Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Laziness and Procrastination: Your Problems?

"Why am I so damn lazy?" This is the question I usually ask myself. Maybe you also have some kind of question that is similar to mine. Of course, you might ask yourself " How I gonna go through this semester exam if I still keep lazy like this?" If it is true to you then we are in the same situation. And I know you are lazy right now, and you are reading my note instead of doing what you are supposed to do. That's who we are! We are the same.

But Let's look at what we can do to get rid of laziness and how to turn it into productive.
Here are some tips I found on Wikihow and hope you find it useful:

  1. Try to figure out the single detail or problem which is holding you back. 
  2. Decide to start the work, and you are well on your way to completing it. 
  3. Convince yourself that you can do something.
  4. Focus only one task, the one you are doing
  5. Gear yourself up into action by telling yourself something like "I want to do this, so I'll just do it and rest later." say it out loud if you have to. You'll have motivate after this.
  6.  Finish a step and cheer up: Completing that task will feel remarkly good and tell yourself out loud if you like "Good stuff, you are on a roll; keep it up and you are going to make it to the end of this."
  7. Continue working: It's hard to get on a roll, so once you are there, jump right into your next goal as soon as you've done reward yourself. The longer you delay re-starting, the harder it will be to re-start. But the sooner you re-start, the more confident you will feel--and that will reinforce the positive behavior that leads to feeling that you can do anything.
  8. Don't give up: It's one thing to find your motivation. But, it's another thing to keep it going when the going gets tough--especially when it's an unforeseen problem! The more avoidant you are the more you will feel like giving up. How to get past the tough point? Tell yourself over and over: "I really want to get past this; I really want to overcome this", until you believe that you actually don't want to give up.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

My Giving Blood

Drawing Blood
As I remember what I said in my previous post, I said I will give blood soon, no later than this year. Now I do it. I feel pretty good today so I decided to give it a try. I  have been frightening for almost one week earlier. This is my first time that I give blood and now I think I will keep doing this regularly. After giving blood I realized that there is nothing to worry about. I feel totally okay and good.
From now on, I will not feel ashame any more and of course I will have confident to talk to donors and friends who want to give blood. I can tell them that I also give blood. I can tell them that giving blood is safe and good for helping people life. One more thing is that your donation is really appreciated. Please give it a try and see how you feel!

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Do Small Acts of Kindness

There is a statement said "if you ever feel depressed, the best thing to do is to do something for someone else." The statement is quit strange, isn't it? Helping others can make me feel good? you may asked yourself.

So let me ask you, have you ever done something for your friends? or helping your mom cook dinner? (I mean helping without asking for help or force to do) Did you notice your feeling at that time?

To me, I didn't believe it when I first read this statement. I thought how can I feel good to take my time to do something for others without asking for and  maybe they think I am crazy or something wrong with me.

But after reading the story in the book, I understand what the author mean and how the feeling goes when we do something for others. It's hard for me to explain, but the story may make you understand more easier. And the story goes as bellow:

I remember sitting in an airport one day, waiting for my flight. I was excited because I had been upgraded to a first-class ticket. And in first-class, the seats are bigger, the food is edible, and the flight attendants are actually nice. In fact, I had the best seat on the entire plane. Seat 1A. Before boarding, I noticed a young lady who had several carry-on bags and was holding a crying baby. Having just finished reading a book on doing random acts of kindness, I heard my conscience speak to me, "You scumbag. Let her have your ticket." I fought these prompting for a while but eventually caved in:
   "Excuse me, but you like you could use this first-class ticket more than me. I know how hard it can be flying with kids. Why don't you let me trade you tickets."
  "Are you sure?"
  "Oh yeah. I really don't mind. I'm just going to be working the whole time, anyway."
  "Well, thank you. That's very kind of you," she said, as we swapped tickets. 

