🥔 Aloo Gobi With Parathas, Shadow Puppetry, & Other Life Outtakes 🎬
Parathas, aloo gobi, and shadow puppetry were on the menu today, and apparently caused Monkey-B to fall asleep while reading.
First, A Little Shadow Puppetry 👌
Sometimes you have your phone/camera handy when an amazing shot presents itself. In this case I caught Monkey-B stumbling upon the convenience of using her headlamp for shadow puppetry and/or gang sign practice.
The Long Paratha Wait 🫓
One of our favorite family dishes is aloo gobi, but the ladies don't like to eat it with rice. I secretly agree, but making 15-20 puris/rotis/parathas for the whole family takes a considerably longer time than just cooking up some rice. Most of the time I end up making some kind of bread for maximum deliciousness, but it also usually prevents me from having time to whip up a post before bed.
TKO By Technical Bookout 🥊
I miss the days of being able to fall asleep in the blink of an eye, but for me those days are long behind me. Monkey-B is easily champion in this household, able to fall asleep while still holding her book upright. She is crazy about the Tom Gates book series, and I've seen her read one from cover to cover in one sitting.
Back To School 🛺
In the morning I went to pay the electric bill and pick up the @kidsisters from school. While waiting and bored, I snapped a pic of the shop directly across the street from the schools' main entrance, a sign that Thmor Da is hardly a big town. You can only get the basics here, but when the international crossing with Thailand opens later this year, it will completely change the local economy.
Monkey-B usually wears gym clothes underneath her school uniform, and the first thing she does when she gets in the tuk-tuk is to get out of her school clothes, made easy by just removing her outer layer of clothing.
Resisting The Culture 🚯
When we got home I headed towards the outhouse to pee, and on the way I saw some snack wrappers littering the ground outside the window of my daughters' room. When I inquired about the litter, they immediately told me their friends had thrown trash out the window yesterday. I was a bit upset that they didn't correct their friends' behavior and/or pick up the trash. The careless Cambodian attitude towards the environment and nature is not a part of this culture I want them to take on.
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about the aloo gobi food.. i have never heard of it at my place, but after i listen to what you describe it seems the food tastes very good and delicious,to be enjoyed at night.. about the shadow played by monkey -B it really remembers my past,because in my past in the 90s at that time there was no electricity in our place, so if at night our toys are just shadows that your child is playing with now like that more or less what we played in childhood..thank you very much for giving or remembering the old days about our entertainment....
Aloo gobi is a south Asian dish, very popular in India. It could be found in Malaysia and Singapore probably where there are large ethnic Indian populations. Funny, when I was a kid I made hand shadows at night using the light shining in through my window, and if I wasn't doing that I was experimenting with fart noises using my hand an armpit 😁.
Truly these are the childhood memories of almost all of us now, playing with shadows in front of the lights and falling asleep with books while reading.
It brought back memories for me, and even though modern kids have easier access to screen devices than we did, I am glad they still enjoy reading paper books.
You are right my friend, sometimes there are unique or funny moments of an object or person and events that just appear beyond our estimation, so that's when a cellphone or camera is needed for us to take pictures.
Hahaha.. Monkey-B is the champion sleeping in @justinparke's household, even able to fall asleep while still holding her book upright 😁😁
Monkey-B is without a black belt when it comes to the discipline of sleeping anywhere, anytime 🤔😃.
you had a busy day. Don't people in you place wears facemask especially at school?
The school year has just ended and it will be enrolment season starting the fourth week here
The facemask mandate was dropped a few months after our arrival back in Cambodia. Until then it had been required in public places. We do notice that many folks in urban areas still wear masks, but it's optional.
that's good. Are you the one that drives the tuk-tuk though?
I drive the tuk-tuk yes, but I bought the little moto with hopes that she will learn to ride it.
isn't it too dangerous to drive it herself one day? isn't your place crowded when in rush hours?
I think the moto is safe to drive with a bit of training and practice. Although we live on a highway, we are in the middle of nowhere high in the mountains, and it's a direct path to Thailand with no other places to go. Right now the border crossing is still partially closed, and there are no big towns anywhere, so there is very little reason for anyone to come so far. Sometimes at night several hours will pass without a single moto or car going by, quieter than most country roads I've lived on.
The littering part, will just have to continuously monitor and remind them. School uniform looks extremely adorable.
I think the most effective anti-littering campaign would be to involve ghosts somehow, Khmers are terrified of and respect ghosts much more than nature. The school uniforms are the only chance I ever get to see my girls wearing anything that resembles a dress. Skirts are such a good look, but I'm an old-fashioned dinosaur.
Well, they don't get their good looks from me, that's safe to say. I think there is an addiction to convenience, and a sort of "out of sight, out of mind" attitude. This way of thinking is evident in so many areas of life. Another example, our neighbor backfilled their land about 15 feet higher than us and didn't bother to solve any drainage problems. The solution is the water floods our land, so it's our responsibility now to come up spend time and/or money digging drainage channels on their land.