Angkor Wat International Half Marathon registration has started!

Registration fee about S$74 pp for 10km, extra US$10 (S$14) for timing chip, refundable upon return.

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• Met a fellow Singaporean during breakfast, leaving in a day's time and had been in Siem Reap for a month for a volunteer project!
• Guesthouse owner offered to take me to the school he supports and I said yes!
• Accepted Sg'rean's invitation to join him and his friends for his leaving do.
• Motor pillion into the countryside to visit a school and orphange. Was forced to teach some words to the kids (very enthusiastic kids, I say, very likeable. Maybe because I spent less than 30 minutes with them). Orphanage is in pretty rundown state and has 41 kids living there, on rented land. The English teacher there quite good looking. Very enthusiastic kids too, keep wanting to talk and play with me.
• Walked around town, bought 2 pairs of very loose cotton pants (really too hot here!), some souvenirs, 2 bags from Refuge Cambodia, and the fake Northface backpack - which I don't know why I bought but it's cheapish.
• Met Sg'rean for dinner, had street food!
• Feet massage.
• Night market.

• Banteay Srei in the morning, which is kind of a disappointment. Very small and not that red tbh. Petra is better.
• Kbal Spean next, trekked about 40 minutes up, sweated like 45982348 pigs. Totally worth the drive, hike and sweat. Interesting forest, forliage, river, carvings etc.
• Conservation Centre closed when I was there.
• Landmine Museum - go only if you really want to know more about landmines. Entrance now is US$2.
• Stopped at Pre Rup.
• Went back in search of the street food place in town and chanced upon a second hand clothing shop with SHITLOADS of vintage!!! Uber CHEAP! So I had to buy some dresses! :D
• Found street food place (actually it is opposite second hand vintage shop) and had yellow noodle with soup and chicken, whilst eating, helped some girls with tropical fruits' tastes and started chatting with Hawaiian old man about the difference between jackfruit and durain and conversation turned to dragonfruit (it is US$4 in Hawaii) so old man paid for one dragonfruit just to taste it.
• Walked back to GH, had a good shower (body totally BLACK) and now sitting here typing. I need a good scrub when I am home, or maybe, tomorrow.
• Need to sleep early, been feeling really tired and lethargic. Shit the stupid insomnia since past weeks.
• Tomorrow going back to Angkor to see remaining temples. Seriously overdose but want to make full use of 3-day pass and if no go Angkor, see what else? -_-

I'm now at the departure lounge, have been hanging at the airport for good 2 over hours... Don't ask me why. I'll drop a note when I reached Siem Reap tell you my first impression of the city. At the mo, I need to make sure I get there, check into the guesthouse and fasterly go to Angkor Wat to get my 3-day ticket so I can enter after 5pm to catch sunset (which is like a 4th day 1 hour entrance for free).

Oh yea, talking about the many new clothes which I haven't wore. Ordered some clothes from ON and F21 few weeks back and F21 came in this morning so I have them all strewn around the room now.

And I realised I am kind of used to wearing mourning colours.

Out of the 14 items I purchased, only 2 are coloured.

I still want more clothes. I want to go shopping and burst my bank account so I am left without a single cent and so I probably won't regret dying with left money unspent.

Not in the most motivated mood to pack tbh. And I don't really know how to spend my 6 days other then getting a 3-day pass and get templed out after that. For sure, I am going to check out Singing Tree Cafe and if time permits, I'd like to go visit a school or orphanage the guesthouse supports. I'm kind of excited and apprehensive at the same time.

For the first time, I am getting many comments of concern from colleagues wrt the trip by myself and some insist that I should do a daily update via Facebook or email, just to make sure I am fine and well alive.

This is pretty morbid, but makes me think, if something really happened to me, what's going to happen next? My room is in a mess, my stuff are in a mess, my money is all over the place, I have some new clothes yet to wear... and... and... I think I better start drawing up a will. During lunch some time this week, colleagues and I started talking about death, what happens, what to do, some of us have a bit of an idea how we want it to go like so maybe, I shall put it down here before I forget.

• I prefer light make up if possible, don't like the idea of having wax all over my face. Light red lipstick, just a tinge of colour. Blusher shade - the Silkygirl one I am using now. That is if, I still look as fair as I am now and my skin colour doesn't change much.
• With above, I think a 3-day wake is more than enough. Just in case I turn ugly.
• Just make sure I smile a bit, curl my lashes if possible, fringe pinned up, I wanna wear my girraffe earrings.
• I want to wear my favourite dresses (my grandma wore 3 layers!!!); the one which both my grandma and mom like (dunno whether mom wants to keep it) and the Mango green silk dress which has a collar high enough to cover my neck (if skin changes colour) and if my skin is really that bad, I'd wear my Mango purple cardigan and my purple tights too.
• I want to wear my Viktor & Rolf heels and take with me the gold sandals, gold ballet flats, Nine West La Reine, canvas ballet slippers.
• I want to hold on to a sunflower.
• I want to wear the ring which my mom bought me when I was 21. If she wants to keep it, I will wear my Swatch Bijoux black ring or the Pool Party one (if friends don't want to keep it, their gift to me).
• I think I have enough savings to pay for my own funeral so all "white gold" to be donated to... most likely Dover Park Hospice.
• No need for wreaths but if really have to, I want sunflower ones please.
• Everyone wears green.
• Enya's Only Time to send me off. I kind of like Wild Child as well, am undecided.
• Our organs are automatically donated now, right? I want to keep my heart.
• After cremation, I want my ashes to be scatter into the Tyrrhenian Sea, ideally from Capri's Augustus Garden but I dunno whether can or not. I feel in love with the blue water there. Btw, should have money for parents' trip around whole of Italy, I am heavily covered by insurance.
• My heart will remain in Singapore and if possible, spilt between the urns of my grandparents.

I'm thinking of selling my Sasha since I hardly use it and keeping this leather bag for long in the cabinet doesn't do it good.

This is a pic I posted of the bag:
Newly purchased

In lambskin leather, not calf or cow hide used in the later seasons. Black in colour.
In very good condition, I hardly use it and dare say it is as good as new other than some minor scuffs.
Scuff marks on bag
I used conditioner on the scuffs and they are much better now, just don't rub into them. They appear because I don't put much into the bag thus, causes folds of leather which rubbed against me when I carry it. If you stuff the bag properly, I doubt the scuffs will appear.
The leather is luscious, by the way. Very buttery soft, I could hug it to bed.

Bag has an inner zip compartment and two other open pockets (for mobile phone or cards) plus key fob chain.

It is the large bag, spacious enough for A4 folders and books. If you don't mind the weight, you can even stuff your laptop in it.
This pic is a very good size comparison if you are no taller than 1.6m.
This is another good example if your body size/ height is average (or above 1.6m).
If you are a member of TPF, there are members who modelled the large bag but I think the pics above are clearer.
Can be carried as a hobo or as a satchel. If you have seen Coach's Sabrina, this Sasha works the same way - by pulling the strap under the bag to convert it to a satchel.

Here is a Purse Blog post on the bag and a good pic of it as a hobo.

I know it's a long shot since Botkier is not exactly popular in Singapore but if you are interested or know anyone who is interested, drop me a message. :) Thx.