Life

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Memories..More..

Sad to say some of my former classmates from Central High have died through the years...these are just a few..

Samnang sat behind me in school and used to draw beautiful pictures...He liked Singer Tiffany..I was so suprised when I was watching the news one day in the 90's and he had been killed. :( His family escaped the horrors of the Khmer Rouge..just for him to be killed in America..Breaks my heart.

Roberto died in a car accident.

Rhonda was a very sweet girl..She died recently of Breast cancer. Class of 1990

I combined Touch's last message to me in my yearbook with his photo..I wonder what happened to him? We were very good friends. He accompanied me to Lowell Mass a few times and we attended the Cambodian Kingdom Hall together..He was sweet and kind.

With khna Seng and friend ..Khna taught me many words in Khmer and introduced me to Cambodian Pop and New wave music. We visited stores together after school and she taught me so much about her country's history and escape from khmer rouge way before I read any books on it.

I sincerely thank the Cambodian kids at Central High school for sharing their stories with me about the khmer rouge and their lives waaaaaaay before I read any books on it, and Wayyyyy before any movies were made ( besides the Killing fields). They opened my eyes to the world and the atrocities they endured and I will FOREVER be grateful. I have not forgotten ONE single story they shared

My friend Bernice wrote this to me..one of the many who said I was the "weird one" or "different/unique" one of the class...:)

Jumping to the present..Some of my Fashions for Kingdom hall...:)

U know..some people may not understand or "get" me..But it takes a compilation of events to make a person who they are..Not only where they are from, who they were raised with, but where they went to school and how they became grown...all those factors are HUGE in a persons life..yet we tend to judge merely on the surface when there is so much more going on...HISTORY and LIFE STORY...we all have one.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Pain and Suffering..Rewards and Beauty

What a beautiful encouraging story this is:
http://encino.patch.com/articles/107-year-old-nazi-concentration-camp-survivor-dies
This is about a witness brother who died at 107 years old. He survived concentration camps and adversity.

Today's watchtower was AWESOME. I was deeply encouraged by the meeting. I am so glad to have my faith and the awesome brotherhood.
Baptized since 1987 and holding on..I hope I stay on this path I have chosen. Not always easy. But rewarding.

I've been feeling so nostalgic lately..I cant believe so much time has passed by..It has truly gone by like a bullet. I am so glad I believe that this is NOT life all there is, because life is surely very short in this system of things...I never thought I would be this "old". I'm still in shock, denial, and pinching myself.

I just finished reading "escaping the khmer rouge". I have read countless stories but this is one of the best ones I have read. This poor man watched his family killed before his eyes, suffered a horrible ordeal and then once he was in America, he was put into prison for a crime he didn't do. He ended up dying of disease...I am so inspired by so many life stories. I may openly vent at times but I am never ungrateful. I'm simply honest. I'm inspired by so many people who have undergone severe tragedies. The human spirit has the will to live...

I have a passion for the Vietnam war era, and the stories of that time period. Seeing as that was the time I was brought into this world. I also went to school with so many Cambodian, Laotian and Hmong students during the 80's and 90's.