gang of painter
another young painter
the young acrobat
skilled dancer
Even the adult was attracted by this beautifully printed children's book
young painter
so absorb with the painting!Just a few days ago, A girl was pickpocket while shopping for gifts to be sent to Singapore in Tuol Tompung Market. She lost nothing except her mobile phone which cost around US$170. Not an expensive one right? But it's bad enough for this unlucky girl to get a big blame from her mum. This is the finish of the news report.
***P.S. For the time being, I cannot be contacted via phone call or sms. I'll inform you when I'll be available for phone call's or sms's contact.
Welcome, The SYC Participants! RELC
i really envy chamroeun for being in this beautiful picture!Discovery, Singapore
Everyone except me in this Pic taken in front of NUS! Guess why? 
this one fascinated me the most on my visit to NUS 
the young scientists!
In Mediacorp, young professional actors and actress!
v shouting camBOdia!
Our host singing, Exbihition at RELC's Lobby
Underwater world, Sentosa
A Bond of Friendship!
let's dance together!
Hugging!
*** It going to the 10th anniversary of Sunburst Youth Camp in Singapore soon...This following song remind me of the great time i had in Singapore...Unfortunately i dun have the music or sound clip...just the lyric,if u wanna know how to sing...let's me teach you
Title* dun know*
You could take a little trip around singapore town, in singapore's city bus
to see ****** quay and the raffle place, the esplanade and all of *****
because in Singapore, singapore, their hearts are big and wide you'll find
because in singapore singapore, you'll find happiness (clasp) for everyone
Let's go down to the riverside, n see the unforgetable sky.
To see the sunlight, in faraway isle, turning from darkness into light.
because in Singapore, singapore, their hearts are big and wide you'll find
because in singapore singapore, you'll find happiness (clasp) for everyone
Note: there's one part missing..I cant remember
*****Updated Information
you can go to the following link for the lyrics and song download. http://www.singsingapore.org.sg/songs.asp
Thanks Marya for the link!
To all SYCians, if you happen to read this text, pls help me fill in the missing lyric ok?
Best regards, Sovan
I had a very bad day yesterday, or probably as far as I remember, the worst day of my life. Things started to go wrong after I finnished my Group presentation in my Global Studies class ( our teacher is Mr. TVR, you guys know him). Though the presentation went well as we hoped, our fortune turned into a disaster when teacher announced that there would be a quiz. Unluckily, I didn't even touch my textbook since I was too busy with the presentation and assignment which had the same deadline. I knew I did my quiz gravely. But I'll tell u this... Life was not treating me that easy... Quiz in session 1 finished. Oh Damn it...on the second session, there was also another surprise quiz...YOu know what? teacher had assigned us to do homework at home, but again i could not find time to even look at it...n believe it? the whole quiz was all taken from that damn homework...bcos I hadn't revise the lesson, what I did in this quiz was no different from the previous one...h god!!!! My bad day didn't finish with this two surprise quiz...the worst of all hadn't come yet... Heuy......as I mentioned above, I had a group assignment to finish...You know what, just after spending 2 hours re-edit again and again I finally got everything perfectly done.But,But,But, bcos of that darn so-called highly infected virus, everything, every of my group effort was totally in ruin. To do this assignment, v skipped lunch for 4 continuous days, v discussed till 7pm, v skipped our thai, korean, or japanese class to do that pain in the neck assignment...
Realizing that the file would never be recovered, I called my GS teacher, he said NO, if the assignment was late in Submission, 5% of the total mark will be deducted...
Heuy but I got no choice ...beside submit it today... a day late...
Thursday, 06th, November 2007 was recorded in my diary as the worst day in my life.
In less than a week, RELC International is going to host the annual awesome Sunburst Youth Camp. This year, SYC is going to be greater and happier than the previous one with participants and alumni from all years. Sadly i don't have this chance to be reunion with my friends. But to all SYCians,I would like to make this opportunity to send u all the best regards and wish u all the best...Miss Ya...Miss the time we had fun together in the camp...If chance is given, i will go and visit each of ur homeland...
