Home Walkthrough #2

New house, new walkthrough video…

Khmer Gender

I’ve posted before about gendered language, and how I’m generally in favor of moving towards gender-neutral occupations and supporting a gender-neutral third-person pronoun in English. In Khmer for the most part this is already reality…but there are a few funny quirks in the language which still don’t make sense to me.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Sua sdei jo chhnam chin, 新年快乐, and happy lunar new year!

In Cambodia, the big new year’s celebration is not on January 1st (“international new year” in Khmer), nor is it the same as the Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese lunar calendar (“Chinese new year”). Rather, it’s in April…which means I’m going to miss it! And it’s also a lunar calendar (shared with Thailand and I think Laos as well), so saying “lunar new year” is no longer specific enough.

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  1. 2012-01-22 Takeo and Kompong Cham
  2. 2012-01-14 Phnom Penh Excursions
  3. 2012-01-06 Thirdhand English and Chinese Writing Rooms
  4. 2012-01-01 PIO Walkthrough
  5. 2011-12-25 Progress Report: Grade 7+ and Grade 6
  6. 2011-12-18 Home Walkthrough
  7. 2011-12-10 Phnom Penh Traffic
  8. 2011-12-04 "Don't Cry"
  9. 2011-12-04 Progress Report: Grade 4 and the Teacher‑Class
  10. 2011-11-27 Occupied
  11. 2011-11-26 "Every Day I'm Shuffling" at PIO
  12. 2011-11-15 Khmer Syntax
  13. 2011-11-12 Angkor
  14. 2011-10-24 Three Sides (Afterword)
  15. 2011-10-24 Khmer Morphology
  16. 2011-10-21 "Accident"
  17. 2011-10-21 Three Sides (Part 3)
  18. 2011-10-13 "At spoon!"
  19. 2011-10-13 Three Sides (Part 2)
  20. 2011-10-08 Three Sides (Part 1)
  21. 2011-10-07 Living With My Host Family
  22. 2011-10-01 Khmer Phonetics
  23. 2011-09-25 Mondulkiri Province
  24. 2011-09-20 My Host Family
  25. 2011-09-17 The Killing Fields – Chœung Ek
  26. 2011-09-14 Two Days On The Job
  27. 2011-09-14 Orientation
  28. 2011-09-11 Arrival
  29. 2011-09-09 This Is Really Happening
  30. 2011-09-08 Genetic Discrimination
  31. 2011-09-07 Society vs. Individual Choice
  32. 2011-09-07 Movie Review: No Country for Old Men
  33. 2011-09-06 Movie Review: Blade Runner
  34. 2011-09-04 Movie Review: The Last of the Mohicans
  35. 2011-09-03 Time Zones
  36. 2011-09-02 My Last 30 Downloads
  37. 2011-08-31 Apology
  38. 2011-08-29 "Sci-Fi/Fantasy"
  39. 2011-08-27 The Gender Games
  40. 2011-08-26 I Got a Kindle
  41. 2011-08-25 Future Sight
  42. 2011-08-24 Punnett Squares
  43. 2011-08-18 Why I Don't Like Wong Fu
  44. 2011-08-17 Newspaper Blackout Poems
  45. 2011-08-13 Slow Mental Clock
  46. 2011-08-12 Freddi Fish: Sing Along
  47. 2011-08-11 How to Make a Mashup
  48. 2011-08-10 Movie Review: Grave of the Fireflies
  49. 2011-08-08 Cambodia
  50. 2011-08-02 Literary Merit
  51. 2011-08-01 Jane Error
  52. 2011-07-31 Character-based Stories
  53. 2011-07-30 Spokes: A Math Problem
  54. 2011-07-24 Movie Review: My Neighbor Totoro
  55. 2011-07-19 More on Sexism: The "Women's World Cup"
  56. 2011-07-16 English Pronouns
  57. 2011-07-10 Re: Fanfiction
  58. 2011-07-04 Movie Review: Super 8
  59. 2011-06-16 Hints for Computer Science at Berkeley
  60. 2011-06-15 Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
  61. 2011-06-03 Achievement Unlocked
  62. 2011-05-29 What Do You Say At Graduation?
  63. 2011-05-21 Adoption (in Portal) / Rapture (IRL)
  64. 2011-05-19 Movie Review: Source Code
  65. 2011-05-11 After Graduation
  66. 2011-02-15 "What's Wrong?"
  67. 2011-02-02 Happy Lunar New Year!
  68. 2011-02-01 [Chua] "Nothing is fun until you're good at it"
  69. 2011-01-30 [Chua] "Villager Number Six"
  70. 2011-01-26 [Chua] "Garbage"
  71. 2011-01-25 [Chua] "Not Being the No. 1 Student"
  72. 2011-01-22 [Chua] "Superior"
  73. 2011-01-22 [Chua] Tiger Moms
  74. 2011-01-14 I Just Had Lunch
  75. 2011-01-07 Puerile Parenthood
  76. 2011-01-02 Phones and Photographs
  77. 2010-12-30 Thinking in Color
  78. 2010-12-28 Relationships vs. Probability
  79. 2010-12-27 Re: Diversity (in film)
  80. 2010-12-27 Movie Review: Gattaca
  81. 2010-12-26 Chrome vs. Safari
  82. 2010-12-26 From an Actual Conversation with My Family
