New Years Eve Camodian style

The Sydney New Years Eve fireworks were showing on television and I took a quick moment to reflect on the year as I was standing beside the Harbour watching the fireworks last year. I was able to have a shower and get ready and the fireworks were still going. When they finished I walked outside to see how the party was going.
To my surprise the music on Pub Street had not started, instead everybody was watching the Manchester United game on a big screen television. They love the Premier League in this part of Asia. As soon as the game finished they showed a quick Cambodia travel advertisement which definitely inspired me to see more of the country before the music started and the party began.
The streets began to get very busy all the Koreans who usually spend their nights in their fancy hotels were all on the streets partying. At one point a crew of them started dancing well rehearsed dances and everybody on the street stopped to watch. Koreans are the most popular tourists in Cambodia and although I had seen them a lot at Angkor Wat and in the markets it was the first time I had seen them on Pub Street.
At 10pm there was no room to move, Pub Street was one big mosh pit and so I got out of there. I wandered the streets to see what else was going on. There were people everywhere and they were still piling off the big buses.
With only ten minutes to midnight I decided I would try again to join the party on Pub Street. It took close to ten minutes to push through crowds. The music stopped for a ten second countdown followed by a quick firework display and the music started again and the party continued. The Cambodians seemed to be enjoying the night as much as the Westerners.
Later in the night I ate at a street vendor which during the day converts to a kindergarten. Or the Kindergarten converts into food vendors. It was quite strange to see during the day all the students playing in the playground while around the school huge speakers and beer taps were being set up.
I had spent the night alone which was different to previous New Years Eves but I quite enjoyed it. People watching in Siam Reap is never boring.