Archive for 2005

Saturday

Saturday: Nou Hach Literary Journal Annual Awards meeting. This third time, things go pretty smoothly. (Editing the raw photos at the moment.) Nol Dara has a new poetry book out - 'My dog, Their Dog'. (Only 2000 riel - 50 cents!) Nice cover by Sam Sarath. Khing Hoc Dy spent the whole day ...

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Friday

Friday: Getting ready for the Nou Hach Journal meeting. And also some plans on archiving of old style Khmer comics. Many of these old comics had glossy painted covers which are not given justice by the cheap printing techniques of today.

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Thursday

Thursday: Refugee Film Festival Another jam-packed showing of 'The Flute Player' at the French Cultural Centre. Masters Nong Chok (Bassac), Youn Mec (Wedding Music), Kung Nei (Chapei Dong Veng) and Yim Saing (Flute) were there. Many questions from the mixed audience of foreign and local viewers. Great response, and the Refugee ...

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The Magic Forest

The Magic Forest Based on the novel by Mao Samnang, one of Cambodia's most prolific female novelists. Check out that weird funky circular symbol behind the logo, it looks like one of those good luck charms so common here. Often it's got Pali words written in Khmer inserted ...

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Traveling Bloggers

Traveling Bloggers: Cambodia The 'Cambodia Blog' frenzy continues. When will it end? Beyond in-Cambodia blogs and blogs relating to Cambodia overseas, then there's the additional category of 'Travel Blogs'. Journeyfile has a list of Cambodia Travel Blogs, http://cambodia.by.journeyfile.com/ ...

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