Sethykun’s Weblog

Today, I joined a party at my senpai’s house. There, I found out one thing which has been kept in my mind. That thing is that I want everyone to be happy. Since I am a bit nosey poker, I tried to seek out more information about love and feeling from ladies at the party. I do such a thing because I want heart-broken men in Nagoya to be happy. Oh….anyhow I have learned another thing “silence is the cruel weapon”.

Today I feel very tired, not physically but mentally. Maybe I have used my brain so much plus lack of sleep. Almost everyday, I drink two cups of caffe latte and eat chocolate. I drink coffee so that I don’t feel sleepy soon. I eat chocolate (sweet thing) so that my brain can work or there is oxygen in my brain. Hmm but I am still overwhelmed with boredom and stress. That’s why I decided to write something in my journal while listening to very nice songs at Everyday.com.kh. Ha ha ha my feeling is now floating to where I used to go  in accordance with the meaning of the songs. I suddenly feel homesick. I miss my family and friends. Oh it also reminds me of the time while I was a student at Faculty of Economics and IFL. Know what! at that time, I was just like a comedian in the class, telling a joke to everyone. My friends laughed. Sometimes we played football at the field behind RUPP. Wow we played ball without wearing sport shoes and we had to rent a ball from the fresh-water sellers. If m not wrong, it cost around one thousand riels. Sometimes we bet with the other groups. The right word for betting is “Kong Knea”. Of course, our injuries in the knees, ankles, or toes made us familiar with such a match. After that, after we won we did not have to pay for the ball rent. Oh now! we decided to have soup at the place near Phsar Olympic. It’s delicious and cheap. After being tired, we ate a lot by ordering more and more vegetables and meat (when we had money). Ha ha we chatted about our study, professors, and sometimes about our future. We had different ambitions. Some said that they wanted to study in America and some in Japan. Some wanted to work for the government while the others wanted to be a lecturer at IFL. Ha ha now almost our dream becomes true. Some of my friends get the Fullbright scholarship to America and the others including me come to Japan. The rest have a very good job as a lecturer at IFL or any private university or even NGOs. Our dream is in our hands and it is just a matter of time to achieve that. Sometimes we feel down when we face failure. But actually we can learn from our failure and gain more and more and more experiences. We have to reflect back our past activities (what we have done; what is wrong with our behaviors). Yosh! I feel better now I have to read more and more to build my background about economics so that another dream of mine comes true. This time I want to challenge myself more. Guess what I want to get Ph.d from Columbia University in USA. I want to meet Professor Joseph Stigitz, Jeffrey Sach, and many more famous universities there. Whether I can do it or not depends on me and the chance. I think i have to prepare for this goal with two means. First, I have to study more about mathematics, logics, statistics, econometrics, micro-macroeconomics, some of which help me gain high score for GRE test. Of course, I have to preparation for GRE and Toefl test. Second, I have to pray to ask the permission and chance from my father in the heaven. Yosh! i have my goal in my dream now even though m not yet on the half way to go in terms of preparation due to the fact that I am overwhelmed with my courses at my present school. I sometimes dream about Pro. Stiglitz; I occasionally ask myself how I feel when sitting in the class with famous students and professors. Wow I gets a goose bump now. Ha ha! I think it is matter of time, and it depends on God who provides me the rite path to go! Actually, it is just one of my main dreams in my life! i have more dreams! The dream of becoming a famous self such as a famous economist, researcher, or professor. I hope that I can take part in developing my country. At the same time, I also care about my family, relatives, and friends. I think i will try to minimize the influence of the latter on the former to the least least least pie. OK! “Climb High Climb Far My Goal The Sky My Aim The Star” (the star which is next to the heaven)

The second semester at my school has just begun, but I feel a little bit bored with new semester. Probably, I am too free to kill my time. Maybe I miss Cambodia. Or maybe I want to take a longer summer rest. Many reasons ne! Oh yeah! I decided to choose some interesting topics as shown as follows:

1. Quantitative Analysis for Developing Countries

2. Development Management under Globalisation

3. Development Planning and Policy

4. Rural Development

5. Japan’s Development Experience

6. Theory on Non-Governmental Organization

7. Poverty Reduction Strategies

I think I have to read a lot more and more and more about development. The more I read the more I perceive that America is bad. The more I read, the more dangerous the world will be. Positively thinking, I want to a man or even superman to heal all of the unfair wounds inflicted on the poor. What should/how can I do to save the world? Some might think that I will not be able to live up to my will since I mite care more about myself and family as some other graduates from Japan.

By the way, I am reading a book written by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch, “Winning”. I feel very impressed with the way he is as a manager. Yeah! he thinks of only profit while development economist thinks only about poverty reduction, equality, sustainability, freedom, and more. Ok! stop it by this! I would better do my reading about international trade! It is about theory and curve again. Everything has assumptions not reality (sometime only)! Bye Bye see you again.