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How I Came to Teach in Cambodia and Why I'm StayingJune 13, 2012
I have been teaching English here in Phnom Penh for three years and I really enjoy it. I know many other teachers here who enjoy their job and do it well, some much more experienced than me and some less.
However, I have also met many people who teach just for the money. I hear them complain about their job or their students but they never admit that they are actually just not cut out for teaching. Teaching anywhere in the world is a job that involves skill, passion and most of all patience. So I am shocked to see so many people who would never consider being teachers in their own countries doing it out here and wondering why they are having such a nightmare.
I personally think that they owe it to all the Cambodians who are sacrificing so much to receive quality teaching from native speakers to leave the teaching to those who actually respect the job, and enjoy it.
Before I came here I had been working for a few years as a Learning support Assistant, at comprehensive schools in Essex and Rotherham. My job as a LSA's was to support all the students on the Special Educational Needs register, students with learning and/or behavioral difficulties, as well as those who didn't always get on too well in a classroom environment.
Often I was rewarded by seeing someone cross a little milestone or discover they could do something that they didn't think they could before. Other times I would end up in the middle of a year eight chair fight. It definitely was not a boring job. I would also cover lessons during short term absences (a good practice in the art of classroom management is to work as a cover teacher in a school on special measures). Unfortunately in the last month my LSA colleagues have been made redundant due to part of the huge government cutbacks in UK. I am sure they will be sorely missed like so many other youth workers whose jobs have been axed by the government recently.
Some teachers at the school I worked at in Rotherham were encouraging me to take the plunge and do a PGCE. I was not ready to settle so I decided to get TEFL trained and work for a volunteer school in Cambodia. Three years later, I'm still here.
It's interesting to compare some experiences in schools here and there. Here, the desperation for children to speak English at such a young age, and to work so hard is mind boggling- half days in public school, half in private, tuition in the evening and/or Chinese school .
For many it starts at the age of three and doesn't stop. These students are aware that they are very lucky to have their education and sometimes I wish these students could have been with me when I was trying to persuade some year tens to hand in just one, just one piece of coursework for their GCSEs. It would have been really interesting (although telling them that they were lucky for their education would have been similar to telling them to finish their peas because there were starving people in Africa-it wouldn't have gone down too well!) .
At the volunteer school I came here to teach at I enjoyed classes with a mix of people from the Tuol Tumpoung community…. the mother and son that studied together, the man from a jewelers stand in Tuol Tumpoung market, two blind men who worked for World Vision…..young or old what they had in common was their stamina…squeezing in 6am or 7pm classes on top of their never-ending work/study/family life. The answers they all gave when I asked about their daily routine made me tired just listening.
In the UK it is accepted that some people are language people and some aren't the same way that some people are math people and some aren't. As native English speakers this is the luxury we are born into. At the school I work at here, most subjects (including math) are taught in English, so not being a language person is pretty much not an option.
Parents put a lot of pressure on their sons and daughters because they are aware of the advantage that being a fluent English speaker will have on their careers. During parent teacher conferences I have had some astounding requests from parents…..
"If he doesn't know how to spell the word I want you to beat him"…… as their four and a half year old son sits squirming on the chair next to them.
"Please, I want him to know grammar….you must improve him on this" …referring to their five year old son who is currently going through a stage where he is just learning to make it through a whole lesson without ripping open his school shirt to beat his chest or sticking pencils in his classmates' ears.
Respectfully telling parents that you cannot and will not beat their child is a very different experience compared to some conversations I have had with parents of students that I worked with in the UK.
What refreshed me most when I came to work here was the lack of red tape and paranoid parenting. I have worked in a nursery/ pre-school in the UK where you pretty much have to fill out a form to wipe a child's nose.
My first paid job here after volunteering was at a small kindergarten. There were of course safety rules in place but in a much more laid back way…cooking with the kids in the UK was rice crispy cakes….at the kindergarten I worked at here I was delighted to watch the Khmer staff setting up a massive wok of boiling oil and letting these two and three year olds make their own tempura vegetables…. that definitely summed it up for me.
In the province I am still training myself to not intervene when I see babies playing with machetes and coconuts. I can't wait to see what kind of parent I'm going to be myself out here but to be honest I probably will draw the line at machete play.
I have seen some children have accidents here but far more in the UK where there are so many more safety rules. Why is that? Maybe because everyone is so obsessed with the possibility of accidents in the UK that they actually make them happen? Similarly, no-one out here has a peanut allergy whereas at schools in UK have you have the obligatory mug shots of the kids with intolerances to nuts, dairy, jelly, fish-fingers etc…..
On the flip side there is often no recognition of any learning or behavioral problems here which is tough sometimes.
I have taught quite a few kids here with symptoms of autism who are also some of the brightest and most wonderful kids I have ever taught. I will be naming my son after one student, Pagna who holds a place in my heart because he really didn't have the same social agendas as the others but was extremely intelligent and creative. He didn't speak much but he would always show me the little dinosaur in his pocket and give me a shy grin. Nobody understood why he was unwilling to join in with class games and I had to urge my Khmer teacher assistant not to force him when she began threatening him by saying "Sing the song with your classmates or you are a bad boy".
In the UK it would have been my job to build trust with him so that I could help him develop in his own way. I tried my best to do that but as I had another twenty-six hyperactive five year olds to deal with it was difficult. One day Pagna was not in class as usual and the assistant told me that the family had moved. I do often think of him and wonder how that little chap is going to get on with the whirlwind of study that awaits him.
Some of the funniest, sharpest people I know here in Cambodia are the students I teach every day. One boy in my kindergarten class never fails to crack me up. If he is asked to do anything other than draw his amazing monsters and robots he'll say things like 'I love you but when I do something like that it makes my brain hurt teacher'… which makes me think that if a five year old can say such amazing things in a second language at the age of five there's no need for him to practice writing his ABCs.
