Happy New yer 2010!

WBC title fight on Sunday not just a battle between boxers

2009-09-27T22:21:00.002+07:00

CAMBODIA will enter the ranks of international boxing Sunday when local amateur champion Svay Ratha makes his professional debut against Filipino Pol Apolinario.

The pair will be fighting in the indoor arena at Olympic Stadium for the vacant interim WBC international super bantamweight title. The bout is scheduled for 12 rounds.

Pol Apolinario enters the ring Sunday with a record of 3-3-1.

In addition to the 12-round title fight, the Sunday card includes two international and two local kickboxing matches.

In the co-features, Bheut Kam will face Scottish fighter Stephen Meikle, and Nuon Soriya will take on British fighter Danny Taylor. Both Meikle and Taylor fight out of the RMB Muay Thai club in Thailand.

On the undercard, Les Tuk will take on Phun Sophorn and Sarim Vonthon will face Nuon Phireak.

The event, featuring performances by pop sensations Khemarak Sereymun and Meas Soksophea, marks the return of live boxing to the TV3 weekend schedule.

TV3 dropped its live boxing coverage in 2006 after two years of broadcasting. The station returns now to significantly more crowded airways.
TV5, CTN and Bayon TV each host live boxing programs on the weekend. Between them, the stations show more than 40 fights over Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

“We are going to challenge them head on,” said Ty Ranath, production director at TV3. “And we are going to beat them.”
Headlining its inaugural card with a boxing match, as opposed to a kickboxing bout, was no accident.

“If we just copy the other stations, we cannot win,” Ty Ranath said.

To command the market, TV3 plans to build its fight programming around regular professional boxing matches and international kickboxing bouts.

The station is cooperating with the Cambodian Amateur Boxing Federation to build the ranks of local professional boxing, and it is working with international promoters to reach more foreign fighters.

“Our plan is to host international fights every weekend,” Ty Ranath said, although he conceded that such frequency might prove a challenge. “That is what we want, and we are working with promoters in Thailand to make it happen.”

With no ring of its own, the station will initially host bouts at the Old Stadium on Saturdays only. The tentative time slot is 2pm, which would put them head to head against CTN, although TV3 station managers have yet to decide the optimum schedule time.

At CTN, management said the station would take a wait-and-see approach to TV3’s new programming.

“The weekend is already pretty full with boxing, so I guess they will have to compete with someone,” said Aaron Leverton, a producer at CTN. “But I’d be surprised if they chose to compete directly with us.”

TV3’s foray into professional boxing would not be the first for the sport. In 2007, TV5 tried to convert Bheut Kam, Chey Kosal and Pich Seyha into Western boxers. It quickly became apparent, however, that making the switch would not come as easily as promoters had hoped.

After months of hype, and a few humbling losses, TV5’s plan for professional boxing faded quietly down the memory hole.

The professional prospects for Svay Ratha, who is now training in Vietnam with the Cambodian national amateur team, appear fraught with similar uncertainty.

As an amateur, he has never been more than four rounds. Apolinario has gone eight rounds twice, though he came out on the wrong end of the decision both times.

Fights start at 6pm Sunday, with tickets at 12,000 riels (US$2.88) and 20,000 riels.

Source: Phnom Penh Post

Just read and think!

2009-09-03T20:30:00.003+07:00

SEALNet project is coming soon!

2009-06-09T00:55:00.004+07:00

Dear All,

I am a core team member of SEALNet Project Philippines 2009. SEALNet (Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network) is a non-profit organization based in California and was founded at Stanford in 2004 by a coalition of Stanford students and professional mentors. Our mission is to bring service to Southeast Asia and to promote the spirit of service leadership in the region. On behalf of SEALNet, I am writing to seek your support for our 2-week community service project in Cebu City, the Philippines.

Project Philippines 2009 aims to educate the Cebu City community about the public health implications of gastrointestinal worms. We plan to conduct a variety of health education events targeting both elementary school students as well as their parents and teachers. In addition, we will conduct workshops to equip the local youth with practical leadership and organizational skills. We will also facilitate the local youth in designing and implementing their own projects to address local health issues of their interests. The National Institutes of Health, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the Philippines, kindly agreed to be our local partner. They will facilitate our work on the site and will assist us in ensuring the future sustainability of the projects. Attached with this email are the project details.

Currently, we are seeking sponsorship from various local and international philanthropists to finance our project. We therefore would love to have your support for Project Philippines 2008. Therefore, all your contributions will go directly towards benefiting the children, the local youth, and the community of Cebu City.

More information about SEALNet can be found at www.sealnetonline.org. Contributions of any amount (tax-deductible) would be very much appreciated and you will receive a trip report after the project as well as SEALNet Annual Reports in the future. Please let me know if you would be interested in contributing to our project.

Thank you very much for your kind attention and I look forward to hearing from you.

To donate now, please click here or contact me via 012 77 44 09

Another poem for Khmer New Year!

2009-04-21T18:18:00.002+07:00

A memory in Koh Kong!

2009-04-02T18:39:00.002+07:00

A big thank to my friends!

2009-04-02T18:20:00.010+07:00

It has been so long that I have never updated my blog due to the recent boring life. So now I just would like to say thanks to all my good friends who made a birthday celebration for me since February… It was actually so surprising to have all of you remembered! Thanks everyone and especially Gech, Rina, Rinet, Vichara… for the participation! Wish you all the best… Meanwhile, I also would like to thank my respected parents and siblings for the birthday celebration as well… Moreover, I have never forgotten all my friends who sent me wishing messages via sms or email… Thanks lots!

Happy Chinese New Year! Kong sei fat choi!

2009-01-25T19:52:00.003+07:00

Chinese new year 2009 falls on 26th of January, 2009 (animal sign OX). The Chinese New Year is celebrated as the symbol of spring's celebration. In fact in China the Chinese New Year is still called the Spring festival(Chun Jie). It is celebrated after the fall harvest and before the spring planting season. The date of the Chinese New Year is always changing and is dependant on the Chinese calendar. Emperor Huangdi in the year 2637 B.C.E invented the Chinese calendar.

The Chinese calendar is a combined solar/lunar calendar and is somewhat similar to the Chinese calendar. For the purpose of determining the dates of the Chinese New Year some astronomical calculations need to be taken care of. Firstly, we need to determine the dates for the new moon. The new moon is the black moon that is when the moon is in conjunction with the sun.
The date of the new moon is taken as the first day of the new month. Secondly those dates are determined when the sun's longitude is the multiple of 30 degrees. These dates are termed as Principal terms and are used for determining the number of each month.

The Principle term 1 takes place when the sun's longitude is 330 degrees, the 2nd Principle term occurs when the sun's longitude is about 0 degrees. The principle term 3 takes place when the sun's longitude is 30 degrees, the principle term 11 occurs when the sun's longitude is 270 degrees and the principle term 12 occurs when the sun's longitude is 300 degrees.

In Cambodia, many people are celebrating this festival since large number of us are half-blood Chinese. This is one of the most jubilant ocassions in Cambodia. Many people gather their families and visit their relatives; moreover, it is the best time for people to relax and have fun with family! Many people go to various local tourism sites especially Sihanouk ville, Siem Reap (land of history:Angkor) and thousands of beautiful sites in Cambodia. Some (depending on living standard) may go visit oversea, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Korea or maybe some other countries. Therefore, the capital, Phnom Penh, is becoming very quite! I may go to a province, yet it is for charity work... So how about all of you? Share fun with me then.... :)

Happy Chinese New Year again!!! Wish you all the best!

A challenge I am participating!

