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Kim-Ha Albert...
Thank you so much for your love and support!!!
From: Kim-Ha Al..
Date: Mar 25, 2007 8:39 PM
"Falling into you"
What a fantastic sound; your voice is very wonderful--this is indeed a beautifully sung rendition of a great song! I am very impressed with the tender subtleness of your voice when it changes cords...You sing hyptnotically, enchantingly. I suppose that's why you are so very popular--it has nothing to do with anything but the quality of your music, whereas a weaker artist would need to lean heavier upon sexy and "over exposed" female stuff, nudity, etc. You are wonderful! A Superstar! An enchanting and talented Songstress! That song is the most beautiful! I've got all the time in the world to elucidate and opine upon the just incredible qualities that music possesses and the angelic, sensitive and versitile lady who makes it come alive! If things were my way, you'd be on a postage stamp and the song would be played every hour on the hour, and Khmer would be offerred in public schools--why are you NOT on CNN's Larry King live or all those other shows? (Because you are REALLY VERY SPECIAL--not some plastic phoney non-entity non-talent, I suppose! Remember this please Im Srey Peouv, it's wonderful that the American "mainstream society" hasn't (yet) found you. Cherish that. When people like Liza Minnelli and Britney Spears and Mariah Carey are considered "hot"--well, it's just that you are not vulgar and common and you do not appeal to the beer swilling Neanderthal and proto-human masses of troglodite "men" and their "hos" who have no speakable IQ and no ability to appreciate the phenominal cultural beauty and even the poignant poetic pain enveloped around every "khnom" you expirate in D-sharp major: your world is not about how many greasy hamburgers you can eat in one setting, you are attractive and thin and aware of the importance of diet--in other words, you are not like these masses of "people" at all, and with confidence, I wish only that you see that as a VERY GOOD THING--the less you have in common with them, the better off you will be, singing those lovely songs for the real aristocrats--you know well that Laotians, Vietnamese, Overseas Southeast Asian Chinese and of course Cambodians are not, from the "American Dollar Based" value system "rich"--but that denies an overwhelming higher reality unseen from most western people and their limited, two dimensional existance--All southeast Asians are "aristocrats of mind, emotion and soul"; oh yes, there are glaring problems impecunious governments and people, owing to historic, endemic foreign domination, exploitation, and WAR, but the "invisibles" (intelligence, integrity, social sophistication, literacy, familial responsibility, art, dance, music, cuisine, costume, conduct and custom all remain intact and brilliantly shining to the eye which can see--they are just "invisibles" to the people who just judge by what they see on the exterior--vision actually works against such people, mistaking a jacket, or the colour of a person's skin, as "signs" of what is desireble or not--everything's a jacket--the voice, the tears, the bones and blood all come from the same factory--Khmer and Viet, Lao and Chinese and Muong have always been able to do so much more with less--less food, less bullets, less "technology", less talk, less everything--in fact, a brief study of history of South East Asia will honestly tell any interested person that South East Asia and Asians FLOURISED mostly in times of great penury and seemingly doomed times! I know that you spent a great part of your life in the West, people loved and impressed you enough with a love for native song, and now your giving the love away--for anyone who'll hear your song, for me, even! So, I am very grateful to have had the pleasure of living long enough to see that some seeds matured, even if abroad, into such radiant and splendid trees, dropping their wonderful leaves to the four winds and filling the air with exotic perfume, like intoxicating opium, except this "opiate" is of humanity, love, spirit, and bonds--things the west traded-in long ago for some paper money and something which never existed "SECURITY".For this song, and your wonderful letter, Im Srey Peouv, I will ALWAYS love and admire you--I will always think highly of you! When everyone else has long since cleared the room and forgotten you, I will still be there loyally. If ever you need a real friend, I will be the first in line. And with whatever opportunity I have with this life, I will always make time to write about what I found in it most rare and beautiful: your song.
