Any pics of your room? Do you share a kitchen/bathroom?

i dont think anybody really wants him to fail
its just lots of this stuff is comical
a lot of it would actually be ridiculous if it wasnt in SEA

im sure there is, alot of bitter people on the internet.

That child can choose to cry victim or he can get out there and try. Why don't you tell one of those Army or Marine guys they ran bad as they spend hours rehabbing blown off limbs. They aren't concentrating on that, they got lemons but so what, many of them would serve again. They understand discipline and that life doesn't owe anyone sh*t.

Your trying to relate what I said to Dante to such a different scenario is pretty ridiculous...

what's the kid gonna try or aspire to do in SE Asia? join a pro soccer team?

isn't he already failing at life?

The kid should try SOMETHING instead of maybe dwelling on his situation so that it enables him to give up and not do anything. So Kaizen, the kid should just aspire to be a beggar huh?

He is making a come back!

Trolls gonna troll.

I think you are a nice guy k2d. If I ever make it out there ill buy you a beer the finest bird ten dollars can get and a jimmy hat.

hmmm i may just have to break my no meeting people from the internet rule if you are paying for the chica, ill pass on the beer though (maybe sweeten the pot ad get the finest $11 one we can find)


loveda - imo the army marine guys fit your description of having to do with your own run good/bad because they chose the army, a kid with 1 limb left likely didnt choose whatever happened to him, or a kid born with hiv, or someone screwed over by some random happenstance

i think that was bbq's point, and what i said earlier, most of the time what happens to you is because of your actions, but not everything is in your control

i think 99% of the people born in 3rd world countries are born with run bad, whereas like 85% of americans (probably more even) are born with run good


haarlem - no pics of room, just standard hotel room, bed, small desk, tv, bought my own computer chair, has own bathroom, nothing fancy at all but i couldnt care less about fancy

for kitchen im allowed to use the hotel/restaurant kitchen, most places probably wouldnt let you do that (at least not to the extent that i use it)

every hotel room ive looked at here has been the same whether it cost $10 a night or $40, not sure why anyone feels the need to pay $30 a night just so they can say they are staying at a "resort"


now onto more important topics and what this thread is all about: ME


got my transfer today weeeeeeeeee!!!! dont have to try to survive the next 3 days on $14 so happy

also it only cost $14.50 in total fees for $2,000

i was worried there would be other intermediary banks along the way charging fees as well but thats not the case

so basically i pay a $7.25 a month rubberless tax (well less cuz i only spend $900ish a month not a G but dont feel like breaking the math down any more)


im at the teller window withdrawing my money, as i said the other day its pretty much just total chaos in these banks no rhyme or reason to how the "lines" work, well as im getting my $500 some lady comes up and stands RIGHT next to me, i mean body pressing into me, and she starts handing the teller wh is helping me her ID card and her cell phone to talk to someone,

right in the middle of the teller counting out my money, i understand asians dont respect personal space like western people do and normally it doesnt really bother me, but when im getting handed an average cambodians 6 month salary i dont need to have a lady pressing up against me, a guy 2 feet to my left watching how much money im getting, and people standing directly behind me


if you wanna find hot chicks that arent wh0res (atleast i assume they arent wh0res) hang out at the bank


new cook at my hotel works from 7am to 10pm with a 1 hour break, 29 days a month for $200 a month (that would be an example of being born into some run bad imo)

Too true. You gotta love these arseholes born into complete privilege going around telling people that they make their own luck and if they're in bad circumstances it's their own fault. Yah, Mitt for president.

So K2D, iirc from your previous post and the latest one.
After having some troubles, you opened an account at Acleda bank then transfered $2K from PS/Party -> Moneybookers (Skrill) -> Acleda bank with $14.50 in total fees.
And you redraw $500 (US dollar not KHR) at the teller with out any fee.
If I counted correctly, it isn't bad at all, not even 1%.

yup you got it correct

$12 fee from my bank

$2.50ish from moneybookers


the fee for withdrawals is 0.1 percent with a minimum of $12, so if you wanted to withdraw more up to 12k (if my math is correct) you would get hit with the same charges


after reading other posts in vietnam/thailand threads seems as if you get a pretty great deal here


if anyone is interested its 0.17 percent with a minimum of $25 to transfer out of acleda (ie getting money in my bank of america account) so that would be like $40 total to do that....... only worth it if i can be doing like $5k or so imo

hopefully the roll gets to a point where it becomes an option

Ok, thanks.

Yes, it sounds really reasonable.

Don't forget the $16 at BoA for incoming transaction fee.

Yes and Good Luck!

time lapse vid of phnom penh

Nice vid... makes PP look deceptively clean and modern.

yikes $16 bank of america fee, sick they charge more than the bank out here


thanks for the heads up

And people who respond the way you do dog arse calling people names because of their opinions are pretty ignorant. Its a mentality I was putting forth in my first response to Dante but I should have expected some of these responses in the Cambo thread. "if it is to be it is up to me". Or you can cry run bad and make excuses the rest of your life...

so basically i pay a $7.25 a month rubberless tax

Is this a tax imposed by third world cambodian hookers?

i has a mad case of the ****s again, been up two hours been to the toilet 4 times, this is one of those "dont venture more than 300 yards from the toilet" days (as opposed to my usual not venturing more than 1,000 yards from my hotel)


sorry no pics, but expect many updates, so far the consistency is that of dirty river water, im hoping to achieve runny fast food chocolate shake level tomorrow



saw the biggest lizard ive seen the other day, almost positive it was the same species as all the lil ones that run around that are like 3-4 inches long including tail, this one was like 10 inches long, the head was huge, if it were a pen1s it would have been on a black guy

weird to see one so much bigger than any other ive seen, i did a triple take when i saw it




lost mad respect for cute hotel chick cuz she was wearing a gangum style shirt


had headache last night but didnt wanna take a pill for the 4th time in 5 days, big mistake it got really bad really fast and by that time was to late for pill, so just went and took a 1.5 hour walk on the beach, moon wasnt out was extremely dark no one around, pretty f'ing scary

k2d are you still in Sihanoukville? - how much is your visa? are you on the business visa?

