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Thursday, September 29, 2005

My Graduation Day

First of all, thanks to my friends- Bong Seth, Bong Thydy, Rith, Tra, and Waza (alphabetically ordered)- for this cute teddy bear in regalia and more importantly for coming over to join my capping ceremony and I want to say I really appreciate that. That's so nice of all of you guys.

I only asked these friends of mine to come over. Well, I didn't ask the girlz downstair and my sister because they were going to Tauranga for a trip so I didn't want to ruin her plan and decided not to tell them. They might have been mad at me when they knew it but I hope they were not mad at me after all.

Oh, I also got these txt messages from my beloved brother and sister.
My brother's:

Congratulation brother. I am very happy and nearly burst into tear.
My sister's:
You look so gorgeous Bong! Have fun ok? I didn't even know you were graduating today! but I still love you though! you look adorable!
Arent' they sweet? :)
For this post, I just wanna show my gratitude toward the people I mentioned here. I love you all. *Hugz*

Here are some more of today photoz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26398206@N00/sets/1031404/
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Apsara

I haven't taken any photos lately so to keep my blog going I would post some of of my old photos.

Siem Riep, Cambodia


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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

As Unique As Your DNA

Do you want an eye-catching abstract art piece which is truly unique to you in the whole world? As long as your DNA is unique(Of course, it is) DNA11 is there to give that. Just provide a sample of your saliva and a few hundred bucks (according to the size of the canvas you want), you will have that unique art piece for hanging on your wall.


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Childhood Favorite Movies

I've just got back from MoMo Tea (milk tea shop). I went there with friends and we spent like more than an hour sitting and talking about lots of things again just like normal hanging out. The last thing we talked about was what were our favorite movies when we were child. I thought a few seconds then I recalled this movie (The Sword in the Stone[1963]) but I couldn't recall the title of the movie. I got home and did a little googling hehe I found it. What was yours?

[Added] I was about to sleep but I recalled one cartoon as my head touched my pillow. It's a Russian cartoon, called Nu Pogodi. It is all about a Wolf and a Hare. I loved this movie so much. I watched this cartoon long before I watched the movie I mentioned above. Most of you who in the same generation as mine I mean the same age and of course you were in Cambodia at that time should know it. Just recalling it, I really wanna watch it again so bad :( Oh, I want this movie in a DVD or VCD for my birthday present heheh.

[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nu_pogodi_by_vjacheslav_kotenochkin.jpg]

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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Cambodian Artists' Visions of the Future

I have found this page on the web. It sounds interesting to me and I think it might be interesting to some of you too so I decided to post it here. It's an comtemporary art exhibition. Reyum hosted this exhibition in 2002, it is quite a long time ago but those artworks are really spectacular. The theme of the exhibition is "Vision of the Future". As far as I am concered most of artists showed their perspectives about future of Cambodia through their works. Enjoy!

[from: http://www.reyum.org/exhibitions/exhibition13/exhibition13.htm]

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Take a Knife and Stab Through My Heart [R18]

CAUTION: The piece of writing below is encoded to make it invisible, this is due to its graphic(unpleasant) content. You must be over 18 of age to read it. Make it visible by selecting it with your mouse.

You grab a knife tightly in your hand. Tear my shirt off. Put your other hand on my left chest to feel the beat of my heart. You've found where my heart is. Now put a cross sign on where you want to run the knife into. There you are. Hold your hand with the knife up in the air. Now, it is time. You violently drop your hand and run the knife into where you have marked. You made it. Now, you twist the knife inside of me. Yeah, it hurts. This wound will turn into a scar and it will last forever. Thanks for giving such a painful experience and good luck on your new journey.

DISCLAIMER: Never practice this to yourself or others. This (a piece of writing above) is not a real incident. It is not what you perceived, it suggests other meaning in diffrent context.

