If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itImagine having to make resolutions – and then break them – 3 times over. Cambodians do that and that’s why the whole country is so exhausted. They do ours, then the Chinese one, then this one which starts today, Sat Ap 13. That’s a lot of pressure. There is nobody in Phnom Penh who is from Phnom Penh (much like British Columbia in this regard) and this is, perhaps, the most familial race on earth. So everybody is off to the provinces. Last year the Cambodia Daily positively Crowed that there were only 58 traffic mortalities during the holiday season (down 20 from the year before). I came down from the provinces on the bus, and happily it felt kinda like the calm before the storm. I roll with ‘Sorya’ (sorryakindakilledurfamilyah)…. Only cuz they ship my mirrors and are nice as hell. They’re murderous, tho. All their drivers are sponsored by NIKE and you’ve never seen a cleaner pair of heels than the pair they’ll show you after they’ve rolled a 48 window limo. This is the country of ‘Beat it’, cuz unless you got 500 bucks to clear your name somebody gonna be tossing your salad right quick But these people; there’s nothing like how their eyes slide and a smile washes over their whole face while they say, ’I’m going to my home-country’. I know the places they are talking about, and they can be pretty, but more often are not. I guess you have to be there, and it helps if your Mom and Dad are there too. It continues to amaze me, even in Phnom Penh, how quickly you can leave the cities and towns behind. PP sprawls a lot – there are very few buildings over 4 or 5 stories, but if you go the right way, if you ride across the Tonle Sap over the Japanese-Canadian Friendship Bridge and hang a left, (North) you will instantly be hobby-horsing down a buckety road, weaving around cows and admiring stilted houses and strong-legged men in sarongs. In Siem Reap and Battambang, the only other cities, and they are tiny next to PP, the transformation is...
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Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it The gentleman on the right, Sambat, is the sole surgeon at the main hospital in ‘Sam Pov Leung’, Samlout District and, again, one of the most land-mined areas on Earth. Despite his youthful good looks, he’s been working there for over 30 years. The early years would have been some very bad years indeed. He estimates that he has performed, himself, in the neighborhood of 1000 amputation procedures in that time. Go figure; and hats off to Sambat, a very brave soldier in the war against war! You Go! On the left is Heng, from Trauma Care Foundation, who threw us together. Sambat is now a total devotee of Mirror Therapy and will be spreading the word and the works throughout the rest of his long and productive career. Thank you Heng and Thank you...
Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itDear Stephen! I’m Tek Lyly is a staff of Handicap international who join with you about me and mirror presentation. Thanks so much for sharing this experience to person with amputee and I think it so good practice and can help all of them and cure without paying money. I’m very interesting because I worked with people disabilities so can share with them and I will contact if I have any question. I hope you succeed this project. Good luck and safe trip Best...
Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it “I was bluffing, of course, but I still liked the look of things.” Christopher Hitchens from ‘Hitch...
Read MoreIf you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it On the road to Samlout. This gent was up in the Thai border camps for 13 years where he learned perfect English. He’s now a shade tree...
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