My Family

Family Members, Relatives, Direct and Indirect Neighbors

Oeur Sawin’s family consists of eleven members who now live in the different locations because they have jobs, wives and husband to work and live in the different locations far from each other. His parents are Mr. Seung Say and Mrs. Ouch Sam Oeun with their children mentioned as follows:

No.	Name	Relationship	Occupation	Permanent Address
1.	Mr. Seung Say	Father	Farmer/Carpenter	Batheay district, KCh.
2	Mrs. Ouch Sam Oeun	Mother	Farmer/Sewer	Batheay district, KCh.
3	Mr. Oeur Song	Olt. brother	Public Teacher	Rokakong, Kandal
4	Mrs. Dy Samen	Olt.-Sister-in-Law	Bizwoman	Rokakong, Kandal
5	Mr. Oeur Seap	Olr. brother	Farmer	Batheay district, KCh.
6	Mrs. Kim Savoeun	Olr. Sister-in-Law	Farmer	Batheay district, KCh.
7	Mr. Oeur Sawin	Son	Comm. Officer	Borei Kei La, PP
	Mr. Oeur Kim Ann	Yg. brother	IIC - Office Staff	Mean Chey, PP
9	Mrs. Oeur Rathmonny	Yg. sister	Sewer & Worker	Mean Chey, PP
10	Mr. Him Reth	Yg. Brother-In-Law	Air-con Repairer	Mean Chey, PP

THE PARENTS

Mr. SEUNG SAY, who is the household leader, is Oeur Sawin’s father, is kind, open-minded, stable, helpful, indifferent, generous, patient, specialized in constructing houses and tolerated. He has compassion for his children even though his children misunderstand of some error issues but he usually loves his children. He is more than 50 years old with light dark skin, slim enough and curved hair. He used to live in the Khmer Regime that caused him to hurt. He is the Great Grandfather Seung Oeur’s second son after uncle Seung Oeurn who lives in Preak Phnauv now. Mr. Say is a well-known specialized house builder in the local areas especially Chhor Tea Phluos, Sveng Pea, Krang Svay, Chhoeung Chhnouk, Chhea Lea, Thboung Khmom, Prasath, Popeth, Ork Teang and Taing Kork villages. Now he lives with his wife in Taing Kork due to his children live far away from him in the cities and Kandal province.

His wife is OUCH SAM OEURN, who is the housewife and Oeur Sawin’s mother, is kind, open-minded, stable, helpful, generous, patient, specialized in sewing clothes and tolerated. She has skills in sewing and cooking. She also used to live in the Khmer Rouge regime that was a period giving hurting situations. By that time she was the sewer for Sahakor even if she had food enough but no freedom and was forced to work over time. She was working with Aunt Yun who lives in Thboung Phnom at the present time. She is light dark skin, fat enough with curly hair. She is more than 50 years as well. She is so generous to her children. She always keeps her children in touch even if they live far from her but she calls to ask about the health, social communication and jobs. She lives with her husband, Mr. Say, in Taing Kork. Sometimes she goes to the city to visit her children because she concerns them and afraid of any bad things happen to her children.

Nowadays, Mr. Say and Mrs. Sam Oeurn are Sawin’s greatest thankful parents as seen the photos standing captured with the text below. They are farmers planting rice for twice per year. When the agricultural farming raining season finished by December Father Seung Say takes his leisure time to make contracts to construct houses in the local areas. He is the main chief of the house building group even if his all children have already lived far away but he finds just enough benefits to support family. The father contacts various villagers to negotiate project contracts to construct houses. In the period of time in raining season comes again, the father Seung Say and Mother Ouch Sam Oeurn always start doing the rice transplantation work with each other in the rice field in order to raise their family in the countryside.