I'm a teacher because I enjoy it and I can't imagine being in a job that doesn't involve exchanging ideas with people, especially young people. I'll stop when I can hear myself getting like the jaded, craggy teachers I've listened to in staffrooms in the UK, and met here. If you don't like people, you really won't like teaching. If you don't like teaching you will be rubbish at it. You will also spend all your time complaining and bore everyone around you. It does bother me sometimes knowing that I can find work so easily here because I have a TEFL a degree and some experience. It bothers me more that I could probably get some sort of teaching job here even without these things because I am a native English speaker and I am female. I wouldn't even need any enthusiasm for the job in some schools.
The thing is, I respect the families and individuals who are investing so much time and money to their education with me and it would be massively disrespectful to teach here merely as a means to get by. I have been inspired by some wonderful teachers here and in the UK. I hope to see less people in Cambodia who roll in every day stinking of stale fags and beer or those who use the job to preach about their views or even worse those that use the channel of teaching to preach the Bible. It's a major disrespect as far as I'm concerned and it makes me sad to see it.
Anna Spencer
49 Responses to How I Came to Teach in Cambodia and Why I'm Staying
A wonderful read. Having taught here for over seven years, I find it very refreshing to read such positive views from a fellow expat teacher.
I second that …
Lovely. I also did two teaching stints in Cambodia. I miss it very much.
Great article, lovely to hear some positive angles after all the dire nonsense you generally get from people who have taught here. It's worth remembering that there are many teachers and trainers here who work outside of the ESL scene though. Learning English is certainly important for Cambodians who want to move up the ladder, but it's only one small step in the greater scheme of things. I'm proud to be involved in this greater scheme that I'm talking about.
Vocation vs Job.
This account reminded me of the term 'Vocation'. Long ago in my christian youth I was taught that a number of 'positions' were considered to be vocational, such as teachers, doctors, nurses, priests and volunteers; people who undertook work for the greater good of the community rather than for the 'money' they could earn.
People with this sense of vocation do a lot more than their job descriptions, because their core ingredients are based on Love and a sense of Giving; to make the lives of the less fortunate a bit better.
As Anna states above, she could so easily find a job teaching English in Cambodia without even having 'enthusiasm'. If that is the case, then that is surely a true tragedy! Surely the 'kids of Cambodia' deserve better respect than that.
Congratulations Anna.
Quote "It does bother me sometimes knowing that I can find work so easily here because I have a TEFL a degree and some experience"
I dont understand why this would bother you? Explain?
Very uplifting piece–thanks Anna! I used to be one of those dosser teachers myself, at the Yankee Doodle and Pannasastra and Toul Kok, etc….BTW, the paperwork in UK –same same in Canada– has something to do with the insurance claims against school administrations that started getting more onerous late last century. I believe. Others could tell you more, I'm sure.
"In the UK it is accepted that some people are language people and some aren't the same way that some people are math people and some aren't. As native English speakers this is the luxury we are born into. At the school I work at here, most subjects (including math) are taught in English, so not being a language person is pretty much not an option."
That statement is true for adults, but basically incorrect regarding children. The brains of children function quite differently when learning languages than those of adults, in a manner that facilitates language acquisition through social experience (exposure and use) without the need for intensive studying or with much relation to their personal proclivities.
Have you ever encountered a child beggar who is able to speak English like she just arrived from Los Angeles? I did shortly after I arrived in PP and wasn't as willing to simply wave them away without feeling guilty. She had an accent and some grammar errors, but she could have a conversation with more complexity and fluency than most Cambodians will ever manage. Intelligible and functionally competent. Yet there's about zero chance that she had ever been to any school or studied it formally. Well, she's sent out to wander around the tourist areas all day looking pathetic, and her exposure to English is significant, as is her use if she wants to earn any money. Hopefully some of these kids will remain bilingual so that it can help them later on in life – they should if they continue to use the language regularly.
Yes, children can vary to a degree in their aptitude for learning a second language, but most are able to do so with remarkable ease simply through exposure and use, and they can become incredibly fluent in a relatively short amount of time. Adult learners, however, usually require far more concerted study efforts and in general they never achieve a native-like proficiency.
Obviously, some kids will perform under the average due to various factors like learning disabilities or issues outside the classroom. But most children, born anywhere in the world, without regard to their first language or its nuances, are able to pick up a second language with some of the uncanny skill that was involved in their learning any language to begin with. It is one of the great wonders of the human brain.
Learning a second language as a child actually increases the density of the gray matter in a part of the brain, and in earlier bilinguals moreso than late ones. The greater the proficiency, the larger the increase. The brain is reworked via the process of acquisition. As a child ages they gradually lose this structural plasticity and therefore their capacity for acquiring another language decreases.
If you are interested in the subject, the area of study is Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and it's sort of part of Applied Linguistics. Googling it will give you an idea about the various theories and so forth and what might be interesting to read, though the wikipedia page spends far too much time on Stephen Krashen (in my opinion, pet peeve, had to throw it in).
If you have a student who is lagging behind in his English efforts and who is at an age where things should be falling into place (0-12 should be able to become effectively bilingual, past that things begin to gradually slow down). consider whether they have sufficient exposure (not enough time in an English only environment) or not enough use. If he is quiet, and doesn't talk much, that's problematic because it's a guarantee that he is THINKING in Khmer, all day long, and his age makes it unlikely that he is carefully observing things in class and not just daydreaming. Essentially, if you're alone with your thoughts and tuning things out, your exposure is about zero, as is your use. Is he quiet because his English is bad, or is his English bad because he's quiet?
Aside from that, I like the article and I agree that the people who are teaching just to get a paycheck need to change careers or go home. Not only are they doing a disservice to the students, they are driving down standards generally and flooding the market with unskilled (unqualified) labor which drives down everyone else's pay. The sole fact of being a native speaker of a language does not qualify you to teach it any more than living near the beach makes you qualified to claim you are an Oceanographer or Marine Biologist. They should at least get their BA and a TEFL (a real one) or CELTA first, if not full licensure in their home country and some experience there – in a familiar place – before trying it here.
