Last chance

Anyone want anything from the wild East? Valium for a few cents, illegal DVDs, statutes of Buddha, or just some silk?

Today is your last chance to request!

Trivia

Well we didn't exactly defend out title as trivia champions at the lazy gecko. Oh well We came second. Our glorious night of triumph was not for this week - getting bored with it anyway. The antibiotics that the doc has me on prohibit taking advantage of the vodka for 50 cents at the lazy gecko but none of us were exactly on form last night anyway! Oh well girls night in tonight - chocolate, margeritas, and movies. It should be fun fun fun

Health facts

Did you know that malnutrition is the biggest killer in Cambodia and diabetes is in second place? Kinda ironic don'cha think?

It also rains

The good, bad, and ugly

Well I've not posted in a while because I've been on the road. I've been to Battambang, Bunteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Poipet and Battambang again. It was of course all for work. The GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS) project is over and I interviewed the national UN volunteers in three provinces.

The Poipet and Battambang trip was to follow up on my child trafficking articles. So I've been busy. I've seen the good (Angkor Wat and other temples). I've seen the bad (colonies of ants in my hotel rooms) and I've seen some of the ugliest things you can imagine (a young child kowtowing for money, a six year old boy in rehab for glue sniffing, children trafficked for the sex trade in Thailand).

Da Vinci Code

Seen it yet? Well I suppose you should see it as its the movie that everyone will talk about I suppose but the Da Vinci Code is a poor movie. I refer not to the adaptation book to film because of course the book is better. The film stands alone as boring, poorly executed, and lacking in chemistry. I had to force myself to sit through it.

Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou were acting by numbers. Never been a fan of Hanks but Tautou is better than that. Reno is off but still watched and McKellan is great, natch.

I wouldn't waste the money to go and see it, if you can bear to be left our of film conversations for the next couple of months.

Ciao