Street Picnic & Easter Day

SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2008

Class Project
I had a good weekend! In the morning i went to have a coffee with Jerry and his wife. Then we went to shopping just two of us. I got two good quality of quick rechargeable batteries for my camera and we went to eat ice cream at Swensen's. After that we had lunch together at Meeting Café where we can use the internet for free.

After lunch i went to Daniel's house to help his students on their class project. They are publishing blogs about Cambodia Courts.
Here are the links:

www.militarycourtofcambodia.blogspot.com
www.provincialcourt.blogspot.com

Please visit the links sometimes. We are working on them and they will be more useful information, better design layout and pictures.

After the works, we altogether went to ice cream.... Oops! i did it again. The ice cream!

The Sunday team. I hope i would have a chance to work with the Saturday team too. These are the future useful people of the country.

Street Picnic & Easter Day
It's Easter Day and we gathered with our friends had a picnic at the public park near the Independent Monument. We played a lot of sport games even with the street children. We ate and shared with the street people and the children too. A lot of fun!!!


Fortunately, our picnic was not bothered by anybody nor the police :-)


Honestly, we didn't have a chance to take a group photo, so here it is, i put our friends together in a picture by Photoshop. wa ha ha.
Sorry for the others who i don't have your photos on my camera at the picnic, so that i don't have your picture to put in.

1500 Monks & 3 Religions

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008

My house is closed to a pagoda which i call a strange one. The pagoda combines three religions together, Khmer, Chinese and Vietnamese.

The pagoda doesn't celebrate or practice common activities as the other pagodas. They have an event once in a while but big one. It has been a week already that this pagoda doing something i don't understand and i don't know what are they doing. Interestingly, the people get in to the pagoda they have to dress up in white and have a yellow scarf around the body.

They play the traditional musics almost a whole day and night. It's weird that they start the loud sound at 4:30AM every morning. I have been woke up at that time for a week already. In the evening from 5:30PM to 9PM that i'm home i'm still be annoyed by the loud music and voices......... Please!!! when will they stop? I heard there will be 1500 monks come to the pagoda for offering ceremony, but i haven't seen any monk yet or because i've never been home ha ha

Thousands of candles have been lighten and maintained everywhere over the place

Another Good Weekend But Crazy & Nice

SATURDAY, MARCH 01, 2008

Saturday is my impatient day of the week. I usually get busier than the other days, stressful and workaholic try to get all things done so that i can feel relaxed at the weekend.

This Saturday was so nice because i had a great time at dinner with my old good friends. It was so funny but embarrassing that i was so happy and congratulated Chenda that she was.... (i shouldn't mention it here) but actually she is not and i shouldn't have said what she didn't deserve it.


Dinner at ElseWhere

After the dinner Daniel and I went to Beach Party at Hotel Cambodiana where we go for our gym everyday. The party was interesting and there were many people. However, it seemed didn't entertain us enough and it wasn't as fun as we expected. We didn't stay for long and we left for a walk. I like walking so much. I can say that i enjoyed the walking-talk better than the Beach Party.





SUNDAY, MARCH 02, 2008

I was quite annoyed and wondered why there are people who don't care about others. They made noise at mid night and early morning without thinking others are sleeping.
However, Danny turned my annoying morning to a nice one. It was my first time to have a friend who made a breakfast for me.

My house is far and once i get home i would be lazy to get back in the city. So I decided to go to the church again with him in order to learn more about what people do in a church and the differences between the religions.

After that we went to a café where tries to imitate Starbucks, but we couldn't find the place so we went to Yejj café where we can have the real Starbucks instead and had our brunch there. It was my first time to taste Starbucks. It was great but expensive. I don't think Starbucks would be successful to franchise in Cambodia.

We got back home at about 1PM and did a big washing.
After taking a nap i got up at 3PM for our CCClub. The topic was "What it means to be Cambodian" it was big and brought the debate to many related topics.

I hope there are people keep coming to the club and there are brave girls will join.

Valentine in Cambodia is Good or Bad?

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Cambodian has been influenced by the foreign cultures over the years. Since the last few years, Valentine's Day is celebrated mostly by the young people.

ADVANTAGES:
1- Young people today know how to show their love to their parents, sisters or brothers, friends, and boyfriends or girlfriends. They buy flowers or gifts and give it to the people that they love and respect. Most people consider that day as a special day for their lovers only.

2- Valentine's day is an occasion that some people can make more money. Last year one of the flower stores at Central Market sold more than 10,000 roses only on one day. One rose is only R1,000 but on the Valentine's Day one rose is R4,000.

DISADVANTAGES:
1- Some you people don't exactly know what love is, but they just fooling around buying flowers and give to each other. This looks crazy and no value to love.

2- Some girls mis-understood once they receive flower from a guy. And she become proud of herself.

3- Most classes at school are quiet because many students skip their classes to hang out with their boyfriends or girlfriends.

4- For some lovers, go to a hotel or guest house on Valentine's day. This is very bad and the wrong choice for girls. It is the worst impact on Cambodian Cultural. Most foreigners want to have a Cambodian girl to be their wife, because of the reputation of Cambodian cultural. Now what? Cambodian Culture may no longer be unique!!!

Lunar New Year 2008

Tuesday, February 07, 2008

Chinese New Year is a special occasion that all our families and relatives come together.

Usually each year, everyone comes to the grand parents' house. This is nice that we can meet all our relatives on the day. It is more fun for the young people, because they have this chance to know some of the relatives that they don't usually meet and to get to know those. Moreover, the married relatives give red boxes to the singles.

This year i got quite many red boxes, and enough to help me to pay for the gym for four months.