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Friday, April 30, 2004
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Day 10: Found a big mall and a night full of insects (turn off the lights!!!)
Eureka! They have a mall after all (God bless Cambodia!!). It's not your Glorietta or Shangri-la type of malls but hey, they have one. With 35C during evenings, it is indeed a timely discovery. It has a big sony center on the topmost floor (yipeeee!!), a big supermarket downstairs, lots of European RTWs, and a whole bunch of cheap RTWs - ala MBK in Bangkok. One big mall is better than nothing.
During that night when we had a brownout (previous post), I experienced the first rainfall (people here said it has been some time since the last one). So as a result, last night, all sorts of small insects flocked to every single source of light in the area. It's not the usual 'gamu-gamo' but I hate insects nevertheless. So I had to turn off the lights and lock myself inside my room. I have screens but these things keep crawling under my door and every other bit of small space that they could fit themselves into.
I had a chance to have lunch with some Cambodian friends who also attended the March 2003 training-workshop on using statistics for gender-responsive policy analysis and advocacy in Bangkok. It was a very happy get-together courtesy of Elaine (who generously shares her office with us). We were about to order when the Minister for Women's and Veterans' Affairs walked in with her daughter. Then after a while Lorraine (the person who requested me to join this team) called Elaine. She talked to Elaine, the Minister and me. She was very delighted to know we were having that lunch get-together. She was after all part of the training team in Bangkok.
posted by Allan at 6:54 PM (GMT+8)
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