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Happy New Year 2011!

2011-01-01T02:24:00.000-08:00

May 2011 will be another great year for all of us. It's one of the year that I like just simply it contains the number 11 that I like. Today is 1/1/11, and I completely finished move to my small little new house. I've done a lot of things in 2010, although it wasn't an easy year, but with all the helps and supports from family and friends.. it became one of the most successful and enjoyable year I've ever had. Special thanks to all of you who stick together with me throughout this time.

Happy New Year!!

Chheng

2010-09-21T22:24:00.000-07:00

Hi blog and everyone..

Today I’m so tired by studying for the midterm since after got back from work. It's more three months I haven’t taken any exam. I'm pretty much only stepped out for my bedroom to have dinner.. other than that, I’ve been sitting in this back chair for a more than 6 hours.. will soon get to a point of don't know what I’m happened to read :) but good that it is not there yet.

Life with school and work full time is very challenge, but it is productive if you can handle it.

Chheng

2010-03-15T00:28:00.000-07:00

DO .....
always respect yourself.
always maintain your personal integrity.
always help someone else when you can.
always rely on your spiritual strength.
always set higher goals.
always meet deadlines.
always check your work.
always remember your primary goals.

Although i still remember to do all of the above., but I believe that I did so bad on one of my midterm last week.. either coz it's hard or coz I didn't pay enough attention to study the exam, i will still have to accept the result, and this makes me even more stressful after taking the exam.

Chheng

2010-03-04T00:02:00.001-08:00

Sampling:
-To get a good representation of sound in digital format, we need to sample its amplitude at a rate (sample per second, smp/s) equal to at least twice the max frequency (in Hz) of the analog signal.
-After sampling, the signal amplitudes must be put in digital form---this process call quantization. 8 bits per sample are usually used for telephone voice, and 16 bits per sample for each channel for stereophonic compact disc.
Level of amplitude can be distinguished: 2^8 = 256 or 2^16 = 65536
Digital data in bits = 4000 *2 *8bit/sample = 64,000 bps
Compact disc = 44,100 *2*16 =1.41 Mbps

2010-02-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

Happy Chinese New Year!! Wish this is going to be another great year~

Chheng

Happy Valentine's Day 2010

2010-02-08T12:08:00.000-08:00

Sophia's 5-6 months old..

2010-01-22T16:51:00.000-08:00

2010-01-22T09:08:00.001-08:00

2010-01-22T09:04:00.000-08:00

I'm back again.. !!

2010-01-07T23:37:00.000-08:00

I'm back again.. is there anyone still follow up my blog??

All the set up at Claremont down in California and the first semester at graduate school keep me extremely busy, but they are all worth it. Overall, everything went well!!

Life in graduate school could consider to be harder than in undergrad since there are a lot more writing need to be done. Those long research papers require ton of reading from journals and articles,, include information from some video clips on Youtube.. The first semester in grad school has kept me stay up almost the whole night for a few times.. it changes my healthy living style quite a bit since I've been trying to get myself to go to bed before midnight since my second year in undergrad.

If some of you have heard that "a week of class in grad school is equal to the entire quarter in undergrad"... this is quite true.. i don't mean to make grad school experience sounds scary at all... hint hint: most of my classmates and me still survive after all. :))

Chheng

2009-07-13T19:35:00.001-07:00

http://www.wowody.com/

2009-06-14T20:20:00.000-07:00

I'm finally graduated from Seattle University!!!

Chheng

2009-06-07T01:13:00.000-07:00

It's 1:15am now, and I'm still in school. This is the first time in my life that I happen to stay in school this late. I stayed here just to write my theology research paper.

Chheng

2009-05-26T17:43:00.000-07:00

The Mission Statement that I just created :)

To appreciate and enjoy the great opportunities have been given to me. I will strive for achievement, confidence, responsibility, and helpfulness while being an undivided source of love to my families, friends and other in the communities. I promise to give more and expect less and to leave this world a better place knowing that I was in it.

Chheng

2009-04-12T12:56:00.000-07:00

It's another new year coming up.. this time gonna be the khmer new year, I believe this year is on the 13, 14 and 15th instead of 14, 15 and 16th as some of my friends tell me.. I don't know why is that too, but the calendar says that.

Khmer new year is nothing important in here coz school still open, so I basically don't do anything for it. anyway, I better go get some coffee and start to do my work.

Happy Khmer New Year to everyone!

Chheng

Happy birthday to Lyjing!

2009-04-09T15:08:00.000-07:00

Dear Jing Jing....

I just read Lyna's blog, and it reminds me a lot about you. It's true that you have been good at getting people's attention. Not only had you got a lot of attentions from your 5 sisters, but probably most of us as well. It's all just because you were cute and very lovely. I remember even my neighbor would sell more than 40 vitamin C pills to you for 100 riel, while they normally sell 10 of them for 100 riel to other people.

You were good at applied your social skills, and you were also quickly learn who's side is more powerful to be with. Every time when I argue with Mei, you would choose to be with her because you know she was more powerful at home. When I take you to swim, you know how to manage to get others to help you gather all your swimming supplies while you didn’t have to do anything at all. Good huh?

We all realized we have been treating you unfair, but we just can't stop it. Moreover, we just have to admit nothing is being fair in this world. Every time when your mom calls me to pick up you or Ping to my house because you both were fighting at home. When I get there, no matter whether it's the time you were wrong and you made Ping cried, we prefered to have you all the time.

Jing, I know will be so happy by seeing all of these words. Today should be ok because it's your birthday!! I know that every time I say this, there must be someone around telling me not to let you hear this; otherwise, you would be so hyper!! :)

Have a good one!! love you.

Chheng

IQ Test link

2009-04-04T20:20:00.001-07:00

Try this IQ Test, I just went through it, quite interesting.. most of them base on the logical thinking.

I don't mind if you want to share your score :)

Chheng

2009-03-31T00:14:00.000-07:00

Last week, I came across an article says researchers in Singapore developed a treatment that could eventually cure for Hepatitis B, which is the virus that didn't have any medication could be cured before.

Click here to read the whole article if you want.

Chheng

my plant

2009-03-23T13:22:00.001-07:00

2009-03-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

Hear Xiang passed away on March 18,2009 in New York due to his health condition.

~Chheng

2009-03-19T09:52:00.000-07:00

An interesting quote from the starbuck cup :

"Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching TV [include online show,etc...] - which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets! The biggest problem with mess media isn't low quality - it's high quantity. Cutting down just an hour a day would rovide extra years of life - for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffe" ~Michael Medved

Do Starbucks try to encourage people to drink more coffee or people really watch too much TV? who know? :)

I still have one more final exam on Friday and will be done for this quarter.. good luck to those of you who is also on the final exam week!! but maybe don't study too hard... life could be real short sometime. One of my friend was suddenly passed out during his presentation in class yesterday, and he is now still in the hospital.. part of this could caused by the stress.

~Chheng

2009-02-20T00:14:00.001-08:00

Will stop blogging for probably a few months..

I think I get senioritis.!!

~Chheng

Game score!! :))

2008-12-28T14:19:00.000-08:00

haha.. unbelieveable.. Heang scored the highest among all of us!!

~Chheng

2008-12-08T12:11:00.000-08:00

"Recession is coming to town"

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

It's hitting you once,
It's hitting you twice
It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise
Recession is coming to town

It's worthless if you've got shares
It's worthless if you've got bonds
It's safe when you've got cash in hand
So keep cash for goodness sake, HEY

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash I'm telling you why
Recession is coming to town!

Finance products are confusing
Finance products are so vague
The banks make you bear the cost of risk
So keep out for goodness sake,OH

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

This is funny and so true toward the current financial market condition.

