EverydaySam

14/08/2026

[Angkor Empire Marathon | The Training & The Journey]
Hmmmm, how should i begin with words? ....

oh, i know! Let's start with when i first started running which was last year October where i was training for my first 10K in December 2025.

After that run, I felt the joy of running and I wanted to do more, and it just happened to be a time when registration for an August Marathon in Siem Reap, Cambodia opened, and so I registered for it.

As some background about me, I never had any running experience, but I have done general exercises consistently over the last 10 years. So going into this marathon and training for it, I made a lot of mistakes along the way, from running frequency to fueling to hydration, sickness, injuries, and more. For most of them, I only realized in the middle of the training block, and I couldn't just start over since I was also racing against the clock until race day.

But I knew full well that no matter what happened during the journey, I would certainly need to do one thing, and that was to keep on running, which I did.

Overall, I don't want to ramble on too much; you can watch the rest of the journey in the video, but let me tell you, the feeling of seeing 42.2 km on your watch for the first time... that is a special memory and one I will remember for a long, long time. And I hope this video can help new runners to avoid mistakes I made and to help inspire more people to start running, since it can be a first step to getting into the momentum of an overall better and healthy lifestyle.

13/08/2026

[Completing the Angkor Empire Marathon Training & Journey]

Full video: https://youtu.be/W036LKtwmGk

Hmmmm, how should I begin?....
Oh, I know. Let's go back to October of last year.

That was the month I officially picked up running. Up until then, my target was simple: train for my very first 10K in December 2025. Crossing that finish line changed something for me. I felt the pure joy of moving on my own power, and I instantly wanted more. As fate would have it, right around that time, registration opened for the August Marathon in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Without overthinking it, I signed up (tbh it still surprises me today that i registered lmao)

To give you some quick context on who I am: I had absolutely zero formal running experience. I’ve stayed consistently active with general fitness and weight training workouts over the last 10 years, but logging high mileage on the pavement is not sth i have done consistently .... ever.

so, naturally, going into marathon preparation with no blueprint meant making almost every mistake in the book. I messed up my running frequency, mishandled my fuelling, got hydration completely wrong, and had to navigate unexpected sickness and nagging injuries along the way. The trickiest part was realising these mistakes right in the middle of a heavy training block. You can’t hit a "reset" button on a marathon schedule; the clock ticks down to race day whether you feel ready or not.

Through every setback, one simple truth kept me anchored: no matter what goes wrong, the job remains the same. You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So that’s what I did.

I won't ramble on forever here because the real story unfolds in the video, but I will say this: looking down at my watch and seeing 42.2 km for the very first time... that hits you in a place words can't quite capture. It is a core memory I will carry for the rest of my life.

I made this video so new runners can learn from the exact traps I fell into, and hopefully, to show anyone sitting on the fence that taking that first stride can build the momentum for a completely transformed lifestyle.

06/08/2026

Article 149 makes the enquiry compulsory once one party asks, then leaves the method to be agreed between them. The International Committee of the Red Cross records in its 2020 commentary that the …

24/05/2026

The Clause Thailand's Warning Needs Is Not in the Documents Both Signed

Thailand's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Sihasak Phuangketkeow, told The Nation on 24 May 2026 that Cambodia's use of international platforms against Bangkok was undermining the effort to rebuild trust. He named a late-December 2025 joint statement as the instrument Cambodia's conduct contravened, describing it as one under which both countries had agreed to resolve problems through internal dialogue and avoid escalating bilateral issues on international platforms.

The actual 27 December 2025 Joint Statement of the 3rd Special General Border Committee, signed by Defence Minister Nattaphon Narkphanit and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Tea Seiha at 10:15, contains sixteen numbered operational paragraphs across two sections. None of those paragraphs directs either side to resolve problems exclusively through internal dialogue or to refrain from raising bilateral issues at international forums.

Three days before Sihasak's warning, on 21 May, Cambodia's permanent representative to the UN, Chhea Keo, addressed the UN Security Council open debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. Cambodia's official figure on civilian displacement from the July and December 2025 hostilities is 649,000, with more than 30,000 still unable to return home.

