vladimir wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:33 pm University libraries are pretty much open to anyone, just ask at reception, HE et al you have to join to borrow, and I believe the Senate has an open library within its compound in BKK, but mostly non-fiction, I'd imagine.

The Senate Library is mainly focused on books about law. It also has records of all previous Senate meetings, in Khmer. There's the National Library on Christopher Howes St, but last time I was there, maybe 10 years ago, the selection looked pretty old and outdated. There are also libraries open to the public at JICA HQ on Norodoam and a small one focused on recent Cambodian history at the Bophana Center.



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pattaya is not SEA
why not visit Lake Toba, Penang, Solo, Mergui archipelago, Vientiane or Rajah Empat instead of Whore Central?
you hardly have cause to complain really.
i am never bored and always busy, close to broke usually.
i would certainly not be bored in pattaya.
there is a nursery there that has all the spices, vanilla, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg etc.
for a couple kilobucks- you could set up a nursery here and in future sell those plants, vanilla in particular only takes a short time to grow. an orchid. 2 inch cutting is worth $2 ex malaysia tissue culture lab.

but maybe laboring is easier.
you just take orders and don't have to think or risk.


maybe the absence of someone telling you what to do leaves an unsettling void.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:14 pm why not visit Lake Toba...

LOL... maybe it'll go 'BOOM'! (again) when you're there. THAT would be exciting!

Kuroneko wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:47 am

saigonjackpot wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:56 am This trip I feel as if Im in a retirement home in SEA with the amount of old dudes wandering around grumbling and hanging in there cliquey little bars drinking them selfs into there daily coma to cope with boredom.

But seriously it is very few boring here I mean where is the parks, librarys, fishing spots ,surfspots ,skateparks, community centres in SEA?

I believe thisis a huge underlying issue fueling to the huge drug and alcohol consumption in the region because there is simply just nothing to do.

Go to Hillbrow, Jo'Burg, you wont be bored and they have a library there:





There's also a park.



And you can always find some interesting guys to drink with

You are one crazy cat. JoBerg was great untill the Nigerian coke dealers turned up and started pulling their tricks. One thing you can say about sub Saharan Africa is it's definately NOT boring.. And Cambodia / SEA looks/ feels like death, not even warmed up a bit, in comparison. Jamie seems to get a lot out of life here. He loves the music, the language etc. But i bet even he would be fucking amazed at the equivalent​ in somewhere like Kenya. Open people, wild clubs and bars, beautiful parks in the cities, good architecture, great music and colours everywhere etc.
Then again maybe he's already been? It's a lot more dangerous in some ways, but a lot less hastle in many others. I travel to learn. In Africa I learnt more in a year and a half, than I've done in SEA in almost seven years. Anything much I've learnt here has mainly been from books etc. Second hand info. It's a personal thing though, I'm sure others have had completely different experiences here.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:14 pm pattaya is not SEA
why not visit Lake Toba, Penang, Solo, Mergui archipelago, Vientiane or Rajah Empat instead of Whore Central?
you hardly have cause to complain really.
i am never bored and always busy, close to broke usually.
i would certainly not be bored in pattaya.
there is a nursery there that has all the spices, vanilla, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg etc.
for a couple kilobucks- you could set up a nursery here and in future sell those plants, vanilla in particular only takes a short time to grow. an orchid. 2 inch cutting is worth $2 ex malaysia tissue culture lab.

but maybe laboring is easier.
you just take orders and don't have to think or risk.


maybe the absence of someone telling you what to do leaves an unsettling void.

I think SEA would have been a lot more interesting a fair few years ago. When they had just opened up again, or before mass tourism in Indonesia, Thailand etc. And of course before massive population growth and globalisation.
As far as you not being bored goes, I understand​ what you're saying. But what do you do for fun?

AlonzoPartriz wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:35 pm

Kuroneko wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:47 am

saigonjackpot wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:56 am This trip I feel as if Im in a retirement home in SEA with the amount of old dudes wandering around grumbling and hanging in there cliquey little bars drinking them selfs into there daily coma to cope with boredom.

But seriously it is very few boring here I mean where is the parks, librarys, fishing spots ,surfspots ,skateparks, community centres in SEA?

I believe thisis a huge underlying issue fueling to the huge drug and alcohol consumption in the region because there is simply just nothing to do.

Go to Hillbrow, Jo'Burg, you wont be bored and they have a library there:





There's also a park.



And you can always find some interesting guys to drink with

You are one crazy cat. JoBerg was great untill the Nigerian coke dealers turned up and started pulling their tricks. One thing you can say about sub Saharan Africa is it's definately NOT boring.Great music and colours everywhere. And Cambodia / SEA looks/ feels like death, not even warmed up a bit, in comparison. Jamie seems to get a lot out of life here. He loves the music, the language etc. But i bet even he would be fucking amazed at the equivalent​ in somewhere like Kenya. Then again maybe he's already been? It's a lot more dangerous in some ways, but a lot less hastle in many others. I travel to learn. In Africa I learnt more in a year and a half, than I've done in SEA in almost seven years. Anything much I've learnt here has mainly been from books etc. Second hand info. It's a personal thing though, I'm sure others have had completely different experiences here.

I neva beem to africa but it looks ghetto and sketchy but also very fun.

Thai ,khmer and many countrys in Asean in general people will play on there phone 8 hours a day eat 5 times a day and sleep the rest of the time and be completely content, this as a westerner seems lazy ,boring and backwards.

This is where ASEAN gets boring watch locals and what they get up to ,they will be either be playing facebook Or sucking on there teeth staring into space.

But what do you do for fun?

haggles pineapple prices and does not buy when gets his price.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:24 pm

But what do you do for fun?

haggles pineapple prices and does not buy when gets his price.

What's happened to your sentence structure Frank? Bargaining with people who refuse to reach an acceptable price is definitely not fun. Which is one of the reasons I hardly go shopping here anymore. In Kenya etc, I always used to go to bars with good music and shoot the shit with educated Africans who were poor but smart, and didn't mind chatting about their country and lives. Or more often, just going round Kenyan friends houses/ rooms to listen to musc, smoke bangi and have a beer.

speling and grammer are for teecherz
yo

"speling and grammer are for teecherz
yo"

Is there some Finnish blood mixed in with your native American ancestry?