Wonderful read, thanks =)
Great article. But how many like you are there in Cambodia? Probably not too many. I would really be amazed if there were.
Not enough, but more than you'd imagine. I've met a lot of people who are really dedicated and trying hard every day. Even people who aren't totally "qualified," but have learned the job through experience and realized that they really enjoyed it and are now doing really great. I was a bit harsh before on that subject, on second consideration. There are people who are unqualified in the traditional sense, who have become good teachers through experience and really are doing a good job. I'd say the problem lies more with the institutions and the administration than it does with the pool of teachers available.
Thank you for all teacher that come to teach language us in Cambodia.
And Cambodian welcome you all come back again!
I have nothing to say beside this!
John- I think it bothers me a bit because I feel very uncomfortable about getting a teaching job just because I'm a native speaker and not because I'm passionate about teaching. I still have a lot to learn, but I see this as my career.I guess training for a TEFL is enough to say that you want to take teaching seriously though. I know there are so many very highly qualified teachers here, I also know lots of people who don't have any qualifications but are natural teachers. For me I think the point is that there are many who don't care and often even dislike teaching but still do it just for cash here.
Meestah Teechah-
Thanks you have inspired me to start researching Second Language Acquisition I find that really interesting. So interesting to think about the plasticity of the brain in children and after reading your comment I have just been teaching my kindergarten class and realising just how much more natural their language acquisition is compared to teenagers/adults. I always thought that with older teenagers and adults the difficulty in learning another language was mostly to do with social hang-ups, feeling awkward etc but I guess the stage of the brain development is the biggest factor. How I wish I still had a brain that I could bulk up. I suppose that's the problem with language learning in the UK…we don't do it from an early age (in most schools anyway) so by the time it is introduced our brains have lost their plasiticity.
It seems strange for me when I see children who are studying 10 hours a day 6 days a week and I wonder when they just get to play with their friends. I don't know, its a different culture I shouldn't compare it to my own where the idea of going to school on Saturday would be simply outrageous. I suppose it is the quality of the education not the quantity that is important.
I think you are totally right about the little boy I mentioned. He was very much in his own little world. I don't think he was sad though and he was only 5 when I taught him so hopefully he's acquiring the language at his own pace and I just hope whoever is teaching him now isn't forcing him to speak in front of the class because I know he found that an extremely uncomfortable thing to do.
Thank you so much for your input, I am going to go and google SLA now!
Great Anna, I'm glad the comment made you want to learn more – I was definitely being long/lecturing but sometimes people find those notions implausible if they aren't presented with enough information. I took a class on SLA, and a related one on linguistics, so I know a *little bit*, but there are people who devote their whole careers to studying it, or some aspect of it. There are competing theories as to why things occur as they do, but the research generally indicates that children acquire language differently than adults do, using different parts of their brain etc. Brain scanning/imaging has provided a lot of interesting data. It definitely has broad implications for how languages should be taught. Keep up the good work and positive attitude with your teaching.
A refreshing account to read! Working as a head in London, I came across some LSAs who were potentially great teachers and for the right reasons. Looks like she might be one of these terrific classroom practitioners.
Working as a LSA in England I came across alot of "qualified teachers" who were terrible teachers and should have not been in classrooms as they were/are highly ineffective teachers, stressed and aggressive toward their young charges and doing more harm than good.
Me to….I was so inspired by this amazing Irish History teacher and an equally excellent Scottish English teacher, plus a Yorkshire man in his 60's who was a musician and had a heart attack in a year 10 class but went back to teach Science and held massive respect whilst being really funny in the classroom. All these teachers had their own personal dynamics in the classroom it was amazing to watch. I too saw many teachers, many of whom had been teaching for years, with the personality and enthusiasm of a slug, drab clothes, drab voice, drab teaching…or the other end of the spectrum the ones with a vein constantly pulsing in their neck creating tension and criticism out of thin air.
Anna, how many teachers are passionate about their job in the west? Many enter the profession without really knowing what they are getting into, and who can blame them? You don't really know anything about the job until you've done a few internships, and those usually come later on during the degree. Even then, those probably aren't enough to get good idea of what teaching is all about. We've all had "qualified" teachers who were terrible at their job, and others who were amazing. The number of teachers who are "not passionate", as you put it, is staggeringly high even in the west. You've got people in their late 20s or early 30s counting the weeks till retirement. Talk about depressing. Cambodia is no exception. The only difference is that you don't need to be qualified to teach, but as previously mentioned, being qualified doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher…
Those are wise words. As a head of a special school, I've come across some truly gifted, passionate and talented teachers and LSAs. Sadly, I've also come across the "clock watchers" and those who see it as "just a job". Recently, for example, I had to deal with some LSAs who were mocking these SEN pupils (autistic) on their Facebook pages. And as for the weak teachers, well, it takes up to 2 years to get one out of the system in the UK. It sure ain't easy. Putting it simplistically, in any professional discipline, be it that of teacher, LSA, or whatever, there are the good and the weak. Think back to your own school days, I certainly remember those inspirational teachers who influenced me. From what she has written, Anna strikes me as one of the good ones without wishing to appear patronising. So the UK's loss is most certainly Cambodia's gain. Oh, and as for that little boy who may have symptoms of autism (my speciality in UK), a good starting point is to get a language assessment done in his first language just to check out if it really is an E2L issue. Keep up the good work Anna.
Women are sought-after in PP and I suspect that Anna is teaching at one of the better schools, where she will be getting some support from her managers, and where the schedule may be varied. A lot of the schools in PP simply leave it to the teachers to get on with it, every day, all year round with hardly any — if any — holidays! Hence the clock-watching and the 'attitude'. The conditions are not the same as in the west, let's just leave it at that in defence of the so-called amateurs.
