Thanksgiving - List of what/who I am thankful for

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008

This weekend my schedule was so busy. I had many appointments with friends and business people. What crazy was this Sunday, just right after having Suki soup for lunch at home with family at 1PM, I went to Daniel's house for Thanksgiving meal, just right after that i had to meet Jerry at a café, and again just right after that i had dinner with some customers. Ah huh! a lot of eating schedule in a row!

Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada it is on the second Monday of October.The celebration is for the time when the people who first came to North America from England were saved from dying by Native Americans who gave them food and showed them how to grow crops. Literally, on Thanksgiving Christians celebrate to thank the God.




I appreciate for being invited to the occasion. Plus, Thanksgiving is a special day which people express what they are thankful for.





Here is my short list in no particular order and I am thankful for particular people in logical reasons:

1- My parents for always understand and being supportive.
2- My sister for being a great sister who has always been good friend, kind and helpful.
3- My brother in law who can see my capability and always gives me chances to show off.
4- Jerry who I confidently can announce that he is my closest and best friend. Thank you for always be there for me and never forgot me or left me behind.
5- Mark, for being such a great friend, helpful and being a valuable staff of my company.
6- Daniel, for being such a great friend. Though we don't hang out often like before, you are always nice to me and staying close.
7- Gina has been a great friend who I can talk with for any reason and issue, and was a great lecturer of mine.
8- Susan, thank you for calling me your Cambodian son, and let me call you my American mom.
9- Polo for being a good trainer professionally.
10- Sim who is my good female friend and has been our important colleague for over five years. Hopefully, we will stay working together to archive our individual goals and the company's.
11- Last but not least, I am thankful for every aspect that leads me to have a good life, a good family, helpful relatives, a good job, good gadgets, and good friends including who I haven’t mentioned above, and so on.

THANKS YOU!!!

Weekend with my bestfriend's family in law and gadgets

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Literally Jerry and I hang out a lot and we meet almost every day, though he's already got married. Anyway, he's the only closest friend I have and can hang out with. He's always available when i call. On the plus side, i've been friend to his family in law. They are such friendly and nice people. I hang out with them sometimes too.

This Sunday I had breakfast with Jerry and his wife, then we went to Kean Svay with his whole family. I was supposed to go to gym after that, but Jerry insist to continue hanging out at a café and using internet connecting to his 3G network sharing device.

It was kinda cool! At the café there were many people, each other them came with a laptop. I'm glad to see Cambodia is getting better with high technology and those people.

In this picture we were using our gadgets at Kean Svay where people like to go there for relaxing. Over there, there are so small stores selling many kinds of food and fruit. You have too many choice for eating haha.


There were so many monkeys on the ground and trees. They are funny!

Let me explain!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I usually love Saturday evening, because I can watch movies, internet, doing my assignment... until AM and get up very late on the next day like 9am or 10am :-)

But tonight I can't enjoy doing person stuffs. My brother in law need a new laptop and I got it for him today, but I have to do a lot of things on his both old and new computers. I have to install a lot of applications that he uses, connecting and configuring to our network and internet system both at home and at the office, setting all his preferences and moving the data from the old laptop to the new one. I do this a lot and all the time when he or his wife change their computers and mobile phones too. Anyway, I'm not complaining..... this is part of my job though.

In this picture, I'm working on 3 computers at the same time, kinda fun however. It looks crazy but it would have been crazier if i could get my new laptop today. Then I would be working on 4 laptops at the same time. hehe.
I'm changing my laptop too. I will get a new one which is smaller, lighter, but pretty higher performance....... that sweet :-D

Vietnam November 2008

WEDNESDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 2008

I have been to Vietnam for a few times, but did not enjoy it as much as this time.
I went there with my parents on the 09th to 12th. We went my bus which departure was at 4:30AM, Ouch! Imagine how early we had to get up? Anyway because it was on the holiday and we had to pass a ferry, therefore we had to leave early to avoid the crowded and get stuck on the way.

I felt quite enjoy spending in Vietnam since most of the things there is cheaper than in Cambodia. I have happy that i could make my parents happy, enjoy and experience new things such going to a nice restaurant, seeing a latest funny movie in a modern cinema, seeing 3D and 4D movies, riding roller coaster and so on.