Chheng

2008-12-02T12:44:00.000-08:00

人生吧，0歲出場，10歲快樂成長；20為情彷徨；
30基本定向；40拼命打闖； 50回頭望望；60告老還鄉；
70搓搓麻將；80曬曬太陽； 90躺在床上；100掛在牆上!...

生的偉大，死得淒涼！能牽手的時候，請別只是肩並肩，
能擁抱的時候，請別只是手牽手，能在一起的時候，
請別輕易分開！

2009新概念
一個中心：一切以健康為中心。
兩個基本點：遇事瀟灑一點，看事糊塗一點。
三個忘記：忘記年齡，忘記過去，忘記恩怨。
四個擁有：無論你有多弱或多強，一定要擁有真正愛你的人，
擁有知心朋友，擁有向上的事業，擁有溫暖的住所。
五個要：要唱，要跳，要俏，要笑，要苗條。
六個不能：不能餓了就吃，不能渴了就喝，不能困了就睡，
不能累了就歇，不能病了不檢查，不能老了再後悔!

2008-11-28T00:00:00.000-08:00

I've been really enjoy my 3 days holiday, going out, relax, watching drama.. yeah.. I finished one set of Singapore drama that has 58ep in 3 days. Maybe it's good and bad coz I got two presentations next week and all final exam in the following week.

These few days I can only feel that I don't want to do anything.. and every time when I'm lazy.. I only try to tell myself that thing will turn out to be fine, just keep playing ;D I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do or not...but human being need to relax and have fun... getting lazy is just one of the regular habit we all have. I think tonight I'm way too awake coz of the shot of espresso I had this afternoon.

Anyway.. yesterday was the Thanksgiving day in the U.S., and we called today the Black Friday.. almost all the store has some sort of big sales going on. Especially.. store like WalMart, Target, BestBuy.... I went to the mall with my English teacher this afternoon at 2pm.. there were still quite busy in the mall, but I'm sure it's much better than in the morning.

I remember last year I saw people start line up at around 1pm on Thursday at BestBuy, and by 8pm at night, one of my mom's friend who lives close to BestBuy called us, he said there were at least 100 people are in the line, and it's possibly that the line extend to more than 500 people by 5am on Friday. These shoppers really wait over day & night in front of those big stores, some of them have chairs. The more conditioned Black Friday shoppers had sleeping bags and tents.. while a group of my friends last year in L.A, California got into the line at 9pm on Thursday and playing card games all night long... Fun & Crazy??

For this year.. I heard that the hot item of the day from BestBuy was a Toshiba laptop for $379. Well.. not everyone wait in line will be able to get these hot item.. they might only have 10 to 20 of them at each store.. to prevent fights and too much confuse, these stores normally have their employees came out around 3 a.m. to pass out tickets to the first people in line. The ticket guaranteed that they would get the item, as long as they check out the items by 9 a.m. Try to get into the store just the first part of it.. but to check out from the store.. maybe they got to wait in line for another hour or longer.

I would say it's not worth to do this at all, even to a person has so much free time.. think of what if you will get sick ? or something even worse like those headlines on the news today.. WalMart employees trampled to death by shoppers. This kind of shopping really involve certain level of risk!!

Ok.. althought I'm still not sleepy..but it's time to go to bed.. Have a good night everyone.!!

Chheng

2008-11-21T23:24:00.000-08:00

I went to the Microsoft's software division this morning to see something like this..!!

The mouse at Microsoft Corporation.

Chheng

2008-11-20T13:33:00.001-08:00

hey everyone,

if you get sometime, help me do some clicking on this link.. >>

http://ecis.seattleu.edu/students/2008/fall/ecis469/soeungs/PHP/SuchengSoeung_hwk3.php

It's just for my assignment, which I need to gather more information about the site visitors.

Thanks!

Chheng

11/11

2008-11-11T13:49:00.000-08:00

Today is the holiday here.. No school..! and I'm not in the mood to work on anything at all...simply just because it's holiday and it's 11/11!! one of my favorites day. I really feel like I'm on vacation. :)

Chheng

2008-11-09T21:54:00.000-08:00

The last time I saw grandma was 3 years ago when I visited Cambodia.. I still remember helping her play the card game, but I'm not good at it at all. Grandma definitely plays better than me with her many years of experience in it. Although she was in her 80s, but she is still very clear on what's going on around. It's also been one of my plan that no matter how busy I am, for sure I will go back to Cambodia on my grandma's 90th birthday, and even Mei who never really plan to visit Cambodia since she has came to the U.S. also agree with this plan.

However, grandma left this world to the heaven on Nov 6th, she was 88th years old.

I felt like so many things going on this week.. On Friday morning, I learned that my grandma in Cambodia had passed away once I woke up, then an hour later I took my mom to renew her driver license because she need to do that before she can go back to cambodia. On the way to the driver license department, I got my first speeding ticket. I didn't intend to speed, I wasn't in a hurry, and I didn't even notice what is the speed I was driving. That damn ticket cost $157 and I will have to go to the court for that. On the school side, I scored below class average on one of myexam and it's the first time so far in this year.

~Chheng

Trick-OR-Treat??

2008-10-31T17:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone!!

Today I don’t have any classes, so I went to play Ping Pong with some of my friends this morning, came back, had lunch, and then watching drama until now. Life like this is really easy, isn’t it?

My friends asked me to go to the haunting house tonight, but I told them I’m not going. I don’t really know what I want to do either.. First I planned to study for my Operation class’s exam on Wed, but still not in the mood for that yet. I think I’m probably still worried that I didn’t do well on one of my exams last week. The exam was easy and I think screwed it :( I know this is all what “I think…” I believe many of you understand how this feels like.

Life still need to move on anyway,,, coz there are still many items on my to-do list that need to be done by the end of Nov, and those are not that fun at all beside the one that I will be helping my school interview some new faculties next week. hahaha.. it's my turn to formally interview other people instead of being interviewed all the time.

Mei is having her accounting competition tomorrow morning at 7.30am… but it’s too early for me, so I will be just sleep in instead of going to cheer her up.

ps....Mei., I’m so proud of you.. I know you will do well and I hope you win!!! Jacklyn said Good luck to you!! Good luck, Good luck!!

Chheng

2008-10-25T20:37:00.000-07:00

Since my last post until now, every time I want to blog, there seemed to be always better things to do rather than blog.. but today kinda different since I'm suppose to study for my two midterms on next Tues & Wed, so blogging is definitely a better thing to do when compare to study for this kind of exam, which the prof. want to test for a total of 16 chapters all together.. it's like half of the book, and the exam sytle would be all essay type.

maybe I should stop complaining about all this.. go find something to eat is better.!! :)

have a good weekend to all of you.. !!

Chheng

2008-10-13T22:12:00.000-07:00

Funny! Funny!! Very Funny!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/house.divided/index.html

http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html?v=/ted/movies/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005&cid=/ted/movies

Chheng

2008-08-27T19:20:00.001-07:00

Hello.... Blog & Everyone!!

It's been long time since my last log in..!! all just coz the summer here has been so great.. I work during week day, have fun in the evening and of course on the weekend as well.. In the last two weeks, I went to Vancourver twice!! I got to ride a bicycle in a largest park in Vancouver with Polin... my sweetie, that's like my first time to ride it again in 7 years. what else,, let me think~~~ oh.. pick black berry, but too bad, all the good one got to go to Polin since I was afraid of eating them coz those hasn't been washed yet. :D Next time I will make sure I get to go visit more places in there....

yeah..,, it's only two more weeks left for my internship, and I'm on the last step of my project.. maybe I can finish it this week, then will add one extra thing on it., so after I leave there, my coworker will able to easily takeover what I have been doing so far. However, for next week alone, I will have to do two the same presentations, and after that they will let me know whether I will get a full time job offer for next year or not. I won't comment on how I plan to handle that coz everything here is not private. :))

~Chheng

2008-07-02T10:00:00.000-07:00

Washington Goes Hands Free
Starting July 1, Washington drivers must use a hands free device when using their cell phone while driving. Drivers will face a $124 ticket for violating the ban which is considered a secondary offense.