Do you think it is appropriate to share negative news, i mean bad news in our blog...
If you think it not good, stop right here dun continue reading this text.
Well, you all sure know that in last weekend, Phnom Penh held the annual water festival along the river side in front of the royal palace. No difference from any other year, people from the countryside poured in the city which made travelling difficult to make. But it's not the point m gonna tell you guys. Do you know that this year's water festival was more auspicious. Asean boat race was added. Ok let's get right to the point. ON the first or second day of the celebration, a terrible thing had happened. I was sad when watching this dreadful news on tele. 5 singaporeans were killed/drown in an accident. While rowing the boad along the river near the Phnom Penh Port just for fun after the tired competition, 22 singaporeans with boat were suddenly pulled into the river by the powerful TEK KUOCH (dunno what to write in English, you guys can help) because it was near the port. Among the 22, only 17 were saved.The rest were missing and their bodies were found the day after the accident after a searching compaign using more than 10 boats and 3 heli was made all day and night. A mourning ceremony had been held in Calmet Hospital where the bodies were carefully kept. Some senior officers and Ambassor of Republic of Singapore were there as well.
U see? This one is a very sad you. It sadden me lots. I am so attached with Singapore, I remember how happy my trip was in Singapore last two years. Often times I wonder why such thing happened when everyone was enjoying the celebration so much. Why????? I'm really sorry for the victims' families and relatives. M afraid that they might have bad impression that Cambodia is a dangerous place. OH??????
Dearest brothers and sisters
How have you been? I do hope everyone is ok and ready to join The Water Festival Ceremony that it is coming soon. While we are happy to join the Water Festival, we also never forget our special program (Food Program)
The Food Program will be conducted on 2 Sunday December, 2007 at Initiatives of Change Association (ICA). Cooking will be started at 3pm and then we will leave from ICA at 6 pm.
Your presentation will be helped us to achieve this program.
Any information please, contacts the number:
012 279 913
012 625 205
012 561 665
012 821 757
Best Regard
Thornin
This following text is dedicated to LIDA, for she has encouraged me to post this piece of writing for you all to read....Hope you enjoy.
“Intelligent, diligent, independent, ambitious, strict but reasonable” are the best adjectives to describe my mother’s unique characteristics. Despite of the many hardships that has stormed in her miserable life, my mother still remains strong which, I would say, makes her one of the rare but best mothers in Cambodian society. In fact, in my family, the expense on everything, counting from those on our daily meal 3 times a day to the one on education of both my brother and I, has become a heavy burden of my young mother since the death of my father 12 years ago. As a young widow, she has to play both the role as mother and father. Everyday morning, she does all what an ordinary housewife normally does, sweeping and wiping the house, boiling the water, waking my lazy 10-year old brother,...etc. After finishing all the chore, she goes to the market to open her small store up. There, she spends almost 10 hours a day selling clothes. Backing home at 6 pm, my mum has to make the dinner ready and wait for us to have our dinner. Honestly, I don’t usually help her cooking, as both my little brother and I study till 7 pm. Frequently, I feel quite guilty that I cannot help easing the burden of my mum, not even one of the simple tasks at home every morning. My only chore is to do the washing up every weekend since my mum has to open up her store everyday, regardless of the weekly day-off most people enjoy. Though she is busy and tired from her day-work, she always finds time to be with my brother and me. She always advises us to study hard and need not to doubt about everyday school’s expense. Often, she warns us on how hard a life would be without good education, that’s why she sends us to one of the best institutions in the country, no matter how much she has to pay. Not a single second has she complaint about her hard work. Her wise advice, care and endless effort to get my brother and I high education, are all my inspirations to remind myself to study hard and to get a very high score at school, if not the highest, must be one among the highest. What I achieve in school, in return, plays as an effective role to encourage my mum to work harder in order to earn for our living. Everyday I usually try my best in my study, so that my mother’s effort is not in vain. She is the best mother in the world!
