my life...

today is a sunday… alone here in koh kong – waking up late – thanks G-d, I finally was able to do it… this is one thing that I would always look forward to doing at the end of the week, that is, to recuperate. Funny – it always doesn’t happen that way. Funny still? Doesn’t sound like fun. Much more with a four month baby – that would be an impossibility but this actually is the source of all the fun these days. and i am away from them now.

but hey – I did mention that I am in koh kong – this is my work base – eight hours away from my family – or approximately 300 kms away from my family – who right now are in the capital city. Consider this – eight hours for a three hundred kilometers distance is way to slow. Here is the catch: in coming to my place here now – you would need to hurdle four river crossings – vehicles rolling in to a flimsy wooden-flat- board-assembled ferries – if one is lucky enough – there is an alternate respectable ferry boat made of steel with a big machine – but as I said – an alternate – or whichever happens to be on the side of the river when you arrive.

bridges are being built in those four river crossings…

i have to make a correction here – probably out of habit I did say eight hours – it now has trimmed down to six hours considering that the first and last bridges are now passable.

i remember when I first came here, four years ago, the road was like a combination of moon crater with smudges of chocolate porridge – you glide and have a huge bump in unexpected terms. Two years later of doing such a ride – I start to feel that it was getting into my nerves. Imagine yourself wanting to have an out of the body experience just to free your self from banging and being thrown in every direction possible inside three and a half by four feet space in a vehicle. Good enough space? – wait till the seatbelts would tighten and you would be smacked tight on your seat with your extremities flailing and head thrown in all direction possible – a better option actually than not having anything to keep you fastened on the seat.

again, its a sunday and this is going to be a quiet day

Postscript: Photo was taken at 6:30 in the morning during summertime. We were waiting for our ferry ride to cross the river on our way to the next district - Sre Ambel - for a meeting. This is the same route going to the capital city - Phnom Penh. We were the only ones waiting for the ferry boat - everything was so quiet - the village on the other side of the river was just starting to wake up. The whole scenery was covered with morning mist (at points were it is not being hit by sunlight). I saw this coconut tree on the side of the river and hoped that it will come out in the photo which thankfully it did. There are no repeats in these travels - one chance for a nice photo. This is also a time of the day to take good photos - as the rule says - around the time of sunrise and sunset where rays of sun is at its oblique position and colors come out rich.