ເບິ່ງ​ໄປໄກເຖິງດວງດາວ…ທີສອງຄົນເຮົາເຄີຍຈັບ​ຈອງ…ກໍຍັງຢູ່ບ່ອນເກົ່າ

ຈາກບ່ອນນີ້ຂ້ອຍສາມາດເຫັນດາວດວງນັ້ນ…ດາວດວງນັ້ນຄົງສາມາດ ເຫັນເຈົ້າ

ຢ່າງໜ້ອຍ…​ເຮົາສອງຄົນກໍຍັງຢູ່ພາຍໃຕ້ດວງດາວດວງດຽວກັນ

ຫວັງວ່າເຈົ້າຢູ່​ທາງ​ນັ້ນຄົງມີຄວາມສຸກ ແລະ ເຈີະແຕ່ສິ່ງດີໆ

ແຕ່ສຳລັບຂ້ອຍ…ອາດມີພຽງສິ່ງດຽວທີ​ເຮັດ​ໄດ້

ມີແຕ່ຄິດຮອດເຈົ້າ…ມີແຕ່ຄິດຮອດ…ໃນທຸກໆຄັ້ງທີເຫັນດາວ

ມີແຕ່ຄິດຮອດເຈົ້າ…ຄິດເຖິງອະດິດ…ຄິດ​ເຖິງຝັນຂອງເຮົາເຄີຍວາດໄວ້

ແລະຫລາຍຄັ້ງ…ມັນເຮັດໃຫ້ຂ້ອຍຮູ້ສຶກເຫງົາ

ມີແຕ່ຄິດຮອດ…ຄິດຮອດເຈົ້າຕະຫລອດມາ  

When I look at our star, it is still in the same place

From here I can see that star and it can see you

At least  ​we are under same star

I hope you are fine and have only good thing

But for me, only one ting I can do is just missing you

I miss you, baby, I miss you when I see that star

I miss you, baby, miss our time and our dream we built

Many times it makes me fell deeply lonely

ສະບາຍດີເພື່ອນເພື່ອນທຸກຄົນ.

I don’t want to cheat myself and avoid the fact I feel lonely when it rains

I stand beside the window class and wave the rain drops from inside my room

My eyes are looking to the edge of the sky and humming a song

I just found that they are sad plus lonely feeling songs

I was strong and might cheat myself before that I had no lonely feeling

When my friends told me that they feel lonely but I laughed at them

I still told them that I have never had that feeling

I told them that I am surrounded by people who love me

I just found that when I went to the sea, my heart wants somebody to walk by me and collect the shell together,

When I go to the top of mountain I feel cold and my heart tells me that

It is better if I had somebody beside and give me a warm hug when we see the first sun rise,

When I look at the sky and count the stars in my balcony, my little heart tells me that

I can count all stars in the sky if there was somebody to count with me

When I was walking in park, I saw many couples were walking with hand in hand

They talk, smile, and look at each other with the special eyes

When that girl walks down, that boy carries her hand with care

I am not telling myself a lie that I don’t feel any jealous

I wished that person will carry my hands when I can not walk properly

And I wish he would carry my hands for whole of my life

Sometime when I listen love songs, my heart wants to cry

When I listen 'heart broken songs', I want to be that girl who is loved by that boy

I feel pain sometime when that boy’s story is similar to mine

When I listen in love songs, I also want to be that girl who that boy feels in love with

I have been waiting for that person so long and it may make me give up

Waiting him to come and get my heart, waiting for the warm from his hugs

I, myself, want to care for him and spend my whole life with him

I want to see a miracle power that will give me a chance to see that person

Who will care me and love me for nothing

I might have a heart broken, but that is just a fertilizing for my heart to grow my love tree

I might cry much for that heart broken, but I still have tear for the happy days

Maybe that person is not my real love and luckily my love tree’s root did not deepen in my heart,

so I could withdraw and treated it by the pure water, water from my heart

Somebody told me that I am a kind of love hunting

But perhaps those people may not have real hearts and loves

And they have never felt warm and comfortable when they are with love

Or perhaps their love is just attachment and they may not have heart

People may say that I am crazy to express my feeling, but I guess many people are the same

I will be completely crazy if I have never had that feeling and cheated myself

Wondering if there is any single who wants my cares and who will give his cares for no reasons

And who can share my happiness and sadness and make my life busy

If you were mine I would not let your heart and your body get cold,

I will whisper ‘I love you softly’ on your ears everyday before you leave to work,