As we boarded the plane, I was surprised at how good it made me feel to watch her sit down in seat 1A. In fact, under the circumstances, seat 24B or wherever the heck I was sitting didn't seem that bad at all. At one point during the flight I was so curious to see how she was doing that I could hardly stand it. So I got up out of my seat, walked to the first-class from coach. There she was with her baby, both asleep in big and comfortable seat 1A. And I felt like a million bucks. Cha-ching. I've got to keep doing this kind of thing.
You see? Helping others will make you feel wonderful to yourself.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Keep Promises to Yourself

Making a promise is quite easy, but keeping it is not as easy as saying. When you make a promise to somebody, then you are trying to let them believe in you. You may swear, say a word, just in order to make he or she trust you. But do you keep your words?

Have you ever make a promise to your friends or getting promise back? Have you ever had a friend who promised to do you a favor, but they don't? Or they say they will pick you up but they don't? After a while, you feel no truth to them.

The same thing happen when you make and break self-promise. Have you ever promise to yourself such as "I am going to wahs my clothes this evening" or "I am going to finish my assigment right away when I get home" But unfortunaty you break your promise. And after a while you don't trust yourself.

So what I am trying to say is make a promise to yourself and keep it. We should threat our commitment seriously as we do to the most important people in our lives. If you feel that you are running out of control in life, then focus on single thing you can control-yourself. Start with a small promise that you are sure you can make it such as committing to get up at 6 am every morning. After a while, you gain selt-trust and then you can make a bigger promise that is more difficult. Soon you will get into a good habit that may change your life.

Try it! You will see how you great you are!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Baby Steps

I have read through all the first part of the book which is called Paradigms and Principles and I recently have posted one topic about paradigm, your point of view toward yourself and others. What I noticed is that I have already posted some topics about principle such as the principle of life-center, friend-center, boyfriend/girlfriend-center in the last few posts. Now I think I gonna move straightaway to the habits. But before I begin to summary about habit one I want to share with all of you some useful tips for your daily life that Sean Covey called it a baby step, to bush you up, encourage and inspire you.

Here are some of my favorites and hope you like it:

1. The next time you look in the mirror say something positive about yourself.
2. Show appreciation for some one's point of view today. Say something like "Hey, that is a cool idea."
3. Begin today to treat others as you would want them to treat you. Don't be impatient, complain about leftovers, or bad-mouth someone, unless you want the same treatment.
4. Sometime soon, find a quiet place where you can be alone. Think about what matters most to you.
5. When you do your tasks tonight at home or work, try out the principle of hard-work. Go the extra mile and do more than is expected.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

What Is a Paradigm?

Paradigm is a general point of view of a particular topic. There can be a paradigm of life or paradigm of self and many others. A paradigm is like a glasses that you wear. So if you have a incomplete paradigms or we can say low paradigm about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. Have you ever heard the phrase say "what you see is what you got"? that is if you believed yourself dumb, that concept will make you dumb. If you think your friend is dumb then you will try to find evidence to support your ideas and your friend will remained dumb in your eyes.

 I want to share with you about how I see myself in the last few years. When I studied at primary school, my teacher taught us how to dance and how to sing. One day my teacher gave me a chance to dance in front of the classes. Immediately I started to move my hands, my friends started to laugh and made fun of my gesture. I was very shy and thought that i was very bad at it and can never be able to dance as others. I vowed to myself that I will never dace again in my life. Luckily, when I got into college my friends always insisted me again and again to try dancing. They even taught me how to dance. After a few times of dancing with my friends, I felt better toward myself, I felt like I had removed an obstacle from myself and wanted to improve more. When I finished university, I got a job and then the time for party was coming and also the chances for dancing as well. I improved a lots since then. Now I see myself as other people that can dance and sing. Thanks to my friends, especially Borey who always willing to help and teach me dancing.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens (Introduction)

Let me give you a brief of what is Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
Believe it or not this book can change your life? I am not trying to promote this book to you, but I am saying the truth. If you can you better buy this book and read it by your self. However, here is what the book is all about:

Habit 1: Be Proactive (In this habit you will learn how to take responsibility for your life)
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind (Learn to set your goal in life)
Habit 3: Put First Things First (Do the most important thing first and the less important last)
Habit 4: Think Win-Win (Get in the win-win attitude)
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood (Try to understand other before you can make them understand you)
Habit 6: Synergize (Work together to archive more)
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw (Renew yourself regularly)

I will show you how these seven powerful habits can change your life and someone around in the later post.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Being Right Vs Being Kind

The question is being right or being kind?