Mother Sam Oeun is the housewife whose skills at designing clothing models, knitting and sewing, spends most of her time to get extra benefit for her family and distribute to her children. She has been very busy in work but seriously taking care of her children's future attendances by urging them to pay more attention to do the business and work. Particularly, she’s tried to find the ways to push children to meet good future chances because they don't have much money. So only their endeavors themselves could bring them the bright future. Those children are diligent and patient against all kinds of obstacles in the society to save their studies and work. Father Say and Mother Sam Oeurn have got five children: four sons and one daughter excluded one daughter who passed away during the Civil War regime in 1978 due to the serious acute fever happened early morning – neither medicines nor doctor to be met for curing her daughter.

At the present time, their children live in the far locations from them such oldest son Oeur Song in Rokakong (Kandal) except the older son Oeur Seap lives in the end of the Taing Kork village (in the same village) closed to their house, the son Oeur Sawin lives in Phnom Penh with his wife. The younger son Oeur Kim Ann lives with his youngest sister Oeur Rathonny and younger brother-in-law, Reth. Most of them work in Phnom Penh except Oeur Song lives and does the business and works for a Public School in Rokakong, Kandal province.

Both Parents usually keep their children in touch and give the calls sometimes. Their children miss them but they are busy in doing the business and jobs. They come to visit as the available time especially the holidays or any Khmer traditional ceremonies. They come to visit father Say and mother Sam Oeurn with some incentives. They are the parents who could have abilities to raise all children and very thankful persons for children, the very deep thankfulness, nothing could be compared.

Even though they do the farming but they actually want their children to live in the better situations than them. They do the farms but they don’t want their children to do the farms. That is why they have worked hard to support and raise their children. After they finish work in the rice field, they go to pagoda for offering food to monks and take meditations in chanting Buddhist words especially during Pchum Ben days, Khmer Happy New Years and other national ceremonies. They are the people who used to live under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979 which was the bad period of their life time. They ran across the big and dangerous problems. Mr. Say and Mrs Sam Oeurn introduce children to avoid the bad past experiences and never let be in the future lives.

THE CHILDREN

The first child: the oldest brother in the household is Oeur Song who has black hair, soybean-color skin, adequately slim body shape, humble and diligent characteristics and perseverance. He is the public teacher of physics teaching at Serey Mong Koul High School beside Wat Damrei Sar pagoda in Prey Chrov village, Rokakong Pir commune, Moukamppoul district, Kandal province. He got married a local businesswoman living in Chong Prek village named Mrs. Dy Samen with 3 children and one mother named Yeay Krain. The first is Oeur Sok Ngim who is the oldest daughter studying at the Health University in Phnom Penh. The second is Oeur Serey Vatanna who is the daughter studying at the Serey Mongkoul High School.

And the last is Oeur Tong Heng who is the youngest son studying at the Serey Mongkoul High School, too. Mr. Song and Mrs. Samen are oldest brother and sister-in-law who are very busy in their business because they open two grocery stores, one is in the Chong Preak market located at the northwest of Chak Khararam pagoda coner in the NR.6A and another is at their home sale store closed to the Chong Prek river. These two grocery stores are running in wholesale and retail. Brother Song has to prepare to control his outlets successfully with his wife. His wife and he get up early mornings around 5.00am to 6.00am to prepare opening stores to sell and close late evening around 6.00pm to 7.00pm. The consumers always come from the local areas and far areas especially the villagers in Chong Preak, Por Lom, Kampong Prasath, Preak Dambang, Prey Chrov and so on.

Mr. Oeur Song is always kind to anybody especially his wife, parents, daughters, son, brothers and sisters in giving the ideas of the experiences to raise lives. After coming back from teaching at Serey Mong Koul high school every day, he helps sell his wife both outlets being assisted by his mother-in-law Aunt Grain in the leisure time from her cottage in the pagoda to take part in controlling his home groceries during the great grandchildren go to school.

