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Tekkanano Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Total posts: 52 Location: Alexandria, VA, USA Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:30 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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Oh yea, I used to watch thai and chinese dramas when I was younger, but man, they got boring after a while. With most of the Thai dramas that I remember, it was about a rich guy who falls in love with a poor girl. With chinese dramas, well, they're flying all over the place, hehe. I think it got repetative for my parents and siblings that they don't watch it as much as they used to long time ago.
I'm usually watching korean and japanese dramas. After watching so much anime and dramas, I could stand watching raws if I know it will not be subbed for a while. For example, I'm watching the Hana Yori Dango EP1 raw that was released today!!! 
I speak half english and khmer with my parents. And, I do the same to parents' friends, they just make fun of me. My mom is planning to have the whole family, 5 total, visit Cambodia next summer. My dad's cousin is a police officer in Phnom Penh, so he'll protect us with his little gun, lol. Oh yea, you know what's really scary for me when going there! Girls trying to arrange marriages with me, ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! They still try to do that stuff even though I'm over here and never been there! I don't wanna get married yet! So, yea, it will be my first time visiting the country.
I was born in Thailand in the refuge camp, and came to the US when I was about 3 months old, so that explains why I can't speak Khmer good. Just watch, my relatives in Cambodia will make fun of me so badddd.
Plenty enough of true and mixed cambodians in my area. I don't really hang with cambodians in my area, mostly vietnamese and spanish, because there's way too many vietnameses in my area. I guess I look too much like them or something.
Wait a min, I'm talking waaaaaaaay too much, back to the dramas!
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kali4niaguyLocation: :D Age: 12 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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if any of u have a chance to go to Cambo, do it!!! it's fun, just don't stay too long, u'd miss fast food and fast cars. if u've been there, then u know that cars move very slow in the city, mopeds everywhere! i was all over the place. 1 of the few places I didn't get to in Cambo was KohKong. but I had a chance to go to Siem Reap and see Angkor Wat and most of the smaller Wats there. it's cool. but in Angkor Wat and some other places, they'd charge u $20/US if u don't speak Cambo. so if u don't look Cambo but speak Cambo, it's cool, but if u look Cambo but don't speak, just stay quiet and let ur relatives speak until u pass those guys or u'll have to pay $20!  I also had a chance to ride a boat from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, that was cool. it cost $17 when I was there in 2002, it might've gone up. it took around 5 hours, but they give u a meal, it was a decent meal. lots of foreigners take the boat, the locals can't really afford that kind of luxury.
if you guys have the opportunity to travel, do it! life's all about adventures here and there. just don't drink the water unless it's bottled. u can just drink those fresh coconuts. don't eat fresh veggies and stay away from the ice. most fruits r ok to eat, and the fruits r yummmmmmmmy!!! I love the mangosteens, lychees, rambutans, and some others. I wish we had those fruits here. if u want to spend most of ur vacation time in the toilet, then eat the veggies and get the ice.  in some restaurants, it's ok to drink their water since they tend to cater towards tourists, but I still drank bottled water. better safe than be on the toilet all day. in Phnom Penh there's a mall called Soriya, it's interesting to check out a Cambo mall.
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DodbosJoined: 24 Apr 2004 Total posts: 101 Location: IL Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| Tekkanano wrote: | Oh yea, I used to watch thai and chinese dramas when I was younger, but man, they got boring after a while. With most of the Thai dramas that I remember, it was about a rich guy who falls in love with a poor girl. With chinese dramas, well, they're flying all over the place, hehe. I think it got repetative for my parents and siblings that they don't watch it as much as they used to long time ago.
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Yea I used to watch thai dramas with my parents too but the story never really changes. Don't you notice how like 50% of the time the main chic character would get raped by the main guy character and yet they would still fall in love. The thing is the main leads almost always fell in love. There's maybe like one or two where the leads don't get each other.
I actually got my parents started on korean and jap dramas. My dad goes online now and tells me which one to dl for him and my mom watches with him too, but i dont think she really understands it. my pops explains to her what's going on sometimes.
