history is fun

Yes, finally we have escaped from the scorching heat of Cambodia and return to our less humid but still hot Singapore. The boys sure had good fun there and we teachers were glad that everyone returned safe and sound. Of course, we enjoyed ourselves too.

Camodia is a beautiful country with a sad past. Its people have gone through alot of pain and suffering under the Khmer Rouge regime. Many were killed and hurt. Those who survived are still angry with what happened to them, their families and their country. It was a good lesson of NE and History for our boys to see with their own eyes what fellow human beings could do to one another.

In terms of nature, we were greeted with the splendour of the Tonle Sap lake. Definitely many times bigger than Singapore, the Tonle Sap has been a source of life for many Cambodians. Since ancient days, the lake has been a source of food, water and transport and things are still very much similar today. As a whole, many of us just hope that nature would be kinder to the many families who depend on it for their livelihood as well as the authority would do more to improve their lives.

Despite being a poor country, Cambodia does have its glorious past presented in the brillant forms of it temple complexes in Siem Reap. The grandeur of Angkor Wat, the mystery of Bayon, the nature-overpowered Ta Prom and many others just simply take our breaths away as we imagine how the whole Angkor Empire was like in the past. They must have been one of the best architects and builders in the world in those days. You just have to see it for yourself.


Photos of victims from S21.


Deep-fried spider. Guess, who tried it?


Our CIP in an orphanage


Khmer girls in the school we visited


Our boys teaching English to Cambodian kids


Mystical Bayon with a filter-twist


Who could have built this near-perfect symmetry?


Apsaras of Angkor

Thank you. More photos will be on its way.