Here is the story of the two friends who were far different in attitude toward thinking. Sophat is a dynamic student with always positive thinking while Volakthida is a stressful girl who born with cooking skill as her favorite. After the successful brain operation of Miss. Thida who came across an accident while travelling to work and resulted in the loss of memory, Volak and Sophat fail in love one another. They both decide to get marry and got two children namely Vuochly and Vuochla. The whole family living in the high class department with which Sophat is the manager of one big Company while Thida is the chief cook of the Cambodiana Hotel. The both living their life happily forever. It is a sunny morning. The sun is shining and the villagers go to harvest their rice field since the very early morning. There is very fresh smell of ripe paddy which usually found only in the rural areas during the dry season when people start harvesting their rice field. Oh! It smells different from every year! said Sophat. He is right, what Sophat smells is not only the ripe paddy but also the smell of the cooking Khmer traditional mixed soap and a tasty fried chicken which is not normally cooked by farmers. Walking little by little toward the source of smell, Sophat saw Volakthida cooking lunch for her beloved brother. Sophat: Hey! What are you doing? Volakthida: I am cooking food for my beloved brother. He will arrive home from school soon. Sophat: Smell very tasty! I appreciate your cooking skill since here everyone knows that you are an excellent cook in our village. I hope you could make your own restaurant in the future. Volakthida: Thank you for your compliment. Also, may I invite you to have lunch with me and my brother today, Sophat? Sophat: Sure. I am a bit hungry after a half-early day of harvesting, and it is very hot. Three of them enjoy having lunch and Sophat start relaxing about 20 minutes before continuing his work. Beside a farmer, Sophat is an outstanding student who is also a smart and helpful guy. He is full of leadership and motivation technic toward others. With this skill, he is recognized by all of his friends for his always kind assistance to everyone. What a shame is the inability to get and motivate his close and sister supposed to be, a young thin Volakthida, to always thinking positive and always stress release. He tries very hard to get her to be the positive thinker. However, he cannot accomplish this. Every technic and strategies are useless. He has nothing to do with Volakthida. Oh, my god how I could help her, said Sophat. Talking about a thin and reserved lady with long-hair style, a little smile, and being always stressful, Miss Volakthida is living in a village with Sophat. She is studying with Sophat since she was very young. She is not really an outstanding student but she was considered herself to be able to go through every obstacle with guidance from Sophat. She is not really independent. What are the differences from Sophat is that she always thinking negatively such as I cannot do this, or I cannot do that, or what can I do if I got fail. She is a girl of no solution. She always blames herself for doing fail and always put herself into pressure through her stress. When she fail of doing thing she neither learned from the mistake, nor make more effort. Sit still and showing internal pressure on her own. Because of this pressure, although she was born with smile face, she still lack of confidence and happiness. This year they have to graduate from a University of Cambodia from different skills. Sophat will be graduated from International Relation while Volakthida will be a graduate from English literature. After one year, Volak is found to have worked for a nongovernmental organization with which she could earn not so much but able to afford herself and her lovely brother to let him finish his BA in Information Technology while Sophat is conducting his Master degree in Canada. They both still contact one another especially the way that Sophat miss Volak which is different from they were young. Sophat always ask for her condition such as health, her brother, her working, and her negative thinking which is her born-with attitude. Thida never change her attitude toward the negative thinking. She never stresses release. She think as “I can’t a lots more than start practicing and going ahead”. She found herself to be not always success and she never appreciates what she have done and accomplished. A year later, Bora who belong to Volakthida’s brother after arriving from working start blaming her sister that the food she made is not really delicious and he eat very little than normal making Volakthida whose hand were full and just got blame from her boss crying alone in her room. Volakthida got a mild accident during travelling to work while she was thinking a lots about his brother and her boss since this morning. Bora come to take her to Kamlamet hospital for operation before informing to Sophat who is sitting without hearing sound from Volakthida about two weeks already. An accident! surprised Sophat. How she got an accident Bora, asked Sophat. Sophat is really upset to hear this. Leaving Volakthida not to be able to remember anyone for about one year, Sophat come back hometown of Cambodia to work and support his livelihood. More than this Sophat always take sometimes looking after Thida and try to play with her and try to help her remember more things in the past. Sophat now could earn much salary with his managerial position in one of the famous company. He promise himself that one day he will take Thida for an operation. This is the final decision to have her to go to do operation in Singapore, hoping that she could recover everything. Fortunately, Volakthida’s operation is success. She is able to remember everyone especially her childhood boyfriend, Sophat. More than remember everything; Volak was made to be a super lady, free from deterioration, ability to transform all negative aspect to a positive one and strong motivation strategies which make Sophat fall in love with her. She starts jogging every morning, doing yoga and always fresh. From the point of view, they both are not too late. Sophat is just 30 years old while Thida is 4 years younger than him. From now on Thida not go to work. She goes to cooking class which is her favorite born-with attitude. She goes to this class every other day learning cooking different kind of European food. She have learned this for six months and start working in a small restaurant for 6 months when she heard an advertisement of cooking competition to work for a five start hotel, the Cambodiana Hotel. The hotel accept everyone application form to be the best cook for the hotel. Very incredible! It was just only 6 months of experience of cooking, Volak was able to win the other and receive the highest score in the competition and she was accepted to work as the best cook in the hotel. Currently, she was very busy during week days cooking and supervising her 40 hotel staff including cooking and hospitality staffs. She could earn a lot. She is now living in a high class department with Sophat, her helpful and lovely husband. Father, can you tell me about our mum? Asked Vuochly and Vuochla, the lovely children. Your mum current success is because she was remade to be a strong lady who is able to come over every obstacle. She never deteriorates beyond her competitor such as the case she goes to do cooking contest with other yearly experiences cook. How can you believe that your mum fail the other strong competitors! Your mother say only one word “I am going to make it one day, and the day that I got it, I will never pass and fail the opportunity.” So, every child, you need to remember from now that every situation of your fail is the best teacher and lesson learned for you to step toward your success. You will never blame yourself for making mistake but you will not make the same mistake again. Every success of the individual today is not by chance, it progresses on an identified formula and strategies. You do it, you get your result. You do it, you get experience both fail and pass. No more than these two results. If you don’t win, then you lose. And if you lose, you need to try again and again and again... with hundreds of changing methods until you got it. Success is not really defined by today success, but it defined by your sustained success with bright future of healthy living condition. Note: Full story with color full is available upon request through email only to ngysophorn@yahoo Short story by Mr Ngy Sophorn Mr Sophorn is a graduate from University of Cambodia, Major in English Literature and he also the agraduate from Royal University of Agriculture in the field of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:18:27 +0000
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