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kahmeng_sreyJoined: 30 Jun 2004 Total posts: 56 Location: kali Age: 21 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:26 am Post subject: Re: YOU KNOW YOU ARE CAMBODIAN IF... Post Rating: 0 |
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| saii06 wrote: | | kahmeng_srey wrote: | YOU KNOW YOU ARE CAMBODIAN IF...
1. You own, have relative who owns, or know someone who owns a DONUT SHOP!!!
2. You have a life time job at a donut shop.
3. You still work at a donut shop on weekends even if you have a full time job outside.
4. You HATE Donuts!!
5. You live in Long Beach and/or you have relatives who live in Long Beach, or you go to Long Beach every weekend.
6. You can't live without steamed rice.
7. You're darker than all your other Asian friends.
8. You kick it with black people and other people think you're black too.(well they think i'm white  )
9. You hate the name Pol Pot.
10. The first cool thing you learned in America is how to break dance.
11. You hate it when people think Cambodians are the dirtiest Asians.
12. You own the old Toyota Cressida or an old Nissan Maxima. and honda too
13. You have a Laotian relative.
14. You are tired of Cambodian stereotypes, so you say that you are "Kampuchean" instead.
15. You want other Asians to stop meddling in your country.
16. You deny numbers 1 through 15.
You think you are the king of gamblers but lose all your money like the other ones.
You gamble with no strategy in the casino like a chick with no head
People think you're Paki or Indu
You wonder why all other Asian ethnicities hate you
You are really embarrassed when some white folks ask you serious questions about Buddhism because you don't know anything about it
You think you only have to wear expensive clothes to have class
You try to use every word of the ebonic slang but you look ridiculous
You really think that the more gold you wear the more chicks you get
You called white men foreigner in their own country (I don't get this one)
You call all white people Frenchmen
You go to the temple because you think you'll meet good girls there but most of the girls who go there are bad girls who want to prove there family and community they are clean good girls (don't really understand that one)
You don't even know that angkor wat was not a Buddhist temple at first
You claim to be Buddhist but don't know anything about it
Your favorite past time is talking behind the back of people even your own family
You show no respect to the country your living in (I don't think that is true)
You think Buddha is sort a god that can make you win money at the lottery or casino
If you are proud to be a Cambodian, then you have to know how to eat Prahok and Somlo Machua Kruong...And you have to know how to drink Turk Thnok Chua and eat Sach Ko Ank... |
haha pretty funny. I bolded the ones that are true to me  after the number 16 I don't get it. It sounds horrible  |
Beyond #16 you have to know how to speak Cambodian really well to understand what those words mean.
"You think you are the king of gamblers but lose all your money like the other ones.
You gamble with no strategy in the casino like a chick with no head "
that means you play the game Clah Clok. Clah Clok is a game where you bet your money on one of the 6 or 8 symbols on the mat. You never know what symbol the dice will turn out thats why you are likely to loose you money.
"People think you're Paki or Indu
You wonder why all other Asian ethnicities hate you
You are really embarrassed when some white folks ask you serious questions about Buddhism because you don't know anything about it "
People never would think Khmer people are Khmer because they never seen one and so they would assume we are Indonesian. When a white person ask a young Cambodian person about buddhism, they would most likely don't know anything because they have adapted to the American Life style and the Cambodian Kids that go to temples are dying out in the US. (Unless their parents are very religious.)
"You think you only have to wear expensive clothes to have class"
In Cambodia, you automatically would know who is rich right away because of their custom made wardrobe they have cut out for special events.
"You try to use every word of the ebonic slang but you look ridiculous"
Meaning trying to speak Cambodian and English in one sentence makes you look and sound ridculous to those who speak Cambodian fluently.
"You call white peole Frenchmen"
You call them that because Cambodia was once colonized by the French (which their skin color was white).
"Your favorite past time is talking behind the back of people even your own family"
Most Cambodians like to do that. Don't know why, but it mostly true because when I when to Cambodia thats what they did everywhere I went.
