Friday night was dinner at the Boathouse with friends from work. It rained heavily, and the moto ride over vacillated between being grim and magical. At dinner, we talked politics: Pol Pot’s positive reputation in certain rural provinces, the massive bombings of the Cambodian countryside during the Vietnam War, a chance encounter with Henry Kissinger, Cambodia’s tense relationship with Thailand, and even Hitler and the National Socialism.
Fact of the Night: Siem Reap (where Angkor Wat is located) means: Thai Defeated.
On the way out, TS, (a colleague) told me an elaborate multi-part joke, too complicated to repeat.
It involved elephants, refrigerators, and tigers.
After a few liters of Angkor beer, very amusing.
Loisaida is a term derived from the Latino (and especially Puerto Rican) pronunciation of "Lower East Side", a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. Loisaida Avenue is now an alternate name for Avenue C in the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York City, whose population has largely been Hispanic (mainly Puerto Rican) since the late 1960s.
Friday, January 25, 2008
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