haha.. decided to give today's angkor sunset a miss though it would have been free entry with my next day ticket as i want to save my first view of angkor for dec 9. birthday angkor sunrise!! hee, like a big present to myself =)) hoping it won't be TOO crowded though..
today has been another long day of moving around. Border was surprisingly easy in spite of all the bad reports i'd heard about the Aran - Poi Pet border. Problem was somehow i crossed at a time when there weren't ANY lone tourists going to Siem Reap and waited i think 3-4hs at the bus depot. Thankfully the staff there were very friendly and talked to me almost the whole way.
the one female staff took me aside (away from the rest of the eavesdropping guys) to tell me about her love life and what she should do... i do empathise, but who am i to make judgements on or to influence her future? basically, she had/has a local bf whom she loves but due to family situation/finances, cannot afford to get married. There's a middle-aged american very persistently courting her who she doen't like/love but she wants to jump at the chance to go to the usa and have money and family and be loved... also, this guy wants to sleep with her obviously, and can't understand why she won't (apparently cambodian girls are not as easy as thai ones...). she thinks she is getting old (my age, sigh.) and won't have much chances left to meet a foreigner who will marry her and who she can love... sigh...
Finally a swiss guy came along but before we got our third person for the cab another one came along with a singaporean couple and 1 chinaman in it and i asked to join in. Thought it's shar with them as in pay the s'poreans 1/4 of the fare that they already paid but after they got off the driver told me that their fare was only for 3 ppl and i have to pay HIM an extra $10!! wish eh had said something earlier.. i could have done a lot with that $12, which i will ask the s'poreans for IF i do meet them around (but think they staying more up-market than me leh..)
anyway, the chinaman is quite interesting. Been CYCLING on the road for the past 5 years!! amazing.. the wanted to go to thailand but there are apparently quite a lot of restrictions on chinese passports so he had to turn back and go to Phnom Penh to get the visa. Lots of stories from him. Interesting views too.
I don't really like the look of siem reap so far... the people are nice, but i just don't feel very right here. maybe i just need to get used to it, and get used to paying slightly more for a slightly better room cos i don't have the LP with me and just can't seem to find all the $2/3 places i remember seeing listed. sigh. Or maybe i am just super not an urban/city person. Feeling distinctly unfriendly. guess i won't be sitting anywhere talking to anyone today. shall just go have dinner then sleep!!
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