Nov. 27

Hello Friends!

Today there was some sad news about Mumbai,  it was rolling on BBC all day, but if you haven't checked it out yet, find it here. That aside, my day was pretty nice: nice breakfast with the parentals*, learning how to do some nice stuff on excel, eating nice and tasty south-Indian food at the 'Dosa Corner', spending some nice bonding time with ze faja, and going to a nice Baha'i function (in Khmer!). I missed out on the CLASSIC experience of rollerblading in Phnom Penh, but I imagine there will be a chance to get back to it sometime in the future.

I'm sure most of you know that I love Indian food. This is not becuase I lived in india - I swear - it's just becuase Indian food is that good. Today's veg. thali reinforced my love. I highly reccomend eating indian food the the next time you eat out. So far Khmer food is still a little bit too much for me...and I eat almost anything. They have a lot of 'soups': seriously somehting like 75% of the dishes are some form of liquid with random bits of other things thrown in. The most off-putting of the "other things" is congealed chicken's blood. They all say it tastes good, but vegetarianism starts to look more and more appealing! I had an amazing fish dish cooked in a coconut (Fish amok)...either it was cooked in the coconut, or served in it, but either way, it was tres bons. I'll try to delve deeper into the perilous depths of Khmer delicacies, but don't expect too much besides photos, because some of this stuff is actually crazydawgs to the donkeymax!

I've been testing out different ways of uploading photos to this blog, and was hoping that going via flickr would be the easiest, unfortunately, it didn't work out immediately, so my excitement has dwindled, and perserverence faltered in the face of failure. So bear with me while I work out he kinks in the technical side of blogging, and until that time, enjoy the shot of Afshin, one of the many elephants from the Cmabodian wild. 

*short for parental units. I want to change it from parentals to 'rentals, but that just sounds lame...so my only other option was..."p-units". It may be strange at first, but I think you'll find that 'p-unit' grows on you. I imagine several familial references will appear in the future, so don't be fooled by the p-units.