boopyourface

an underutilized word, in my opinion.

today, in phnom penh, we visited the Killing Fields — a quick way to grasp the scope of the atrocious acts committed by the khmer rouge. they have an enormous stupa filled with the skulls of the bodies disinterred from the mass graves at the site. with almost 9000 skulls on display, it’s fittingly uncomfortable and personal to see the skulls of the victims up close, yet the foreignness of the idea behind the act — the concept of shortening the lives of that many people — keeps the experience at a distance. very disturbing.

anyhow, the past couple of days have just been spent hanging around. the royal palace yesterday was, well, royal. got to examine a few hundred buddhas. some small, some large. some copper, some silver, some bronze, some gold. some with diamonds, some with emeralds. one made out of emerald. none made out of diamond though. on the little handout Read the rest of this entry »