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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We are here for three days total. Today I will have one of two full days to go as I please here. The morning started early but sleep was good. Now it’s the wonder and sometimes bane of journaling. The morning writing. That’s when all the...
We do Mr Potato and Tiger Beer. And a friendly balcony. Tiger beer and Mr potato. And a Phnom Penh sunset and clouds It’s been a day. Really nice. Then relaxing. Now sitting with my wife and enjoying a beer. Three good things Sharing a...
I have never really gotten good at the journaling thing I guess. I don’t have years of old journals piling up in some dusty corner or exports from some app in a rarely examined folder on iCloud. Instead what I do now is, Focus on my now....
I guess this will carry over from a quiet night in a dark room listening to my wife gently snore to a day long bus adventure. Today did lesser things but still manages to feel like I did the things I wanted. Less of a walk today. More of...
Today was a nice change dear blog. I had wanted to take my friend Sean for breakfast and one of my favorite, yet rare treats, is Sister Srey coffee. Even more now since they moved. For as long as I went there before pandemic and after...
Still sitting at coffee this morning. Now the place kinda fills up. I have this couch now which makes old retired butt thankful. Last night it rained and I heard those drops beating a pattern in our aluminum patio. It did this staccato...
Today was this rather slow and unenthusiastic day. I felt this rather negative feeling some of the day. Some of the recent things around here make me really happy to be leaving in a few days. I love life in Siem Reap and what the city...
Here it is Sunday in this kingdom of wonder. Woke up with this little beer headache. The result of the evening beering last night. So I chose to do this longer walk to the coffee place I chose. This time to get a taste of Sunday. To feel...
Sometimes I just feel this desire for less. My mind says to slow down. Not try to do a thing. Let’s overthink it all. So I sit for the morning coffee. The green tea comes a little first usually and then the barista brings the iced...
Sitting for coffee mornings is my moment. My time to find the pace of life in Siem Reap. It’s a mix. Sometimes very slow and personal. Other times it seems frenetic. The Khmer coffee places seem sometimes a mix of both. Lalatte is this...
This morning I actually slept later by just a bit. I appreciate any little changes to the 2am wake up thing which seems to have plagued me for days. So today with the morning coffee at the house and some chill music playlists on Spotify...
One of my morning things along with the coffee is the writing. My journal grows every day and since it’s merely a markdown file that is edited in iA Writer, it’s easy to manage the spiral of words. I get a new chance at it every morning...
Last night beer out was enlightening. Not so much at viva but what I see when I get back. Sometimes I feel I see this worst side of people. Or maybe really it’s their frail human side. Being one step removed lets me see a little more...
I dunno why. I just knew after an hour or so with the dentist and after some good Khmer food my wife did. It felt like I should just do this thing. Sitting downtown now is different. Less tourists. More expats. There are always a large...
Today was my last visit to the dentist. He outfitted me with a new tooth. All done. Hopefully for a long time. I don’t like dentists. So decided I needed a reward for all that drilling and cleaning and replacing. So off to Noi coffee and...