Monday, August 14, 2006

Fun-ny moments


1) From a restaurant at Phnom Penh International Airport.


2) Our "adventure" on the pony ride.
I was on the 1st cart, some other friends on the 2nd. Debbie was sitting nearest to the pony on the 2nd cart, and she suddenly bent her head down. We in the 1st cart was curious and later asked her why did she do that?

Apparently, the horse defecated while running....and she had to put down her face to prevent splatters of it from landing on her face! And how did she know that the horse was going to defecate??? The pony actually whipped it's tail twice as a warning sign before defecating.

3) Guess what is manure called in Khmer???


Aik! Yepp, it's called aik (meaning shit) in Khmer. It's one word all of us had no problem remembering; as the rest of the Khmer language can be hard to remember.
"Aik! Don't step on the aik!"

In fact on some village paths there was so much aik, that you just stepped on the dried aik to avoid the fresh, wet aik.


4) Another jem: Our group did a skit on the prodigal son in Cambodia. Our leader, KS was acting as the pig that the prodigal son had to clean. KS is of large size...and when he acted, our missionary heard the old Cambodian ladies commenting..."wah, such a big pig! Can sell for very high price!"
(just for info, pig is called curuk in Khmer. And the Cambodians love their pigs. We had pork, pork, pork everyday. The pork there is very nice too...juicy... ;) )

5) Oh this one is a classic!!!
It was the 2nd day after arrival in Cambodia and we all went out for house visitation. It was 3 people to a group plus a translator. You know, the scenary, heat and vegetation of Cambodia is quite similar to Malaysia. And cuz I just got back from Temenggor, the people looked the same to me as the orang asli. I was at the house of one girl who was going to sit for her exams. She could speak simple English.

So we talked, and then we prayed for her, and everything was going fine until suddenly I heard "Kamu punya ujian tiga hari kah?" COMING OUT FROM MY MOUTH.

The best thing is that, I didn't even realize that I was talking Malay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARGH....hahaha...the girl looked at me puzzled, the interpretator gave a blur look...and Joel and Debbie was laughing and laughing.......and then only I realized my mistake!
HAHAHAHA.
See what I mean???? 2 pics are from cambodia, 2 others from Jehai...can you tell the difference?

Yea yea, I have bad eyesight...must have been the juices from the Spider legs huh? haha ;)

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