Some bank robbery statistics for the U.S & Washington State:

The FBI's Burroughs said Tuesday's bank robbery was the 74th in the state since January. During the same period last year there were 86, Burroughs said.

Washington state has historically had among the most bank robberies in the nation, reaching an all-time high of 357 in 1998, the FBI said.

However, the numbers have declined in recent years, and in 2007 the state's total -- 176 -- was the lowest in 20 years.

By Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times news researcher Miyoko Wolf and staff reporter Leslie Jones contributed to this report.

2008-07-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

About one and a half hour ago, there was a shooting right below the building where im working at now. The polices opened up gunfire with the robbers from a bank robbery near by. This is the first time since I came to the U.S that I heard so many gunshooting going on near me. Kinda scary when I first see all the polices surrarounding by and carried guns in their arms, just we know that we are safe coz outside people can't enter this building without permission since all the doors are being locked at all time.. but it is kind of funny when most of the people in my office stand up on the desk and try to looking down for what's going on until the manager order them to stay away from the window. The whole thing didn't last for about an hour, until now there still many police cars on the street outside, but everything is ok now.

One robber died, one wound, and police also caught the other guy, there are 3 of them in total. I think they are very stupid to get into the downtown area.. coz the security in this area is better than many other places near by since it is the financial district.

for more information>>> http://www.kirotv.com/news/16760384/detail.html#

~Chheng

Interveiw attare for female

2008-05-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

Chheng

My drawing

2008-05-19T20:21:00.000-07:00

I like this piece the most

You supposes to look from some distanct on this piece.

Just don't look at it too close.

This is just a regular drawing

For you guys who take art class, you know what kind of drawing is this..!! honestly, I forgot what it call. maybe something like "black and white reflection"?

Mei's drawing.. this is cute!

Below are the first few pieces I drew for my art class..
Btw, this is the only art class I have ever taken. It's like 4 yr ago, but I took it at college.

Chheng

Sony CR Gold

2008-05-11T15:36:00.000-07:00

Lyna.. here is the laptop, how do you think? 14.1'', 2.5 G processor and 4G Ram. I also let them engrave my name on it. :)

Chheng

2008-04-20T01:50:00.000-07:00

I’ve been in bed and trying to put myself to sleep for more than two hour until now, but I’m still fully awake. I hate this kind of feeling coz today I already got so busy for the whole day; maybe it’s more than the whole day.

This morning I woke up at 7:20. By this, I set 3 alarm clock at 7:00, 7:02, 7:05, then I still fell back to sleep until my friend called to wake me up at 7:20. hahaha,.. No surprise about this, I guess! coz last night I was doing one of my computer assignment until 2:30 in the morning. My friend picked me up, and we got to school for the conference at 8am. The conference was good, they got many great speakers to share with us a lot of stuffs. Everything went well except the foods was kinda suck. There wasn’t many choice for me. Well.. just being honest, they are not the food I like, so I pretty much keep drinking juice and had some cake to fill up my stomach for the whole day. Beside this part, I finally noticed that they actually didn’t give us any break.. those 5 or 10 mins break time between each session was only enough for us to walk from one place to another, and we walked in the rain, but that's kind of fun since there were many of us all walk together. :))

I also met many of my friends from my previous school, U of Washington. When we were talking about how’s thing going for each of us, Jaclyn was saying the studies getting harder and harder, she said she is dying soon, she needs life support. I totally agree with her, I think I need that too.. things are getting tough and I’m no longer sure about if I can sort of ignore the grade and get more time to relax. Probably no way!

Finally, the conference was finished and I got back home at around 7pm. Had dinner and did some studies for my Internet Marketing midterm on Monday. I think I got motivate by those guest speakers at the conference or by those my friends. So,, I did the study until 11pm and I realized I need to sleep coz I can feel my body need to recharge., but until now I'm still very awake. After finish this post, I really don’t know what to do next if I still can’t fall asleep. Or I can keep writing junk in here, but this will fool all of you who read my blog.

Anyway.. I stop here. Good night, everyone!

Chheng

2008-04-07T21:59:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of every new quarter, everyone should not have much to do, it is more like the warm up process for get back to our studying mood. It's a little difference for me this quarter, I believe I've spent too much time on my internet marketing project so far, but I consider this as a good start anyway coz everything works out pretty smooth. All of this is coz I have a partner who chooses to be the first to preset our case study and the other current case analysis next week. We will be the first team to present on both assignment, and they are the only two assignments for my internet marketing class throughout this quarter!! so I will have more free time after done with them.

I'm not very sure if it is good idea to be the first team for a presentation, I only know it would be good if you know the team who are not very good at present and let them go before you. :) This will of course help you look better and remember to thanks to them too!!

Chheng

2008-03-27T02:55:00.000-07:00

Every night at this time, except those before exam day, I should be already in my bed and enjoy my good sleep. It’s been a while since I start trying to go to bed at around 12 or the latest at 1, and that makes me feel good when I get up in the morning. Yeah.. I’m trying to make my day a good day everyday!! Anyway, tonight is an exception because this afternoon at around 4pm, when I went to my school book store to get the ISBN number of the books I need for next quarter. I parked my car right in front of Starbucks, then when I was about to leave, I decided to get into Starbucks for a cup of coffee; probably it was the smell of coffee attracted me into the store.

Today, instead of getting White Mocha as I usually do, I got a small cup of ice coffee. Just a tall black coffee with ice! I know Polin can drink coffee without putting any sugar in, so I just wanted to try it out. When I first taste a few drop of it, I realized I really couldn’t drink it like that. It’s too toooooo bitter!! **I still prefer its sweet** So I decided to add some sugar, after adding like 6 tea spoons of the sugar, I tasted it again, I still felt it doesn’t taste right; I keep adding more and more until about 10 plus spoons. I thought that must have been enough, so I stopped and drink it like that.

Honestly, ice coffee will never ever taste better than White Mocha but it works better than White Mocha though. For that cup of ice coffee, I only got to drink like 10% of it; and it keeps me stay awake until now. Next time if you guys go to Starbucks, I would strongly recommend their White Mocha, this is only if you are in the U.S.; I’ve tasted the White Mocha of Starbucks in Bangkok before, it tasted even worst than the ice coffee I had this late afternoon.

If anyone wonders why I went to get the ISBN number of the book for? Mostly the books sell in the book store is a lot more expensive than the books we can buy from some online websites, such as Amazon, etc… and I'm trying not to let the book store gip off my money.

Chheng

STUPID QUESTIONS WITH THE SMART ANSWERS:

2008-03-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

Do some laughing warm-up before you are going to start reading this~~!! hahaha...

BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy.

GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!
BOY : You love me...

GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring??
BOY : Sure, what's your phone number??

GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest.
BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple

GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever.
BOY : Don't you ever want to improve??

BOY : I love you and I could die for you!
GIRL : How soon??

BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!
GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??

SHARON : Have you ever had a hot passionate, burning kiss??
TRACY : I did once. He'd forgotten to take the cigarette out of his mouth.

MAN : You remind me of the sea.
WOMAN : Because I'm wild, romantic and exciting?
MAN : NO, because you make me sick.

WIFE : You tell a man something, it goes in one ear and comes out of the other. HUSBAND : You tell a woman something: It goes in both ears and comes out of the mouth.

MARY : John says I'm pretty. Andy says I'm ugly.What do u think, Peter? PETER : A bit of both. I think you're pretty ugly.

