My home-made noodle

Hello Friends,

These days I come to my blog less often. Still, I try to post something as possible as I can. Today I just want to share with you my fast and easy-made lunch during my stay at Bergen. Does it look tasty?

Do you believe the career test?

I tried the career quiz few weeks ago at the Princeton review website. I found it interesting and fun. You can try what career is suitable for you by going to the site at http://www.princetonreview.com/CareerQuiz.aspx

Do you believe the career test? Below was the result of my test.

My interest color is: Yellow
“People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing, systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.”

My usual style is: Yellow
“People with yellow styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is orderly and planned to meet a known schedule. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.”

I am back to my web again!

It has really been so long the last time I wrote something in my blogger. Today I feel that I have to edit my web and write something after a long silence. Few postings are removed to make this web cleaner.

Hello friends, these days I am still working on my dissertation. It is more than half way through. It means that I am closer to the end of the journey of "Thousand miles of journey start from the first step". I Will come back again soon.

A long break at home!

Hi friends and colleagues! I don't know how to restart my blog after a long break without a single touch to it. It has been about 3 months since I left Norway! At home, many things are around me both from workplace, from school, from personal business at home, family...all these things make me busy leaving me no good space to get back to my favorite web blog.

I feel relax today in the office to go through some of my friends'blog and then think of my own blog. It is a time that I should write something for it. Now I am half way through my holiday as well as my fieldwork at home in Phnom Penh. I willl have a trip to Totonto AIDS Coference soon in mid August as part of my academic requierment before heading to my school again in October. Life is like this!

A Fantastic Math!

For this weekend, I would dedicate this joke to friends, colleagues and viewers. In order to understand this joke, high school mathematics is needed! Please enjoy it and have a nice weekend. Forwarded to me by Cong Thanh Duong, CHI.

Thoughts about eating patterns in Cambodia

In Cambodia recently, burgers, French fries with high fat and other kinds of fast foods have become popular among youth and middle class people in cities. Though they are a bit expensive in the Cambodia context, eating burgers and French fries MAY BE a sign of modernity for youth and affordability for middle class people in the era of change in socio-economic development.

However, it should be noted that there is a reversed phenomenon in developed countries (US, Europe). Fast food associated with high fat is convenient and cheap for poor and people with low income. Therefore, these people are more likely to be obese compared with higher income individuals due to high fat associated food diet.

In the US, researchers found that there was a link between obesity and those with lower incomes and less education. But in Cambodia, I guess there will be a link between overweight, obesity and high income! I want to test this hypothesis hehe. Here, we still do not mention about the current practice of use of hazardous chemical substances in food products that lead to the unexpected harm to people’s health.

It has been shown that the spread of overweight and obesity is hitting not only the high income countries but also the middle and low income countries alike. This phenomenon creates a so called "a double burden of disease”. It means that in developing country such as Cambodia, in cities we find an increase trends of diseases associated with overweight and obesity such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, while in rural areas, we find high rate of malnutrition and infectious diseases.

Globalization: A threat or an opportunity for developing countries?

Globalization is the increased integration of economies and societies in the world. Recently, this word has been one of the hot topics for debates. Some view it positively- a key point of future world economic development- but others especially developing countries view it negatively because they believe it increases inequality between nations and threaten employment and living standard. The gap between the rich and the poor countries has become even wider! Four aspects of globalization are free trade, capital movements, people movements (Migration and Brain Drain), and spread of knowledge and technology. Click IMF site for furthermore information.