Nov 10 2009
Continued from Day 1, Day 2…
Day 3, Sunday.
Instead of going to the gym like yesterday morning, I decided to hit the beach. Hey, although my purpose for going to Hua Hin was to attend a bloody meeting, I WAS at a beach resort. There’s a bloody 5 miles of beach in this resort. I had [...]
Nov 03 2009
Day 1, Friday.
Is Day 1 the day you arrive at a place or the day after Night 1? As the teen-agers say… whatevuh! Â For this post, Day 1 is the day I arrived in Hua Hin.
So after that eventful plane ride, Boss and I arrived in Bangkok where this really big van arranged [...]
May 03 2008
In 1967, Jacqueline Kennedy went on a whirlwind tour of Cambodia, hosted by no less than King Norodom Sihanouk himself. She spent three days strolling through the ruins of ancient Angkorian temples and she also went to Sihanoukville to name a street after President John F. Kennedy. See this vintage Time article for more [...]
Apr 25 2008
There are plenty of things to do in Sihanoukville. You can go to the zoo, you can go to the Ream National Park, you can do water sports like scuba diving and snorkeling, you can go island-hopping, you can party all night in one of the frequent beach parties, you can visit Buddhist temples, [...]
Feb 15 2008
Whenever Honey and I would go to Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s “beach town,” for our regular honeymoon, we would usually go to Sokha Hotel (we get a really chunky discount) where we would enjoy luxurious facilities and a kilometer-long private beach reserved only for the hotel’s guests (see this post):
"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