"You think Buddha is sort a god that can make you win money at the lottery or casino"
You know how people say if you rub buddha's tummy, you will get good luck.
"If you are proud to be a Cambodian, then you have to know how to eat Prahok and Somlo Machua Kruong...And you have to know how to drink Turk Thnok Chua and eat Sach Ko Ank..."
Prahok is a type of food that smells, but good. It is like a paste that you eat with veggies. Somlo Machua Kruong is a soup filled with a type of meat, it can be chicken, beef or pork. It also contains different types of leaves veggies. Sach Ko Anh is beef on stick. I don't know what Turk Thnok Chua is._________________  |
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kahmeng_sreyJoined: 30 Jun 2004 Total posts: 56 Location: kali Age: 21 Gender: Female |
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kahmeng_sreyJoined: 30 Jun 2004 Total posts: 56 Location: kali Age: 21 Gender: Female |
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roulJoined: 31 Mar 2005 Total posts: 21 Location: LA, CA Age: 27 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| i'm also cambodian
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saii06Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Total posts: 124 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 20 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: YOU KNOW YOU ARE CAMBODIAN IF... Post Rating: 0 |
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| Quote: | | Beyond #16 you have to know how to speak Cambodian really well to understand what those words mean. |
 Honestly I'm not too fluent in khmer. I guess being born and raise in america my parents only gamble at the casino and I'm not sure what clah clok is Oh well.
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kahmeng_sreyJoined: 30 Jun 2004 Total posts: 56 Location: kali Age: 21 Gender: Female |
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enuyashaJoined: 05 Jul 2004 Total posts: 590 Location: North Cali Gender: Male |
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TekkananoJoined: 08 Jan 2004 Total posts: 52 Location: Alexandria, VA, USA Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| Dodbos wrote: |
Yea I used to watch thai dramas with my parents too but the story never really changes. Don't you notice how like 50% of the time the main chic character would get raped by the main guy character and yet they would still fall in love. The thing is the main leads almost always fell in love. There's maybe like one or two where the leads don't get each other. |
Oh yea, I noticed that too. I remember a few rape scenes where I would think they died from it, of course I too young to know any better what the heck is going on.
Well, my parents used to make me download mp3s from a cambodian radio station so they could listen, but then they got bored of hearing the nonsense.
My parents mostly watch those cambodian music dvds now. I haven't tried to get them into any dramas because I know for sure they won't understand a thing, plus they don't know how to use a computer.
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TekkananoJoined: 08 Jan 2004 Total posts: 52 Location: Alexandria, VA, USA Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| enuyasha wrote: | I'm afraid to even ask this question?
How many of you guys have parents, family, or relatives who own a donut/coffee shop?
I don't get why we see donuts as a good business?
My mom is going to sell our donut/coffee shop but I think she'll buy another one 
Can you believe it, my brothers are over 21 and they still freakin working at the shop!!!
I rebelled and quit awhile ago cuz I got a REAL JOB
But my brothers still work there on the weekends.
The other thing that pisses me off is that my mom keeps bringing people from cambodia over here, legally of course and we have to take care of them, I swear the only reason why she brings them over is to work at the donut/coffee shop! |
I didn't know that this was a big thing for cambodians in Cali until I saw kahmeng_srey's post about the typical stereotypes of cambodians.
Yea, my mom said my relatives have donut shops and gas stations in Cali. Over here in VA, I know one friend who works at her mom's drycleaner.
Dunno, if they have a roof over their heads and want more free time to do some crazy stuff everyday (bum), enough money in their pockets, what's gonna make them change?
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wujiJoined: 11 Dec 2004 Total posts: 14 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| any chance of seeing cambodian dubbed chinese dramas on this site? or is there a site that has some for download?
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kahmeng_sreyJoined: 30 Jun 2004 Total posts: 56 Location: kali Age: 21 Gender: Female |
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fufuneJoined: 17 Nov 2005 Total posts: 1 Location: quebec, canada Age: 22 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| me too i'm khmer from quebec, in canada. ;D
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