Jitteryness is subsiding. One of Phnom Penh's many blind massage places is nearby. Wonder if I can sneak out for half an hour?
(BTW, if you've never heard of 'Seeing Hands', just google it - it's an intriguing Cambodian success story that's created many imitators.)
Cambodia. The disabled dance, the voiceless make art with their hands, the blind do massage. Hmm... tagline in there somewhere.
Liveblogging Part 4
I should make this a meme and 'tag' other weblogger people to do it themselves. Liveblogging/lifeblogging.
Beats watching a rerun of 'Friends'.
Vuth brought in the art and headed off to class. All alone in the office, rockin' the email.
Have to pay Y Lida for some sketches he's done.
Called Pal Vannarirak to get the lowdown on her upcoming 'Good Books' TV show. It starts filming this month! Cool.
Heads up: Mo-Ling Chui will be doing a talk on multimedia tomorrow at the Royal University of Fine Arts. Time and Classroom to be announced. Sorry such short notice.
Liveblogging part 5: you guessed it
Thought it would be pretty dull after this.
4pm-ish Vuth is off to his class. I optimize some photos and get cracking on some emails and writing stuff.
There's a film on tonight about the joys of hobo-hopping freight trains in the USA at the Oxfam Boat. (Khmer translation included? Hell, in Cambodia people MAKE their own trains. Now that's innovation.) I beg off two text messages, crank up the music and keep typing.
Need to send some email but the office system isn't connecting well. So I decide to take the laptop to an internet cafe to cut to the chase.
Suddenly (and this is the dry season) rain! Big rain! This is rainy season style rain!
I wrap up the laptop and sprint down the street. It's more like swimming than running, I get soaked.
Spit off the email and get a few more.
7:05 pm? OT PLEUNG!
A chorus of beeps as the 'ups' power protectors on each computer in the cafe beep.
A generator goes on and the lights and connection come back on. Newspaper says at Electricite du Cambodge two more generators are online, so this should be short. I hope.
Rain, power out, what's next, a plague of locusts?
OK, going to get some food and do some quiet writing.
Not terribly adventurous today but hey, it was an experiment.
Liveblogging part 6
Generators are humming as I splash across the street to get some noodles. Slurp them down and get sucked into a Khmer soap opera for half an hour then realize it's stopped raining.
Have a hankering to buy a DVD of 'Chronicles of Narnia' but well, the power is out.
Nokia, Honda Dream; lots of targeted commercials for the post baby boom college age generation. One of the commercials grabs me, it's selling a phone but it's really selling a lifestyle you aspire to. Such a shame to see good imagery harnessed to Mammon.
Good reminder too, I need to get off my ass and clear out my inbox. If I'm actually going to do some drawing this week.
To facilitate or make works that compete with commercial fodder I've got to make the time.
Gerard Ashworth: "My competition isn't other cartoonists. My competition is James Cameron's Titanic." I miss the Oz comics scene. Hope Justin's having fun over there.
I lug my laptop home, wading through streets that have become streams. I'd take a moto but often they've gotten me just as wet.
Shower and then a bit of accounting fun. Now it's 9pm. Wow, that's pretty long for an outage. Must to buy candles. Oh wait, it just came on.
OK, a little writing, a little email, then sleep.
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