Author: lyka

Ghost Rider

After skul, we went to see a movie called ” Ghost Rider” it supposed to scare, but it oposite from we are expect. we are laugh during the scaring movie. i recalled when i watched “Norbit”, it was a comeday movie, but it scare me a lot. haha…. we all watched with empty stomach today. haha… after that we went to Kos Hong restaurant to have lunch together, we so hungry!
tonight, i made one video for my cute niece. however, her birthday just pass and i didn’t have a chance to join. here a gift for her. it is 12.40 am now, i feel a bit sleeping. i wish when i get up, the skul will close. show day again tomorrow. haha….

A story of Birthday Gift

A little girl she has a goal for her gift since she was 18 year old. she started to think about gift when the first birthday her family made for her. she asked her sister about gift that she wanted but no one bought for her. so she started to tell her self that if someone bought the right gift that she love, she will think of that person as specail person that understand her mind. she waited for serveral years. in the year 2002, one man was alway from home for one year and a half, he told her that he back home because on her birthday. on her birthday she received a big bear doll from him. when she opened it, she was surprise because i never though that she found the person that bought the right gift as she though. after that she start interested with that man then both of them have good relationship with each other…..she don’t know what kind of person he is, but she feel he is the person she is looking for!

Teaching My Family About Outside Cultures
Every country has a different culture, lifestyle, and economy. My country is a developing country. After a terrible war, everyone started from nothing to develop each family’s standard of living. My parents were very patient and tried hard to create a good family for us. Now everything is changed in my country. A lot of outside cultures have come into my country such as clothes, music, lifestyle, and so on.
My family is considered as a modern family but we still keep some traditional lifestyles. I’m the first person who got an idea to bring some western cultures to my family. Once I prepared a birthday for my mother. Actually, my parents never knew their birthday because my grandparents didn’t care about this. So I decided to choose mother’s day as her birthday. On that day, I went to buy a cake and wrote her name on it. And I asked my sisters to cooperate with me. Four of us learned how to sing a song called “In the World Only Mother is the Best” in Chinese, because my family is Chinese-Cambodian. The party began at night, when my parents were watching TV. We all came down, lighted the candles and sang along until we reached their seats. She was surprised and asked if today was her birthday. We all laughed and I explained to her that today was Mother’s day and we wanted to celebrate it as her birthday. Then we told her to close her eyes, make a wish and blow out the candles. Four of us kissed her one by one. Actually, we rarely give a kiss to our parents since we are grown up. It doesn’t mean we don’t love them but we are kind of shy. My mother was excited until her tear dropped down. My father started to make a joke by asking when his birthday is. Then we all laughed out loud. This memory always reminds me of having a good time with my family. From now on, we started to prepare a birthday for everyone in the family, so every year we could hear six times of birthday song and eat six cakes together.
Birthday is a small activity but it brings us the sound of the laugh, a smile from our face, and a sweet memory in life.

My Name

Three words combined together become my name Bun SokPhoung, my last name Bun come from my father’s last name. And Sokphoung is my first name.
In my language, Khmer, the word Sok means Happiness and Phoung means Power of flower. In my country, everyone prefers to call me Phoung. My full name considered an easy name, not too long and not too short. It does not sound interested but contains full meaning, especially, it’s come from my father’s idea.
Since I was in high school, I got many names in my teenager life. When I was in 12th grade, I was tall and thin. Can you imagine what my friend call me at that time? They call me a dinosaur and one more name is Kon Youn which means Vietnamese girl because they say I look like Vietnamese. It’s just for fun in my group. When I finished high school, I became a first year student in one Business University. I choose accounting as my major. I had ten friends in my class, they called me a small pig or a small-eye girl because I was a little bit fat and I have small eyes. After everyone in my group got a job, they change my name from a small pig to a hip hop pig because my clothes that I wear to work are not so professional. Furthermore, in a group of my Chinese friends, I have one more name called “God of smile”, All my friend should have the name begin with God. It’s sound so funny to everyone who hears it. During that time, I give myself a name called Lyka to avoid my real name. It’s just a word that has no meaning but I like the sound of this word. This name was created when I started listen to one English radio in my country. I like listen to music in my free time that’s why sometimes I call or mail to most of the show to request a song. Then the name Lyka becomes a famous and a fan of that radio and English songs become my favorite.
However, I got many name such as dinosaur, Kon Youn, a small pig, a hip hop pig, a small eyes girl, God of smile and Lyka but Phoung is still the best of all.