Khmerhit speaks the truth. I've been working with all ages of children and adolescents in various capacities (mental health hospitals, 5-star care centers, refugee adjustment programs) for over 10 years. Like you, I got my TESOL, came back to Cambodia and easily got jobs. I love children. They are my passion. Yet after working with 1 Cambodian and 1 International Montessori school so far (both less than a year old), I even se myself complaining and getting stressed more than I did working on a unit full of violent teenage boys! Why? Because The schools don't employ the necessary staff required to take care of the school, all of which falls on the teachers.
In my first month at this "first rate" Montessori school, I was instructed to divide the class of 28 current pre-k students into 2, set up the new classroom and purchase the necessary supplies, create the entire years worth kindergarten curriculum, assess all the students on each standard of the American Common Core (of which there are hundreds), and received literally 8 college textbooks to read as my training. The children knew nothing, I was chastised for teaching them to write (because the pre-school teacher from the previous year had "already done the ABC's" with them) and there was no principal. Literally the business-minded manager (who was never seen) and the poor 2 administrative assistants essentially running the school on a Khmer secretaries salary. When you hear these trip of stories again and again from teachers, it's no wonder they are stressed, exhausted, exasperated, and need someone to vent to.
Hi Anna.
Thank you so much for this article. I am wanting to come to Cambodia myself. I have been teaching English in Taiwan for about five years. If anybody has helpful tips for me, such as a good school to work at or good areas to find an apartment I would really appreciate the advise.
I am not looking to backpack through Cambodia. I am hoping to make it my home for a number of years.
All the best.
Hi Adrian,
I personally think the Tuol Tumpoung area is good to live, close to a good market, good community feel, near a swimming pool/sports club and not too expensive. I like it anyway.
Check out bong thom or camhr websites for teaching positions, or just take your CV around when you get here. It's not a big place and you will hear of the schools with the better reputations fairly quickly when you get here.
I have only just found these posts….wonderful, the writing and the heart that shines through each and every story. I love that you still love teaching but I am not surprised as it was clear the reasons behind your interest were genuine and altruistic. What a blast you've had and how lucky your students have been. You have given joy and esteem to many and I am happy to include myself in the many. What you, Sarah and Nick continue to do makes me very proud and if you need any support I am about to embark on training CELTA graduates within a University Applied Linguistics Department and so have access to lots of goodies which may be of help. You're a star.
Hi Anna.
I've just re-read your post. Thanks so much for replying. If you would like I would really appreciate exchanging emails. I have one I use for teaching. It is [email protected]
All the best.
hi anna
ive just found this sitw n was happy to see a teacher after my own beliwfs n thoughts n passion. ur story about the little boy panga? who displayd aurism especially made me smile n sad. ive visited cambodia twice last year n am comin ova in feb to hopefully stay. im a twacher have cert in twfl n background in asd n severe n challwngin behaviours . im not sure how this forum worx but woyld love to chat to u 1 – 1. i realise u would b busy but with a bit of hope i hope we could contact. probably should but heres my email [email protected] hope to hear from u . keep smiling n havin fun
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First, let me say that this is an absolutely wonderful post! I REALLY enjoyed reading it! I am a 32-year-old American man, and I will be moving to Phnom Penh next April to get my TESOL/TEFL certifications, and hopefully to begin a career teaching English. I was already looking forward to my big move, but after reading this, April of 2013 seems like an eternity! Thank you so much for posting this!
Chris M.
Do you have the recommendation of a school in Phnom Penh to receive
a TEFL Certificate as I will also be moving to Cambodia in April 2013.
Thank you.
I enjoyed reading your article very much. I will be going to Cambodia in March for a tefl program and have been pretty excited about it. Today though I came across an article by another teacher in Cambodia who was so negative that it really got me down just reading it and had me thinking maybe I'm making a mistake. After reading this though, I feel a lot better and it just goes to show that there are actually people out there who do have a passion for what they do so I want to thank you for that.
Best regards,
I am Khmer who has worked mostly with foreigners. Most of them are shock to see the bad side of Cambodia. Cannot blame them. We also have the good side. If you are getting to know us, we are fun, friendly, love to smile and help. You will like your work here if you don't have too much expectation. Don't compare us to a modern lifestyle in Bangkok, most of them does. Some people chit chat and share a good laugh with Motodop while some of them hate motordop that always asking them. They just make their living. Anyways, thanks to all my English teacher and you guys that come will with a good will. Even though my English is not good but it does open a great page of my life.
Thankyou so much for sharing your story. I hope you continue the wonderful job you're doing there for a very long time. They definately need more caring people like you!
Dear Anna,
Hi, my name is Cynthia and I am from Malaysia. I do have a diploma in TESOL but do not know how to use it. What I meant was, I have tried various places to teach but never got any respond.
Would you be able to assist me? Kindly email me at: [email protected]
I read your post and I love it. I am married with 4 kids and I am 45years old.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thank you so much. God bless.
Yours sincerely,
Cynthia John
I'd recommend you start with checking your applications and appeals for English-teaching positions for grammatical errors.
Forget teaching kids, Sounds like you need to be taught basic spelling and grammar, thicko
Ms. Spencer,
I've been trying to teach in Asia for a few years, now. I keep getting offers from schools that don't sound legit.
I have 23 years of SpEd teachingb experience. I am also certified to teach English and history.
Any advice?
"Don't sound legit" – what does that mean?
One of the guys that answered said he offer me some "acting jobs" on the side.
This was really refreshing Anna. I volunteered taught in Nepal for 4 months. I loved it, and became so close to my students. It was heart breaking to leave them! They were so eager to learn, man tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
I had the fortunate or unfortunate run in with the book "Off the Rails in Phnom Pehn…." alongside my digging through this forum, I was a bit off put by the Cambodian ESL teacher community and was really wondering if it was worth it to show up and try my luck, as I am not the slightly bit interested in Girls, Gun's and Ganja.
I am so happy to find an intelligent, and passionate ESL teacher writing good things about teaching in Cambodia.
I am in Phnom Pehn now, and will be passing out my CV shortly, your post helped me make the decision to stay.