Girlfriend : "...And are you sure you love me and no one else ?"
Boyfriend : "Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday".

Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun or the moon?"
Student: "The moon".
Teacher : "Why?"
Student : "The moon gives us light at night when we need it but the sun gives us light only in the day time when we don't need it".

Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?"
Student : "A teacher".

Waiter : "Would you like your coffee black?"
Customer : "What other colors do you have?"

Teacher : "Sam, you talk a lot !"
Sam : "It's a family tradition".
Teacher : "What do you mean?"
Sam : "Sir, my grandpa was a street hawker, my father is a teacher".

Teacher : "What about your mother?"
Sam : "She's a woman".

Tom : "How should I convey the news to my father that I've failed?"
David: "You just send a telegram: Result declared, past year's performance repeated".

Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing?"
Student : "Brotherly love".

Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"
Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook".

Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering doctor?"
Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of ten people die of the disease you have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others all died".

Teacher : " Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"
Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time."

Teacher : " George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him ?"
Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand.

Chheng

HotSpot on Mac

2008-03-21T23:15:00.000-07:00

Lyna, Heang,, all my dear cousins..!!

The HotSpot I mentioned a few days ago, it is kind of like the shortcut on Mac that allows us to call some of the functions we want very quickly. Maybe some people call it “HotCorner” instead of “HotSpot”.

Here is what you can do on that, let’s say when you press the F12 key and the DashBoard show up. Through the HotSpot setting, you now can just simply move your finger a little quickly toward the concern on the mouse pad that you set to call the DashBoard function, then the DashBoard will show up. Of course you can set different functions for each concern on the mouse pad.

The setting begain by click on Apple >>> System Preferences >>>> Choose Dashboard & Exposé.

Select the function you want for each spot.

Have fun!!
Chheng

Winter Quarter Final Exam Week

2008-03-17T14:25:00.000-07:00

My final exam is going to start tomorrow... they are scheduled to be on Tues 4~6pm, Wed 4~6 and Thur 2~4pm. Yeah……after that it is going to be my one week spring break holiday!! I need that spring break so bad.

Below is a graph of the relationship between gold, oil and dollar. I don't know how useful it is to all of you.. but maybe it is good to know coz the oil price is now soemwhere around $105 per barrel (1 barrel = 117 L = 31 gallons), and dollar is getting cheaper and cheaper!! This doesn't mean you need to force yourself spend all your dollar shopping or something :))

Chheng

2008-03-07T11:38:00.000-08:00

I had an internship interview this morning with one of the financial industry company. Their office looks very nice, it is on the 56th floor, which is the top floor of the building. For the first two parts of the interview went ok, of course we just keep talking, they throw some hard questions on me, and i throw some back :) but then when it came to the last part which is the Excel test. It just simply makes me feel dumb, so I'm sure I FAILLED! because I didn't get even a single question on that test; they asked me to do thing like how to insert two Zero to the front of a set of a number in Excel? how to convert a set of number that contain sciencetific notation to a string? Things I have never came across before.

Anyway.. that's it for the internship interview. Now is the time I should back to work on my group project and do some reading for my information system class. I've been kind of ignore this class for a while since I spent way too much time working on something else. Oh.. it is time I got to do the evaluations for all my professors again,.. hahaha.. too bad, that interview made me not very happy today.. so don't exspect good comment from me!! that's what im going for after this.!!

~Chheng

2008-02-23T22:45:00.000-08:00

Since this evening until now, I've been created two blog-skin so far. The other one look kinda complicated. I had it on for about 3 hrs, and I decided to create this one. I think this one give me a better feeling ~ simple and easy!!

Chheng

Ruk Ter Mai Mee Wun Yhood-Aon Kevlin

2008-01-28T21:26:00.000-08:00

you got to see this~

2008-01-28T11:17:00.001-08:00

My honey sent this to me, it's super cute!! hahaha... have fun.

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central

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Chheng

2008-01-25T08:35:00.000-08:00

Top ten bad things about majority guys that all the girls in my classes could think of yesterday... it was a class activity and I only remember 7 or 8 of them, so here they are:

1. messy
2. always think about physical
3. strong ego
4. addicted to game and electronic stuffs
5. lazy
6. eat a lot
7. forgetful
8. bad hand-writing

Of course, if you a guy and you think most of these not apply to you.. you should put a big question mark in your head then!! hahahaa.. :))

All my classes still not that bad so far, my computer class professor did assigned us a homework to do for this weekend.., yeah.. since he got more free time, but then he said "just turn it in on what you get on tuesday, and we will go over it together". By that, he meant everyone will get full grade as long as we try!! what's a nice professor I have!! I hope you guys are not jealous anyway.

Have a good weekend to all of you,

Chheng

2008-01-17T18:49:00.000-08:00

Yeah..my weekend start again. This is the end of the second week of the quarter and next Monday is the holiday, so I have a longer weekend this time. I'm not sure which holiday is that.. what I really care is NO SCHOOL!!

All the classes I have in this quarter are so far so good, but maybe something is gonna change. My computer class' professor told the class today that he just got lay off from his engineering job coz the company he worked for is run out of business. By that, he said he is glad that from now on he will have more time for us. Actually.. he just didn’t know that deep down inside, how sad I am while hearing he lost his other job :(( goshh, I will probably have more work to do as he will have more free time. emmm......hopefully, everything is not gonna change much since he has been very nice professor so far.

Chheng

2008-01-11T23:30:00.000-08:00

Very often that I hear from some of people I know about the reason they tend not to use credit to purchase stuffs online is coz they afraid of their credit amount being stolen.
In fact, there are some ways to avoid since most hackers doing this by e-mail people that they need to update or validate their billing info to keep their account active, and direct them to a look exactly alike website instead. Unknowingly, people submit their financial info to the hacker's website, so the hackers get chances to use these credit card accounts to order goods and services elsewhere.

Below I got some suggestions from an article I read of how to protect your credit cards when using them online:

1) If you get an e-mail that warns you with little notice that an account of yours will be shut down unless you reconfirm your billing info. Never reply or click on the link in the email. Just contact the company cited in the email by phone instead.

2) Avoid e-mailing personal and financial info. Before submitting financial info through a website, look for the “lock” icon on the browser’s status bar. It signals that your information is secure during transmission.

3) Review your bank statement as soon as you get them. If the statement sends to you late more than by a coupon days, call the company to confirm your balances.

After reading this post, I hope some of you feel safer when using your credit card online next time.

Chheng

2007-12-31T22:55:00.001-08:00

Wish everyone a very Happy New Year!!

&

Welcome the year of 2008!

Yeah. It's already 2008. Time moves pretty fast and things changed! Since I came to the U.S. until now, there is more and more funs as the every year move on, so 2008 will be another better year as well.

I still remember last year I said one of my goal was to "learn to accept my own mistake and try to be less confident in myself".. although it doesn't really have anything can be proved, but I consider I made it. For this year.. I will probably have too much stuffs need to get done, such as GRE exam. So one goals or a few won't fit..!! therefore, i'm just not gonna set any goals coz I also plan to spend more time to relax and make it a more enjoyable year for myself and everyone else around me!!

Chheng

P.S., my greatest hope for this year is to see my sweetie do well on her studies ;) I have faith in you, sweetie!

Polin's Birthday

2007-12-23T20:00:00.000-08:00

Sweetie.. Happy birthday to you!!

Here is an E-card for you :)

Chheng

NAIL IN THE FENCE

2007-12-23T09:47:00.000-08:00

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence)

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.

His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.

Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally! the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.

When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry", the wound is still there. "A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed.

They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.

I AM HONORED AS I HAVE ALL MY FRIENDS!

Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole.

