CAS - speak out to reach people!

19th November 2010 is World Toilet Day. Current Affairs Society in coopertation with World Toilet Organization celebrate the Big Squat event at NTU. At a booth set up besides Nanyang Auditorium, from morning 9:00 until evening 17:30, we reached almost 100 passers to take part in our Big Squat and took a picture of them for commemorating WTD and raising the awareness of the importance of toilet to poor countries. Children are the serious victims of diarrhea, bacterias, and other fatal diseases. 2.6 billion of people worldwide don't have toilet, and 1.6 million of childre die every year because of no toilet, even more serious than HIV.

I, as a part of CAS, was so pleased to reach out the passers and explain these issues to them. Even though the goodies bags were not very attractive, the passers showed their interest in our posters, banner, and orange cartons people. My tireness of standing was worthy when people were willing to have their squating photo taken. I felt proud of myself when people could appreciate what I explained to them.

It was my second time of getting passers to come to the booth and explain something to them. The first time was CAS exQUIZit, 3rd of November. We tried to get passers to come to our booth and answer some questions about world issues. It was not as difficult as I had thought. All we had to do was to show our passion and catch the key of the interest of passers.

CAS has completed its events for semester 1. I hope it will be a good start for next semester! Cheers!

Funny Stories

Whose wife is good?

Doctor advised me to take horse-riding to reduce my weight, the effect is not bad. After a week, 20 pounds has been reduced. There was a point I didn’t understand: why did I have to weigh with the horse?

Reducing Weight

Jimmy’s father said to Jimmy: “You’re now grown up. You should find a wife and live happily.” Jimmy replied: “I also want to find one, but I don’t know whose wife is good.”

Girlfriend comes home

A young man took his girl friend to his home and introduced her to his mum. He said: “Mum, she is a very good girl, she can do everything: washing, cooking, ironing, doing housework….” Mum: “Ok, I decided to hire her. Let her come to work on every Tuesday and Thursday.”

Beggar and Wife

Beggar: Sir, in the past you gave me 100 cents, why do you give 50 cents today?

Kind Man: In the past I was single, I had much money left. Now I'm married, so I must reduce my expense for my family.

Beggar: How can you take my money to feed your wife?!

This one I really don’t have

A mother is asking her son.
‘Do you drink?’ ‘No’.
‘Do you smoke?’ ‘No’.
‘Do you have a girl friend?’ ‘No’.
‘This one you can have.’ ‘This one I really don’t have.’

One Telephone

After a long separation, John’s old mother came from countryside to visit him in the city. Entering the house, his mother saw a telephone on the table and said angrily: “Why have you never given me a call?” John: “Mom, you don’t have a phone at your house at the countryside.” “But you have!”

Revenge

A dad hit his son. The son was crying and told his mom: “someone hit me...” The mom said angrily: ‘who hit you? I’ll give his son a lesson!’

Coming Late

Two students were late. One of them explained to their teacher: “I had a great dream last night. It was about travelling around the world, so I’m late.” The other one said: “When he came back, I had to pick him up at the airport, so I’m late too.”

Toothache

Tom is 5 years old. One day at school…
Tom: My tooth is aching.
Teacher: Tell your mom to bring you to dentist’s.
Next day…
Teacher: Is your tooth still aching?
Tom: I don’t know, because the dentist took it away.

The Same

Martin and Martine are siblings. They study in the same class. One day, their teacher gives the class an essay. The topic of the essay is ‘My father’.

One week later, Martin and Martine give their essays to the teacher. After reading, the teacher talks to them: “Why are your essays the same?” Martin: “Because we have the same father.”

Speech of Professor

One day, the teacher formally tell the class: “If the students chatting at the middle can be as silent as those students playing cards at the back, so these students sleeping at the front won’t be interrupted.

Detective Conan Movie 14 - The Lost Ship in the Sky

Story:
It is the best of Detective Conan movies ever. 3 Climaxes comes one after another:

Edogawa Conan himself took down 7 terrorists, known as the Red Siamese Cats, who had stolen the biohazardous bacteria and hijacked the airship.

While the mastermind of the terrorist was pointing his gun toward Conan, instantaneously Conan came out with an idea not only to get rid of dangerous situation but also to save the airship from collide with the bridge by the soccer ball from his belt.

At the end, Kid pretended to be Shinichi and almost got a kiss from Ran. Fortunately, Ran realized he was not Shinichi. Conan asks what Kid did to her, to which she remarks something Shinichi never does and thinks about how he tried to touch her rear.

Mediafire download link:
Detective Conan Movie 14 - The Lost Ship in the Sky.rar.part1
Detective Conan Movie 14 - The Lost Ship in the Sky.rar.part2


Ending:
Garnet Crow - Over Drive.rar

Detective Conan Movie 12 - The Full Score of Fear

Story:
Perfect pitch is the key of the whole movie. About the climax, Shinichi got all the audience inside the opera theatre and himself out of the danger of bomb explosion by his perfect pitch with the help from Haibara. During the movie, enjoy the music of Beethoven and other famous musicians.

