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I am a very unpredictable person. One day I slack off and do nothing because no opportunity presents or I am just too caught up with entertainment. The other day, my schedule is just packed and jammed because I like to take all things in at one without thinking much about having enough time or not. I just think that I will learn at least something from just anything I do and it actually comes with consequences. Like the Khmer Proverb, “Trying to catch too much stuff at once, and you will catch nothing.” I fear having no focus, no specialties, and getting too distracted and gaining nothing. This blog series, “What’s Up, V?” is my so-called compilation of the errands that I am current doing slash working on or thinking of doing or supposed to.

By: Oct 1st, 2015

Current:

+ U.S Ambassador’s Youth Council’s Member: No longer an ordinary member hehe!

+ 3rd year medical student at UHS: Seriously, need to go and pay for new school year.

+ 2nd year English student at IFL: First, semester did not go the way I wanted it to. I became tardy and lazy half way.

+ Joining SEALNET Project on Autism and Down-Syndrome: Asking for sponsor is such tiring work, especially when your event is on the same day as Jessi J’s free entry concert.

+ Reading “1984”, “Allegiant”, “Secret of the Millionaire Mind”: Couldn’t find time to grab a hold of the books yet.: No I still haven’t read the book.

+ Applying for YSEALI Civic Engagement Exchange Program Winter 2015: I didn’t have Toefl and the time was really constraining for me to actually get one in one-month time span.  I’m definitely going to apply for the next one like seriously.

+ Planning to take IELTS or TOEFL and B1

+ Interning at HT Travel&Tour: It ended earlier than I had planned and I’ve written a business research paper for daddy.

+ Planning to assist family clinic and pharmacy: Finally reached the prepping process. Mom met with her clinic partner. They talked about the design and logos. She’s going to buy the accessory soon. The next to-do list is planning on how to run the clinic and the contract with the partner. Need to take this more seriously.

+ Applying for ASEAN Model United Nation in Malaysia: Failed. Our team didn’t have enough people. They required 6. We got 3.

+ Planning to apply for ASEAN Stock Challenge 2015: Failed. Investing is very complicating and not as fun as I expected it to be. I learned a few things about stock though. In the competition, I made around 0.2% of the profit which is around 160$ out of 80000$. On the bright side, that is a pretty good amount for a non-finance student.

+ Planning to become an EC member of the AYC: Finally, 12/03/16 I was elected as the Secretariat of the USAYC. Woohoo!

+Preparing mom’s lectures for UP: Sorry Mum! I’ve been procrastinating on this for too long. I wil try to get it done by this week before my Springboard competition.

+ Planning to Revise all year 1 and 2 medical lessons: I feel like I haven’t learnt them good enough to move on to year 3 even though I passed the test.

+Joining The SpringBoard English Speaking Competition:  Holy, this is on fire! I’m representing a school once again, UHS. I made it through the English proficiency test. It’ll be weird if I didn’t but this upcoming first round though. Best wishes to me!

So, as you see these are just the things I can think of right now. I will add more to this soon. :3

-VIRABOT ♔

So, if you’re wondering, I am starting a new blog series called, “Dummary” by combining the word Day and Summary. It’s practically an alternative to the cliché word, “Diary”.

Today has been a very very productive day comparing to the last few days that I have been doing nothing but staying at home. I know. My summer sucks as hell. But, not today.

I started my morning doing some house chores which I usually put off till afternoon or so. After that, I left to Impact Hub which is near the Independent Monument to join a workshop on “First Aid Training” by a Japan Doctor with a translator. It was a bit chaotic since some medical terms weren’t translatable. But well, I did learn and had fun. I am gonna share the How-To-Save-A-Person-Lives here:

● First Aid Steps: You see a patient lying on the street so you:

1. Check surrounding whether it’s safe to practice first aid procedure, and to see whether there is someone who can assist you.
2. Put on a pair of gloves if available.
3. Pat the patient shoulders and asked whether he is fine or unconscious.
4. After confirming that he is unconscious, place one hand on his forehead while one hand pulls his chin up or open up the airway.
5. Confirm whether the patient is still breathing by putting your cheek above patient’s mouth and stare at his chest to see whether his chest is expand and shrink.
6. Confirm again by touching the neck pulse.
7. If nothing is present, we can assume the patient heart has arrested and thus we need to perform CPR.
8. With your left hand, grab the top your right hand by intertwining the fingers of both hand and place it on top of center of the chest (body of sternum) with your fingers facing the left side of the patient. The angle between your hands and arm shall be a 90 degree angle. Start applying pressure to your hands 4-5 cm deep down into the patient chest at the speed of 100 pushes per minute. Push and count for 30 times the blow air into the patient’s lung twice (with safety equipment like towel) and repeat this whole process 5 times which sums up 150 pushes and 10 blows in around 2 minutes time span.
9. And, voilà! Your patient will either comes back to life or it might be already too late.

