The end of Khmericanamese Blogspot; the Beginning of Khmericanamese Wordpress.

To friends and family who are regularly visited to this site, this will be the last entry to this site as I will also end another chapter of my life in Korea and soon will begins a new chapter in the states so you can visit to http://khmericanamese.wordpress.com/ for more update photos, and more of “The Never-End Stories”. Moving on to the next chapter of my life is not the reason why I changed the site; I just like wordpress a lot better other than I cannot upload anymore photos to this site (I have reached my alloted space limit)

Soraksan

After many long stressful weeks there is nothing better than to visit to Sok-Cho area, to relax and enjoy the majestic grand view of Mt. Sorak at the mountain top, to listen to an endless sound of the ocean waves, it can truly renew your spirit if you like nature and the hiking.

A band of brothers

Matthew and I, we almost reached to the Mountain top.

Reached to the very top

Too windy at top.

I got a little bit excited once we got to the top of the mountain, wanted to go up higher.

It was just a beautiful view from the top.

Got back down safely

This is one of my favorite picture from Soraksan, I was thinking to myself, thanks God they don't have a sign for the female bathroom.

I love to listening to the sound from occean waves

Boen's tried to work on his swinging with the help from Matt and his friend.

At eastern sea near Soraksan just before we return back to Seoul

Help Asia's Poor Get Access to Clean Drinking Water

The Chosun Ilbo ran an interseting article about "Help Asia's Poor Get Access to Clean Drinking Water" which is a bit surprise to see instead of all the scandalous news about corrupt politicians.

"A Cambodian child drinks rainwater./Courtesy of the Korea Green Foundation."

Interesting

This is sad that even a 57 years woman can sneaked into the base and started the fire.

I like this picture "Yes, Mr. President, I promise not to shoot anyone again"

Cambodia

Perhaps this is the reason why my dad didn't want me to visit to Cambodia!

• David was murdered on Tuesday evening in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. would like to offer my warmest sympathies to David’s family and all of his friends at this very difficult and confusing time. I would also like to wish Jane a speedy recovery and hope that she can find the strength to move past this incident which will have been hugely traumatic experience for her. Read more........

Unconventional Wisdom

• What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Marina Horner
• To feel loved, to belong, to have a place and to hear one’s dignity and worth often affirmed--these are to the soul what food is to the body. Anne Ortlund Speaker and writer
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) Writer
• Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray. Yue Fei (1103-1141) Army general
• I get up every day really humbled by the fact that there is so much that I don’t know. Ron Dellums Politician and social activist
• No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken. Spanish proverb
• Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it wisely. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) Clergyman
• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986) Novelist and critic
• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941) Philosopher
• If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. William J. H. Boetcker (1873-1962) Clergyman
• I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Writer
• To be truly cultivated is to think reasonably, to live grandly, to love greatly, to shun pettiness, to condemn prejudice and cruelty. In short, to be cultivated is to be alive in the very largest sense. Dorothy J. Farnan (1919-2003) Educator and writer
• Strange as it may seem, life becomes serene and enjoyable precisely when selfish pleasures and personal success are no longer the guiding goals. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist and educator

Bangkok

Phra Thinang (Royal Residence) Asiswan Thiphya-Art (The Divine Seat of Personal Freedom) is a Thai-style pavilion with four porches and s spire roof built by King Chulalongkorn in the middle of an outer pond in 1876. The King used this pavilion for courtship and tea time.

Phra Thinang (Royal Residence) Wehart Chamrun (Heavently Light) This Chinese-style-story mansion was built by the equivalent of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and presented to King Chulalongkorn in 1889. Today the Palace is used occasionally by their Majesties King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) and Queen Sirikit as a residence and for holding receptions and banquet to host other dignitary from other countries when they visit to Thailand like the British Queen and U.S President Bush...etc.
 

Along the Chao Phraya River often time you can find a beautiful wooden-style house like this one and many temple.
 

Woods-style house in Ayutthaya.
 

This is Donna, our tour guide to Ayutthaya, amazingly she can talk non-stop from the beginning to the end of the tour.
 

This is Mitchell and Secret from Montreal, Canada. I met them during a group tour trip to Ayutthaya. The tour started out by Bus embarked from Bangkok to Ayutthaya, then return to Bangkok by a Cruise, and during our two and a half hours on a Cruise back to Bangkok, I had a chance to socialize with Mitchell and Secret but surprisingly our conversation mainly of nothing more than debating about American politics.
 

On a River King Cruise from Ayutthaya a long Chao Phraya River is the Grand Palace.
 

City around Chao Phraya River.