Mouk Tnout Puk ( A Father’s Palm Hat )

  It’s a hat. The hat belongs to Puk . Puk  wears it when Puk works in the rice paddies under the hot sunshine. Puk is a hero in kon’s life ! Puk works hard in rice fields everyday.  Puk devotes sweat and blood  to earn money for kon !  Sweat Puk becomes a river ! Puk struggles for kon ! kon want to write about Puk’s devotions everyday…… to let other people drop by to see and know that Puk is kon’s hero ! Puk is kon’s guide ! Puk is a holy person ! Puk is everything !
 * I’m grateful that Puk is always here  when kon desperately need puk.

 * I’m grateful that Puk  is a virtual encyclopedia of knowledge when kon need Puk to be.       

 * I’m grateful kon‘ve had Puk as kon’s hero !!!      

                  Looking Puk’s & Mee’s photograph, kon miss Puk & Mee so much ! A photograph never grows old. But kon change, kon change all through the minutes, days, months and years, but a Puk’s photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of Mee  & Puk taken many years ago. kon see Puk and Mee  kon really miss ! Puk & Mee robos kon, study is the obligation and devotion, kon always remember Puk’s & Mee’s advice.

Eng H.Leng

A Mango Tree

        A long time ago, there was a huge mango tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate mangoes, took a nap under the shadow. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.

Time went by, the little boy had grown up. He no longer played around the tree everyday like he used to.

       One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad:

       ‘Come and play with me,’ The tree asked the boy.

       ‘I am no longer a kid, I don’t play around trees anymore. I want toys. I need money to buy them.’ The boy replied.

       ‘Sorry, but I don’t have money but you can pick all my mangoes and sell them. So, you will have money.’ replied the mango tree.

The boy was so excited. He grabbed all mangoes on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the mangoes. The tree was sad. 

          One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited:

       ‘Come and play with me’ the tree said.

      ‘I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my wife and children. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?’  replied the boy.

      ‘Sorry, but I don’t have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.’

 So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad. 

           One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted.

    ‘Come and play with me!‘ the tree said.

    ‘I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?’

    ‘Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.’

 So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

            Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. And came back…

     ‘Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for you anymore. No more mangoes for you’ the tree said.

                 ’I don’t have teeth to bite’ the boy replied.

                 ’No more trunk for you to climb on’ ‘ Said the mango tree.

                 ’I am too old for that now’ the boy said.

  ’I really can’t give you anything, the only thing left is my dying roots’ the tree said with tears.

  ‘I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years.’ The boy replied.

   ‘Good! Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come, sit down with me and rest.’ The tree replied.
The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears…….

                            

                                   ( A Little Boy And The Mango Tree )   

This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad… When we grown up, we left them… only came to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. 

All the time our parents always with us and give everything they could to make us happy, to make us live in the comfortable condition even  ants across our body, they don’t allow. 

 So It’s better for us to make our parents feel sad, painful and lost their hope ?