How much to stay in your hotel per month? Any link to hotel on internet?

yes get business visa when you arrive

can get 3 month visa extension for $80, if you do full year you get a lil better per month price

right now since its peak season hotel is $330 a month was cheaper before

no website for my hotel

Business visa needs additional documents or nobody cares?

Can you recommend hotel for busto grinder near beach. You have checked many of them and I trust you so please give exact name. Don't want waste my time and our needs to seem to be at same level.

Pretty sure as long as you have $280+/- you can have yourself a business visa.

as long as you have $25 you can have yourself a business visa, just make sure you get that 1 at the airport, i got the $20 option and had to spend like $170 to get it changed to the right one after the fact (because id rather do that then ride a bus out of the country)


are you gonna be playing online? want aircon?

sokhom is in great location and cheap, tell them you need a room with wifi though and check it before you commit as some rooms might not have it (or cell reception)

i stayed at cinderella which is maybe 3-5 minute walk to the sand (but right on the main tourist strip) and i would stay there again

mohachai or GBT would probably be alright as well

they are basically all the same though so...........



just had a really frustrating night with a great ending, poker sucked (lost like $160 what a horrible day) text the girl i keep calling this new girl even though ive known her a month and a half but cant come up with a nickname for her and she doesnt respond which is how she is 40% of the time

go down to beach there are definitely decent options all around but i want to give her a lil more time to maybe respond (sometimes she waits like 3 hours after i text to say ok i come now) so i go eat kill a lil time then head back down, but i text this other girl i went with 2 weeks ago, only been with her once it was quite fun and wanted a 2nd shot, she doesnt respond (doesnt know my number) so i call her she doesnt answer

calls me back 15 minutes later and i be a total dumbass so when she asks "who is this?" for some reason i decide to **** with her and respond with "who is this?" and she hangs up on me........... FML im ******ed

i call her back she doesnt answer, i text her to try and explain who i am dont get a response........ genius

so i look around the beach and still decent options, go up to this one girl i havent been with since august (mentioned she got bf's and had job for a bit inbetween) thinking she is sure thing but she says she just feels like dancing tonight but we will go another time


so head back to other bar with 2 girls in mind...... and they are both talking to other guys now, and actually both leave with each guy

so i call up another girl and get "soma pay toe" which basically means **** you their phone is disconnected you cant talk to them right now (i hate that message sooooo much)


sigh, i call another girl and she says she is busy but if i want lady she can call a friend, but judging by what the average working girl here looks like i dont want some random showing up so i say no thanks (she just called me 2 hours later but i was in shower, guess i coulda got sloppy seconds)


so now options really dwindling, but i notice a really cute girl dancing, im not sure if she is taxi girl or not but decide to approach anyway, and then she starts dancing with a guy and my chance is gone.......... i wait for awhile and she walks out to the water with a beer by herself i ask her if she wants to go to my room she says later she wants to drink and dance some more

then she proceeds to go back in start dancing and 5 minutes later is dancing with a guy who she goes out and makes out with by the water......... damn shoulda been me


so now options are really scarce but ive been on the hunt for like an hour and a half and even though going into the night i said i would be fine taking the night off after so many missed opportunities i feel i gotta do something, there is this one 30ish year old lady who is down there every single night, really curvy body decent enough face, for some reason ive never asked her before but i decide to tonight, she wont do 2 for 20 she says 25.......... she isnt worth overpaying for i tell her it will be quick like an hour and a half she says thats to long just 1 boom boom


i counter with 15 for 1 she says no 20, i say we just go really quick on the 2 and will be done in about an hour she says no 25..... again not worth overpaying for so i pass


then i see this really cute girl but ive never seen her before and she doesnt look like taxi girl at all just by the way she is dressed and she showed up in a group.......... i dunno you just get a feel for who the working girls are and arent

so i basically have 1 option left she is at the bar chatting with some guys and i decide i give up, i dont want to after all this time but what can ya do

then i see the really cute girl i think isnt taxi girl but she is now standing with a couple working girls, i decide this is my last chance if she says no she doesnt go with guys like that ill just go home, i walk up "hey wanna go to my room" "yes"


score!!!! just insta yes and starts walking out of the place, i tell her what the usual deal is and she says thats fine (would have overpaid for her totally worth it)

definitely one of the prettier faces ive seen in cambo, really small (not non existent but really small) boobs but fan-friggin-tastic ass, m3thie and great @ss girl are now in a 3 way tie with this girl

she was 25 i woulda guessed 19, at one point with the really pretty face and the way she talked i got a lil worried that might be a ladyboy, but definitely not and she was so tiny i shouldnt have thought that any way just paranoia

only negative was she started to give me head to start the first one and i said can you just do that to end the 2nd boom boom and she said yes, but then when we get to that point and she does it after like a minute she says she cant do anymore, i ask her if i wash off again she says ok but then 30 seconds in she stops and wont do........... oh well


o ya also wouldnt be on top , really wanted to watch the @ss in reverse cowgirl but cant get everything


has no cell phone gave her my number but not sure ill ever see her again


has normal job says she rarely ever does this and i believe since first time ive seen her down there in almost 5 months (and id remember her)