What is our favorite number? I just find several convincing points to choose number 3. Wanna know...? Keep reading...You are on the right track...
1: I started to go to school (kindergarten, of course) at the age of 3
2: I have lived in 3 different houses since I moved to Phnom Penh.
3: 3 is my lucky number...why so?
-I was the 3rd to be interviewed by Mr. Lau Keezong, then the organizing committee’s director of SYC 05. And I passed which was a contrast to my expectation at that time.
- Also, just yesterday, I was the also the 3rd to be interviewed by the PSP alumni for a volunteer work, and I did passed. (actually I didn’t expect I was selected)
- When I was in year 1 at IFL, I was the 3rd most outstanding student in the morning shift (I am not bragging te na)
4: In order to apply for IFL Debate Club membership, 3 recommendations for 3 lecturers needed to be submit along with the application form
5: Out of 4 IFL lecturers this year, 3 are males.
6: Most of the major holidays in Cambodia last for 3 days right?
7: Most competitions give awards to the top 3 right? see only 3 competitors are chosen.
8: In my favourite stories—Harry Potter series and The Chronicle of Diadem series— there are 3 main characters. (Harry, Ron, Hermione & Score, Pixel, Helen)
9. There are 3 series of Shrek, 3 series of the Pirate of Caribbean, 3 series of X-Men, 3 series of The Lord of the Ring and so on and so forth. See even the movie makers choose number 3
So you see.......Number 3 famous... See why It’s my favourite number....
P.S. Since number 3 is my favourite number, if you plan to send me Christmas gift, make sure it’s in 3 packets with 3 gifts ok? :-))
with my relatives in a hotel in Hochiminch City before leaving for Dalat
Due to some problem with Internet here, I will post more pics later
It's been nearly two weeks after I was back from my 5-day-holiday to Vietnam's Hochiminh and Dalat city. I've been kept very busy since then, so I hardly found time updating my blog. But eventually here I am, telling you about my trip.
Well, if you have been to vietnam, i guess ur first impression will be just like mind. Hochiminh city is full of motorbikes, I would say more than that in phnom penh, though there's less cars. ( I was informed that tax is 350% of the car's cost). Also, the width of most house is so small that I can't imagine how to live in such small space. Again I was informed that land's price there is extremely expensive. Land in the city centre (Hochiminh City) can reach up to US$7000 a square metre. OH how expensive! And traffic there is just as mess up (or even messier) than that in Phnom penh. Motorbikes just rides...inorganizedly. Suprisingly or curiously, I wonder why the vietnamese has the habit of having coffee at nearly midnight. And you believe it? A bookstore as big as IBC or perhaps bigger doesn't sell a single English book. But the vietnamese language version of Harry potter and the deadly hallow is now available in most bookstores and street bookstores in Hochiminh City. And you can get it for a good price, if you can read vietnamese.
However,I really appreciate vietnamese farmers for being industrial. Along from Hochiminh to Dalat, we past 3 mountain's range. You know what my impression is? Oh almost everywhere is ful of plantation, of coffee, tea, rubber, vegetable, fruit. They just have the habit of not leaving a single land unfarmed. The tour guide told me that the whole vegetable plantations in Dalat alone could support every household in Hochiminh City and even leave some for export to Cambodia. You know vietnamese vegetables we see in market are from Dalat City. Oh they are just hard-working farmers. Interestingly, Hochiminch city is named as the heart of VN's economy, whereas Hanoi is named as the heart of VN's politics. Yes! No doubt that the heart of VN economy is based in Hochiminch. Along the roads in the city's suburbs lie many factories, Suzuki, Toyota, food industries,...more and more. Compared to Cambodia, VN has more foriegn investments. That's why its economy is ahead from Cambodia's. And an underground road is now being built in Hochiminh and is due to open for travellers in 2010. Hopefully we will also have one in Phnom Penh.
P.S I write this text rushly... I apologize for the many mistakes I have made.
