February Has 28 Days. Do You Know Why?

February is a tag-on month. It didn’t even exist when the Romans first started what would become our calendar.

The goal was to merge the moon’s 29 ½ day month with the sun’s 365 ¼ day year. The first attempt was made by Romulus, Rome’s founder, who included 10 months, adding up to 304 days. Apparently, Romulus was as good with numbers as I am. And by good, I mean horrible.

Next, according to legend, came King Numa Pompilius who added January and February. The total number of days was then 355, about the number in 12 lunar cycles, but still 10 to 11 days short of a solar year. King Numa decided to add another month, called Mercedinus, which would be added to February every other year.

King Numa’s calendar was getting closer, but it still wasn’t right. Julius Caesar decided to get rid of Mercedinus and ignore the lunar cycle. He worked it out so that the number of days in 12 months added up to exactly 365 ¼. As a result, February ended up with 28 days plus a 29th every four years.

Julius Caesar’s calendar is the one we use today. There has been some chatter of reforming the calendar so there are 13 months, each with 28 days. That would add up to 364 days, which would require only one extra day (two in leap years) to make the system simple.

But more than just math makes our calendar. Its luni-solar roots can be found in our cultural, religious, and even business lives. The irregular calendar is our most lasting connection to ancient civilizations.

If someone who works with you is leaving,

To Lovely BOBO,

I wanted to let you know that I really wish for tomorrow never come.I have enjoyed my time with you in this company and will miss you so much. Thank you for all the support, insights, and help me oh I miss your MI SROS when will you cook for me again huh ! I can be reached at my personal email address that you will see in blog. Please keep in touch!. At last I just wanna say I am truly missing you .

Thanks again for everything.

Good day !

Seven

EIGHT KEYS TO VOCABULARY BUILDING

1. Read as much as you can

By reding as many magazines, fiction and no-fiction books, and journals as you can, you will encounter new words. You can guess the meanings of many of these words by their context-that is, you will get a clue to the meaning from the words that surround the new word. If you are still not sure, you can look up the word in a dictionary to check if you were right.

2. Use a dictionary
Buy a good dictionary , preferably a college-level dictionary. The dictionary should be all English, not a bilingual one. A good dictionary should include the following information about a word:

+ its pronunciation
+ its part of speech ( noun, adjective, verb)
+ a clear , simple definition
+ an example for the word used in a sentence or phrase
+ its origin (root, prefix)
You can also use a pocket dictionary if you travel back and forth to classes.

3. learn roots, prefixes, and suffixes
Roots and prefixes from Latin and Greek make up many English words. It has been estimated that more than half of all English come from Latin and Greek. Prefixes are added to the beginning of a root and suffixes are added to the end to modify the meaning of words. Learning these will help you increase your vocabulary.

4. Learn from listening
Listening to good programs on the radio and television as well as to people who speak English well is another way of improving your vocabulary. Since you cannot always ask the speaker to tell you what a particular word means, write down the words and look them up later.

5. Use a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms
synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning; antonyms are words that have almost opposite meaning. Knowing the synonyms and antonyms of a word will expand your vocabulary. Some dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms explain each synonym and how it differs in meaning for other synonyms. Since no two words have the exact same meaning, this very useful for you.

6. Make your own word list
Get a notebook for your vocabulary study and use it to create your own word list. Whenever you read and come across a word you don't know, write it down in your notebook together with the sentence in which you look the word up in a dictionary and write the definition in your notebook. Also, write down any other information such as the root of the sentence using the word. Writing will help you remember the word and its meaning. Try to add a new word to your list every day.

7. Create your own theme groups
Words are easier to remember and learn when you group words with similar meaning under a theme.

8. User your new words
Using your new words whether it be in speaking writing is an important step in learning them.

Poor children now homeless after forced land grab on Cambodian slum

In her makeshift home at the relocation site, Srey Na, 12, holds an English textbook for a class in the city she says she can no longer attend. (Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON)

28 Jan 2009
SOS Children (UK)

Hundreds of poor children and their families are now homeless, after Cambodian police evicted them from their slum using teargas. Eight people were hurt in Saturday’s forced eviction of 80 families from an area of the capital, Phnom Penh.

