Life Introspect's » Family http://lifeintrospect.com -"A mirror of thoughts" Mon, 31 May 2010 04:30:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 April; Songkran, New Years, Celebration! http://lifeintrospect.com/2010/03/26/april-songkran-new-years-celebration/ http://lifeintrospect.com/2010/03/26/april-songkran-new-years-celebration/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:28:53 +0000 Introspect http://lifeintrospect.com/?p=190 I’m sure many of you notice that April is quickly approaching! We are nearing one of the most refreshing month’s in the year. For Southeast Asians, particularly the Cambodian, Lao, and Thai cultures celebrate New Years around this time. At my old blog I’m sure I’ve blogged and blogged about this numerous times. Last year however I wasn’t really active with the New Years schedule, but since so many things has happened the month’s prior to entering 2010… I realized that I should enjoy life to it’s fullest potential. Have fun and be in the company of the people you love for as long as you can. Here are the schedules as I know them. I’m sure most of the dates are correct because they were pulled from the official websites!

First of Cambodian New Years 2010. I know this one is always the 2nd Sunday of April I have no doubts about this one.

*Please note that the facebook event pages are ones I created since I couldn’t find any on facebook after searching. I am merely trying to convey information for people who don’t have them and don’t want to miss the festivities. Images were either taken from the original website or google ^.^

Time & Date: Saturday & Sunday April 10th & 11th Maybe the weekend of the 17th  Confirmed to be on the weekend of the 17th & 18th
Location: Cambodian Buddhist Temple (Ducanville Cambodian Temple)
Address: 5701 Crystal Lake Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75236-1320
*Note unlike the Lao Temples this one doesn’t have a massive Saturday Celebration
Facebook Event I Created: [Link]
Official Website: N/A
*For this one I’ll have to double check the date. I’ll make sure to confirm the date  a week before the actual event. I’ve been hearing that this is on the weekend of the 17th
Location: Wat Lao Sirimoungkhoun
Time & Date: April 10-11th 2010
Address: 4109 S. Ledbetter Dr.
Dallas, TX 75236
Facebook Event I Created: [Link]
Official Website: Link
Location: Wat Lao Buddharatanaram
Time & Date: April 10-11 2010
Address: 13089 Sehapayak Road
Ft Worth, TX  76244
Facebook Event I Created: [Link]
Official Website: Link
Songkran Festival (New Years 2553/2010)
Location: Wat Lao Siribuddhavas
Time & Date: April 17th and 18th 2010
Address: 2772 Blackland Rd.
Royse City, Texas 75189
Facebook Event Created by Temple’s Official Facebook Fanpage: [Link]
Official Website: Link
Songkran Festival (New Years 2553/2010)

Location: Wat Lao Thepnimith
Time & Date: April 24th and 25th 2010 (Updated)
Address: 7105 Marvin Brown Street
Fort Worth, TX 76179
Facebook Event That I created: [Link]
Official Website: Link
]]> http://lifeintrospect.com/2010/03/26/april-songkran-new-years-celebration/feed/ 1 Blog Break http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/11/25/blog-break/ http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/11/25/blog-break/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:39:54 +0000 Introspect http://lifeintrospect.com/?p=154 Wow, it’s been a few months since I last blogged. Since the last time I blogged.. my life has been pretty hectic. Right now I’m in the midst of arranging and running errands for my uncle’s funeral. It’s kind of depressing that this year instead of Thanksgiving we will be heading towards a funeral. I somewhat wanted to enjoy Thanksgiving still, but no one has the mood too. Not only that but we’ve practically sank most of our money into it. It doesn’t seem like it, but we’ve actually did. Running the errands alone has cost me more than 100 dollars in gas in less than 4 days. I’m not complaining because it’s well worth it. I’m just a little sad that now things will be different. My mom’s not the same, but then again who could blame her.  On the surface it doesn’t seem like my mom is affected, but she is. Only us her children would know.

I’m glad that we are part of the Asian Culture. Not to mention, Lao & Cambodian one. You receive so much support and comfort from people around you. I will admit that I am sad, but I don’t show it. I was raised in a house hold where we just simply don’t cry. We can feel like crying, but our tears will be stopped by our will.

Though this all I am glad to have such a wonderful man by my side. He’s been my rock and emotional comfort in my hectic and emotional roller coaster of a life. We looked back at things and realized that our 3rd year together is nearing. Although it’s not a wedding anniversary, but this date means more to us than anything. It was January 22nd 2007 when he asked me,

“Hey you wanna have a test run relationship? If we think it won’t work we’ll go back to being mean to each other like we always have been, if not then we stay together.”

We’ve been through so much together in the past 3 years and our feelings gradually change, but they are never any less than they were when we first fell in love.

I’ll probably come back to blogging. I’ve missed it. After I settle some more things and after the funeral I will be a regular blogger.

]]> http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/11/25/blog-break/feed/ 1 Project Scrapbook http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/05/15/project-scrapbook/ http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/05/15/project-scrapbook/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 10:06:30 +0000 Introspect http://lifeintrospect.com/?p=88 Project scrapbook. My sisters and I have thought about doing this for the longest, but never got around to it, but now we’re serious. We love love taking pictures and playing with cameras LOL and tend to take random photos everywhere. So we decided that from now on we will do a scrap book for every year! well right now our first project will be catching up from day 1 of our life up until now. Then after this year we’ll do one for every year. We visited walmart the other day and here are some of the things we’ve picked out so far. Many more things we will add but we’ll add as we go. Also, I have to say I love Walmart’s craft isle. It’s freaking awesome x3 LOL

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Here’s one for the road from my sister. (Man I’ve got to stop moving my hands while I’m taking pictures and definitely need to learn how to use my camera. I have my digi cam, but like it’s still new because i always pull out my phone over my camera LOL)

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]]> http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/05/15/project-scrapbook/feed/ 0 Ducks? http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/05/12/ducks/ http://lifeintrospect.com/2009/05/12/ducks/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 01:43:16 +0000 Introspect http://lifeintrospect.com/?p=49 Don’t these ducks look happy? I took these pictures at a local park that we visit often. We normally go when we are all together. Sometimes we play batminton, tennis, basketball, heck there is even a little pond where we fish for fun at there. Got’s to love that park. Sometimes I look at the little flocks of ducks and can’t help but think that they have it so easy. No bills to pay. No need to pick what to eat. Then again they probably have their complaints of why their life suck just as much as we do. Speaking of tennis, I need to share some photo’s of my little tennis pro later. As you can tell photography isn’t exactly my strongest talent lol.

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