I started to notice signs of possible Athlete’s Foot condition and thought of checking UCare out to see what they had for Athlete’s Feet. Even though UCare is more expensive than other pharmacies, they are the ones who are likely to carry this type of product and should I buy it, it would be an actual product, not some counterfeit crap.

There is UCare Pharmacy right on the opposite corner from Pub Street in Siem Reap, located directly on Sivatha Boulevard, which means it’s downtown and close to everything. So far so good, except from that “breathing down your neck” phenomenon which is so obvious throughout Cambodia. I walked in and was immediately approached by one of the girls who worked there. She asked me what I was there for and followed me around. Even though it’s pretty embarrassing to ask for it aloud, I told her I was looking for products to cure Athlete’s Foot with. Since she’s obviously never heard of this condition, she repeatedly asked what it was so I was forced to respond and repeatedly ask for Athlete’s Foot cure. It was getting more and more embarrassing by the minute.

Everything there is to know about South East Asia can be summed up in a single sentence:

Life in South East Asia is all about a struggle to be a bigger pig than everyone else.

It’s astounding how much effort people of South East Asia put into ensuring that there is no trace of civilized behavior in whatever they do. I mean, why would anyone want to chew their food with mouth closed when they can smack their mouth up and down like a cow making so much noise it can be heard from the apartment five stories above?

I’m a big fan of documentaries about wild animals, but I have yet to see an animal that would stretch its mouth open as wide as South East Asians do when they eat, or an animal that makes as much deliberate noise eating. This South East Asian mindset of “why should I eat like a civilized person when I can chew louder than a pig in a stay” is mind stopping. The surest way to get eternally disgusted is by paying a South East Asian restaurant a visit when there are locals eating inside.

John Bingham wrote:The guy is neurotic, and more than a little paranoid.
On waiting staff:

Cambodians take excessively wrong approach towards tourists in most instances and waiters in restaurants are no exception. I found it truly hard to accept from the beginning and still can’t get myself to feel easy about it, but I grew to accept it as necessary evil......But it is very common to have your server stand a few tables down facing you and looking at you non stop.....Khmer people want everything now so servers are always at the ready, never close by, but rather right there.

Yobbo wrote:

John Bingham wrote:The guy is neurotic, and more than a little paranoid.
On waiting staff:

Cambodians take excessively wrong approach towards tourists in most instances and waiters in restaurants are no exception. I found it truly hard to accept from the beginning and still can’t get myself to feel easy about it, but I grew to accept it as necessary evil......But it is very common to have your server stand a few tables down facing you and looking at you non stop.....Khmer people want everything now so servers are always at the ready, never close by, but rather right there.

I seem to have had the opposite experience, in most local restaurants it's difficult to get the staff's attention as they usually seem to try hard to avoid doing too much..



Ha I've had to get the beer out of the fridge myself!

I get this all the time, but I don't see the big deal. They're better than American waiters who rush over to your table every few minutes to see if "everything is alright" as if I wouldn't say something if it was.

When Character and Environment Match

There are certain values I uphold and as such, I could only live in a country that upholds the same or similar values. In my case, these include order, respect, equality and law. That’s why I’m naturally drawn and feel the most comfortable in countries where order, respect, equality and law are inherent. Such countries include my home land of Canada, but also Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, and some others.

On the other hand, people who uphold chaos, corruption, discrimination, xenophobia and disorder are naturally drawn to countries with the same values, such as Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Brazil and many others.

A person who upholds positive values is incompatible with countries that uphold negative values and would feel very uncomfortable living there. As a result, such person would want to leave and relocate to a country the values of which match those he/she upholds.
I gave Cambodia, for example, my best shot and stayed for 5 months but it was an ongoing struggle because inherent corruption and lust for blood were strongly contradicting my character. I tried really hard, but could not do it.
But I got a very good taste of what people who feel comfortable there are like. Holy eff!

logos wrote:

I get this all the time, but I don't see the big deal. They're better than American waiters who rush over to your table every few minutes to see if "everything is alright" as if I wouldn't say something if it was.

Correct, you're sometimes even too outspoken.

Waiting staff at a particular riverside establishement still are still whispering at your outburst that went something like "what ? not even a BJ ? After all I've spent on you ? little ungrateful bitch! "