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August rain

Oouu... Storm is coming again!

It rains and our flag just flies furiously taking in the current of the wind.


...The wind stopped now and it all calmed down very quickly...

The scary wat Sudtiwararam

Sad news again. My friend's dad passed away. He had a stroke and passed away after a by-pass operation.

Though, the scary part for me is the temple where the funeral is held. It's Wat Sudtiwararam. Well, maybe one of the typical temples in the inner Bangkok. The City has surrounded and encircled the temple. Houses and buildings around the temple were like using the same wall with the temple's. The temple also wants to be able to hold many funerals I guess. Salas or shelters for funeral were so clustered. I had to walked passed many funerals before I could get through to my friend's father funeral. What's more, the place was the sala closest to the cremation place...

It was so scary. When I left the place, met my sister, and talked to mum on the phone, I cried! I don't know really how can people live around the cremation place. I really thought to myself, if I will be really ok living in Thailand...

Rain Rain Rain

It's been raining everyday these days. Yes, still raining heavy rain. I like it when I'm at home though! ^__^//

แม้วซื้อซิติ้แล้ว Miao bought City!

Taksin's nick name is "Maew" which means Miao or Hmong hill tribe in the northern part of Thailand. Apparently, he has bought the City. Here is the evidence.



From: www.Yaris-club.net

Taksin vs Youtube

How come Taksin face can be seen on Air and in newspapers, but youtube is still blocked?!!!

Hoodies and Wags go check cabon footprints of the mufin tops

Collins English Dictionary has added words like 'hoodies', 'wags', 'cabon footprints', muffin top, size zero, into its 9th edition, launched just on Monday the 4 June!

hoodie = a young person who wears a hooded sweatshirt, regarded by some as a potential hooligan. Get the picture?

wags = the pampered wives and girlfriends spending their partners' cash, take their place after a sterling performance accompanying the England football team at the 2006 World Cup. In other words, wives and girlfriends of footballers. Who?

pro-ana = those who believe anorexia is a lifestyle choice. Also, size zero

muffin top = the flabby bulge over the top of a tight pair of jeans. some muffins?

brainfood = foods containing nutrients thought to assist brain function.

carbon footprint, carbon offsetting and season creep - the changing length of seasons thought to be caused by climate change. Your cabon footprint?

Apart from these, words like 'Plasma screen', 'Tamiflu' - the anti-viral drug for influenza, 'wiki', 'me-media' - personal online services such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. =D

Phew.. so many... I'm wondering if 'Ubuntu', 'Blogger', 'Cookie', 'Emoticon'...and the like are in there too.

However, Thai people not to worry! Our ราชบัญฑิตยสถาน or The Royal Institute is also updated the Royal Institute dictionary with words used between 1999 - 2007 (พ.ศ. 2542 - 2550) and they call it the dictionary of the current Thai language, literally translated from พจนานุกรมภาษาไทยปัจจุบัน. They have been collected 'new words' for about 2 years and currently there are about 1,000 words from the modern time. You will be amused when you hear what words are being included. They are...

Chill-Chill ชิวชิว = to take it casually, as in 'sit chill-chill at a club' or take it easy
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Ung อึ้ง = shocked and speechless

Kip-Kea กิ๊บเก๋ = chic

Gig กิ๊ก = a person you have an affair with, or as my experienced friend put it, it's someone who is more than a friend but less than a girlfriend/boyfriend.

Go Inter โกอินเตอร์ = to become famous internationally...(I guess this word got its root from Tata young Oh..boys love her..ha ha. There you will find her photo in the link.)

Cha-pai-toi ช้าไปต๋อย = too slow that someone has already taken your chance

Dek sil เด็กชิ่ว = a person who has re-enterd a university

Kan neaw กันเหนียว = to do something or have a contingency plan so that you are certain you will get the right result.

Kai-Kok ไขก๊อก ... This I don't know what it means, but it's from politics I guess.

So.. your gig has go-intered with the help of Dek-sil and what made you Ung was that he said Cha-pai-toi, but your girlfriend just chill chill. ha ha How's that?

Thailand's Eco car privilege

The Cabinet has made a decision yesterday on eco car project.

Excise Tax : 17%
Specification:
1. Engine size of no more than 1,300 CC for petrol engines.
2. Engine size of no more than 1,400 CC for diesel engines.
3. Fuel economy must be at least 5 liters per 100 km.
4. EURO 4 standard, emitting no more than 120 grams of CO2/km.

Source: Fincance Minister

What kind of cars are going to fill the streets of BKK...or...would there be more cars than what BKK roads can accommodate for? Would our air be cleaner or less dirty..?

Still Working..

Leaving the office soon..
Gee, my eyes are gonna pop out!
The brain has also stopped complex functioning.