It always arise in my head about how I respond to the question. Every time of our communication with other people no matter with our friends or our co worker or even people we don't know, it's always a choice for us to choose whether we choose to be right or to be kind.

When people making mistakes do you correct them? or keep silence to show that you are being kind to them even you know it is not a good respond.

In my work place, I always face this problem. My boss said you are suggested to report when people making mistakes. Do I have to be right and report every tiny mistakes? How about my friends' feeling? What are they gonna feel about me? But if i don't do it they may do it. They gonna make me headach? How i gonna feel toward them? Or should I keep silence and be kind to them even i know they are doing something wrong against the company's policy?

I want to ask you how do you respond to this question?

Friday, December 10, 2010

Feeling ashamed!

There was one guy coming from Germany to Cambodia for vocation. This afternoon he went to Angkor Hospital for Children in order to make a difference in Siem Reap. He told me that he like Cambodian, he added that Cambodian people are very friendly and polite so he want to give his pure blood to the Cambodian children.

I feel very happy to hear this word. I asked him how many times have you donated blood? He said he have donated blood for more then 30 times and he will continues to give more. Then he asked me " Do you give blood?" I got stuck! don't know what to respond coz I never do it. After push a few second I told him the truth that I never give blood before, but I am going to give soon. He smiled at me and say " Are you married?" I say " No" then he continues " If you are married or a teacher how can you teach your student if you don't give them the example. You have to give the Cambodian people this example so that they will follow you. Promise me you will give blood this year!". I feel very ashamed and respond " Yes, I promise I will do it this year."

Sunday, December 5, 2010

International Half Marathon on 05 December 2010

10KM International Half Marathon on 05 December 2010
15th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Life-Center

You may ask me "What is life-center?" but some of you may familair and even known how to deal with it. Of course, I just want to add some more interesting facts about it.

If you want to know what is your life-center then think about what you can't live without, what you really need, what you spend most of your time on. So life-center is about everythins.

If you are spending too much time on facebook then you are probably a facebok-center. If you are spending time with your girlfriend or boy friends too much then you are becomeing a boyfriend/girlfriend-center.

Talking about friend-center, it is such a big thing in my life and maybe in your life as well. I think maybe no one can live without friends. Everyone prefer to be part of the group, have lots of people to go with and so on. I remember when i was stuying at high school, i had a lot of friends and lots of sport groups. We do things together, playing sport, and everything. Everyone though that we will be friend forever, but infact not. After graduated, everyone has their own direction, I have my own job, university and they have their. We seldom call each other and rarely see. Finally, most of my friends end up with no connection.

So friend-center is pretty good, but it really bad if you are really center your life on it. As sean covey put it "Make as many friends as you can but don't build yourlife on them."

Boyfriend/girlfriend-center is also a big thing in our life. Most of you has already had a boyfriend or girldfriend and even more, just kidding, and you know how important it is. Love is beautiful, great, fantastic,and much more. In contrast, as I said if you are spending too much time on it, there will be a trouble. Remember! the more you center your life on your partner, the more you are unattractive to that person. You will not want to have a girldfriend or boyfriend who always end up with you all the time. You need time for yourself, your family, your study and your work too. Am I right?

Friday, November 5, 2010

Interview Tips

Adapted from General tips to overcome an interview
By: PUNIT SINGH
The picture was taken from Centre for teaching excellence

1. Know yourself:
It is very important to know ourself clearly before get into the interview. By knowing our strength and weakness, we will gain self-confidence to talk with enthucism, we know what to talk and what not to talk.So find out what we are good at and what we are not comfortable with.