2009-01-15T23:03:00.004+07:00

Well, a full day participating in a challenge has never been an easy thing! Today is one of the most memorable, challenging and useful days ever in my life which began with 80 competitive shorted list participants in the morning and ended up with only final 16 at night! Some of you may wonder what type of challenge I joined and some may think that what's a tough game! Yeah, it actually was! ( lol, wondering ... ), the challenge I am talking about is Youth Leader Challenge (YLC) season 5! YLC is an innovative reality television show that combines entertainment with valuable learning opportunities for the youth of Cambodia. It was produced and developed by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the Youth Council of Cambodia (YCC) in 2006. The existence the challenge is a fantastic signal for the future development of this miserable country--Cambodia since Youths are the bamboo of a nation! "Strong Youth, Top Nation".

As I decided to participate in this challenge, I've now reached the last 16 round! It was not that easy to pass each round! As I know, almost 400 people applied this challenge; however, after background selection and an interview, only 80 contestants were accepted! This morning, everyone was invited to participate in the challenge which began since 7am. Meeting many people from really various backgrounds who have their own potentials and talents was a huge opportunity to get to know and learn from one another; The game began with the group work by 16 contestants each. I, fortunately, was in group 4 whose members mostly friendly and knowledgeable. Then all group were asked to form a name and symbol of their group by giving about 10mns to discuss! Everyone started sharing his/her own opinion. After a while, we finally formed the conclusion. My group members' idea were great! We decided to put the name of PEACE which had a hidden meaning P:Participation, E:Encouragement, A:Achievement, Commitment and E:Excellent.

To be continued... quite tired, srr

Some phrases for success you should know!

2009-01-09T22:31:00.002+07:00

Behind me is infinite power.
Before me is endless possibility.
Around me is boundless opportuniny.
Why should I fear?
-Stella stuart

More to improve and fewer to disapprove.
More doers and fewer talkers.
More to say it can be done
and fewer to say it's impossible.
More to inspire others
and fewer to throw cold water on them.
More to get into the thick of things
and fewer to sit on the sidelines.
More to point out what's right
and fewer to point out what's wrong.
More to light a candle
and fewer to curse the darkness.

He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little.

Never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They made mistakes, but they don't quit.

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Long time never have my blog updated!

2009-01-09T21:15:00.003+07:00

First of all, I'd like to apologize all the blog visitors for the fact that I've never updated my blog lately even missed the biggest event, New Year 2009! It was just because my computer and internet got some problems... For now, I can be more active in this blog lah. There were 2 major events during last period, 2009 New Year Eve and 30th anniversary Cambodian victory over Khmer Rough Regime(7th January 1979-7th January 2009). This year celebration was the biggest ever with the participation of more 60,000 people including civil servant officers, teachers, students, many others and of course top 3 Cambodia Leaders, Prime minister Hun Sen(R), President of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Chea Sim(C), and senior party member Heng Samrin(L).

A nice song I learned from SYC, Singapore town!

2008-12-24T01:58:00.004+07:00

You could take a little trip around Singapore town
In a Singapore city bus
To see Collyer Quay and Raffles Place
The Esplanade and all of us

Chorus:
Because in Singapore, Singapore
Their hearts are big and wide you'll find
Because in Singapore, Singapore
You'll find happiness for everyone

Let's go down to the riverside, it's an unforgettable sight
To see the sunrise on a faraway isle, turning darkness into light

( Repeat Chorus )

The buildings are climbing all the way to the sky
And there's a hundred other people who are striving
For people like you and I

( Repeat Chorus )

I Still Remember! Bravo SYC!

2008-12-22T14:53:00.003+07:00

We're on a journey,
we're travelling the ocean.
Our hearts are empty,
but they're open to receive.

(Pre-Chorus)
We're all here for a similar reason,
and all here for the only notion.
All here for a chance to share our love,
our love ohhh.

(Chorus)
Remember oh remember,
when we have to leave each other.
Remember please remember,
the times we were together.
Even though we're far apart,
I will keep you in my heart.
I will never forget,
I still remember.

Its only been awhile,
that we all met each other.
But we can all smile,
when we think of the memories we made.

Repeat Pre-Chorus
Repeat Chorus

(bridge)
Everytime when i see the ocean,
I look to the stars and think of you.
Even though we're far apart,
You'll always be in my heart....

Repeat Chorus
I will never forget yeaa...
Repeat Chorus

Amazing time with SYC!

2008-12-18T01:02:00.003+07:00

The camp officially began on 8th December!!! There were many students from 13 various countries including 10 ASEAN nations, China, India and Kazakhstan; we all were divided into 9 groups. Around 7:30am just after breakfast, everyone gathered in the auditorium and took the bus to the sea port in order to go to a island called Paula Urban, if I am not wrong. It was not quite on the bus, all those friendly Singaporeans started standing, despite without balance, and taught everyone to sing and dance a popular song, Singapore Town! This song was ROCK!!! Everyone tried to sing along and dance on the bus… “you could take a little around Singapore town…. Because of Singapore, Singapore! The Heart are BIG and WIDE, we find, ….. ” Time we were learning interesting thing flied really fast, we soon reached the port although not all could remember the song, I believed. Taking about 15mn on ship, we finally reached our destination! WOW, what’s an amazing island!! It was totally fresh at the time… Then we were guided to do our first activity in the camping program which is Mountain Climbing. It was really new to me and many participants, I believe. Many questions came to my brain; can I climb that high? Why I have to climb? Why did such game exist? …. I started thinking, “come on, man! Nothing is impossible, rite? Actually, I don’t have to climb, but I must do it to strengthen my confidence, patience and why not try if everything is safe? ….” Fear, nervousness were my pal at that time, but I must win this, I thought! Such climbing was not easy for such an inexperienced climber like me, hmmm… I climbed only 2 steps, then I failed! However, I was determined to do the 2nd time! I reduced pressure on myself and started to climb. This 2nd time was not as tough as the 1st time! I finally reached the top, what’s a champ ( ha ha, it actually can be seen that many people could do that, yet the champ here just mean that I could win myself, I had improved comparing to the 1st one lol, that was enough ). This is just similar as X game that I used to watch, now I could do it lah… a smile existed  Lunch time coming, everyone seemed so tired with such hard game, but why everyone smiled and delighted? Help me answer this question lah… Just after lunch, we continued with many new games. Using brain, tricks, teamwork, leadership skill, the games truly taught us how to work as a team and reminded me a phrase, do NOT care much about the result, only care about the progress!!! Implying that sometimes when you try to focus too much on what the result will be, then you will NOT achieve your targets. The day didn’t end with these stuffs, at night, it was camp fire!!! Surprisingly, it was also the birthday celebrations of 3 participants. Ha ha, I should have had my birthday on that day. It was very nice to do camp fire with a big crowd from many different backgrounds. Everyone was dancing, talking to one another and making new international friends… Fortunately, we were taught to dance some funny songs… Who still remember? Show me lah… Ha ha, Ku ku ka ka… and we walk and we walk all night… It was extremely fun! What’s a great start of this camp!!! Time has never cared about people’s feeling lol, it just ran as quick as possible! Without mercy, it was time to go back! Everyone doesn’t want to stop, but we had to… Backed to RELC… Sleep…

<<-- SEXY SIX -->>

Yo! Camping in Singapore is FANTASTIC!!!

