my favourite sentences...


You can hide memory, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

It was sad to see what used to be so fundamental to our lives fade away and disappear in front of our own eyes.

Words don't come out when you're deeply hurt. That's why people keep silent and give no explanation. Yet, Murakami once wrote in his novel, 1Q84, "If you can't understand without an explanation, you can't understand with an explanation." Sometimes, people tend to not wanting to understand things instead of wanting to understand things. In short, they tend to ignore the possibility of trying to understand things.

do you know what makes life interesting?
--> it's interesting because we don't know what the future holds for us. don't blame the fate. we decide our fate, it's our choice. we can't choose where to be born, but we can certainly choose the way we live our life...

the life is yours, why bother asking other people to paint it for you?...

when we're small our word has never been counted; when we're big every word has always been counted...

i may not be able to wait thirteen months for you, nor until you are twenty-five, but i can wait for you a lifetime -- Under the Hawthorn Tree by Ai Mi

waiting, though one minute, it's still unbearable...

death doesn't mean that we are no longer existing. death just means a move to another world...

why can parents wholeheartedly sacrifice everything for the happiness of their children, even their life? but why can't their children, whom they give birth to, do the same thing to them? what power is it that encourages them to do so?....

the thing i'm most afraid of is ME. of not knowing what i'm going to do. of not knowing what i'm doing right now.

people always meet new friends. but they should not forget their old friends. because without your old friends we don't have a chance to meet new friends. the memories with our friends will be there forever in our brain. we can't omit it though time passes.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

belly and handsome-ness

when a guy starts to lose weight, most people say that he does not look handsome as he used to be. their comment reflects that the concept of handsome is a person, particularly a guy, having more meat or having belly. many years ago a person with belly showed that he was a rich person. the concept of rich for most Cambodian people is that you have enough or more than enough food to fill your stomach. i believe that this mindset stuck in people's mind for some reasons. looking back to three decades ago, Cambodian people had suffered the most tragic pain in their life. that was the Khmer Rouge regime. most Cambodian people's livelihood had been restricted. everyone had suffered from starvation and malnutrition. daily calorie was not fully offered to Cambodian people in order to support their daily task, which is to say, to support the Khmer Rouge revolution to reach "the great leap forward." after the khmer rouge regime collapsed, Cambodian people, whom had been starved for more than three years, started to look for something to fill their stomach besides looking for their lost relatives. during the search for food to satisfy their hungry stomach, many Cambodian people died again. this time they died of eating too much food that their abdomen could support or digest at a time. i can understand their feeling of having no food to eat for so many years. they wanted to compensate what they had lost or been deprived of. that's why when they saw a guy having big belly, they thought that he was rich and had enough food at home, and he was handsome.

however, i think this trend is now totally different and changed. a handsome guy is a person who has good shape of body. having big belly is no longer handsome nor rich. in fact, having big belly in present society reflects that a person is careless about his own's health. being fat faces a lot of health issues not only in the near future but also in the present.

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