Sunday, August 30, 2009

The best electrician of the world

The electricity has firstly launched in Thailand 125 years ago in the reign of King Chulalongkorn or King Rama V under the House of Chakri of Siam country. ("Siam" is the past name of Thailand.)



At first, the electricity autority in Siam has run by a private corporation. Nowaday, The Metropolitan Electricity Authority is the only one organization to administers Thailand electricity.



Because MEA is a state enterprises, so people who work for this giant organization get good welfare, supports and also have chance to get some scholarship to improve their related skills to develop the organization. That's why there'd be great competitions every times that MEA recruit for new postitions.



I believe that the recruitment team would work hard to find the best ones. And then... the organization would train them hard for them to work for Thailand's sake.



Finally........ we'd have the best electricians of the world.....








What.....? You don't believe me?



check out the pics....






Oops, too far to see how they wire up.
Alright, I'll zoom in.

A thousand wires.... and they can categorize which ones are which ones.


And don't you think Thai electricians are the best??

Thursday, August 27, 2009

And then it's done!!

Well........



To anyone who read this post... I'd say that you're totally lucky to read it since I NEVER EVER had any idea at all of talking or writing about my project.


It may be too long but.... well.... know that having chance to read this is like you'd won the lotto. :-P






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After only 3 hours that I fell asleep when everyone was just awake, I woke up again around 9 am. (Right..... I went to bed when the sun rised -- 6 o'clock in the morning.)



I have slept around this time for about a couple weeks since I've got a call from a woman who introduced herself that she's from The Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand.




After I've hung up the call..... I realized that I'd be in trouble.


There's a condition made by my university that the reseach of MD students must be published, then we can get our degrees. The good news is.... this rule is just firstly imposed on my generation. That means my seniors don't need to get headache although they can't find anyplace to distribute their thesis.



Yeah.... I knew that this was a chance for me to publish my thesis..... But you know what? I just felt like I wasn't ready for it.... plus.... I didn't think that my work was any interesting.



The woman on the phone told me that my abstract was selected to join the exhibition which they call the excellent research about mental health among Thai peaople or something like that. My brain was blurred suddenly. I twice asked her if she called the right number or read the right researcher name. After she's ensured me, I then knew that I had to draft the rest chapters of my thesis and make a presentation as soon as possible.



The problem was.......... several minutes before the woman, my friend's called to ask if I wanted to join her a trip to Phu Soi Dao (for more information --> www.thaiforestbooking.com/np_home.asp?npid=193&lg=2) and I heard myself told her that, "Great!! I'm in."




So.... I had not much time to prepare everything. That's why I've slept early morning for about a few weeks and felt like I totally was a zombie as one of my penpal calls me.



The sooner the time came, the more I was stressed and nervous. I found that my hair fell which was a sign of being too stressed and my face skin turned dried and brightless. And... well.... my mom even said that I looked older than I always was!!




After I came back from my trip, I had only 2 days to prepared my data and had to ask for some advice from my advisor. I was surprised when I heard one of my advisor who's a doctor that's expert in pediatrics and adolescent medicine said that there's some quite interesting issues in my research. (Well, I heard a voice in my head said, "Oh? Really? Nahhhh.... I don't think so.... Are you kidding me??")



Then... I had only a night to make my presentation and dry run.... That was the last night....



This morning, I woke up, brushed my teeth, showered, wore 1-cm.-thick make up, formal suit, high heels and got ready.



Hmmm.... where's my breakfast?? Oh!! I just notice that I forgot to have breakfast!!


Then I got to a mall not too far from my place where the conference was. In this mall, there's a section for a large conference or even a concert on the top floor. I walked to the registration desk and asked where I could register and prepare my presentation. A woman at the desk looked at me, pointed her finger to another desk and said..... "This desk is for MD student and professor to sign. The desk for highschool student is over there."



I thought to myself.... I even wore make up, suit and heels.... Didn't I look old enough to be an MD student??


Finally, I found the room which my research topic had to be presented there. It's a large room which could contain about 500 people. While I was signing my name on a schedule, I found that the queue was changed. The woman on the phone told me that I was the 11th but on this schedule.... I was the first..... and it'd start within only an hour.




While people were getting in the room, the seats were fulled and extra seats were moved in, I took a deep breath and held it for a second. Then thought about how many days and nights I was stressed, nervous and didn't sleep enough, my terrible face, my fallen hair and the old-look outfit I was in (anyway, I was sure that I was the youngest there), then I thought about how it'd be easier to graduate if I could get through this situation......




Fine!! I had nothing to lose!




"Just make it done, 'Lisa!!," I've told myself before I walked to the podium.











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I walked out the room with mix feelings....




I was amazed that there's a lot of people interested in my research, still amazed how I could get that loud claps. I was surprised that there're no hard questions as I've been nervous about I might not find answers for them. I felt like.... "Oh? That's it? Did I really finish my presentation?" Also.... I felt like my brain didn't work well..... I've lost too much nerves because of not enough sleep.




On the way from the room to a bus stop to catch the bus back home, there's my mom's favorite ice-cream shop. If you know me well, you'd know that I sometimes avoid ice-cream since it'd make me have upset stomach. On the other hand, I sometimes throw my nervousness about stomachache away and jump to sweet'n sour sorbet and green tea ice-cream.




