Siem Reap: Doh maaa
My blog server crashed sometime during the past couple days, and I’ve lost a bunch of my posts from the last month. Yep. Bummers McBummersly. I’ve found and followed some google-cache guidelines for restoring most of them, but as it happens, through the restoration/re-posting process, these cached versions were then overwritten. The upshot is that the post from Chiang Mai about the “fetal” Irish pool players and the Irish guy going off with the possible ladyboy… well, that post is gone. The funniest one, dagnabit! Also lost are a bunch of your comments, but I have been able to repost those that I could find. Schiesser, as the Germans and Austrians would say. I don’t know what they’d say in Lao, Thai or Khmer, or else I’d write that. I know that “doh maaa” means “motherfucker” in Vietnamese, though. (Thanks, Duke of Nam!) So let’s go with that: Doh maaa!!!
But I guess dem’s da breaks.
If I wanted to spend some more time in front of a computer than I already have trying to correct this, I would. But I don’t. I guess I’m bugged because I changed from Blogger to the travel blog host so I wouldn’t have blog issues abroad! Irony is such a cruel slut sometimes. But if any of you have any tips or ideas, or if you perhaps saved or printed out that one post for some reason, or can offer any help to recover that lost little anecdote, then, dude! Drop me a line! Yeah, thanks….
But hey, I’m in Siem Reap. And Cambodia is crazy. Waaaaayyyyyyy different than Laos. Poorer — much poorer, even. I really wasn’t expecting the difference to be that striking, but it is. This is just my impression after my kooky two-day journey from the Lao border… like, there are not as many satelitte dishes in the countryside here, for instance. And no Pringles at the shack where the bus stops every couple hours. Things like that.
Siem Reap is fairly well touristed, though, and I imagine I’m going to spend a few days here — after a long sequence of guesthouse-hopping, it will be nice to cruise around the temples of Angkor Wat leisurelily. That’s right: leisurelily.
And: stay tuned for some photos from where-all I’ve been. It’s been hard to get them posted up here, but I will do so soon. With this blog-crashing shit, I can’t be bothered right now. Thanks for bearing with us during this struggle with modern trans-Pacific communication apparati. Cheerio.
Tags: Cambodia, Laos, Siem Reap
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