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Saturday, September 23, 2006

King of Thailand

Well, I have written about Thai's revolution. Perhaps, it would be a good idea if I will present something about our king as well.

This 3 clips from YouTube.com will show you why Thai people love the king so much.

Note: Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=60+years+of+a+working+monarch+
PS. All of music using on the clip were the king's composition.






Friday, September 22, 2006

Hip Hop

Once again I found this one on YouTube.com
Thanks Keaw for sending me this clip, it is darn cool!!!!!



Thailand's Silk Revolution

From my last post about I-20 issue, here is a link to my MSN blog if you want to read more about the progress: http://notebank.spaces.live.com/

Thank you everyone for cheering me up and always asking for the progress of the case. I'm appreciated your care.

Ok, let's talk about the Thailand's Silk Revolution. I don't know why they call it "Silk Revolution," but this title is from Time.com. You can read more detail from:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060417/story.html

Since the revolution took place, I've been talking with friends regarding this matter. For Thais, this is not the end of the world. As the matter of fact, Thailand has been under revolution quite often, 2-3 times in my life time at least, and most of Thais are not really excited with this. I didn't say that we don't pay attention to the situation, but it is nothing to be panic.

Personally, I don't have anything against this revolution. Unlike the prior Thai's revolution, I'm quite relief that this time it happened quick and peacefully. However, let me make myself clear on one thing. That I agreed with this military act was not only because I didn't like the Thaksin's government (Thaksin was the Thai's prime minister before the revolution)but the political conflict that had been running between the government and groups of people who wanted him to be gone was going on and on without any sign of ending. Thaksin is one of the richest guy in Thailand, and with that, he has power! I could say that he almost bought the country by paying everyone in order to get what he want. His party became the biggest party in Thailand after only 1 year of establishment. For many reasons, I don't see that he would let go of his power anytime soon. Even if he were forced to step down, he would undoubtedly use someone as his puppet anyway.

Being forced to step down by military might be the absolute end to the conflict. If Thaksin still remained in his power, I'm afraid that he might have hurt our country even more. (How? man... that is another long topic. I'd rather not discuss here.)

Only sad thing from this revolution is that it is a sign of democracy failure. It means since the last revolution, when people shed blood, our country did not go any where. Democracy in Thailand is still being used only to serve the greed of some groups of people. How sad!!

Here are pictures that I got from Thai's website:
Note: Retrieved from
http://www.2how.com/board/topic.php?id=15402
http://www.2how.com/board/topic.php?id=15390
http://www.2how.com/board/topic.php?id=15392







Thursday, September 07, 2006

...

Perhaps, it's time to write something. After the second week of school had passed. One of the most frequency asked questions when you meet people is "how was your summer?"

Well, I already moved into a new apartment, and now I'm living alone. My brother and my ex-roommate have already gone back to Thailand. It has been awhile since the last time when I didn't have a roommate. This could be good, perhaps, since it is so quiet at home, or I could be death with the loneliness.

Since the school started, it's always hard for me to answer when people asked the question, "how was your summer?" I wasn't sure what to say... It was crazy, but I didn't know whether or not I should cry it out lound for everyone to know. But since many of my friends have already known. I guess that it is ok to talk about it.

My I-20 had expired since 31 December 2005 without notice. UNT Internation Office said that they sent 3 reminder e-mails, but I'd never seen them. Funny enough, I was in school for both Spring and Summer I and working at the computer lab all the time. UNT paid me twice a month. Guess what!? In July, I got someone from immigration office came looking for me, and I figured out later that UNT was the one that turned me in. Since it happened, I need to worry about what to do and whether or not I have to go back to my country.

As a consequence, many things had happened before the school start. Only thing I felt was that it was so unfair for a student who just forgot to renew I-20. But... what can I do?? Now I can't work at all... Have to pay full "out of state" tuition rate. This makes me totally broke now. How sad!

Life could be suck sometimes. And it is kindda funny that my trouble right now could be fixed with money. (whether I have to go back or stay here, I'd need to spend a lot of money during the process.) and for that.... I'm sorry dad....

Another day, I went out to the UNT hearing center to be a subject in doctoral research for my friend's friend, and guess what happened. I got ticket on the way there. Ok.. Here is a question! If I wasn't nice and wanna help out someone who I didn't really know, I wouldn't have gone out that day. As a result, I wouldn't get a ticket. Of course, I might be driving a bit faster than usual that day, but it was because I didn't wanna be late. This was the second time of this year when I got in trouble because of trying to help someone. The first time was in Spring. I was at home and got a call from the computer lab asking me to help out the guest artist of the composition department who was trying to do something on Finale. I drove out and got hit by another car at the parking lot. It costed me $70 to fix my car. Both times, they weren't my business at all. I was just being nice and wanna help them out.