2008-12-09T20:33:00.005+07:00

Spending about 3 hours on plane and an 2 hour transit in K.L, Cambodian SYC team with 8 students and a teacher had finally reached the our dream destination at about 4:35pm ( Singapore time ). Once we arrived Changi airport, we were given a great warm welcomed by the hosts. Though we were really late to reach the airport which kept them really hungry (I believe), smiles from those freindly Singaporean were given wholeheartedly, I can see. Then we went to the RELC, Regional Language Centre, which was our hotel. Everything in camping immediately follow that....

To be continued

I am addicted to 2 activities now!

2008-12-06T00:09:00.004+07:00

Well, as the begining of university life is totally free comparing to my previous busy high school life (which usually study about 12 hours per day), I study at school only 14h30mn (10h at RULE and 4h3omn at ACE) per week! That's unbelievable! As this free schedule exists, I recently have a few new habits including spending most of time playing internet, reading Khmer novels and poems. Anyway, I just discover that I really love literature since I also love khmer novels lately! Before I felt like I only love poetry, but who know?? Now I also love novels lol! ha ha I think I should have joined outstanding students in Khmer literature lol, ha ha... just kidding, in case those outstanding students in literature will kich me... However, my schedule will be changed entirely at the begining of next year! I think I may study 11 hours a day with a part time job (if possible) lah...

Discover my previous poem!

2008-11-23T12:22:00.002+07:00

How was your Water Festival 2008 celebration??

2008-11-14T14:27:00.006+07:00

Water festival ( we say Bon Om Touk in Khmer ) is one of the biggest festival and the most amazing time for Cambodian citizen especially rural people to be in this wonderful and beautiful capital city, Phnom Penh. This festival is celebrated on November which is at the end of the rainy season, the start of the fishing season, and also the unique natural phenomenon - the flow of the Tonle Sap river changing direction! And not only this, the Cambodia Water Festival also coincides with the full moon of the Buddhist calendar month of Kadeuk, this full moon is traditionally a good omen promising a bountiful harvest.

Many villagers have spent almost a full year preparing their villages boat–aborately and brightly decorated dug out canoes with large eyes on the prows to ward off evil spirits. Every year, during this three-day auspicious occassion, many people coming from various places including rural and even remote area residents in Cambodia come to the capital Phnom Penh to watch the races and cheer all their village boat, which can be up to 20 meters long and contain up to 60 oarsmen, frantically paddling and chanting as the do battle in highly competitive races. The origins of the Water Festival dates back to the powerful navy of King Jayavarman II, the 9th century founder of the great Angkorian Empire, and the main purpose is to make the god of the river happy so he will provide many fish and the rice crop will be plentiful.

During this time Phnom Penh takes on a carnival atmosphere, and as well as the river banks being lined with exuberant spectators there are also live concerts, hundreds of food stands, games of chance, fair rides, and at night fireworks light up the sky and people dance in the street. However, to me, I spent this great time just as simple as my weekends. I went to Sovanna Shopping centre for two days, first and third, and went to Parkway to play bowling in the second day. It simply because it is too crowded to visit the riverside and firework, even both places I visited during the festival this year are very crowded! However, I enjoy having fun in during this wonderful festival, how about you? Come on, share some fun with me.

Uh, tired! Yet, Happy!

2008-10-30T20:58:00.003+07:00

Well, on these consecutive holidays, I've been spending my time doing promotion of the Math book I prepared, and also trying to encourage all Cambodian students to love Mathematics and will to contribute their country by study harder and harder! It's never easy to stay at a place and be asked by many people about many different things, but what I wanna do is sharing ideas and study tips with them! The most hurt event in my life ( serious fail in IMO 2008 ) offered me an idea of creating this Math group, Cambodian Mathematics Generation! The existence of this group has never been an easy thing for me, I have to do many things next; yet I am willing to do that! I am also willing to see Cambodian students achieving IMO gold medal!

What can you see from this picture???

2008-09-17T19:20:00.000+07:00

Magic Math books??

2008-09-14T16:17:00.009+07:00

The Magic Math book, which I have written for more than 4 months, is going to be in publishing house soon, and it may be released late September. The purposes of the publication of this book are:

to share all my knowledge regarding the way of solving mathematical problems espcially for national and international outstanding student competitions and scholarship exams
to encourage all cambodian generations to focus on Mathematics
to contribute to strengthen human resources in Cambodia
to help students who love mathematics to be able to understand easily.

Hope all of you will support this publication.

Along with this book, I've created a blog for sharing competition experiences, solving mathematics strategies and mathematics documents.

www.groupcmg.blogspot.com

What's after High school??

2008-09-14T16:03:00.003+07:00

Well, this seems to be a late post, but I just wanna share with all of you. Just after the national high school exam ( 4-6 August ), On 08/08/08 which is a special day and also the opening ceremony Bejing Olympics games, many friends and I (totally about 20 people) went to Kompongsom or Sihanouk ville, one of the nicest beach resorts in Cambodia. we spent 2 days together there and had a lot of fun. Moreover, we celebrate birthday 2 people(da and pheng)'s birthday together... more surprisingly, we made some nice things from the sand like the photos shown...

What your handwriting tell about you???

2008-08-25T15:34:00.003+07:00

You are a fairly energetic person. You know how do pace yourself, and you deal well with stress.

You are very extroverted and outgoing. You are loving, friendly, and supportive. However, you are also manipulative and controlling at times.

You are balanced and grounded. You know how to get along well with others.

You need a bit of space in your life, but you're not a recluse. You expect people to give you a small amount of privacy, and you respect their privacy as well.

You are somewhat traditional, but you are also open to change. You listen to your head and your heart.

You are a decent communicator. You eventually get your point across, but sometimes you leave things a bit ambiguous.

The blog is updated now!

2008-08-14T10:15:00.005+07:00

Hi all! I am so sorry that this blog hasn’t been updated for long, it just because I have been too busy with my study and some major exams including 49th IMO, International Mathematical Olympiad, from 13th to 22nd July 2008, in Spain and a recent High School final exam from 4th to 6th August 2008.

After a long flight for about a day, all Cambodian team members finally reach Madrid, Spain on 14th night. During the stay in Spain for about a week, I faced many new things and got both sweet and bitter taste of life.

To begin with what I gain from that, I met many people around the world, even math genius! Furthermore, I made friends with many students from various countries including China, Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, both south and North Korea, and many other nations. I have learned a lot from them, and we even share some souvenirs with each other. However, I think I should have made more friends and gotten more email contacts since I don’t think there is another opportunity for me to join next IMO. In addition, everyone was in the party just after the exams and dance together along with many rock songs which was another new taste of life that I had never done before. What’s a surprise thing was football competition, all students were together to compete another competition besides math. Playing sports usually the best way to gather people together and strengthen the friendship between people. Unfortunately, there was not enough for the final match! :(

Regarding my participation on behalf of a Cambodian contestant in 49th IMO in Spain, it was the bittiest experience ever in my life, I know that most people was expecting me getting at least Bronze medal back, but what’s an ashamed performance! I can’t believe that I did such an embarrassing thing, 5pts/42, in my dream goal since I started to focus on outstanding mathematics in the early of 2002... I just let Cambodian mathematics image down! God, I should have done much better! I should have raise up my national prestige! What I learned for 6 years was just a waste in a few seconds! Everything about Math is over to me! Sorry all my friends, teachers, family, supporters and all Cambodian citizens. But I WILL do all my best in the future, I WILL try to keep our national prestige high as possible, I promise.

Though the competition drove me upset for long, but I think this is a huge experience for my life which I must learn from; I believe that this experience will make me stronger in the future! Actually, NO ONE IS PERFECT! And also NO ONE can always be successful! There is a phrase stated that “The most successful person is the person who face failure the most, and be dare to correct it!” Meanwhile, Mr. Honda, who had been considered as one of the most successful person, said his success is only 1% of his try! In this way, to become a successful, he had faced many failures and he had tried to correct his mistakes steps by steps! So I will try to correct my mistakes and join the future competitions.