Where did you teach in Nepal? I founded a school there in 2002. I miss it greatly myself.
Re. that appalling book. It may have held a grain of truth 15 years ago but it bears no relation to reality now. Since you're currently in Phnom Penh, you should have seen that for yourself by now!
Calm down, don't shout and check your spelling!
It was really interesting reading everyone's comments, very insightful. From what I can see teaching in Cambodia can be very rewarding if you have the right attitude and actually enjoy passing on knowledge and working with people. Nice work Anna. I'm planning to move to Cambodia in October. I'm 25 years old and female. I have degree and a Trinity Cert TESOL but no experience. I'd really like to go to Siam Reap first but have heard it's a lot more competitive for teachers. Shall I bother or just go straight to Phenom Penh.
Great comments here. I've taught for 25 years in secondary schools and went to Siem Reap last month. Whilst there I went to a school for very poor primary children who'd slipped through the net and were attending a charity's new school. Seriously thinking of moving out there in the next few weeks for a while as I'm now semi-retired. I've also put a website together for the charity – lots of interesting photos there!
Have fun
Just wonderinG if anyone knows something about the Teach in Cambodia organisation.?Got offered job , Not sure if legitimate organisation
Hi Anna, I really loved your article, and I'm thinking on teaching in Cambodia next year. Are you still in Cambodia? Can I get in touch with you, in order to ask you some questions I have? Thanks in advance,
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Stage IIIA. The 5-year survival rate is around 78%. The 10-year survival rate is 68%.
Stage IIIB. The 5-year survival rate is around 59%. The 10-year survival rate is around 43%.
Stage IIIC. The 5-year survival rate is around 40%. The 10-year survival rate is around 24%.
Stage IV. The 5-year survival rate is around 15% to 20%. The 10-year survival rate is 10% to 15%. This rate is higher if the cancer has spread only to the skin or distant lymph nodes and not to vital organs.
Factors other than stage also affect survival. For example:
In general, survival declines with age.
Survival can be shorter if the melanoma occurs on a foot, palm, or nail bed.
People with melanoma who have had an organ transplant or who have HIV infection are also at higher risk of dying from melanoma. People with HIV have a weakened immune system.
Although African Americans are less likely to get melanoma than whites, their survival rates are lower when they do get it.
Talking with your healthcare provider
You can ask your healthcare provider about survival rates and what you might expect. But remember that statistics are based on large groups of people. They cannot be used to say what will happen to you. No two people are exactly alike. Treatment and how well people respond to treatment vary.
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The Best in Beauty
CEW honors the beauty products of the year.
Nancy Jeffries
The beauty industry came out on May 1 to celebrate the highly anticipated Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Beauty Awards, which honors the most innovative beauty products of the year. CEW President, Carlotta Jacobson, speaking at the Grand Ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astoria, welcomed attendees, noting, "The annual awards are determined by those in the know—more than 4,000 professionals working in the field. What is more powerful than the votes of women who represent more than 1,100 companies in the beauty industry?"
The guest host of the award luncheon and ceremony was Mario Cantone, star of Sex and the City, who was joined by celebrity presenters including the stars of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City, Simon Doonan, Creative Director of Barneys, Gretta Monahan, Style Expert for The Rachael Ray Show, Ingrid Grimes-Myles, Michelle Obama's Makeup Artist, Shontelle, Spokesmodel and Pop Star, as well as industry executives.
In addition to recognizing product innovation, the CEW Beauty Awards selected the winner of the Indie Beauty Award, a category which this year garnered 20 company entrants, representing the newest start-ups in the world of beauty. This year's Indie winner was NIA 24, a niacin-powered skin care line. Winners by category were as follows:
Bath and Body
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Fresh Fig Apricot Bath & Shower Gel
Facial Skin Care
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Olay Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention
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Clinique Even Better Skin Tone Corrector
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Cleanser & Scrub – Prestige
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Eye Treatment – Mass
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Eye Treatment – Prestige
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Moisturizer – Mass
Olay Definity Color Recapture
Moisturizer – Prestige
Estée Lauder Time Zone Line and Wrinkle Reducing Moisturizer SPF 15
Hair Care
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Living Proof, Inc. Straight Making No Frizz Styling Cream for Medium to Thick Hair
Eye Product – Mass
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Eye Product – Prestige
Lancôme Oscillation
Face Product – Mass
CoverGirl Simply Ageless Foundation
Face Product – Prestige
Giorgio Armani Face Fabric Foundation
Lip Product – Mass
Avon Products, Inc. Pro-To-Go Lipstick
Lip Product – Prestige
YSL Rouge Volupté Silky Sensual Radiant Lipstick SPF 15
Men's Grooming
Zirh Holdings LLC Drenched
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Men's Scent
Puig USA Prada Infusion d'Homme Eau de Toilette Spray
Fragrance Supplier: Givaudan
Women's Scent – Mass
Avon Products, Inc. Bond Girl 007
Fragrance Supplier: Firmenich
Women's Scent – Prestige
Harajuku Lovers Fragrances "G"
Fragrance Supplier: Fragrance Resources
Sun Products
Sun Product – Mass
Aveeno Continuous Protection Sunblock Spray SPF 70
Sun Product – Prestige
Clarins Delicious Self Tanning Cream
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Indie Beauty Award
CEW has also launched the Beauty Awards retail program, collaborating with six national partners in 2009. The collaboration offers consumers shopping access on www.cew.org, with buying links to partners CVS/pharmacy, Sephora, ULTA, Beauty.com, drugstore.com, and Bloomingdale's. These partners will be showcasing the 2009 Beauty Award Winners with online and in store promotions. Sponsors of this year's awards included Allure, Givaudan, CVS/pharmacy, Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal, Acuvue Brand Contact Lenses, Medicis, VEET, WWD Beauty Biz, Arcade Marketing, The Royal Promotion Group, Suite K, KraftWorks, HBA Global Expo, Beilis Development, MaCher, Rpr Marketing Communications, Alcan Packaging Beauty, Beauty.com, Raw Media, Digital Plus, and Vidicom. CEW partnered with NPD Group to define this year's beauty categories.