Using languages in Vietnam is crazy. There are not many people can speak English as well as in Cambodia. They only know their own language, few people can speak English and few can speak Chinese. Talking to the people there, i had to mix up two languages of English and Chinese together. It's kinda funny and crazy, but i like it and i find it fun. hehe

55th Independence Day & Water Festival 2008

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008

55th Independence Day

During the 55th Independence Day on the 09th of November, I was in Vietnam. Therefore, these pictures were taken by Mark, my colleague. He gave me the permission to share this great photos of the event. The event that makes me proud of being a Cambodian!
















































For more photos of our "55th Independence Day" please click here!


Water Festival 2008

On the 11th to 13th it was our Water Festival which is the most busiest event of the year. There are so many people come from the provinces. Most people still like to come for the event but some people like me tried to escape from this crowded holiday. hehe



For more photos of "Water Festival 2008" please click here!

Sorry for having not much information to share, but once you see the photo albums from the given links.... you will have some ideas about the holiday :-)

November Random Update

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is national holiday, on the 09th was the 55th of our Independence Day and on the 11th to 13th is Water Festival. It is perfect timing so I brought my parents to Vietnam for health check as well as to escape from the city as there are always too many people come to the city for the Water Festival. Many roads are closed and many places full of crowded people.

I will post about my holiday in Vietnam later, but now just post some photos for random update.

In this photo below is me swimming in the pool at EverGreen resort. This place is owned by a Korean man. It's a nice place where you can stay over night(s), there is a swimming pool and table tennis. I went there last few months and it was free, only if you eat there. This time not only they charge 4$ for the pool, but the food also not good. I think they have changed the chef :-(

Guess whose picture on the delivery cars in this photo below? It is me and my sister modeling for Eurotech Drinking Water company last year. hehe. We used to model for the company a few times, and I used to be in the TV spot once. hehe.

This afternoon I hanged out with my best friend Jerry and his wife. Firstly, I had lunch at his house with his parents, then we went to have drinks at Lucky Olympic. After that we went to Central Market as Jerry wanted to buy a Laptop bag same as mine which i just bought before i went to Vietnam. He got the bag but 3$ cheaper than mine. That is not fair!!!

My Grandson or Grand Nephew

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2008

This month I have been invited to many weddings of friends and relatives. There were two have been over and another two to go.

As I notice, people tend to get married at the end of the year and beginning of the year.

Cambodian's wedding traditionally takes three days. Today, everything changes and we need to skip some traditional ways, so we usually make it one and a half day only. However, it is still a very busy event. We can not skip all the tradition, but do some of the important and necessary parts.

This below are some of the pictures taken at the wedding i attended.



Now time for an interesting news. I'm hereby introducing you to my grandson. He is the son of my nephew who is my cousin's son. In chinese he is my grandson, technically he is my grand nephew, however.
This photo was taken in the morning at one of my nephew's wedding.

And this photo is in the evening at the wedding.


This additional photo... I'm designing a calendar on PhotoShop which I earned 240$ just for one night. hehe. More detail? ok.....
Actually it was a great deal with my best friend Jerry. He always gives me a great deal. This time he asked me to help him design a calendar for his advert 2009. He then exchanged his Nokia E51 240$ with my SonyEricson K660i which worth only 100$.

We always give each other great deal as to help each other and also to have fun. However, most of the deal...... he gives me a lot of benefit while I only have to help him with my talent :-D

Did i eat too much or the chicken had a lot of bones?

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2008

I have been back to the gym for a week. I don't really like the place because it's not too nice and there are too many people. The worse is that the people there work out in boxers, some people work out in formal stress, but this doesn't look more silly than the boxers. Anyway this is not my problem, instead i got a personal trainer who is a professional body builder and he is a national athletic. He trains me very well and take good care also. He train me alone with focus which is good. I hope to look better in three months.

Since going to the gym, i changed my dinner schedule with Mark from Wednesday to Saturday. Tonight we went to a nice restaurant and it was not too expensive, but the food was a bit sweet. I bet the chef must be a romantic person. haha.

In the picture you can see a lot of chicken bones and empty dishes. I didn't notice how much i ate, just after i finished i saw.... wow there are a lot of chicken bones on my plate... and the dishes were empty. Feeling of a little embarrass but... who cares? haha. By the way, my trainer told me to eat much meat.... so..... i am eating :-D