What I intend to do with this blog

My new office :)

I've found the perfect place to blog: a beautiful cafe with wifi, where I can get a decent meal for 5 bucks and sit all day blogging if I wish. The problem now is to figure out exactly what to say and how to manage this from day to day. I take a lot of pictures, too many to attend to each day. It's even difficult to find time to post them on the internet. Maybe what I'll do is choose just one picture/video of the day and use it as a springboard to give my impressions. 

So far, life is on the sunny side for me....though the Cambodians complain that it's too cold...winter here is an unbearable 30 during the day, dropping to an utterly frigid 22 at night. Though this is a very poor country, the poverty is not as visible as in say, Manila, where beggars abound at every street corner and people sleep on pieces of cardboard on the sidewalks. Maybe the laws here are very strict and perhaps the poor are pushed more out of sight. A lot of neighborhoods in this city have a very rich look. Plenty of huge, even palatial estate homes. Lots of new, modern businesses and facilities. I've walked through some very poor squatter areas along the railroad tracks, but as mentioned, these areas seem just out of sight. You could visit this city as a casual tourist and have the impression that most people are doing quite well. As to the prevalance of the sex trade, I haven't noticed too much yet. Have walked past a couple of sex bars, have guys calling out "You want lady" once in a while, but I've seen nothing yet of the really horrible side of life here.