Cordially
Kim-Ha Albert
This is the Cambodian Donut shop girl in Seattle named Sok Mae--She used to be, like this picture illustrates, quite pretty, but I believe because her uncle "Ly" uses family members as slaves, she eats more donuts nowadays and she used to actually be friendly, but now, like Dick Cheney, she has nothing but utter contempt for the "American People", which includes me as well--but she sings all night long beautiful Cambodian Karaoke songs from DVD's on a little player--her singing is good, often sad. No one takes "slavery" serious here--even if you do email "Fredo" a.k.a. Alberto Gonzales at the Justice Department--that was almost a year ago!I actually like Sok Mae much, but I suppose, either because of her working at the donut shop and seeing lots of "weird guys" hitting on her nightly, combined with Ly's complete disapproval of me, she just turned hateful to everyone and everything. She still sings, though. But then I came upon this "artist" of a totally different "bent" This IM SREY PEOUV song-bird and rara avis is my latest obsession.
I seriously doubt I'll ever run into her in any of the dives and low-class Karaoke Bars I've been in and out of! I like to sing Chinese Karaoke, as well as Vietnamese songs, especially in Luxembourg, Mannheim's (Germany) "Kim Que" Bar(N7,8) and in Neu Edingen's "Hong Hing" as well as old Saigon's Maxim's, which sadly was "duplicated" in Denver, Colorado....but these days mostly in Seattle's Chinatown at Long Men Jiu Jia (I had previously typed here the Chinese characters--the name of that particular restaurant, but they turned into ???? so now I just resorted to what is called "toneless pinyin"--in 2007, this "Holy Cow" Technologie still does not, with regard to the 100,000,000-strong voice of myspace.com, support the use of Chinese/Vietnamese, et al., ad infinitum, ad nauseum, characters. Gotta use Roman letters, the letters of prehistoric defunct Latin writers, just like in 202 BCE, when the Chinese had already completed the GREAT WALL--the only thing created by human hands visible from the moon!).... I love to study, to read, to draw and write stories, often chain smoking menthol cigs all through the night, listening to Faye Wang's music with "The X Files" on for company, trying to work out some syntax error in my Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese Compositions....I am a news junkie--I love CNN, Fox, the NYT, SING TAO, "World Journal" , the FT and the WSJ and whenever I get a chance to cop the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG or the NEUE ZURCHNER ZEITUNG, then I am happy beyond the abilities to describe if stuck with english--some feelings have no words. I love all these media resources more if there is a sufficient supply of junk food about--I love CHURCH'S fried chicken (the skin is the BEST!), "bun my cha gio"--it's a french-bread Vietnamese sandwich with Vietnamese lunch meats, jalapenos, pate, carrots, mayonaise, cucumbers, and LOVE; I am the biggest fan in the entire world (TRONG TOAN THOI GIAN) of "thit heo" and other delicacies of VIETNAM and can make a few delectable things myself! Tuy nhien, toi Kim-ha bang-long biet lam bep!An com roi, neu chua chet, phai an com lai mot lan nua!