Now I am in front of a PC in Da Lat town, a French-style city in the middle of Vietnam. The weather here is pretty cold, 23 degree celsius on average... The town locates on hills just like Sen Monorom Town of Mondulkiri, Cambodia. Bye, gotta go n enjoy sightseeing now... I will leave for Hochiminh city tomorr..
Our eyes were bind... "Are we in the right track?"
"We find it, hurray"
Oh it's high!!!
"Dararith, you will make it.. Kom Breng leung!"
"Yes, you make it, Bravo"
Lunch time
Belaying rule
"We are all #1"
playing the first puzzle game..."hey give me, I need it, Han Long"
the second puzzle game... all the groups must work together
"we are in this together, i'll give u"
time to go back to RELC
Jum reap lea "good bye"
bye OBS centre!!!
Ready for OBS time!
In a boat to OBS centre (Outward Bound Singapore)
introduce each other
game time!
They were not running, just fast walking
Group one will win the award, Hurray!!!
my OBS team member
Here is a call for contribution taken from the Cambodia Daily, Thursday Oct 04th
The Cambodia Daily Mosquito Net Campaign was started in 1997 to collect for mosquito nets for Cambodia’s rural poor. To contribute to this campaign and save 3 lives for only $5 (the purchase of one family net) send you donation (cash or check) or bring it in person to Nuon So Thero or Sing Seda at the Cambodia Daily, 129 street 228, Phnom Penh. For details telephone 855-23-427. Checks should be made out to the Cambodia Daily Mosquito Net Program. Donations may also be deposited directly into account number 30-060-2750 (Mosquito Net Appeal) at the Foreign Trade Bank of Cambodia. Credit Card donations are also accepted. Please provide your name, credit card type, card number, expiration date and billing address by fax to 855-23-426-573. Or mail to aafc@camnet.com.kh. Donations are tax deductible in the US and Japan.
Since I have watched an inspiring and appealing movie "I am Cuba", I'm quite interested in Cuba.... Here is a text about Cuba, before and after the Revolutionary....
The Batista Dictatorship ( Pre- Fidel Castro Revolution)
In 1952 Batista returned from the United States to run for president. When it became apparent that he did not have strong support among voters, Batista organized a bloodless military takeover and became dictator. Batista, however, found that the situation was very different than it had been at the time of his earlier coup in 1934, when he had considerable popular support and was able to build a successful coalition of political groups. In 1952 he faced Cuban citizens who respected their constitution. Organizations opposed to Batista seemed to appear everywhere. Most of these groups had one goal: the removal of Batista. Only university students, the Communists, and Fidel Castro articulated programs for a post-Batista government.
In 1953 Castro attracted a following of young people who shared his desire to topple Batista and reinstate the constitution. On July 26, Castro and 150 armed followers entered the Moncada Military Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Guards set off an alarm and quickly captured the attackers. Castro and several dozen men escaped, but were later arrested. The army brutally tortured and killed 68 insurgents, an act that made heroes and martyrs of Castro’s group.
Castro defended his action in a court hearing, arguing that the government, not his movement, was in violation of constitutional law because it took power illegally and because it had committed atrocities against defenseless prisoners. In a courtroom speech, he promised to lead a revolution that would oversee land reform, industrialization, housing construction, greater employment opportunities, and expanded health and welfare services. After a brief deliberation, a tribunal sentenced Castro to 15 years in prison.
Other revolutionary groups contested Batista’s dictatorship. The Federation of University Students organized rallies and called for Batista’s removal. Most of the students came from the middle class, and although they sympathized with the problems of workers, they did not formulate policies to assist them. In 1955 some of these students concluded that radical action was needed to remove Batista from office. They founded the Revolutionary Directorate to carry out bloody clashes with the army and to attempt to assassinate Batista.
In 1954 Batista won the presidential election, running unopposed after other parties refused to participate. The following year he felt confident enough to free all political prisoners, including Castro. Castro soon left for Mexico with a small number of followers to plan a revolutionary movement they would call the 26th of July Movement (M-26) after the date of the Moncada Barracks assault.