Anyway, Buddha said that you shouldn't let obstacle stop your good action, being nice in this case. I guess that I would do what's supposed to be "right" and follow my believe. Right! I shouldn't let those thing stop me.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

My Place!


Here is the landscape of where I'm living now.


Here is the landscape of where I came from.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Old !?

I was working at the computer lab and hearing young kids playing jazz tunes, tunes that I used to learn and play not too long before coming to the U.S.

Blues Bossa, Song for my farther, St. Thomas, Autumn Leaves, and else....

Funny enough, some of those tunes are still in my playing list now. Blues Bossa, for example, is still be played almost every weeks on my gig at Thai Ocha.

Once, Oscar Garza told me that everyone are working on the same thing but only at different level. That might be true.

Anyhow, hearing those kids played, how they played, really reminded me of the old day... how I started, and why I'm here.....

I don't know how far I had come or whether those inspiration had faded away somewhere...

Damn!! What am I talking like the old guy for??

Yo!

It is good to know that some of my friends are actually reading this blog.

I know for sure that my Thai friends wouldn't come here often since it is written in English, and I didn't know whether or not my international friends would read this.

Basically, I've been kindda using this blog as excuse to practice my writing skill.

Well,... Since you're already here, it would be nice if you could leave some comments, correct my grammar if I wrote something wrong, or give some suggestions to the writing style. Maybe you know what I meant, but there might be a better way to say it.

Any help would be appreciated ^^;

See you around!!

Friday, June 23, 2006

Funny Game Show in Japan

I found this clips from YouTube.com
They are hilarious!!



Thursday, June 22, 2006

Being musician, being curse !?

Today during the conducting class, we were talking about how to make career in music.
One of the classmate said that being a musician is like being curse because you just don't want to do something else beside music.

Plus most of musician make less money than other career too!

Actually, this has been one of topics discussing in the class for awhile.
Neil kept telling us stories about how hard to be in music career. At the same time, he got many good stories of successful players, and I can see how great those people were. Stories like that are inspiring, but it is not like that I can see myself to become one... At least, not yet!
Sometimes, I even asked myself what I'm doing here.

Many times I see those good players in school, see their passion in music. I started to ask myself whether I have that passion or not.

Even though I'm not good yet, I can't see myself doing something else. How would it be if I don't play music !?

I just can't imagine that.

Perhaps, this is why I'm still in music. I'm one of them who is cursed to have passion in music.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Good Old Day

Last week my ex-roommate came back to visit us.
Jason had been my roommate for 2 years before he graduate and went back to California.
He got married with Kate after moving back, and that was 1 year ago.

Guest what!? Now Kate get pregnant and they are expecting to see the baby on this November.
I'm so happy for them, and it was really nice to see them again.

A true friend is hard to find especially when you live far away from homeland. Jason is one of a good-at-heart person I have known, and he is a strong christian too!

I'm sure that god has blessed and looked up on him.

Note: Here is a video clip I got from Youtube.com
Quite interesting, isn't it?

Summer Summer, Yeah!

It has been a month since Spring semester had done.
Now I'm taking 2 classes for Summer I semester.
One of them is an arranging for marching band which I'm so excited.

The class is really interesting and Dr.Fisher is really nice to me.

But arranging class could never be difference. We have many transcriptions to do.
Next week we might actually start to write something for the band...

Man!! This is fun!!

Friday, May 12, 2006

My Spaces

Now listening: many works posted on myspaces.com

This is cool. Now I'm kindda addict to myspaces.com
Listening to music from people who posted their songs on myspaces is much fun and inspiring.

If you haven't beed there, check it out! You may love it!!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Music Computer Lab

I found myself updating this blog once a month.
Well, this is not a good number.
I should have written something more often.

Sometimes I wonder whether my life is too boring that I don't have anything to write or my laziness to write in English is just too much. (I update the Thai blog a lot more often than this blog)
Whatever that is, from this month, I will try to write more often.

Some people said that working in the music computer lab is the best job you can have on campus next to the TA and TF.
I agree... Not only you can play computer all day long during the work when it is not busy, but could you pay in-state rate for the tuition fee which is a lot cheaper than the full out of state tuition rate.

If you work in the lab 20 hours per week as I do, you would start to remember people face and know the station number that they want. At least, you would know what OS they use, Mac or PC.

