Deliciously Me

Finally, it’s Cambodia Hour! Yay!
Been dying to blog bout this, just that I didn’t have the time to edit pictures and blog bout them.
*sigh*

However, I’ve decided to blog real short. I’ll just say that 5 of us, Leemay, me, Kurubee, Ailing and Emily boarded the earliest flight to LCC Terminal to meet up with the rest (Aaron and William) before boarding the afternoon flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and we had fun in Cambodia.
The end.
Haha!

Nah, you wish it’s short. This will be a super long one.
MUAHAHAHA!

The journey to Phnom Penh took about 2 hours. The plane was full of our local people, their local people and some of the non-local people. Confusing? Nevermind if you don’t understand. Haha. I remembered that during the flight there was a strong ‘ikan masin’ stench that bothered us till Emily suddenly complained bout it quite loud in Hokkien.

Luckily their local people doesn’t understand Hokkien. Haha!

And no, the stench didn’t go away. -.-”

Because all of us didn’t have a good sleep the night before, so we were trying to catch some winks. But just as we were about to fall alseep, annoucement was made, asking us to show our air ticket to claim our on-board meal.

Guess what we had?

The DIY 1901 hotdog that came with a sesame bun, a sausage, a packet of vege pickles, black pepper, and 3 packets of sauces -  mayonise, mustard and ketchup.

Our plane landed soon and we found ourselves on 2 tuk tuks costed USD7 each, leaving the airport to our guesthouse, Capitol Guesthouse.

It was one hell of roller coaster ride for us! I felt so insecured sitting on the tuk tuk as there’s no safety belt to buckle and it’s so open! I fear that I’ll just simply fall off the tuk tuk when the driver took a quick left/right turn. Moreover the road was bumpy and uneven (especially when moving on the red gravel road). It’s so bumpy that my butt practically lifted off the seat few times and my heart stopped for that second in fear of falling off the tuk tuk.
Scary sial!

The traffic in Phnom Penh – ohmy, it was horrible, terrible, worst traffic order that I’ve ever seen! Vehicles are seen crossing the intersection even with the traffic lights flashing red on their lanes! Yet amidst all the traffic madness, we couldn’t find a single dent nor scar mark (resulted from accident) on their vehicles. Remarkeable right? Hmm…

Other than that, taking a tuk tuk is a fast and good way to look at the surrounding and beat the traffic as it zooms around fast, and manage to squeez its way around the busy roads in Phnom Penh.

I saw many unique buildings along the way but I knew that I couldn’t have the time to visit them. So, the only thing I could do is by taking pictures of them. On tuk tuk. While clutching the pole with my arm. Lol!

I spotted an obvious ‘trend’ in Cambodia. First it was a row of shops selling fruits, then came another row of shops selling flowers. As we moved on, we saw a row of shops selling antique watches, followed by another row of shops offering typing/writing service.
Get the trend?

In Cambodia, it seems like all shops selling/offering the same thing are ‘put’ on a same row. It really made me wonder how they keep their business going since the rest of the row doing the same business too? Probably the road there are named after the type of business there; like Flower Road, Fruits Road, etc.
*I’m just kidding, I don’t know what’s the name of that road.*

As our tuk tuk moved passed the Orussey market, the strong fragrance coming from fried/grilled food hit our nose and sent a weird signal to our tummy making them to growl. It was 5 something in Phnom Penh that time, and I was feeling a little bit hungry.

We reached our destination after passing the oh-so-jam-road. Kurubee quickly proceed with the check-in process and then we were led to our room.

The picture above is the boy’s room. I unfortunately forgotten to take picture of our room. *smack head*

But I did take pictures from the balcony of our room. The door was actually locked, but somehow we managed to open up the door and 4 of us – Leemay, Ailing, Emily and me snapped like nobody’s business. Hahaha!

We refreshed ourselves and half an hour later, we passed the keys to our room to the registration lady and walked down to the kopitiam below (owned by the guesthouse too) where B settled the next day’s sightseeing with the lady boss. By 7pm, we found ourselves bargaining with the 7-8 tuk tuk drivers for a trip to the famous Sisowath Quay.

I realised the post is a bit long for my liking, and the coming one will be long too so I guess I’ll stop here today. Stay tune for this…

Toodles~

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