For another business skill, brother Song does the domestic businesses related to the food and drink orders for the Khmer ceremonies and parties due to the high requirements requested by the local villagers cause him to take more advantages of extra businesses. They are so easy in their daily business because they have to spend more attention to communicate with the consumers. However, Brother Song with his wife are satisfied their experiences of life skills of doing the domestic businesses in the developing country. Every year even if they are busy but they take sometimes to go out for a walk. They love their children very much, for example, they bought their oldest daughter Oeur Sok Ngim the precious Laptop Dell and a motorbike for coordinating in her university study in health.

The second child: Oeur Seap who got married a wife from Srok Leou in Kampong Cham now has no a child yet. He has got his own house and lives in the end of Taing Kork village closed to Ork Teang village. He has main occupations including transplanting rice, doing extra businesses, raising pigs, chickens and ducks. He raises fish in the pond behind his house where he contacts and works cooperatively with his neighbors. He is kind, perseverant, humble, industrious, diligent, reliable, wide-minded with dark soybean colour-skin, black hair and the adequate fate body shape, short enough and flexible.

In his leisure time after he finishes his work at the rice field, he joins to build houses with his father Seung Say to get some benefit for family. He creates runs the motor taxi to transport passengers and goods from the markets to the villages and from the villages to the markets. He always gets up early morning to prepare things to leave home for daily work. Sometimes he goes to help plant rice for his parents because his parents have no children living near them. Brother Seap feels so more responsible in the household leading because he needs to enrich and improve the family standard. He still feels enjoyable what he does. His wife called Kim Savoeun now works and lives in Malaysia with money payment to him.

In the middle year 2010, Sister-in-Law Kim Savoeun has gone for work in Malaysia on the purpose of adding more benefits to the family. Sister Savoeun is the ex-woman from Srok Leur village in Kampong Cham province has faced a lot of things in her life. He is closer than his other siblings and he who always keeps in touch his parents has a lot of friends in the village. They also do the farming like him. He has some friends working for the government departments in PP and other work for the private sectors.

Oeur Seap had experienced in the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979 as the period of time that gave him a lot hurt problems because he was forced to work overtime but had less food. He cooperated with his friends in the village to find out more extra food around the village such fish, rice, fruit and food. He got up too early morning to check some potatoes and rice in the nearest location. Khmer Rouge soldiers always controlled the food warehouse all the time to protect people.

Then the regime was vanished in 1979. Seap started going to school in primary school and secondary school. He dropped out his class in grade 9 (Bacc I) because he was busy in the rice field work. That was the time that the Civil War still remained and left the village with occasional conflicts between the government and Khmer Rouge soldiers. It was also another impact that caused him to stop his class. Sometimes in the present time, he just feels regretful that he could not continue his education to pass Bacc II or university. He permanently lives in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province.

The third child: the third son in the family is Oeur Sawin who lives and works in Phnom Penh. He is tall and slim enough with soybean color-skin and black hair. He is always kind, confident, helpful, replicable, reliable, humble, industrious and perseverant. He likes the social work in help cooperate with people to construct the competencies and the related life skills. He was luck to be born after Khmer Rough ended but unfortunately he always lived with Civil War from 1980 to 1994. So far he has experienced in working with private educational institutes, companies and non-profit organization and association in charge of designing marketing advertisements, implementing the surveys, teaching English, communicating with the involving institutes. For more information and other details as mentioned in: http://sawin-kh.blogspot.com/p/experience.html.

The fourth child: the fourth son is Oeur Kim Ann, who is the recent student at IIC and the ex-student from Panasatrar University, works as the office staff for ICC. He stays with his youngest sister Oeur Rathmonny and younger brother-in-law Him Reth from Takeo province in Sangkat Chak Angre Krom. He is taller than his brother and reasonable body shape with soybean colour-skin and black hair. Kim Ann has ex-name Oeur Kosal is to be changed to Oeur Kim Ann trying with his endeavors daily against the difficult problems in the society.