Cuban Revolution
Castro Leads Rebels In 1956 Fidel Castro led a guerrilla force, the 26th of July Movement, in a revolt against the government of Fulgencio Batista. In 1959 Batista resigned, and Castro became leader of Cuba’s new revolutionary regime.Archive Photos
Unrest continued in Cuba. In mid-1956 Batista faced dissension within the military as several officers conspired to overthrow him and reinstate liberal, democratic politicians. The leaders were court-martialed and jailed. On March 13, 1957, the Revolutionary Directorate attacked the presidential palace, intending to assassinate Batista. The president barely escaped as the rebels shot their way onto the grounds. José Antonio Echeverría, the directorate’s leader, was gunned down and the rest of his men were captured, killed, or forced into hiding.
On March 13, 1957, the Revolutionary Directorate attacked the presidential palace, intending to assassinate Batista.
Meanwhile Castro had been raising funds, acquiring weapons, and training a small band of guerrillas in Mexico. On November 29, 1956, Castro and about 80 men crammed themselves into a small fishing vessel, the Granma, and set out to invade Cuba. All did not go as planned, however. Bad weather delayed their arrival, and the rebels landed 30 miles south of the point where weapons and reinforcements awaited them. As they waded ashore, Batista’s army ambushed them, and only a handful of men escaped. They formed a small guerrilla army in the Sierra Maestra, the mountains of southeast Cuba.
From his base in the mountains, Castro organized raids on military installations to acquire weapons and worked closely with the rural population to build a base of support. He invited Herbert Matthews, a New York Times correspondent, to the Sierra Maestra to report on the 26th of July Movement. Matthews’ reports brought international attention to Castro’s movement. New recruits joined him, and urban guerrilla groups, such as the Civic Resistance group, founded in 1957, became auxiliaries of the 26th of July Movement.
Castro as a Rebel Leader In 1956 Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and about 80 armed followers returned from exile in Mexico and landed on the southern shore of Cuba. Government troops killed most of the rebels during the landing, but Castro and a handful of men escaped to the mountains of eastern Cuba, where they continued a guerrilla campaign to oust Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Batista fled the island on January 1, 1959, and Castro emerged as the leader of the new government in Cuba.Corbis/Hulton Deutsch
Well into 1958, U.S. State Department officials misread the Cuban population’s profound dissatisfaction with Batista, as U.S. diplomatic dispatches from Havana indicated that Batista had the opposition under control. Eventually, as Batista’s dictatorial tendencies grew and the extent of opposition to his regime became apparent, the alliance between the United States and Batista weakened. The United States discussed with Batista the possibility of working with the moderate opposition and scheduling free elections. Batista refused. The United States considered an armed intervention, but instead decided to force Batista to resign by withholding arms shipments. Meanwhile, the opposition was unifying around Castro. In March 1958, 45 civic organizations signed an open letter supporting Castro’s guerrillas.
Conditions deteriorated for Batista during the following months. On April 9, 1958, a general strike to protest the Batista government did not paralyze the country, but it did throw doubt on Batista’s ability to govern. In April and May Batista failed to suppress two major rebel offensives. In May Batista began an assault on Castro’s stronghold in the Sierra Maestra. In July more than 10,000 government soldiers failed to dislodge Castro’s men during the Battle of Jigue. In late August the rebel army moved out of its mountain sanctuary onto the plains.
The rebels made steady advances throughout the remainder of the year. In November government troops lost control of the central highway into Santiago. In December rebel forces won a bloody battle for control of Santa Clara, a city in central Cuba. Batista understood that his downfall was imminent. After his annual New Year’s Eve party, he and his closest advisers secretly boarded a plane for the Dominican Republic.
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I am Cuba....( 1964)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatosov
Yesterday noon, Longdy and I went to see a free-admission movie at PUC’s Srey Dim Conference Hall. The title was “I am Cuba”. From the title, you could guess where the movie was from, right?
Well... to me, it’s such an inspiring movie, displaying all the real past of Cuba before Fidel Castro came into power. (Now Cuba is the only remaining American Country governed by Communist leader) The movie itself was sub-divided into story of other four different individuals.