Chheng

Song: When I Fall in Love (thai)

2007-12-12T22:07:00.000-08:00

Especially for Mei

2007-12-09T10:58:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday, JJ!! I know you will see this, yesterday coz I was busy playing with you, that's why didn't get time for this post. I just want to show how much I love you. Although sometime I act cold, but I do still care. I will always be your side, together I believe we can make a lot of differences. Keep up with all the great works you have been doing, just don't push yourself too hard because you are already experienced tremendous success in almost everything you have been doing, and this will definately continus on. You are not only my greatest sister, but also a great leader!!

your only oun oun

watch the funny advertising clip!

2007-12-05T19:35:00.000-08:00

I find this is a very good ad, and it is a very smart advertising idea!!

Don't Give Up on Vista Ad

Chheng

2007-12-03T23:57:00.000-08:00

I'm just sooo bored.. been studies for my marketing exam for the whole weekend until now, and there still more to study.. I guess it just never get done as long as the exam haven't finished. I hate when I have too much time to prepare for exam. Maybe it is a lot better if the professor only give the whole class 3 hrs to study and then take the exam right away. since he will curve the grade, so it would work out well. this is one of the silly thought anyway :)

alright.. I'm better back to the studies.

2007-11-23T00:01:00.000-08:00

Happy thanksgiving to everyone!! and wish you all have a good one..!

I supposed to finish this post since the morning, but there were too much stuffs keep me from writing this.. anyway, I know those who read my blog and are now in the states probably busy party or working on assignment... so I guess a late Thanksgiving wish would be fine too. I really doubt if people would actually take this holiday as their break time since tomorrow is the Black Friday, coz spend the whole day shopping could be worse than a regular workday, and party too hard can be very exhausted!!

Btw, there are some good news going on lately... and again, wish you guys have a happy life forever!!

1.. Kim, finally got married.. it was on Nov-21-2007. Yah..she made a lot of money from it, but in there, 20% was mine.

2.. Yu E is going to have her little babe girl in about 3 months. I suppose the babe must be prettier than her mom, at least taller!! :) **I'm just being honest**

3.. Sokna (Vet) is going to married on Jan 16th, 2008. **hey, dear.. 20% is mine nah, or I will keep remind you**

4.. Qing is going to have her babe soon as well.

5.. Kanhara is also going to get married in January.

One more thing that makes me happy today is ah Ping finally taller than ah Jing... I'm so happy coz Jing will no longer have a chance to keep saying she is the tallest one anymore!!! Good job, Ping!!

ok.. time to sleep now.

Chheng

2007-11-11T14:57:00.000-08:00

Today I just want to blog coz this is 11/11, one of my most favorites day!! I can't really think of what I want to write, but I know this week gonna be another stressful week for me in this fall quarter, and it probaby be the last one too. After I finish my finance midterm this Thursday, I will have ton of free time again.

Chheng

2007-10-29T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hello......Everyone!!

Please leave me a message as you visit my blog.. you can write anything or just saying Hi! and especially your name.

thanks thanks!!

Chheng

Thai song: When I'm feeling blue

2007-10-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

Chheng

Every Breath Bernanke Takes

2007-10-10T13:26:00.000-07:00

Take a look on this fun clip that created by Columbia Business School students. It's about the US Federal Reserve and the economy!!

Chheng

2007-10-08T21:45:00.001-07:00

After I dropped my math class, everything is going well so far.. except there are always too much to read..!! I spend all my time basically for just read! read! read!! On average, there are around 190 pages per week for the require reading.. not include news articles and homework problems. I'm glad this is still something doable; otherwise, I will soon be dropping all my classes for sure. :)

Chheng

Fall quarter start

2007-09-27T06:00:00.000-07:00

School finally start!! this is going to be my first day of class, and it's also kind of a special day which I woke up since 4am and couldn't fall asleep again. Probably I just love school so much, can't wait till 8 o'clock to go to school :)))!!!

I think I would be happier if I'm happened to be that kind of person. well.. I don't hate school though, I only don't like those reading and studying, they are simply awful. I know I have to survive through it anyway, because without all those awful school works, I probaby wouldn't even cherish the valuable 3 months holiday I had.

In this fall, I will have 4 classes from 8am until 6am on both Tue&Thr, there is only a 50min morning class on Mon&Fri, and Wed off. So pretty much I will have like 3 to 5 days weekend or self-study days.

Chheng

2007-09-24T20:37:00.000-07:00

Instead of taking a nap this evening (6pm), I turned out to be finished reading many pages that relate to the topic "How to being successful for a student?" Sometime it is kind of interesting to read something like this although we may have already done most of them in our daily life. Among the reading, I find their DO and DON’T list by Dereck Rovaris is very appealing and helpful. Here they come.... **this can be boring for someone really hate school, if you are one of them.. please stop here!!

DON'T underestimate the importance of the department. Think of yourself not as being enrolled in a university, but as being enrolled in a department.

DON'T get caught up in department gossip. Mess is mess.

DON'T leave your advisor in the dark. Keep him or her informed of your progress and goals and keep notes on all agreements.

DON'T assume anything. Always check information out and verify it in writing.

DO identify faculty and student advocates to help you should you need help. Identify them BEFORE a problem arises.

DO establish good rapport with the secretaries. Your chairperson and advisors are important, but the secretaries run the show.

DO maintain positive relationships with the faculty, especially your advisor. Your never know whom you will need.

DON'T let dating, partying, hanging out, watching TV, or other social activities interfere with your schoolwork. Make time for these activities, but keep everything in proper perspective.

DON'T let relationship problems disrupt your studies or dramatically alter your academic pursuits. It ain't worth it.

DON'T let family or friends distract you from your goal: True friends and supportive family members will understand.

DO socialize with department associates. You don't have to like everyone a whole lot, but you do have to work with everyone.

DO establish healthy functional relationships that don't interfere with your academic progress. Life is not all about school, so you will need these relationships to sustain your goals.

DO make time for enjoyable activities outside of academic work. All work and no play makes Jack/Jill dull.

DO maintain a positive spiritual relationship. Above all else, your faith will see you through.

DON'T fight causes you can't win. Choose your battles carefully and make sure they are worth your investment.

DON'T exclude people from outside of your race: It often will be necessary to work with other groups in order to accomplish your goals.

DO research issues that are important to you. Your agenda might be different.

DO go when invited. Go even if you don't want to listen to "that kind of music or eat that kind of food."

DO .....
always respect yourself.
always maintain your personal integrity.
always help someone else when you can.
always rely on your spiritual strength.
always set higher goals.
always meet deadlines.
always check your work.
always remember your primary goals.

Chheng

Puppy

2007-09-08T15:00:00.000-07:00

Mei showed me two interesting pictures today, and it makes me think of post them on my blog. I don't know how many of you love or hate dogs, but they are just the pictures, so please don’t take it as real. These two pictures were taken by two of my friends.

Maybe no one would cook the puppy like this for real, but who know?? :)

Ps: Happy Brithday to Kunthy!!

Chheng

2007-07-18T22:55:00.000-07:00

Before I used to kind of regret for going straight to uni after high school. I suppose to do the same thing as most students do, go to college for two years and then transfer to the uni for the junior and senior year, that way life will be a lot easier since classes at college are more relax, but now I realized it was a right choice.
Actually, I find out it is really a lot easier from the two classes I took last year and for the English class I take now. They are less paper to write, less reading, and easier grade. This probably just the good part of this, but often I notice that there are a lot of bad words going on in class, even the prof. says the F*** word herself. From my two years experience in Uni, I am very sure that I have never heard this word at all, and although some students sometime would say "the prof BS too much", they still use the shortcut instead of say it out loud with the full word "bull shit".
The standard at the Uni is a harder compare to college, but the learning environment is totally better.

