A once-in-a-life-time reminiscence!

My farewell lunch

A mission is now fully completed, and the last six months were just like a blink of an eye. Time flies! After having completely finished the internship report and slide presentation as well as project hand-over to the new successor who comes to replace me and supports regional marketing team, It is time to pack stuffs and prepare everything for flight on Friday night, the 5^th of April, 2013.

Antje's farewell dinner with Edward

Looking backwards to the last six months while the journey had been long with challenging and fun situation either in the regional office in Henkel or with other Khmer students in various universities in Shanghai, there were a load of things that were happened and quite challenging; with the past time I have been through with Henkel and after getting feedback from my manager concerning the internship performance, I could really see myself where I am now in term of professionalism, what needs to be improved, and what needs to enhance further for a long life journey.  While still learning new thing through almost every day at the office, I have learnt more than what I could really say compared to the past time I was in school.

Lunch at Indian restaurant with Vijay

Thanks to the internship assessment and advice from Vijay, Antje, Edward, and the team I could now be able to cope with struggling situations and stay motivated to produce more outcomes during the internship and would be worth for my life to enjoy taking opportunities to broaden my horizon and scope in term of both soft and hard skill to reach my goals. Being a team member in regional marketing team was a great time ever for me learning to use the potent I have naturally and learn something exceptional here from professional people.

Since it was completed, there is only a memorable time and unforgettable experience, which will still go along with me so as to remind me all the great times I have with all people here. I just love the time I have and try as much as I could to make fruitful use of it. Generally speaking and influencing in our regional team, every single job that could be done with a great result which we could hope for is the empowerment of the team, and now I really understand how great team spirit influences the outcome that we are expecting to have heard and succeeded in one specific time frame.

Igora Train The Trainer Event

A great moment has now become an upbeat memory. We are all on the way we believe we are, we write our false together as a great team ever, we share what we believe we could be, we drive change with initiative, we reward what we achieved, we focus on what we could strengthen our belief, and an upbeat memory in our team is a great moment.

Friday becomes a great day ever. There is nothing more than your smile, support, coach, advice, encouragement, warmness, and great relationship we have. On Friday (a memorable day, which many things were happened), I have nothing more than above-mentioned points through which I will leave my life. Thanks to your support I really find this last 6 months a great time ever and enjoyable in our APAC Schwarzkopf Professional  team as well as with other Khmer friends here.

Four principles for lovers!

There are a number of cases that we can surely see about the fact of love – criminal, sexual, jealous, sweet, and long lasting love – in our society that has always been posted or published in different medias including below-the-line and above-the-line; that is, conferences, magazines, and especially social media like facebook, twitter, and youtube, are the sources where we can fine evidences and make comparison to see the root of those real meanings why some of those cases could be happened.

To reveal this fact, there are four principles from a gentle man named Soeng Phalla, who used to be a stock associate in Room to Read Organization, that we could use to discuss about this case. Speaking at the warehouse of Room to Read during lunch time, Mr. Soeng Phalla shared us that there four influences that all lovers should know to prevent any kinds of bad situations for their long life partnership (1) Social Influence, (2) Family influence, (3) Religion Influence, and (4) Knowledge influence.

(1) Social Influence: It is a simple yet quite easy to pile it up in our mind factor. Once we have 100-year partner in life, there will be a bit affect from social influence, so be positive with what you get or hear about your partner from social influence. Sometimes, people could just keep talking either good or bad about your partner, yet keep neutral and sound-judgment for what you hear and correct each other in case of problems made. If you are ridiculously easy to accept all of those influences, your mind will not be stable, keeping chasing you to find out the answers, and provided that you make a wrong judgment on it, your psychological doubts will make a bias judgment on your partner. Thus, contentment in family seems unhappy and will probably break the bond of love one day.  

(2) Family influence: As most of you know about Tom Teav story (If you are Khmer) and Romeo and Juliet story (it might be easy to imagine this time as the example is universal.), the biggest problems of your long life journey with your partner are relative to family influence. As the two above mentioned examples, the end of their story was death of their lives because of family gap and discrimination, so be sure your family is ready to accept your love even if they are not, let try to showcase them that you are mature enough to take care of this and will spend your life time with each other well.

