The good thing about leaving school is that you can pretend  to care a little bit about the well-beings of your ex-school mates and friends by doing something useful such as forming an alumni club. I too pretend to care of beloved friends… how are they doing? have they found a job? or worse are they still virgin?

So I came up with this amazing idea of alumni club. Voilà , welcome to the club! Our activities are:

1. Football this saturday, beer afterwards.
10. More football this sunday, more beer too.

Now I know that’s not prestigious enough. Club & associations nowaday need to look or pretend to look high-class to improve the social status of its members. Just ask most khmers with a Lexus. Well then, shall we invite some Excellencies to join our football session too? We’re pretty sure the Excellencies would be more involved rather than bore themselves to the oblivion with hour-long speeches by some random unknowns like us.

Talking about invitation, we hope you don’t mind we cannot put up the invitation in the national newspaper like other prestigious clubs. We’re only used to caveman means of communications through the things called letter, email or phone. It’s a bit lame and cheapo, but hey you’ll get football and beer. What else can you ask for?

Back in 2004, during an official ceremony, the organizer politely requested me to do a public translation of the guest of honor’s speech to then foreign guests joining the event. I politely refused. The foreign guests were left in the cold and bemused as to what the hell the guest of honors were talking about.

Hope that with this guide, those who cannot followed would have some ideas of what going on. Not to say it’s always correct, remember it’s just a guide.

• First 10 mins: Salutation to each guest in the event, name by name completed with name title followed by cheers and clappings. (forgetting the name title may get the speaker fired)
• 10-30mins: Nice complimentary speech on the speaker boss, upper boss, big boss, all the bosses up the heirachy followed by cheers and clappings. (in related news, the TV seems to broadcast only this part)
• 30-50mins: History lessons and reminders of the past between 1975 till now followed by cheers and clappings.
• 50-55mins: Summary of the acheivements of the speaker’s team followed by cheers and clappings.
• 55-70mins: Classic text-book pledges for the better future followed by cheers and clappings.
• 70-80mins: Nice complimentary speech on the speaker boss, upper boss, big boss, all the bosses up the heirachy followed by cheers and clappings. (I’m wrong, the TV loves this part too)
• 80-90mins: Thanks to each guest in the event, name by name completed with name title followed by cheers and clappings. (forgetting the name title may get the speaker fired)

So I have to restart this blog again on the order by the subdecree from the ministry of domestic affairs. Here is the preview of what are on the menu the next few weeks:

1. Look what I got for breakfast! The most awesome sandwich ever…………………..ever.
2. Behold! the new song by a random youtube video. I’m not sure whether you like it, but I don’t care.
3. Here is a cute cat picture I got from a random internet surfing.
4. I feel I need to share this amazing story I got from some random email forwarder, please forward this story to 100 friends otherwise the earth will explode.
5. Check out my facebook page for an update on my twitter page which I tweet about an update in my blog page which I ask to check out my tumblr page which I have some update about my IM status. And all theses are done while I am in the toilet doing a rather important business.

You just love the internet that it single-handedly gives all meanings to all theses.

Anyway I’ve decided to keep the same theme and design I have since the start  4 years ago with a few minors changes:

• you can now comment on all pages, not just blog posts
• the post title is cleaned to remove all small meta details and font size is slightly increased
• the comment link is moved to the bottom right of the post instead of just under the title
• all unecessary post items, links and inactive links are removed

It sure is quiet in here, I could hear the echo.

>ping “anybody home?”

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to ”anybody home?”, timeout is 2 seconds:

…..

Success rate is ∞ percent (∞/∞), round-trip min/avg/max = ∞/∞/∞ ms

Last year’s general public warnings!

Last last year’s general public warnings!

They say Khmer are generally quiet quite patient, in a way that we tend to accept whatever given or forced on us. But the common wisdom is that if you’re good at something, you’re bad at something else, or in this case, if you gain something, you miss on something else.

Khmer are patient, good thing or bad thing? Let see!

Told you already, Khmer are awesomely patient!

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