Chheng

2007-07-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

Maybe writing is more interesting than reading.. just now I almost fall asleep while reading the play for my English class, but when I come to blog, I feel awake.!! In short, I just want to tell you guys that blog is more fun than read a book. Believe or not? you will find out the difference if you start to blog.

Actually, I don't really have anything to write, it's becoz here keep me awake, so after this I can continue to read a few more pages, and then when I feel sleepy again,, I will come to write another post. As many people say, it is not important about how many people read your blog, but it is fun to do this sometime. I also think it's good to blog becoz like in a few years later and we can take a look back on what we now write, we probably can tell the difference of how much we have changed!! this is something we can use to compare.

Chheng

2007-06-27T00:32:00.000-07:00

My last two week holiday was great; I have been out with friends a lot, but the longest trip was to Vancouver (Canada). It was a fun trip and I figured out that the cake they have there are better than the cake in Seattle.. or maybe becoz I haven't found the right place for cake in Seattle yet. I also finished a few drama series, here are a few good one that I would recommend if you guys want to watch.."Heart of Greed; Brink of Law; Lucky Star".

Beside all the things would make me gain weight above., I wonder how many of you play racquet ball before? It was my first time playing it last week.. it is a good sport… a lot easier to play than it look like.. but I still don’t know either should I continue to play it? most of the time I find myself try to avoid from ball coz afraid of it would hit my face.. don’t laugh!! If you used to get hit by a golf club like I did, you will pretty much feel the same thing when come to this kind of sport. ;)

actually, I still have a lot to write, but I think I have to stop here for now… it’s 1:20.. and I must go to bed.. otherwise tomorrow I will sleep till noon again.

Chheng

Phone off

2007-05-25T11:35:00.000-07:00

For some reasons, my phone will be turned off for most of the time until June 9th, which is after my final exam finished. Most of you here don't call me very often... so this won't be a problem to you guys. Just do not assume that I change my number once you couldn't get through.

Chheng

2007-05-24T22:22:00.001-07:00

It's been exactly a month since my last blog. Well.. except the wishing to Lyna on her birthday, which I can never missed. But since I've been spent too much time with my friends at school., I almost forgot that I still have a blog :)) Sometime we just stay there and talk for hours and hours. Although it’s kind of ridiculous for us to do s.th like this since we always have homework to do and paper to write, but it’s really what I have been doing over the last month.

Beside all this, I also go to gym playing badminton and watching Hong Kong dramas very often, but today becoz the free high speed internet is down, that’s why I don’t have anything to watch, so I decided to blog instead. I really can’t imagine how life would be if without internet at all.. life without high speed internet is already quite boring. I think I have to mange to get my own high speed internet soon..or maybe it would better to wait until I finish my final exam first. It’s only two more weeks toward the end of Spring Quarter.

I already registered for my Summer and Fall quarter classes.. I got most of the classes I want except for one of the Finance class in the Fall that I’m still on the waiting list.. I hate that when Dhorea is out of office while I have to register for classes, those other counselors simply don’t have any rights over this. By the way, my counselor is going to her daughter graduation in New York,.. she has two daughters, one is already became a lawyer, another one is now graduated from the medical school and she is going to be a doctor in about two years. I feel Dhorea is very successful in her life. Sometime it may not so much important to have a lot of money in life, but a fulfilling and successful life like this is worth more than anything else!!

Ps,. It's Yu E's wedding on this Saturday, May 26th 2007 in Cambodia.

Chheng

2007-05-10T21:10:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to Lyna~ my dearest honey!!

Wishing you a very very happy birthday, ineedhits! :)

Chheng

Links

2007-04-10T17:23:00.000-07:00

Econ link: http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/lequ/web/Econ%20330%20SP07/econ%20330%20SP07.htm

Macroeconomic: http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/mankiw6/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0

2007-03-24T22:36:00.000-07:00

Blog is like a publish journal entry. It's good when we are bored and can't find anything to do., also good when you want to share something with most of your friends. I usually don't really think of blog unless I feel boring and can't find what to do as right now. First I think maybe I should read something to prepare for my class on Monday, but then I decided not to do that since it's still my holiday, and holiday is time for relax. Anyway, it's 11pm s.th now, I'm better go to bed.

Chheng

2007-03-23T17:27:00.000-07:00

This week is my spring break.. it's just the one week off holiday between winter and spring quarter, but I have done quite a lot of things during these few days.. which includes a lot of hang out, shopping, eat lot of ice cream, chatting online, sleep and watch movies, etc. However, I'm going to live on my regular schedule again soon because spring quarter is going to start on Monday.. I will be taking 4 classes, they are Computer information system, Statistics, Finance, and Marketing.. Here come the good examples of what marketing is..!! I got it from one of my friend just few minutes ago..

MARKETING STRATEGIES: A Professor at one of the conference was explaining marketing concepts to students

1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am rich. Marry me!” – That’s Direct Marketing.

2. You’re at a party with bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friend goes up to her and pointing at you says: “he’s very rich. Marry him!” – That’s Advertising.

3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day, you call and say” “hi, i’m very rich. Marry me.” – That’s Telemarketing.

4. You’re at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of her car) for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and then say: “By the way, I’m rich. Will you marry me?” – That’s Public Relations.

5. You’re at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and say: “you are very rich! Can you marry me?” – That’s Brand Recognition.

6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am very rich. Marry me!” She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. – That’s Customer Feedback.

7. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am very rich marry me!” And she introduces you to her husband, -- that’s Demand & Supply Gap.

8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say anything, another person comes and tells her: “I’m rich. Will you marry me?” And she goes with him – that’s Competition eating into your Market Share.

9. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say: “I’m rich, marry me!” Your wife arrives. – That’s Restriction for entering New Markets.

Chheng

2007-03-17T12:50:00.000-07:00

It's been quite a long time since my last blog, but now all my exams are over, so I should spend some time with my blog again.. otherwise, it just looks like real death. emmm, maybe I should not say all my exams are over since I still have a few more years to be in school. Anyway.. I'm done with the winter 2007 quarter. My result for this quarter probably somewhere over what I've expected. I almost can't believe I made perfect score on my accounting final. Although this is good to me personally, but it is not good toward the class as the whole since the professor probably not going to curve the overall grade and it's bad coz my sis is also in the class.. My bad!! I hope an A in this class is somewhere in the lower 90% range, so most people who I like will all have an A.

Whatever grade I get from my classes might not be the most important thing to me during this winter quarter.., the most happy thing is I am finally done with Philosophy class.. I rather say I learn nothing beside all those stupid philosopher story.. during most of the class time, I did the count down activity.. yeah.. it's super boring. Each day that I forgot to drink coffee before go to class, I would fall asleep during class time.. but nothing happen coz my prof. doesn't say anything. I guess he actually know that we are forced to take his class.

While philosophy is the class I hate the most, Finance is the class I like the best. I think my finance prof. has made me change my major from international business to Finance. Why?? coz he will pay me $10,000. I'm not joking about this, but he is the one make up this joke. hahaa.. Moreover, he even encourage me to consider about become a Finance prof. in the future.. which I am pretty sure I can't teach. Right now I am seriously tended to thinking about major in Finance, but if I do this, I need to come up with the reason why don't I consider of major in Accounting instead? I like my accounting class too.. Choosing a major is real tough..I can't even choose one for myself :(

Chheng

2007-02-24T13:22:00.000-08:00

Here are more fun stuffs that I got from my finance profressor.,, Hope you guys have fun with these!! I have my second midterm coming up next week.. so I got to go study it now.

Chheng

Happy Chinese New Year!!

2007-02-17T23:11:00.000-08:00

Chinese New Year goes with the red color; therefore, I just decided to create my new blogskin with red color.. I almost set everything in red, but then I chose not to do that coz I know most of you will have hard time while reading it.

