Keeping a dairy diary

          The proverb goes,"Don't trust your memory, write it down", and I am always careful to write down everything I hope to remember. This way I am sure that if my mind can't hold my memories, I will have something to go back to when I am old and bored. Keeping the dairy  diary is like the writing your own history. When you have a chance, go shopping to find a journal or notebook and a pen dedicated to journaling. Make sure that the journal and pen are perfect because you will be spending a lot of time with them in today and the next in the future.

Love happen by often talking on phone together

It make love?

So here is the situation: you're sitting around and you're nearly bored to death. All you have with you is your mobile phone. What do you do?

    For some Cambodians the answer is to search for random phone numbers-in magazines or in the phone directories of their friend-dial them up and see what happens. Many of these calls lead to just a few words.

    But beleive it or not, calls like these occasionally lead to lasting relationships and even marriage.

Starting your family over the phone might not seem likely. But for Thon Nareit, the 28 years old head of security at the SK Company, and his wife, Mom Nang Sarong, a 30 years old garment worker at Indian Garment Factory, their relationship would never have been formed if it weren't for Thon Nareit's random call.

   "I was sitting at my uncle's motor repair shop and a friend said 'just call this number and see what happen'," he said. "I called her and eventually I convinced her to give me her house address."

   It wasn't long after their first over the phone encounter that the couple, who now live in an apartment in Phnom Penh, were getting serious. After years of searching for that special someone, pressing nine buttons connected Thon Nariet with the love of his life.

   Both Mom Nang Sarong and Thon Nariet took a few months of real-world dating to gain each other's trust. But they say that the spark of their chance encounter over the phone set them on the course for marriage.

No.1 speed dial

These day it is tough to imagine a couple surviving more than a few hours apart from each other without a mobile phone. Even on a busy day, a caring lover will check in at least a couple times to make sure you're all right and keep you up to date on what they're up to. If you are really meant for each other, you have to be No 1 on each other's speed dial, as well. Assign your sweetheart to No 1 and have them do the same. It will be easier to call each other and it's totally sweet.

Ann Frank

Are books the end of boredom? The answer is yes, and if you are interested in World War II and want to learn more about that period, Ann Frank can be your best friend. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, another family joined them in their "secret annex" in an old office building. They faced boredom, hunger, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. Reading Ann Frank, a diary of a young girl, will allow you to see and feel her experiences during this time.

Someone I never thought I would meet again. It is faith, isn't it?

For almost a decade, I have never thought of running into an old and I mean very old friends. I thought this world is too big to meet someone you have lost contact of for ages. I did used to think that perhaps they immigrate to another country, got married or even have kids, move to the countryside, or whatever it is I have no idea what happened to their life because I have never met one of them. However, yesterday did shock the hell out of me.

On 7th April, was the first start of a new term at my English school. Well, I arrived at school late. I entered the room and find a seat next to my girl classmates. I saw a chubby guy at the corner of my eyes who is sitting next to my seat. I did not pay attention and just sat down. The class went on as usual and that is when the teacher handed everyone a discussion work sheet and told me to pair with the chubby guy. At first, like I always react to newcomer, I turned my head a bit, and gave him a warmth smile. That one second eye-to-eye contact shocked me to death. I noticed he has been staring me since I walked into the class. I knew he was familiar. I felt I knew him very well but I just could not tell who that was.

We discussed and talked about the topic. I concentrated on the topic while digging the old memories out of my mind. I looked at him again; listen to the way he talked, the way he looked at me, the way he behaved. Eventually, I figured it out.

He was my very good friend at Asia Pacific International School in Phnom Penh since I came back from Singapore in 2002. His name is Oumbuna Rathanak and I could remember his name so well like this. What a mystery coincidence is that the APIS, which has been bankrupted for so long, is the replacement of the Khmer School I am studying everyday.

I asked him if he knew me. He ignored. He said I looked like a Korean super model and he couldn't recognize me a thing. lmao.. It surprises me that he remembered everything about me more than I could remembered about myself back 10 years ago. Plus, he did not change a thing despite that he is taller. His behavior remains 100% the same. LOL.. I wonder what it will be like for us to spend another half year together.

As a matter of fact, this taught me that anything can possibly happen. I can possibly meet someone I never thought I would meet again, I can possibly like the things I never used to like, I can possibly witness a situation I never came across, like everything can happen. Adventure is waiting ahead of me and I should not let myself dwell on those disappointments to continue on feeling that my life sucks. Faith is something, we, should believe in. Nobody knows what is going to happen next!
 (story from Medelin)

Is Life Forcing Me To Grow Up?