Two days after Sihasak's warning, on 26 May, Sihasak attends a UN Security Council open debate in New York, chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi under China's May presidency of the Council.

Sihasak's 24 May warning is his third in three months on the same theme. On 24 February in Geneva, he characterised Cambodia's UN engagement as "demonising Thailand" at the UN Human Rights Council. On 14 March he named Cambodia's referrals to the Security Council, UNESCO, and the International Court of Justice as moves that complicated the situation.

Thailand's own UN engagement on the same dispute over the same period: A/80/593-S/2026/37 filed at the Security Council on 19 January characterising Cambodia's conduct as "a clear violation of Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations" and invoking Article 51 self-defence; Cherdchai Chaivaivid at the 26 January UNSC Rule of Law debate; Sihasak himself at the 24 February UNHRC Geneva session.

Sihasak served as fifth President of the UN Human Rights Council from 21 June 2010 to 20 June 2011 and held Thailand's Permanent Representative role at the UN Office at Geneva in the preceding years.

The KLPA paragraph 4 bullet, the GBC Joint Statement paragraphs 8 and 16, and the equivalent commitments in the ASEAN Chair statement and the Cebu Outcomes Statement each restrict content (false information, misinformation, harmful rhetoric). None restricts the use of international forums. The forum question and the content question are different questions; Sihasak's warning runs them together.

Read the full piece: Midnight (https://midnightquietcatalyst.com/2026/05/24/thai-foreign-minister-warns-against-un-forum-thailand-will-attend/)

22/05/2026

A few years back, I remember coming across Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Taylor and it was interesting to read his perspective on the institution. And fast forwarding to today, I want to break down his perspective on banking as a whole through this video because IMO, this is not just a warning about the US. The 1816 model of centralized financial control became the standard for the most of what we see in societies nowadays where nearly every country is chained to this exact same cycle of generational debt. It doesn't matter where you live the entire world has been captured by the machine Jefferson tried to warn us about.

In a way, over 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson saw the future of the global economyand he was terrified. He wasn't afraid of foreign invasions or standing armies; he was terrified of a legalized monopoly that would capture the wealth of future generations, creating a society where people are born with debts.

A bit of a back story, In 1816, to simplify, a private club of elites was handed the ultimate weapon: total control over public tax dollars to generate private profit. They built a financial machine that engineered what Jefferson called "swindling futurity" the act of forcing unborn generations to pay for the luxury of the present.

While the Second Bank of 1816 was eventually killed off, the core concept survived. In 1913, that architecture of centralized financial control was permanently cemented into our reality with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Today, it operates as the ultimate realization of Jefferson's nightmare: an unelected institution that dictates the value of your currency, absorbs corporate failures, and keeps the engine of generational debt running on a global scale. The players changed, but the machine just got bigger.

0:00 Intro
0:35 Chapter 0 The Letter
2:24 Chapter 1 Apex Predator
3:45 Surrendering the republic
6:55 Every country has different rule
8:09 Our Power is financial Literacy

01/05/2026

01/05/2026

A new report suggests prediction markets could pose a bigger threat than previously recognised to the security of sensitive information https://ft.trib.al/n2ofBp2

30/04/2026

[Origin of Labor Day]

Every September, North Americans celebrate Labour Day with retail sales, barbecues, and a long weekend. But out of interest, i wanted to do a bit more digging and i found out that maybe the true origin of this holiday isn’t a celebration of the working class but rather it seems to be quite violent.

This video aims at exploring the forgotten, violent history of how we got our the Labour Day Holiday. From the tragedy of the Haymarket martyrs who were executed by the state for their political beliefs without a shred of physical evidence to the 1894 Pullman Strike that paralyzed the U.S. economy, we can sorta piece things together and uncover why the political establishment was terrified of the working class.

While the rest of the world shuts down on May 1st to honor the raw, radical origins of the labor movement, the U.S. and Canada promoted the September alternative and during the cold war, even label May 1st as "Loyalty Day". There are a lot more nuances to labor day which we can explore some parts of them in today's video.

Google Doc Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSe9x6HPGLPsDzQ2GYgLilruis5jzAe_fQ30Uj0k3JpzaYluoR-Z4YK_UNPNdz3Vp7Q97ljCpPPa0br/pub