When I see pictures of kids crying because the only thing they had called “home” was destroyed by bombs launched from Israel, I cry. When I see beggars on the street, I cry. When I feel I cannot help them, my tears drop. I don’t know why. They just fall down naturally. They just come […]
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The first thing I want to ask is “Why me?” 🙁 Am I under attack too? I’ve been tagged by Tharum Bun who was at the beginning tagged by Ethan Zuckerman. I saw these rules in Tharum’s blog and thought it might be okay to try. And this meme has its rules: 1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list
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Vannsan Nou wonders why she was born as a girl at all while the beginning of the end of the Khmer Rouge regime was stepping in. Grown into a good-looking lady with a slender figure, pale skin and shoulder-length haircut, this 23-year old connects her ‘boring’ past with her ‘cheerful’ present moment. Life of a
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(My old blog title) It’s a long story that I’ve been here for nearly two years. Well, ‘nearly’ is not always enough. 🙂 I hope a lot of my friends are interested to know why I have named my blog ‘Inside My Heart’. Some thought this name is a bit authentic, old-fashioned, accentric, childish and
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That’s the same old thing that is happening today, isn’t it? It’s the Chinese New Year. My family celebrates it, boiling chickens, cooking several Chinese foods. Everyone gets bloated because of one of the old Chinese dish which is made of different foods. Wah, that would take a paragraph to describe. “Chab Chhai” can stink
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A few days after the installation of the water pipes across my family’s pond, things began to cool down. But the vivid pictures of people behaving as if they had been a giant grabbing us in their hands stayed within my mind. I remember thinking that these people are like me; we have the same
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It would be an ideal to be a know-nothing type of kid but definitely not, not in Cambodia. I’m writing now with too many thoughts bouncing in my mind. Will my parents get better by tomorrow? Will they be unable to go to bed tonight? Will those good-for-nothing people vanish into thin air? This evening,
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It might be surprisng that the the second day of the new year, three bombs were planted near the Ministry of National Defense and one of the Cambodian national television stations (TV3). It scared many people, including me. While the mine clearance personnel were destroying the explosive devices, I was at school with my friends,
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I read this joke in the Raksmey Kampuchea newspaper: An old man was just appointed as a UN ambassador. He had difficulties communicating with other international leaders as he didn’t speak English at all. Then, his new teacher taught him three phrases “How are you? I’m fine. Thank you.” Later, he had a chance to
Happy New Year 2009Guess how many billions of people all around the world are living now. New Year 2009 may bring a better outlook on life, fear, doubt or worry to them. But what’s important for every individual is unbreakable hope that each needs to have to struggle for a new year.Hope, hope, hope… Without
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