Well, in order to take part in the development of Cambodian mathematics, I together with students who love mathematics have decided to publish a math book which will be all about the key strategies for solving math problems, especially for outstanding student competitions and Olympiad competition. I think the book will release in about 2 months, we are trying to make it sooner with high quality. Well, we are also working on book’s name; I will appreciate if you leave some suggestions regarding the Name of the book. Actually, my main goal of the publication of the book is to encourage Cambodian students to focus on math and to work hard on it! I strongly believe that new Cambodian Mathematics Generation will win gold medal in Olympiad type competitions both regional and international in a soon future.

Note: If you know other IMO contestants contact, please send those to my email directly, thanks in advance

Here is some fun for u guys!

2008-07-06T11:03:00.006+07:00

If you guys wanna learn how to say I Love You in many languages, I think the following is helpful...

Cambodian: Bong sralagn oun, my language
Chinese:Wo ai ni, go or nei ( cantonese )
Hindu:Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte Hae
Indonesian:Aku chinta padamu
Japanese: Kimi o aishiteru
Korean:Noolreul sarang hae yo
Thai: Phom rak Khun
Lao: Khoi huk chau
Malay: saya cinta mu
Mongolian:bi chamd hairtai
Nepali:Ma timilai maya garchu
Vietnamese: anh yeu em-akak

How abt Europe?

Croatian:volim te
Czech: miluju te
Dutch:Ik hou van you
English: i love u
French:Je t' aime
German:Ich liebe Dich
Greek:S'agapo
Hawaian:Aloha Wau Ia Oi
Italian:ti amo
Lithuianian - Tav Myliu
Polish:Ja Kocham Ciebie
Russian:Ya vas lyublyu
Slovakian:Lu'Bim Ta
Spanish: Te amo
Swedish:jag alskar dig
Ukrainian:Ya Tebe Kahayu

Cambodia win medal in APMO?

2008-05-26T16:54:00.003+07:00

When I see the result on Australian website, it suprised me that Cambodian student, Se Dara, Sisowat High School, won a bronze medal in this tough Asia Pacific Mathematics Olympiad 2008 with 11pts/35. This year competition is considered as a toughest ever in APMO history with a very lower average score comparing to previous years. Notice that this is the first time for Cambodia team to particpate this competition; I strongly believe that cambodia team with 6 contestants ( all selected from grade 12) will perform well in soon coming IMO 2008 in Madrid, Spain.

Winning streak now come to the END!

2008-05-14T11:15:00.004+07:00

Every year Cambodia has a huge competition for all superior students in 3 different subjects (Khmer literature, Mathematics and Physics), both Junior and Senior, throughout the nation to compete nationally called National Level Top Student competition. Usually, there are 480 contestants, who has been selected from each areas (provinces and cities) coming from all the various places in Cambodia. This year likewise, the competition was held on the land of history and nature, Siem Reap Province from May 5 to May 12.

After a 3-day competition and another 3-day marking progression, the National Level Top Student selection has come to the end with 60 successive contestants, 10 contestants for each subject in each level. 24 of 69 Phnom Penh Municipal students have been selected with 4 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medals and 3 Bronze Medals. Additionally, 8 of 19 Bak Touk Students have won the competition with 1 Gold Medal, 1 Silver Medal and 2 Bronze Medals. Actually, in overall Bak Touk High School Team is the best team this year; however, I personally want to say sorry to all my friends, supporters, school principles, all my relatives and especially mom and dad for my embarrassing performance which made most of you hopeless. Indeed, Silver medal would be joyful enough for most contestants, yet to me, it was with tear, hopelessness and sadness. It may be a really high ambition of me, but the main reason is that I still don’t why I have lost especially on the first day, hmmm... maybe it all my faults... my ability has already shown out of my best, still I couldn’t keep my position, poor me :(. I feel really embarrass, and a huge pressure seem to be put on my emotion though some of you have tried to encourage and remain supporting me.

Finally, I want to say sorry to everyone again and also want to say congratulation to Samrith, you finally beated me....

Here is another poem!

2008-04-12T11:35:00.000+07:00

For this Khmer new year season, I have a small gift for all the friends and Cambodians and wish all of you all the best of life... Wish all the students who going to compete the National round of top student, especially my Bak Touk friends. I also wanna dedicate this poem to all the Physics and Mathematics students who gonna represent Cambodia in regional and International competitions including soon coming APho-Mongolia, IMO-Spain and IPho-Vietnam. Here is the poem:

Coming soon jubilant ocassion KHMER NEW YEAR

2008-04-05T14:23:00.000+07:00

People in the world always say New Year celebrate their happy festival. They usually schedule and prepare it differently, depend on their belief and tradition. For Cambodian have hold it since past till the present.

The reason that cause to finish the old year for the are that: There have been some people believe that there is a story as following one time there were a person "KABEL MORHAPROHM" who asked three questions to "THORM BAL KOMA, the millionaire's on, who had known the three percepts of "TRAI VITH" and ail kinds of the animal's languages. They all had promised to cut the head of the person who failed the exam "THORM BAL" have no way to find the solution, he felled very hopeless, fortunately, there were two eagles which had spoken about these questions to make "THORM BAL" could find the way to settle the problems. The time of gambling arrived "THORM BAL " had spoken that:

1. In the morning, the happiness is on the face that is why all people have to wash their face.
2. In the afternoon, the happiness is on the breath to make the people take water to wash the breath.
3. In the evening, the happiness is on the foot to make the people wash their food in the evening.

Cambodian people are playing the Chaul Choung game in New Year Day.

The result had broken out "KABEL MORHAPROHM" had to cut his head to give to the oldest had take it go around PRAS SOMERU mountain about 60 minutes after they all bring it to put in the center of KUHA KUNTH MALAY of KAILA mountain. In the end of the year the 7 females angles had changed their turn to take the head and go around the mountain every year till the present. This is the reason to cause "SANG KRAN" or changing the old year into the New Year.

Some people have believed that for a period of one year the people always face the problems like diseases or serious obstacles to make them unhappy. When the one of the year they all had celebrated a great festival called "HAPPY NEW YEAR" and the people always prepare them-self, clean the house, and take food to offer the monks. They wear new clothes and play popular games.

The festival usually is in 3 days period. The first day is "MOHA SANGKRAN" the second day is "VORNBORTH" and the third day is "THNGAI LIENG SAK". For that time they start to change the old year when the angle comes to get the duties from the former angle were schedule clearly.

Good tips for Mathematics Olympiad participants!

2008-02-03T13:26:00.000+07:00

The term "olympiad" is used generically to refer to a math contest in which students are asked not to compute numerical answers, but to give proofs of specified statements. (Example: "Prove that 2003 is not the sum of two squares of integers.") The most famous example is the International Mathematical Olympiad; most countries that participate at the IMO have national olympiads as part of their team selection process. Some areas have additional olympiads at the regional or local level.

The jump from short answers to olympiads is a tough one. Here are some tips for students making this transition.

Practice, practice, practice. The only way to learn math is by doing.

Proofs are essays. The better written a proof is, the more likely it is to be understood. Even such mundane things as grammar, spelling and handwriting are worth a bit of attention.

Define your terms. If you're going to use a word in a way that might not be commonly understood, define it precisely. Then stick to your definition!

