Yesterday May 13, 2010 I has gone to my home to visit my family. The car started at 10:00am in the morning. This car was broken a couple times, and it wasn't able to run smoothly, and the air-conditioner wasn't cool enough so that most of the passengers were complaining about stuffy while they were on the bust to Sihanouk province.
I am one of them that got hot in the car, too, but I tried to be patient because I have known that the car sometimes has problems with mechanic. When the car arrived at Kampong Spoeu where is closed to the Kampong Spoeu market.
The car stopped two times to find the garage to fix its air-conditioner. For the first time, the driver couldn't find, and the bus was moving a few minutes and stopped again when the driver saw a small garage to fix it. All the passengers get out of the bus because the temperature is very hot and stuffy. Some of them bought soft drink and some others try to find meal to eat for breakfast. For me also went to find meal where across the National Road #4, and I ordered ice-coffee. While I am waiting for the cup of ice-coffee, I always went out the shop to see the car. Unluckily, when I entered to coffee shop the third times, the bus left me alone without waiting for me although I tried to wave my hand, but no one see me. The car driver didn't check the empty seat for sure that one of passengers not yet come, and he shall wait for a passenger at least 5 minutes, I thought.
I caught the motor-taxi to follow the bus, but it run very fast so that I decided to stop and paid for motor-taxi 6,000 riels. Then I tried to find the bus ticket which was in my pocket to look for the phone number of the bus campany. After seeing the bus ticket, I recently called to the bus station to tell the bus driver who started at 10:00am to wait for me because I found that only this way to solve the problem. When I got the information from the bus station , the driver was waiting for me at Pich Nil restaurant.
I decided to catch a van with 12 seats in order to go to Pich Nil where the bus was waiting for me. I paid for the van for 5,000 riels. Arriving Pich Nil, I saw many passengers to see me because they knew that I am a man that the bus driver left. Then I saw a driver and I asked him the reason why he left me. I told him that he should wait for the passenger at least 5 minutes before leaving. If my properties which I put in the bus lost, who took responsibility. The bus driver just told me that he horned me four times; hence, he decided to leave me.
I have asked some other passengers particularly one of a passengers sitting close to me. She said that she informed the bus driver, but he didn't wait for me, so she kept silence. She also added that the driver is a kind of impatient persons and most of passengers disliked him, too.
At last, I said to the driver that everything was past so that I suggest the driver that he shouldn't do like this to the other passengers because it was a bad service, and I took that bus picture to post on my website to tell me friend about my bad luck trip.
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May 14, 2010 I went to visit my parents at my younger sister in Sihanouk province. My sister is one of Buddhism. She always goes to the pagoda to offer food to the monks on the day set aside for the observance of Buddhist precepts (Thngay Sel). Beside that day, she always cooks food given to the monks. She said that about 20 to 30 monks a day are given food and each monk is offered 500 riels.