Nowadays his main major is in IT. He is studying the Computer Sciences at IIC International University located in Sangkat Chak Angre Krom, Khan Mean Chey in Phnom Penh after he completed Foundation Year in English Basics in Panasatrar University in 2009. He got the score from the General Education of High School in Grade D. In addition, he used to work for the Mlob Svay 99 Restaurant located in Tuol Svay Prey I, Khan Chamkarmorn in Phnom Penh at the first time of period of the year 2006-2008 in where he stepped towards the modernized revolutionized city, so different from his hometown in the countryside in Kampong Cham province.

He has got his own goals to be specialized expert in the informatics technological world modernization. Then he changed to work for the private computer center. He always takes his spare times after the study and work to go visiting his parents Seung Say and Ouch Sam Oeun in the countryside on the purpose of help parents and visit their grievances. Kim Ann independently lives in Phnom Penh to face many difficult obstacles during his studies and job; however, he has learnt a lot from those assignments because he becomes one who is very different from his childhood named Kosal. He has got a lot of friends who study and work with him in Phnom Penh and at hometown. He always enjoys his friends’ communications in the society. He is one of the farmers’ sons who has not got much money to support his studies and life. He is sometimes recommended by his older brothers to be self-strong confident in his life either his studies or job performances because the son must be improved and developed to be the good leader. Nevertheless, Kim Ann takes his spare time to research more things related to his major of IT in order to speed up the IT study process at the university.

The fifth child: the fifth daughter is Oeur Rathmonny who works and lives in Phnom Penh with his husband Him Reth, the air-conditioner expert in Phnom Penh from Takeo province. Oeur Rathmonny is only one daughter in the Mr. Seung Say’s and Mrs. Ouch Sam Oeurn’s house. She is tall and fat enough with the soybean colour-skin, black eyes, black hair and slim shape. The leading name for Sawin’s family members in official used called OEUR, who was the Great Grand Father, is the blooded Khmer-Chinese citizen married YEAY OUK in Taing Kork village. Rathmonny has solved the problems happened to here in the society since she has left for jobs in Phnom Penh with her cousins Our Sreyrin, Our Srey Ruos, Sam Saven, Som Savun and neighbors from the same village, commune, district and province. She performed the jobs of sewing clothes for the garment company. She used to study at Taing Kork primary school and Chhoeung Chhnouk High School from 1999 to 2006.

In her spare time she helped her parents do the agricultural farming such as rice transplantation in two seasons (raining season and dry season), helping harvest rice, planting corns, sewing clothes, cleaning the house, raising pigs and chickens, preparing water pot and cutting woods for cooking. Particularly, she went shopping fish, grocery ingredients at the Khbal Thnal and Rokakong wet markets. She attended the Khmer ceremonies such as Khmer Happy New Year, Pchum Ben celebrations, local invitations involved with wedding ceremonies and parties. Sometimes she went visiting her cousins, uncles, aunts and neighbors.

According to the situation changed made her to make a decision to ask her mother to work with her cousins in the city. However, she dropped out of the high school because she wanted to improve her life in jobs. She is one of the loving daughter in the family that always cares of the parents and her life. At the present time, she works as the clothing sewer in Sangkat Chak Angre krom in Khan Mean Chey, Phnom Penh. She always goes visiting her parents in the countryside during her holidays.

The child-in-law: Him Reth, who is the air-conditioning expert, is younger brother-in-law from Takeo province. He got married Sawin’s youngest sister Oeur Rathmonny on 16 February 2010 in Taing Kork village in Taing Kraing commune in Batheay district. Reth is handsome man with slim shape, kindness, perseverant, adequate fatness, dark soybean-color skin, black straight hair, humble attitudes and gestures. He has been working for the private air-conditioner firms in Phnom Penh for long time in charge of repairing, cleaning, checking and installing air-conditioners. Him Reth was born in Takeo province that is about 90km from Phnom Penh.

