ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Happy Birthday to Me!

March 27th, 2005

I have just realized that I launched this online journal since May last year. And so I have to place a note about my birthday as it truely becomes my own diary. Today is my birthday. So I just need to say Happy Birthday to Me! That is not all. Although I keep this day [...]

My Journey in Norway and Greek

March 22nd, 2005

One day Sophies comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is enrolled in a correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre and beyond, with a mysterious philosopher. But Sophie is also receiving a seperate batch of equally [...]

Wedding Party of Friend in Kampong Cham Province

March 21st, 2005

It is about 120 Km from Phnom Penh to Kampong Cham, and another 80 Km to reach the wedding house, Memot district. On a very good road condition nowaday, it takes about 4 hours. We rent a 15-chairs minibus with about 20 passengers, both adults and children, for a one way travel. It was about [...]

A Night after War

March 16th, 2005

Yesterday evening, a movie theatre took place nearby Botum pagoda, where I have film scenario class, so my trainer suggests all class attendees to go out there for a movie, Un soir aprés la guerre (A Night after War, in English maybe) by Rithy Panh - 1998.
I was so amazed by the rich content of [...]

Trip to Kampong Cham

March 12th, 2005

I will travel to Kampong Cham for a wedding party of a friend in the next weekend. He is my classmate as well as friend since I began primary school. A year older than me, he will soon get married to a woman in Memot, a district that is not from his birth place, Koh [...]