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The Call Albums
- The Best of The Call (1997)
- Red Moon (1990)
- Let the Day Begin (1989)
- Into The Woods (1987)
- Reconciled (1986)
- Scene Beyond Dreams (1984)
- Modern Romans (1983)
- The Call (1982)
The Call Lyrics
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Despite great critical acclaim due to their literate, passionate rock; praise from some well-respected contemporaries; and a string of strong releases, the San Francisco band the Call never quite escaped cult status. The predicted breakthrough to a wider audience never quite materialized. Formed in the San Francisco area in 1980, the quartet, led by vocalist/guitarist Michael Been, released their self-titled debut in 1982 and earned positive reviews. The following year, the band issued Modern Romans and managed to broaden their fan base when "The Walls Came Down" became a minor hit single. In 1984, keyboardist Jim Goodwin replaced bass player Scott Freeman to round out the lineup for the release of Scene Beyond Dreams, which despite receiving more critical acclaim, failed to build on their commercial momentum. Reconciled followed in 1985 and featured guest appearances by Peter Gabriel (who had once referred to the band as "the future of American music") and Robbie Robertson. Both "I Still Believe" and "Everywhere I Go" achieved significant airplay on college rock and AOR stations, giving a boost to the band's profile.br /br /The Call scaled back a bit from the anthemic feel of Reconciled for Into the Woods, but managed to score again at college rock outlets with the somber "In the River." Been took time out from the band in 1988 to appear as the apostle John in Martin Scorcese's Last Temptation of Christ. The band switched labels from Elektra to MCA in 1989, edging back into more radio-friendly territory with Let the Day Begin. The rousing title track became their biggest hit to date; topping the AOR charts and reaching number 51 on the pop charts, propelling the album to become their highest-charting release as well. Despite the success, when they returned with Red Moon, the Call had scaled back their sound, embracing an organic, more roots-oriented sound that recalled the Band (not surprising, as that act's Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson had both guested on earlier albums).br /br /Perhaps their most mature and fully-realized album, Red Moon made little impact beyond the Call's core audience (despite Bono lending vocals to "What's Happened to You?"). Been tested the waters as a solo artist and released the harder-edged On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough in 1994, managing to gain a bit of airplay with "Us." The Call was given the compilation treatment on a couple releases in the '90s, and reunited for Heaven & Back in 1997 and a tour. They subsequently issued a live record, Live Under the Red Moon, three years later. ~ Tom Demalon, All Music Guide


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I must say I am impressed, Flock's tight integration with web 2.0 services like Digg, Flickr, Picasa, Blogger etc is amazing.
The default theme is a nice looking blue one. The first thing you are bound to notice is the large star button next to the address bar. The function of this button is to bookmark pages. The default homepage is 'My World' which hosts all your feeds from blogs and favorite websites. All the menus and options are just as in Firefox and Firefox users would be completely at home with it Flock.
Another big addition is the sidebar from which you can access your friends feed from Facebook. It also has many tricks up its sleeve when it comes to Facebook. There are options available to upload photos directly to online sites like Flickr and Photobucket. You can also view the feeds from streaming media like Youtube . The address bar has an envelop icon next to it, you can send the address of the website you are currently on by email. Flock also has an Blog Writer, the process of setting up the blog writer is extremely simple. You merely have to sign in to your blog with Flock to set it up. As simple as that! Highlight any text on a Web page and drag it to the blogging panel (which pops up when you click a blogging toolbar button), and your blog entry becomes instantly formatted with the highlighted text featured as a quote, nicely formatted in blockquote. The page link is bundled into the entry as well when you drag text. All of this displays in flawless WYSIWYG, and the whole presentation is pretty as a morning flower. Since its based on Firefox Flock can support mast but not all extensions used in Firefox.
The current version 2.02 of Flock corresponds to Firefox 3. Unfortunately the Flock devs don't provide a single .deb file to work with, rather they give you a tar ball to compile from. Even Synaptic doesn't have Flock in its repositories. However GetDeb guys have compile a .deb package for all of us. It is 14 MB in size and works perfectly in Ubuntu. Their photo uploader is damn sexy! I liked Flock so much that I have made it my default browser.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Japanese Food @ Ten Japanese Fine Dining, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur
No secret that I love Japanese food.
It is always the preferred choice whenever I dine out or even cook at home.
News of Ten's debut first came trickling through the Internet last month on the seventh.
Described as "a delectable exquisite fusion of Japanese and French cuisine at its finest" in the email, I was rather curious on what this meant.
Hold on, my brain started clicking...is this more like Cilantro or the atypical traditional Japanese restaurant?
Like a cat whose curiosity is piqued, I decided to join the opening rites.
Sampling their special menu for that day definitely perked my interest. While I would not peg it as Cilantro-like, this seemed to veer towards the traditional food. However, they did have some fusion items with the use of French ingredients such as foie gras.
There was also the bonus flashbulb moment of Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai making an appearance. He didn't do much in the kitchen (maybe flambe something as caught on screen) but he was all smiles and cheekiness with his watermelon (I wonder why though?).
Since I can be rather thorough about my reviews, I went back this time for dinner.
I was blown away......by the fresh sashimi on a Friday, the day shipment arrives from Japan.
Ten seems to favour Tasmanian ocean trout instead of the usual Norwegian salmon for their sashimi selection giving it an edge compared to the other places. In comparison, the trout has a richer taste with an incredibly "buttery" mouthfeel. Everything on that assorted selection such as the kingfish (hiramasa), tuna belly (toro), botan shrimps, scallops and even the local fish, the garoupa was fresh and sweet that we both slowly savoured each piece.
Equally good was the wagyu tataki, lightly seared with just a well balanced ponzu sauce that didn't overpower the sweet natural taste of the beef but complemented it.
