Pottering in Phnom Penh

[juliet]

So, I've spent the last couple of days pottering gently around Phnom Penh, which has been a most pleasant way to spend a couple of days. Had a chat with a couple of Australian girls in the FCC yesterday evening (one of whom works here, the other in Ho Chi Minh City aka Saigon); and then another chat with a nice Columbian woman called Lina, over dinner. Socialisation! Don't think I've had a conversation that long since I left Beijing.

Today, I finally got around to spending 1.5 hrs sorting out photos, as a result of which I've uploaded a whole 6 to Flickr. (I have 60, but [insert here rant about sodding upload speeds & uploads that take 45 min & then say they didn't bloody do anything; and then stupid Windows machines that refuse to open the damn folders any more arghghghgh ANYWAY. I will try again another time; at least they're sorted out now.]).

Tomorrow morning I am off to Siam Reap to visit the temples at Angkor, which are by all accounts spectacular.

Further on geckos: local name is ching-cha (very short a, very nearly "chat"); Dad tells me that in Singapore & Indonesia they're chat-chats. The waiter at the FCC who told me this then said "But the big ones are tak-ei," and pointed up into the corner between roof and walls, where there was an ENORMOUS (OK, maybe a foot long) lizard, looking a bit like a cross between an iguana and a gecko. Cor. I shall have another look for that one tonight.

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Pls snd gecko? I am forever optimistic that you will see sense and start collecting beasts to go with yr stories. It does not need to be a tak-ei. A cute wee little one will do me just fine.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Blimey, it is very colourful isn't it?

time warp

[(Anonymous)]

According to the date at the top of this entry, you've actually spent a couple of months pottering in phnom penh, rather than a couple of days. Why does it suddenly say December? :s

W xxx

Re: time warp

[juliet]

No idea, but fixed now!

[euphuistica.livejournal.com]

Somerset Maugham calls them chik-chaks in his short stories, mostly based in early C.20th Borneo.