We are not only talk about technical skills, but also non technical skills. Learn more about yourself by list down at least 3 strong points and 3 weak points. Don't forget to give detail about each points. It will prove more effective then just saying "I am good at managment skills, without providing any proofs." As compared to strength, we can take this chance to insert our weakness in such a positive manner. For example:
"I think i am good at hematology because I have used hematology machine and do hematology tests for almost one year with capable of analyze and interpret the result effectively. However, I still need more learning
about the marchin process as well as the programme."

1. Know the organization:
Get the information as much as posible from the organaization you are applying for. The best source for you to look for is internet. You can find through the organization's website and if possible you can even call the information center of that organization for futhur informaiton that you think you have to know.
By knowing some usefull information, can help you duing the interview to make the interviwer think in mind that you are really interested in the organization. The other thing is that you have to find out what the organization is looking for from you. Findout the organization's requirement and then you know what you should do next.

3. Some common question that can be asked:
During the interview process, the interviewer may ask you lots of questions and some questions are very common such as:

 i). Tell me about yourself:
 Started from your informaion background and give a brief explanation about your previous experience, but talk more about your role in the current position.

ii). Why do you want this position?
Telling the truth is a good way. showing your positive personal opinions toward the organization and the position.

iii). How much do you want?
Mention about your previous salary is much better than saying the amount of money you want. You are not supposed to bargan with the interviewer at the interview time. By telling your previous salary, the interviewer is clever enough to judge how much money is appropreated. Of course, don't forget to emphasize that the opportunities is the most important consideration.

4. Question to ask back:

You are not supposed to sit and answer all the quesitons duing the interview process, but you can have a chance to ask back. It is usually at the end of the interview. The interviewer may say "Okay, I have asked
you alot of questions and now do you have any questions?" It's time to ask something you want to know. Hence, you have to be ready for some specific questions. Note: Never ask about salary, vocations, or other
benefits.

Hope you can use this tips for you interview and success!

Monday, November 1, 2010

The Starfish Story-Let's make a difference

The story by: Loren Eiseley
The star thrower, 1979


A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As, he walked along,
he saw another man in the distance. He noticed this man kept leaning
down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again
and again. As, he approached even closer, he noticed that the man
was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. He
was throwing them back into the water, one by one.
Puzzled, he approached the man and said,
"Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide
and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I don't
throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of
oxygen."
"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't
possible get to all of them. And, don't you realize this is probably
happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't
you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The man bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it
back into the ocean. With a smile he replied, "Made a difference to
that one !!!"
Just remember, no matter how small the deed
it really does makes a difference.
Make a difference today.
Do something nice for someone else,
even if it's just sending this story to a friend and
letting them know somebody cares about them.

Friday, October 29, 2010

How to get the most of the day

Have you ever asked yourself why time went so fast  and yet you haven't done any things at the end of the day? Of course, you may say yes, but not most of the day. 

I want to tell you that not only you but everyone including me who has this problem and really want to find ways how to solve it. Luckily, I found one useful tip and I though I want to share it with you.

Here is my favorite tip on how to get the most of the day. 
It's To Do List. I use it everyday and it works well for my study and work. I recommend you to do so.
By using it, you will no longer worry about forgetting things or double checking yourself. It will remind you when your task are due or works need to be done. You can keep all the important information on it like: telephone number, email address, friends' birthday, and so on.

Here is what you supposed to do:

1. What tasks do you want to accomplish?
At night before going to bed, spend 10 to 15 minutes think about what you want to get done the day after. Ask yourself, "what are the most important things I need to do tomorrow?" Then list it down in a small note chronological order.  Your list might come up like my picture here.

2. Give them the numbers!
Priority the most important tasks first so that you don't have to worry which one do first and which last, just see the number. Remember, give the number according to the time. For example, if you want to wash you cloths tomorrow morning, you may have to give it task number one.

