Determination!

Having been ‘on holiday’ for more than one month, I feel that it should be time for me to write something on my blog again. For those who have been waiting for my post must have been thinking that I’ve been too busy to write, or no one is waiting, I guess. ‘Busy’ should not be used as an excuse for being absent. There is someone who is still updating his blog even when he is extremely busy.This morning when I read ‘The Southeat-Asia Weekly’—the newspaper produced by UC, I saw several new articles written by my friend, Vutha. I can see that he has improved so much and so fast in his writing skill. He has many things to do—studying at two universities, working as an assistant in UCSS to prepare programs for UC students, yet he still has time writing new reports for the school’s paper.He’s such an active student who participates in almost all UC's activities. I don’t know how he can do that. He really impresses me. If we are compared, I am not and never want to be as active as he is.When I read those long and well-organised articles, I really admire him and it’s him who indirectly intrigues me to go back in writing posts for my little personal blog. At least I should do that, or else I’ll be left behind.I determine to post at least two articles in a week no matter how busy I am because spending 15 or 20 minutes to write an article does not waste much time.Thanks to Vutha and his articles!

Love Story

Of late, I’ve been reading several novels, one of which is ‘Jane Eyre’ that I got interested in. The story was written by Charlotte Borntë and first published in 1990.Jane Eyre is a poor, plain, and simple girl whose life is full of hardship and misery. Losing of parents since she was born, she became an orphan and had to live with her aunt, Mrs Reeds, who and whose children dislike her and always treat her worse than a maid without a reason. She is always scolded at and punished. At the age of eight, when her aunt wants to get rid of her, she is sent away to a charity school where she has to live on herself without support from a family. Although the living there is quite poor (less food, less clothes, strict rules…), she likes it since it’s much better than where she is from. She learns the knowledge and manages to survive. She stays there for ten years. After that, she leaves the school and works as a governess of a girl in Thornfield House, where she meets her true love, Mr. Rochester, around 40 years old, the owner of the house. They are in love with each other. However, the secret of Mr. Rochester breaks off their marriage. Taking us by surprise, Mr. Rochester has got a mad wife who is locked inside the house. His wife inherits the madness from her family, and Mr. Rochester never knows it until they are married and live together. Mr. Rochester had been very sad and is always in bad temper. He has always been looking for someone who he can truly love. When he meets Jane, he knows she is the one. Therefore, he proposes marriage to Jane, and she agrees. On the day of her marriage, Jane knows the secret and leaves the house with sadness and helpless no matter what Mr. Rochester says. She has no where to live and she has no job. When she is dying of hunger, she is rescued by a family consisting of two sisters and a brother. Later, they find out that they are cousins when their uncle, John, who is also Jane’s uncle, dies and leaves Jane with $20,000. She divides the treasure into four and shares with her cousins who have saved her life. She is proposed to marry by her cousin, but she refuses him because deeply in her heart, Mr. Rochester fully occupies. Therefore, she goes back to Thornfield House to see him. Unexpectedly, when she is there, the House is never there; it’s just a pile of rock and ruin. Everything is burnt down by a fire caused by Mr. Rochester’s mad wife. Mr. Rochester, who managed to save all people in the house from fire, is badly injured. Sadly, he has lost one of his legs and becomes blind; still, he couldn’t manage to save his wife who jumped from the window and died. In the end, Jane comes back to Mr. Rochester, marries to him, and serves him because she knows he is the only one she loves and loves her. Luckily, one of his eyes is able to see again after years of treatment. They have got a child and live happily ever after.I love this story much since it teaches us to struggle for life, to look for happiness by ourselves, to forgive and forget, and to think positively even we are facing a problem. Of course, there are many things that we can learn solely from a novel, and it’s also the reason that I like reading it. I hope all of you start to love novels and learn the moral it tries to give to us.

My destination in the future !

I am have always been persuing the best things for my life and people around me. I have been into Universities that I believe the best. I have been dreaming of spreading my help to the whole wide world...

I MISS YOU?

Once my friend asked me if ‘I miss you’ can be used for someone who does not have intimate relationship with us, i.e. besides the relationship of girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife.At that time, my immediate respond was ‘yes’. I believe that I can say ‘I miss you’ to my parents, my siblings, my friends, and anyone who we do miss. There should be no restriction in using it. However, when considering more deeply, can a friend say ‘I miss you’ to an opposite sex when he/she doesn’t mean to have a girlfriend-boyfriend relationship?Most of the times, ‘I miss you’ is concurrently used with ‘I love you’ when speaking or writing to a lover. When a boy/girl who just has a simple relationship with the one to whom the phrase is used, does it imply his/her love for the person or can it mean just a simple ‘I miss you’?I’ve searched on the internet and looked up in dictionaries. ‘Miss’ means feeling regret at the absence of loss of sb/sth or feeling of lacking of sb. From this definition, it seems that the person we miss is very important to us. If we don’t have any biological relationship, the person must be the one we really care about and are worried of all the time. So, it’s natural that one is confused when seeing or hearing someone writes or says these words to him/her.I often use ‘I miss you’ to my friend regardless of boy or girl. I hope there hasn’t been any misunderstanding of what I really mean. From my own view, I want to use ‘I miss you’ for everyone that I do miss, no matter who the person is.And you?

Knowledge in Traffic Law

Are you driving a vehicle? Have you ever been fined because of violating traffic law? And have you got a driving license? If your answers are ‘Yes’ for the first questions, it means that you don’t thoroughly understand the traffic law. It is a must to understand the law and abide it so that there will be fewer cases of traffic accidents which cause injury and fatality.This Saturday (25th July) my friend and I went to the Safety Riding Center established and organized by the N.C.X Honda Co., Ltd, which provides Road Traffic Law and Safety Riding Course with free of charge. The course takes one whole day which includes real riding training and theory study. A certificate is provided after we have successfully finished it. This certificate is one of the requirements in test registration for driving license.The N.C.X Safety Riding Center is located in the N.C.X Honda company compound along the Street Vengsreng, Sangkat Chom Chao, Khan Dangkor, Phnom Penh (nearby the Canacity Market). Every trainee is required to bring along a photocopy of I.D card or family book or birth certificate and two pieces of 4 x 6 size current photos. The application forms to apply for driving course is provided at the Center.After the one-day course, I’ve learned several things especially the law. I’ve realized that I’ve violated the law in several aspects so far. Now, I feel like following the law more than before. I believe that if all drivers have attended the course, they will be more conscientious in abide by the road traffic law when they are driving in the way I experience. Traffic in Cambodia will be improved!