Read the masters. No one ever learned how to do good mathematics in a vacuum. When you do practice problems, read the solutions even of the problems you solved.

There's more than one road. Different solutions can be equally valid; even when solutions agree in substance, differences in perspective can be significant and valuable.

It's not over when it's over. Don't hesitate to continue thinking about the problems on a contest after the time ends, or to discuss the problems with others.

Learn from your peers. They're smarter than you might have expected.

Learn from the past. Try to relate new problems to old ones; you may learn something from the similarities, or from the differences.

Patience. No one said this was easy!

See it NOW!!! The end of " 4 seasons

2008-01-16T12:27:00.000+07:00

As the summer had gone, fall followed its tail and arrived for preparing and taking care of the nature before the winter came. When the temperature began to drop, the windy weather with cold air was taking place over the large field covered with dying old grass, and some leaves were blown away from their trees to the ground by the wind. Watching through the window on the top of the university, we could see almost all of the scenery colored orange. These were signs for all kinds of animals to looking for their shelters and food in order to store them for winter. So did all the students, they were also preparing for their final examination which would take place at the end of fall too. While everybody was busy with their studying, Jeson didn’t care about anything. He was only worried about Isa’s result and helping her with her studying all the time. Beside, he took all of his left time composing a song which was only for Isa and finally, at mid-fall, Jeson perfectly finished it with his love. This melodious song was named “Secret in winter”. With this song and a ring he’d just bought in a high price, he was planning to make a wonderful night for Isa but he didn’t know while he was expecting to give her the ring and ask her to marry him on the night of Christmas day, his parents at Tokyo knew about his love with Isa but they’re completely not satisfied with this because Isa was just a poor girl living in a country side, how could they publicly accept her. They were immediately looking for a way to separate them and get their son back; otherwise, they would lose their honorable face. God seemed to help them, as the school was finished and our piano genius got an excellent result for his exam, a group of the university consultants had finally finished their concentrated discussion and chose Jeson as a representative of their university to join a competition which would be celebrated in Tokyo. This made his parents very blissful and began to create a plan in order to dissuade Jeson in Tokyo and stop him from going back to the university, After Jeson knew the school had chosen him for the competition in which he had wished to compete for a long time, he was very happy and instantly went to Isa s house to tell her the surprising. When he’s on the way to the house, he thought that Isa would be happy like him too. Arriving at her small house, Jeson started to tell Isa everything but what he’d just said didn’t surprise her and also caused her heart attack yet it was becoming stable in a minute, This told them both that an unexpected catastrophe would happen. After that shocked heart attack he’d never seen before happened to his beloved person, during 2 weeks before his leaving, everyday, he’d always dreamt about Isa’s illness and every time he was waken up by that terrible dream, he began to sweat and worried about his girlfriend. These made him didn’t want to leave her but the piano competition was the only goal he had always intended to achieve so he couldn’t miss this rare opportunity. A day before Jeson left. Isa called and told him to meet her at the old place, the Gonkgo tree. Arriving there with wonder, Jeson instantly asked his girl sitting under the tree: “What happen”. Then Isa told him that recently, she felt very strange and nervous especially she’d always dreamt that she wouldn’t be able to see Jeson’s face again anymore so she told him the truth that she didn’t want him to leave. Although Isa tried to persuade him to stay, he refused and replied back: “I can’t lose this chance, sorry, I know you’re worried about me but I have to go”. Finally, Isa agreed and let him go because Jeson had promised her that he would return and give her a wonderful present on Christmas day. The leaving day had arrived, at the train station, Jeson told Isa: “it’s just a competition, it wouldn’t be long, don’t worry I’ll come back for you”. “I’ll waiting for you”, Isa insured. While Jeson was holding Isa for the last time before he leave, he didn’t know this was the last time ever that he held and saw Isa in his life. As Jeson had his first step on the train to Tokyo, Isa’s tears appeared on her sad face while she was saying “I’ll waiting for you.” which showed that she loved him very much.
Arriving at Tokyo, Jeson always missed his beloved girl every night. The day he had been expecting for all his life had come. While he was competing in the competition, combining his feeling with imagining of their love remembrances, the extraordinary “4 seasons” was smoothly played and satisfied by all. Then Jeson became the champion without doubt. With his famous reputation, he was very happy and preparing to go back in a day but he was completely trapped in his house by his parents. They didn’t let their son to go back and managed him to marriage a girl from a wealthy family. However, Jeson refused and always tried to escape but he never succeeded. As the matter of fact, his parents knew exactly why he refused. Back to the district, Isa was expecting for Jeson’s return and hope that he would played “4 seasons” for her on the graduation day like what he’d promised. A month, still no a word from Jeson, she began to worry especially, the graduation day had passed without her beloved person. Her hope started to drop like leaves in this season too and her worry became hopelessness. But no matter what happen, she still loved Jeson and waiting for him.
When there were no more leaves left on trees and the temperature had dropped under 100c, white snow began to fall from the sky. The white and cold season has arrived to end the year. All kinds of animals were busy looking for food and then got into their shelters they had made in fall. Grass were died and left the empty field. Without a month, snow covered everywhere. Only white view could be seen in this silent season. Although this was the coldest season of the year, Isa always went out every evening and return at night but her mother didn’t knew where she had been to. Nobody knew how much she loved Jeson, she had regularly been to the place where they first met, the Gonkgo tree. Arriving there, she always sat down under the tree, leant on it and quietly cried. One day she asked the tree “He has promised me that he’ll come back and play “4 seasons” for me on graduation day but why he lied to me? Or has he forgotten? However, I’ll still be waiting for him”. In fact, it didn’t like what Isa had said. Jeson could make it because of his parents but he was trying his best to escape. This caused his parents very angry but they found a way to make their love completely broken. Jeson’s parents sent a letter to Isa. After she already read it, she was stunned and her tear dropped on the paper she was holding. From that day on, she had always hidden herself in her room till one day, December, 20, five days left before Christmas day. That night, her mother found a letter written by Isa. “Mom, I’m sorry that I can’t stay with you anymore. I’m no longer your grateful daughter. When I’m gone, please take care yourself and don’t worry about me. If one day there is a guy whose name is Jeson come and looking for me, tell him that I’m waiting and want to tell him a secret at the place we first met. Good bye mom!!!” After finished her reading, Isa’s mom didn’t know where her daughter had gone and begin to look for her daughter in the cold and dark night. The next morning, what she had found was just Isa’s dead body. She was killed by her heart attack with such a very cold weather under the Gonkgo tree. At the evening of Christmas day, Jeson could successfully escape and ran away from his parents without thinking about their feeling. This time, he didn’t care of anything and only wanted to meet Isa. While he was driving on the way back to the district, there was a snow storm which made him couldn’t see anything but he tried to manage his car through the storm. Unfortunately, sliding by ice on the road, his car was crashed with a tree which was just 100 meters far from downtown. His left foot was just lightly injured but his waist was bleeding. After he’s out of the car, he miserably ran through the storm to Isa’s house. When he arrived there, only her mother was seen and then she told him everything happening to Isa and gave him the letter written by her. After he finished it, he was terribly cried and then quickly ran to the university. Arriving there, he instantly looked for a piano and pushed it across the field covered by snow. That moment, he had lost much blood and began to felt tired. When he got to the tree, he saw Isa’s letter inscribed on the tree before she died. Finishing the letter, he immediately replied back by inscribed a poem on the tree then he took out a small box which had the ring in from his pocket. Opening and putting it on the piano, Jeson began to play “4 seasons” once to apologize for missing the graduation day. When it’s over, he started a new one, “secret in winter”. This one was for asking her to marry him with the ring on the piano but this song was not stopped. It was played again and again for many times until the player’s body lacked of blood and lay on the snow. Finally, this couple could stay together in a peace world forever…….