Mediafire download links:
Detective Conan Movie 12 - The Full Score of Fear.part1.rar
Detective Conan Movie 12 - The Full Score of Fear.part2.rar
Detective Conan Movie 12 - The Full Score of Fear.part3.rar
Detective Conan Movie 12 - The Full Score of Fear.part4.rar

Ending:
ZARD - Spread My wings.wma
Detective Conan Movie 12 OST

Kent Ridge Park with Host Family on Deepavali

05/11/10 is Deepavali, Indian festival of light. Today, Roger and Shee Cher with Zhong Kai took Vibol, Seiha and me to Kent Ridge Park, one of the Singapore National Park, located near NUS.

Kent Ridge park is located on the hill. Roger drove us to the top. We could see one of the most important hubs of Singapore. Roger explained us how the system of loading and unloading containers works. The hub is controlled by computer system that can analyse the order of containers to be loaded to and unloaded from every ship in order to avoid messing up.

Then, we walked across a very long canopy. Along the canopy, we could see some special kinds of trees on the two sides. It gave us a good view of islands and mountains (pulau and bukit). It used to be the battle field between the British and Japan during World War II.

After that, we went to the war museum, but it was not opened to the public during that time. We just took photos from outside.

About 6:00, we left there for dinner, but it was still early. We took a walk around Holland Village. There are many restaurant and food stores, both local and foreign. We went into a Korean restaurant, but the environment was not satisfied, so we changed to Thai restaurant, Thai Express. The food I ordered was black pepper soft-cell crab. It was very tasty.

It was not the end of our outing. Holland Village was once the title of one of the Singapore well-known dramas. It was about Coconut-juice rice, called Nasi Lemak in Malay. Because I have never eaten Nasi Lemak, Roger bought 2 boxes for Seiha and me at a store nearby.

It was a nice trip and celebration on Deepavali. Thanks to Roger and Shee Cher!

ExxonMobil-NTU

Explorations in the Arts Series

NTU Cultural Activities Club

Chinese Orchestra

Program:

Orchestra

西北雨 The South-Western Rain:

A Medley of Three Taiwanese Folk Tunes

Winds Ensemble

阿拉木汗 Alamuhan

Erhu Solo

江河水 River of Sorrow

Guzheng Solo

溟山 The Ming Mountain

Guzheng Ensemble

阿里郞 Arirang

Dizi solo with Orchestra accompaniment

扬鞭催马运粮忙 Delivering the Harvest

Orchestra

爱情故事 Love Story

菊花台Chrysanthemum Memory

Detective Conan Movie 13 - The Raven Chaser

Stories:
The black organization almost got the true identity of Conan from the spy they sent to infiltrate the police headquarter. The shot of machine gun from the helicopter to Conan on the top of Tokyo Tower was the climax. Conan successfully got himself out of this fatally shot by the belt invented by Professor Agasa. What did Conan manage to do it? Find out!

Mediafire download links:
Detective Conan 13 - The Raven Chaser.part1.rar
Detective Conan 13 - The Raven Chaser.part2.rar
Detective Conan 13 - The Raven Chaser.part3.rar
Detective Conan 13 - The Raven Chaser.part4.rar

Ending:

Mai Kuraki - Puzzle.mp3

The new page of my life is flipped over!

I forgot to bring A4 papers to write my lab report. I sat in front of a computer at business library and did nothing important for the whole afternoon. Suddenly, I remembered that I have left my blog behind for a long time since I arrived in Singapore, 2 months already.

This post will mark a new start of my blog!

Goodbye Cambodia! Nice to meet you, Singapore!

Leaving from Phnom Penh International Airport
On Sunday 29th August 2010 in the morning at 8:30, Huy came to pick me up with my brother and we went to pick up Dara C., Rathanak, Seng, and Kun. It's a bit narrow with 7 people inside a car, but we were still very pleased with our fun along the way to the International Phnom Penh Airport.

My mum and dad had already been there when we arrived at the airport. I put my 2 heavy luggae to check in. It had some problem with overload luggage more than 25kg, but it was no problem when I showed check-in desk the Letter of Scholarship issued by Embassy of Singapore.

Mouyleng, Monin, Chhoeng, Candy, Sany, and Dara H., arrived to send me off after that. They had prepared a surprise for me with a bunch of flower and 2 T-Shirts. Dara H., Lay, Chenda, Vichka, Deth, Sros, and Hak came later nearly 10:00am, when there is only 15 minutes left before departure.

