Toilet Paper and Babies

Two blogs in two days? Both incredibly random? I know, I know, I'm just full of surprises.

I forgot to mention something else interesting and random in my last entry. Last week I was able to go to an art exhibit opening for a Khmer artist based in Battambang. It was incredible. Not only is she an amazing painter, but she sculpts too. She sculpts with toilet paper believe it or not. Its a painstaking process in which she rolls the toilet paper (which she sometimes steals from restaurants she gleefully told us) with glue and then proceeds to wrap it either around objects, or sculpts with it on its own. Man, oh man, I wish I had even a smidge of the artistic talent this woman possesses. After the art exhibit, we went to a fantastic Malaysian restaurant (although they were out of the crispy spring roll things I like). We also accidently bumped into the car of someone who I can only assume was a gangster, which was pretty exciting, but ultimately uneventful.

Onto the baby part. I'm pleased to announce that my neighbor T.'s sister (who also happens to be my neighbor) has just had a baby boy (5 days old now). T. brought the little fella to my apartment yesterday. I got to hold him at which point she also tried to convince me to take him with me when I go home, along with all of the other children that are giving her a hassle (she was just joking guys, come on). I still can't figure out if he has an English name or not (which is what it sounded like), but he's cute as a button and I just thought I'd share. The visit was brief because baby got hungry and I probably smelled really foreign to him.