I Quit!

Almost 6 months I lasted with a company kind enough to see my potential and employ me as their Marketing Manager....problems started when they introduced me to my assistant Vicheth....and that's how they told him he didn't get the job, by introducing him to his new boss and position stealer....yeah....That's about how things are done....so I faced the wrath of an evil and arrogant little man, who used all his energy to spite me in his bitterness...I should've got out then!
Alas, I stayed on, facing 4 months of Khmer sneakery and blatant name calling thinly veiled behind a language I can bearly speak 4 words without mistakes like saying that ones child is "delicious", I just canny grasp it.
So ok, back to the story, my Khmer fellow manager Channy, we used to go out for beers, he was alright. The company merged with another and there was a need for another layer of management, so Channy go promoted YAHOO I supported him...till I noticed that while I was working so hard I never put buttocks to seat HE suddenly took up reading the newspaper 3 hours a day, demanding RIDICULOUS time wasting meetings, and blah blah.
so I resigned.
And as of tomorrow are back to the state I'm quite familiar with - unemployment...not too familiar mind, I DO like a wage and something constructive to do.
I'll be home in a week, Scott's having a baby, I've a hankering for my Mums baking and my Nana's company....will return to PP where there's a cat, a wooden house and a grand group of friends
WHOOP WHOOP

Banksy Thoughts

Whilst sniffing around some Banksy images (yay to Google Images, really is great) I found this tidbit on why you shouldn't mess with graffiti writers:
The longest recorded piece of graffiti was painted by a student in the toilets of his college at Changsha, Chain, in 1915. It consisted of over 4000 characters criticizing his teachers and the state of Chinese society. After completing his materpiece the student handed himself in and was paraded in front of the school and threatened with expulsion. The sutdent was a 22 year old Chairman Mao. A grafitting artist who later founded the People's Republic of China and was responsible for the deaths of over 300 million.
....and for a totally unrelated Banksy image, the right side I liked cos of the Nihon-jin feel to it

Random Photos

On the way to Rabbit Island, just off the Cambodia Coast near the old French colony of Kep. Spectacular! Dispite a sprained foot, 3rd degree sun burns, and a far far lighter back pocket, it was Divine. ..ahhhhh a moment as I wiggle my toes in cool reflection...so near Vietnam you can smell and see it. Too many jellyfish, far too much food, and a nice mix of media folks. Michele's birthday! one night at Veranda Guest Gouse (beaut-i-ful) a lone German in a pink shirt travelling with his 75 year old mum, slowly walked through the dark tree lined path at 2am playing Happy Birthday on his bagpipes...very very bizarre, it made my entire year thus far! Bless that man and his knee high socks, amazing.

The King of Cambodia at the time of the Khmer Rouge, had many palaces all over Cambodia, in Kep he had no less than 2, one in the hills - which he never completed nor used,and the one in these photos, near the sea - not that you should picture white sands and clear waters because to get wet you would fist need to cross a road, climb over mangroves and survive quick sand...but pretty views. The state of it now reflects what has happened in Cambodia the 50 years since. Bullet holes in the walls so disrespected by those that took it over, and looters - looters so desperate that they pulled the metal pipes from the walls to sell for scrap. It's still beautiful, somewhat tainted by the families squatting there and demanding money to enter and endlessly mentioning their poverty. They are happy enough really, Kep is a generous place to live...some very nice graffiti about the visibility of the Cambodian government ;-D