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Wii Are Busy…

I’m not exactly in tip top shape right now so forgive the sporadic posting. I had been really hit with an asthma attack. Lol! I blame it with my mad dash to clean the house before new years, and also its really chilly here in Phnom Penh the past few weeks compounded by the ever present dust. So I had to confine myself to the house for the time being.

So what had I been doing? Thank God for photoshop. I’ve been doodling, learning and trying to master the use of graphic tablet in illustration. We’ve also been crazy about playing wii games. Chinks and Hi-ace playing, me mostly watching and screaming at them hahaha. I want to play though at times I have hard time breathing so I’m giving the wii a rest.

Guess who is now so into playing with it? Hi-ace!! When he got it, it was like he has no interest and he has just been watching me and Chinks play. Then last week I goaded him into trying to play bowling. Lol! For a first timer, he was good. Really good. Then he tried boxing and now there’s no turning back.

You can’t talk to him when he is wii-ing. Hahaha I even took a video of him playing boxing but I dare not post it here he might just bar me from blogging forevah. It was that funny! He says he didn’t realize boxing is so much fun and he gets to exercise. Ssssh, the next thing he’d be asking me to get him some wrestling equipment!

Anyway, since were enjoying it, I’ve been looking for new games in malls here. LOL! Apparently all wii games here in Phnom Penh are the pirated variety. Which I could not play on my console because I either have to crack open it and insert the mod chip therefore voiding the warranty and also I would not be able to update it because that would risk ‘bricking’ the console. The tech guy in the wii shops here said, that all wii’s here in PP they open up to insert a chip so they could play the copied game, and if I want to I could just bring my console and have it done, lol but they won’t guarantee that it won’t be bricked eventually.

I could also do a soft mod on it but I’m kinda wary about doing that so I’ll probably be looking for some original games somewhere else. It’ll be costly but let’s indulge once in a while.

Just Another Thrifting Place in Phnom Penh

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A few days after Christmas, I woke up really early and felt restless. I bugged Hi-ace then to drive me around. It was our usual ‘lets-drive-around-and-check-out-anything-interesting-along-the-way’ routine. Whenever we do this, we always stumble across something really nice, usually hole-in-the-corner shops or restaurants.

We were cruising along St. 271 when I saw a huge banner and it says Christmas and New Year Sale – 30% off. The thrift hunter in me flashed green and I promptly told Hi-ace to make a stop. It was a bargain hunting place indeed!

The shop’s (its more like a huge warehouse) name is Sakura Used Japanese Products. My interest was instantly piqued coz I love Japan Thrift Shop here in Phnom Penh. That’s one of our most frequent thrifting haunt with my Peluka Sisters.

Of course, I took a photo of what’s inside the shop. But I’ll be posting it on my Girl on a Thrift Hunt (G-O-T-H) blog. Was it a Gold Mine? Let me put it this way, they have lots of stuff, the place was literally spilling with goodies, but it was a bit pricey. I think they would do better to lower the price, after all those are used items. But they are still worth checking out, specially the home items.

Visit my GOTH blog for more thrift hunting blurbs.

My Gadget Itch..Gone?

Living in Phnom Penh: September Almost Ending

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Ooopsss! Two posts in a row and its all about food lol! That is just so telling about me, so you should not be wondering now why I’m constantly contemplating about diets, weight loss diet pills, exercises and my weight loss dilemmas. But enough of that, this post is to show that I have a life besides eating hehe..

Well, September is almost coming to an end and I must say I’ve been busy this past week. I’ve completed two new spanking new blogs (url’s will remain a secret hehe) and I’ve also updated a few more plus two currently under renovation. I’m getting pretty gleeful watching my Adsense account from all this effort. I just love these passive ways to earn an income from something I really love doing.

