Monthly Archives: November 2009

How could I trust you more, Cambodia?

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I love my bike despite its old condition. The thought of losing it was beyond by expectation. Now I have lost it. It’s time to show some grief over it.

I asked myself again and again why life brought me at this crossroad. I really asked if this happened to me? Within an hour, I lost myself. Mind you, I did regret losing it but what I regretted the most was that I lost myself for a while, though I didn’t lose my marble. Therefore, what surprised me the most was that my mother’s words now should be taken into my consideration. “Never make peace with Cambodia,” my mom said, referring to the fact that I should not treat it as a peaceful country like Japan or Australia. But my idea is to make it be like one. Why can’t I?

One day after several hours after running an errand for my teacher, I went to my school as usual, copied several important documents, lied down on a rattan-made-with-sponge-below sofa. I was lying down for nearly 30 minutes, not to mention that I was feeling unnaturally tense. “Why was I feel uneasy about what??,” I wondered. I felt more and more uneasy. I just rushed down upstairs and found my bike nowhere. It was stolen peacefully. One of the neighbours recalled that she saw a car parking by and one of the guys came out and got on my bike. He didn’t even say goodbye to me. How funny!

I didnt’ feel shocked or even cry, but I feel sorry that this organized crime can never be cracked down. It is a petty crime, as some people say, but to needy people, losing such a thing can be a blow to them. I can’t kick ass but if I happen to meet these people, I won’t keep my feet free. These good-for-nothing rich kids are of course GOOD FOR NOTHING. I’m not making a generalization about rich people here. What I can see is that a crime ring of such organized crimes are often rich kids who don’t work but desire to make an awful lot of cash fast. I think they should work their way to the moon if they want to be rich and not work.

Shit happens, I know.

I will always be more careful, but will I ever trust Cambodia again? Let me see.

Where is my bike?

Where is my bike?

Wild Swan-Look at how the world is repeating its own mistakes.

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Wild Swan

Wild Swan

 

I am in the process of reading this book written by a Chinese lady (Jung Chang) who’s now residing in England. I couldn’t believe anyone could write this book with so much creativity of making you feel as if you’re really there. I really appreciate her efforts to do a great deal of research about her grandmother, mother and what happened during the time she had spent living in China. There are some situations which I find absolutely similar to situations many people were in, during the Khmer Rouge regime. For instance, her book says that a father killed his own baby for her flesh and meat because he was so hungry that he couldn’t stand his own hunger. He later confessed to an official for his daughter’s murder and asked to be severely punished. In this case, what a normal person like me could do while reading this was sadden or almost cry because this horrible thing really happened during the KR regime. According to my mother’s vivid memory, some parents during the Khmer Rouge regime did commit such a thing for their own survival. There are many interesting  patches I could find: for instace, paranoid between Chinese people Mao ideologically injected into his people which led to killings and severe punishments.

Nowadays, I realize that Pol Pot, aka Salot Sar, imitated what Mao did: deceiving silent but strong critics to speak, so they can be persecuted; forcing people to believe that reasons or logics doesn’t matter; who didn’t follow orderes or showed some sort of negative reaction to his regime could be smashed, or if not, forever suffer. I let the book describe the necessary details for you.

After all, I recommend every Cambodian read this book to especially draw some similiaries as well as a few differences between what happened during the Cultural Revolution in china and the Khmer Rouge regime.

Cambodia’s Water Festival 2009

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 There are nearly 400 boats this year while the number exceeded 400 last year. The difference is quite insignificant. Anyway, there are less people than last year, so there is a lot of fun because people don’t have to push each other while walking. ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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