At the first time of his life skills in the city, he started working for his uncle’s air-conditioner firms with his friends from the same province. It is not so easy work because he has to know a lot about parts of the air-conditioner installations which required whom is responsible must learn more and more. Most of the materials are labeled in foreign languages that force him to understand clearly. His job involved with the technology is very busy and to be specialized. Sometimes he is arranged to go working at the provinces with his boss.

In his spare time, Him Reth and his wife Oeur Rathmonny always go visiting their parents in Takeo and Kampong Cham province in order to release their parents’ grievances especially the public holidays happened. They usually go to play traditional games and talk about something with the siblings. For another goal, his wife and him have a plan to open a personal grocery shop one day because it could be suitable for them in part of raising the household domestic finance.

They made a plan to have a birth in the coming years to reproduce the human generation in the family. Reth always thinks of what could bring him the daily skills prosperously in installing, checking, cleaning and repairing the air-conditioners by taking most of his time to reach extra new findings in the technological modernized revolution world. In 2011, they gave a birth of the very active, smart and fat baby named Him Panhanhariddh.

NICES AND NEPHEWS

Sawin has his nieces such as Oeur Sok Nigm and Oeur Dalin and nephew Oeur Tong Heng who were born and live in the Chong Preak village, Rokakong Pir commune, Moukampoul district, Kandal province. Sok Nigm is the oldest daughter in Sawin’s oldest brother Oeur Song’s family. She is studying at the Health University in Phnom Penh. She is the troublesome nagging girl with black eyes and hair colour, so kind to her parents, great grandmother, siblings and friends. She is smart because she successfully passed the Public Health University examination and was the ex-outstanding student at Sereymong Koul High Schoo. Sok Nigm has her goals to become a doctor in health based to her original purpose. Her parents are concerned so much about her due to she could personally think and perform Khmer believing girl in the society especially she is strong in mindset but she also discusses with her parents before she decides to do something. Her parents admired her with a very high promotion plus extra a precious Laptop and last series of modern motorbike for facilitating her higher education in health. She has a condo which her parents bought in the first floor building in Borey Keyla, Sangkat Veal Vong, Khan Pram Pir Makara, Phnom Penh. In her free time after the university study, she usually goes to help sell goods for her parents in Chong Preak such as Saturdays and Sundays. She goes back to her university on Mondays.

For another niece is Oeur Dalin, who was called "Oeur Serey Vattana", now is the second daughter in Sawin’s oldest brother Oeur Song living in Chong Preak. In 2010, Dalin still studies at Serey Mong Koul high school in the Grade 10. She is smart, troublesome nagging girl, kind to her parents, great grandmother, siblings and friends. Dalin usually helps her parents sell goods at home after her high school study time. She looks so younger but beautiful smile to the family, relatives and friends.

And the last nephew is Oeur Tong Heng who lives with his older sister Dalin also studies at Rokakong Pir primary school in the Grade 5. He is the youngest son in the family and is talent in studies with the encourageous promotions from his parents, siblings, neighbors and friends. He helps his parents sell grocery ingredients such incenses, candles, candies, FMCG, cakes, crackers, beer cans, fruit juices in cans, rice, sugar, petrol in bottles and so on. He always goes visiting his great grandparents with his father Oeur Song. Tong Heng loves IT modernized world because he learns IT with his oldest sister Sok Nigm typing computer Laptop especially the last updated series of mobile phones. He knows how to  use applications in playing some games, sending MSM and SMS, Bluetooth, Chat, Saving names with numbers, charging battery, checking account and taking pictures and videos etc.

Another nephew is Him Panhnhariddh who is his youngest sister’s son living in Sangkat Chak Angre Krom, Khan Mean Chey, Phnom Penh. Panhnhariddh was born in 2011. He is the smart baby being fat enough with soybean color skin and very active boy. He was derived with his mother milk and healthiness.

COUSINS

Oeur Sawin has got his uncles and aunts mentioned below in briefs focusing on their names, occupations, family members, great children and permanent locations. They are related to Sawin’s Grandparents’ children and children-in-law.