Two comparable meaning of love

(3) Religion Influence: The third factor, which is also a huge problem, is about religious influence that most of us has already admitted that some religious in the world are contrarily opposite from each other, so it causes those who love each other inconvenient as there will be a greater effect of their future endeavor requiring them to face a lot of things and have to challenge it to find a good deal for their future family. It is also another psychological mindset, forcing us to view the world in the different ways with different beliefs.   

(4) Knowledge influence: Providing that you follow the news everyday about social issues, you will probably see there are quite a few cases happening in all the part of the world. Because of having low knowledge, jealous issues force someone to acidify one another, which is quite bad that such cases happened, and some other partners decide to no longer live in this planet while some suicide themselves or others. Actually, the world is quite beautiful, yet those of low knowledge view the world shortly and unproductively.

The world of contentment even family life or social life requires each and every of us to respect certain obligation from one another, especially those of 100-year partners, who will have to spend such a long time together, so only understanding, forgiving, and respecting each other is the only way that can bring a full of love and warm contentment to family life. With those four principles, you, lovers, should take it into account and explain your partner to live meaningfully in your family life. 

Self-awareness!

High School Life

Looking backwards to a long past time when I was in primary school, I was just a very good gambling boy, being good at nearly all types of child gambling during that time and being the top three slow learning students. Because of that bad habits, I spent two years in grade one, which was quite ashamed of other classmates, who passed to the next grade while the top three slow learners just probably liked their teacher so that is why they did not want to get to the next steps. It looks silly, but memorable not to have that bad experience again.

Starting from primary school, an update of gambling habits was also stepped up from gambling for children to a teen gambling, but that time I was not in the top three slow learners again but in the middle level one.  Since then, my result level was just in the middle no increasing or progressing to be seen or noticed, and I started to be addicted to playing football with other friends. Because of liking playing it, I sometimes spent my weekend doing cycling to Takmao district, Kandal province to play football there with villagers and my friends and then returned home in evening.

Grade 11 photo

A tremendous change began in high school, especially the last year, which was the most important one for my twelve-year study, and it was a must-to-be-passed year as though a twelve-year time would be useless. Having already been almost late to start learning as the last eleven years was not seen as a good or acceptable foundation, I had to enforce myself to add up more hours for self-learning at home and practice more exercises for all important subjects, namely that, Biology, Mathematic, Physics, and Chemistry. As having no background or basic from the last eleven years, it was quite hard to catch up with other students, so I felt that I should have already focused on learning for that missing times. Anyhow, I could not turn back to that time, having to admit about the fact of my past and start to improve it day-by-day. The most meaningful time in my life is the time that I was in the last year of my high school life, taught me to understand about the meaning of struggling life and the hardship of my parents.

Play-station Game

I just thought I was a bit late and had no confidence at all to have passed that degree from my high school, yet it was incredible that I made it with a great result I never believed that it was. Most of my friends never believed that It would be possible for them to have heard this result as we really knew that we hoped to just pass it without any expectation to get a better result, but it paid off and my result was even higher than my friends'.

As of now, I truly believe that having high self-awareness  in mind is the best choice of self-improvement as we would be able to be seen that we are curious to learning and enlarging our scope. The world is just a playground where failure and success are to be faced, so we all cannot just avoid it, yet have to admit it and change to the right direction. The outcome will be fruitfully seen.  

The power of questions!

the reaction of the powerful questions

When I was a student in PSE Institute starting from year one, I felt that I knew nothing about myself and did not even know what I were doing right away, yet because of having high commitment to learn and reach my goals, I tried to ask myself as many questions to reflect and look backwards to see who I am as I could. By that, I learnt about another meaningful and powerful questions to help myself control if I am on the right track as planned for long life investment.

The first journey of my questions – even before until now they are still being asked and checked if I am always in the right track or out of track – begins with "Who are you?", which sounds a bit weird for most of us why we have to ask this question, for the reason is to find out who I am first before getting to know more precisely and in detail. However, from my point of view, you would probably say I am crazy as this question is about to ask those who lost their memory or do not know who they are, yet if we could answer this critically, it is already the best step.  

