THLANG Si Kheng's Autobiography
THLANG Si Kheng, Male, was born in Pearaing Village, Reap Commune, Pearaing District, Prey Veng Province, Cambodia (South-East Cambodia), on Jully 18, 1980 (on official document, but it is not the right one. It was perhap one month later. Mean he is a month younger than his official date of birth.) He was born in a poor 5- person family . There were 2 grand parents, primary school teacher uncle and his divoiced -mother.
After Pol Pot's regim Cambodia was empty hand. Si Kheng's family was also very poor. His mother worked very hard for supporting this family. He grew up under old leaking-metal roof of mill. With care as single child he was pampered and played with his neighbours.
Early Education
He first started school in 1985 then he left. Si Kheng started again in his 7-age at grade 1 of primary school. There was no kindergaten, There were only 5 classes for primary school. He was an outstanding pupil in the school.
In 1991 he studied in Pearaing High school at grade 6. It was difficult for him because he was very small to go to far school. The school was about 5 Kilometers from his house. In rainy season was very awful because of flood. The way to school he needed to cross the river by wooden boat that was terrible way in rainy season.
In 1993 he was a victim of unexplosive weapon. He was school off for a year during Cambodia transitional Political, the inflation and chaos were major issues. There were a lot of green hat forces of the United Nation stand ed by for First polling in Cambodia after 3-decade-long civil war. His family fell in poor again when he got suffering from the explosion. He got little support from his father on the problem. His life faced uncertain direction whether continue his study or not. He dropped school for a year and the wound was not well.
In late 1994 his mother sent him back to school in class 7. He started new school life with his juniors. He still stayed focus on what he was going to do in school. Hope was coming to him, he spent years in school smoothly till finished junior high school in Mid 1996.
In late 1996 he attended class 10 of high school. Life was going up and down as normal of poor people. But his brain kept in track of absorption the real life experience and knowledge from school. Poverty still be with his family and made so much problem in daily life. No tear, Non stop trying was his poor mother philo.
His result in high school was widely fluctuated from top 5 to bottom of the list in some month. But he was considered as potential one even he was low sometimes.
In Mid 1999 is the info age for Western, but still be starting age for Cambodia. In Pearaing village there were only 3 Candidate for high school state exam. Si Kheng was one of them. Eventually he finished successfully his high school at Pearaing High school. He was only one was successful. That success made the poor mother and his family very very happy. The happiness was in heart, but Problem came from their brain. Now they needed money to send him to the capital city for higher education. He first left home for new life in the city. Because of Poverty, he lived in the city by free of charge at his relative's house in Toul Tompoung II- Mr. Kim Peng Eang's. He stayed there for about 3 months then moved to another relative house in Toul Kork- Widow Song Eang Seng and her family and her sister Song Yi Chheang. The cottage was near Planning and Statistics Training Center of Ministry of Planning of Cambodia. He stayed at new place by free of charge for nearly 4 years. He falls in love with the girl who is house owner later.
From late 1999 to 2002, he was outstanding student in PSTC. He kept his position as top 5 on most papers. In 2002 he finished high diploma in Economic Statistics at Planning and Statistics Training Centre, under Ministry of Planning of Kingdom of Cambodia.
In 2002 he started working for Humanitarian NGO called Human Resources Development Organization(HRDO), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for 1 year. There his life was new way. He started as volunteer. The job was in Tonle bassac of Phnom penh. There were two sites of one was on Pich Island ( developed as key property in 2009) and Sambokchab Village, situated the east of Building and north east of USSR Embassy, south of Australian Embassy.
In 2003 he worked for another humanitarian NGO called Our Home, Phnom penh, Cambodia for years. There he worked as social worker. The active person he was award successful completion certificate from that NGO and Foreign sponsored organization. At that time he met social disease of Nepotism, work explotation and understandard of NGO. To home hence he had his own house. He told his mother that he live here in Phnom penh because he has job here. His mother decided to buy the land from her cousin- Mr. Meav Thea at 1500 USD on credit. She paid the debt one year later.
He wanted to improve his life and hunger the wisdom; he saved his salary for pursuing BBA. In 2004 he started his BBA course with Government Institute named National Institute of Business in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2006 he graduated bachelor degree in Business Management from the school.
Since May 2004 he used his time effectively by working in weekday and studying in weekend. During that time he also changed his job and position from low to high in another organization as Management for CEP (Rural Development Project.) He was trusted and delivered managerial duty by his European Head of organization to act on behalf.
In 2007 new context of his life came. He won Indian Government Scholarship for MBA in Delhi, India. He spent full 2 year-long in Delhi of India.There he adapted his life to new environment and studied hard. He met many qualified teachers some held doctor degree and some were senior master degree or gold medalist. New land is a challenge. He faced many kind of problems such tongue, food, weather, culture shock and etc.. In contrast he made new path for his life by global and high education at GGS Indraprastha University. To him the life seemed difficult; actually he lived safely and better condition. He found many diversity friends from different parts of the world. At the university he pursued two fields- Marketing as major and Human Resource as minor.
In late September 2009 he returned home with hope of application his knowledge in the motherland. He brought about 200 books from India related to his areas. He continues his routine- reading and learning are his key personal job. Unfortunately I was back home in the global economic recession period. In the late 2009 and the early 2010 he worked with PIN (Czech NGOs) in Takeo Province, Southern Cambodia, and did Research for The Charles University of Prague(Czech.) He could not find permanent job till mid 2010.
In on 26 of May 2010 he started first step in profit organization, Bonna Realty Group, as Marketing supervisor. His new job was what he pursued in his university.
At another corner of his life is the training at SES in August 2010 have changed his idea to ALL WE CAN DO, BREAK COMFORT ZONE and CHALLENGE. Just for short time, everything goes back in to before habits. But one thing still be in his is want to be rich. Everyday he thinks about the business. He also learns from his job. Still no light on this. However his thought was developed gradually. Actually he really stay at his wanted side- involved in Business.