I will kiss on your font head and say good night,

I will hug your tightly when you feel cold and lonely

If you were mine, babe, you would never get bored,

I will tell the funny jokes when you feel sick with your work,

I will fight with you sometime to make our life more colorful,

And I will say sweet words to you when I am a fault side

We would take a week off for the forest trekking,

Or if you like more adventure, we can go kayaking in Khone Pha Pheng,

If you like sea, we can go diving and you can have win surfing,

Or if you like to see a sun rise, we can go to Phou Kao Kua Mountain,

And we will welcome the first warm sun rise together 

If you were mine, you would never hungry,

Even though I am not good in cooking, but I will learn for you,

Sometime we can go out and have a nice dinner under the moon light,

After that we would have a night walk along Mekong River and look up at the stars,

Before entrance our house, I will kiss on your cheek and say thank you for the wonderful night

If you were mine, I would be a person who dries your tears up

I love to be your consultant even though I could not give you the right answers

But I will remind you to take a rest and be calm to face your problems

And I can be your alarm clock when you need to wake up early and continue your job

If you were mine, I would help you to build up your world

Even though I am not good in designing, but I would help you to pain it

What color do you like? Pink? Blue? Green? Or Yellow?

But please don’t be afraid for what you will face cause I will spend my whole life to help you build up your beautiful world !!!

Copyright to bt_lvx@2006

I don’t know how far I will dream and how long my heart will fly,

For each time I look at your eyes, I feel I have to control something,

Something that I may accidentally express from my eyes,

Something that I am also not sure what it is

It is strange for me that I can see your opened smile from those eyes,

It makes me curious to know what deeply means in your sight, and,

If it is opened for a guest to get into and find for the real meaning,

Or is it just your common sight when you look at people?

I don’t want to be self assured that your sight is just special,

I wish it would be warmed and opened as it used to be,

To the people you are looking at, with every degree of temperature, hot or cold,

In every season of the year, in every place where you are, and, with every feeling

Sitting so long in the study room since the early morning

Eyes are looking at papers from page to pages without moving

And my head is being packed and packed from hour to hours

Legs are being straightened but my back is painful and I am feeling asleep

I lay my head on my arms on the table and have a short nap

I dream about a beautiful night when I drink wine with friends and feel asleep

I dream about a sunshine day when I can wear short and go to beach

And finally I see my friends are eating and my mouth is watering

Suddenly I wake up when I get a message sending from a friend

He asks me whether drinking coffee now is a good idea or do I prefer a beer

I don’t ask him for the reasons instead of asking about time and place

I tell him that I will be there, at the same place, in five minutes

I walk out off my study room and head for appointed place

Me and my friend have the nice coffee and woderful conversation

Oh, coffee!!! You wake me up and recharge my battery

I become active again and ready to face boring works of the rest hours of today

(Copyright to Baythone@2006.ritsumeikan)

I am just a lucky girl who have known you

You make me forget all bad times I used to face

I have never felt lonely since I meet you everyday

And when I have stress, you are always beside me and tell me the funny stories

You make me forget the last heart pain,

Since I have you as the best medicine

I forget that I used to love a man much,

When I know that you are a person I love most

I forget that my study is hard,

Since everyday you ask me whether am I tired from study

Or if I have any problems with crazy assignments

And all the time you give encourage and be my lovely consultant

I forget that I am poor in cooking,

Since we often have lunches and dinners outside

All meals I have with you are full of appetite

I like the way you sit beside me and have wonderful talks

In some days I forget my private times,

Since I am busy being with you

And I often forget my supper and sleeping times,

When I am chatting with you till late night

I forget that now is winter with negative degree outside

I don’t feel cold since I have you and your warmth beside

Your heart is warm that can warm up the cool world

And your words are too warm that can melt my heart

But frankly from the bottom of my pure heart

I will never forget the great times I am with you

I will never forget your warmth I get from you

And I will never forget that you love me as well as I love you

Copyright to baythone@ritsumeikan,2005

Sitting at the corner of the room

Eyes are looking out off the windows

Ring Bell making rhythm from blowing wind

Moon is over my head and shining on Earth

Leave are falling down to cover the ground

While the light from parking lots is off

No talking sounds from next doors

And dogs from near neighborhoods stoped barking

TV in my room is on and program is one after one

Music is playing song after song

Chatting with friends one after one

But I am feeling alone

What am I doing now?

Why am I feeling blue?

What shall I do for not being alone?

Whom shall I talk with in the late night?