While I was paying money at Service Fee Counter, surprisingly my name was announced to get on board immediately. I was the last one!!! The plane was waiting for me impatiently. Therefore, I rushed and run.

I had never imagined that I would go to passport control and luggage counter within 5 minutes. I boarded on the plane MI601 and got a window seat. That's the last moment I was in Cambodia.

Arrival at Changi Airport
I arrived at Changi Airport at 12:45 (Singapore time). The person who came to get me is Mr. Faizal, liaison officer from Ministry of Foreign Affair (MFA). I waited for another Indonesian student, Benny, who came later than me about 15 minutes. Mr. Faizal arranged a car for 2 of us to go to NTU first because other scholars were arriving late.

The first building I saw when the car came into NTU was School of Computer Engineering, in front of International House. The car dropped me at Hall 1. I went to check in at hall office with my 2 big luggage. Fortunately, I met Seiha, who was also waiting in the queue for check in, or I wouldn't have know how to do.

12-01-177 is my block-level-room number. Where is block 12? It is at the top of the hill. I was tired to death with carrying luggage. Luckily Seiha helped me carry one of them.

After settling down in the room, Seiha brought me to Nanyang Market to buy some items I didn't have. In the evening, we had dinner with other seniors at canteen 2. It made me feel comfortable to see our Cambodians at NTU.

It's hard to get to sleep for the first night. I didn't get used to the mixture of languages yet. The next morning I woke up very early, at 5:00 am. The new page of my life is flipped over!

Naruto Shippuuden Opening Songs

Opening Theme:
#1: "Hero's Come Back!!" by nobodyknows+ (eps 1-30)
#2: "Distance" by LONG SHOT PARTY (eps 31-53)
#3: "BLUE BIRD" by Ikimono-Gakari (eps 54-77)
#4: "CLOSER" by Inoue Joe (eps 78-102)
#5: "Hotaru no Hikari" by Ikimono-Gakari (eps 103-128)
#6: "Sign" by FLOW (eps 129-)
#7: "Toumei Datta Sekai (透明だった世界) " by Motohira Hata (eps 154-)

Download Naruto Shippuuden Opening Songs 1-7

The 2010 Singapore Scholarship Award Ceremony

The 2010 Singapore Scholarship Award Ceremony was held on 15 July 2010 at 3:00pm at Intercontinental Hotel. This year, there are 3 Cambodian students awarded the undergraduate scholarship by 3 different universities in Singapore:



Kuoch Virineth : Business Management at SMU (Singapore Management University)
Ly Samrith : Electrical Engineering at NUS (National University of Singapore)
Taing Meng : Computer Engineering at NTU (Nanyang Technological University)

The ceremony was attended by Ms. TAN Yee Woan, ambassador of Singapore Embassy in Cambodia, Mrs. PHEUNG Sakona, former director of Institute of Technology of Cambodia, other related persons in charge, 3 scholarship recipients along with their family, seniors from NTU and NUS, and press agents.

After the speech of Ms. TAN Yee Woan and Mrs. PHEUNG Sakona, 3 scholarship recipients were respectively awarded a letter of declaration of 2010 Singapore Scholarship Award and an electronic plane ticket by Ms. TAN Yee Woan. After that, Ms. TAN Yee Woan, Mrs. PHEUNG Sakona, the 3 recipients and their family had a commemorative photo taken. At the end of the ceremony, there was the tea reception as a chance for the communication between freshmen and seniors.

A Turning Point To A New Study Environment

29 August is coming soon. 59 days to go!

Candy's Uncle's Wedding

Happy Birthday to Lai Chhoeung!

Hey Chhoeung, every time I come to your home, there is always the celebration and gathering of our friends. Your name has frequently become the title of my post. The first is the gold medalist of writing competition, then it’s Kathen, and now it’s your birthday.

My present seemed to be the smallest because I hadn’t really known what I should buy for her. It’s a simple gift, but I knew Chhoeung wouldn’t mind. She is such a good girl. I wish her beauty and wisdom forever!

The foods, “stir-fried tasty yellow noodle” and “spicy golden chicken curry”, were also very delicious. Especially the sweet and creamy birthday cake was what I’ve eaten for a long time. Look, everyone was content with the meal. Note at the back, some didn’t even care about taking the photograph, continue enjoying eating.

15^th May 2010 is another day that I should remember. Why? It’s the day that we can see our friends talking, laughing, ‘deu’ing one another, bringing back the memory we were at high school. Although I didn’t talk much, but I still liked these.

After meal, it’s dancing time. Hey, everyone seemed to be so shy. Songs started to be played and no one came to the middle and danced. It took a few moment to persuade one by one to dance. Although some friends came, they went back to their seats one by one when the song hasn’t been finished yet. Time seemed to be passing so quickly. However, we still have this photo as the evidence to prove that we really had a happy birthday party of Chhoeung together!