hello, my khmer peeps and non-khmer friends. please allow me to introduce myself....as if i'm in a job interview. my name is...well, you have to find out, so you can call me, "believe," at the mo. i have a little over a few years experience participating in forums online; however, i had no problem assimilating to the forums' cultures. with that said, not only my flexibility made my forum experience wonderful, but my ability to engage others to participate in healthy debates were one of my repertoire i can bring to to the table. i am friendly, easygoing, approachable, sympathetic, and somewhat empathetic (if you're cool with me), and i hope yall find me part of your "forum family." my experiences are as follows:
asiafinest - (aside from asianavenue, myspace, fb) this is the first online forum i've signed up with, 2009 or 2010 i think. i stumbled upon this forum cuz i damn bored online and i wanted to get in touch with my khmer roots and this was the first that popped up on google. asiafinest an online community catered to asians. at first, i thought it was cool how it was laid out cuz the site had sections for cambodians, chinese, thai, lao, japanese, and etc. but it didn't take long for me to see how segregated it was. i felt that this layout, which separated asian countries, allowed those who were nationalists to become big-headed and subsequently ruin the forum as a whole. for real, it was retarded. i live in the states, and i hear a lot of blacks saying, "black on black crime" and i shake my head. on asiafinest, it seemed like there were "asian on asian crime." i read lots of derogatory comments towards one another. many were towards khmers, and i didn't appreciate it cuz obviously it hit home more. the khmer section did not have a moderator, so it was heavily abused. many other asians, especially thai or lao members went in to the cambodian section to condescend khmers or anything related to khmers. fucked up, huh? i realized that after my short stint there, it's an unhealthy environment for me and i had to leave.
if you are an asiafinest loyal, and is upset with what i wrote, then i'll say to you, "i don't give a fuck!"
khmerlife - my short maybe 1-year stint with asiafinest brought me to khmerlife, where i made it my e-home. when i got there, the og's on kl kept saying that kl was no better than how it was when it thrived in the early 2000's, but i differed in my opinion cuz i didn't know how it was and basically i didn't care. kl, at the time, was where i felt most comfortable. this site kept me sane from the troubles that continued to haunt me in the real world. i made some pretty interesting friends, learned some juicy background stories from the members i met, joined in many healthy debates, and most importantly, i truly think i impacted the sports section on kl and am proud of it, too!
some members on kl thought that the site was a playground for the immature. i say, whateva. maybe they didn't dive in a little further on social human interaction, so i don't care. people become who they are when they their shields are down. for instance, it's like your relationship with you and your girl. before you met her, she may have been holding herself back, acting all mature or professional, but after she got with you, she changed. because she got comfortable with you, she showed her true self and her true self included qualities of a little girl. she started to talk like a little girl, cried for help like a little girl, and basically wanted to be babied. ok, i know i made a generalization based on a small sample about girls/women i've encountered, but yall get my point, which is that people become their true selves after some time. you can't deny it, no matter how old you are, you are a kid in many ways. it showd while i was on kl.
as you can see, i haven't had many forum experiences. although my resume isn't lengthy, but i can assure you that i have the skillset and the evilness to spark conversations, both in mature and immature fashion, on this forum.
anyone know what happened to kl?