Questions

When getting more familiar with myself, I started to ask: "What are you doing?" to just check all things I do are aligned with my goals or not, and "Why are you doing this?" to make sure it is the right purpose of that execution.  Learning through those thorough questions, I started to have a better understanding of my potentials that have to be then sharpened while still needed to be asked around from whom I know for their opinions to compare what I see myself with other's outlook.

With those above mentioned questions, there was another questions come up: " What should you do to reach your goals?" that is really helpful for me to see where I am, what problems I encountered, and what is the next task to be done to sold those issues. Since then, there is always a progress from a small step to a bigger one that needs to fix and not to push it aside; thus, I could still stay controlled.

Answers

The last two years of my student life in PSE, especially end of year 2 onwards,  are exceptional that I started to have a lot of works to be done individually and publicly to help my school to lead some projects – mostly involved with students' ability development – while I had to work out with assignments from at least 5 lecturers for the whole week, so student life became busy and stressful with a lot of workloads. Thanks to those hard and busy situations I found another questions "How do you spend your time?", which was quite interesting for me improve myself for my future development, and from that time, I am more autonomous and be able to produce more results in my student life – for my last two years that I wanted to share knowledge to other students.

Once we do know who we are, what we want our life to be, and how we do spend time, we are proud of knowing that we are already one of the most productive human resources for our country enhancement, enriching our country for a new brighter hope and empowering the next generation of our people by sharing what we know. 

Four principles of self-encouragement!

Mr. Soeng Phalla

Thanks to Mr. Soeng Phalla, a gentle and friendly guy, who is a former stock associate at Room to Read Organization, a well-known and kind institution supporting the countries in the world by providing books and other study materials to students, where I took two-month internship there I learnt an ideal and wisdom idea from him. It is really true about the fact of each and every society in the world even though we have different systems of education like those countries of developing world have more best elites than those of under-developing. However, his idea resonates that although we have different systems of education, we still imply those ideas in our everyday life.

With a well-rounded attitude as a good leader for our team in stock department, Mr. Soeng Phalla shared us a four-systematical idea that I named it as "4 principles of self-encouragement". He mentioned that in our life there is nothing can be stronger and more powerful than us, so thinking out of the box is the best catalyst to help us stay encouraged. Explaining in a nice and simple way in warehouse of Room to Read, he told us that there are four factors that can help us motivate ourselves in a better way (1) genesis or clan, (2) family, (3) environment, and (4) self factor.

(1) genesis or clan factor: Most people value or believe that if someone was born to a noble or wise family, the child in those family would become a clever or wise man in the future even though we cannot see what and how our life in the future would be, yet it is still debatable.

(2) family factor: Linked from above factor, though we were born to a nice, wise, and rich family, but if there are a lot of problems happening in that family and members of family do not take care of one another and never give a warm contentment to each other, the child will not be motivated and will do something else out of track that cannot align with their future endeavor. Thus, all parents or parents-to-be should spend some times sharing their children ideas and advices.

4 principles of self-encouragement

(3) environment factor: As of the time we were born from a nice genesis or clay and our family takes care of us with full supports, provided that we are in a bad environment forcing us to do something illegal and harmful, the child would not be able to prohibit themselves not to do so due to their young age and teenage period; thus, the environmental factor is a huge and intangible influence, having a greater change to almost all people no matter how young or old they are.

(4) self factor: Listening carefully to all of those factors provided, I am really fascinated in this last idea as when I reflect it to the fact of my society and would probably others, I could see that most people who struggle in their life can succeed in almost all the tasks they do. Even though we were born to a poor situation, our family does not really care much about us, and we are in a bad environment, if we respect ourselves to be stronger in moving on in life not to fail in one of those three factors mentioned before, namely that, genesis, family, and environmental factor, we will be able to succeed  in everything not only our working or studying life, but also family life as we have self-belief.  

There is no man who can predict someone else's life's faith, yet man can really find out real power within himself and make use of it to be a strong encouragement factor to leverage life result.