Because friends you can choose'.

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Bro cum Friend Faidenk, i really find u very knowledgeable.

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by ladiesassasin

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Bro cum Friend Faidenk, i really find u very knowledgeable. [/QUOTE]



Say in enough times and I might even believe you LOL. The rare times I read my past posts I can spot enough errors and misconceptions borne of a newbie and I thought of righting them but it involves too much work and will lack the fervor and enthusiasm I felt at the time.

So just read them with lots of salt over the shoulder. Wikipedia it is not.

[boysaigon]

Originally Posted by Faidenk

Always a pleasure, my friend.

Why I consider you a friend rather than a brother. This is what Mahathir had to say when asked if he considers LKY a friend or a brother - 'A brother of course. Because friends you can choose'.

I am flattered, anyhow. Brother or friend, a rose is a rose is a rose.

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by boysaigon

I am flattered, anyhow. Brother or friend, a rose is a rose is a rose.

OK, OK... have to stop these self masturbation otherwise get accused the thread is getting gay. LOL.

When I get some inspiration, will post more. Cheers.

[SEAJ]

Originally Posted by Faidenk

OK, OK... have to stop these self masturbation otherwise get accused the thread is getting gay. LOL.

When I get some inspiration, will post more. Cheers.

Look forward to it!

Just want to let you know that I personally enjoy your reports/musing tremendously...and to thank you again (Really wish I can upz you again...sigh...)

SEAJ

[unholymonk]

Originally Posted by Faidenk

OK, OK... have to stop these self masturbation otherwise get accused the thread is getting gay. LOL.

When I get some inspiration, will post more. Cheers.

Are you separated from your wife? Do you miss your son?

Seriously, I find you a fucking loser TS

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by unholymonk

Are you separated from your wife? Do you miss your son?

Seriously, I find you a fucking loser TS

You, Sir, are entitled to your opinions. Have a good day.

[unholymonk]

Originally Posted by Faidenk

You, Sir, are entitled to your opinions. Have a good day.

Of course I am entitled to my opinion. I guess that you are living on your savings and depending on the rental of your HDB now.

Seriously, you are a fucking loser who gave up your family just for some cheap sex and beer. I cannot imagine anyone doing that. Please do not give the high cost of living in Singapore as an excuse. But on a side note, I enjoy reading your article. It is well written and interesting.

[unholymonk]

someone zap me which I don't care. "Don't spite TS without knowing actual reason" is his reason for zapping me.

It ridiculous. What reasons will push him to go out of Singapore? Cheap sex and booze are the reasons that pull him into khmer

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by unholymonk

Of course I am entitled to my opinion. I guess that you are living on your savings and depending on the rental of your HDB now.

Seriously, you are a fucking loser who gave up your family just for some cheap sex and beer. I cannot imagine anyone doing that. Please do not give the high cost of living in Singapore as an excuse. But on a side note, I enjoy reading your article. It is well written and interesting.

One of my principles in life is to avoid the many irritants if one can, because life throws one many obstacles that are unavoidable and must confront. We all try to make of life as much as we see fit, although mistakes will be made. Life is already traumatic as it is, with its highs and lows, whether through our own actions or having it served as an unwilling participant.

So this is the path I have chosen, rightly or not. It gives me a sense of calm, purpose even. Others may not share my views but then I do not ask for anyone to subscribe to it. Everyone has their own paths and destiny. Like you have and I hope it works for you.

You are outspoken and I say it in a positive way. Having said all that, your father is in all probability a bachelor.


Just take the last as a joke. Just trying to inject some humor into this dour subject. No offense meant. I wish you well.

[Faidenk]

Originally Posted by unholymonk

someone zap me which I don't care. "Don't spite TS without knowing actual reason" is his reason for zapping me.

It ridiculous. What reasons will push him to go out of Singapore? Cheap sex and booze are the reasons that pull him into khmer

My apologies if your post about me caused you a loss of points. It may not be much, here's some to compensate for that.

[Faidenk]

Here’s some more musing from the Kingdom of Wonders.

This is brought about by the event some days ago. 2 employees of a local disco on their way to buy dinner were mowed down at the junction Monivong Boulevard and Kampuchea Krom, by a pair of drunken young morons on another motorbike. The 2 employees were badly injured, one sustaining a broken thighbone in 2 places; the 2 morons later died.

