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Fortune teller Sok Mie consults an astrology handbook near the Royal Palace on Monday. Soothsayers predict a dire Year of the Tiger, which they say will be marked by floods, droughts and violence.
Fortune teller Sok Mie consults an astrology handbook near the Royal Palace on Monday. Soothsayers predict a dire Year of the Tiger, which they say will be marked by floods, droughts and violence.
THE Year of the Tiger will see a continuation of drought, diseases, flooding and violence in Cambodia, the capital’s fortune-tellers said on the eve of the new year, but the anticipated disasters will do little to seriously impact the Kingdom’s economic development in the upcoming year.
Chea Samnang, 57, a soothsayer from Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac commune, said abnormal weather is expected to wreak havoc on crop production in the coming year, with the dry season continuing longer than usual, causing a major drought, followed by floods in September and October.
“About 30 percent of agriculture production will be lost to natural disasters, insect infestation and disease this year,” she said, adding that, as far as deaths go, most occurring this year will be “due to traffic accidents”.
Another fortune teller, Sok Mie, 65, said that political strife due to border conflicts will persist until the end of 2010. Likewise, the political arena will be impacted this year, when many corrupt politicians will be tried and prosecuted following a sweep of arrests, especially politicians born in the Year of the Tiger.
“This year is dangerous to those committing acts violating the law and humanity, especially civil servants and members of the military,” he predicted.
There are those who believe that people born in the Year of the Tiger, especially females, are prone to be stubborn or ill-tempered, along with being “unlucky in love”.
However, Phnom Penh resident Triv Sovannry, 25, said she is hoping that she will give birth to a child during the new year. She said that she and her husband, both born in the Year of the Tiger, have been blessed with good fortune throughout their lives.
3 comments:
I wonder if the fortune teller ever
tell on himself when he is going to
die? or what will happen to him in the next month or weeks.
Don't need UN tribunal court to try
those KR criminals when we have
fortune tellers to tell us of the out
come of their crimes against
humanity. And I bet he only charges
1,000,000 dollars for his expertise.
Wow, that is a grand saving I could
live with.
12:24 AM, relax, be open-minded a little. Just because we live in 21th century, doesn't means being a fortune teller is so wrong.
Read Kamae people what was written by the hand of your old fathers of Angkor. What was said about year 2554, in the book stored at the ancient library of the unnamed king. The library destroyed by the Cham and deleted from your memory by the Siam. Offer this week incense to the ancient kings and queens and to the future kings and queens not yet born. This year, oh Cambodia, stay at home, store the grain and unite family and friends. Go out do not. This year no motion on the fields, silence in the cities. Look for peace in the pagodas, temples and mesquites. Give happiness to monks, priests and religious leaders, so they will pray for you at the time of floods. Study the numbers of the past years, because 2555 will need your skill to rise the nose. This year stay far from foreign lands. A big war has already its seed at the sides of the Middle Sea. Its growing rumors will make you fear, like the sound of a coming Tsunami. Fear not, Kamae, because you will see it from afar. Keep enough grain in your stores this year, because 2555 should you enter a new era. Six Cambodian babies will be born this year: four males (two of them twins) and two females. They will be great leaders of your land. You cannot know them now. Looking to them, you cannot understand. It is what is written in the ancient book, the one that was at the right side entering the first circle of the destroyed sacred library. Fear not: it will be rebuild soon. It is the key of your glory. Kaly Sovan
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