Microsoft challenges Cambodians to “go-genuine”

Microsoft, recently, lunched it first tentative foothold in Phnom Penh with a drive for local PC users to go genuine. … this could be an important step in partnership with the government and the people of Cambodia.. some shorts of booming Cambodian market with strong message to potential international investment partners. Yet, real Microsoft products remain unrealistically expensive for people like me to make it real too. I am, like the other people as well, often shop for a much cheaper pirated version of ubiquitous software which just a corner of my house… hee. How come a fully licensed version of Vista edition costs US$399…here in Cambodia? Perhaps having a licensed Microsoft product for PC users in American or Europe would just present only ONE percent of their income. But in Cambodia it might be almost haft of their annual income already…. that’s scrap! My favorite place here is Dics Center where I just get away pirated copies of just US$2 per software. …. that’s choice, right? No one would say…”hay..u have to be genuine..” I am not supporte piracy though, but we still have five years more of good time to enjoy until 2013, complement to WTO intellectual property right….that’s choice again, right? However, it is so much different using non-licensed and the licensed Microsoft products. The feeling is also different (I wish they paid me to say these..!) too. I’m now using both licensed and non-licensed—yet still prefer genuine!

 

BE HAPPY.. YOURSELF..!

1. Remember that work is not the only facet to your life. In these demanding times, it’s easy to focus more on the workplace, but finding a time to “play” is just as important. Making special time to enjoy interests, hobbies, and family, not only makes life happier, but helps us to be more productive on the job.

2. Realise that you are just as important as other people.Learn to say “no” when your obligations and responsibilities are too much. You can only spread yourself so thin before you’re no good for yourself or anyone else.

3. Don’t compare yourself to other people – at work or in your personal life. In the first place, no one knows what other people are going through. More importantly, when you compare yourself to other people, you always tend to see yourself on the “short end”. So this is never a good or helpful thing for you to do.

4. Make a sheduled time every day for relaxation.This is not a “lazy” relaxation, but a time when you regroup, let go of your stresses, and read something that is positive and uplifting. This is a good time to go over any therapy that you you’re working on. Having a “relaxation” time or a “quiet time” every day strengthens you, allows the stress and tension in your life to evaporate, and keeps you more on a positive, even keel.

5. Take time to laugh at yourself and the situations you find yourself in. Laughter is a powerful, positive medicine. The calmer and more peaceful you can take things, the happier you life will be.

6. Surround yourself with friends who are positive, encouraging, and helpful. This has a nice reciprocal benefit: As you are positive and encouraging to others, your friends become positive and encouraging to you. We all need this continuing, positive encouragement to make solid progress in life.

7. If you have problems getting your feelings and opinions out, learn the techniques of self-assertion, rather than using anger or avoidance by bottling them up inside. Burying your feelings and pushing them deep down into yourself only creates blockages in your growth and progress as a human being

8. Relax, calm down, take things slower. The cliché is passé, but there’s a big element of truth to it: When you stop to smell the roses, the world is just a brighter, happier, and more beautiful place to live.

 

Matin Luther King – "I HAVE A DREAM"

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languish in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our Nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for white only.”

We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up… live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God’s children be able to sing with new meaning “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tenneessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside.

Let freedom ring,

And when this happens,and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”

 

Thank 2007 !

2007 has been a good year for me. A year that changed a new looks for a person like me who used to be naïve and challenging, a person who just barely got through university. Thinking back of my momentous of 2007 makes me feel so delighted… full of memories, fun, friend and a life-changing experience in my working place. Though, sometime it makes me feel sad when I think of the discomfited events and non-events that happened.

Here you have summaries of my 2007… umm.. to be started with.., my first career in MB dealership (GD) represents by .. Co., Ltd. A good-for-nothing guy was carved into a beautiful status within one year period which have been highly rewarding and enjoyable. After coming back from a short course in Hong Kong, I got offered to work for GD which I was so excited about… I first worked as an administrative staff in the after-sales department. Getting in with nothing-known about cars and its culture, I managed just to do simple tasks. I had never expected that I would have a high starting position. But I have a dream of being a top leading position …somewhere I don know. It was probably a fire in me that keep on calling to find ways to give it a sincere try even though I don know where I would end up. I DARE to DREAM. I spent sometime to learn more about this job…. about cars…about mechanical and technical stuff … cars’ symptom, assembly system… spare parts and market and all thing about GD as well. I spent most of my time working, even at home… I’ve tried to think of way to get master all such terms use with cars… made my own database to control MB part inventory…studied all MB model rang …bla bla bla.

