What parents expect and what we can deliver

Today I saw a weird, heart-touching event that I would like to share with you. It happened at one of the busy street-food restaurants selling fried short noodle (or ‘Lot Cha’ in Khmer language).

The moment I walked into the restaurant with my fiancé and two sisters, I sensed [...]

Commitment to live and succeed

Last Sunday afternoon, I accompanied my fiancé shopping at a local market in Phnom Penh named Tuol Tom Pong commonly known to foreigners and tourists as Russian Market.

We did not literally go into the market, but shopped at the stores around the market for around 30 minutes when [...]

Materialism: Should I buy this?

Are you a materialistic person? Unless you are, you are in the group of minority. This group consists of only very few people, but they were or are able to change the world. For instance, these im-materialistic people are Buddha of Buddhism, Ho Chi Minh of Viet Nam, Mahatma Gandhi of [...]

Waiting for the perfect person

Before you read, please click picture to see the overall perspective of this article.

Probably, you have seen the picture once or many times, and still find yourself laughing at it with disbelief because you don’t think that there is such a person in the world who waits for [...]

9 Questions you shouldn't ask your parents

By writing this article, I know I could expose myself to a lot of criticisms because I am not a parent yet and don’t know about parenting, thus not deserving to write anything by assuming about parents’ perceptions and/or reactions.

Yet, I guess I’ve justifications to write about this [...]

Real Quality of a Person

When I was young at the age of below 15, I rarely if not never went shopping alone even though I was given money to spend. From time to time, some of my relatives and friends would mock at and call me a coward for I was not able to buy [...]

Great Business advice: Everyone Sells

You may be surprised to know that you are a salesperson because you’re probably working in other professions other than ‘selling’. You may think or say “I’m a teacher, so you are wrong to assume I’m a salesperson”. Before you make a prejudgment or quick assumption, please read on to discover [...]

The Bad Side of Friendship

Frankly, how many of you reading this article have ever thought or said “I want to strangle my friends”? Personally I have, and I really meant it when I said it. In any friendship through which you have been, have you ever felt that you are taken advantage of by your [...]

7 Goals for Smart Students

If my memory still works well, I remember I wrote an article about freshman entitled 9 Stupid Reasons Most Freshmen Make. It was one of the earliest pieces of my work that I did to begin my weblog, and fortunately enough, it got positive feedback from most of my readers. Hopefully [...]

Students: Dos and Don'ts in Holidays

2011 Khmer New Year celebration is approaching and going to fall on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of April. As for most Cambodian students, they have already been on their one-, two-, or even three-week summer vacation.

For some students, three weeks might mean a great of development, a [...]

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