Tonight I don't really have anything to say since I'm quite sleepy now.. but I want to share with you guys something funny before I go to bed... They are really what students done on their test. please click on the image to zoom it if you can't read the writing.., but don't laugh too hard!! :))

This student REALLY expand the equation by make it longer... hahaa

Start from a very simple equation, then a little complex.., more complex, more more complex until hang himself :))

Wishing you all have a prosperous and happy new year.. !!

Chheng

P.S., Please feel free to let me know if you have hard time reading this blog.. I will be happy to do something to improve this.

Happy Valentine's Day

2007-02-13T19:13:00.000-08:00

What can we really do on Valentine's day? Is it the day for only dating and stay with our lover?? I believe the answer for this should be No.. Valentine's day is actually for all people who is having love,, and of course everyone of us have some sort of loves. For example, family love, sister's love, brother's love, cousin's love, friendship's love, good friend's love, best friend's love, dear friend's love, and more & more... :)) Therefore, this also mean we can spend time having a party or doing something fun with all these people on the Valentine's day.

Hint Hint.. for those who don't have a boyfriend like me, you should define the meaning of Valentine's day this way, so you don't make yourself feel lonely on the Valentine's day.

In the U.S, people buy gifts for their family members, friends, and (favorite) teachers during Valentine's day; we don't really treat this day as only for the love couple. Valentine's day is not a very speical day in here since we still on the regular class schedule, it seems like school doesn't love us at all coz they don't make this to be a day off. Anyway, Valentine's day really makes the environment a little different due to everyone keep asking each other "what are you going to do for tomorrow?"

Happy Valentine's day to all of you.

I hope you all have a wonderful one~~!!

Chheng

2007-02-11T21:53:00.000-08:00

Here is the link to MSN free online game.. you can play it alone by yourself. Have fun!

http://zone.msn.com/en/root/gamebrowser.htm?playmode=0&genre=0#sel

Chheng

2007-01-28T14:36:00.000-08:00

I like when go to some Aisan places with my American friends here, and they go WOW when they hear or see things they have never known before.. espeically, it's really make they feel themselves are the minority at the place only most aisan people being around. Usually this is how I feel at school since there are only both my sis and me are from Cambodia.

Anyway, that's all for the post of today.. I need to study for my two midterms on Wed & Fri.

Good luck to those of you who have the exam too, and of course good luck to myself.!!

Chheng

2007-01-22T17:47:00.000-08:00

Below are some trips of how to do well on multiple choice exams. Personally, I find it's very helpful, and hope this can be helpful to some of you as well. But one more thing can be very helpful is to learn more about the person who give the exam if possible and what type of exam it is. For example, like my accounting prof. who I never expect easy question from her; therefore, whenever I find there is a queston seem to be very straight forward, I would at least go over it twice before I circle the answer.

How to do well on multiple choice exams:

1) Read the questions carefully. Spend enough time with it. (Most test-takers spend too little time on the question.) Note all the key terms. If you can, circle these terms.

2) Depending on the format of the question you may be able to cover the choices and decide on an answer before you look at the choices. This helps you avoid being distracted by incorrect choices.

3) When possible, connect the question to each option by treating each as true-false question.

4) Don't jump at options without careful consideration. Jotting down a rationale for why you believe incorrect options to be wrong is helpful. Likewise know your rationale for choosing one option as the correct one.

5) Assume that the test-maker has given you the information you need to make a correct choice. Reason out the question. What clues are given to your to select the correct option?

6) Take questions at face value. Deal with what is given to your in the question, not with your personal experiences with the topic.

7) Be alert to similarities in the options. Know what the differences are between these similar choices.

8) Be aware of negatives such as "except" and qualifiers such as "all" "none" "some" "often" "best" etc. These words can make a critical difference in meaning.

9) To budget your time better, begin with questions you feel most comfortable with. You'll finish these faster and relax so you can think more clearly on the rest of the test.

10) Know your own test-taking tendencies. If you tend to consistently change correct answers to incorrect one, then avoid changing answers unless you have a strong rationale for doing so. If, however, you tend to misread questions and make snap, incorrect choices, then changing answers after you've given the question more consideration makes sense.

Some material adapted form How to Pass Nursing Exams by Sally Lagerquist

Chheng

2007-01-21T12:16:00.000-08:00

Last night I spent more than two hours just to shop for lotion online. I love shopping online because it's more convenient; at least it's better than going to the store and spend at least 3 hours to find everything I need, that is very tired. Shop online has its good and bad side,.. First, we don't get to feel and touch the products, so it would be good to only shop for things we have already been using,, another thing we should be careful is how to protect our bank card or credit card, Do NOT shop at the unreliable website or the money in your credit account could be easily stolen. Although I shop online a lot, but mostly is coz those stores are not near by.

With the two hours shop for lotion last night, I also found this lovely hand wash shampoo bottle...

Chheng

2007-01-17T22:43:00.000-08:00

At the begining of my philosophy class yesterday, my prof. said.. "I am glad you guys are here with your body and soul". I was so wonder and I asked my friend what the hack he is talking about?? (of course the prof. didn't hear this) then we all just laugh!! Yeah.. in Philosophy class always has such fun!!

Chheng

2007-01-12T21:24:00.000-08:00

Few days ago, I've heard a lot about the iPhone and also see a lot of online news about it. To some of you, probably you guys already knew what that is..., iPhone is a cell phone device that has no button, but it's also an iPod, and there are lot more functions that allow user to have access to the web easily. It costs $500 and will available by June.

iPhone @ apple.com

Anyway.. I think that should be all about the iPhone, and I agree with Lyna that it is quite ok, but not a super nice one, coz iPhone seems unable to use with the sim card and it won't be on the market until the summer time. I don't know much about it, the iPhone comes to my attention is coz I just started working on a project for my Finace class, which is about tracking the price of some stocks, and Apple is one of my choice.

Chheng

2007-01-05T17:39:00.000-08:00

First, let's me make it clear for some of you... If Philosophy is one of the subjects that you hate.., you should stop reading after this paragraph; below is going to be something relate to philosophy, and becoz I hate it too, so I understand how you feel toward this. I force to take this class is becoz it's one of the requirement class in my school.

Actually, the title of my philosophy class is Philosophy of Human Person.
This is a second course of philosophy in my school; base on my understanding from the first day of class is that the professor tried to discuss about the difference between "a human being" and "a person", and this will extend into the three main branches of philosophy: metaphysics (the study of being qua being. i.e. What are we? ), epistemology (the study of knowledge. i.e. What can we know?, and axiology (the study of value. i.e. What should we do?.........You can look it up in the online dictionary for more detail.

Basically, this class is going to define questions like>>>>>>> What is a person? What, in other words, makes for a "who"? Why might it be important to know? how might we go about fining out? Or What is a human being? For the difference between a human and a person.. my professor pointed out that "a person can't vote and only human can vote because only humans have status in the society." I got no reason to say he is wrong since he has his Ph.D in philosophy, but I don't agree with this either.

I don't believe philosophers are very smart people., most of them are people who good at study and love the studies.. According to one philosophy article I used to read, they said "Philosophy can turn people to be smart, becoz if we want to be the smart people, we have to persuade other that we are right." Although this a true concept, but this is some sort of cheating.!! Something wrong is wrong.. Even you can make people believe what you are saying is right, but one day they will find it out anyway.

Overall, I would suggest take the advantage of philosophy class to help you improve your argument skill, and not to change the wrong thing to be the right!!

Chheng

2007-01-04T13:12:00.000-08:00

Write down a list of what you want to achieve is the same as having resolutions, they belong to what you try to make yourself do. Of course, almost all the time they are things you don't usually like to do, but you actually can do it and they will benefit you in some way. I believe that everyone should try to make a list of what you want to achieve and set a reasonable time frame for it.

