STORMY AND THUNDERY NIGHT......cont'd cambodia travelogue

everyone was deadbeat on reaching home the bungalow. no shopping today so nothing for ruan mian mian who was eagerly trying to unpack and take some from me....and our hands met again accidentally .....

WHERE DO I BEGIN...TO TELL THE STORY OF HOW GREAT A LOVE CAN BE.....i tot i just heard andy williams singing LOVE STORY.....hahhahaha....;9)

tonight we ate in cos everyone dead tired. ruan mian mian did all the cooking. we had deep fried chicken seasoned in cambodian herbal style. DAMN GOOD, u know! then a simple beansprout stirred fried with salted fish and some dunno what funny insects inside. i was told those black speckles were actually some kind of ants. wow! the soup was solid. old cucumber soup to cool of the "heat" we had or we just seen this afternoon....

i tot that was about it...but no....next on the menu was bullfrogs legs fried in ginger, shallot and onions with cambodian wine. turtle + century + chicken + chopped up quail eggs fried with dunno what local veggies. finally a simple kailan flowers in fish and oyster sauce. and a roasted giant field rat...that we skipped.

actually very shiok and bountiful hor our 'simple' dinner. then out of no where, ruan mian mian brought in the homebrew wine....guess what she soaked it with? field rats, grass snakes, centipede and cobra...and i dun want to know anymore what else inside her gory brew.....

....spiders - tarantula, scorpions, and funny fungus like weird shaped lingzhi...etc....*yucks!* all mangled up in home made rice wine.

she said she had kept the whole big urn of wine for special occasion like now. we were returning to HK the next day...and she just had to let us taste it before we leaved...i got a feeling she just wanted me to taste it before i go....cos she dunno when i would be back or when would she be able to see me again...and me...blur blur obliged her by sipping her formidable charpalang brew.....BROOM...OOOM...BROOM...the thunder sounded...FLASH...FLASH....the lightning was threatening the dark night sky.

soon the rains came....so refreshing! it was rather a hot and humid day we were having. this rain just couldn't come in a more timely way....

so here we were the whole bunch of us. we ate. we drank. i drank. she drank. she drank...i drank...and soon...all black off.....

and please....i really din know what happen next...cos the next morning, when we awoke, we were quite groggy...and funny hor...i felt...like dunno what happen last night...

ruan mian mian was especially bashful when she saw me. she handed me my packed luggage and then buzzed off immediately to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. i was like blurred leh.......

after our breakfast, time to say goodbye to thomas and michael who remained as they had their works there to be done.

after handshaking ah chew for his wonderful driving us around and especially he also brought us to a gambling ship by MEKONG RIVER* called NAGA...and let this goon here won like a few hundred bucks in the JACKPOT machines and in US$ some more...i slipped a red packet ang pow for him. he was so happy and shake both my hands profusely...thanking me...like got tears in his eyes too....

next was ruan mian mian's turn. i too slipped an ang pow into her hand while shaking. oh gosh! like felt electricity going through me ....why huh??? was that static i just felt from shaking her hands? dunno...never bother to find out...

ruan mian mian's eyes were already well up in tears...i dunno why?? so...what to do, gave her my leetahsar's bearhug lor...and patted her back...and that was all i remembered i did.....

chew drove us to the rundown national airport...and soon we were on our way back to HK.......

...to be cont'd???

*MEKONG RIVER JOINS 4 NATIONS: CHINA, CAMBODIA, VIETNAM AND THAILAND.....the tourist guide told me while in SIAM REAP.