Zaman University

Zaman University:

Zaman University aspires to be a bold and dynamic community, with an unparalleled sense of commitment, which strives for positive influence and impact on Cambodia. (University Cambodia)

Zaman University will be home to an academic community who will in turn promote outstanding individuals to succeed in our fast-changing world (Cambodia University).

Zaman University mission is: To discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge, produce creative work, and promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Zaman community (Phnom Penh University).

Zaman University vision is: Zaman University will be a prominent university in Cambodia, the region and the world known for its academic excellence and producing quality human resources (University Phnom Penh).

Language of love...

A country is with a deep history. A city is the only city in the world located on two continents-Europe and Asia. A language with love is the 5^th biggest language spoken in the world. Let’s open the secret words. A country is Turkey. A city is Istanbul. And a language is Turkish. Have you heard about the language with love? Turkish people are called their language with love.  And Turkish is spoken in 130 countries. I know you wonder how? In 130 countries have Turkish schools all over the world. Moreover these schools are taught Turkish language and Turkish culture with their love.  That’s why; there is a competition in Turkey that 130 countries join every year. They call it Turkish Olympiad. The Turkish Olympiad is a worldwide competition which welcomes any and all students to join.  There are nearly 15 categories including singing, poetry, speaking, dancing, reading, presentation, and general knowledge. It is a really huge competition I have never seen before. So I believe that Turkish is really language of love.

Life is beautiful...

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” We sometimes do not notice what is going on around us. We just focus on our routine life. Just eat, sleep and go school. Sometimes we need to open our eyes and look around. Life anytime can become difficult and easy. Good or bad there are seasons in life. It all depends upon, how you take on life and adjust to these seasons. And moreover, life is too short to wake up with regrets so just try to benefit from it’s worth. In addition, believe that everything have a reason. Life is beautiful with everything…

Is music the universal language?

Music is called the universal language of the world because of many reasons. Firstly, it is no matter what instrument that you play or what language that you speak the music is created by 7 notes. Secondly, sometimes people can be so emotional by music. Music can change our feelings too. Thirdly, music is something that you do not have to study about it to understand. As long as any melody and rhythm make you feel yourself.   

Moreover, researchers found that music can help people to get out of depression. Music therapy is now using for treatment a wide range of emotional and physical conditions. According to Lord Erskine, music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. 

 

The language of colors...

Can you imagine the world without colors? No, I cannot. Colors can symbolize many different things. Even for everyday life, people use colors to indicate their personal moods. Why in many country people use black color to go funeral ceremony? Or why bride use white color for wedding dress? For example, when we are unhappy we do not want to wear light colors. We use dark colors instead. The language of color indicates our emotions, sensations and feelings. Let’s look at down to see which color reveal our emotions;
RED: warmth, love, anger, danger, boldness, excitement, speed, strength, energy, desire, courage
ORANGE: cheerfulness, low cost, affordability, enthusiasm, stimulation, creativity
YELLOW: attention-grabbing, comfort, liveliness, summer, comfort, liveliness, intellect, happiness, energy
GREEN: reliability, environmental, luxurious, optimism, well-being, nature, calm, relaxation, spring, safety, honesty, harmony, freshness
BLUE: peace, professionalism, loyalty, reliability, honor, coldness, winter, depth, stability, professionalism, honor, trust
PURPLE: power, royalty, nobility, artificial, mystery, royalty, elegance, magic
GRAY: conservatism, traditionalism, intelligence, serious, uninteresting
BROWN: relaxing, confident, casual, reassuring, nature, earthy, solid, reliable, genuine, autumn, endurance
BLACK: Elegance, formality, power, strength, depression, morbidity
WHITE: Cleanliness, purity, newness, peace, innocence

What is your color today?

The most famous Turkish dessert:: BAKLAVA

Baklava is a kind of Turkish dessert with dough, walnuts or pistachio nuts, butter, and sugar. It is inalienable dessert for Turkish people. Moreover, it is the most famous dessert in Turkey. Baklava’s history going back to Assyrian origin time that I do not know how long it was past. Actually, every woman in Turkey cannot make Baklava because it is not as easy as other dessert and it takes a lot of time to make. It is a kind of dessert that makes you passion of it. Each bite of baklava with crunching sound and taste is indescribable. I even cannot make it however I just buy it and eat it with Turkish coffee which is easiest one:))))

Do you Know all these about Turkey?