Prime Ministers Of Kingdom Of Cambodia

Norodom Sihanouk                  18 Mar 1945 – 13 Aug 1945         
Son Ngoc Thanh                       14 Aug 1945 – 16 Oct 1945 (+1977)    
Prince Sisovath Monireth          17 Oct 1945 – 15 Dec 1946 (+1975)          
Prince Sisovath Youtevong       15 Dec 1946 – 25 Jul 1947 (+)               
Prince Sisovath Vatchayavong  25 Jul 1947 – 20 Feb 1948                   
Chean Vam                               20 Feb 1948 – 14 Aug 1948                   
Penn Nouth                              7 Sep 1948 – 21 Jan 1949 (+1985)           
Yem Sambaur                           12 Feb 1949 – 20 Sep 1949                   
Ieu Koeus                                 20 Sep 1949 – 29 Sep 1949 (+1950)                      
Yem Sambaur                           29 Sep 1949 – 28 Apr 1950                   
Prince Norodom Sihanouk       28 Apr 1950 – 30 May 1950          
Prince Sisovath Monipong       1 Jun 1950 -  3 Mar 1951 (+1956)           
Oum Cheang Sun                    3 Mar 1951 – 12 Oct 1951
Huy Kanthoul                          13 Oct 1951 – 16 Jun 1952                   
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      16 Jun 1952 – 24 Jan 1953           
Penn Nouth                             24 Jan 1953 – 22 Nov 1953 (+1985)           
Chan Nak                                23 Nov 1953 -  7 Apr 1954
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      7 Apr 1954 – 18 Apr 1954         
Penn Nouth                            18 Apr 1954 – 26 Jan 1955 (+1985)           
Leng Ngeth                             26 Jan 1955 -  3 Oct 1955                   
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      3 Oct 1955 -  5 Jan 1956                 
Oum Cheang Sun                    5 Jan 1956 – 29 Feb 1956                    
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      1 Mar 1956 – 24 Mar 1956         
Khim Tit                                 3 Apr 1956 – 29 Jul 1956                   
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      15 Sep 1956 – 15 Oct 1956         
Sam Yun                                 25 Oct 1956 -  9 Apr 1957                   
Prince Norodom Sihanouk      9 Apr 1957 -  7 Jul 1957         
Sim Var                                   26 Jul 1957 – 11 Jan 1958 (+1989)           
Ek Yi Oun                               11 Jan 1958 – 17 Jan 1958                       
Penn Nouth                            17 Jan 1958 – 10 Apr 1958 (+1985)           
Sim Var                                   29 Apr 1958 – 10 Jul 1958 (+1989)            
Prince Norodom Sihanouk     10 Jul 1958 – 19 Apr 1960         
Pho Proeung                          19 Apr 1960 – 28 Jan 1961                    
Penn Nouth                            28 Jan 1961 – 17 Nov 1961 (+1985)           
Prince Norodom Sihanouk     17 Nov 1961 – 13 Feb 1962         
Nhiek Tioulong                      13 Feb 1962 -  6 Aug 1962                   
Chau Sen Cocsal Chum          6 Aug 1962 -  6 Oct 1962                   
Prince Norodom Kanthoul      6 Oct 1962 – 25 Oct 1966                   
Lon Nol                                  25 Oct 1966 -  1 May 1967 (+1985) 
Son Sann                                1 May 1967 – 31 Jan 1968 (+2000) 
Penn Nouth                            31 Jan 1968 – 14 Aug 1969 (+1985)           
Lon Nol                                  14 Aug 1969 -  6 May 1971 (+1985)
Prince Sisovath Sirik Matak    6 May 1971 – 18 Mar 1972 (+1975)
Son Ngoc Thanh                     18 Mar 1972 – 21 Mar 1972 (+1977) 
Lon Nol                                   21 Mar 1972 – 15 Oct 1972 (+1985) 
Hang Thun Hak                      15 Oct 1972 -  6 May 1973                   
In Tam                                    6 May 1973 -  9 Dec 1973 (+2006)          
Long Boreth                            26 Dec 1973 – 17 Apr 1975 (+1975)e       
Penn Nouth                            17 Apr 1975 -  4 Apr 1976 (+1985)         
Khieu Samphan                       4 Apr 1976 – 13 May 1976         
Pol Pot                                   13 May 1976 -  7 Jan 1979 (+1998) 
President of the People’s Revolutionary Council
Heng Samrin                   7 Jan 1979 – 27 Jun 1981         

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers
Pen Sovan                    27 Jun 1981 -  5 Dec 1981        
Chan Sy                       5 Dec 1981 – 26 Dec 1984 (+)           
Hun Sen                      14 Jan 1985 -  2 Jul 1993        

Co-equal Prime Ministers of the Provisional National Government
Prince Norodom Ranariddh                                   
Hun Sen                               2 Jul 1993 – 21 Sep 1993         
1st Prime Ministers of the Royal Government
Prince Norodom Ranariddh     21 Sep 1993 -  6 Jul 1997                       
Ung Huot                                16 Jul 1997 – 30 Nov 1998         
2nd Prime Minister of the Royal Government
Hun Sen                                   21 Sep 1993 – 30 Nov 1998        
Prime Minister of the Royal Government
Hun Sen                                   30 Nov 1998 - 27 July 2008