The first story was about a young girl named Maria (also known as Betty on her night job). She was the fruit street-sale(er) and also worked as a dancer in a nightclub (&also prostitute). From this part, we could see the great gap of living between the foreigners there and the Cubans. (I think) Maria was forced to sell herself because of poverty. If you had watched the scene, you would see how miserable her life was, living in a damp place surrounded by hungry-looking neighbors. This was much a contrast to the night city life in which dominated by those sucking foreigners.
Then, the second part depicted a rural life of at-about-50-year-old widower, who was living with a teenage son and daughter. Their living depended on their sugar cane field. However, life was not really easy for this 3 unfortunate farmer. Just as the time their sugar canes were ready to be harvested, a fat middle-age man who referred himself as the landowner of the land in which the farmer was living and growing crop. Thus, the crop yield had to put into his property and none of the profit was needed to give to the farmers for their sweat in growing and taking care of the plantation. So much desperate and angry, the father (whose name I didn’t know/remember) decided to set fire to his located-in-other people’s land-home and to all the sugar cane he planted with his and his children’s hand. So that the claimed landowner would not benefit a single penny from his claimed land.
The third one, my most favourite, brought audiences to a city life which was full of protests organized by students against the corrupt government of pre-Castro era and of course had to pay their life for the belief and demonstration.
The final one was about a family who lived in mountain, hoping to get away from the battle in city and to live in peace. But they wouldn’t enjoy their living long. Their house was destroyed by the government’s bombing campaign. Their son was killed in the bombardment. The husband whose named was known as ...... (haha I forgot bat heuy)oh yeah Mariano (???) decided to join the rebellion to liberate Cuba from the corrupt government. The liberation itself was leaded by no one other than Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro (now he’s too old to rule, so his power is transferred to his brother)
I kind of like the movie, and cant wait to see anther free movie, Rice People ( a khmer one). If you interest, go to PUC’s SREY DIM conference hall on October 6 at 3pm.... J now the only remaining American Country governed by Communist leader
HOPE to HAVE and SEE YOU THERE!!!!
Oh Please help me!!!
During a one month-break from school last month, I felt that I really really wanted to go to IFL, to study, and to have fun with my friends. But.....but at the time that my holiday nearly ended, I felt that oh I didn’t want to sit in class, listening tiredly to the lectures. Oh.....!!! Why is it like that??? Is it the same as you???? To tell you the truth, my motivation to learning now is not as strong and energetic as that when I was in year 1. Everyday at school is boring... is it because of the course or the lecturer or me? No, Cant be the course ços subjects I learn in year 2 are interesting.. cos of Lecturers? No, cant be bcos none of their teaching seems to be the boring like that of my least favourite lecturer in year one.,, So it must be because of I myself do not put effort and interest in learning, right. Frankly, even one night before my CE quiz, I didn’t revise my lesson at all.... I spent the whole night sleeping and dreaming, a bad dream if you ask! Oh help me,,, do you know how to cope with sleepiness? I only study in one university which means that I have more free time and less tired than most of my classmates.... so why I always feel sleepy at night????? Should i drink coffee to keep my self awake??
Yesterday, I, along with other 5 volunteers at the Cambokids association, went to the Veteran International, an NGO who helps rehabilitating disabled people in Kean Klang near Chroy Changva bridge. It was so fun playing with those disabled chidren and the one from the nearby community (whose bodies are in normal condition). We, the volunteers, helped creating fun activities for the children. We told them folk tales and interesting children stories, coloring the sketch models designed by the Cambokids staff, and of course dancing the khmer traditional dances together (Coconut dance, Butterflies dance and more). The activities was finished with a great applause from those children and with a promise by the volunteers to go to the center again next thursday....Cant wait!!!!
*** Children there are so cute but little bit mischievous... Oh and you know? At my very first time in VI last week, I met a baby... hmm he was only 3 months old, but pitily had to undergo an operation. I later learnt that his legs were Kvean since birth... But despite the hurt from the operation, he didn’t cry and even laughed when a total stranger like me carried him unlike some other babies I met who always cried when seeing me (my baby cousin in particular).
