PUBLIC SPEAKING

Why BELTEI set the Public Speaking in the curriculum?

H.E. LY Chheng, Lok Chum Teav, and management teams.

The Public Speaking is a subject to process or perform a presentation (a speech) which focus an individual directly speaking to the audience in order to inform, influence, or entertain them.

BELTEI International School has chosen this subject called Public Speaking Contest to set in the Extra-Curricular Courses for ESL Students (English as Second Language) and General Education Students in order to strengthen the students to be brave enough to speak in the public. 

H.E. LY Chheng and Lok Chumteav welcomed by management team,
teachers and students who were attending the competition event.

BELTEI Inernational School has started Public Speaking Contest since 2013. H.E. Ly Chheng, a Director-General of BELTEI Group and also a President of BELTEI International University approved on a guideline # 863 បធក⁣ (Khmer alphabet) on August 10, 2013.

H.E. LY Chheng finds that most of Cambodian students aren't confident to speak or show their ideas in the public (it is related to Khmer culture. Cambodian people are gentle and shy to speak out in front of the stranger especially female). On the other hand, his two sons have been graduated from U.K., they rose their ideas to him about the Public Speaking is more popular in there. They think that BELTEI students will get the benefit form it if H.E. LY Chheng inserts this program in the Extra-curriculum.

Mr. LY Navuth, a Vice President of BELTEI International University.

Public Speaking Contest has been divided into two parts such as Public Speaking for ESL students (students learn only English) and for General Eduction students (students learn many subjects that follows Ministry of Education Sports and Youth program).

There are two levels of Public Speaking Contest which follow the steps as the following:

CAMPUS Level Competition:

For the Campus Level, all the students who are learning from Level 3 to Level 12 or Grade 3 to Grade 12 are able to attend the competition. For instance, the students of Level 3 Group I has to compete with the same level of Group II in order to select the top three. The First class student will continue to compete with the other first class students from 15 campuses of BELTEI International School (until now the campus 16 is under constructing, and it will run in the near future).

H.E. LY Chheng and Lok Chumteav took photo with first class
level 3, 6, 9, and 12.

BEITEI Level Competition:

There are two steps to be arranged for the competition. All the first class students coming from 15 campuses will be selected top five for the first round and the top three for the final round. There are three kinds of medal for the top three, gold medal, silver medal, and bronze medal with some prizes. 

The Speaking Contest becomes more popular for BELTEI International School. Management teams, teachers, and students try to find more techniques to teach and learn in order to prepare the competition which will be held every six months of final term for ESL and semester 1; 2 for General Education students. For more detail we can surf BELTEI website: www.beltei.edu.kh

H.E. LY Chheng gave medal and scholarship to the winners.

As H.E. LY Chheng, gave his speech to the guardians and students in public speaking event. He was also raising the speech that being the students of BELTEI International School dare to speak and show their opinions to the public.

He also mentioned that he is willing to build BELTEI students to become the international human being.

Mr. LY Navuth, a Vice President of BELTEI International University
gave medal and scholarship to the winner.

Mr. Buth Dimang, the Academic Manager gave medal and scholarship
to the winner.

Judges, Committees, Management team, guardians, and students
were watching the Speaking Contest process.

Coffee at COSTA PPIU

Today is Sunday, September 13, 2015. I am planning to visit my parents at my sister's home in the afternoon because I would like to have breakfast and go around for relaxing on my weekend. I am at the COSTA cafe to have breakfast there where is near PPIU university.

I asked my friend to take a photo for me. It looks old this year and my skin face is wrinkle. It shows me that I am gonna get old day by day.

I really don't know where should I go for my weekend. I just go to the coffee shop to drink coffee, surf the net, and read news to kill my weekend time only.

What I am thinking and having future plan to do for my work is to reach all of my students of BELTEI International School (BELTEI Camko City) to have high capacity of general knowledge. I am willing to push and motivation them to concentrate on their study. I think our nation needs the human resource to lead the country when the Asian community enter in the near future. Furthermore, I also support the strategy and policy of Ministry of Education to reform the education system in order to strengthen Education System.

It is the second year of Grade 12 State Exam in my country. Most of students are changing their habit. They try to study and listen to the explanation from their subject teachers because they have already known that they will failed it if they learn nothing.

According the reforming system of Ministry of Education Sports and Youth, I strongly hope the human resources in Cambodian will be increased soon, and they become the roots and columns of our nation.

I also wish H.E. Dr. HANG Chuon Naron good health and success in his leading the Ministry of Education to build the human resource in Cambodia.

SADNESS Weekend.

Sunday, July 26, 2015 all Campus Directors were attending Tean Preah Vasar (ទានព្រះវស្សា) at Chamkar Ksach Quarter with H.E. Ly Chheng, a Director-General of BELTEI Group. Unluckily, I got diarrhea last night and made me so dizzy so that I decided to send SMS to my boss to ask permission not to attend that event. I was so regret to miss it.

I took pill and I was sleeping on my bed from morning till evening at 5:35pm. Then I got up to take a bath and went to TK to have dinner.