I love to see people, so the job at the computer lab is kindda fun.
The only complain that I may have is my work schedule on this semester that has many days of 6 hours shift. At first, I thought that it would be nice since I can work fewer days to correct 20 hours per week. (in order to get in-state tuition, you need to work 20 hours per week) But it turned out to be such a pain because I found myself hardly managing time to study and practice.

Well, but I would say that I'm happy to work in the lab after all. ^__^;

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Ticket again

Last month, I got a ticket (again). This time it was a driving ticket.
The tax sticker on my car was expired since last Nov., and I haven't renewed it yet.

Does it sound reasonable for the police to give me a ticket??
Yes.. it does... I have no excuse.

Sorry dad.
The fine for this has to go on your credit card since I don't have much money left in my account.

I know you read this blog sometimes.
Lov ^^;

Friday, March 24, 2006

March, 24

Well, First, I got a new cell phone... Yeah!!!
This new phone, the Motorola V360, is the replacement model of my old one, the V300.
I got this new one after my old cell started to lose connection everytimes after being used for 10 minutes, which became a bothersome problem when I was on the phone with my family.

This phone can do just everything I ever want my phone to do. It has expandable memorycard, mp3 ringtone, camera with video feature, and mp3 player -- all in one.
I can't love my phone more than this! Though many new phone models have been integrated with PDA abilities, it is just too much for the phone in my opinion.
Actually, the purpose of the phone is to make and receive calls. That is a bottom line, but having phone that can serve some more little things is also nice.

Ok, enough with the phone.
somehow, my credit card information got stolen earlier this month. I found out on March, 8th that someone was using my credit since March, 4th. Whoever that is had been spending my credit over than $400. Luckily, because I caught the weird transaction quick enough, the bank said that they can fix the problem and change my credit account number so that noone can use that card information again.

Now I already got my new credit card with new account number. Hopefully, everything will be ok.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Friends

Today I wanna write about my friends.

She had been my classmate about a year before we really started to talk.
I remember our first "actual" conversation was on the first week of last semester, and that was when we first started our friendship -- I think...,and She is a cool person as I can tell.

Actually, we didn't hang out. We just say "hi" and had short conversations from time to time.
Thanks to the Internet that allows us to post something on blogs. This girl has written many things on her blog, and that is how I know her more. To me, her blog is difference from the others. Her style of writting and her way of thinking is... hmm... what should I call it..... I would call it "sharp" or "smart" something like that... Anyway.. I like it, and that is why I'm glad to become her friend.

Last weekend was the first time that we got a chance to hang out when she agreed to accompany me to Asian grocery store.
She came along with her roommate and guess what happened!!!?

I got lost!!

Oh..boy.. it just seemed imposible for me to got lost because I have been there many many times as long as I have learned how to cook. Perhaps, it was because the bad wheather on that day made me hardly see the exit on highway.

Anyway, I'm glad that she came along. Listening to her stories was fun and that was a good time.

Someone said "when you get one thing, you lose one thing" -- this is an old chinese philosophy.
At the same week(last week), another friend of mine had turned me down. We have been hanging out a lot for about one year before his attitude began to change. He started acting weird a week earlier and it got to the point that I didn't wanna take "s..t" from him anymore.
For me, friendship has its level. When you show your attitude to your friend, it tells how close of your relationship with that person.
If you start teasing your friend like you were his close friend, and got angry when he said something back with the same atitude. That is unfair.

Or... when you asked your friend for help then denied him to show you how to solve that problem, your friend got up set with your attitude and refused to help for the next time. You said some crap and showed attitude like you got up set with your friend because he did not want to help you... What is that mean???

Anyway, this is not the first time that this kind of thing happened to me, so I would just let it go.., perhaps.

Monday, February 06, 2006

No Topic

I should write something, huh..... !?
Since I haven't updated anything for awhile, hmm... Let's see..

okay, First, somehow Thai-Denton Group, the Thai Student Association, chose me to be their president. The title of the job sounds kindda cool! If I told someone who wasn't living here, that person might think of me as some kind of smart, top leader student.. Ha Ha Ha...

Well, I didn't say that I'm not a type of person. As the matter of fact, I was one of the leader in student committee during my undergrads years.
However, being the president of Thai Student Association does not require such high potential and is not a demanding job. It is more like "someone need to be there" type of thing. My job is to bring the organization to its goal -- to aid new Thai students who need help. (mainly, I have just replied mails so far.) ^__^;


My brother seems to be suffered from school lately. He might get low score on the test or something else... Whatever.. I don't know because he never speak it out!!
Man... This is something that has been frustrating me lately. Why can't he just say what his problem is???