At least two of the eight slum dwellers were seriously hurt in clashes with ‘clean-up crews’ hired to tear down the dwellings on government land they were told had been sold to private company. Witnesses said an old woman and a boy were hit by a bulldozer, while others were hurt in clashes with the workers armed with clubs and stones, reported news agency, Reuters. Police denied using excessive force to evict the group, who had fought their eviction for three years.

The vast majority of the decade-old Dey Krahorm community is now homeless. Squatters rejected the company, 7NG’s offer of $20,000 per family in compensation for the prime plot facing the Mekong River. They now face rebuilding their lives with nothing. The Phnom Penh municipality has provided less than 30 of the 152 families with shelter at a resettlement site 10 miles from the city. Earlier, most of the community rejected being resettled there because it was too far from Phnom Penh, where they work, mostly as street vendors.

Development of Dey Krahorm? A video by Licadho Canada

MONDULKIRI PROVINCE

Mondulkiri province is situated in the eastern highland and forms part of the plateau and mountains region. This province is chock full of natural beauty, with thickly forested mountains, powerful waterfalls and the lush greet rolling hills of the western side. Add to that the communities of hill trips people who are not affected by mass-tourism. The Sen Monorom is a quiet and beautiful town nestles into the hills; it has a lot of potential develop into a centre for intrusive eco-tourism. With its 14,682km² of land area and a population of 38,833, comprising 19,687 males and 19,147 females. The province consists of 5 districts, 21 communes and 90 villages. The district of Sen Monorom constitutes the urban portion of the province.


Mondulkiri means “Meeting of the Hills”, a suitable names for such a hilly province. Nestled against Cambodia’s eastern border, Mondulkiri really is another Cambodia, with scenery and a climate quite unlike anywhere else in the country. In the dry season it is a little like Wales with sunshine; in the wet season, like Tasmania with dreadful roads. There are endless grassy hills with the occasional clump of pines huddles together against the winds. At an average elevation of 800m, it can get quite chilly at night, so carry something warm.

Mondulkiri is the most sparsely populated province. Almost half of the inhabitants come from the Pnong minority group, other minorities making up much of the rest of the population. The lack of people adds to something of a wild-east atmosphere and there are certainly a lot of wild animals in the remoter parts of the province, including tigers, elephants, bears and leopards.

There has recently been an influx of refugees returning from the Thai border area, which has pushed

the province forward a little. Rice farming is picking up, but hunting remains the profession of choice for many minorities. Roads are bad throughout the province, but several have been earmarked for improvement, which could speed up travel in the next couple years.

Sen Meonorom, the provincial capital of Mondulkiri, is a charming little community set amid rolling hills. The centre of town, a village really, has tow lakes, leading some dreamers to call it” The Switzerland of Cambodia”. The area around Sen Monorom has plenty of minority villages and picturesque waterfalls, making it pleasant places to pass a few nights. Many of Pnong people from nearby villages come in to Sen Monorom to trade and the distinctive baskets they carry on their back make them easy to distinguish from the immigrant Khmers. High winds billow throughout the year and it can get pretty fresh at night, So bring some warm clothing.

Bou Sraa Waterfall

This double-drop waterfall is one of the largest in Cambodia and famous throughout the country. it is an unforgiving 37km journey east of Sen Monorom, but the reward is worth effort. The upper tier of Bou Sraa drops some 10m and the lower tier drops 25m.

Monorom falls
This small waterfall is the closest thing to a public swimming pool for Sen Monorom. It has an attractive location in the forest about 3km northwest of the town. Walking there, head straight on beyond Sihanouk’s abandoned villa and when the trail eventually forks, take the left-hand side.
Chrey Thom Waterfall

Locates at Sen Monorum District in 43-kilometer distance from the provincial town. During the dry season, the waterfall has 15-meter height and two-meter diameter, and during the rainy season, the waterfall has 11-meter height and eight-meter diameter. The waterfall surrounded by plantation of Sro Lou and there is a big and brandy tree of Chrey. The Provincial Tourist office in cooperation with the territorial authority has arranged this waterfall spot as the tourist site instead of Boo Sra waterfall that unable to be accessible during the rainy season.



