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Monday, December 13, 2004

Now let me update u what happened during the trip in Cambodia.. (damn.. the aircon in the OT setting is so cold.. my fingers are still frozen.. Blurrr..) let's go back to...


Monday 22Nov

Early morning- 5am..Zz gave me morning call.. He was preparing to go to his attachment at IMH, while i set off to the airport. Today is the day! The day i have been waiting for the first time travelling without my parents and freedom.. whahaha... I was really excited that i was chosen for this expedition.. Last night i slept at 2am doing the envelopes and last minute packing..

Arriving at the airport at pitch dark... the wind was cool.. i was cold.. The boys came to help to carry the boxes of books and toys. Sharon arrived late.. so the whole team waited for her and checked in together.. At the moment when i was about to step in.. i nearly cried.. but i stopped my tears.. cause i know i will be back.. so what's the point of crying.. Zz counldn't send me but he promised to pick me up after the trip.. So.. byebye Spore.. Welcome Cambodia..

We flied on MI602 SilkAir, stewardess services were not professional ewnough.. attitude problem. we had breakfast earlier with Miss Chua at BK, so when the food came.. i wasn't really keen on eating. The egg was too salty and slimmy. Yucks! I was so unfortunate to sit with a spoilt tray .. so the whole time. i was holding on to my tray.. Sheer and Farhana take turns to help me hold the tray while i eat.. hahah... kinda comical. Like i was the queen or something. Got to know Sheer better.. she's really nice...

Upon reaching cambodia.. we were stuck in a major jam just to pay the Visa and queueing for immigration.We almost took 2 hours there! Boy, we had one lost baggage belonging to Princess and one missing carton of books.

Pastor Chay came and pick us to our new "home". It was a huge house.. 4 storey high with one hidden 5th floor.. however.. we can't access to that floor.. haiz

We wanted to stay at the 2nd storey but the rest wanted to stay at 4th floor..in the end, miss chua decided to live at the 4th.. hmm... there were 3 bathroom.. cool huh?? but to share with 20 over people was hell..

We had lunch at a local restuarant.. with the local uni student.. had a mini exchange with them... Our new friends are friendly and warm.i feel so ease talking to them.. they are quite shy and conservative people. the girls' name - sok pal, sok peer, sok ling and "k".. haha.. direct english translation..

We went down to the youth centre to look at their place.. it was really crowded with so many studnet living in a 2 storey building. Heard they are from different province coming Phnom Penh to study ..Around 100 student lived there. The place was clusted and squeezy.. Dark an dangerous esp the fence around the house was broken glass.

Dinner was terrible.. we waited so long.. almost 45mins.. just for a piece of fry egg.. gosh.. i think i can do much better than that.. when we finished our egg.. i almost finished my rice as i was so tired and hungry.. we paid quite a lot for the dished that was so horribly cook.. i think i can do better dishes.
Day ended with discussion .. PEEP and planning for next day.. tired but just couldn't sleep... some peeps were snoring happily.. buet they are really tired.. Got to learn a few cambodia language... Okon-thank you.. Bunkon- toilet. tina- where.. Tlay- expensive.. cool huh??

Hmm.. tired already after recalling so much.. let me continue tml..

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