VUTHY AND HIS IDEOLOGIES

Translation Techniques

Vuthy Chour — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:48:29 +0000

This is simply to share what I have experienced regarding translation work. This note is upon my translation experience, if you find this note to be in contrary to what you have experienced or learned, please do excuse me. I am ready for any constructive feedback. I also would like to hear from you for suggestions.

In general,

I use many web-based resources like:

http://thefreedictionary.com

From this dictionary, you may search for any words with clear explanations and you may search for antonym or even more specifically, you may search in http://thefreedictionary.com/laws

I also use : http://dictionary.reference.com

For English to Khmer, I normally use: http://dict.ant.com.kh and http://english-khmer.com

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If you cannot find the word you’re wishing for, you may go to google and type :

eg, ” define: coenzyme” – from the first link, you may find the definition of the word. If not, you will have to read for general understanding of the word itself. Wikipedia.org might help.

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Translating Technical Document:

Let say you are translating Legal Document.

The resource you might need here is Law in both English and Khmer. For example, “Traffice Law [En] and Traffice Law [KH]“,

Look for Article 1 in the English version and compare with the Article 1 in the Khmer version; then, you may find the word you want to use.

It’s pretty easy to do so, since those files are in PDF files, you only need to type the word in the Search box at the up right inside the Adobe Reader.

Last but not least, don’t forget វចនានុក្រម ជួន ណាត xD.

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I am looking for feedback xD. Please share !

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High Risk for No Benefit

Vuthy Chour — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:09:19 +0000

On June 15, 2011 at 5:15PM, while I was working on a translation of Minute of Interrogation by a prosecutor, without any notice, my bosses asked me to get in a car; and I did get in without knowing what is going on. When I first got in the car, I asked the driver where we are heading to and why my present is important. He responded “I cannot speak English very well and I need to get our client home”. When I first heard this, I thought yeah.. I can help with that. However, it was really went out of my expectation. The client was a criminal. He was accused of breach of trust and he’s been hiding at my place since the afternoon. I actually knew nothing about that !!!

It is the moment that I hate my boss the most. However, I am not going to say anything about this to them. I know for sure that I was cheated and fell into the trap. It was my luck that no police followed us. What if he got caught while I was also on the same car? I am an innocent.

I will remember this. I risked my life for a hundred-dollar-salary job. It’s a life-long lesson. It’s fucking stupid. I’ll be smarter !!!

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Reasons to Work for Government

Vuthy Chour — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:12:38 +0000

For this post, I want to illustrate about working for the government under the perspective of people from a foreign country and the belief from some people in Cambodia. All of them are idea-based. Therefore, please excuse if it happens to be a complete different from what you think the fact is.

What Americans believe about Government job

“Reason No. 1: Flexible Qualifications Years of experience can frequently replace college education in a government position. Senior level government positions may not require a college degree at all, while similar corporate positions do. Plus, the government hires people at all levels of experience and education: inexperienced high school graduates, college students, retiring veterans, GEDs and Ph.D.s. The government is also more likely to hire older qualified workers.

Reason No. 2: Pay and Benefits Government salaries are comparable to corporate counterparts. The government offers locality pay, so your salary reflects your area’s cost of living. Plus, the government is known for strong employee benefits, which are the same for every employee. They receive, among other benefits:

Thirteen sick days per year that roll

Ten paid holidays and vacation time that increases over the years;

Flexible work schedules and teleworking options;

Options for extending healthcare coverage to parents, adult children and other family questions. Some agencies offer public transit subsidies, recruitment bonuses, student loan repayment and relocation assistance. The government’s retirement benefits are secure, unlike the private sector. Government pensions are based on salary and years of service, and health insurance continues into retirement.

Reason No. 3: Job Security While today’s corporate jobs are more subject to downsizing, job security is one of the most noteworthy advantages of government employment. Though the government is known for its strict hierarchal structure and strict guidelines/procedures, these protocols protect your job from elimination. Thus, government jobs offer the luxury of planning for the future.

Reason No. 4: Hiring Outlook The government is always hiring. In fact, there may be up to 18,000 job vacancies at any given time. Employees are always retiring, being promoted or moving to the private sector. So despite national trends toward downsizing and budget cuts, the government always has job openings due to turnover. “

Source: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1047-Job-Info-and-Trends-4-Reasons-to-Work-for-the-Government/

What Cambodians believe about Government job

As a Cambodian, What do you think about Government job? What are your reasons beside the basic 4 reasons as mentioned above?

Filed under: Criticism

Wireless Network at NWI

Vuthy Chour — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:30:30 +0000

Last few weeks, I was wondering if teachers can use the Internet at NWI. I went to the management office and seeked for the password and what I got in response was that teachers are not allowed to use the Internet. The wireless itself is reserved for Diploma teachers, diploma teachers, IT staff, and the management team. It finally lead me to asking my GM through e-mail:

” Hi Mr. Bunty,

There are a few suggestions I would like to express…

- When I recall of the activities I did at high school, it makes me doubt if we should adopt the idea for NWI. When I was at high school, the school required smart students from each class to write an article (NEWS writing or something which is contemporary and useful), for students as a whole. After they gathered all the writing, they publish them into newspaper, and each individual get an issue. You might want to make change to the process so that it fits NWI. But I really think it’s a good alternative for creating Project..
- As the name of the school NWI is really important, We cannot ignore some copies without the school name on it. What I mean is that we should advertise in whatever way we can. Whenever I type a new handout, I always put NWI in the header section and my name in the Footer part. However, whenever I copy the handout from original book, there will be no NWI or my name on it. So do you think we should make a big stamp with a big heading “New World Institute” ? and we stamp it on the no-name copy?

and one question….

