New day, new stuff to do
After 51 hours of being awake, my body finaly collapsed at 21:00 GMT + 7 last night. After a visit to the land of dreams, the President (Who lives just outside of Phnom Penh) decided to take his helicopter to work (the senate which is very close to where Micke lives). Although Cambodia is a poor country, with its population living mostly in poverty, the rich have it rather well here. The capitalism is rather ruthless here, not like the mixed economies we enjoy back home. Just to make one thing clear, the presidency is something you buy, not something you get elected to. Everything can be bought here. This country is based on bribery.
But the politcs aside, I put no judgement anywhere, except for that its maybe a bit decadent to the the helicopter to work when it's a rather short drive to work. Especially since the noise woke
me from the land of dreams. Well. No. It's not the worst part but it's anoying never the less.
We started to the day by going to the VIP sports club and took a swim in the moderatly warm outdoors pool. Yes there's nothing like starting the day with some intense training. 75 meters was todays record but we intend to manage 100 meters before we leave for home in Sweden.
We went home and enjoyed some spring rolls and sticky rice cooked by the maid. The Mannberg family enjoys services like cooking, cleaning, washing 5 days a week. And now that I am here, I am get to enjoy all of that aswell. Which means I won't have to do my laundry or cook or clean. Marvelous as I am a rather bad cook.
After a nice large meal, we went to the Shop cafe and made more plans for the BIATCH.
It's probably going to be diving and if some luck (and some resources) we're going to take a shot at becoming Master Scuba Divers. But otherwise we'll just take the Open Water course (PADI).
With todays planning out of the way we decided to expose ourselves to some culture. We visited Toul Sleng or
S21 which was a prison for political prisoners during the reign o
f the Khmers Rouge. It was disturbing but in the good way. Very touching and I'll upload some pictures later on so stay tuned and perhaps check back to this posting in a week or so. Pictures of prisoners 
and their families (by routine was to execute them). Interigation rooms and torture devices. It's tragic and sad, mans inhumanity to man. Yet, I am not surprised the least bit. Although I believe humanity in essence is good, we can be extraordinarily cruel from time to time. And as time goes, and memories will fade, everything repeat itself, but with the devestating efficiency of the future. The tools will change but humanity won't. Or who knows? There's always a chance, no matter of how slim the odds are.
But the politcs aside, I put no judgement anywhere, except for that its maybe a bit decadent to the the helicopter to work when it's a rather short drive to work. Especially since the noise woke
me from the land of dreams. Well. No. It's not the worst part but it's anoying never the less.
We started to the day by going to the VIP sports club and took a swim in the moderatly warm outdoors pool. Yes there's nothing like starting the day with some intense training. 75 meters was todays record but we intend to manage 100 meters before we leave for home in Sweden.
We went home and enjoyed some spring rolls and sticky rice cooked by the maid. The Mannberg family enjoys services like cooking, cleaning, washing 5 days a week. And now that I am here, I am get to enjoy all of that aswell. Which means I won't have to do my laundry or cook or clean. Marvelous as I am a rather bad cook.
After a nice large meal, we went to the Shop cafe and made more plans for the BIATCH.
It's probably going to be diving and if some luck (and some resources) we're going to take a shot at becoming Master Scuba Divers. But otherwise we'll just take the Open Water course (PADI).
With todays planning out of the way we decided to expose ourselves to some culture. We visited Toul Sleng or
S21 which was a prison for political prisoners during the reign o
f the Khmers Rouge. It was disturbing but in the good way. Very touching and I'll upload some pictures later on so stay tuned and perhaps check back to this posting in a week or so. Pictures of prisoners 
and their families (by routine was to execute them). Interigation rooms and torture devices. It's tragic and sad, mans inhumanity to man. Yet, I am not surprised the least bit. Although I believe humanity in essence is good, we can be extraordinarily cruel from time to time. And as time goes, and memories will fade, everything repeat itself, but with the devestating efficiency of the future. The tools will change but humanity won't. Or who knows? There's always a chance, no matter of how slim the odds are.
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