My name is Kounila Keo. Kounila is my name, given by my mother. By profession, I am a freelance writer. By passion, I am a blogger, a trainer and an event organizer. I do pretty much everything that I can, fixing for journalists and nterpreting/translating from English to Khmer and vice versa.
I graduated in Media & Communication at Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2010. I have been freelancing for Agence France Presse and foreign media publications since 2008. When I am not writing news reports, I blog about social issues and everything Cambodian at www.blueladyblog.com. I have been blogging since 2007 and have conducted workshops on blogging and social media for university students, artists and professionals. I’m currently on the top of my game! In love with everything digital and creating digital media strategies for corporate and non-corporate things.
Continue reading about me here. Contact me
- Skype: keokounila001
- blueladyblog[gmail].com
I’m on:
- Google+
- Blueladyblog
- Another WordPress
- Slideshare
- ASEAN reporters
- Youtube
- Flickr 1 & Flickr 2 (countries I’ve been to)
- PicasaWeb
Or Google me.
Hi Kounila. I’m from Malaysia. I really impressed with your blog. You’re an absolutely good writer indeed and I really enjoying reading it. You makes me feel want to go to Cambodia even as I write this comment. Bookmarked u r blog and hope to read more form it. Btw, care to link xchange? I’m looking for partner to promote my blog and yours is just what I’m looking for. Have a great day. Happy New Year 2013.
hi Kounila,
i am happy to read your blog. It shows me that a new generation of khmer is growing up that did not have to endure the hardship of the older generation. Traveling will open open your mind, it did it to me almost 45 years ago. It’s that long that i am travelling (well, if i have some free time from work). It made me more tolerant and interested in other cultures and people, their thoughts, music, food and living. I am orig. from Germany but Cambodia is my home since over 10 years. I learned more here than in many decades of my life before that. For example that “less is more” and to be moderate in everything will help you through life. Foreigners can be good and bad for Cambodia. I have seen them all. But i also have seen Foreigners that came here as really bad people, married a khmer woman and got a child and than changed completely to a good person. This is the proof that your culture works. Many western people and NGO in particular critizise the khmer chbab srey rules for women and girls. In my culture we had similar rules until people got more rich, greedy and had no respect for each other anymore. That’s when most of the western societies collapsed and individual egoism became the new standard. In Cambodia your Family is your social net where you can go back to if in trouble or just sad. If you follow the western egoism individualism you won’t have that anymore. So preserve it as much as you can. It’s a treasure.
Foreign NGO People will tell you that Chbab srey is bad and a source for domestic violence. I don’t believe this because when i see my khmer neighbours it’s usually the women that are much stronger in the family. It’s only when men go on drinking tours and want to be bigger than themselfs they don’t seem to be able to control themself anymore. Sometimes it is smarter to just be quiet and let the alcohol disappear. The next day your family is still intact but if you follow western (stupid) guidelines of feminin extremists than your family will never again be able to life a happy life together anymore.
Keep well and good luck to your work and dreams