I was then promoted and promoted twice…. more and more responsible come. I ran the office and my good team, staying for more than 8 hour everyday including some weekend, attending customers, negotiating deal, responding to sales and workmanship performance, correspondences and complains… I had a very good team and people were very friendly to each other and to me. Everyone in my team works very hard and dedicated. I was very poor in dictating business letter. Whatever I wrote, WC would correct me and sometime conveyed the meaning what I want. It was very grateful that Sir. WC quietly covered my weakness. Things are difficult before they are easy!

As sale performance increased and the sailing of the office was smooth—June 2007 was the best month ever in my team—still WC felt that we were not working hard enough or delivering on our full potential. He had a habit of shouting at people and call for a meeting which never seem to be satisfied with what ever the out put of our best. The phrase “Good enough… and Well done!” were not in his vocabulary list. From his pressure, I started to pick a habit of bad mood.. and sometime speaking at the top of my voice. Is it path to ruin-self? I ask myself. Then suddenly, I thought of my former colleague, L.PN. During her time, no one liked her management. Everyone kept distance from her and responded politely to the point on she demands. I was too. The warm and friendly atmosphere had turned to be chili and silent. Guess what?….when L.PN tried to join us during lunch, everyone invariably found excuse to leave her alone. She was chocking! She was very close to WC and was such a sick person—thus sometime recommended to WC that ‘someone’ shall be fired… I didn’t care… cos I am I, sophorn. )

My Opinion: People listen to L.PN because they have no choice. She control everyone pure and destiny, whereas she’s perceived as being bought by WC, because she got higher salary and status.

Now back to me, I asked myself: why when WC shouted at employees, there was no problem happened…we accept WC’s demands. But when I did the same, it destroyed the morale. I learnt that following his example and philosophy was “to keeping the labor under your boot.” However, who i am? .. still I’m working for you. I am not such a kind of ignominious person. “I work for you, cos you give me food.” and thus all my competence is dedicated to you. But i believe something should be changed first in order to move further. I have my own philosophy though.

My Opinion: I can see that, unless you learn to maintain cool, stop swearing and shouting, you will be in a trajectory to ruin-self. I should try to keep this hallmark. I mush confess that maintaining myself control is still the most difficult thing to do BUT it had counseled my feet back on ground—in 2 moths I began to gain my team confidence…… People love u for who you are. They will never let u down if you bring back your lively demeanors.

Socialization change in one stage of life through age.. childhood, adolescent, early adulthood, .. bla bla. Once saying that it occurs when one migrates to the new place, they need to learn new culture, language… and a new different way of life… I SAY, my first employment is a change in my socialization track too. I learnt new way of keeping myself with the environment around, I didn’t learn new language but I learnt the dialogue of business-conversation, I didn’t have much achievement on negotiating deal, but I learnt to interact with other people. I didn’t become a leader, but I learnt team work… I didn’t change myself but I learnt self-discipline and self-motivation. .. so on. I did not learn it form school or from my family. This is one event of 2007 that change the fact of who I was. Thank for this momentous experiences.

This year as well, I’ve been to Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. I love my trip. It’s part of my academic purpose. It opens my eyes to the world.. the world that is so so big. I made many good friend from different place: first of all Hoang Anh, then Viet, Son, Thuy… from Vietnam, Ivan, Noel, John…the Pilipino, Renshao, Nicolar, Shamima…Singapore, Moe Moe, May Moe, OJ, Wyine Myanmar,… who else.. Ira, Devi, Eflina, Kintan, Am, Ningrum, Dhika, Fika, Rizka, BamBang (the doctor), KD, Vendy, Donal.F., Theavy, Ying Yang, Nat (the penguin), Tum (Miss. AL),….just to name of all AL 2007. I was put into a scheme—Globalization: poverty and development—which I studied and experienced something out in wild at Jakarta and Gorontalo,…. the situation of struggling with life and death of destitute people and the responsibility of all stakeholders. It had opened my eyes beyond what I learn from university and books. I am proud that I can be part of this solution.

I quited my job for I need sometime for my study. It was shocking me a lot when I see my school performance in a down-slop. I, sometime, haven’t finished all the given assignments on time, or read the assigned chapter before class. Sometime, I need to rush back from my office to catch up class on time. Someday, I couldn’t help myself just by sitting in the class without knowing what lecturer were explaining.. and keeping questioned myself why I was sitting there, why I didn’t read…. bla bla. I’ve been seeking help from my parents, friends and well-wishers. My choice was to leave my office or I will not graduate on time. I was not in the mood of resigning and definitely did not want to quite. I love my job, position and its facts that I probably wouldn’t have such an opportunity to be in such a position again in my next career. Guess what..? after explaining my point, no one can help me decide what to do. But the common answers I get is that “… Sophorn, u need to understand ur goal….what’s ur value…then go for it. You can look back or else u don’t have to…”. . “Degree or salary.. doesn’t matter” the matter is that YOU urself.