And so I blog

I'm just bored of a daily life like this. This is how it goes.
5:40-45 am: get up from bed
6:00 am: decide what to wear
6:15 am: "honey I'm goinh to work now" and rush downstairs
6:20 am: "Sawasdee mum, see you" and hop into the car
6:30-7:00 am: make-ups time
7:00 am: "bye Sis, drive carefully, good luck", hop off the car and hop into the BTS and have a cold boring BTS ride
7:15 am: get to Plenchit and teeter on Wittiyu potholed pavement to the office or just get on a crowded shuttle bus to the office
7:30 am: Get to the office, set up a laptop with a grumpy boss in the background
He is ready to complain harshly about something if you start talking to him.
7:45 am: eat cone flake (wheat flake)in a coffee cup and just feel sick every time 'cos too much milk I pour in.
7:50 am: people start coming to the office and the boss starts complaining about his bosses....and so I blog..just blog
8:00 am: Work starts and I open .xls files and continue doing "proposal" consisting of sales graphs, detailed product specification, research data, etc...
11:55 am: Comes lunch time, I have to go to the other floor to warm my lunch and the people there are so hostile, like we are in the battle of taking over the microwave. I have to go down early to get to the MW(Microwave)B4 they do. Otherwise I'd have to wait for 5 - 10 mins.
12:15 pm: have lunch, browse the Net, read newspaper, blog...
1:00 pm: back to the .xls proposal or .xls sales summary and reply mails, set up a meeting, answering phone calls.
2:30 pm: drop by a friend's desk and ask him to go making a cup of coffee together
2:40 pm: feel sick 'cos the coffee was too strong
5:00 pm: start seeing people pack their things and go home and get a glimpse of the boss's face coming out of a meeting room as if he has seen ghosts, and start hearing him murmuring as if the ghost has got into him. I continue 'producing' my proposal or switch to blog or start packing and go home. If not...I wrestle with the graphs and..
6:00 pm or later or much later: I go home.
7:30 - 8:00 pm: I'm home, have dinner, and wait for my newly wed hubby to come home from his dinner with his family
9:00 pm: Hubby does his work on his computer. I take shower.
10:00 pm: I blog...and I go to bed..

What you could do from 7:05 to 8:00

I got up at 5:40am and got to the office 7:05 am. We, my sister and I, could just 'flow' through the streets of Ramkhomhang and On-nut smoothly. Then what I could do at the office before work were (just):
1. Make-up
2. Read (only a bit)
3. Have my breakfast

and that's it.. 45 mins. These are what I could do.. เก็กซิม Sad..

Offerings to the holy spirits

Today we made food offerings to the spirit houses in our house. We have 1..2..3.....4 spirit houses in our house. We are actually 2 families living in a 3 plots of land and we have 4 spirit houses all together in our land. There are the 4 holy spirits that protect the 4 directions; North, South, East, West, or ท่านท้าวจตุมหาราชทั้งสี่, the grand father spirit or ท่านพ่อปู่, the goddess of the two banyan trees or เจ้าแม่ไทรคู่, and the grand father and grand mother spirits or ศาล ตา ยาย. When I was young we had a big banyan tree in our land and there was once that a person asked to come into our house to pay respect to the banyan tree spirit. Someone at that time also said they saw a lady in Thai traditional costume standing in front of the banyan tree in our house. Sound spooky but I've never really actually seen her. I just see her in my mind like when you think of someone you know and you see her in your mind. Something like that.

This time mum dreamt there were 2 big elephants standing in front of the 4 holy spirits house and she said that meant it's time for us to give offerings to holy spirits in our house already. We hadn't done it for 3-4 years already. So, that's my house, very superstitious, very religious. But strange, mum always dreams of something of meaning. It might later come true or it would tell her something she's mulled over. The morning before the Tsunami hit Thailand and Southeast Asia, mum dreamt of a B-I-G waves hitting the shore and sweeping people and things away. Uhh..I know that's a bit scary.

And then about half an hour after the offering, the rain was pouring down! We had to rush out and take all the food and everything inside and get ourselves all soaked. Though it was ok since all the ritual and prayer had been done. We just had to take things inside sooner than we had planned to.

That's done. Though , later in the day I found out that MY TOSHIBA Portege R150 that I'm using is totally mute! Before it was the speakers only that didn't work and I had to use a headphone to listen to Windows welcome tone. But now everything is mute. No sound comes out in the headphone either! Gosh...apart from other problems with it...this again. I hate computer manufacturers!!! They don't care about consumers. Just churn out low quality products!!!

Think I have to go to bed now. Tomorrow is Monday and also the first day of a new school semester which means it will be jam packed from the village exit.

Good night...

Being married

I'm a Mrs. now! We actually got married on the 1 May 2007 at 11:49 am at Sapansung district office. Today I just went to the district office again to change the status in my ID card from Miss >> to >> Mrs. They are open half day on Saturday. It feels a bit strange looking at the card and saw Mrs. in front of my name. I've been using Miss for almost 28 full years.

