Ariffin the HDR dewd and I actually went to Siem Reap Cambodia a day early for the Crossing Bridges V programme. The nite before the trip we actually went around Subang Parade shopping for some travel bag as my current travel bag is for short 2~3 days trip ony type of bag (The flight out to Siem Reap via LCCT is 7am, which mean have to check in by 6am, which entails waking up at 4am so I can leave the house at 5am tops. I arrived home around 11pm, took one hour and 35 minutes to pack, had a shower and realised its already 1pm, decided NOT to sleep at all and watched 2 movies on HBO and layan some text message from Lord Fuzz who is oso going to Siem Reap on the same flight. Hahahah.)

Look who feel asleep on the flight to Siem Reap…

…of course he’s darned knackered, he stayed up all nite looking after his newborn, thats why.

When we landed we were greeted by Eddie from Clubsnap.

checkout a youtube clip here

After we checked in the hotel we decided to explore the city by foot.

After a dozen type some other dewd passed us by riding bicycles. I looked at Ariffin, and he looked at me, and we decided to rent some bicycle for our self oso.

We didn’t have any maps, nor a guidebook. We just ‘belasah ajer’ (whack only! = no plan whatsoever)

Ariffin the HDR dewd, have shades, will ride….

I’ve read somewhere that ‘you’ll never forget how to ride a bicycle’, thus, we wobbled out way thru Siem Reap traffic. BTW, that basket thing on the front wheel sure added stability to the ride. Not.

National Road No. 6, Siem Reap City, Cambodia.

Rental bicycle is USD2.00 for the whole day. The Singaporeans told us we overpaid. They said they rented from another rental ‘shop’ 2 doors down and it only cost them USD1.oo per day ajer. Whoahahahahahahahahahaha.

Helmet use is not compulsory, but i noticed they ride pretty slow, and they avoid you by riding around you in you cross the road and such. I do dig their colour coordination tho, red bikes with red blouse/shirt and so on etc… you gotta wear face mask tho, the roads are quite dusty at some part of town due to construction werks here and there.

Life is pretty simple for some folks there…

Later in the day, we rendevous with Eddie back at the hotel and heads out to a village on the outskirt of the City…

You definitely KENNOT ride a bicyle and shoot with a camera at the same time. Believe me folks, I almost crashed onto the truck carrying the race boat.

We stopped by a workshop…

and later meet up some monks…

..after hanging out with them for a couple of hours, we headed back to the hotel at around 6pm (Cambodia is +0700 hrs GMT).We planned to go out and have dinner with a few other folks an dagreed to meet  up at 7pm in the lobby. Sounds like a plan no?

As soon as I hit the hotel bed (riding a bicycle all day long is not one of my regular activities back in Malaysia I’m telling you..) I slept like a baby *grins*.