My lesson: Do not wish to be any things but what you are, and try to be that perfectly… No one can understand YOU clearer than you yourself. The distilled advises I got are vividly etched in my coconut (head). I quitted my job! …….but still occasionally question myself if I’ve done the right thing… :-p

This year as well some disappointment preoccupied my mind. I must admit that I REGRET to something that I fail to get it.

This year:
- TWO big frustrated moments that I fail to achieve.

- TWO big accomplishments that keep me smiling when thinking of them.

But what is FAILURE? ,,,,,, Now you need to do sth that you expecting, do not give up if you fail, learn from your failure. Do not expect too much but have a deliberate goal. Accept the challenge, so that you may fell the exhilaration of your victory. Failure is not the final end…… unless u try to do sth beyond what you have already master, you will never grow…. I, just, know that the starting point of all achievement is desire…..

This year, time is too short; I still have something left behind for next year. But some period in this year, time is too slow, too swift and too long … what is time? … but well, time was enough for me to do what I want to do.

THIS YEAR will soon be the PAST, and

NEXT YEAR will soon be the PRESENT

My destiny has become my own to master and dreams continue!

NEXT YEAR, any new resolution…?

Next year, dream a better dream.. do sth that you can look back and smile…! not cry.

Next year’s first battle is IFL,… to graduate with a good track record. Can I get it… ? well, at least as good score as last year and all the previous years around. Now, I feel too free already, no job any more….and soon will become lazy pig. The test 2 is approaching, 10th Jan. I still feel so baffle… kinda subtle and blue. I’ll start reading now after finishing this page. …my mind summons me to do so… Cramming!!!!

Next year’s second battle is to find a good job to get some experiences and credits and at the same time seeking for scholarship. Scholarship .. puzzzz!. another mile to go. When I fail so many scholarship… I started to feel that experience is very important when one wants to go for a graduate school. YOU need to trust yourself, you will have it one day! .. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind…. and DON lose hope. … Hope can see the invisible, hope and feel the intangible. But DON expect too much too….

Next year as well, so worry of some relationships…. not just L but friend and colleagues as well. I wish I could be understood….! People say “You’re never too late in life, it is not when u do it but what you do is matter. ” I say WHEN and WHAT both are matters.

Next year, is there a miracle….?
Commit to dream…
Believe in urself…
Try unconventional idea…
Make mistake…
Never give up…
and Enjoy your journey…

I’m thinking of next year!

 

The assault on monks–VN embassy in PP

Civil society, strongly condemn the excessive use of violence by the authorities against a group of Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks who gathered peacefully in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on the morning of 17 December 2007.

A group of 48 Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks, ethnic Khmer originally from southern Vietnam, had convened peacefully in front of the Vietnamese Embassy to submit a petition calling for the release of Kampuchea Krom Buddhist monk Tim Sakhorn and five other monks imprisoned in Vietnam, the resolution of land issues, and respect for minority rights. The Ministry of Interior responded swiftly by deploying a large contingent of police and anti-riot forces who arrived armed with shields, electric batons and guns.

After the monks request for a meeting with an Embassy representative was officially rejected, they sat down at the site to conduct a traditional Buddhist ceremony.

At the end of an hour-long of standoff, the monks decided to walk towards the gate of the embassy, where they were met with heavy resistance by the anti-riot police, who used their batons and shields to hit and force back the monks. Some of the monks then threw plastic bottles at the police. The anti-riot unit responded instantly, brutally charging against the monks with their shields and electric batons. Monks then scattered and tried to run away avoiding further injury. The police continued to violently attack the monks even after they dispersed. They chased the monks four blocks down various side-streets in the area around the Vietnamese Embassy, hitting and beating the monks. Surprised passers-by were told by the police “those who we are beating are not real monks.” (In khmer: “yung wai mun men dejekhun.”) Two monks were seriously injured after being shocked by electric batons on the backs of their heads; causing one to temporarily lose conscious. Four other monks suffered minor injuries after being assaulted by the police.

 

Tip to google ur MP3

intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”your song title” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”

Just enter the name of ur song title in the above key text and past it in ur google search bar.

E.g. If you wanted to find a song called… Remember when (From 28 Days Later)
then you put…

[Key text: Select it all]
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”Remember when″ -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”

Try it out !