[Making the pic: I took a photo of this kitchen knife, drew a love heart shape, did a little paint job (to bring the volume to the shape), again drew the wound and a drop of blood. Finally, drew a knife shadow on the heart and put some fx, that's it.]
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Monday, September 19, 2005

A Mission Statement

This is a mission statement written by my roommate, Waza. This mission is called "Panh Chod", it's a rude a word in Punjabi so I appologize for that. This post is related to "My Last-2-Days" post.


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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Chocoland

This is a small set-up ad for Chocolate Factory at the lobby of Village cinema in St.Luke Westfield shopping mall.

date photo take 06/Sept/05

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Saturday, September 17, 2005

My Last-2-days Lyfe

Just today that I had enough sleep. I feel abit alive now. For the last 2 days, I had only 4 or 5 hours sleep only, hehe for 2 days. That sounds unhealthy, I know but I just can't help it u know. My assignment due date is chasing me but it's not all because of it. Ok, I stayed up in school lab late till like 4. I came home and hoping to sleep right away but I couldn't maybe because of the high amount of caffeine in the cafee and tea I consumed but that's all good for me though. I still could do my assignment after I got home. I continued till like 6am and I felt abit sleepy and decided to hit the bed. I was watching my ceiling for about 15 minutes or something and then I felt alsleep. Well, before falling asleep I thought I would sleep till 10 or 11am.


School Lab

I woke up and I didn't know what time it was. Well, I thought it would be around 10am. But thing is I felt like I was in the crowd of people. Actually, there were 2 of my roommates talking and shouting. They went blah blah blah. That was so freaking loud. It sounds like they were fighting but it wasn't. It's just their ways of talking to each other. Well, I don't wanna mention where are they from. That might sound racist. Why didn't I told them to shut their fking mouths up? I told them already twice and banged the on wall many times to let them know that they should shut up or keep their voices down. Well, they're not 5 years old kids. They should understand and remember it after a few notices but they just don't care at all. How disrespecful?

I was shivering under my blanket, it's not because that I was naked but it due to the lack of sleep. I grabbed my phone from the table close to my bed and looked at the time. Omg, it was just 8:00am. I tried to sleep again but I couldn't because their voices were too loud. You should know how loud it is because you know how tiring it is to stay up till 6am and I would be like sleeping like a dead man in bed no matter what is going on around me. I guess you can imagine. My heart started to pumping faster. It was racing against their voices. It's getting weaker by second. I thought I needed some help from my one of my mate from my bookshelf. I tried to get on feet and there I found Korn cd. I dropped it into my computer's cdrom drive, turned my external speakers up loud (well, I couldn't put it to the maxinum because there's another roomate to the otherside side of my room and I had to say sorry to him. But he used to tell me to do so sometimes when 2 guys make noise. that's why I did it), faced my speakers to their side, I pressed play button on the iTune5 program and there it went nice and loud. You know how Korn musik sounds like aye. It's loud and rough, so rough but I like it. I hadn't been able to play it because when I play I need to turn it loud, otherwise it's crap and I had been considering that I wasn't the only one in the apartment. But that was the time to put it on and let it rocks.


My KoRn Album

I went back to my bed and covered my self with my blanket. After a while, I felt energized, I got up and did some push-ups and still let the music go. And then they shut up or left the apartment I didn't know. Then I took a shower and changed my music to the soft one. I dressed up and left for school because I had class at 11am. My day began again.

Leaving in a student hostel can be so much fun but also it can be freaking annoying when your roommates are from HELL, they don't do their dishes just after they used them, they don't clean up the rubbish, and more importantly when they use your stuff, and left it unclean. And that is so chaotic.

Here's my suggestion for sharing the living space. Please DO respect your neighbours. Because people tend to do things that might hurt others mentally and physically and the only thing that can keep us from doing that is RESPECT. If you come or see my room, you'll know that it's stuffy and smelly and variety of things on the floor. But believe me, I DO care about sharing space. Since i've been here I only left my pot unwashed for half a day ONCE because I overcooked the food so I had to leave the pot in the water before I cleaned it. One more suggestion in the sense of sharing space, if you DON'T clean up, DON'T mess it up.

