Welcome to the Hotel Combodia

i'm back!!!!!!!!! well, more of yesterday... back to proper roads, proper vehicles travelling at the right lanes (hopefully i dun imitate the locals in cambodia while driving), good food and DRINKS, wifout the fear of gettin typhoid/diarrhea. arrghhh... so how do you catogerise what has happened during the whole trip?? let start from the beginning...

5th April 05

was abt an hour early for the gathering... so was jus walkin abt in the airport before goin back to BK after knowing serene was also at BK... flew there on flight MI608 (SilkAir)... there was a cute air stewardess... haha... flight took abt 2 hours i guess... got the window seat... sat wif sarah tan and tim... so anyways, it was pretty how when we first touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport... there we were greeted by tis lady who gave us all a bracelet(kind of) made from, i tink it was, jasmine flowers. den we headed to tis place to eat... *checks the photos for the name*

we ate at the Baan Thai restaurant... anyways, had plain rice wif other stuff i guess... first contact with Khmer food... which basically means white rice wif a soup and another meat and veg... had bottled soft drinks... tat summarises our first nite... went straight to the hospital after that... we had tis cottage lookin house.. 2 storey high with electricity/light/fan/attached bathrooms... quite cool actually... so anyways... abt 12 of us were upstairs and another 11 downstairs... slept next to eddy the first nite... so there was like me, charlene and hanizah who can't sleep tat nite... had fun hearing eddy waking himself up with his own noise tat he made at night... it was sum scary shite noise made by him... and he jus woke up... me and hanizah were like laughing away...

morning came and i was the first few to wake up(which will be the only time i was to wake up very early)... went down to take pic of the land we were to destroy and build a playground... not tat it was much use anyway since it was basically sand and a destroyed building... in which bits of foundations still stood... so the first day was basically changkol-ing the path... the whole 140 meters... so there we spent the whole of the first day digging trenches to lay the bricks... dam hard work really... especially the breaking of bricks and rocks... and if u hit the rocks accidentally and was holding the hoe really tight, u'll get some good vibrations on your lower back and wrist... and u'll be like shite... had chicken and rice for lunch... jus white rice and bits of chicken... den dinner was tis whole fish and soup and veg and unlimited rice... chinese style...

next day was spent leveling the trenches and making sure it was abt 1m wide... den laid the bricks and cement... had our first taste of cement mixing... shite job i tell ya... to mix 50kg of cement with god knows how many kgs of sand and water... basically it was 1 bag of cement, 8 large pails of sand with 2 pails of water... so yea... back breaking... so the ppl took turns to make them... then there were the brick layers, cement makers, the sand brigade, brick passing brigade... in which everyone was part of... so not much of specialist there... but we each found our lil niche and something which we were good at... jeremy found his at the making of the cement volcano... i found mine in brick layering... but i did very lil since needed more ppl at the cement mixing...

arrrghhh... running late to meet up wif khai... so shall write sum more later on...