Mike's Thoughts
Mike's Thoughts
Michael Perry
Welcome to Mikes Thoughts. Mostly day to day ramblings on life in Cambodia or other places in Asia and beyond. I write on coffee, thoughts, ideas, whatever I decide. Hope you enjoy the stay.
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Down the road and across a country and even an ocean. Today I got to talk with a few American friends scattered here and there. We talked about the holiday and how neither of them are particularly hopeful or celebrating the day. Of...
It’s also the 4th of July here. Some holiday or other. We don’t do US holidays but I get messages sometimes from Americans wishing me a happy day. Most of them are not in America. I guess most of them are “from America” and not living...
This morning got a slightly later start on a few things I wanted to write on. I ended up with morning coffee at home with the morning music I enjoy and kinda let the blog down. I like starting something earlier. It never matters what it...
Today was nice earlier for walking. I went to Family Cafe which is a nice walk for my morning coffee. It’s been some time since going but there’s this nice sense of sitting outdoors with the drink. The buzz of conversation in Khmer in...
Here is a Da Nang Thing. Playing with obsidian publishing to my pika blog. Da Nang Vietnam
This came up writing this morning and from something another barang said on his YouTube channel. I’ve felt this time living here in particular this sense of being alone. Alone in a crowd of Khmer family. Or in a restaurant or coffee shop...
How our neighborhood ever manages to keep their collective noses out of other people’s business I don’t know. Being an outsider gives me this view of how people act. What they do. Their desire to basically know what other people’s...
For some reason today I installed Day One on my iPhone. I had used it before and at one time had years of entries there. Then at some point, I had changed to the Journey app. I stayed on that for some time. The end on Day One were...
This morning was the usual early morning rising. It seems in Cambodia that everyone wants the morning. But it’s before it really. At least to me. It’s that time from 4 to 5am. When the sounds outside begin. The moto cruises the dirt...
Spent some time in rss land reading things. I tend to use the Current News app these days so I don’t see reminders of my abject failure to stay caught up. With the others I get the counts of things. Sometimes it seems like there is no...
I enjoy most all the times I write. I got to my favorite local coffee shop and the table as usual is mine. From here I can watch the goings on. The level of relaxation and peace here compared to sometimes the manic nature of the house is...
It’s rainy season in Siem Reap but you would not know it from the current weather conditions. There’s the beautiful warmth I just love here. I walked this nice walk earlier and ended back at home. I knew I would not last. Sometimes...
It used to be Fridays were good days when I worked except there at the end or maybe the last year when the big time cloud programs lined up and required pushes and shoves to get them finished. Still Friday was important because at work...
As yet unknown since I am just starting something. I always feel in the mornings that Pika needs some attention. Like a few sentences about what it is that came to me this morning. This sense of enlightenment or desire or just wanting to...
I was sitting after coffee mumbling incoherently to my iPhone. It seemed to want to do something a certain way but I realized I wanted it to not do things that way. Getting in some kind of tech disagreement over how a photo is shared...