Why trying to make yourself doing something you don't like can be important? Because you are not alone in this world.. so you got to adjust yourself to get along with other around you. Especially, you can not be really happy while people around you are not happy. If you realize that is your mistake, you should correct yourself. Having resolution is just the way you try to force yourself to correct your mistake, or remind yourself of not doing the wrong thing again. Naturally, most of us would not do what we don't like to do except by force.. For example, we all know that most of the students are not willing to spend their vacation reading the text book to prepare for their next class, but their will read it when the instructor assign because they know they can't do well if they don't follow the instruction.

On the other hand, you should expect not all the time you will achieve your goals. Because no one is perfect in this world; that also means even you not achieve it, you should not feel disappointed. You can try again and again, there will be time you can achieve it as long as you don't give up.. Nothing is impossible and your best is good enough!!

Although some people think this is something useless and I won't say they are wrong; everyone has their own reason to choose what they want to do. Many questions in this world also don't have an exact right answer, as long as you have a reason to support your answer, it can be right!! And it's not true that the last post was my only post in this month, today my class is cancelled due to the professor has to go to a conference. However, I probably have more time for my blog from now on because this quarter I don't overload any courses. The three courses I'm taking are Managerial Accounting, Business Finance, and Philosophy of Human life.

Chheng

1/1/07

2007-01-01T01:11:00.000-08:00

I told myself that no matter how lazy I am, I must to post s.th on this first year of the year 1/1/2007.. and yeah.,, Happy New Year!!.. I wish this will be a great year for all of you..as well as to myself !!

Before I never pay much attention to any other new year beside the Chinese New Year, it's just the way in Phnom Penh city,.. or especially in my family, but now in the U.S., since everyone here goes by this New Year... Jan 1st, so I got to follow. Tonight many people in the U.S gather in the city center of different states for the count down activity., although I didn't go due to the weather is too cold for me, but I already counted down three times with all my different friends on the phone... the first one was at 12am time in Cambodia, second was at 9pm here, while there was one of my friend called from New York at 12am there, and the last one was at 12am here in Seattle.

2007 begin, everything is new again.!! for this year, i will try to improve some of my bad habits. Probably learn to accept my own mistake and being less confident in myself will be the first goal.. the reason is becoz many of my friends complain about this..and I figure out that I should listen to people's ideas more than I used to be.

Anyway, I got s.th I want to share with you guys about some of the differences between Cambodia and the U.S..
1. People in Cambodia prefer duck egg and people in the U.S. prefer chicken egg.
2. When people saying s.th good about you; people in Cambodia would politely reject the statement, while people in the U.S. will say thank you, and proud to accept that.
3. For dinner, people in Cambodia go by the family style (sharing all the food); most of the people in the US will only get to eat their own food.
4. People in Cambodia have rice with meal, American people barely eat rice.
5. All schools in Cambodia require student wear uniform; most of the school in the U.S. don't require that.
6. when you meet your friend's parent, in Cambodia we call them aunt or uncle; in the U.S. we call them by their first name.
7. Giving a huge might not be common in Cambodia, but it's very common in the U.S.
8. People in Cambodia drink boiled water; people in the US drink water come directly from the sink.

That's all I can think of for now.., and I think this might be the only post for me in this month, but still I will try to update as often as I can. Again, wish you guys a Happy New Year!!

Chheng

12/25/2006

2006-12-25T22:53:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you!!

Chheng

12/15/2006

2006-12-15T17:15:00.000-08:00

Our feeling sometime can really tell us of how's thing going to happen.. we should rather believe this. As I said I feel that s.th is going wrong, even I convince myself that's not true coz nothing is wrong yet.. so I decided to book the ticket to California,. but people at the airline company told me they are currently out of seat due to the terrible storm last night, and a lot of flights have been canceled. My only option is to book for the flight on Jan 8th or after.

I probably just can't go anywhere during this winter break.. Even I got to stay home, I still don't want school start that soon. Lyna, I'm jealous that you have a one-year holiday in Cambodia.

12-12-2006

2006-12-12T23:22:00.000-08:00

Last time I was saying I will try to post some pictures of the snow here,, unfortunately, that day when I wake up in the morning, all the snow was gone due to the heavy rain during the night. Anyway, I am on my vacation now., school will not start until Jan 3rd next year, but it is kind of sad that I can not go back to Cambodia during this long vacation coz I do not have my passport.

Recently, it is not only I lost my passport, but I also feel that I am not very lucky at all after I fall down in the classroom two weeks ago; even I try to convince myself this is not true, I still feel like something is going wrong. Maybe all what I should do is just stay at home and sleep instead of doing something else, coz probably I am just going to make thing worse. This is not my excuse of being lazy., I really hope Good Luck with me. !!

On the other hand, if I can convince myself that all of this is not true, then I will go visit California and spend the rest of my winter break over there. This is seem to be little crazy to decide what I should have do by this way..

11/29/2006

2006-11-29T17:36:00.000-08:00

Last few weeks, it is coz I was sick and getting a real bad sore throat, that is why I coul not blog. I was absent from all my classes for the whole week; however, I did make my way to school for both of my exam on that week.. and the result was turned out higher than expected.. I was so impress. After when I felt better, I thought of since the final exam is coming up soon, so I should just ignore about blog at this moment.

Today is an exception, these days is snowing over here, the weather is very cold.. the lowest so far was -7C for last night., tonight will be snow and continue till tomorrow morning, this it will force the school to be closed for another day. Although it is cold, I still prey for snow. !! I want all classes to be cancelled, so all the prof. can stop lecture new stuffs, and I have more time to prepare for my final presentation project and the final exams.

Anyway, since it is going to be snow tomorrow, I will try to take some pictures of the snow and post them here. Snow is pretty, but it is super cold. For those you who is going to such an area like Seattle, you should be prepared, or it is the best way to get use to with it by store yourself in the refrigerator for a few hours a day. Hahhaha.. I am just kidding. Here we have the heat, so it is fine no matter how cold the weather is, as long as we do not go out, it is not cold at all.

Chheng

after reading lyna's blog

2006-11-05T12:09:00.000-08:00

After reading Lyna's blog, I can tell there are a lot of fun that all my cousins and those little kids have in Cambodia, it seems only Ly, Thing, Heang, Mei and me are the hard working good students who can't make it there to join all of them. hahhaa... actually, we all just don't have other choices.

I got this picture from my cousin's blog, it was on my aunt b-day. These folks are my cousins, nieces and nephews.. of couse in the middle is my Aunt. :-) but she looks young anyway. I think if we all get together, one pictures won't fit, because there still many of us out here around the world that usually unable to make it there at the same time.

Lyna, good suggestion!!! I will spend some times to learn how to change the blog skin, but I think I just leave it this way for now, since I still don't have enough time to learn to create my own blog skin yet. Will make one later on.

Hello, Everyone~~

2006-11-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

Hello, Everyone ~~

Even it has been quite for a long time since my dearest cousin helped me set up this web blog, but due to too many things going on here, that's why I have to wait until today to write my first post. I know there are a few of you keep checking to see if I have updated, but here you go.! I am doing it now :-)

Let me begin with the reason that make me come to an idea of started this blog. First, my cousin, Lyna, she is very encourage me in doing this, and I also think it's a good way to allow all my far away friends keep update with what I am doing here. Although I might not have enough time to keep up with the daily post, but I will try to keep this blog update as often as possible, as well as to keep all the post not as boring as it should be.

Hopefully all of you able to stop by to say hi whenever you have time.., and remember that I'm waiting to hear from all of you.

Ps: If you have any suggestions about this blog, please feel free to do so.