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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From time to time, strangers and acquaintants ask me what my name “Kounila” really means. All I can say is that there’s a reason why I was named “Kounila”. People who hear my name for the first time think the name holder isn’t Cambodian. They even reckon I’m half-blood Thai or Laotian, even Fillipino. But
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Cambodia’s 10,892 prisoners held in 24 prisons have to turn to family or NGOs when mistreated in prison, while the government makes no serious promise toward change. Human Rights workers stress that even convicts should not be deprived of their human rights. PHNOM PENH – There is only one visit a week from a local
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