Isa’s Letter inscribed on the Gonkgo tree:

To: Jeson
No matter what happen to our love
No matter how long it takes
No matter how far from you
I don’t care whether we can meet again or not
I don’t care whether you have forgotten me
I just want to tell you a secret
I love you and waiting for you here
From: Isa

Jeson’s poem inscribed on the Gonkgo tree

Spring’s so lovely brings me here
Study same class brings me near
Friendship begins without fear
First love first kiss miss you dear.

Early summer love’s so sweet
No one can beat secret life
But people start to realize
Hearts mouse loves rice starts breaking.

Autumn crop leaves start falling
I am thinking marry you
Due to contest I must move
But I will do, I promise.

Winter’s so cool should be sweet
I come to meet, where are you?
I come back now is to prove
A secret love I need you.

Snow keeps falling from the sky
It’s December, 25
Our song will be played tonight
Please tell me why you’re not waiting for me?

New story " 4 Seasons "

2007-12-28T12:42:00.000+07:00

This is the first story I publish in this blog. It's written by my junior friend and I. There are 4 chapters which is divided via each season. The following text is a part of the story:

…..While the snow which had fallen in the last winter was smelting, spring began its first day of the year on the land of a small district near Tokyo. As the frozen ice over a lake had gone, sound of water crashing against the stones was heard all over a field covered by green grass, and trees began to blossom its flowers. Many kinds of animal got ready for spring. As a local art university located on the middle of the town opened its gates for undergraduates who came from many other places, a friendship between a piano genius boy whose name had just been sent from his old university in Tokyo and a beautiful inhabitant girl was about to began. The boy who was kind, gentle and calm was called Jeson, he was arranged to study at this university by his parents because they thought there’s only this art school was qualified to their son’s ability in Japan. On his first day in a piano technicality class, while Jeson was paying attention to the teacher’s explanation, he felt very strange when a schoolgirl, one of his classmates arrived late and apologized to the teacher. As he turned his face and looked at that girl, he seemed to love her at the first sight but during the class, he could do nothing. Fortunately, after the school, walking along his way home with an umbrella on his hand, Jeson saw the girl to whom he had expecting to say “Hi” was standing under a tree called Gonkgo waiting for the rain stop. This was the best chance for Jeson to know her name. He walked toward her and began his first word, “What a big unexpected rain.” Then he gently looked at her face “Do you have an umbrella?” he continued. “No” she shortly replied. As he heard her answer, Jeson immediately persuaded her to go with him “Why don’t you go with me, I have an umbrella. Staying under a tree while raining is very dangerous.” The girl looked a little bit shy and nodded her head instead of saying “Yes”. That moment, Jeson was very happy but when they started to move, the rain stopped so his umbrella was no longer needed. Jeson thought that the weather didn’t want to help him but when he asked the girl “Where is your house?” she gave him back a surprised answer; their houses were on the same way. Walking her home, Jeson began many questions in purpose to know about her and they were getting along well. Arriving in front of her house, he asked her the last question “What’s your name?”, “Isa, What’s yours?” she replied and asked him. “Jeson” he answered. Then Isa went into her house with saying “Good bye”. After that day, studying in the same class, the same subject and the same time, Jeson could easily made their one-day friendship to become more and more intimate by helping Isa with exercises problem, practicing piano together and walking her home everyday. In every morning, Jeson always waited for Isa in front of her house and then they went to school together. During spring, Jeson was Isa’s closest friend and knew everything about her except she had heart attack. Spring was almost over, Isa still didn’t know Jeson had loved her since their first met but she noticed that he recently acted very strange. Without having any bravery, Jeson didn’t dare to say the truth but he always took her going for a walk along the large field, watching waterfall, relaxing under the Gonkgo tree in order to made romantic feeling before going home. What a fortunate Jeson, one day under the Gonkgo tree, Isa understood and especially she accepted Jeson as her secret boyfriend. That day, he was also given the first kiss too. At the end of spring, the intimate friendship of two students became secret love.

Summer had arrived, the sun shined everywhere, and weather got a little bit hot; trees leaves colored deeper green at the same time some flowers were wilted some were flied by the wind and some had just budded. Sound of singing birds was heard all over the field with the same grass. Summer after spring, day after day, the couple gained much time for staying together and there was no a single day that they didn’t meet each other. Although the sun brightly shined all over the sky, their secret love always went on in darkness. They loved each other very much but their love was not shown in public because Isa had told Jeson that there must be only two of them know about this. In school, they acted like they were classmates but when the class finished; both of them became a quiet couple. They together had made plenty of unforgettable remembrances during the seasons. Every day, Jeson always with Isa went for a walk in the grass field, near the waterfall and relaxed under the Gonkgo tree they’d always been to. After that, He walked her home regularly. By hard working and using their love experience, a song called “4 seasons” was successfully finished in this season. Isa told Jeson that this song represented their unchangeable love. One day, a serious problem happened to Jeson, while he was chatting with several of his classmate during break time, he accidentally told them his secret love with Isa. Unfortunately, that moment, Isa was standing out side the class and heard everything Jeson told his friend. Then she ran away with her a hopelessly face. As one of Jeson’s classmates saw Isa ran away, he immediately told Jeson to follow her but she had already gone far away. Jeson regretted that he shouldn’t have done this and instantly found a best way to correct his fault. The next day, while Isa was sadly walking a lone, Jeson came from behind and held her hand running to the Gonkgo tree. When they stopped there, Jeson began to apologize for his fault and asked Isa to forgive him. After she agreed, she made him promised he had to play “4 seasons” at graduation day for her instead of saying sorry and then he immediately accepted but he didn’t know the real terrible disaster caused by his mistake would appear some day.

To be continued...

Babyvox in Cambodia!!!

2007-12-13T09:16:00.001+07:00

It is the second time that BABY VOX, Korean girlband come to Cambodia, to perform a concert at CTN on 14th December. The ticket price is 5dollars( or 7dollar if i see on advertisement). Now i’m looking forward to see their dancing styles with the hit song such as: Shee, Catch me, Never say goodbye, ASAP…! Their members are Sori, Jin Kyong, Yeun Kyeuong, Eun ji, Min jin.

What's up here?

2007-11-30T14:17:00.000+07:00

This is a cool and cute Chinese singer called Karen Kong singing many sweet songs.

New Book Available now!

2007-11-17T14:05:00.000+07:00

This is the second Mathematical book I have prepared and designed for new Cambodian generation who like Mathematics the most and wanna become one of the top ten in the National Level and International Level. It includes many key strategies and Mathematical Competition in the world. Note: It is not mean that I have done this book, but I am doing this book....

And these are some Math exercises in this book:

1) p(x) and q(x) are polynomials of real coefficients that have no real roots in common, and p(q(x))=q(p(x)) for all x. Prove that the polynomials p(p(x)) and q(q(x)) have no common real roots either.

2) In Dragon Castle, 14-headed baby dragon is sleeping while mummy dragon is making pancakes. She lays them on a plate and leaves home. One head wakes up, eats 1/11 of the pancakes and falls asleep again. Then another head wakes up, eats 1/13 of the remaining pancakes and falls asleep again. Next, three heads wake up at the same time, eat 1/14 of the pancakes each, and finally they wake up the rest of the heads, too. Those who have eaten, do not get any more pancakes, the remaining 9 heads eat them all. (They do not necessarily eat the same number.) How many pancakes may have been on the plate, given that every head ate a whole number of pancakes, and if they had shared them equally, no one would have got more than 143?