 

Game: Auditing as a Social Dilemma

Auditing as a Social dilemma

Introduction: Investors are risk averse wealth maximizers. This means that they prefer fore wealth to less, but also prefer a “sure thing” over a gamble. Investors use the financial reports of companies to forecast the future performance of these companies. From these forecasts they cam predict what their future returns from investing in a given company are likely to be and decide how much to pay for the companies’ stocks. However, investors are often unsure whether or not the managers are being truthful in the financial reports. Because of this, auditors can provide a useful service to investors by helping to reduce the uncertainty associated with the financial reports, thus facilitating the investors’ prediction of their future investment returns.

An overview of the game:

In this game you will play the role of an auditor. During every turn you will

1) decode whether or not to join a professional organization and
2) provide an audit for a client

You can provide either a high or a low quality audit for the client. Your client knows nothing about auditing and can not tell if you provide a high quality or law quality audit. It costs you $60 to provide a high quality audit and $45 to provide a low quality. Each turn you will also earn audit revenue. Each player in group (coalition member group and non-coalition member group) receives the same audit revenue. However, audit group will depend on the audit quality of the members of the two groups. The amount you receive as audit revenue in the current turn is NOT affected by the audit quality you provide in that same turn.

It costs $5 to be a member of the coalition. As mentioned above, coalition members’ audit revenue is computed separately and is base upon the audit quality of coalition members from the prior turn. In addition, there is a 50% chance that your audit quality audit as a coalition member and your audit quality is reviewed; you will be excluded from being a coalition member for the remainder of the game.

As mentioned above, the audit revenue you receive each turn has nothing to do with the quality of your audit for that turn. Instead, the audit revenue that you (and everyone else in your group) receive during the previous turn increase faster than the proportion of high quality audits in the previous turn. This is because of the risk averseness of the investors and because higher quality audits are more likely to uncover managers’ untruthfulness.

From the above discussion, you can see that in any particular turn, you will always earn a higher net income by producing a low quality audit because you will incur lower audit expenses. However, if everyone produces low quality audits, audit fees will decline in the future. This is why we call the auditing game a social dilemma.

Audit revenue is a function of the proportion of high quality audits provided in the previous turn.

% High quality audits	Audit Revenues
0%	$60.00
10%	$60.00
20%	$60.20
30%	$60.80
40%	$61.90
50%	$63.80
60%	$66.50
70%	$70.30
80%	$75.40
90%	$81.90
100%	$90.00

Playing the game:

1) Write your name on the tally sheet. This column keeps track of your wealth.

2) The % of high quality audits and the % of low quality audits for the previous turn are announced for both coalition and non-coalition groups (for turn 1, this is 50% each). These are used to determine the audit revenue for the current turn.

3) Audit revenue for the current revenue s announced for both coalition and non-coalition members. This is based on the groups’ history of audit quality (step 2). Write your audit revenue in column 3.

4) Decide whether or not to be a coalition member. If you decide to be a coalition member, write $5 column5. Remember that you cannot be a member if you have been excluded in a prior turn.

5) Choose to provide either a high quality or low quality audit in the current turn. Using column 6, write an L if you provide a low quality audit or an H if you provide a high quality audit. Be sure that no one observes your choice. Note that a running tally of the audit quality provided by the group in the previous turns is summarized on the blackboard.

6) Separate audit quality boxes are circulated for coalition and non-coalition members. When the appropriate box passes, tear off a piece of the scrap paper appropriate box.

7) Write in the amount of your audit expense in column 4. Also record your net income for the turn (revenue less expenses and coalition costs) in column 2. Finally, update your wealth by combining your wealth at the beginning of the current turn with your current net income. Write your ending wealth in the current row of column 1.

8) Steps 2-7 are repeated for an unspecified number of turns. If you run out of room on your tally sheet, use the back.

9) When we announce the game is over, circle your final ending wealth.

NOW START IT !!

ps: this is play in class or group

 

Gorontalo- Indonesia

ASEAN Logics 2007

The Association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN) was established to promote economical, cultural and social cooperation among its member. We are all gathered in [University of Indonesia] Indonesia leant, shared, interacted and discussed on particular issues raised by each individual participant including the host county itself. I used to think that ASEAN was just an organization which does nothing to ensure the prosperous of the ten countries. However, after the ASEAN Logics 2007 ,I realized that it is totally wrong.

