Welcome to Chhayleang's Blog

Pages

Friday, January 25, 2008

Practice Makes Perfect?

Perhaps well-meaning friends or relatives have told you that you should strive for perfection. A Common proverb is: ‘If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well.’ Now what exactly can that mean with respect to your life? Does it mean that every time you undertake any task you should continue doing that task until you are certain you have reached your version of perfection, or at least until you are certain you can do no better? I don’t think so.

Culture Shock a Western Student Might Experience in Cambodia

In many different parts of the world, there happens to be multitudes of various cultures, including varieties of customs as well as beliefs. All races of humankind on the planet indeed grow up with their own values and beliefs, the ways they express themselves, the things they talk about, which differ somewhat, or even totally, from other people in other countries. Therefore, when a person travels abroad, leaving a familiar culture to live in a new and different culture, he is bound to face with a lot of changes which can be exciting and stimulating, but it can contrastingly be overwhelming, making that person feels sad, anxious, frustrated, and lonely or sometimes want to go home. These conditions can be defined as “culture shock”.