(Copyright to Baythone, Ritsumeikan, 2005)

Leaves falling in actual time, I was walking on the same road

It was full of stories between you and me

My feeling was changed each time I passed

And the weather was different for each day I was

I was walking hand in hand with you on this road

We were talking about the birds we saw on the threes

I was smelling the flowers that you took along the road

And we were having the deep breaths of the beautiful spring

Once I was walking alone on this road

Only me and my love bicycle were talking to each other

No a single bird singing for me, and no flowers blooming on the road

The weather was so hot that I could not stay long

Today I am walking alone on this road

No blooming flowers I can smell, but only maple leaves I see as flowers

My eyes are opened more to see the color of the World

And my ears can hear more songs from the real World

From now on, I am not alone walking on this road

Everywhere I go, my soul, my spirit, and my hope follow

My destination is full of colorful flowers and victory songs

They are waiting for me to pass this road

(Copyright to Baythone, Ritsumeikan, 2005)

Once Cherry found Tome crying at the corner of the house

He crying with pain

The pain that he was left by his people

The pain that he was only one

Cherry’s life was so happy before

Her mind was full of giving

Her heart was full of love

Her arms were full of warm

Tome was so mysterious

His appearance was covered with many colors

Color that Cherry could not distinguish

Color that hiding his real complexion

Tome asked Cherry to give him a chance

A chance for him to change

A chance to show his love

A chance to love Cherry

Cherry was happy when she was with Tome

Happy with his care that she though was Tome's love

But day by day Tome showed her his color

The color Cherry could not change but he fascinated it

Her eyes were hiding by something

Something she believed that was love

Something that she trusted on

Something that wouldn’t make her cry when Tome had to leave

Tome left Cherry, and before leaving he told her his love

He told her about the reasons for his departure

All the time I proud of you, my Hero !!

When I am with my friends, I like to talk about you

Which way my life is going on, I learn from you

And from now on is about you 

You teach me how to put foods into my mouth

I know how to eat and drink

I know how to eat for living but not live for eating

And all flavors of sweet, salty, bitter, and sour I have tasted

You teach me how to walk step by step

With the first step by turning my body

With the second step by crawling

And with the final step by standing and starting to walk

You teach me the first word that I won't never forget

I know how to call my brothers and sisters

I know how to call my pets and the birds’ name 

And I know how to talk with other people 

You teach me how to love by giving your loves

You teach me how to love my family

You teach me how to love my friends and others

And you teach me how to love my custom and nation 

You teach me how to live in the beautiful world,

by respecting ourselves but not selfish or self-center

You teach me how to interact with other people,

by taking their hearts in to my heart

You are just common in the society, but you have never looked down on people

You have know many peoeple and you know how to maintian the friendship longer

Although your age is getting higher, but you never stop learning

And you never stop saving for the future, even though you have saved some

I am your generation, and I love to maintain your actions

I wonder how can I follow your steps as you have done

But I promise myself that I will do the best to become a good person

And I will do my best to contribute your actions to my next generation

( For all people who want to be the hero )

Oh my dear !!!

I have seen you long time ago, but I can not afford you

You are so high and so expensive

But you are so beautiful and attractive

Oh my dear !!!

I have a chance to take a photo with you

My memory with you will be forever

Oh my dear, Pug !!!

I will find a chance to hold you in my arms

Please come to my heart

And let me care you

(This is about a pug that I saw in University Festival)

(Copyright to Baythone, Ritsumeikan, 2005)

I am just a common girl who has a heart

I know how to love you

I know how to smile on you

And I know how to hug you

I am just a common girl who doesn’t know how to let you go

I don’t know what to do when I feel missing you

I don’t know how to stop my tears when I think about you

And I don’t know how to go when beside me has not you

I am just a common girl who doesn’t know why still holding you

I don’t know why I still care about you

I don’t know why I still write about you

And I don’t know how to forget about you and let you go

The sun warms the green grass

And the wind blows

The tree laughs at the puny grass

And the wind blows

How weak you are at my feet!

And the wind blows and blows

The sky became black and cloudy

The sun and birds disappeared

The rain lashed the earth as if angry

And the wind blew into a storm

And the mighty tree crashed to the ground

Onto the grass which still lived

A tree’s life has ended but the puny grass lives on

And the wind blows and blows

(Copyright to Meng Ho, Ritsumeikan, 2005)

" Yes, in Lao proverb we used to say that " Mai Lom ya Kham " or

" Every dogs has its own day ". It means that when we are at higher possition, then don't look down on whom who are lower than us, because one day we may be down at someones's feet !!! "

I would like to say thank for Meng Ho, my Cambodian friend, who gives me the right to publish his poem in my journal. Thanks ! It is really nice !!

          Today is another nice day in the middle of the Autumn. After wake up this morning, I plan to have the first sightseeing for this year Autumn. It is hard for me to decide where to go, because every place now is colored by the beautiful small mapple leaves. The first idea cames is to go to the nearest place where I have never been. There is a nice temple not so far from my place. Actually it is far, but when we compare with the number of the train stations it is just a few stations. It takes only one station for the JR line and two stations for the local railway.