Uncle Seung Oeurn and Aunt Dy Nath (OSW20120129)

Uncle SEUNG OEUN and Aunt DY NATH recently live in Preak Phnov village, Ponhea Leou commune, Ponhea Leou district, Kandal province. Uncle Oeun and Aunt Nath look the same color in dark soybean skins with black hair and eyes. They have got only three children as the family members like one great granddaughter such as the son Oeur Sam Ol (dead), Oeur Sok San (daughter) and a great granddaughter Satta. Nowadays, Satta is living with the NGO in Phnom Penh because she was persuaded by her friends to join the social activities.

Particularly, Oeur Soksan is Sawin’s cousin younger sister got married a man from Por Peth village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province. Soksan and her husband open a private restaurant in Khan Tuol Kork in Phnom Penh that owned and established by her husband. Uncle Seung Oeun and Aunt Dy Nath who are Soksan’s parents are running a domestic grocery store in Preak Phnov market in the same village. They sell clothes, hats, jewelries, ear rings, watches and so on. They mostly run out of their products during the annual days or public holidays because there are many different consumers from various villages around Preak Phnov to buy their products. Uncle Seug Oeun and Aunt Dy Nath feel happy with fat shape of their appearances after their daughter got married. However, they just live far from their daughter and son-in-law because their children have their private business. Uncle Oeun and Aunt Dy Nath usually determine to urge their business and children to increase the ways of doing the business. It is just a little different of what they want for their daughter but now those changes.

Uncle Chhoeun and Aunt Ouch Ouy (OSW20101031)

Uncle CHHOEUN got married Aunt OUCH OUY who is Sawin’s mother’s oldest sister in the TaOur’s family lines. They have black hair and eyes, very soybean skins and just slim enough. They are farmers doing the agricultural farming in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province. It is the Sawin’s parents’ hometown house. They have seven children who have married and lived inTaing Kork village but some have lived in the far village in different provinces. Uncle Chhoeun and Aunt Ouch Ouy practice the precepts of the Buddhist religion that always go to mob together at the Taing Kork pagoda in each Thnai Sel day to celebrate the pray and meditation to the Buddhism belief. Aunt Ouy is the oldest daughter in Great Grandfather TaOur’s family. They usually connect with Sawin’s parents in doing something such to celebrate the praying ceremonies or any other traditional parties for the whole family members from all aspects.

Uncle Thaong and Aunt Ouch Eng (OSW20101031)

Uncle THAONG and Aunt OUCH ENG, who now live in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province, have black hair and eyes with dark soybean skin colour. They do the agricultural farming in both seasons - the first from May to November and the second is from December to April. They are fierce and kind enough to the cousins. They have six children: two sons and 4 daughters who live and do the farming in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province, are farmers doing the agricultural farming in two seasons. The uncle and Aunt abide by the Buddhism belief but they are very conservative.

Uncle Ham Loeung and Aunt Ouch Noeun (OSW20101031)

Uncle HAM LOEUNG and Aunt OUCH NOUEN were born in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district, Kampong Cham province. They have six sons in the household such as Ham Ly (first oldest son), Ham Leap (second older son), Ham Louch (third old son), Ham Leng (fourth young son), Ham Lek (firth younger son) and Ham La (last youngest son). Uncle Loeung is the farmer living in the same village.

However, his wife Ouch Hoeun was dead in the last few years due to her lung disease infected. His three children got married a girl in Taing Kork village. Three other are still single. Ham Ly got married a girl in Khmunh village, Sangkat Khmunh in Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh city. And Ham Leap got married a girl called Sorn in Mongkoul Borei district in Banteay Mean Chey province doing the domestic business. Ham Louch got married a girl in Taing Kork village. Anyway, uncle Loeung still lives with his younger sons doing the farming.