Her name, of course, is IM SREY PEOUV and she's the greatest vocal talent to come out of South East Asia since Khanh Ly arrived on the scene in the mid-1960s!! Here's more albertkimha stuff http://albert3chankimha.spaces.live.com/?lc=1033 This is my favorite song by Wan Bik Ha (Blue Wind=Lam sik dik fong) http://play.real2000.org/playall.asp?id=75064&Real=/mxko
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Some kind of woman!(Her name is Im Srey Peouv and she's perhaps the greatest living singer there is! She's originially from Cambodia, but left that sad country as a child.) This is the kind of woman I really want to know! But, on a more realistic level, at least one that doesn't want to kill me or shout at me at 3 am would be really nice, and a tremendous improvement over what I've been seeing "out there"! Age, race, religion are not really important, but it would be nice to like,"find" someone "new", who is not TOO old, TOO tired, TOO sleepy, TOO chubby, TOO religious, TOO sick, or just TOO "medicated", TOO "demented", "violent" or just plain doped-up and high all the time, to have/be any fun...(I am NOT "converting" to some wacked-out religion!--I am NOT a religious person AT ALL!) Who I'd like to meet: I've had many relationships--most, however don't last more than a year! I'm a mature adult who usually accepts people for who they are today--what I've been continually running into is "a woman" who is looking for a daddy, then scolding me for treating her like a child. Or someone who is on a large quantity of medication, under doctor's supervision, and doesn't listen to me when I tell her she needs to buckle her seat belt, or that she's too groggy to drive and then wants/expects me to drive her home. I don't really "know" what I'm looking for--I KNOW precisely what I don't want... Anything that's come and gone is not what I'm after. A nice woman, who is nice and a woman, someone who likes quiet time, talking, speaks Chinese/Vietnamese is a big plus, likes food, cooking, sampling what I can prepare, watching old movies--someone who is at least marginally responsible and doesn't blame me when she loses her things--someone emotionally and physically mature enough to be in a relationship and not someone who is just playing with my emotions or who likes to argue and shout at me all the time over stupid stuff. Race/"Religion" are not important. I'm a smoker of Menthol Cigarettes, I LOVE CHINESE (not Amerikan!) music--Viet music is also my passion. I love art, have artist's blood. I am not "rich" by Amerikan standards--but in my own mind, I'm the richest man in the world, and the luckiest, too. Would be nice to meet someone real and nice to be with, someone not too old, too chubby, too silly, too grumpy, or dying on me. I've NEVER been in trouble with the law, believe in playing fair, by the rules--I have nothing save utter contempt for drunk drivers and people who have been convicted of such crimes. Illegal usage of drugs and drug abuse are the bane of modern society and I won't tolerate anyone with this kind of baggage: I am not trained in "counseling"--that was not my vocation; people with drug/alcohol problems should seek professional help, not me! I'd like to stay right here in Seattle, but if you know of a better place, and you want me to hang my hat near by, you just gotta tell me these things! I am licensed to drive, but I don't (any longer) own a car--I ride the bus. I live pretty simply, and if you're a gal looking for a chauffer, remember that not all guys with cars are desireable and some guys without cars are cool, hot & special. (I am 3 out of 3!) I don't want trouble, have never been in trouble, steer clear of the "long arm of the law" as best as possible, do everything I can to keep my nose clean, so if you're maybe a gal who wants me to fight some big neanderthal with cowboy boots, I'm not the one! I'm no "hero" to damsels in distress, unless you need help with Latin homework or want something written really beautiful with pen or brush. I know how to clean an exhaust manifold, but I refuse to do this for "you". I will happily cook delicious food for any woman lovely and kind who is appreciative of having a pretty smart and nice guy close by. That's EXACTLY what I want--all my life I've been kind of hoping that I, too, might find a woman lovely and kind who appreciates me with the finer "things" in life....C'est ma vie tres solitaire dans l'Etats-Unis! Actually, I'm a pretty tolerant person and can even "put up" with a lot of things not mentioned here, and for all the right reasons--I am not "perfect" by any yardstick (Note above: not interested in religion/religious), and I have my own set of moral standards which probably conflict with most folks here fighting a war with Iraqi people who will never love America for any reason... I have encountered numerous Vietnamese, Mexicans, Bulgarians, Russians, Khmers who are "bitter", to say the least, with regards to America, and about why and how it came to pass that they now live here, and under their present conditions. Ain't none of these folks I met eva gonna take a bullet for uncle Sam, no way! And it's unfortunate to see and hear of young men and women returning from carnage missing feet and Uncle Sam's dime, being billed, as the late NBC anchor Peter Jennings reported, in his series, "The Fleecing of America", for meals they consumed while in a German hospital, by the Department of Defense, but that kinda shit happened the last time, too, in Viet-Nam, but, nobody listens to me! Nobody! Uncle Sam, it appears, has, like Al-Qaida, nothing but utter contempt for the "American People", so different, so divided, so overmedicated and overweight, so inert, so miserably and mostly so willfully uninformed.
Drawing and Writing by: Kim-Ha
Albert
Record Label: Kolab Angkor Productions
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