Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Time
As we passed the halfway point on the ”Small Tour” of Angkor Wat, I asked our Tuk-Tuk driver what time it was. He looked at his watch, spent a few seconds translating into English, and informed me it was 12:40. For a moment I was relieved he could speak English, otherwise we wouldn’t have had a clue what time it was. Until I realised I could just have looked at his watch myself. In that case then, thank goodness he and his country tell the time in the same way as me, otherwise we’d be really stuck!
What if it was like currency exchange? Everyone measures money in different ways so it’s pretty lucky we all ended up measuring time in the same way.
“Ëxcuse me, how long does it take to get to the airport?”
“About 2000 bajodas, depending on traffic.”
“George, how much is 2000 bajodas in hours?”
“Öh don’t worry dear that’s only about eleven and a half minutes.”
on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 7:55 pm:
whambo cambo ! its a lovely place. are you stayin at the garden village ? the manager is a chelsea superfan! what about that road ?! take care guys .ps.bayon was my personal fave=)
on Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm:
Ha - love it! Consider this - what if time went metric?…