In the afternoon, I went to the US Embassy to have a meeting with some people including the FUSAAC president, graduating US students who are working or researching in Cambodia. I was not very sure about the purpose of the meeting as I just went there with three other AYC members just to give a presentation on the AYC. It turns out I learnt quite a lot from going.

1. The meeting started off with a political officer talking about the current political situation in Cambodia. The new thing I learnt was that the US actually interfere a lot with Cambodia’s politic such as mediation and that every political action happening is actually reported the white house.

2. During the presentation I also learnt about various scholarship available from the US including UGRAD, YSEALI, SUSI, Humphrey..etc and also about EDEMY (Cambodia based Online course website).

3. Two of the AYC member who came today were YSEALI alumni and I learnt quite a tons from conversation with them including: YSEALI has 2 programs: Summer and Fall with 3 categories: Environment, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneur. A better application would mean a better statement of interest (touching and meaningful). If participant has already been admitted to join YSEALI, he will be disqualified for UGRAD which it is recommended that student apply for UGRAD first (year 3 is the most optimal). Applying as a AYC member might be better for me.

4. As we were chit-chatting during the meeting, one person (American) said she felt very bad that Cambodia is importing Starbucks soon because the coffee is really bad. I guess American hates Starbucks after all and we Cambodian are more than hyped about it. Funny.

That’s all about this very very productive day. I’m looking forward to my next one.

-Virabot SOK <^.^>

K-pop (n.) a musical genre originating in South Korea that is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements.

K-pop, at first glance, could be fun, high, up-beat, and addicting. I gotta admit I have fallen into the K-pop world myself. I personally love artists and music from one well-known Kpop leading company, YG Entertainment. To be precise, G-Dragon and Winner.

However, behind those cute young groups of Korean teens lies many dark unrevealed secrets. There were rumors regarding sexual harassment, abuse, violence, within the k-pop industries. I, hopefully, think that YG’s one of the entertainment that treat artists and trainees well but we don’t know for sure.

I’m hoping someone will stand up regarding this issue. It’s hard seeing these talented young people being treated the way they are.

<virabot>

Since graduating from high school, I have never once looked forward to vacations because obviously mine sucks. During holidays, I would locked myself up in my room and surf the internet all day to the point that I will feel nauseas. Not to mention all the side effects from staying in bedroom all day every days. You get depressed. Across the globe, there are many suicidal cases that happened in bedrooms. It’s where you’re all alone and your thought just take over you.

So, life lesson of the day: never take yourself and your thoughts seriously when you’re by yourself alone in your bedroom.

~ v i r a b o t ~

Everyday, I meet different people. I used to be very shy and timid as a child. As I grew up, I tried hard to be opened and talked more so I end up becoming that one person who adapts to different people’s personalities; someone who acts differently in front of different people.  But then, sometimes, I start to think to myself, “Why can’t I just be me? Why can’t I just be someone who others will adapt to?” I have not found answers to those questions yet. And yes, I’m still that one person I just describeD but I think life goes on and I’ll soon be better.

*V I R A B O T*

I usually get depressed for various reasons regarding the weirdest things like my appearance, personality, or how people think of me. I always questioned myself, “Why am I so weird? Why am I so different? But, later on, I found out. That’s okay. Actually, almost everybody went through almost all of the exact problems just like you. They just never show and express it. Of course, there are people who are lucky, but they are only the minority. So, cheer up! For one thing, as I grew up, I have learnt that no matter what difficulties or issues you have, as time pass by, problems are always solved and questions are always answered.

✿ v i r a b o t ✿

First times are always hard. I always wanted to have a personal blog, created so many of em’, but always end up forgetting about them. This time it’s for real. I’m going to write blogs everyday for one week straight even if I’m gonna end up writing craps and meaningless writings.

 

–v i r a b o t–