2 minutes in my wondrous mind

Do I need to check on my smurfs?

Oh, no need. Tomatoes take 8 hours.

8 hours is such a long time, no wonder people complain of working long hours.

Can I not work? Can I be in the business of buying?

I'll have to wear heels to look professional.

Unless I go to the beach.

If someone sees me in flats at the beach, that person will comment that I'm not wearing heels.

I'll reply that I'm not forever in heels.

Like that lady in the show. When people hear the sound of her heels, they all quiver with fear.

And there's her love interest, the policeman.

Who has a bad boss, who turned good in the end.

It's such an amazing show isn't it? We all hated him when he was bad, but pitied him when he turned good.

He died trying to assassinate the Japanese colonel.

Because the Japanese killed his wife and unborn child.

That's how iron fisted (?) governments act when they are threatened by attacking forces right? They kill off all prisoners hastily.

Like how the Khmer Rouge did it at Tuol Sleng when the Vietnamese attacked Cambodia; they hastily killed 9 VIP prisoners by cutting their throats.

War. Japanese Occupation. Singapore.

Our war hero, Lim Bo Seng.

Oh, did you know my mother's boss is Lim Bo Seng's nephew?

Why Cambodia would want to remain poor

This time back to Cambodia, I saw a lot more. Maybe because I could, maybe because I bothered to. As we were travelling down a wide road back to the hotel, he told us that the road was given by the Americans, but the Cambodian government built a toll station across it and used it to collect money. And then later on, he showed us a police officer letting a person go after collecting a small administration fee. Earlier in the day we rode pass the prime minister's house. What a magnificent house it was! Two huge houses side by side, with a one-story high chandelier in plain sight. The kind that even a house owner on Bukit Timah would clamour to have.

Doesn't it make sense now that Cambodia would want to remain poor?

As long as they suppress the progress of their country, foreign aid would keep pouring in. As long as they remain a third-world country, the country's infrastructure would be built by international coffers. In other words, as long as Cambodia remains poor, the country would continue to be developed by other countries, while the government gets to fill their pockets from taxes the development projects provide, and they get to protect their own reserves for their own luxuries! That's killing an entire flock of birds with 1 stone. Amazing, isn't it?

This corrupted government must be removed.