I really love nigel brown's paintings... if u google u will see

I thought these pictures would be great as background to a horror movie.. which is what the traffice feels like here these days altho we dont need to focus on that here....





anyway I may be crazy but I like these pics...

this wedding has to be the most joyous and the most poignant of the sahasawath

did you ever see two happier people???

did you ever see a prouder mom?

and whoops this doesnt belong here but i was very excited to see the watercube with my very own eyes on the year of the Olympics

oh my pics have loaded out of order (... kate- help!).. anyway these gas pipes are at the 798 art area in beijing. people who know feel it has become a very commercialised area and say the artists have moved on...

a door at the Imperial Palace... lots of doorknobs!!!

yes you are right.. that is a chinese thingy cover and \i am in beijing.. my first time in china despite living in asia almost ten years!

the imperial palace.. at least there were images of flowers but it didnt make up for the lack of gardens throughout, for me anyways... there was a chinese garden at the end which was intereresting...

my fav piece of art in the 798 area was this.. I think becasue it reminds me so much of the man in the \nigel brown/ paintings

we went recently to visit my bro in bangkok, and the lovely fangdamily. and we went to the beach.. this guy did a fire show at night on the beach

we played with puppies

we played with our new camera

played again with puppies

and took beautiful photos of the s k y

it was nice

this was the police building on street 51.
It was sooo gorgeous
(both pics are from there)

the steel is carefully removed from the buildings which are destroyed. Around the edges of town you can find piles of twisted steel with people sitting all day all day all day striaghtening it all out .. presumably to go into the next building...

sometimes, when the mekong and tonle sap rivers hit their zenith, you really do feel like just driving off the road, across the verge, down the stinky stairs to the river and just all the way down to Vietnam... well I do anyways.,.. every year I feel like driving down the vast beautiful warm brown road to Vietnam.. especially when...

... yeah I really feel like going off the rails and down the Brown river Road...especially when I go past this space...behind me is the Cambodiana Hotel, and in front of me is a space where there really ought not to be a space. not if we love our buildings as we oughta, not if we value the collective sense of space and place we have among our older buildings. It went down almost overnight and the only thing which distinguishes it now is these vans for rent.. I will drag out the picture of the old building for you

and yep that is the kite mueum.. being covered in that building-making stuff which they peel plastic offa, rendeirng the original sort of wrapped.... in plastic.. something in that.

.. ooh a door.. a bit like finding a bottle titled Drink Me...
what oh what is thru the magic door?

...replete with graffiti...

oh jeez yes another space. It used to be the Bassac Theatre. Those sort of humpy bits used to be the oldest most gorgeous frangipani trees... I am so sad.. it just went so quickly.. Who got the trees and where did they go????? I dont know where I live anymore...

Oh yeah let's go for a drive...

it is amazing what you can buy at my fav market....... there are even supplies for people who like to *cook*!!!!!

on a recent visit to Siem Reap for work we went to eat food at night close to Angkor, which you can do without buying a ticket, as you are not going into any of the temples.. anyway looking back from the entrance to the grand and awesome causeway to the Angor Wat, this was the sky we had to feast on, as well as bbq chicken and rice, and bread ... YUMMO

Sras Srang... in Siem Reap... gorgeous.

woodworking tools
palm leaves left out to dry before being dyed and woven into all sorts of things


the corner of the moat around angkor wat... i think it is the NE corner...

aw so pwuddy
I really LOVE this building

designed by the legendary Van Molyvann
who is a god
really

and I have always threatened to fall down and kiss his shoes should I ever find myself in the same room.. so moved was I by 60s architecture, of which he is the only living remnant... (that i know of).. I did find myself in the same room twice rfecently and did manage to hold myself back.

