Went back home recently, and one of the things I got back from Cambodia was the confirmation of the theory on how out of place and out of touch I was with the so-called youth generation.
1. Music: music are hard to appreciate these days let alone listen to. CCNP (copy, cut n paste) perhaps sums up the music scene nicely. To spice things up a bit, add some half-Khmer-half-English to the mix. If there is one thing original about it, it must be that almost all of the songs are either about “crying girls” or “heart-broken guys“. Didn’t know that the youth generation were this kinda sad.
2. Movies: people are scared of ghosts, but people love scary movies. Ghost movies are in every cinemas at almost every slots, ghost stories are everywhere, ghosts are behind you while you’re reading this, by the way.
3. Arts: When was the last time you befriended with someone so inspirational or just have some tastes in arts? Don’t remember anyone though…
4. Social life: Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Blogger. Oh wait, they don’t call Blogger, they call Cloggers. C stands for Cool, Calm and Collected Cambodia, I guess. Whatever…
5. Football: people with a good taste in football are rare these days, the rest either call themselves ManU fans or are simply clueless about football.
6. Public behavior: 3 guys meet up in public. One guy pulls out something black resembling a brick. No! it’s his new Nokia N series. Not to be outcooled, the other guy starts showing off his new crying-girl and heart-broken-guy songs in his latest iThis, iThat, iWhatever-whatever. The third guy cannot hear a thing. How can he? when his music headset is bigger than his a**.
7. Names: his name is James. Right, his name is James. Back in his hometown, they call him “Ah Sampoch”. James, my a**.
8. Hobbies: “Let’s have a party! Can someone bring the cards?”. What the hell, can’t we even have a party for once without the petty gambling? No we can’t. I’m sure without playing cards, someone might go crazy of gambling starvation.
Thankfully though the world is created so that everyone has a place (to hide). The things I see as lame may be the coolest things to those on the other side of the spectrum. Wait, I should be careful of giving opinions these days, who know such thing could cause oil price to hit record high. Don’t blame me if tomorrow headline reads “Oil Price Hits Record High after someone from somewhere making some random remarks”.
Oh well, whatever…back to something more entertaining.
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11 Wonderful Comments:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Out of place, out of touch, and outdated too lolz… well hey, welcome back!
July 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
5. What exactly did you mean when you said people with football taste are rare, but went on to say the rest are Man United fans? Come on! Man United fans have the best taste of all football fans, don’t you think?
7. I do have a friend who calls himself Phillip, but whose real name is “Ah Kragnagn” at home!
8. Yes you can have a party w/o gambling. You just have to drink a lot. And throw up a lot as a consequence.
July 12th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
samphors: errr…wat is the definition of update then?
GP: 5. should mean that MANU become a easy refuge for those barely football. I thought that’s a compliment.
8. yes, but yes in theory. But drinking is worst either way.
:-P: negative or positive is a matter of opinions. What is “uh oh…” about? 
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
hi vireak. im sorry i have to post it here, i couldnt find your email address. i found you through khmerbird’s. i would like to invite you to khmerwitica.com. it’s a new khmer community. we hope to see you sign on and contribute to this growing community. if possible, please link us to your blogroll to help us w/ the search engine. thank you.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:07 am
hehe, i can’t say that i can relate with your experiences in cambodia culture, but i sometimes feel the same way with young people nowadays…
i feel like some people just want to be cool and don’t embrace their individuality…
it’s too bad because it’s boring to always conform just to be cool…
hope you’re doing well vireak! =)
July 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Nice observation there. whereabouts in Cambodia you encountered those kind of things? Haha.. I find your point number 3 very interesting. Clogger? such a nationalist. Anyway, looking forward to playing soccer with you and others senior again ^_^