3) Let ANC, CLB and BKA be triangles erected on the outside of the triangle
ABC such that \NAC = \KBA = \LCB and \NCA = \KAB = \LBC.
Let D,E,G and H be the midpoints of AB,LK,CA and NA respectively.
Prove that DEGH is a parallelogram.

4) Determine all positive integers a such that
Sn = fpag + fpag2 + ¢ ¢ ¢ + fpagn
is rational for some positive integer n. (For real number x, fxg = x ¡ bxc, where bxc denote
the the greatest integer less than or equal to x.)

5) Let n be a given integer with n greater than 7, and let P be a convex polygon with n sides.
Any set of n¡3 diagonals of P that do not intersect in the interior of the polygon determine
a triangulation of P into n ¡ 2 triangles. A triangle in the triangulation of P is an interior
triangle if all of its sides are diagonals of P.
Express, in terms of n, the number of triangulations of P with exactly two interior triangles,
in closed form.

6) A network of connections among n points is given, such that there is at
least one path connecting any two points. Furthermore each edge in this
network is assigned a positive real number, called its weight. The weight
of a path is defined as the maximum weight of any edges belonging to
the path. For any two vertices x and y define f(x, y) to be the minimum
weight among all the paths connecting x and y. Show that {f(x, y) :
x and y points in the network} has at most n − 1 elements.

Hope all of you who like math will share your ideas regarding these problems. And if you wanna give me some comments, you are more than welcomed to do.

ACE Graduate ceremony!

2007-10-29T20:02:00.000+07:00

25th October this year was one of my auspicious day of my life!!! It was General English graduate ceremony at ACE, Australian Centre for Education, one of the most famous English school in Cambodia! Actually, there was a long path to reach this as I started since January 2006. Students gathered and celebrated.... It was extremely fun and enjoyable... Note: for all friends who had the camera on that day, please send me those pictures as soon as possible, thanks in advance.

Do you know what the advantages of palm tree are

2007-10-05T10:21:00.000+07:00

Palm tree which is a symbol of Cambodian identity provides tremendous advantages:
1. Palm leaves for roofing
2. Palm fruits for cooking and cakes
3. Palm juice for Vinegar, Palm beer and Sugar
4. Palm branches
5. Palm roots for traditional medicines
6. Palm trunk for boats to transport domestic products

How to be successful?

2007-10-05T10:18:00.000+07:00

1. Optimism
2. Looking for possibilities and opportunities
3. Patient and Enjoy life
4. Win-win policy
5. half of full, dream and ambition
6. Learn from mistakes
7. Raise up own self
8. Responsibility
9. Can Control own self
10. Live hopefully

10 mistakes leading to fail!

2007-10-05T10:16:00.000+07:00

1. Pessimism
2. See only problems and difficulties
3. Do not risk, afraid
4. Win-lose
5. Jealous and hate own life
6. Avoid correcting mistakes
7. Look down own self
8. Blame other people and situation
9. Cannot control own self
10. Live hopelessly

IMO problems in Cambodian language, Khmer

2007-07-29T16:49:00.001+07:00

There are 6 complicated problems in IMO! You can share you ideas by publishing comment in my blog!
Don't waste time! Sharing Ideas with me now!

First step to International Mathematical Olympiad!

2007-07-29T16:31:00.000+07:00

This year is the great year for Cambodia to be the first time in IMO, International Mathematical Olympiad! Our four Cambodian representives including Mak Rasmey, Pheng Sovanlandy, Sophanha Thy and my friend Song Kimleang, have done all their best; as a result, they got 3 honourable medals!! It should be the best step for Cambodia in this competition, I think. Although we haven't got any special prizes, I really appreciate all of you!

This is new!

2007-07-12T16:28:00.000+07:00

This is one of the most difficult poem among Cambodian 54 poems!
Please enjoy seeing lah...

New Cambodian national assembly

2007-07-09T18:13:00.000+07:00

( Right )

Cambodia has opened its new National Assembly building, a gold-tiled complex modelled after medieval Khmer temples.

"That day will be a historic day for the Cambodian people," said Chhem Yeam, Chairman of the Banking, Finance and Audition Committee of the assembly.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni will preside over the ceremony, he said.

Parliamentary heads of three neighboring countries, namely Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, together with senior delegations from other countries, are invited to attend the event, he said.

So far, China has provided computers and printers, Vietnam x- ray machine and Japan office materials to greet the inauguration of the new mansion, he added.

On Monday, the contractor handed over the pure Khmer-style building to the assembly, after five years of construction.

The 300-room mansion is built on a two-hectare land at the cost of 26.7 million U.S. dollars. It stands beside the Mekong River, next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia in the heart of Phnom Penh.

Note: Cambodia's old national assembly was built in 1947

Source: Xinhua

Khmer Funny Story

2007-07-01T22:56:00.000+07:00

Memorable experience in my life

2007-06-29T20:05:00.000+07:00

After participating in SEALNet project Cambodia 2007 for 10 days, the project has been successfully completed on July 29th 2007 with joyful, friendship and good group works. During the project, I have learned many things, including leadership skill, public speaking... Moreover, I have been to a few places to learn about Cambodian people's living standard.

We are a big family combined by many people from different places, countries and continents. I really miss all of SEALNet members....

More about SEALNet
www.projectcambodia.wordpress.com

SEALNet Project, CAMBODIA

2007-06-23T18:32:00.000+07:00

Project Cambodia 2007
When: Wednesday 20 June 2007 – Friday 29 June 2007
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Problems

The ancient tradition of Cambodian arts was nearly eradicated during the Khmer Rouge genocide from 1975-1979.
As a result, Cambodia has lost much of its rich traditional culture, and Cambodian youth today are growing up without an awareness of and appreciation for their heritage.
Objectives

Our objective is to empower young Cambodian performing artists and selected high school students to spread awareness of Khmer traditional performing arts in the Cambodian youth community.
Approaches:

SEALNet’s Project Cambodia 2007 aims to prepare young Cambodian performing artists and selected high school students to spread awareness in the youth community by:

Offering workshops for 20 students (10 performing arts students and 10 gifted Bak Touk High School students) to teach public speaking, team building, marketing, event planning, creative problem solving and self-evaluation skills.
Providing opportunities to practice the skills developed in the workshops by planning and presenting two outreach concerts at local public high schools in Phnom Penh.
Establishing a computer lab in the learning center of the non-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) for ongoing instruction in the technology and English skills that are necessary to realize the long-term goal of widespread awareness of and appreciation for Khmer traditional performing arts.
Local Partner

CLA, a project of World Education, works to support the revival of traditional Khmer performing arts and to inspire contemporary artistic expression. CLA supports arts education, mentorship, networking opportunities, education, career development, and income generating projects for master performing artists who survived the Khmer Rouge as well as the next generation of student artists.

Team Member Responsibilities

Each SEALNet team member will be responsible for planning and facilitating one workshop designed to support the objectives of the project.
Each SEALNet team member will also work closely with a small group of students, including both performing arts students and Bak Touk High School students, on a component of planning and presenting the two outreach concerts.
Project Leaders:

Trent Walker
Rith Yoeun
Contact: pc07-leaders 'at' sealnetonline.org

Khmer cultural concert

2007-06-17T16:19:00.001+07:00

As I have been selected as a member of SEALnet, South East Asian Leadership Network. I will participate to contribute the project from 19th June until 30th June.
Moreover, there will be 2 concerts at SISOWAT high school and BAK TOUK high school on 25 JUNE 2007 and 29 JUNE 2007 respectively from 2pm to 3:30pm, so you can join and learn more about Cambodian culture from the concerts. Please be aware that it is FREE to see the concerts!!! No concert is free, yet seeing the concerts will be FREE....