Uncle Ouch Vor and Aunt Sok Khum (OSW20101031)

Uncle OUCH VOR and Aunt SOK KHUM recently live in Sambou village, Sambou commune, Batheay district in Kampong Cham province. Uncle Vor has black hair and eyes with soybean skin colour. He has another main duty in his village because he has been voted to be the Sambou commune governor connecting with Batheay district office. Aunt Sok Khum is the farmer and a good housewife who is in charge of taking care of young children. The uncle and aunt have got seven children in the household. Some of his older children do the domestic businesses after they finish their rice field farming. They transport goods to the markets and transport goods from market to the villages. Their third son is called Ouch Vuon who does the job of motor repairer with his younger brother-in-law in Phnom Penh especially he could transport passengers from Sambou to Phnom Penh. Every annual traditional ceremony, for example, during Khmer Happy New year the uncle’s family members always go visiting their relatives in the far and near relatives. Vuon is a very friendly and kind son of the uncle’s children who shares his smiles and heartedness to the relatives if one of his relatives get in trouble. Uncle Ouch Vor is Sawin’s mother’s youngest brother in the Great Grandfather TaOur YeayUoy.

Uncle Ouch Sam Ol and Aunt Muth (OSW20101031)

Uncle OUCH SAM OL and Aunt MUTH recently live in Prey Chrov village, Rokakong Pir commune, Moukampoul district in Kandal province. They are kind and friendly to all relatives. They have black hair and eyes with soybean skin colour with five children who have been married in three but except the last youngest son Our Sameth. Their house is surrounded by the banana, potato, vegetable, coconut and corn fields looked very green closed to the NR 6A. Sawin used to stay in his uncle Ouch Sam Ol’s house for more than one year in order to study at Serey Mongkoul High School to be completed the General Education.

A period of time at his uncle, Sawin had helped to plant vegetables, potatoes, cabbages, carrying water to pure vegetable, cleaning the house especially helped his aunt Muth peel potatos in the evening after he come back from school. Mr. Ouch Sam Ol is a kind of Sawin’s uncles and aunts who allowed Sawin to stay for General Education purpose in Grade 12. By the year 1998, the uncle and aunt were so busy with their domestic businesses in selling boiled potatoes. Uncle Sam Ol helped his wife Muth to bring potatoes to sell at Chong Preak wet market.

Uncle Ouch Sam Ath and Aunt Ieng Keo (OSW20101031)

Uncle OUCH SAM ATH  and aunt IEANG KEO recently live in Taing Kork village, Taing Kraing commune, Batheay district in Kampong Cham province. Mr. Sam Ath is the farmer who has another main job in charge of the local district policemen department in Batheay district headquarter. And aunt Ieng Keo is the good housewife who is in charge of taking care of four children in the burden of the household. She is the farmer in Taing Kork village that always concerns her children and takes any teaching ways to show her children. Those four children are Our Sreyruon (the oldest daughter, readily got married a local man called Sok Chea), Our Sreyrin (the older daughter), Our Dararith (son) and the youngest son Our Keum Han.

However, Uncle Sam Ath has got another oldest son called Our Noeu (but was dead in last few years due to disease. Now only youngest son can go to school because Dararith is deaf but strongly help his parents do the extra job such as fishing, seeking woods, harvesting rice, carry water to fill the pot at home. Moreover, he can feed cows, oxen, chickens, ducks and pigs instead of his parents in any cases. Uncle Ouch Sam Ath’s house is nearby Sawin’s father’s home in Taing Kork village as mentioned in the following pictures.

