For the next week or two, life meandered merrily onwards in a haze of happiness. The house really began to take shape as Aya and I searched the galleries and shops of Phnom Penh for art and ornaments to complete our home. I was even happier when I got two commissions within days of first advertising my services. I’d put together a nifty website over the course of two long sessions where I hardly left my study. It had contained galleries of over twenty years of my designs from the flyers and posters of my acid house days to the sleek designs for big companies and corporations years later. I’d then posted the link on a few of the expat forums and f*******: pages and within three hours of my initial posts, I’d had a phone call from the Penh’s top nightclub asking me to take on a redesign of t
