Nov 29 2006
I have been wearing this white ribbon since yesterday and I will continue to wear it everyday for sixteen days as a sign of my protest against violence against women. By wearing the white ribbon, I’m joining the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC), a campaign which started in 1991 in Canada but is [...]
Nov 23 2006
I’ve been blogging about our US trip for two months now although the actual trip only took three weeks… haha… just stretching the value of our airfare. So finally, I’ve reached the most important part and the real purpose of this journey — the wedding of Sis New York. [...]
Nov 18 2006
I wrote this entry never imagining that Ernie and Jeena (yup! the team we’re talking about here) would read this entry, much less comment on it. However, surprise! Ernie and Jeena turned out be Sixter’s friends and Ernie graced this blog with what he had to say about the whole thing. Check [...]
Nov 15 2006
QUESTION: Which one is from Woodstock in upstate New York?
a) This hippie truck awash with technicolor peace signs; or
b) The 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Festival, the biggest rock concert ever and the apex of the hippie and drugs culture; three days (not hours) of rock music with musicians like Janis Joplin, [...]
Nov 14 2006
Brenda Ueland said,
People who want to write suffer from the most perplexing bewilderment, from the dreadful difficulty of writing, the mysterious failure of it and why prodigious effort so often arouses little interest in readers.
I guess the same may be said of bloggers. So if you want to write, or blog, and nothing seems [...]
Nov 13 2006
We usually eat out for most of our meals on weekdays because we both work and we don’t have househelp. But on weekends, we stay home and usually cook our meals ourselves. For today, Sunday, Honey was in charge of lunch and myself, dinner.
So check out our gourmet creations. For lunch, Honey [...]
Nov 09 2006
Yet another holiday for us! So while Honey is slaving away in the kitchen cooking my lunch, here I am typing two blog entries.
Today is the 53rd anniversay of Cambodian independence. Check out this amazing 20-meter tall, red-stone structure — the Independence Monument. It was built in 1958 in [...]
Nov 09 2006
What do you get when you put together an architect and an interior designer, both based in New York? Why, this absolutely amazing house they built in upstate New York of course! Friends, welcome to Casa Maria!
They drive here every weekend to relax from the rat race in Manhattan. Here’s the veranda…
Nov 05 2006
It’s that time of the year again when the moon is full, the dry season and the fishing season starts, and the waters of the Tonle Sap River reverse back from the Great Lake to the Mekong Delta. This is the time of the greatest festival in Cambodia, the Water Festival or Bon Om [...]
Nov 03 2006
Growing up in a big family in our old house in Kamuning during the Martial Law era, I had to share a small room with my three big sisters. My two evil big brothers (again, I say evil with much affection) also shared an even tinier room room right beside the girls’ room. [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