thankfully

every year they put these curtains for Water Festival

gorgeous
(and yeah I get that the pics are average.. in my defense I was driivng alone at the time... surrounded by the motoing millions)

this building is round the corner from our house. First I saw this other photo like this but from Japan on a photoblog and I LOVED it, and always imagined doing it to this restaurant. then they upgraded the restaurant. So it is definitely not as cool a photo as it woulda been if I had just taken the shot instead of thinking about it for 3yrs each time I drove past it....

yeah.. um.. aliens appeared in the kitchen tonight
wearing these superb fashion statements handbags made by The Rubbish Project on their
h e a d s !!!

determined not to submit totally and absolutely to the vagaries of funding games, these bags are now on the scene, in season and out they are to be seen on the arms of the rich, famous and ordinary in the stresst of Phnom Penh.. and on the heads of some aliens.

btw who is that manchild???

The Independence monument was all dressed up today and yesterday for Independence Day .. 55 Years since independence from the French Protectorate. She looked so booootifulllll

sucky

sitting in sovvanna
at cafe sentiment

and feeling sentiment-al
or perhaps feeling senti-mental

anyway

Lit Review blooze
blow me away
every day

and it's preety sucky
sitting at sovanna

mun so sock-day

kiwibopha in phnom penh

and oh how we do

Oh my gosh look at this cutie in Paturoa Rd I forgot who she is.. Peter Pan I think

When java used to have their "Open Walls" chicky made a painitng. Dana, in true class form put it in full view of everyone.

Oh yeah we are so cute

sitting at Java
a Phnom Penh institution... where art and coffee and everyone you know meet

very sore back.. another story.

Thinking about how if Liz were still living here my thesis would be done already! Liz you are very organised and motivating! I in reality have to stop waiting for the perfect idea and just get going, trusting the process and my brain!

I read in the paper today that rice has tripled in price in Thailand since Jan 2007.. unbelievable. Gas here has doubled

more tomorrow from this bear of little brain

And here we are at Nukulau Island.. just off of Suva in Laucala Bay... mmm I lived in Suva from 1974-1978 and we used to go very often to this wee Island... such sweet memories of the beach, the sea, the journey there on boats, sleeping in one of those buildings...picnics tides, easters and reefs and most of all beautiful weather...

I can do dark and moody - pwomise i didnt photoshop.... I have two very old manual minoltas (an srt202 and a 7s) The 7s my parents had when I was a kid living in Fiji and then they kindly gave it to me.. and that one takes great pics still. And the SRT I bought from Russ Bowers when he left Cambodia and we are definitely making friends. i do love the old manual minoltas I have. they see things I dont. Pwomise I will upload again soon

well this picture has me.. I love it I love it I love it and you can see more of this gorgeousness too... I too wanted to take a shot in b and w on monivong just north of Caltex Bokor... there was a fab lightshow above a Chinese Restaurant but I waited too many years and abruptly the building was upgraded... anyway i am trying to drown in photoblogs while it is still the weekend....

I am loving this new radio thingy.. go unlimited internet on the weekend!!!

We went to the airport today to farewell the Burgesses and we hope they will return to Cambodge. This is the first day of Khmer New Year - we are welcoming the Year of the Rat. Every year we enjoy the quietness of the city.. it is a time to spend time with others in town, relaaaax and eat. This year there seems to be more traffic - I guess more people are hanging in the Penh.

Josh went to a new net cafe called Modern today which is very exciting cos it is 2000r an hour but it is waaay over the other side of the universe, which is called Kampuchea Krom Blvd.

Our naga came down this past week. I felt very sad I couldn't go to relax by the river and enjoy before she was packed away in Darryl's garage. darrrryl- you have been so wonderful to us - *thanks* again so much. I dont know even one other person who would have welcomed us for those two and a half crazy weeks... not only us but all our hangers-on, and they were considerable in number!.. and then to offer to put the naga up in your room too... LOVELY!

So, we're all about the refocussing now... have to try to write for the blimmin ethics thingy for the thesis... reading about environmental justice movements, ETC (dont get me started)