I also enjoyed the salmon avocado roll (RM32) - the combination of the creamy avocado with salmon topped with ebiko is something you can't go wrong. One item I did notice when I tasted the sushi and maki is the rice here is exceptionally good with each grain beautifully formed. In a later lunch, I just picked each grain to slowly savour it.
I started to plot my return here...should it be the kaiseki for RM300++ per person for ten courses or the set lunches that are offered from Tuesday to Friday.
I decided on the lunch whereby the sets range from RM45 for the items like yakisaba (grilled mackerel), chicken teriyaki or the inaniwa udon sets to RM80 for the wagyu set.
Each of the sets are served with chawan mushi, an appetizer (that day it was a hijiki or seaweed one), a salad, miso hotpot (a sweet tasting soup with chicken and seafood), a bowl of rice and pickles.
Unlike other places, no fruits nor sweets are offered in the set. You can also order today's pick from a handwritten menu.
The sashimi set (RM65) is said to offer 12 pieces of sashimi but I think I counted more on my cherry blossom platter.
It is different from the one I got for my deluxe version (that was double its price) but the selection was still a head over the usual Japanese outlets. Let me see what I had - ocean trout, garoupa, amaebi prawns (smaller and not cloyingly sweet like the other places), tuna and scallop.
Aside from the sashimi, wagyu tataki, I was blown away by the steamed monkfish liver (ankimo) with ponzu sauce. Unlike other places which seem to favour a firmer texture, this one was steamed to a creamy foie gras texture that had me sighing over my meal as I nibbled on each piece with seaweed and the cucumbers on the side.
So I guess the millon dollar question on everyone's brain is will I return again? I think I will since this place is definitely one of its kind. Moreover, as you know how things work in Kuala Lumpur - today's star can easily fall as quickly as it rises so it is always best to seize the opportunity (or carpe diem) the food now or never.
Pictures (top to bottom) 1. Wagyu tataki with ponzu sauce (RM80) 2. & 3. Sashimi moriawase (Deluxe, RM150) 4. Deep fried prawn dumpling encased in burdock vegetable with Japanese cherry tomato and egg yolk with balsamico. 5. Salmon and avocado roll (RM32). 6. assorted sushi. 7. Sashimi gozan lunch set (RM65) 8. Chicken gratin, grilled chicken marinated with miso and wrapped in iceberg lettuce and seaweed with foie gras and chicken terrine. 9. Green tea cake. 10. Ten's interiors and its sushi counter. 11. Iron chef's many faces. 12. Sushi chefs prepare for the lunch.
Nibble on this:
1. Ten means heaven in Japanese.
2. The original outpost is Australia's Gold Coast where they started in 2009 .
3. The executive chef is Hiroshi Miura and the executive sushi chef is Atsushi Nishibuchi.
4. Miura has cha-kaiseki and ryotei training while Nishibuchi is trained in edomae sushi (tokyo-style sushi) and has worked in Tokyo and Sydney.
5. Source of supplies is the most important for Japanese restaurants so go on days where it is super fresh. The fish is airflown from Japan on Tuesday and Friday. Fish is also sourced from Singapore on Wednesday and local fish is sourced from our markets on Wednesday and Friday. The local fish they get is horse mackerel, garoupa, prawns, squid and baby tuna.
6. Prices range from RM10 to RM80 for entrees, sashimi moriawase is RM80 for entree and RM150 for deluxe version, salad is RM35 to RM80, main dishes range from RM40 to RM150, sushi moriawase is RM70 for entree and RM120 for deluxe, maki range from RM15 to RM38, rice and noodles from RM30 to RM45, desserts are RM25 each.
Ten Japanese Fine Dining
D5-G3-5, Solaris Dutamas
Off Jalan Duta
Kuala Lumpur
(Pork Free. Open for lunch from 11.30am to 2.30pm for Tuesday to Friday; dinner is from 6.30pm to 12 midnight with last orders at 10pm from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on Mondays. To get here, best you take the new entrance to level B3 from the Kencana Petroleum side (from Jalan Duta, take a left turn, go straight at first traffic light and then turn right at second traffic light) and go up to level G3 for block D5. The restaurant is located near Kencana Petroleum side and right opposite Overtime Bar. For more pictures, see the Flickr set. See their facebook page for more details.)
Note: Part of the review was invited while another part was paid by the reviewer themselves.
16 comments:
- "追食富迪" said...
Woo...so tempting the foods, especially sashimi!!
- Au and Target said...
Pretty but way out of my budget :-(
- 24mall.my said...
Hi boo_licious
Kindly be informed that this post has been reprinted on JoinMe.com.my, thanks. ^^
P/S: We have put your name and link credit back to this article.
- Paranoid Android said...
Looks insanely ravishing. I feel like licking off my screen. Must try it one day... Fourth round?
- Eric said...
This looks delicious!
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- Baby Sumo said...
The sashimi looks amazingly fresh! Will have to go try the lunch one day (within budget) :P
- The Yum List said...
This place definitely looks worth trying. Didn't know they had one on the Gold Coast. I'll check it out in December.
- Christine said...
certainly look tempting.a must place to visit with all the eateries mushrooming in dutamas
- mycookinghut said...
Looks really good! I love Japanese food too!
- Eat Only Lar! said...
This place sounds good, especially if they serve good sashimi, I'll give it a try one day!
- boo_licious said...
"追食富迪" - very yummy indeed
Au & Target - pssst, maybe time to do some work related stuff at the restaurant??
24mall.my - hope you get my email to remove the blog posts. Thanks.
Paranoid Android - I think you will approve! Yes, we should do fourth round one day before you fly off to Basel.
Eric - very delish indeed.
Baby Sumo - the lunch sashimi is good but you should try the deluxe one as it is superb.
The Yum List - yeah, I must ask my cousin when she comes down about it as I know she eats quite a lot of Japanese food at the Gold Coast.
Christine - going to take a long time to try all of them!
mycookinghut - Congrats on the book. Saw it the other day advertised in Amazon.