Now It's time to Know what S.2 mean!!

2007-05-27T17:19:00.000+07:00

After posting a question of What does S.2 mean for about 2 weeks, I have gotten quite more e-mails and some guesses of the meaning. However, nobody got 100% the correct answer.
Now I tell you S.2 stand for“ Success Together “! Anyone may wonder the reasons why I created this word as my nickname. To begin with the first experience of my life was completely successful, so that I determined to be a Permanent successful person, to win over everything and to get everything that I want to get. After, I faced a few problems that were obstacles which could not fulfill my dreams. Next, I faced a few times of failure, so I was really exhausted and bored of everything around me. While my feeling was in a worse condition, I thought that everything I met not the failure, but those were experiences which could lead me to be the brightest future leader with high responsibility. Meanwhile, any competitions must have winners and losers, thus losers have to wait successful time and they may have a more successful than the one who got first. According to a proverb that POEPLE BORN NOT TO FAIL BUT TO SUCCESS, it is mean that everybody can be successful.
As a result, Successful Together(S.2) is the word to motivate myself as well as people to respond for all the failures and try to learn from mistakes. S.2 is hided a word that I always tell myself that “ You are not success every time, but you have to choose time to success ”.
Any comments please contact.

Bort Phkar Chhouk Rich

2007-05-12T12:07:00.000+07:00

I composed this poem in the title of < Borng Neng Oun > or < You and me >.

Here's Khmer poem!

2007-05-12T11:52:00.000+07:00

This is one of 54 khmer poetry. We call it < Bort Kor Khor >. In order to compose this poem, we are needed to used all of khmer alphabets, 33, at the begining of each sentences. Moreover, we must use the word with the same alphabet after the first word in every sentence.
Hope you enjoy reading Khmer poetry to recover Cambodian tradition, thanks.

Can you solve Alphametics?

2007-05-09T23:39:00.000+07:00

Do you know Alphametic? It is a popular and interesting mathematical exercises.
An alphametic is an arithmetic puzzle in which letters stand for digits. The problem is to find what digits the letters stand for, to make a true equation. Each letter must stand for a different digit, 0 to 9. A number may not start with 0.
Here's some examples:
mother+father=parent
reak+smey=saing
give+me+more=money
Try these and send me the answer to check!

Ronan Keating To Perform in Cambodia!

2007-05-08T01:15:00.000+07:00

Irish pop star RONAN KEATING who is well-known in some songs particularly " If tomorrow never come " will make history when he performs in Cambodia on 9-May-2007 night at 19:30 at Olympic National stadium. The concert will be the nation's first ever by a major international act. The former Boyzone singer will play to tens of thousands of fans in Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium, as part of a three-date Asian tour, which Cambodian officials hope will boost tourism in the country. Kevin Kouch, senior producer at the Cambodian Television Network, which is sponsoring the event, says, "It's our first time (hosting a headline act). It will be a big success." Cambodian culture official Mom Suth adds, "We hope the group will spread information regarding our culture and tourist potential to the rest of the world."

What is S.2?

2007-05-08T00:41:00.000+07:00

I have a secret nick name which most of my Cambodian friends know only the simple meaning. I think no one have known another meaning yet. Now, I wanna show this to some friends who visit my blog, but I want you to guess it first, please.
My nick name is S.2. The simple meaning is just the abbreviation of my real name, Saing darareakSmey and another meaning is..... Don't be worried, another meaning is not related to my language, thus all of you can try together, in spite of international friends...
The answer will be posted in 2 weeks...
I am looking forward to see the right answer!

Only 1 click, huge information about my country!

2007-05-08T00:07:00.000+07:00

If you want to know more about Cambodia, click here
www.yellowpages-cambodia.com

Vote for Angkor Wat now!!!!

2007-05-02T19:33:00.000+07:00

The world is now on phase of choosing the 7 best candidates for representative of the Earth . Obviously Angkor Wat is one in the list. However , among the 21 candidates , 7 will be selected by voting . Here are some of reasons why you should vote for Angkor .

Why Vote for Angkor Wat?

Represent the beauty of Asian, and the world
The largest religious structure in the world
The home of God
Impressive pieces of heavy stones
Magnificent and impressive ancient architecture (Accurate and exactly symmetry from one another of the 5 peaks)
Almost every part of wall was carved in series of stories
Ancient site for studying astrology
Surrounded by other numerous world class temples
If you are keen on voting for Angkor please log in the website above or click here
It will not take much time and ignore ambassador code .

Note : You can vote as many as you own your email address
On behalf of a Cambodian citizen, i strongly suggest all my friends to vote for Cambodian wonder, Angkor Wat... Thanks in advance.
For vote, click here www.new7wonders.com

What's a news for Guy????

2007-04-30T20:33:00.000+07:00

I used to be a soy fan but now hehe... should i continue ?;P

I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.

Estrogens are female hormones. If you're a woman, you're flooding your system with a substance it can't handle in surplus. If you're a man, you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your "female side," physically and mentally.

In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.

If you're a grownup, you're already developed, and you're able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren't so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby's endocrine system just can't cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them.

Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it's a classic example of a cure that's worse than the disease. For example, if your baby gets colic from cow's milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don't even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it's far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.

Research in 2000 showed that a soy-based diet at any age can lead to a weak thyroid, which commonly produces heart problems and excess fat. Could this explain the dramatic increase in obesity today?

Recent research on rats shows testicular atrophy, infertility and uterus hypertrophy (enlargement). This helps explain the infertility epidemic and the sudden growth in fertility clinics. But alas, by the time a soy-damaged infant has grown to adulthood and wants to marry, it's too late to get fixed by a fertility clinic.

Worse, there's now scientific evidence that estrogen ingredients in soy products may be boosting the rapidly rising incidence of leukemia in children. In the latest year we have numbers for, new cases in the U.S. jumped 27 percent. In one year!

There's also a serious connection between soy and cancer in adults – especially breast cancer. That's why the governments of Israel, the UK, France and New Zealand are already cracking down hard on soy.

In sad contrast, 60 percent of the refined foods in U.S. supermarkets now contain soy. Worse, soy use may double in the next few years because (last I heard) the out-of-touch medicrats in the FDA hierarchy are considering allowing manufacturers of cereal, energy bars, fake milk, fake yogurt, etc., to claim that "soy prevents cancer." It doesn't.

P.S.: Soy sauce is fine. Unlike soy milk, it's perfectly safe because it's fermented, which changes its molecular structure. Miso, natto and tempeh are also OK, but avoid tofu.

Source : To see more details, click here www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327

Suprising Birthday celebration this year

2007-04-30T20:06:00.000+07:00

This was my birthday Cake this year.

This memory is always in my mind

2007-04-30T19:52:00.000+07:00

The picture is shown about one of my best experience and momory in my life. They are my classmate when i had a two-week high school exchange program in Japan on December, 2007.

S.2-AFS Short program students song

2007-04-09T17:13:00.000+07:00

Hi, eveybody esp AFS students! I composed this songs when i was in Japan in AFS short program, in order to keep it as my memories and experiences in life.
The song is used as almost the same melody as a famouse Chinese song called " Lao Su Ai Da mi ", or " Mouse Love Rice ". Hope all of you can enjoy singing the song...