Uncle Ieng Soy and Aunt Lum (OSW20101031)

Uncle IENG SOY and aunt LUM nowadays live in Rokakong village, Rokakong Pir commune, Moukampoul district in Kandal province. They both look very soybean skin colour doing the farmings. They are kind and friendly to all relatives, children, friends and neighbors. Particularly, they have got three children two sons and one daughter. The daughter named Sam SyLeap is the oldest daughter in the family. The old son Sam Solin who just got married a girl from Koh Dach village lives and work with each other in Phnom Penh. Soklin and his wife cooperatively bought a small flat in Sangkakt Phsar Deom Thkov, Khan Chamkarmorn in Phnom Penh. Soklin is handsome enough to fit his wife. He is a friendly man having soybean skin color with black hair and eyes. Uncle Soy’s oldest sister named Sam Syleap got married a man in the Chong Preak village in the same commune. She and her husband are the public teachers teaching at the same school but Syleap also works in part time at Naga World Casino at night with her younger brothers.

Uncle Sao and Aunt (OSW20101031)

Uncle SAO, the farmer with his wfe, who is Sawin’s Uncle, lives and works in Chhor Tea Phluos village, Kampong Prasath commune, Moukampoul district, Kandal province. He married a local woman for a long time. His children live and work in the city. Uncle Sao does the farming especially his wife and he plant the vegetables, mango trees, papaya tree, corns, beans and peas, sesame seeds and other crops for their family supports. He has got their children who nowadays work and live in Phnom Penh. He experienced in living in the Khmer Rouge regime of when he was younger.

Mr. Mun and Mrs. Cheng (OSW20101031)

Cousin Oldest Brother Mun and Oldest Sister Chheng nowadays live in Sangkat Tonle Bassak, Khan Chamkarmorn in Phnom Penh near Kong Hong Garment Factory. They have four children who live in Phnom Penh, too. Their children have got jobs and wife and husband. Sister Chheng looks white skin but brother Mun looks so soybean skin colour. Mr. Mun is the soldier doctor for National Police Department in Toul Korl. He works for the government in charge of health, curing diseases and medicine distributions.

Mr. Sar and Mrs. Thy (OSW20101031)

Cousin older brother SAR and older sister THY nowadays live in Sangkat Sangkat Phsar Thmei Bei, Khan Daun Penh in Phnom Penh. They have three children who live in Phnom Penh, too. Their children have got jobs and husband. Brother Sar is the driver driving for the private company. He is policeman for the government as well. For sister Thy is the housewife and runs a personal business to sell breads in the closed areas. She uses her bike to carry breads to sell especially she raises the wholesales. Her younger children still study at the public school. She is very busy and daily sells out breads. Sister Thy has black curly hair and black eyes with the soybean skin colors.

Mrs. TROIP (OSW20101031)

Cousin older sister TROIP, the widower lives with her two children, who has got her own house bought by her ex-husband located in Sangkat Teok Thla, Khan Sen Sok in Phnom Penh. Her oldest daughter got married a man in early 2010. She is very soybean skin motivated. She usually smiles as greeting the guests, relatives and neighbors.

The Neighbors

There are a lot of neighbors in the local villages such as the Taing Kraing commune governor Uncle Nan who works and in charge of the domestic policemen cooperating with the villagers. His house is in front of Sawin’s parents’ home. Here the people usually help each other and live in the same village such as older sister Sal, Older sister Chrep, Older sister Srey Mao, Older Voeun, Older Sister Yeng, Older Tach, Older sister On, Older Voeun, Older sister Khun, Old sister Ran, Older sister Seap, Aunt Mun, Aunt Muon, Great grandmother Yeay Ang, Great Mother Preoung, Aunt Thun, Uncle Ngan, Older brother Chhoeun, Older brother Sar, Older brother Yoeun (the concert artist),.... and others could be availably described in the activity photos with detailed captions. Many of them are farmers, businesspeople, garment factory workers, carpenters, village facilitators and religious jobs.

Some of them go to work at Phnom Penh. They usually mock together when the special ceremonies happen such as Pchum Ben celebration, Water festival, Khmer Happy New Year especially the time of offering food to ancestors during Sen Khbal Teouk or Sen Chen (Khmer-Chinese blooded party). In every party of their friendship or neighbor, they cooperate to help each other. Normally, they separate to work for their family.