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Published: March 23rd 2007
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Cams bday bash
25 is the new 21! Travellers Diarhea (TD): When the toilet is your worst enemy, but at the same time....your best friend.
Well, I got hit. I had avoided the TD for as long as I could. They say if you make it past the first 2 weeks travelling in Asia you're in the clear...well, "they" are wrong.
It lasted about 16 hours and obviously timed itself right when I was going from Viet Nam into Cambodia on a 8 hour bus ride with no toilet...none of them have toilets here.
So, I popped a couple of immodiums and hoped for the best. Fortunately, I didnt run into many problems and just used the facilities at the border itself. For the rest of the day I didnt have much of an appetite, but I had bought a little tin container of salted cashews. It had a plastic lid on it and I kept it in my bag for our first night in Cambodia. We slept in this one room with 2 beds and Justin Volunteered to take the ground at a waterfront guesthouse in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Pen. Rent here is only $6 per night, so for those of you who arent
math scolars, thats $2/night...or $60/month.
Anyways, while playing pool that night, we saw heaps of big rats running around in the garbage at the guest house. While I used to lose my cool when I saw a mouse back in the lovely confines of 15 Sterling, I've now become immune to rats, cockroaches and other weird rodents. This is no small feat, as the rats here arent like your Canadian rats...these are "F-OFF" rats...because whenever you see them, you say "fuck off!" and run away. These rats are so big, that cats cross the street when they seem them.....Minou wouldnt stand a chance!
Anyways, in the morning I woke up, feeling a little bit better and was going to eat some of my cashews. I first of all saw half of one of the cashews on the ground which puzzled me a little bit, then I grabbed the container out of my bag and had noticed that the lid had been chewed right thru. My bag was placed directly beside Justins pillow and in the middle of the night a rat got into our room, into my bag (inches from Justins face) and went to town on my cashews.
Lobster Lady
This lady walks up and down the beach all day cooking up seafood. Sylvia and I ordered a 1.5 kg lobster for $6. I lifted up what she carries around and its about 45 kilos. Back in Nam, we went out one night in Hoi An to celebrate Cameron's bday. We had a great night celebrating the mans quater century milestone and when making fun of his old age, he kept saying "25 is the new 21"....sure Cameron. Anyways, later that night, Cameron, Sylvia and Justin were tired so they shut things down early, leaving Tim and I at the bar. We had been on a crazy run on the pool table and couldnt lose. (sidenote-here in S,east asia, they have pool tables at every bar and guest house all for free. ITs a great way to pass any down time and to beat the heat....inevitably, we've gotten pretty good). After enough beers sank in, we lost our thrown on the tables and started talking to these 2 Swedish birds. Conversation was going well when all of a sudden I feel something land on my hat. It felt like someone threw some jello at my head or something, so I took off my hat to look, only to find a bat stuck on my hat (See pic). Usually, I'm scared of bats, however to show my masculinity I started just laughing and posing for pics
Kid Selling Pineapples
He walked around saying "open your hearts....and your wallets!" then would say " a pineapple a day keeps the doctor way"...what a little clown....I'll take 2! with it. I noticed the Swedish girls had both stood up and taken about 5 feet back and wouldnt return until the possibly rabid bat was gone. So, I took my hat by the brim and slammed it against a chair on the ground. The bat flung off, hit the ground and then flew off, never to be seen again.
The NEXT day, we went to the beach in Hoi An. On our way back, there was a pack of dogs running all around. We had actually seen them earlier mating on the beach, putting on a show for everyone. When we saw two of them closer up, we could see that they were both moving around quite awkwardly, but yet together. Upon closer inspection, we could see that the dogs were stuck together....... having sex. We all started howlling and Tim tried getting some photos (none turned out). As we waited for a cab, this continued on for about 5 minutes. The femaled didnt seem to care and was just dragging the male in whichever direction she fancied. The male was in obvious pain and had this look on his face that said "just when I thought my
luck was changing, this has to go and happen". Anyways, just as our cab came, the two seperated from each other.....end of story.
These are the kind of random things that happen over here on a regular basis that I thought I'd share.
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