3rd April

today is R&R!

we met our tour guide, Sam. quite a handsum guy with quite a good sense of humour who knows a number of languages like english, khmer, basic malay, chinese, Japanese and French . He's single and available, but none of our girls are attracted to him. Perhaps it's because he's 32 years old! But he did mention that two of his exgirlfrens were miss Cambodian. He sure have some charming secrets up his sleeves! Any Singaporean girls interested, please call 012 91234567. He is very well versed with the history of the artifacts along the way. His explanation was also very detailed and he could answer any questions you ask.

Our new but kinda scary experience which resulted from forgetting to bring along our packet lunch packed kindly for us by Mr horn. Since we were to far to turn back, we stopped by a small humble restaurant and bought lunch for only 1 USD per packet. It was packed with chicken, thailand or cambodian sausage, cucumber & tomatoes with a packet of chilli sauce. It was cheap and delicious but when we had it at the waterfall, all our spoons were severely "disfigured"

We were left on the bus while Ms Tan and Clara went to get the Food. It was during this short period of time where we were bombarded by kids selling handicrafts, costing @ 1USD for 5 pcs. There wasn't just only 1 kid, but around 4-6 of them at the door of the bus shouting "Sir, 5 1dollar, buy from me...." Owen took control and said to them to queue up else we won't buy from them, but plan failed! Instead of having us going down to buy, Owenhelped sell the handicrafts. After some time, Sarah was slightly agitated with the kids consistent requests that she said to them "Keep quiet" in chinese etc. Haha! All most all of us got ourselves something.

Our first stop was a temple, which was situated quite high on a hill top. We had to hire a kid to look after ur footwear and we chose the cutest of them all. The temple itself was pretty magnificent, with a really huge sleeping buddha at the top. We also had a go with the water that was said to bring good luck. Just before we head towards the waterfall, we visited the Thousand lingas. Lingas are carved patterns in the stones of the river which the they use to believe it will bring good luck to the people who use the water that flows across it. Immediately, we headed towards the waterfall which was quite some distance away but the sight of the waterfall was jaw-dropping! However, something else literally made our Jaw drop and touch the floor! It wasn't the scenery, it was JAY! He atempted to jump across a rock, but failed, ended up injuring his back. It was quite a serious injury with the tail bone fractured & partially displaced. It was also due to his previous injury which was not properly taken care of. Despite this, he still manage to enjoy the cooling water nonetheless. At the waterfall, we jumped from an elevated platform. An Jun did the most awesome stunt of the day. He somersaulted into the water, but Jorina was catchin up! Owen, An Jun and Lovell started off with the jumping first, then some of the girls followed. I've got to say they were brave people, it's quite a high jump you know. and then we did the hokey pokey dance under the slashing water and angmohs started staring :D those who entered the water caught a glimpse of a rainbow on the surface of the water. really pretty!!! our inital plan was to go to angkor wat to catch the sunset. but we came to a consensus to send jay to the hospital instead. cos he was in pain and couldnt sit properly. turned out that he was still fit to join us. but he has to be very very careful and this had put a toll on our two beloved first aiders, clara and andy. since then on, they've been jay's guardian angel by his side 24/7.

we had an early night and then after debrief, we went to sleep.