It’s still just me, Ouwie and Chinks and its quiet at home. Haha! I have no one to bicker with. It was also our 8th wedding anniversary last week, hmm it was a bit uneventful, but I’m still happy and grateful we reached this point together. Although I freaked out a bit when Hi-ace told me a few days ago, that it simply means were soo old already. What is it about anniversary’s and birthdays that makes me introspective about age and mortality? Huh?!

I also got a haircut, not really much difference from my previous cut. I just love salons here in Cambodia, they are so affordable! We also discovered shampoo service in salons from my Pinay friend here in Phnom Penh, Che. Let me tell you, it felt so good and I think I found another major major way to combat migraine, all for the price of $2.

I’ve got a lot to look forward to this October, though blogging will take a back seat coz I have a new web project. I rarely accept website projects but this one I just couldn’t say no to. I’m also now thinking of setting up a WordPress blog setup, simple HTML websites and webhosting business, but this would still need a bit of research so it’ll be shelved for further consideration. Maybe early 2011.

And oh I wish time would just fly faster now. I’m missing Hi-ace dreadfully and I’m just looking forward to spending Christmas with him and Chinks.

What’s Up with Hi-ace…

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It’s been almost three weeks since Hi-ace left and I’m kinda adjusted to not having him around now. It’s weird but hey time just flies and before I could even say whatchamacalit 50,000 times he’ll be here already. But I could never say thank you enough for technology, for the internet, facebook, ym and skype. I’d definitely be wallowing in sadness if not for these things.

He has been sending me photos and telling me lots of stories. He is staying in a house just 10 minutes walk away from the university. Town is small but has everything that he needs. He just laments the fact that you have to travel around in the school shuttle bus. He tells me that there is a BestBuy superstore near his place so he’s feeling like he is in a techie wonderland. I just hope he shares whatever he finds in there hehe or maybe sending him a list would be a much better nudge?! Hmm, what do you think?

The place is also a 1hour+ drive from Chicago and that’s where he usually goes during the weekend. I asked him what he does there, does he go sightseeing, shopping, eating?? His answer, ‘No, I like going to Chinatown.” Lol! I said, you went all the way to US just to visit a Chinatown?

Anyway, here’s a photo of him in Chicago’s Chinatown. And yes, that’s a smiley face over his face. Hi-ace is an extremely private person and he’d give me lecture if I dare post his photo on my blog. He says he’s scared, his ‘fans’ might go beserk if they see him..

And of course I had to ask, ‘Why is everyone in the picture dark/black- haired?’ Coz, its Chinatown, dummy!!!

Living in Phnom Penh: Warm and Friendly Khmers..

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When we moved here in Phnom Penh, one of my biggest apprehensions was getting along with Khmers. What if they are not nice? What if I find them unapproachable or what if they find me obnoxious? What if I I don’t get along with any of them? I’m famous known among my friends to be aloof and could sometimes be brutally frank. People usually assume at first that I’m unfriendly and I just can’t help the way I am, I’m just not the type to let people close when I hardly know them at all. I’m far from those friendly, ‘social butterfly’ types of person. So, let’s just say, I was scared about how I would fare socially here.

I guess I let my crazy anxieties get the better of me, coz when I got here I was just proven wrong. I found Khmers to be very friendly and warm. When we arrived I got along famously first with my nephews and nieces mainly because I could easily communicate with them in English. I remember our first day, Hi-ace’s niece set aside half her day so she could tour me around the market and help me buy the things I need. She had always been ready to help with everything.

Cutie Khmer kids..

Khmer ‘Ta’ (grandpa) manning a store..

My Khmer sister-in-law’s are also very very nice. It’s a pity I can only speak and understand a smattering of Khmer but they never left me out and go to some length using sign language to make me understand.

They are tactile sort too. They are touchy and don’t be surprised to see people holding hands even men! I remembered I was really surprised when a few days of knowing me, one of my sister in law walked around in a mall with me and it was just natural for her to hold my arm or drape her hands over my shoulders companionably. I wasn’t used to that, but I must confess I felt touched that she didn’t consider me strange enough to stay aloof from me.

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