3. Tick on the box in front or cross  it out. 
When you get your tasks done just tick on the box of the tasks or even cross the whole sentence out to show that you have done it. You will feel " Wow...I done it and I will keep it up."

4. Reward yourself.
Occasionally give yourself a reward, the reward can be going out and eating something that you really want to but dare not. You can buy yourself something you want.

Hope you can make your day more meaningful and get things more done.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Am I really independent?

Sometimes....
I think I am strong
Sometimes...
I need someone to talk care of me

Sometimes....
I think I have freedom
Sometimes...
I need someone to guide me
Sometime....
I am happy
Sometimes....
I need someone to listen to me

Sometimes...
I silently cry in my heart
Sometimes....
I want to say please help me
Sometimes....
I feel very home sick
Sometimes...
I miss all of my friends
Sometime....
I realized that I am lonely

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Second Earth?

Are we going to find another earth to replace this earth soon? Yesterday I read one topic on yahoo's new, they said that the researcher claimed that up to 2030 our planet will be in a condition that we need more space to live and more things to use. It is because of the carbon pollution and the over-used of all the natural resource in the earth.  As we can see now some country is running out of its source.  According to the UN reported in 2007, the population on earth 6.8 billion humans were living 50 percent beyond the planet's threshold of sustainability.
In the mean time, scientist has discovered one planet that is worn and rocky as the earth. It is call Second Earth. The scientist admitted that the second earth has a perfect condition for water, an ingredient for life and exactly Earth-like. With average temperature estimated around 0 to 40 degree Celsius, make its comfortable condition for life.

"We wouldn't be surprised if there is life on this planet," said Stephane Udry, an astronomer.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cockroach Brains

Believe it or not? One day an ugly insect, cockroach, may help our life. This is such an unbelievable news for us. According to the researcher, a cockroach brain can kill some strain of bacteria that is often deadly to human such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and toxic strains of E.coli.

It's hope that a new antibiotic will be produce by using cockroach's brain. Because of MRSA and some strain of E.coli are resistant to traditional antibiotics, this news will be the hope of  future antibiotics.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

There Are Two Types of People

As being adult, you have to be carefully choose which type of people you are, proactive or reactive the choice is yours.

Reactive people is somekind of person who are easily offended, blems other, get angry easily and say somethings that will later regret. Reactive people is like a can of coke that will build up pressure and explode immediately when you shack it abit. Also they are whine and complain. If something go wrong with them, they would just complanning all day. They would just wait something to happan to them and would not worry about what they should do. It's like a virus that can't survive if they are outsite of the host. They are completely depending on other.

What's about proactive people? Proactive people are obviously opposite to reactive. They are not easily offended and take responsibility for their choices. They think before they act and always find way to make it happen. The most important thing is that they focus on things that they can do something about,and do not worry about thing they can't.

Okay! so what type of people do you choose? Proactive or reactive people. It's your choice. From day to day, you have lots of chances to choose. In some circumstances, you had an argument with your friends, your presentation is not as good as you expected, someone stole you phone and the day of the exam is comming soon. So what are you going to do about it. Are you gonna feel bad about yourself toward everythings that happen to you and get sick with it? Or are you proactive people? The choice is your. It really is. You are not supposed to worry about what has happened. What you have to do is study for your comming exams.

Let's me share you one story:

When I moved to Siem Reap for my job at the first time, everybody at my work seem very nice to me including my boss. From one department to one department people are very kind and curious to teach and show me how to do thing as I was new to things. However, for some reasons there was a guy ( i should not mention his name) didn't like me and I did not know what his problems was. He just want to let me know that he did not like me. He would use an urgly word to me. Complanning everything that i had done. Sometime he tried to find my mistakes to report to the boss. Luckily, at that time i just finished reading Proactive or reative people. So I think I should put it into practice. Then I keep cool in mind and did not respond to his silly attacks even a single action. Instead I tried to be good and smiled at hime as much as I can. For a few months later, It seems that he knew I would not offened and not willing to play the game with him. Finally, he changed his mind (maybe) and act as normal to me as to others. What suprised is that now we are a good team. We work in one unit together.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Win-Win attitude

Let's say you care about other people and you want them to success, but you also care about yourself and want to success as well.In this point you are using a win-win attitude.
Win-win attitude is a belief that everyone can win. Not only you or me, but both of us. There are planty of success to go around.

