(in response to the ‘proof that girls are evil’ meme that has been floating around the Khmer blogosphere…)
http://darachan.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/proof-that-girl-are-evil/
Marry a Square
1. To find a husband, a Khmer woman must take be patient as there are many rules in polite society that govern this process. This takes time.
2. “Time is money” so
Husband = Time
3. Raising children takes two parents to be fully effective.
Children = Time
Husband x Children = Time Squared
4. ‘Square’ is slang for someone who is ordinary / conventional.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/square
5. Husbands who cheat on their wives leave all the burden of raising a family to the wife.
Half of the job is not done.
Time Squared / 0.5 = : (
6. So it’s good to marry a faithful (square) husband to have ‘time squared’.
He may not seem special at first, but you will have a happy marriage and good family.
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Going Viral
What did I wake up to this morning?
A text message. Forwarded repeatedly throughout the day, clogging up my phone. ‘Please forward to everyone you know’. Option: delete.
If cattle are dying so rapidly, it’d have to be some new disease – even hoof and mouth disease doesn’t work that fast. (And yes, it exists in Cambodia, just like bird flu.) So I rang up one of my friends in the press. Nope. Nothing official yet, though they’d been advised of the rumors.
If your food is thoroughly cooked, it’s going to be hard for a virus or bacterium to survive. And so far as I know about local farming practices, we don’t have prions to worry about. Who’s going to get hurt the most from this talk? Farmers, butchers, market vendors.
The rapid spread of rumors is sometimes called ‘viral’. The term’s been applied to ground level marketing via email and text messaging. I’m not going to directly forward on the message like it asks – the message IS the virus.
So I’m off for some food. I wouldn’t rule out Lok Lak. Think differently? Show me some real proof.
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Flow
Flow Sculpture/installation and photographs by Pich Sopheap Sala Artspace 339E2 Sisowath Quay (top floor, through Mekong Web)
Showing until June 16 Sala Artspace, 339E2 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh (through Mekong Web, top floor)
[from What's On]
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Built to Last
With pollution levels rising in the Tonle Sap lake, we are expecting to see some changes amongst its inhabitants as they toughen up.
(from the Peace of Art Project, on display at The ArtHouse in Siem Reap)
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Khmer Blog Portal 1.0
It’s been my New Years’ Resolution to read up on rss feeds and develop a Khmer-related blog portal site, similar to Blogsmalaysia.com or Tomorrow.sg.
Now I find that E-Khmer has beaten me and done the task, quite well in fact.
They have put together a feed portal that gathers posts in Khmer Unicode and English, and refreshes every two minutes.
Way to go! (And thanks for doing my work for me.) Give it a whirl at http://feed.e-khmer.net
(Cheers to Phil for rss summary) Tags:cambodia,blog
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