Monday, April 07, 2025

MORNINGS IN PHNOM PENH

The two standees (not I-Stand) were assembled in Phnom Penh (the standee capital of the Oxfam universe) where we posed standing between them (not behind them or on stage).

There are two minor typographical errors but the green wordmark and red kangaroo were screaming, hopefully loud enough for the benefactors in The Land Down Under.

Before the standees stood up, all due invoices were settled although Elite was reverted back to Classic on the day Bulan's parchment finally came home from Miag-ao before the political circus arrived in Bakal 2 to activate Workplace, update Outlook, dive deep into DocuSign, and secure support for a possible Brussels 2.        

Aroun suostei!

A morning walk through an agenda and its guidance note around Grandmother Penh's commercial hub earned an elevated Khmer lunch from a kitchen called Eleven One and an accidental dinner of grilled thuringer, bratwursrt, and bockwurst at a bar named after Berlin.



Dila mshvidobisa!

A commune of breakfast stalls in Chaktomuk agreed to collaborate on promoting energy transition finance before Shindi called them inside for a Georgian lunch of khinkali, khachapuri, mtsvadi, and chkmeruli that were heavy enough to push the regional convenings in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta but not so much for a top-up of grilled pork intestines in the shadows of Chairman Mao, and Khmer balut/penoy within smelling distance of the Dames of Tonle Sap.




Selamat pagi!

Signages along Samdech Mongkol lem Sreet declared Bangkok to be safe and secure for a post-earthquake midterm assessment, that the Year 3 burn rate and Year 4 indicative budget pie were on track, that lunch therefore will be an Indonesian spread of beef rendang, gado-gado, chicken satay, spicy tempeh, and shrimp curry from a resturant in Sumatra where the transcripts were transmitted before boarding Bopha Titanic for a duel with its house Volcano, sangria, and red wine. 

In Bakal 2, mornings were spent in the bike trails, burning calories to make room for the return to pale pilsen and a row of of cocktails from the Godfather of PAGGS Premium Lounge.

There was Irish whiskey on Saturday afternoon too but it was the beer from a 45th wedding anniversary celebration that warmed the soul because the Craft has been exposed to be a sham actually...

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