If I were feeling uncharitable, I would probably say they effing deserve it, and I would not be the only one. Not only had they lost their lives, they caused untold pain and miseries to both their kins and to the innocent party’s. The 2 injured now face a lengthy stay at the hospital, the prospect of diminished income while they recuperate, and the family has to cough up the money to pay for the hospitalization.

I wish the story ends there. The 2 guys are now slapped with having to pay a compensation of USD1,500 to each of the 2 dead morons. That’s the last word from the police, who I must say, stands to make a healthy ‘commission’ out of the ‘brokerage’.

Who is at wrong here? The easy thing to say would be the 2 morons. However the 2 are a product of the system. Corruption is the culprit. Most motorists, including drivers of cars, in Cambodia buy their licenses. Some might have gone for the driving schools, to learn things like starting and moving their cars from point A to B. The way the Cambodian drive is enough to cause one to lose their hair. On a typical day on the roads, you see cars coming at you head-on on your side of the road; cars turning left from your right; trucks blaring their 1000 decibels airhorns at all hours of the day, and night; motorcyclists with a death wish; cars moving along at 20 kph with no visible traffic in front because they are talking on their mobiles. And you wonder why the locals are such bad drivers.

In all these, you ask, where are the traffic policemen? They are working all right. Stationed at prominent road junctions, stopping traffic to exact ‘fines’ for mundane offences like driving with headlights on in the day (no fines for driving without lights at night because the police are off duty and drinking hard by then). Overloaded vehicles automatically slow down at these manned junctions, to hand the guys in uniforms their dues. Ignoring traffic lights by motorcyclist are OK apparently, by the numbers of offenses one witnesses every day. The hard truth is the police stationed will not waste precious fuel to chase these errant motorcyclists; they have to pay for their fuel used on official business. In fact, they even have to pay a fee to draw the bikes out from the motor line; then they have to pay a certain percentage upstream. In an accident where the police are involved, the investigating officers get a cut from everything, even in a non-injurious one.

A local friend of mine got knocked down by a car not long ago, nothing serious, but the accident was witnessed by a few policemen a few meters away. They came by, looked everything over, and exacted $1200 compensation from the driver. For this amount, both vehicles were brought back to the police garage until the fine is paid. After 5 days, in which the friend daily went to check if his bike is freed, he got $700 from the deal, the rest contributed to the police fund, of course. He came back bitching. Not because he got only $700 out of the $1200, but because he had to pay $50 to get his bike released.

The feedback box (Report Corruption Box) installed at the same corner where the above-mentioned accident took place now has its wordings (in Khmer and English) painted over. Is the box redundant due to lack of response, corruption is eradicated, or simply an embarrassment? If it is the latter, maybe it’s time to paint over the Anti-Corruption Unit along Norodom Boulevard.

I am not critiquing the local way of life, just reporting it the way I see it. I am but a guest here and you know what they say, if you don’t like it, there’s always another option, you can go home.

[Glock]

Originally Posted by unholymonk

Seriously, you are a fucking loser who gave up your family just for some cheap sex and beer. I cannot imagine anyone doing that. Please do not give the high cost of living in Singapore as an excuse.

Originally Posted by unholymonk

It ridiculous. What reasons will push him to go out of Singapore? Cheap sex and booze are the reasons that pull him into khmer

you are a good product of the singapore system

loyal , prepared to work till your are dead while eating from the scraps off the table from the people singapore is really run for

congratulations !

Originally Posted by Faidenk

One of my principles in life is to avoid the many irritants if one can

it is a good policy

one thing about singaporeans , they always think they know enough to tell people what to do , when they are usually the ones at the bottom of a well

[kaspa80]

If I am past 40 years old and want an early retirement, Cambodia is the first place that I would stay. Its not only the booze or girls but the simple backlaid life that everyone yearns. How to stay in Singapore or KL and get stressed by the pollution, never ending traffic jams, where people are more materialistic than ever and the rich keep on getting richer while us poor souls work 12 hours a day 6 days a week..just to stay in a HDB flat in Singapore or condo in KL. If I do come one day, I shall probably own a small guest house in Ratanakiri or Sihanoukville Faidenk, you are welcome to a free stay anytime..