Thinking win-win is a basic attitude toward life. It's a mental fram of mind that say i can win so can you. It is though that the world is a competition that everyone can't always win. Of course, it is the way of business, sport and school, but not the way of real life. Life is not about competition, or getting ahead of others and it is obviously not that way in relationship.
It is believed that thinking win-win is an excellent way to improve our relationship.

Here is an example of thinking win-win that i quote from book:

My sister and i are always arguing about who has to walk the dogs and do the dishes. We both would choose the dogs over the dishes any day. But someone has to do one or the other. So we decided that i would wash the dishes she would dry them, and then we'd walk the dogs together. I'm glad it worked out like that,because we get what needs to be done finished but also add a little fun to it by doing it together.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Preah Vihear

Preah Vihear

I visited Preah Vihear on 17 last Saturday. It is an amazing place I have ever visited in my life.( That's why people are fighting for it.) With a group of 15 people, leaving Siem Reap at 1pm and arrived Preah Vihear at around 4:45pm. It was late to claim to the top of the mountain so we decided to find a guest house to stay untill tomorrow.

On early morning the next day, we left the guest house to the temple.
It is a wonderful temple surrounded by fog at the morning. Everybody surprised and felt strange about it. It was not clear from the distance of 10 to 20 m. It's hard to believe that we can't see each other clearly.(you can see my pictures.). There are few temples with a long distance from each other. To me there was a petty about the very old and broken temples. How came that such a beautiful temple was destroyed. At the top of the mountain there is a place called Poy Ta Dy. It's the most beautiful place. We spent bit longer time there, sitting, speaking, feeling the drop of water from the fog. It felt very strange.

We saw lots of soldiers along the road to the temple and all of them were enthusiastic to guide us to every corner of the place. We visited the Pagoda and Veal Intree. This is a place in which Khmer and Thai soldier fight last time. We took some photos with them.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Negative Body Image

Almost everyone, including me, has something they would change about therir image. For example, I would change my weigh and you would change your nose and other people would change their height. Of course, many people are worry about how others "see" them. These concerns are often go with our feeling for a long time and it can be causing problems when they stay deep enough.


I remember everytime i talked on phone with Srey Nine, sharing information about our friends, catching up all the news, who was dating who and so on, and she always started by asking me "How are you? How do you look like now? and Do you gain weigh?" These are some questions related to self image and I really appreciated her conern.

I remember when i was young i wished if i could only has his hair style or his heigh i would be very happy. And this wished can not help me.

Anyway, there are lots of advice about body image like: eating healthy, getting exercise, and learning to love yourself are the best and esy ways to help you solve the problem.

At this point you may shoot to me and say " Come on! Kuong it's not gonna be as easy as you said." and i would not argue with you now. But remember, We cannot control what happen to us, but we can control what we should do about it.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Getting Sick

I was never though that i would had this day. At nigh On 09, July is the most hard time i had since i moved to Siem reab. I've got a big flue and got a very high fever and cough. I could not sleep. Spending one night with couching and painful on a whole body is very difficult for me. The morning came I tried to get up and went to the hospital. When i arrived at the hospital, I went through to see the doctor directly and nurses started doing my temperature recoded and my body temperature is 38.7oc, a little bit high. They gave me paracetamol and started giving me IV normal saline. I feel a little bit better, but still headache. I stay in the ICU room for a whole day time. At afternoon, one doctor named Micky who's a very good doctor and a very good teacher of mine, come up to me and said they should not gave me iv normal saline. It's a kind of wasting time. Instead, he brought me a bottle of coke and banana. After one bottle of normal saline is finished, I feel better and went home at five in the afternoon.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Monthly Spending

Money seems to be a problem for me.I wonder where has my money gone through?
Living here, Siem Reab, for almost half year, look like I have spend money without planning properly.
It makes me into trouble. Who know? I am always looking forward to the end of the month counting how much I have earned. That is I can't effort to buy a new cell phone. I mean my cell phone is having problem and need to change.

