Monday, July 02, 2007

Ten things you can do at home to simulate living in Cambodia

Some of you reading my blog or looking at my flickr photos may think that I am living in a tropical paradise. I have prepared a list of things you can do to simulate living in Cambodia.
1) Turn off all the hot water taps except to one shower.
2) Leave your windows open all the time and remove any screens from them.
3) Set your thermostat to 86 degrees
4) At least twice a week fill a bucket with water and splash it on an interior wall to promote mold growth.
5) Leave little piles of sugar in every room to encourage ants and other creatures to come live with you.
6) Only shop for food at the farmer’s market or an asian speciality store where you cannot identify any products.
7) Do not drive yourself anywhere, take a bicycle or have a friend with a pick-up truck drive you - you must stand in the back of the pick-up.
8) Go to a pet shop and buy one of the following to let loose in your house: lizard, snake, scorpion, large spider, rat, or pig.
9) Tune your television to only receive CNN and 5 foreign language stations.
10) Find some neighborhood kid, preferably with a learning disability who doesn’t like you, and pay him to do your laundry in cold dirty water.