          It is Ishiyama Temple that I decide for my first sightseeing this year. Ishiyama Temple was built in 749 according to the wishes of the Shoumu Emperor. The main building on the temple grounds has been designated as a National Treasure. The temple’s name “Ishiyama” (Stone Mountain) is derived from the wollastonite rock found at the temple, which has been designated as a natural monument. It is said that Murasaki Shikibu wrote the famous Genji Monogatari in a room at this temple. The wide area of the temple grounds, surrounded by many types of trees, is the perfect place for a quiet stroll. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/infostudents/kanko_guide/en/bkc4e.htm

        I begin my trip with stopping at my university as the first place to take my wallet that left in my lab, because it is important for the transportation. I have two Onigiri (Japanese rice with some foods inside) and sit on a bench infront of the fountain. That area is the meeting place where friends used to sit and have coffee and talk. I finish my lunch earlier and head to Ishiyama Temple. I have to take a train to the Ishiyama station first and change to the local train, however, I take a short time for small shopping and looking around that station. It is my second time beeing at this station, but this time is more meaningful for myself, yes, it is really. Actually it is a nice station which located near the Seta river. After finish shopping, I continue my journey to the temple by using local train to the Ishiyamadera station which is the last station to the temple. Actually there are buses pass that temple, but walking seems to be a good excercise for both phisical and mental health. It is not far from the station, about one kilometer.

         It takes me about eight minutes walking from the station. The direction is river's direction, so it is not so difficult to find it. When I arrive there, I am surprised to see many people. I guess they come here with the same purpose as me; however, I see some groups are with different purpose. They come here to have a practice for their painting or relaxing. But what makes me be more surprised is more then 80% are elderly people who may be older than 60 years. There are both men and women. Some of them gather together in one place and looked at the same direction; however, all of them have different focusing for their painting. Another groups are sitting individually in different conners. I can not walk directly towards the entrance gate without stopping looking at their works.

        The second surprising is the beauty of the old architecture harmonisely with the red, yeallow colors of the season. All of visitors have said in the same word " kirei desune !! ". Unfortunately, I am a lone, so only with my heart I can say that word. I walk up to another levels of the landscape, to the place where there are many small houses and stones.  By the way of my stepping, I have to stop at some steps to take photos of the beautiful elements of that area. I change my focusing from one tree to another three and from one house to another house, and some time, I take both houses and trees with nice leaves.

        Not only the beauty of the scenario makes me interested, but people are another elements of that place's scene. All of them are here with the happy faces. Some come here with the tour groups, some are alone, some are with lovers, some with friends, and some are with families. When I focus my camera to the beautful trees, suddendly I have to focus my eyes on a litle girl who is walking with her parent. She wears very nice red Kimono, with the nice hair dressing. I take her photos with the beauty of the place. I wait them to come closer. Her face is very nice. I bet she will grow up beautifully. Her parent are walking very happily, becuase many eyes are looking at their beautiful daughter. I guess that is another happy feeling of any parents to their children.  I really want to ask for taking photo, but my Japanese doesn't support me. I just look at them happily.

        From that family, I continue walking from one spot to others and take all beautiful scenes, however, my camera's memory again doesn't support me, so I have to delete some photos. Before I leave that temple, I don't forget to visit painting groups closely and take picture. If my Japanese supported, I may sit and talk with them. Personally, painting is my favourit activity after sport. Back to Yamashina station, I take a bus, another kind of transport in that day. My trip ends with another big shopping day.

( Note: please see the refering picture in photo page)

People compare the wind as a “love”…It comes and it goes…

Some time it makes people feel very comfortable and happy when it flows slowly…

When it turns to the strong wind, then it makes people fall down…

People compare the wind as a problem…It comes and it goes by it own way…

Some time it existing with us so long, because we think we have better solution and never let it go…

(Copyright to Baythone, Ritsumeikan, 2005)

People compare the wind as “murderer” when it turns to be a Hurricane, Typhoon, fuel in forests…

People can make “money” from the wind when they can turn the power to energy…

What kind of winds we ever meet, our feet have to stand on the ground strongly and we must not flow with the wind.

People said that reading a book needs time…

It is like we can not know a person well from the first meet…

People said that we can not judge the book from its cover…

It is like a man with nice outlook but may not be a good person…

People said that without opening and reading the book, we can not know that it is the right one as we are looking for…

It is like we don’t want to know a man, but he/she may be the best person who we are looking for…

People said that reading all pages of a book doesn’t mean that they all are interesting…

It is like when feeling good with somebody doesn’t mean that he/she is a nice  and perfect person…

People said that it is not worth if we feel disappointed when we finish reading that book but finally we find that it is not interesting one…

It is like we feel disappointed with a person who we know and whom we spend time with, and finally we find that he/she is not right person we are looking for, but at least from now on we know how to go with the right way and find the right person…

(I translate this article from a forward mail, from Thai website)

Two friends, A and B are leaving far away from each other. They are very close friend and they used to go out and have some activities together like playing sport and drinking. Since both of them have to response their life by working in different places, they realy miss each other.