Today is my graduation day. why i am here in USA? i wish i was at NUM today. i know all my friends are happy. humm.. i think they are taking photos right now. poor me! 🙁

congratulation to all my friends at graduation ceremomy today. also, congratulation to me.

i think all my friends might miss me because they can imagine how we are happy if i was there 😀

Read It ! For Fun!

You know you are khmer when ………..

.. you always have rice cooked and ready to served in the pot

.. you have a big picture of ANGKOR WAT in your living room

.. your dad wears a sarong with no shirt on around the house ( I think old style)

.. all you use is prang kalah(tiger balm) for pain and any other discomfort

.. you have straw mats instead of carpeting around the house

.. you drive a toyota

.. you were younger and were just beaten with a stick that you had to pick off of the tree for your mom or dad. after the beating, you run off, and while you were crying and hiding in a room, you decide never to come out, then you get hungry.. and mom or dad just cooked something that smells oh-so-good like cha or something.. and then your stomach growls of starvation but your trying to stay in the room.. then all of a sudden, the angry beast (your mom or dad) walks into the room and asks if your hungry and acts like nothing happened

.. you were young, your parents would beat you with either chopsticks or hangers, until they broke or whip your ass with a belt

.. you’ve had at least one shoe thrown at your head, by your mother, when you didn’t do the dishes and/or take out the trash

.. grown ups call you, guys say baht and girls say chaah

.. everybodys your cousin

.. your backyard has a garden filled with stuff you’ll soon to be eating

.. you love pahok and try to make your friends eat it

.. you see little kids drunk off Hennessy at a wedding reception

.. there’s la hong in your garden

.. your remote has tape all around it

..you’ve got 50 pairs of shoes outside your door.. on a regular basis

.. your feet never touch your pillows

.. one of your friends or family members come back from cambodia they bring dried fish wrapped in newspapers, and try to sell it to everyone

.. you have a family member who goes to cambodia to find a wife

.. a white person asks you to speak khmer, you talk about noodles. “Do you want to eat mi?”

.. your parents stock food for a disaster.. especially water and pahok

.. your name is almost the same as your brother’s, sister’s, and cousin’s names.

.. there is khmer related anything on tv, you call up all of your friends and family to watch it too

.. you think the word for “gay” in khmer is funny

.. your parents greet an old friend with a swear

.. your mom forces your friends to eat her food

.. people mistaken you for being filip, indian, viet, chinese or hawaiian

.. the only DVDs your parents own are cambodian karaoke ones

.. you call everybody your aunt or uncle

.. people arrive at your house while you’re having dinner, and you always force them to stay and eat

.. you never use your dishwasher, you only use it to store dishes

.. you bring the rice cooker to picnics

.. your parents always interrogate you about your friends

.. you watch khmer dubbed chinese movies

.. your family gets invited to weddings every other weekend

.. your little baby cousins know how to dance khmer.. especially when the karoake gets going..

.. your cousins know how to sapeah before they learn how to wave good bye

.. you love Bok Lahong

.. you see an apple tree on the highway. you stop, and you pick it

.. you take advantage of the free refills at McDonalds or any other place that has the same offer

.. you go eat out with a lot of your relatives and parent’s friends at a restaurant, and when it’s time to pay the bill, it takes five minutes to do so because everyone freakin’ WANTS to pay the bill even if they were just the guest

.. your parents call white people French (parange)

….you have chinese sausage and noodles for backup food.

….You don’t have family breakfast, lunch, dinner, you eat when hungry.

….If you try to have a conversation while eating you get yelled at by your parents. Eating is serious business.

…when people ask you to dance and instead of busting a move you bust into Rom Vong.

….when you dont think it is weird if adults dont ask you for your name but they ask you what’s ur parents name.

…..when spending a day in the kitchen with your mom means having yellow stained hands for 2 days from bok-ing kroeung

..your family on the beach goes into the water fully clothed, the concept of swimsuits are lost to them

..Your mom asks you if you want to “NYUM BAI,” you ask her what’s for dinner, she says “BAI…” then you have to further ask “…rice with what?” in order to find out what the real main course is.

..On that note, bai is always the main course and meat and everything else are just sides. That’s why your bowl of rice is always filled with barely any room for anything else…

Come and Play Game With Me

I bring up one game call 3 words game. i hope you guys come to play with me 😀
3 WORDS GAME

–> i type in 3 words.. and then the person after me continue the story by contributing 3 words.. and ONLY 3 words.. and it goes ON.. for example..

EXAMPLE

Lyka: in multiply site
PERSON 1: has a game
PERSON 2: call 3 words

i hope you guys enjoy with this game in here.
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Poem

I got two poems want to share with all of you. one poem from my brother ( he is a my real brother, i respect him as brother). he live in australia. he just sent me a poem for my next brithday. haha… another poem from rose ( i know her in khmer101). she wrote the poem while i stop log in khmer101 for awhile.

Rose poem

jorn bong srey lyka

bong srey somlanh
bong saart kour khnanh
srolanh bong nas

pel bong nhor nherm
rert saart leun tve
sorm prab meas me
tha oun penh jet

Forgiveness

I use the word forgiveness to get rid of friendship problem. these few days i thought about everything that happen between me and her. i decide to forgive everything she had done with me. i feel relax after i decide like that. on friday night, she came to apologize from me. i asked her a few questions that i wish she could answer. in contrast, she cannot answer it. she just said she didn’t know what she was doing at that time. i also didn’t care about her answer anymore because i already dicide to forgive her. whatever she answer is fine for me. i didn’t ask for right and wrong. moreover, i decide become just a normal friend with her. i feel i cannot go back to the point we used to had. i told her that we might have a chance to be close friend again but it has to take time between me and her. i feel relax after i talked to her. i can understand how happy she is. i think my friends also feel comfortable with her. she is a funny girl. she always make everyone in the group laugh. the good point is i don’t have to pretent not to see her in the work place anymore. we just act simple. however, we both seem don’t have words to say with each other. i feel i don’t know how to start saying with her. i just keep quiet when i see her. at least we can smile when we see each other. i choose to have more friends better than more enemys. am i right?

Changing Time

on November 3, 2007, i have to turn the clock backward 1 hour. in my place, day time is shorter than night time. 5 o’clock in the evening is like 7 PM. it is dark and cold. the weather is changing everyday. i don’t like the weather in here because i always get allergic to it. these few nights, i have to take medicines to protect allergic. from now on, USA is 12 hours different from cambodia and 6 hours different from France. hehe…

Halloween Day


pumpkin face

kids come to trick or treat
is it cute?

with bonnies

Halloween day is a fun holiday is USA. i went to work late 20 mintues because i brought my sister went to school. there were some staff in my workplace dress up came to work. Bonnies and petter were dress up in finance department. Bonnies is a witch and petter is a man with big nose. hehe… i really enjoy watched them. i left my workplace early at 4PM. all my friends didn’t want to go out. i asked them the day before halloween, but they said they don’t know. i decide to stay at home with my sister give away candys to the kids. i didn’t have any custome to wear, so i painted my face with a litter ghost and pumpkin. trick or treat time start from 6 to 8 PM. i stayed at home waiting for kids came and knocked the door. they are dress up with differences custome. eveyone looks cute and scaring. hehe… i really enjoy watching at them. when my aunt and cousins came to my house, i went out with them. i got one bag of candys. i came back home around 7.30 PM, then i continues online with kun. he had been waiting for me almost two hours already. last year, i went out with san. this year she didn’t come because she was busy. this is how i spent my halloween day. i don’t know if i could enjoy it next year or not.