Every country or let’s say culture has their own style of doing something. Maybe they have interesting things of in their history or culture. According to one author says that,” Turkish Culture is unique in the world in that it has influenced and has been influenced in return by cultures and civilizations from China to Vienna and from Russian. Moreover, Turkish cuisine, architecture, literature, lifestyles, etc. all these are different and very strongly useful in Turkey as a culture. There are many interesting things in Turkey. According to some researchers some of these are;
• It was in ancient Anatolia that writing was first used by people.
• They were the Turks who introduced coffee to Europe.
• The capital of Turkey is Ankara, while its largest city is Istanbul.
• The only city in the world located on two continents is Istanbul, which has been the capital of three great empires, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman for more than 2000 years.
• The first church built by man (St. Peter's Church) is in Antioch (Antakya).
• Turks gave the Dutch their famous tulips.

• Istanbul is the only city in the world built on two continents.

The Turkish art of Marbling: Ebru

 

Water...It represents purity, cleanliness and  limpidity. Few things are as miraculous.In my opinion, Ebru is one of them. Ebru is graceful, and powerful art. The art of Turkish marbling is called Ebru. Ebru means colorful in Turkish. Actually, no one knows exactly about when it started. There are different origins about Ebru however; most scholars believe that it originated in Bukhara, Turkestan. From there, it spread along the trades routes to Persia, India, Anatolia, and later to France, Italy and Holland. According to Ebru artists, —Ebru is the art of creating colorful pattern by Sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to paper. It is an art which cannot be learning by listening or reading.It is extremely difficult to do. I wish I learned it one day...

Interesting questions...

Let’s think about these questions and please try to answer…

• When you make a big sacrifice, do you tell people about it or keep it to yourself? What would you never willingly sacrifice? Your life? Your health? Your integrity? Your dreams?
• If you saw someone cheating on a test, what would you do? What if you had signed an honor code?
• If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, who would you question and what would you ask?
• If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the experience would you do so? If not, why not?

When you make a mistake,admit it;learn from it and do not repeat it...

In everyday life, everybody has a mistake as a small or big. The important thing is what we are learning from our mistakes or what our mistakes gain to us. As a proverb "Only a fool makes the same mistake twice". Mistakes are an important part of life. George Bernard Shaw says that " a life spent making mistakes, is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing". In my opinion, mistakes give us many experience to how to stand in life. Moreover mistakes give us more ripeness in life. Take it easy...Do not afraid to make a mistake but, do not repeat it again and again...:)

A story...(You cannot ride away from your fate)

There was a merchant in somewhere who sent his servant to market to buy something whatever his master wanted. When he came back, he was trembling. And he said to his Master " In the market I jostled by a women in the crowded and when I turned I saw it was Death. She looked at me and made me threatening gesture.Please let give a horse and let me go to India where is distance from here and the Death cannot find me" The merchant let him go. After a while the merchant went to the market and he saw the Death. He said to Death:"why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant?" And then the Death answered:"That was not threatening gesture,it was only a surprise because I have an appointment with him tonight in India...

It is nice to be important,but it is more important to be nice...

For many of people would like to be important however, for my opinion, it is important to be nice. Many people would like to shown up by their important ability or they just want to be important. however, there is a case here. If everyone would like to be important, everyone could be thought just about themselves. This situation makes everybody selfish and we cannot live in the world. We have to sacrifice something all the time. This is make a difference of life. Frankly, we cannot be important for everybody but we can be nice for everybody. So it is important to be nice...be nice all the time:)

Teachers are keys for students...

• As you know, in the “concepts for today” book we mention about “teachers are keys for students”. I really appreciate this topic. Even though teachers are keys for students teachers can unlock the door or lock the door for the students. What does it mean that unlock and lock the door to the students? It means that, teachers can make the students loving the lessons or not. Teachers can change your thoughts and you can change your world. Good teachers are key for student achievement and success. Think about it, when we start going to school? The answer should be when we are so little as a 6 or 7 ages. Sometimes under these. Especially, in those ages we do not believe anyone except our teacher. Even though our mom or dad is a teacher, they are wrong about what they say...On the other hand there is a Chinese proverb says" Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself"...:)