Well... Being married for me I think it's like another stage in life. You have one more person that you really care for and 'attach' to. Your family is extended. It's not only you anymore when you want to make a certain decision in life. I think it's very important that you marry a right person! Definitely. I know everyone knows that, but still some people like to fall for bad guys/gals.

For me being married is...much better than it was before. You always have a friend who understands. You always have someone to talk to and share your view with, especially when you are a person who looks at the world from a totally different angle from other people's. It's just sweeter, warmer, and happier. Don't you feel happier looking at the person you love doing his or her own things? The person you want to be around.

Many of my friends are getting married this year. Some have already got married last year. We went to their weddings together. Happy times. For our own wedding though, I might be around the beginning of next year, maybe Jan or Feb. We are not sure yet. Sometimes it's just too difficult to decide and please everyone including yourself when you have an extended family. Well, we are going to make it. I just don't think about it anymore. When the time comes, I think we can decide on a right thing to do that will be best for us.

I don't know what the future may be, but I'd rather be happy with what it is right now, with the people I love as they are with me right now and enjoy myself in every moment. I would rather do that.

For now, Good night.

Leave me alone

Oh...I'm sooo tired..

Last night Keng had a diarrhoea and he spent half of the night in the bathroom. I was up to find him medicine and made him a drink to keep him from dehydrating too much. He had a bad cramp and this morning he had a very high temperature too. But mum is taking care of him now. Mum also has a cold.

I'm so tired and sleepy. All the way to the office I was just listening to the ipod while reading a book at the same time. Like "Leave me alone" kind of thing. There are so many things to do here at work. First thing I did when I got here this morning was to go to a supermarket in the building and bought a BONCAFE Brazilian Gold coffee! 'Cos I heard Sinatra said "they got lots of coffee in Brazil..." I don't know if it's related. Anyway, I think I should stop writing and go make a Brazilian coffee right now.

And it's raing outside here now. Luckily the lunch my mum cooked was so good today. ^__^

When you are tired, you should start counting your blessings...

ps: The BONCAFE Brazilian Gold coffee is ok, but it doesn't have the 'aroma'. It's ok and not that strong.

Not bad after all

A tiring day...

A tiring day

Sunset over the factory

It was a long tiring day, and week actually, but today didn't turn out to be so bad after all. It actually turned out well! I came back home today and watched a VCD (classic!) "The Holiday".
It was so good! We give it a thumb up. It makes us happy and relaxed. *Nite Nite*

Went to the office again!!

I went to the office today...

I drove there, turned on the computer, ate my packed lunch, finished 2 "tasks", chatted with friends (actually complaining about the company and the bosses) and drove back home....

How do you feel about my life reading the sentence? I feel it's so BORING!!!!!!
And tomorrow I have to go to the office again. I don't mind working on some Sats or even Suns, but the 'environment' in the office..has turned bad. Exactly what I mean is..I think I'm doing too much. The person who should do my jobs now should be a level higher than I am. The question is "what are they doing?" And some friends I don't know what they are doing. They just kept asking for my help! Why can't they just finish their jobs and then we can discuss later to improve what they did? Can't we do that? I'm so tired..and my bosses, she is so irritating. She just wants to be in the front, but she doesn't lead! And when I helped her, she got angry! I think I'm complaining to much now. It's making me feel awful.

Mercy Mercy Mercy

I'm so tired today! I had a meeting from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. The meeting was supposed to start at 4, but some 'busy management' couldn't spare some time to join my important meeting. We had to wait, wait, wait, and wait.

I feel so tired that I just want to show 'em that "I can do it! and I can do it well too!" Apart from a busy day work and a long meeting, I had to face a bossy boss and noisy slacking friends as well. It was so irritating. The boss likes to pick on my smallest little words that to her ears they sound wrong. And for the friends, they just don't do their jobs and keep asking me for help! I often found myself repeating "Mercy Mercy Mercy" in my mind. ha ha ha

How Bangkok looks like when the meeting ends.

Walking home.

BTS at 9:38pm

Wet Wet Wet

It's been raining since before I woke up this morning.

I took a photo on my mobile, but I forgot the data transfering cord. >_<... I don't know if you notice. Last night the moon was so bright. (I'm not trying to be a poet or anything, using a ryhm sentence. hehe) But really the moon was bright with her yellow shining light. (he he here again). Actually, yesterday I was in the office until around 10:40 pm and (not) surprisingly there were quite a few people with me in the office. The office is full of panda-eye people today. he he



and it's still raining...and I think I will be here until 10 pm today again..












And this is what it's like when I left the office at 9pm (ish)..

An evening after rain

Raindrops keep falling on my head.
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed.
Nothing seems to fit.
Those raindrops are falling on my head.
They keep falling.

Raindrops keep falling on my head.
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red.
Crying's not for me.
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining.
Because I'm free.
Nothing's worrying me.

*nite nite*

Now raining