- I really wanted to know why teachers cannot use the NWI wireless network? As I see at PUC and at AII, they would allow students and teachers to use the Wireless. But what they do is to ban some sites and downloads. For example, they cannot access to Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, and they cannot download any mp3s.
But of course, they can access to educational sites. Therefore, it would be fruitful and teacher needn’t wait in line for the time to use the computer.
Maybe it is not the right time for students to use the Wireless as NWI will need to spend for that, so we should keep the password safe among the teachers? We can change the password any time we think it’s hacked.

I’m sorry for any inconvenience I’ve made, All I’ve mentioned above is only for one purpose and it is to better NWI. I know every school has different policies but I believe that we need to change in some ways to compete with the other schools. Thanks for your time reading this e-mail. I hope some of it would be useful for the institute.

Best wishes, ”

It’s been days that I never get his response. But I never seek for the response, until recently I found a new picture in his facebook profile:

and with his comments with his fellow friends:

So, now I get some ideas on why the management team never allows teacher to use the Internet….

Filed under: Criticism

UNV Online Volunteer

Vuthy Chour — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:19:40 +0000

I’ve been looking for a place to volunteer when I first graduated from the universities. However, I couldn’t find volunteer work. I found a job as an ESL teacher at New World Institute. But today I’ve come across an UNV website which is about Online Volunteer.

Please check out the site http://onlinevolunteering.org, if you have free time. Just devote some of your free time for global development. It always worth to do volunteer job.

Silk Weaving House

Vuthy Chour — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:01:21 +0000

Here is a video that I took while we were having a boat trip to stimulate some ideas for writing Poems. Here come the Prof. Alan Maley and Prof. Jaya buying some Scarf silk and Cotton.

Filed under: Administration

Short Joke from mIRC

Vuthy Chour — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:07:54 +0000

I put my nick as Train. and here I chat with a girl. She didn’t get what i mean…

i wanna lick milkita

Buy tov jeng

how much ?

1=500 real

i thought 30$ or sth

lol

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Smart Mobile Cheats

Vuthy Chour — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:41:59 +0000

It’s been very easy since the day people can access to the Internet through their mobile phone. What’s more, we can even connect the Internet from phone to the laptop and access to the Internet from any edges of the world. However, recently i feel so disappointed with an Internet Service Provider “Smart Mobile”. As usual, I can connect to the Internet after i fully recharged my phone account. For example, If I want to get the 2GB Internet that lasts for 30 days. I need to type *093*4*. But last night, since i didnt have enough money in phone. I had only 15$ in my account and I really needed to access to the Internet. Therefore, I tried to connect to the 10mb Internet by pressing *093*1#. In this way, i need to pay them 1$ and last for 30 days. After I pressed the code, my phone was registered with the 10mb Internet. From then on, I should be able to access to the Internet. and Yes! I could access to the Internet. But they didn’t charge the 10mb Internet. They charged me raw from the 6$ left in Phone account.

You know what? I called to ask the Help Centre. What she told me was that I needed to turn my phone off for 15-20 minutes before I can access to the 10mb Internet or else, they would charge me 50kb per cent as a pre-paid user.

However, I find this kind of act direct cheating as the company has no willing to tell their customers to wait for 15 minutes before they couldt access to the registered Internet package. Much or less, they should try to inform the customers that buyers need to wait before they access to the Internet package. or Another way, the company might wanna block the customers for 15 minutes before they can access to the Internet Package. By letting the customer use the Internet straight after they registered, means that the customer has registered successfully and is allowed to use the registered Internet Package. I, therefore, want to suggest the company make some changes and better their service.

Posted in Administration

First-time Salary In my Life !

Vuthy Chour — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:19 +0000

It’s been 3 months from the day I graduated from IFL and RULE. It was hard for me to find a place to work for. Everywhere seems not to be happy to accept me as I have little experiences to fit in the working environment. I’ve been trying to apply many places such as ELT, Supreme Educational School, American Intercon School, etc. But most of them are afraid to employ me as I have no experiences in teaching. I felt so helpless before I recieved a call from New World Institute. But not anymore, I got accepted to work at New World Institute. I reponsible for a class which start at 5:30 to 6:30PM. Today it was the second time for me to teach. Also, the head of studies, MR. Samanag, requested me to substitute a teacher for a full time classes. By far, I have taught 6 hours to 3 different groups of students in 2 days. It was fun substituting a kindergarten class in the morning and afternoon, But it is also tiring as the nature of the kids are naughty. It was hard for me to control them. However, I managed them well and I believe that they have learnt alot with me.

There is one surprising thing happen to me, Today is the 30th of October which is a day for all the teachers to get their salary. But as I am new to New World Institute, I didnt expect to get any wages from the school. I thought I will paid the following month. Shocking, I recieved 20$ notes as my 2 days teaching salary. I don’t know what word describe this feeling best. But I believe that this is a good start for me and I will try harder to improve my profession.

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