Comments on: The last ditch

By: Xander

Xander — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:44:59 +0000

That roti tarbus looks awesome. I’m intrigued. -X

By: Phil Lees

Phil Lees — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:47:05 +0000

We're nothing if not classy. Just for the crowd not literate in Khmer pop culture, take a lesson from Preab Sovath: Everything I do, I do it for you.

By: Maytel

Maytel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:11:02 +0000

also, annoyingly I now can’t stop singing “mouse loves rice”

By: Maytel

Maytel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:05:30 +0000

wow, looks like you guys are into some pretty classy literature

mouselovesrice….i think that perhaps Thailand still subscribes to that idea as a development strategy

“sex with locals as a development strategy”, forget PRSPs “Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers” . From my time in Cambodia I can positively attest that a number of the old white expat development specialists incorporated this policy into their overall development work too….what a wonderful industry, pay old white men a thousand times the local wage to live in expat ghettos and have sex with the locals…..a recipe for development if ever there was one!

By: mouselovesrice

mouselovesrice — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:01:37 +0000

here here.

although, i don’t remember the knocks being all that hard, quite frankly. the 9-5 bump and grind on the nyc subway is a lot rougher than my moto ride to work. if only there was a way to rationalize development work not being a total and complete waste of my time and other people’s money.

ps: i thought the lesson of emergency sex was, you do more good by having sex with the locals than by teaching them human rights, because then you get to know them, really know them.

By: Phil Lees

Phil Lees — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:47:46 +0000

Hey, isn't that the plot to Emergency Sex? Surely somebody has optioned that for a movie by now.

By: Maytel

Maytel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:30:13 +0000

I know its weird huh I feel like you guys, me and Hock and Anth and Andrew are like ‘the class of ‘07′ in the ’school of hard Cambodia knocks’…I can imagine the plot to a really bad teenage movie based in Cambodia where its all about our own salvation rather than anyone elses….

I don’t find it weird to be back, just a tad boring, expensive and tasteless…except for the beer that is…mind you I am in Canberra