Recently I am reading a book called "Real College", It includes some useful information for those who is about to leave a family and getting into college and of course will meet some difficulties such as: your roommate, your social life, your grades, your parents, and your self. There is one subtopic called " A note on spending". It makes me feel that I need to do something now. Hence, I decided to note down every little thing I spent and my note show as below:

1. House rent: $50
2. Water and electricity: 10000 real
3. Lunch and dinner: $63
4. Breakfast, snack, fruit and others: $28.75 plus 138600 real
Accoding to the note i have spend nearly $150 per month. It is not included cloth and material for using in the house.

You see I have not spent lots of money as I think. $150 per month for those who live alone is acceptable, isn't it? Although, I do not earn lots of money anyway that's why I can not effort a new cell phone. I think I need to be more careful on spending.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Getting over it

How to handle the disappointment?

It takes time:    Whenever you feel depressed your friends, or parents would come
        and said "Do not worry about it too much, let time solve it!"
        and you think that it is annouying. But it is true.
        Feeling bad is a normal reaton to rejection and such a feeling    
        will go aways in a period of time.

We can control only one thing: The fact is, we can't control everything that
happen to us. We can't control the color of our skin, who your parents are, where you born. But there is one thing we can control: How we respond to what happen to us. And that's what count!. This is why we need to stop worrying and start to think about the solutions and find ways to solve the problems.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Eating Out and Socializing Across Gender Lines in Cambodia

Socializing or eating out whether across gender line or not people are willing to make relationship. However the way they do something doesn’t always show what they mean to other people. Because of this reason there are both advantage and disadvantage of eating out and socializing across gender lines in Cambodia.
The advantage is that people can get to know each other well and build a good relationship. Another thing is that they can join the social event and know what is going on in the society.

The disadvantage is that people can be judged in the wrong way. Their action can be misunderstood, especially the time and the place where they go. For example, eating out in at late night is completely judged in the bad way. It means that girls are not suppose to go outside with other guy and come back late at night. It is like culture concern that everybody always used to judged people from outside appearance.

However, not all the people are concern about this problem because they think that today is modern society and people can do whatever they want to do.
In conclusion, there are both advantage and disadvantage. It is usually depend on people thinking and activities. The most important thing is that we cannot judge people by seeing only one part of that person. Because seeing thing from a difference points of view can help us understand why they act the way they do.

BABY STEPS

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The spotlight is on me?

In any social situation it is common to have a sense of how people thinking or be aware of you and you are keeping in mind that everyone is looking at you. It's called the spotlight effect.

For me this happen very often since i have moved to Siem Reap.

As you know i often go to play internet at weekend and this week something surprise me happened. You know what happen to me last Saturday evening while i was about to find a seat in one local cafe? I went through the causer where i can order coke and something to eat. And I started looking for a place to sit with my tray, but come up empty. Did you know that if you stand there long enough with that stuff, you eventurally activate this alarm and a voice come on
over the loudspeaker 'Alert, Kuong is looking for a seat, but can't find. please stare at him.'

I am sure you would not want that situation happen to you. Has that ever happened to you? Or you are too cool cos you are get used to with that?

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Friendship


Wow... It's hard to believe that even i am alone but when ever I see my friends photos i feel better.
So now i start to create one blog for myself and my friends.
From now on i think i will never miss all of my friends any more.

Please check it and comment it. It's worth giving your comment here. I really need your feedback.