October 2010

Can you top this tweet?

October 31, 2010 · 2 comments

For those that still think Twitter is a made up of people telling each other what they’ve just eaten for lunch – think again. This morning while eating my Sunday pancakes, I noticed that a NASA astronaut on expedition 24/25, with the user name @Astro_Wheels, has been tweeting some photos from outer space. This is [...]

This could only happen in Cambodia

October 29, 2010 · 6 comments

When I started on twitter, myself and a few others started the hashtag #onlyincambodia. There are many many times that this label is appropriate but the video below must be its finest example to date. Yesterday a fellow blogger in Phnom Penh going by the name of LTO Cambodia caught this amazing piece of footage [...]

Why I’m all alone on Foursquare in Cambodia.

October 28, 2010 · 14 comments

I admit it, I’m a bit of a social media nut. If you have to update, tweet, like, check in, stumble upon, digg – then I’m in. I first discovered Facebook on my honeymoon 3 years ago much to the annoyance of Mrs O, but it wasn’t until the emergence of Twitter that I really [...]

How we got to live in Chum Kriel

October 26, 2010 · 11 comments

We live on the southern eastern coast of Cambodia in a small village called Chum Kriel. The nearest major town, Kampot, is a few kilometers away. We moved here in December of 2008 after spending some years in Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh before that. We bought the land via some friends we know, who have [...]

Bananas anyone?

October 25, 2010 · 3 comments

We have bananas in our garden and lots of them too. Too exciting!                             Anybody know when you’re meant to pick them?

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