These few years, I noticed an obvious change in me. I noticed that I started to lose interest in playing, hanging out, talking, listening, speaking, participating. . . I become gloomy and speechless. Even I went to the places I used to enjoy and love so much, I just sat there and look at others having fun. I tried to make myself fit into the environment and force myself to join, but I ended up feeling tired. I don’t understand why I am like this. I kept asking myself what is wrong with me. I just don’t feel happy at all, not at all. I cried a lot not knowing what for.

I am tired. I am really tired of everything in me. It’s been a thousand times I said I am tired. I don’t want to wake up from my sleep. I don’t want to think about anything, feel anything, or care about anything. Is it because I am growing up now? I am so confuse and I don’t know what’s inside my head. I just feel I can’t take it anymore. I just feel I don’t know what I want. I just feel people are leaving me behind. I just feel I am so lonely. I just feel I don’t know what to do. I just feel so hard and tired inside.

A Friend In Need is A Friend Indeed ?

Do you remember the saying, " A Friend In Need is A Friend Indeed" ? Tell me, what does it actually mean to you? To me, it means everything! Everything I would do and devoted to when my friends are in trouble. Is that what we call best friends?

A few days ago, in order to protect my friends from criticizer, I stood in my face and against them. I knew I would be the one who will be hated by all those people but so what! I don't care! All I know is I have to protect the people I love and care for. Interestingly however, they let me down. They were the people who disappointed me the most and I felt like my heart has been crashed hardly. When those people against me back, do you have any idea what my friends did? They turned their back at me and said, "You are gonna be in trouble. I won't dare walking with you. We better separate". They acted innocent. I was almost in tears to hear that. Never in my life I expected to hear those words from them. No..

Another heart broken news came at night, when my dearest friend accused me of annoying her friend. I tried and I cared. Like they say, "Never get into other people's affair, It does you no good" because after all, you will be the one with all the blames in the end and that's me.

I learned a lot of lesson these days. People don't see me the way I see them and it doesn't mean that they will stand for me in time of troubles. They are still my friends of course, but the the way they rank in my heart will no longer stay. They will become just a normal friends to me. You know what I notice! when I get into problems, when I need somebody to be there for me, someone just to listen to me honestly, there's no one I could think of. No one.

Yet Again, The Happiness Dream But This Time With A Vampire

Last night, I dreamed about the same meaning dream I used to have long time ago. The only one dream I had for once in my life. I think I never mention about that dream here or to anyone before. I called it "The Happiness Dream."

Long time ago, I had this dream. I dreamed of a guy, who I didn't remember his face, sitting behind my back in a bus. That was a long ride to a place I had no idea about. Without knowing, he leaned his hand backward toward my hand and held it. I suddenly felt the TRUE LOVE FEELING rushing from his hand through my blood aimed to my heart. My heart was pounding. My heart was beating so fast. Never in my life have I ever felt that happiness feeling before because I never believe that true love exist. I inadvertently held his hand back and cherished inside.

The feeling came again but this time with a vampire, Edward Cullen, in the movie Twilight. I know it is so random to dream about a vampire. He was so white and pale. I like that movie and I used to think that Edward is the kind of guy who would make me believe in love. His caring, his loving, his honestly, and his devotion for Bella. Last night, I saw him in my happiness dream. It's all the same like the one above, but this time I had to guts to look into his eyes and clutched his arm tightly to me. He hugged me and I clung onto him, afraid that I would lost him. He had this big black flower sign on his hand and I found two of them on my legs too. I ask, " why do I have these on mine like yours?" He said, "because you are my girl." By then I do not want to wake up. No, I do not want to. So what! I still awake from my fantasy world.

Isn't this just fantasy besides from reality? They do not exist in real life. You might not understand the feeling  I am feeling but I can not find a better happiness word to describe. Let say, it is the feeling when you have finally found your prince.
(Story from Medelin)

English JOKE

THE PERFECT SON

A: I have the perfect son
B: Does he smoke?
A: No, he doesn't
B: Does he drink whiskey?
A: No, he doesn't
B: Does he come home late?
A: No, he doesn't
B: I guess you really do have the perfect son. How old is he?
A: He will be six month old next Wednesday.