Cheers.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Khmok

I have this Khmok(mask) on my pin-up board. It is a miniature one so we can't wear it hehe. Anyways, let's find out information about it.

http://www.mcfa.gov.kh/Artisan_Skills/mask_making.php
http://www.reyum.org/media/misc-articles/khmer-mask-making.htm



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Friday, September 09, 2005

P Sign (not Parking)

Hehe P is not for Parking ok. Last night, I could not sleep and I came up with an idea that I should had designed a sign for myself (for blog and chat display pic). Finally, I got all these prototypes. I made everything from the scratch. The P letter I designed earlier for my blog icon, as you can see in the address bar. The big one (sign), I imitate mac style but I couldn't make it look as sleek as it looks on mac hehe. For me, umm... I like the gray one (at the buttom) the most. What you think? Don't tell me you don't like all of them hehe. Put them in order of your preference and tell me which one you like the most. Oh, I almost forgot to you that P stands for my firstname and my last name. Cheers.

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Thursday, September 08, 2005

My Pin-Up Board


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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

One Cuddly Birdie

@ Long Bay

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Sunday, September 04, 2005

A Small Wood

This small wood is between my hostel and my previous school (Unitec) in New Zealand. I had to walk pass this place every single day (the place I walk pass everyday recently) It took about 5 minutes to get to my class from the hostel. I really liked this place. It's so green and quiet but a bit scary when it's dark. The hostel faces to the main road which is quite busy in the day but if you only just turn around there's another world, which is so peaceful so serence. You can see now why I liked that place. Have a look at the photos.

It was so tiring walking up this steep walkway, esp in the cold moring.

That was the hostel I lived in while I was studing in that school.

The small bridge I walked on everyday.

The stream from the waterfall on the other side of the bridge.

You see that waterfal?

A bit closer hehe.



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Silent Street

Does it look dodgy?

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Thursday, September 01, 2005

Should I?

Almost every single day, I have to ask myself these questions over and over again. Should I do this? Should I do that? To find out the negativities and positivities and make a decision. Well, f***. I am such a lame. Why don't I just do what I wanna do. I feel there are 2 selves in me fighting to convice me to be on their side when I come to make a decision. They are always opposite, never once they walk the same path in the same direction. Yesterday, something got me so wanna do. I'm telling you I really wanted to do it but after all I refused to do it because I knew if i allowed myself to go with that flow of desire, thing is gonna get worse, for myself and other as well. And it really hurt.

My life is way far from simplicity now. I can't even understand myself. I don't even know what I am.
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Simon [Song's Lyric]

I just can't sleep tonight and I'm listening to this song over and over again. The more I listen the more I feel the whole song describes what I am now. Hehe maybe I just get emotional by the song. Almost forget to tell you this song is sung by Lifehouse. That song is in their first album. I'm not their big fan or something but I just like their songs and I've got all their albums.

Catch your breath,
Hit the wall,
Scream out loud,
As you start to crawl
Back in your cage
The only place
Where they will
Leave you alone.
'Cause the weak will
Seek the weaker til they've broken them.
Could you get it back again?
Would it be the same?
Fulfillment to their lack of strength at your expense,
Left you with no defense;
They tore it down.

(Chorus):
And I have felt the same as you,
I've felt the same as you,
I've felt the same.

Locked inside
The only place
Where you feel sheltered,
Where you feel safe.
You lost yourself
In your search to find
Something else to hide behind.

The fearful always preyed upon your confidence.
Did they see the consequence,
when they pushed you around?
The arrogant build kingdoms made of the different ones,
Breaking them 'til they've become just another crown.

(Chorus)

Refuse to feel anything at all,
Refuse to slip,
Refuse to fall.
Can't be weak,
Can't stand still,
You watch your back 'cause no one will.
You don't know why they had to go this far,
Traded your worth for these scars,
For your only company.
And don't believe the lies
That they have told to you. Not one word was true
you're alright, you're alright, you're alright.

(Chorus)

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