THE TEAM

Peishan. Michelle. Cindy. Rachel. Huiying. Shumin. Jasmin. Leepeng. Mindy. Xintian. Chiteng. Van.



PHOTOALBUM (:

Thursday, October 05, 2006

hey guys, it's been a week since i have returned from my cambodia field trip (26sep-29sep). For those who didnt know, i went there not for a holiday, it was actually a compulsory thing organised by the faculty for the yr1s. yep so i took some pictures la.. but hm, not many pictures of myself inside(too busy taking the stuff ard ha). I didnt know cambodia was a third world country, i always thought it was something like thailand. things are pretty backward there to the extent that even their urban planning govt dont even have a proper map showing the shops they have or where the exact location of settlements etc.


we took jetstar. and when the plane landed at siem reap international airport, i noticed there were only 2 planes. ours and another small plane. but the nice thing was that feeling of walking out of the plane, embracing the vast space in front of us which we cant experience in Singapore coz we have proper covered linkways.

isnt this girl cute? ha. We stayed at a guesthouse called jasmin lodge. this cambodian girl was the daughter of the lodge's owner. rates were quite cheap at the guesthouse, rooms were.. hm.. well infested with mosquitoes(well at least for my room it is...). i shared room with 2 other girls. never ever drink tap water there coz it's a little yellow and it has this metallic smell.

Surprisingly! the food there's good.. but in some places pretty oily. above: their version of fried rice mixing in carrots and cabbage and green veg. below s a plate of fried noodles which unfortunately was swimming in oil. (not mine haha! my friends's)





this is photographed in the Bayon Temple, which you could see a lot alot of their face towers shown above.

ha this was a self shot! (damn ugly la my face like so fat..shit) im drinking Angkor Beer, cambodian beer that is. pretty mild compared to tiger beer which is so much more bitter.. and yes i can drink! (:

this dish 's called amok in young coconut. classified under curry section. amok=fish. it s really good! that was all that was left!

i wont show u guys much picture on the architecture.. i think it would just bore u guys so i ll put up pics with cambodian people in it.. ha. That old lady just sat there the whole while, probably waiting for people to give her something. there are a lot of kids there also who will swarm to u, pester u to buy stuff from them. if u dont, they ll follow u for as long as they can..


this is taken at another temple (there are alot of temples in angkor!) called Ta Prohm, well known for its huge tall trees which grow among the rocks and buildings. There are a couple of trees around in the temple but this one's the most famous, coz of its scale and the way it 'engulfs' the walls.. pretty cool..

ok guys if i hv time, i ll give u a part 2 on it.. ha.. but thats all for now la!

-mich





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