P.S do you happen to know what “Kvean” is in English? Tell me pong...
I. How many times I’ve packed away so often afraid. Told others I’d be counted on and left them all betrayed. I’ve said that there’re nothing I can do in the world that’s turned. So sour where ther hope of freedom is fading by the hour. But...
Chorus: It’s better to light one candle than to cause the darkness. Better to let it bright light, show where you stand. For its glow will melt the darkness like the coming of a new dawn. And hope will be born from the small flame in your hand.
II. There are many echoes in the world but few voices. Many roads for us to take but few make choices. Will we always wait till it’s too late and things seem all but lost. Afraid to leave the shadow, afraid to face the ghost.
*** >>>Chorus
III. But if you stand up and leave your fears behind you’ll show a light for all those who are blind. It will spread around the world, a light that cannot be ignore. For the spirit of man.......is the candle of the truth.
My comment: I really like this song very much. It inspires me to help making a change of our beloved country, Cambodia, who indeed needs help from each and every one of us, Cambodian children and teenagers. So have you done anything to light the candle in your community? If not yet, start from this very moment. If you have already, continue what you are doing right now. A Better Cambodia is not very far away if we all work and unite together.....
*** If you don’t want to light the candle, at least, please don’t help putting out the light, okay?????
Help! Help!
Despite of the many years learning English, I havent yet reached to the point that I hope my writing would be. I really really want to be a talented writer (in English) ... But My writing is just so lame and not interesting either. :-)) Reading my own piece of writing, I feel that the grammatical structure and the use of vocabulary is indeed boring and always in the same form, no variation. I wish I could write a good text like some of my friends do, if not better!!! Hopefully things would improve as I have to submit a lots of writing work to my lecturer this semester.....
Read Alone.....
Especially the Poem I believe whatever is in store for us will be for us. The poem is very true, unfortunately. Make sure you read the poem!
CASE 1: Kelly Sedey had one wish, for her boyfriend of three years, David Mars den, to propose to her. Then one day when she was out to lunch David proposed! She accepted, but then had to leave because she had a meeting in 20 min. When she got to her office, she noticed on her computer she had some e-mail. She checked it, the usual stuff from her friends, but then she saw one that she had never gotten before. It was this poem. She simply deleted it without even reading all of it. BIG MISTAKE! Later that evening, she received a phone call from the police. It was about DAVID! He had been in an accident with an 18 wheeler. He didn't survive!
CASE 2:
Take Katie Robinson She received this poem and being the believer that she was she sent it to a few of her friends but didn't have enough e-mail addresses to send out the full 5 that you must. Three days later, Katie went to a masquerade ball. Later that night when she left to get to her car, she was killed in that spot by a hit-and-run drunk driver.
CASE 3:
Richard S. Willis sent this poem out within 45 minutes of reading it. Not even 4 hours later walking along the street to his new job interview with a really big company when he ran into Cynthia Bell, his secret love for 5 years. Cynthia came up to him and told him of her passionate crush on him that she had had for 2 years. Three days later, he proposed to her and they got married. Cynthia and Richard are still married with three children, happy as ever! This is the poem:
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
"Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. Don't be afraid to express yourself.
Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late. Seize the day. Never have regrets. And most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today. You must send this on in 3 hours after reading the letter to 10 other people. If you do this, you will receive unbelievably good luck. *NOTE* the more people that you send this to, the better luck you will have. SMILE, even through your tears!!!!!
Good Luck!!!