Eat Only Lar - you may pay a lot but it is worth it. Good service too.
- KY said...
i'mma gonna make my return visit soon too, gahhh
- Bob Staten said...
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- boo_licious said...
KY - the set lunches are good value for the quality ingredients they serve.
Bob Staten - sorry, no recipe but look for sushi in your fav restaurant.
- food solutions said...
Yummy foods, there are so many foods, whose name I don't know. But is very tasty. ration MREs meals ready-to-eat
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We shall see if the New York Mets are capable of winning the 90 games general manager Sandy Alderson believes.
I like manager Terry Collins' response to his players they should take it as a compliment. That's one way to look at things. Another is if 90 is possible, are then the expectations that of a 90-win team?
While Alderson expects his players to play like 90-win players, and Collins to manage like a 90-win manager, I wonder if that extends to him and Fred Wilpon.
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For his part, how can Alderson believe 90 wins are possible when he has issues at first base, shortstop, in the outfield and in the bullpen, not to mention an unproven catcher and without his best pitcher?
I also can't help but wonder how long a leash Alderson will give Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada. In each of the past two seasons the Mets dragged their feet when Davis floundered early. Ninety-win teams don't just carry struggling players at first base and shortstop, and when they have to make a move they do it, and fast.


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Four Reasons Lisa Lampinelli Can't Use the N Word
The inexplicably famous comedian Lisa Lampinelli is in trouble today for using the n-word. Not that the context even really matters, but it's kind of interesting/weird to note that she used the word in a tweet to describe Lena Dunham, with an accompanying twitpic of them at an award show. To me Lisa has always had a strong unfunny-morning-radio vibe, so I can't say I'm particularly surprised that she would use this word, but what's shocking is how stupid the defense is.
Defense #1) She Likes Lena Dunham
Over on the Huffington Post, Lisa's quoted explaining that she used the word to mean "friend", so everyone should just calm the f-ck down. She would never DREAM of calling Lena a bad word because she's thinks Lena's just the best. Um, Lisa? We're actually not worried about Lena. It's not the one white girl whose feelings were sensitive to when it comes to this word.
Defense #2) You Just Don't Get It
Today Lisa's Twitter feed is full of RTs from different people supporting her, people Lisa says "get the joke". The joke? Which is what? That an old white lady is using black slang to describe another white person? Is this some kind of rapping granny bit? I'm no comedian, I'm not even especially smart, but I still have a hard time believing that anyone who's appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice is capable of writing material that goes over my head.
Defense #3) But She ALWAYS Uses the N Word
Lisa's also insisting that using the n-word in 2013 is totally cool because she's done it like a billion times before. Apparently her standup, which I admit I have never seen, has always included this and many other racial slurs. Therefore everyone should just accept this because she's too stuck in her ways to change now? What kind of logic is that? Like, should we just all embrace the Westborough Baptist Church because they've got a long history of being bigoted sh*theads?
Defense #4) Reappropriation
"It's about taking the hate out of the word" she says today, but who gave her the idea this is something she can do? No matter how many times we hear this word in music or film, it's so obvious that people are not going to be ok with white people using it. Why do people keep insisting this is changing for the sake of comedy? Why do you need this word, Lisa Lampanelli? This word does not belong to white people, we simply cannot have it.


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I decided to join in on the Geneablogger Advent Calendar prompts this year. This first post is about the Christmas Trees we had when I was growing up.
Christmas was a very special time of year for our family. My Mom would always start baking cookies and decorating the house shortly after Thanksgiving. But not the Christmas tree. Santa always brought our Christmas tree. I think this made Christmas morning all the more special. The three of us kids would wake up and as we walked down the stairs we would see the tree, as well as all the beautifully wrapped presents, for the first time! Talk about excited!
When I was really young we always had a "real" tree. I'm really not sure how my parents managed to pull this off. I don't think that they waited until Christmas Eve to buy the tree, but we never saw it sitting outside the house. I suspect they bought it a couple of days in advance and that my Aunt and Uncle would bring it to our house Christmas Eve after we children were put to bed. Much later I learned that my Aunt and Uncle would come over to our house each year to help decorate the tree.
I was the oldest of the three children in our family and about the time I stopped believing in Santa and was allow to stay up and join the tree decorating party, we got an artificial tree. This was the type of tree where each branch had to be added individually. Branches of different sizes had different color paint dabs on the wire to match the paint dabs on the holes in the "tree trunk." We would "build" the tree starting at the top and continuing down to the bottom, inserting each branch into the trunk.
Then there was the decorating. Lights always were first. We had the type with big, multi-colored bulbs. We had to test each strand and locate and replace any "bad" bulbs. Once that was done, the lights were wrapped around the tree. Then the decorations. We had some store bought balls, but mostly we had hand-made ornaments. Tinsel was always added last — like the icing on a cake!
Once my sister, who was the youngest, stopped believing in Santa, we no longer waited until Christmas Eve to set up the tree. On the positive side, we got to enjoy having the tree up longer and Christmas Eve was much less hectic. But some of the magic of Christmas morning was gone too.
When my husband and I got married, it was several years before we decided to have children. With just the two of us, it didn't make sense to set up the tree Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, once we had kids we kept with our new tradition of setting up the tree a couple of weeks before Christmas. We didn't have the extra sets of hands like my parents did – and it was a lot easier to set it up in advance. A part of me regrets that my children didn't get to experience the same type of thrill Christmas morning that I did, but instead they will have the memories of walking through the Christmas tree farm and selecting the tree and cutting it down. I think each generation needs to find what works best for them!


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Tue, 15 February 2011
Huh, Oh... Johnny Cash was a gun grabbin' liberal? Who knew? Then... Whadamean I can't bobby trap my stuff? Congressman King talks about defunding Obamacare. And what a great website!... love it when Senator Gronstal's name can be turned into a verb. And look at what the villiage atheists did on your property this time.
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