The modern communication medium - BBM

Technology never ceases to amaze me. First, there was the pager, then mobile phones that looked like walkie talkies! Over time the mobile phones got sleeker, thinner and smarter and probably smaller. Then the phone was not just a phone, but also a camera and now it is also your office.

Our lives have changed forever. The way we communicate has changed from what it used to be. We now know our friends' moods by their "dps".

What is a dp?

A display picture on the BBM profile status.

I love dps and am constantly checking to see what is the latest. I don't know where they come from but I have collected quite a few from my friends over the last few weeks.

Some of my favourites are..........

Cambodia - the floating village of Chong Khneas

Cambodia's Great Lake, the Boeung Tonle Sap (Tonle Sap Lake,) is the most prominent feature on the map of Cambodia - a huge dumbbell-shaped body of water stretching across the northwest section of the country. In the wet season, the Tonle Sap Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Asia, swelling to an expansive 12,000 sq km. During the dry half of the year the Lake shrinks to as small as 2500 sq km.. But during the wet season a unique hydrologic phenomenon causes the river to reverse direction, filling the lake instead of draining it.

Chong Khneas is the floating village at the edge of the lake closest and most accessible to Siem Reap. It is interesting to see the various Khmer and Vietnamese floating households and the floating markets, clinics, schools and other boatloads of tourists.

 

Dried fish being sold off the roof of a boat 

A pigsty

A church!!

The grocery store

The local school

The garbage dump

The 5 star hotel

The crocodile farm

View from the highest point of the floating village

A Vietnamese boy posing for a pic with a snake

A place of worship in the middle of nowhere