When I arrived there, I ordered a fried chicken with boiled rice because I haven't had breakfast and lunch since then. Putting a full spoon of fried chicken and rice into my mouth, the taste was bitter, so I really didn't want to have dinner, but I had to have it because I am going to work tomorrow. There are a lot of works waiting for me to complete them.

This weekend, it seemed a lot of people to visit TK, and most of the guests are adults. They came to have food and discuss about their business or talked somethings concerning with their daily lives. I was interested in a group of people sitting opposite me were the elite people. They had many things to talk to each other. They sometimes looked at me and sometimes used their body language to show
the meaning during their conversation.

Usually, I drink coffee when I arrived TK, but today I couldn't drink it because of my illness. I just drank a bottle of water after my dinner with a simple food at TK. Then I was surfing the net to read BBC and CNN news although I felt dizzy at that time. It was my SADNESS WEEKEN DAY.

Visit My Parents on Weekend.

I woke up in the early morning at 5:30am. I was walking around Camko City area about 3 kilometers long for my exercise. Then, I continued to walk to Tuol Kork antenna restaurant for my breakfast.

I had Chinese noodle with the black ice coffee. The taste of food is good so that I ordered five more packages for my parents' breakfast because today is Sunday; therefore, I have enough time to bring meals for them from Tuol Kork to Psar Deyhouy where is my younger sister's home (my parents are living with my sister).

When I arrived there, I rang the bell to give the signal sound to my nieces to open the door. I saw my father was sitting on the wooden bed and my mother was washing the disks. In fact my sister asked her not to do the housework, but she still does it.

I told one of my nieces to bring a portrait to keep the five packages of Chinese noodles, and I kneed down to offer food to them. They wish me good luck and healthy. Then I rose my both hands to respect them.

I think that my younger brothers, younger sister, and I are lucky to have chance to take care our parents. Some of people who are willing to do as like as me, but they have no chance because their gods were

passed away.

They were happy to see me to visit them because they would like to talk about this about that with me. The favorite of my father is general situation (local and international news) because he was one of the Cambodian government members during King Sihanouk and Lon Nol era.

I was sitting to see them having Chinese noodle, and I also asked them about taste of it. They said it was good. I was so happy, and I am going to buy it next time for them.

When my parents finished breakfast, my mother told me that today is the birthday of my niece, Meng Ratana Tevy. She added that my sister, mother of my niece, will bring her children a supper market for Tevy's birthday. Then I left my sister's home to go to Brown Coffee at TK supper market to have a cup of coffee and wrote some lines about my diary on my website.

Deleted Two Closed Friends From The List.

Today is Saturday, July 11, 2015, I make up my mind to delete two  closed friends from my list. It is not easy to make the last decision for me, but I have no choice to do that. Friends are more important to my life. Friends also make me happy and upset, However, we still need friends in the society.

Although I deleted them from my list, but I still consider they are friends in my mind because we used to be friends for ages. On the other hand, we sometimes also shared good ideas when we faced some troubles, for we were hard to tell anybody about our secrets to whom we are difficult to trust.

I have quoted some notes from one of website www.psychologytoday.com about friends as the following:

1. Common interests. This probably ties us closer to our friends than many would like to admit. When our interests diverge and we can find nothing to enjoy jointly, time spent together tends to rapidly diminish. Not that we can't still care deeply about friends with whom we no longer share common interests, but it's probably uncommon for such friends to interact on a regular basis.
2. History. Nothing ties people together, even people with little in common, than having gone through the same difficult experience. As the sole glue to keep friendships whole in the long run, however, it often dries, cracks, and ultimately fails.
3. Common values. Though not necessarily enough to create a friendship, if values are too divergent, it's difficult for a friendship to thrive.
4. Equality. If one friend needs the support of the other on a consistent basis such that the person depended upon receives no benefit other than the opportunity to support and encourage, while the relationship may be significant and valuable, it can't be said to define a true friendship.

I really know that friends are important to me, but what I have made up my mind because of the reasons and pushes me to do that. However, I wish my ex-two closed friends happiness and success in their lives.

MacBook Air (11 inches).

Photo downloaded from the internet.

Nowadays, the high technology is leading and playing an important role in this era. Most of work places need the human resources who can work on high-tech particularly the computer, internet etc.

For instance, it is easy to communicate by email, fax, phone etc., we can also exchange or transfer the currency through the bank by working on the net system.

According to the big demand, most of the companies which are producing hardware and software to supply the need of those companies have also produced their products with high quality.

However, it is not easy to enter the international market to sell their products because there are many competitors in the worldwide, too. Apple company is one of the companies to make software and hardware.

Photo downloaded from the internet.

I decided to buy a MacBook Air 11 inches for my personal use on June 12, 2015. It costs $1,200 in Cambodia market. On the website of Apple, it costs only $999 for MacBook Air 11 inches only. It is so important to me because  I am interested in high technology for ages.

I have used computer since 1992. I remembered the cost cost desk top computer $,1, 250 for one set. I bought at that time for my personal use and also for  typing service. I could earn 12,000 Riels for a A4 paper size. The Macintosh wasn't popular at that time because because most of Cambodia people have only known IBM Computer.

