phsaa thmei - central market
i'm just back from a weekend at the beach. and as to be expected with any road trip in southeast asia, it was exhausting. so exhausting that i can't even describe it yet. all i can muster for today are a couple of random observations and a few shots taken at phnom penh's central market, where i bought my $3 watch that did not work until i broke it. truly mysterious. i bought two different batteries for this thing, and neither lasted more than two or three hours. so on day 3 i ripped the face off in a classic lb fit of frustration (accompanied by some f-bombs and a few "this is unacceptable"s, of course), and replaced it with a little piece of paper that said "ceci n'est pas une montre." i thought it was sort of clever. but the next morning when i went to put on my new œuvre d'art i discovered that the hands on the face, which i'd left on my desk, were actually moving, and actually telling accurate time. it's broken - i can't set it anymore, so to change the hour i have to take it apart, but it totally works now.
anyway, i bought it at this market, which has a dome ceiling and is wonderfully cool inside.
the dome at phsaa thmei
a few other mysteries/observations for you:
1) phnom penh boasts an inordinate amount of dental clinics. why is this? no one knows. (and by that i mean that i googled it and found nothing)
2) there are dogs everywhere but they don't appear to be as rabid as i'd feared. yay.
3) the cambodians are a more reserved bunch than the vietnamese. it's unsettling. more on that later, perhaps.
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