Last year’s general public warning!
Reading is boring. But the good thing in life is that there is always a certain thing invented to make your boredom even more….errr….boring. Not only does it make your life a little bit more miserable, it also at the same time costs you a handsome 320 bucks lot of cash. Even with the poor US dollar exchange rate and super high inflation in Cambodia these days, that $320 still amounts to at least a hundred worth of chickens. Now consider that in Rattanakiri, you could legally get a wife with just a…aerr…..chicken, that’s at least one hundred worth of…..[cough]…[cough]…
So who in their right mind would make their boring hobby a little bit more boring? (boring hobby? is there such a thing?) Well, if you’re like me, that’s exactly what you do. With $320, I’ve got meself a new Sony e-reader device just to keep meself a bit more busy with hundred of e-books, texts and pdf I downloaded have. The bad thing however is that I get one less excuse not to read…
On my very first visit to a country of whatever-whatever, a hontojii-san immigrant official stopped me by and asked:
Hontojii-san: Please tell me the truth!
Reak: My name is Vireak and I come from Cambodia.
Hontojii-san: Please tell me the truth!
Reak: I don’t have beard, so I’m neither from Pakistan nor India.
Hontojii-san: Please tell me the truth!
Reak: My name has no letter “Q”, so I’m not linked to IraQ and Al Qaeda, neither was I born in Suadi Arabia.
Hontojii-san: Please tell me the truth!
Reak: Your president Bush praised me for my role in his global war against terrorism when he visited my home last year.
Hontojii-san: Bush? Never heard of that guy!
Reak: Are you sure? Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: I told you. I don’t lie.
Reak: Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: You can search me inside or hang me to dry!
Reak: Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: I’ve got nothing to hide.
Reak: Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: Oh my!
Reak: Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: You must be a spy!
Reak: Please tell me the truth!
Hontojii-san: You must be a hontojii-san in disguise!
It’s been quiet quite some time, lucky I still remember the password to get in this blog, otherwise I would need your help. It’s already 2008, wait! do people still read and write blogs? Well I thought blogging already passed it’s popularity expiry date last year. Whatever! In case you wonder, Vireak.net hasn’t died yet…well almost….it just errrrr….sleeps…
In case you wonder where on earth have I been? Well, I was here:
In case you wonder where the hell is that, it’s one of the following:
1. at a landmark named Infinite Loop somewhere in Planet Mars
2. at a recycling company named Infinite Recycling somewhere in Stueng Mean Chey
3. at a landmark named Infinite Loop where there is a bitten fruit
4. at a company named after a fruit
5. in someone’s heart!
Siem Reap Naturalization refers to the process that converts you from having a not-so-cool-way-of-khmer-speaking accent to a kinda siem-reap-oh-so-cool-way-of-khmer-speaking one.
How? Easy as 123!
Step 123!
Try to understand what this mean! Once you do, use it! 100% oh-so-cool guaranteed!
Not sure how to spell it correctly. But the siem-reap-oh-so-cool-way-khmer-speaking accent is all about oh-so-cool spoken Khmer…not oh-not-so-cool written one.