Notes from 2006 ( visit #3 | living on the Lakeside for 5 months ):

Lack of sun, the wind, the grey skies are confusing my logic & lowering my libido.

This not the Cambodia I know as a cold – if true-cold is possible – snap here has hovered over Phnom Penh this past week and while I know it’s the ‘coldest’ month of the year and that there’s no possibility of sweating I wish I was hot.

But not that I’m cold – except sleeping now, with the fan off and I’m actually under a sheet to cover my otherwise nakedness here in a city where – taxi-girls – working women are by far the best blankets, where the pizzas are HAPPY – laced with marijuana, where bar cocktails include Viagra and red bull, where westerners get cheap heroin & Nazi-speed addictions, where increasingly old western men lust on young local babes, where secret bars offer blow-jobs as you drink, where people get shot in nightclubs by local kids of the rich elite, where motorcycles and the quiet chaos whizz around everywhere – here, where rampant corruption and poverty and real smiles are the everyday: Welcome to Phnom Penh – CAMBODIA.

I could live here – for reasons well beyond those listed above but those factors are certainly a deep-consideration to stay here longer – forever – and get completely fucked-up …

But then again I tend to get bored – of everything – and restless easily and so I suppose more fast-travel is awaiting …