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

Told you already, Khmer are awesomely patient!

And more patient!

*Dilbert Comics by Scott Adams

1. Welcome to “Koh Aksontesok” daily news, Cambodia’s most read newspaper. Today’s headlines are:

• “Traffic accident at Kbal Thnol causing minor injuries and major jam”
• “Fake rape story causes national outcry”
• “Superstitious witch craft blamed for latest series of traffic accidents”

2. Welcome to “See Ot Ot” TV, Cambodia’s biggest Television network. Today’s show is:

3. Welcome to “Hear Ot Ot” radio, Cambodia’s most popular radio show. The first song of the day titled “Crying girls and heart-broken guys”, requested by the Man Who Lacks Heart, is going out to:

Ms. Ni (thomthom), Ms. Na (bigbig), Ms. Né (phone star in poipet) , Mr. Nonaké, Mr. Eyké, Mr. Sondouy, Mr. Hearbroken (fellow man who lacks heart), Mr. Keke (fish vendor at Tonlé sap), Mr. Ko (hunter in Ratankiri) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………. 10 minutes later ………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. bang nis, bang nus, bang nak, bang nok, bang nao, bang nong, à jak, à jem, à jok, à jom, à lom, à la, and all listeners to this program as well as all 14 million fellow khmers at home and abroad”

This song is coming right up, but first let’s meet our sponsor:

[..after the break...] Due to time constraint, we’re able to play only 30 seconds of the song. Let’s welcome our next program “Phone-in Karaoke”.

4. Welcome to “Roeung Ké Té”, Cambodia’s most subscribed magazine. Biggest story of this issue is:

Mr. Z, a rich man, is married to Mrs. Y. A well-known actress is rumored to be having something on with Mr. Z. Guess what will happen next? Fantastic prizes to be won!

5. Welcome to “Proleung” cinema, Cambodia’s most popular theater and cineplex. Today’s program is:

• 16:00 – 18:00 : An affair with her spirit! (a horror movie based on true story)
• 18:00 – 20:00 : Spirit awaken! (a horror story based on true movie)
• 20:00 – 22:00 : Mirror girl! (a true movie based on horror story)

6. Welcome to “Ha ha ha”, Cambodia’s most popular comedy show. Today’s show is:

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*Content could not be displayed due to extreme uses of profanity, drugs and mature references.

How? Easy as 123!

Step 123!

Try to understand what this mean! Once you do, use it! 100% oh-so-cool guaranteed!

Not sure how to spell it correctly. But the siem-reap-oh-so-cool-way-khmer-speaking accent is all about oh-so-cool spoken Khmer…not oh-not-so-cool written one.

Hint: it’s an adjective used to describe human…:-p

To learn more about Siem Reap goodies, go here, here and here!

If you really want to know though, the Cambodia’s Internet Scene is actually a lot more just the above companies. To be exactly, as of August this year, there are up to 20 (twenty) internet entities in Cambodia. (by comparison, our neighbors Laos has less than ten, while Vietnam has just over twenty)

Not all of the twenty are internet service providers (ISP), but it’s still pretty impressive considering a report of only 44,000 Cambodians have internet access compared to 16 millions in Vietnam.

Interesting enough, out of the twenty, 6 of them are brand-new start-up companies registered in 2007 including one with “THE BEST VERVICE IN THERE”. Yes, it’s “VERVICE“. Don’t believe me? Here is the list of Who is who in Cambodia’s Internet scene: Cambodian Internet ASN Aug07.pdf

Disclaimer: Such info is freely available in the internet. Use it at your own risks. Vireak shall not be liable for any loss or damage. Don’t ask how I get all these. Go figure out yourself!

La’eng

[hint] it’s an adjective used to describe human.

If you get it right, you’ll get an ice cream as long as I get an ice cream if you get it wrong. Deal?

1. Mahori – Phoumea Tak Lolok [MP3|6MB]

2. Mahori – Khrang Phka [MP3|9MB]

3. Mahori – Khaek Mon [MP3|9MB]

4. Mahori – Sat Heu [MP3|6MB]

5. Mahori – Saray Nimnoun [MP3|6MB]

6. Mahori – Sorya [MP3|8MB]

7. Mahori – Toch Yum [MP3|8MB]

8. Mahori – Khmer Plom Slek [MP3|8MB]

9. Mahori – Soy Son [MP3|9MB]

10. Pinpeat – Preah Chinnavong [MP3|4MB]

11. Pinpeat – Tep Monorom [MP3|5MB]

La’eark
What the hell does it mean?

[hint 1] it’s a verb used to tell things in a way we do not like

Whenever I speak this word, people think I’m an alien and ask “where are you from?”. Then again, maybe I am indeed an alien. No wait, I’m not exactly an alien. I’m just from Siem Reap.

And you do realize that apart from Angkor Wat and hundreds of other temples, there is one more thing that differentiate Siem Reap from the rest of Cambodia. It’s the way we speak.

You might have heard of it before or you might have never heard of it before. So I thought it might be fun to put this word up for people to guess what does it mean? If you happens to know this word, please be silent for a while. Vireak, alien or not alien. It’s you to decide.

No prize, no free dinner for this though! Unless someone generous to give me a good deal for my fridge. Then I may give you free dinner. But then if guess wrongly….how about a treat?

1. the Khmer girl I like is gonna get married soon after that,

2. the fear of stepping on someone’s foot while dancing,

3. new year is coming….but my exams are coming as well,

4. my knees may not be able to sustain all the knocks,

5. there won’t be enough girls to play traditional games with,

6. someone help me! I still don’t know how to dance,

7. my brain may not be able to memorize all the girls’ names…how lucky,

1. Cambodia to introduce a new law aiming to curb with increasing practices of wedding-parties-cum-thousand-dollar-businesses. The wedding business in which the organizer often invite as many as thousand known and unknown guests just to collect gifts and money presents, is become increasingly unethical and out-of-control. It’s not uncommon for an ordinary guy to receive 4 or 5 invitations in the same day. So our dear lawmakers won’t sit still. One lawmaker proposes a new law which limits the number of invitations to 500 only per wedding party. Cool!

2. The new wedding party law is so popular that it is approved by all except one young lawmaker who is absent. One the eve of the day which the law is scheduled to come in to effect, the lawmaker who proposes the idea receives 501 wedding invitations. The 1 invitation is from the young lawmaker who is absent. Still well within the law, oh well!

3. A Cambodian TV to have an idol-styled singing competition. Or is there already such program? Hmm, when was the last time I watched Khmer entertainment programs? 3, 4 years ago…oh well.

4. One of Cambodia most popular male singers releases a song whose title is translated as “Pain on the horizon“.

The song goes on to win the best foreign-language song of the year award because everyone thinks the guy sing a language that isn’t khmer.

(Anyone knows any new modern songs that can be understood in khmer at the moment? All those songs, I don’t know what the hell they’re singing. I only know that if it’s not painful, it must be hurtful. It’s as if everytime they write a lyric, someone is dying somewhere. Oh well!)

5. In an attempt to explain that he indeed sings the song “Pain on the horizon” in khmer, the male singer releases another song titled “Hurtful ‘coz of misunderstanding“.

The song is so nice that it goes on to win the award of the year for the best song that no-one understands.

6. But all is forgotten when it is announced that the best artist of the year award goes to guess-who “my brother” who releases his greatest hit single titled “sailing“:

“Sailing” sung by my brother is widely considered as the greatest thing ever happened to entertainment – be it group entertainment or mainstream one. Anyone whoever listens to my brother singing the song raw knows this. The song is available on “Sompoch Production” only.