Rum Near Waterfall

Locates at Sen Monorum District in 10.5-kilometer distance from the provincial town. The waterfall has good location, which is closed to the industrial plantations like rubber, coffee, cashew, mango, Avocado and Pres as well. During the rainy season, the waterfall has five-meter height and 10-meter diameter, and during the dry season, the waterfall has six-meter height and eight-meter diameter only. At the waterfall, there are many big trees projecting the cool shadow to the

Jasmine Cambodia

Wow nice shoot !

Happy New Year 2009

Actually, I would like to drink much with my friends as last year, but unfortunately, My health is not good like before. One or two time a month I always go Vien Hahn hospital in Vietnam with my brother who just had an operation there. He and I always work too hard for establish a design services company but at last we have to spend all our money for health not our company.

However, I wish all of you HEALTHY and WEALTHY. Please remember that "No healthy no everything". As in mathematic follow:

-Health+Money = -Money+Health
2Health = 2Money
Health = Money
(-20%)Health = (-20%)Money
(20%)Health = (20%)Money

It means that everybody has spent own health to earn money then they will spent lots money to get the good health back. So, if we just spend much health we will spend much money.

Finally, I hope everyone will enjoy the New Year and not the same as my brother and I.

Visit Angkor Wat Temple

Prepare for the divine inspiration! The temples of Angkor are the perfect fusion of creative ambition and spiritual devotion. The Cambodian god-kings of old each strove to better their ancestors in size, scale and symmetry, culminating in the world’s largest religious building - Angkor Wat, and one of the world’s weirdest - the Bayon. The hundreds of temples surviving today are but the sacred skeleton of the vast political, religious and social centre of an empire that stretched from Burma to Vietnam, a city that, at its zenith, boasted a population of one million when London was a scrawny town of 50,000. The houses, public buildings and palaces were constructed of wood - now long decayed - because the right to dwell in structures of brick or stone was reserved for the gods.

The temples of Angkor are the heart and soul of the Kingdom of Cambodia, a source of inspiration and national pride to all Khmers as they struggle to rebuild their lives after years of terror and trauma. Today, the temples are a point of pilgrimage for ails Cambodians, and no traveler to the region will want to miss their extravagant beauty.

Saffron robed monks queue during an event at the ancient site of Angkor.



Stone statues of the fifty-four mythical gods who hold a naga at the South Gate to Angkor Thom, many of which have been decapitated by thieves and vandals.



Sunrise silhouette of Angkor Wat through trees.

My little guy

On 19 December 2008, a great new from my sister Samphors, I have a beloved new member in my family. Vimean my beloved nephew I hope he become a doctor in the future.

Happy Chinese New Year 2009

The craziest game of my crazy class in my crazy university

It such a game which can make my whole class crazy with it. Not only young age that like playing games I think, Coz Mr. Thy, Ann who look much older than me play it everyday at home and class. Whenever I'm at class and seat near Mr. Ann or Bong Thy I can't stop my self from talking about that crazy game. Here is the link to that game if u wanna try that should be so fun http://en.flashwing.net/flashwing/game/original/200810/25-20.html

Number of jobs abroad plummets

Workers in Cambodia are faced with a worldwide slowdown.

With the economic crisis, the number of jobs starts to plummet. “We are starting to face difficulties in sending our workers abroad because all the countries are affected by the crisis, consequently, the number of job offers decreases,” Um Mean, the Labor secretary of state, told Cambodge Soir Hebdo while indicating that Thailand is under scrutiny following its political crisis.

Close to 80,000 Cambodians were employed overseas in 2008, Vong Soth, the minister of Labor, reported. 78,900 is the exact number of workers overseas who earn about $15 million. “This income helps to reduce poverty and increase state revenue,” the minister said. For Vong Soth, the travel abroad also benefit Cambodians from new knowledge acquired.

South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand are among the countries which traditionally employ large contingents of Cambodian workers. ( From ki-media.blogspot.com)

Friend's Wedding

Hey, you know it was so so funny at first I just play with that pineapple, but ending of the party I brought it home, cut and ate. It was so delicious, but that night I got a diarrhea.



I like a big big man.



All Top Stars of Cambodia only Mr. Chamness a pop star who from India.



Wow, she just my second wife...

This my friend's wedding I really happy to see them be together but I don't know when is my turn...