Shortage and abundance

Here is your homework. Sort the following list into two groups. One list should be the things that Cambodia has a shortage of, the other the things that Cambodia has an abundance of.

• Limbs both real and prosthetic
• plastic bags
• tuk-tuks
• female tuk-tuk drivers
• loud speakers
• plastic bananas
• water
• clean water
• meaningful work
• hammocks
• corruption
• late model black Toyota Lexus cars with no number plates
• moisturiser without a "whitening" agent
• signs on the road advertising the Cambodian People's Party
• imitation Louis Vuitton handbags
• Korean owned conglomerate businesses
• mental illness

There is an explanation for each of these, some of the ideas you can work out for yourself, others are quite sinister.

Today was a trip out to the enormous lake in the middle of Cambodia, known as Tongle Sap, through terribly poor villages, up a river and out to the lake to visit the floating village. I loved the boat houses with duck and geese farms, the floating basketball court and the floating battery recharging shop. The floating school looked nice and the floating Catholic Churches were a curious inclusion. Best of all was the floating pig farm and the floating crematoria. I could not make it up if I tried.