  83. 2010-12-21 Movie Review: The Social Network
  84. 2010-12-20 A Review of Machinarium
  85. 2010-12-04 I Wrote a Story!
  86. 2010-11-29 Re: NaNoWriMo 2010
  87. 2010-11-27 The '30s
  88. 2010-10-25 NaNoWriMo 2010
  89. 2010-08-28 Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
  90. 2010-08-24 Beauty and the Beast
  91. 2010-07-30 Symmetry
  92. 2010-07-26 Musings from Europe
  93. 2010-06-02 Hǎoqù: A TR Fanfiction
  94. 2010-04-11 Re: Creative Efforts in March 2010
  95. 2010-03-22 Movie Review: Memento
  96. 2010-03-01 Creative Efforts in March 2010
  97. 2010-02-27 Protests and Politics
  98. 2010-02-15 Happy Lunar New Year!
  99. 2010-01-15 Diversity
  100. 2010-01-05 Movie Review: Avatar
  101. 2010-01-02 Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
  102. 2009-10-24 NaNoWriMo 2009, or "Is Jordy crazy?"
  103. 2009-09-27 Poems from Astro Class
  104. 2009-09-13 Movie Review: District 9
  105. 2009-08-18 Dinosaur Comics meets Twitter
  106. 2009-04-19 Wicked
  107. 2009-03-23 SMILE
  108. 2009-03-15 V-Day
  109. 2009-03-07 JavaScript Tetris
  110. 2009-02-09 Movie Review: I, Robot
  111. 2009-02-04 Not the Same Place: Review of the "Gravity" Music Video
  112. 2009-01-26 Happy Lunar New Year!
  113. 2008-12-14 Sleep
  114. 2008-12-07 NaNoWriMo 2008: Wordle
  115. 2008-11-12 Proposition 8: Afterwards
  116. 2008-10-31 NaNoWriMo: The Insanity Returns
  117. 2008-10-25 Proposition 8'
  118. 2008-10-03 Cultural Spectra
  119. 2008-09-01 Proposition 8
  120. 2008-06-23 The Capital King?
  121. 2008-05-21 Moving Out
  122. 2008-05-15 Friggin' Awesome Movie Titles
  123. 2008-05-09 Four Coolest Kanji / Hànzì
  124. 2008-05-07 Berkeley 130, CHS 120
  125. 2008-05-02 Fanfiction
  126. 2008-04-25 Spam Count
  127. 2008-04-14 Feel the Night
  128. 2008-04-05 This is the Way the World Ends (I)
  129. 2008-03-14 The Trials and Tribulations of Bai Jianming
  130. 2008-03-10 "Food and Water"
  131. 2008-02-19 One Semester
  132. 2008-02-14 Juxtaposition: Articles and Ads
  133. 2008-02-07 Happy Lunar New Year!
  134. 2008-01-28 Juxtaposition: Status Messages
  135. 2008-01-27 Movie Review: Across the Universe
  136. 2008-01-24 Paint
  137. 2008-01-19 Science as Religion
  138. 2007-12-23 Video Games Live on 2008-02-22
  139. 2007-12-02 Movie Review: August Rush
  140. 2007-12-01 NaNoWriMo: Postmortem
  141. 2007-11-12 A CHS Veteran's Day/Weekend
  142. 2007-11-03 Introduction to NorCal for Chinese Readers
  143. 2007-10-30 NaNoWriMo: Social Suicide
  144. 2007-10-30 A Cappella Weekend
  145. 2007-10-27 You Know You're a Bass When...
  146. 2007-10-24 Shuài
  147. 2007-10-13 DHMO
  148. 2007-10-10 Jukebox
  149. 2007-10-02 Picture Return Month
  150. 2007-09-24 Sincerity
  151. 2007-09-12 More Song Associations
  152. 2007-09-07 Horton Hatched a WHAT‽
  153. 2007-09-04 Spontaneity
  154. 2007-08-23 Mu
  155. 2007-08-23 Welcome to Berkeley
  156. 2007-08-10 Hairspray: The Review
  157. 2007-08-08 Oh, Canada...
  158. 2007-07-24 iMac Troubles
  159. 2007-06-13 And What I Leave Behind
  160. 2007-06-11 A Poem for Graduation
  161. 2007-06-05 Graduation
  162. 2007-05-14 Spring Concert
  163. 2007-05-13 Japanese Interlude
  164. 2007-05-11 English AP Aftermath
  165. 2007-05-09 AP Testing and Choir Ad
  166. 2007-05-07 One Acts
  167. 2007-05-02 Religion: Two Stories With Commentary
  168. 2007-05-01 On Facebook
  169. 2007-04-30 Zelda Memories
  170. 2007-04-17 Writer's Folly
  171. 2007-04-16 Command-Delete
  172. 2007-04-15 Coming Back to Haunt Me
  173. 2007-04-13 The End of an Era
  174. 2007-04-02 Busy Year
  175. 2007-03-25 IDC Talent Show
  176. 2007-03-20 Coming Up Next...
  177. 2007-03-14 What's on my iPod?
  178. 2007-03-11 A New Way to Look at Star Wars
  179. 2007-03-11 MASTERWORKS CONCERT
  180. 2007-02-26 The End of All Things
  181. 2007-02-23 Re: On Blogs
  182. 2007-02-21 Berkeley S&D 2007
  183. 2007-02-18 Happy Lunar New Year!
  184. 2007-02-16 Valentine's Day Debriefing
  185. 2007-02-12 My 30GB iPod Shuffle
  186. 2007-02-05 International Championships of A Cappella
  187. 2007-02-04 Of iPods and Nitrogen
  188. 2007-01-28 Weird Song Associations
  189. 2007-01-25 4Koma: Macworld 2007
  190. 2007-01-18 A Poem
  191. 2007-01-15 Prologue: On Blogs
  192. 2007-01-12 I Am