From the basics of my points raised in one of my working paper, I mainly addressed the challenges regionally and globally in today’s globalized world mainly the roles of government and its readiness to take this advantage to develop the country. There are interaction between politics and economics and there are opportunity and strategy attached to effectively remedy the problem—and that is very challenging. In my working paper, I use the indirect approach to describe the political awareness and the weakness of economic framework in context Cambodia. Recently, politic in Cambodia is not a clear cut. It still in blue and it not a good image in regional cooperation and it has not fully involved in helping the economical development in the country. However, lesson learnt for this program was that some countries of ASEAN have also encountered the same problem but question is why they still stay focused on developing their country in general. There are some other reasons behind. But at this point I still would like to leave comment as I wrote in the paper that Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) shall be appeared properly confident and well prepared [politically] for the new investment, that is to unify amount political parties internally and to strengthening the bilateral cooperation’s linkage regionally and globally.

Economic diversification occurs to only specific groups of population, and its doctrine does not assume that everyone always know their own interest. Invisibly, the contribution is merely in the city and other places, where population are rich enough, both knowledge and capital. Meanwhile, the large numbers of local people at the remote area do not enjoy this benefit. Many parts of Cambodian rural areas are isolated and far away from economic flow. The gap between the poor and the rich is becoming further. As a result, the government has to function so significantly in rural economic institution establishment and infrastructure improvement initially and also, has to wait until the proper time the poor and national economy as the whole goes together

I stand the point as pro-globalization which I first thought as means to engage all countries to mutually benefit to tackle the problem of poverty and development—and that after all come to me that it is not just a mere thought. It involves more to the concrete relationship, action plan and management from the grass root level to the grand which are summarized as:

- Good governance (Management, strategy…)
- Role of institution (Government, NGOs…)
- Related group or individual (Civil servants, local people…)

I leant more to what I did not expected before I went to AL 2007—there are more issues and involvements. The Gorontalor, a yourng-6-year-old province in South-Wesh Java, for instant, is a good province providing a good experience as a model of some of the province in Cambodia in terms of infrastructure and resources available to hop to start it new face. This was a 5days site visit of the program. One thing I rcognised : I really favor the Government’s program in Poverty Alleviation by subsidy and providing fund to local people and ensuring the transparency and accountable by reducing bureaucratic hierarchies. And what is more the concept of assigning the responsibility by hierarchy order and the system of using digital innovation SMS to report via. Plus, at another level of supporting NGOs play very important roles by truly advocating for the people, work consistently with the government program and especially they do not against the government. The whole process runs very well despite some of certain misunderstanding and social jealousy concerns how the state of being poor is defined: the issue of ID card of abject poor. Observably, every individual understands their roles and responsibilities for example, chief of the village and Bina Persada (NGO that works with farmer). Another help is the marriage between the Government and the private company like the coconut flour mill and/or the Agro-industrial namely the PT. Agro Potombulu, which provide marketing, development and alternate career opportunity for the villagers besides the traditional way of life. Coconut four mill, is a factory equiped with tech from Philipine that produce mill for export. Ppl call a zero-sum-waste businese—what they do is that they use every part of coconut processing to final product: mill, coconut oil, residue dry…. And this has been alot in providing job opportunity for the local ppl and esp. market for the farmer. However, if i were to suggest sth i would say:

- Government should provide more funds to the local people basically to broaden their income and accessibility.
- Government should work more closely and cooperatively with the local NGOs to ensure the process that the poor and the government is connected.

Of all above experience.. i would say: The concept of AL 2007—having students form all ASEAN nation congregate for 15 days of learning, interaction and social development is truely enriching. The program met my expectation in every way.

 

LEAVING ON JET PLANE….
…

All my bags are packed. I’m ready to go

I’m standing here outside your door

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

But the dawn is breakin. It’s early morn The taxis waitin.

Hes blowin his horn Already Im so lonesome.

I could die

So kiss me and smile for me

Tell me that youll wait for me

Hold me like youll never let me go

cause Im leavin on a jet plane

Dont know when Ill be back again

Oh babe, I hate to go

Theres so many times Ive let you down

So many times Ive played around

I tell you now, they dont mean a thing

Evry place I go, Ill think of you

Evry song I sing, Ill sing for you

When I come back, Ill bring your wedding ring

Now the time has come to leave you

One more time.Let me kiss you

Then close your eyes

Ill be on my way Dream about the days to come

When I wont have to leave alone About the times, I wont have to say

So kiss me and smile for me

Tell me that youll wait for me

Hold me like youll never let me go

cause Im leavin on a jet plane

Dont know when Ill be back again

Oh babe, I hate to go

H.A

 

ASEAN Logics Site Visit "Gorontalo"

We got into the Tribune Gorontalo (9 and 10 August 2007). The Action that make change toward betterment !!