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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??????

Food program at ICA

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

My Mum

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!

The 3 stuffs...........

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? :-))

Simple Quiz...

what are these Emoticons :-9 mean?

1/ (@_@)
2/ (>:8[)
3/ :-"
4/ :8)

Some pics from VN

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

My trip to Vietnam

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.