My real photo taken from my MacBook Air 11 inches.

It worked on Ms. Dos. I am one of computer users in 1992. I have trained for 3 months how to operate on Ms. Dos and K.I.O (Khmer Fonts).

For the Khmer Fonts is the most popular at that time because the 19 century people use only typewriter to type their documents. The scripts weren't clear and there isn't any printer to print documents.

The typewriter is used by the keyboard-operated types string a ribbon to transfer carbon or ink impressions onto paper.

Photo downloaded from the internet.

At that time, it wasn't easy to spread 
information because the typewriter is able to type only 4 pages for one time. If a person who typed wrong scripts, he or she had to use the correction ink to pain on the whole of wrong scripts and retype new script(s) on it. So, this job needed the professional people to work on it.

For this reason as mention above, the new computer which operated on Ms. Dos with the Khmer Fonts (K.I.O) was so popular. The K.I.O Khmer Fontss made by one of Kampuchea Krom (Khmer living in Vietnam). Since then desk top computer is playing an important role for the new generation. Additional my skillful of typing on typewriter that I have trained typing skill of Keng Vansak from my brother Soeng Vichet who trained from my uncle Kim Thai (He worked for Lon Nol government ara in the office on typewriter for ages. Hence, I could type Khmer scripts with the full page of A4 paper (around 500 words) only 17 minutes.

Photo download from the internet.

When the new updated from Microsoft Dos to Microsoft Windows 3.1. It was so easy to operate Ms. Office on it. I spent 1 week to train the new technology at Phnom Penh to pay for training fee was $70, and I also updated the Window 3.1 and Ms. Office on my desk top was $30. The amount total was $100 for the training and setting a new program.

Although I have spent $100 for new updated technology, I could earn much more than it. I used my computer to type documents for my customers, and I could earn 12,000 Riels (Khmer currency) = $3 at that time. It was unbelievable that I was able to earn from $100 to $200 a day.

In fact I couldn't earn as much as a day for my typing because one page I had to spend 17 minutes and I could earn only $3. The reason that I could earn $200 a day because of using Ms. Excel. It means I just started Ms. Excel to drag the series codes from the top to the bottom with 5 columns only a few minutes so that I finished one page with $3. In Sihanouk province, people are rare how to operate on computer at that time.

Photo downloaded from the internet.

What amazing high technology for me is Internet and Email. It was difficult to send a letter to my friends living in Phnom Penh or studying abroad as Russia, Vietnam, etc., I spent at least 2 weeks from Sihanouk City to Phnom Penh Capital, and 3 months from Cambodia to Russia or Vietnam. Sometimes my envelops were missed without reason. Now, I just spend my relax time to drop some lines on mail box. Then, I just press a stroke keyboard to send to my friends' email account only. I also can know my mail can send out or not without having doubt anymore.

I find that all students should spend their writing on email in order to improve their writing skill or general knowledge. They need to think and gathering infomation before sending mail, so they can practice their brain day by day for their writing. Teachers or lecturers also should give their students' homework or assignment by email, too. They can keep all the files concerned with their learning at school or university, for they can check anytime to download files when they are at location having internet for surfing.

CHECKING BLOOD FOR Hb-A1c (Hemoglobin A1c).

June 8, 2015

In the early morning, I went to a clinic to check Hb-A1c (Hemoglobin A1c) in order to make sure that the glucose in my body is increased or decreased after I checked it last year.

The reason why I needed to check my blood because my feeling wasn't well since yesterday. I was in TK (Tuol Kork Avenue Supper Market) to relax on my weekend. At 4:25pm. I felt dizzy and my eyes dazzled (I couldn't see clear); hence, I decided to go to a clinic in order to check glucose.

My willing is to go to a drug store where is at the corner of the cross road and opposite of Western International School. Luckily, I didn't reach there, but I saw a clinic which written the name of a Assit-Prof-Dr Sao Sira on the clinic where is closed to the one that I have mention above so that I entered it and asked a doctor to check my blood. The result of checking was 220mlg (high glucose). Then I took a pill (Glucophase) from my pocket to take it in order to reduce the glucose. The doctor said it wasn't good to take pill like this. I better discus with a specialist doctor first before taking pill like this. He added that his mother is one of specialist doctor to cure the kind of my illness. Taking about 1 minute to make up my mind before replying to the doctor. Then I said yes and I also agreed to wait for her at 5:15pm.

Asking many points about my illness from the past to the present, I felt confident and trust her because her diagnostic questions is full of experiences. She told me to check the blood at 6:30am tomorrow morning (today). She told me to get the result of blood checking at 5:30pm, but I arrived her clinic at 5:15pm in the late afternoon. The doctor ordered me to take pills (Lipiget) to decrease Triglyceride, Serum because the standard is 2.3 for for me is 3.7. I am going to meet her next month in order to get her advice after I am taking pill and on a diet.

What I would like to note today is the decreasing of Hb-A1c from 7.5 to 6.18. She said if next time my glucose continue to decrease, she will let me to reduce Glucophase. For everything that I have checked my blood is good except my glucose and Triglyceride.