{"id":6783,"date":"2015-03-10T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2015-03-10T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T03:40:48","slug":"coming-clean-about-my-cambodian-happy-shake-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2015\/03\/coming-clean-about-my-cambodian-happy-shake-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Clean About My Cambodian Happy Shake Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>people who have followed me for a long time on twitter may remember the time I went to Cambodia and tried a &#8220;happy shake&#8221; late in the summer of 2011, or well, intimated it at least. well, i figure it&#8217;s time to come clean about it since to this day i&#8217;m still wondering what was in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2015\/03\/untitled3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6784\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/files\/2015\/03\/untitled3.png\" alt=\"untitled\" width=\"558\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2015\/03\/untitled3.png 558w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2015\/03\/untitled3-300x293.png 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2015\/03\/untitled3-400x390.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2015\/03\/untitled3-200x195.png 200w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2015\/03\/untitled3-150x146.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: drug use is illegal in Cambodia and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phnompenhpost.com\/national\/arrests-sour-%E2%80%98happy%E2%80%99-holidays\">you can get busted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i first heard about &#8220;happy&#8221; from my hero (and probably yours too), Mr. Bourdain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NB9ZCFETy2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and i knew i wanted to try it. i mean, i had made a conscious decision a couple months earlier to make ongoing travel part of my lifestyle and this was the kickoff trip &#8212; why not <em>live a little<\/em> (this is where you picture me doing a shoulder shimmy) and <em>really<\/em> step out of my\u00a0comfort zone?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Unsafe Area by Jonathan Khoo, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/6055199198\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6197\/6055199198_b87fe6e20f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Unsafe Area\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not me &#8212; this was a sign at one of the temples. But nevertheless apropos.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>i did some research online and found a place near my hotel that did &#8220;happy&#8221; stuff &#8212; i didn&#8217;t want a full on pizza because i wanted to play it somewhat safe, so opted for a late evening shake &#8220;with a little happy&#8221;. i got the shake and went back to the hotel &#8212; since i was traveling alone, i didn&#8217;t want to take any chances. well, here are a sequence of tweets, mostly from my private account, that document how the night went (spoiler: not so happy).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pizza man wished me sweet dreams tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Happy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Happy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonk\/status\/100179818351575040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My happy shake sure is taking a long time to prepare&#8230;*twiddling thumbs* also, muahaha I feel like such a deviant!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Setting my alarm now, just in case my happy shake incapacitates me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Which I doubt since I only asked for a little happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>not convinced there&#8217;s any happy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>aaand i think we have the happy kicking in. gonna haul it to bed since i&#8217;m sleepy and also don&#8217;t want to happy tweet. night all!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>so uhh, if that&#8217;s what a pot high does to you, i DO NOT WANT. too much to describe in 140. but uhh. hmm. yeah. luckily in bed already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>spinning room, kept hearing things (a chant that wouldn&#8217;t end), kept seeing random images of toys from childhood, barfed in toilet&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>thought i would die in a hotel room in cambodia and no one would discover my body&#8230; 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