Few-year-ago Phnom Penh, though considerably more populated than any other towns in the Country, didn’t usually have much traffic jam except during the annually celebrated water festival. But today traffic jam is no more than a simple aspect in this city dwellers’ life. In fact, though I used to be stuck among the crowded unmoving vehicles for many times, I have never experienced an irritating one like I did yesterday noon for nearly an hour, just to cross the approximate 500-metre mornivong bridge. At first I thought it wouldn’t take that long since it was not really crowded. But because of the many disorder and uncontrollable vehicles crossing the bridge, motorbikes in particular, things started to get worse. We were hardly able to move!!! Those who couldn’t stand to endure the waste of their precious gasoline on this still still situation and realized that it wouldn’t finished very soon, switched off their vehicles’ engines and waited ( **I was one among them). For several minutes later, the situation was progressively better, at least we could roll the gear and rode (or did the so-called turtle’s crawling style) at a speed of around 0.25metre per minutes in average **thanked to our hardworking policemen**. Oh Damn it!!! It took me 30more minutes, to my relief, to eventually be on the other side of the river... And I just realized then that the cause of that sucking traffic jam was because a big 1000 year-old (or maybe not that ancient) truck (KaMAS) broke down on the 1/3 way up the bridge (1/3 refer to the bridge’s length** SIC mind my grammar mistake :-)) Oh alas!!! what a shame that such thing has happened in our country...
In my opinion, I think there are 3 reasons (and/or more if I can think of later) regarding this issue (big and irritating issue to me):
1. the width of road in Phnom Penh and in the other towns is as narrow as the ant’s path ( in the developed or fast growing economic (SIC) nation’s standard **mind my grammar mistake in adjective’s order**)
2. Vehicle users still have little knowledge about traffic or their commitment to be unselfish and law-obeying drivers are limited. (I am excluded in that case, and YOU?)
3. Strangely different from the regional country, there is no public transport *even if there is one, people wont use it* in Phnom Penh city which lead to the increase of the use of private transportation in the city &&(is motortaxi counted as public transport too? if yes please change my point to “ there are too many public transport, having motortaxis as a majority”)
Any other reasons? Help me ok??? :-))
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A girl asked a guy if he thought she was
pretty,
He said...no.
She asked him if he would want to be with her forever...and he said no.
She then asked him if she were to leave would he cry, and once again he replied with a no.
She had heard enough. As she walked away, tears streaming down her face the boy grabbed her arm and said...
You're not pretty you're beautiful.
I don't want to be with you forever, I NEED to be with you forever!
And I wouldn't cry if you walked away...I'd die...
SO NOW I WILL SAY:
I like you because of who you are to me...A true friend.
And if I don't get this back I'll take the hint.
Tonight at midnight your true love will realize they like you.
Something good will happen to you1:00-4:00 PM tomorrow.
It could be anywhere -- AOL, Yahoo, outside of school, anywhere.
Get ready for the biggest shock of your life.
Please send to 15 people in 15 minutes.
Remember:
"A good friend will come bail you out of jail....
But a true friend will be sitting next to you saying
"WE screwed up!"(Touch Wood!!!)
Proud to be your Friend!
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence, and don't skip ahead.
I've learned...that life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I've learned...that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
I've learned...that money doesn't buy class.
I've learned...that it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I've learned...that under every! one's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I've learned...that the Lord didn't do it all in one day.
What makes me think I can?
I've learned...that to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
I've learned.
I've learned...that the less time I have to work, the more things I get done.
To all of you...make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
It's National Friendship Week.
Show your friends how much you care.
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you.
If it comes back to you, then you'll know you have a circle of friends.
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK TO YOU!!!!!!
YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I am
honored !!!!!!
kru Snae, kompong tang samati rok srey saart...
assistant of kru snae, on phone with customer
a customer, too attracted by kru snae that c called for her friends to join
everyone not ready yet, that y it looked bit messy
a trip to kiriom after BACII
Looking Back....
Looking back in the past, I was such a cheerful young spirit though I was likely to cry much more than an ordinary child...Here are fews photographs of mine when i was still 4 or 5... dun laugh at me ok?
at the seaside with my aunt...Like I said here I was about to cry...
Two Young Cute Pupils (I was with my same same age uncle), ready for their first day at Kindergarten. After arriving school, the little cute girl, I, cried so hard cos realizing that mum would leave me there.
a cheerful sovan and her friends in a park in riverside