This time... I rewarded myself for that I didn't fall asleep while presenting my project with this.



A large-size glass of green-tea-flavored milk shake.

I was hoping to back home and take a long nap after I got this milk shake.... But then I found myself run in the mall to find restroom, instead.

During these past days I've disappeared, I have many things to write and share you. But before those posts, give me time to catch up my sleep!


Friday, August 21, 2009

Getting Marry...



I'm really sorry that I never mentioned this...







For many reasons... I chose not to let you guys know until the last minute.







It may be so sudden.
















This coming Thursday,



27th August 2009...











If you're free, I'd like to invite you all.







I apologize if I don't invite you by myself.

Everything seems suddenly and busy here.



This is my wedding card.




This design but orange colour.
I think they won't be sent to you in time, so I just post it for you to see.








My wedding souvenir. They're coppied from my beloved pets.







About the ceremony,


There'll be Thai style ceremony in the morning at my place.


The wedding celebration will be in the evening. You all are welcome.







The celebration will be at Vibhavadee Ballroom, Sofitel Central hotel.












This is a map to get there.








It's just a simple celebration.







And please... I don't want you to bring me any gifts for this occasion...

































Only thing I'd ask you.....






















































Bring me a groom!!
















Saturday, August 15, 2009

Doulos, my floating playground

And so we get a great opportunity to meet Doulos again. :)



Doulos is known, and recorded by Guinness Book as the oldest ship in the world. She is a younger sister of Titanic for 2 years and once was loaded onions from New York to Texas. Before Doulos, this giant ship was named as Roma in 1948 and Franca C in 1952. Finally, she got her recent name, Doulos, in 1977. After Titanic lied hiself in peace under the Atlantic ocean, Doulos became the oldest ship which still sails around the world running by a private, non-profit, charitable organization registered in Germany.



Doulos also now is famous for the biggest floating book shop. The main purpose of her is to share a message of hope in God wherever there is opportunity. There are estimately 300 volunteer crews from 30 countries and visited more than 100 countries all over the world.



The last time of her visit here was about a few years ago. I heard the news of her from somewhere and for some reason, I regretfully missed saying Hi to her.



A few weeks ago, I read about Doulos from the news paper. And I promised to myself that I would not miss her again.



So I changed my Saturday plan of visiting a Christian guy who invited me to his place near my house. After I've tried to clear my work, I filled my schedule with "Doulos."



I went there with Seub. We were clumsily driving with no idea which direction we'd go. After about half an hour that we took expressway, finally, we could make our way to her, Doulos.





There it is! The giant white ship.



The way up there,
I kept telling myself....
"No... I'm not scared of hight. No... I'm not scared of falling down."



Inside the ship, there're many activities which provided by volunteer crews.
I heard kids laughed and saw them smiled and ran around.



And there you see Kaptain of MV Doulos





On the way to the book section,
you can see Chao Praya river view outside the windows.



The book store section
A lot of people there.





While children're enjoying activities inside,
I ran around the book store section as it's my playground.




One of my favorite shelf,
Children development and story books.



Also this one, kid activity books
They're a resource of idea to seduce children.



Some interesting books (for only me somehow)





Toto Chan,
the first book that led me to reading world.





Not so many chances to enjoy books and the main river of Thailand at the same time.



And there she is!!
The cutest girl on Doulos is here!!



I took a couple hours there enjoyed running from a bookshelf to another shelf and to another... I wish I could have spent more time there but I didn't want someone who joined me got bored with stacks of thousand books which he had no idea how to enjoy them. So I decided to left there before the sun set.





Time to say goodbye to Doulos.



I had mix feeling when I was down there.
I was sad to left since I knew that this was the only one chance for me to enjoy this floating playground and I was glad... that I could get down from the ladder safty!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The best guy I've ever met.

There's my friend's graduation rehearsal today. I went there to congratulate to him on this occasion he's been waiting for. (Well, I've been waiting for mine, too!)



There're many college friends there altogether. While we're waiting for the rehearsal of the holder of a master's degree, we talked like we haven't met for years. Some of us work far away from Bangkok. Some are in Bangkok but have very little free time. A couple friends married and one of those already has a baby. This was a great time to exchange things that had happened in our lives.




We queued up to talk about each other's stories.



One by one...

One by one...

And one by one...



Some friends talked about their jobs.

Some talked about their mates. One talked about her baby and husband.




For me,....

I chose not to talk about anything. I prefered listening and laughing and told them that there's nothing exciting except my thesis and asked again if they really wanted to know. I told them that even though it's annoying and boring sometimes but, at least, it had never hurted me.


One of my best friend who knew everything that happened in my life looked at me and I could see a big question mark on her face. I could have sworn that I could read her lips saying, "you're a liar."



We made jokes to each other and it's like we couldn't stop laughing at ourselves.



For some reasons, one friend talked about her boyfriend and said that this guy was the best one she ever had. Then we began to convince ourselves to talk about the best boyfriend or girlfriend in our lives.



For more excitement, a friend launched his idea. It's to write the name of the best one we ever had on a piece of paper and drew lots. The one whose the paper was picked had to tell a story of the name they had written. Some written names we had never heard before.



Until one of my friend picked one... No doubt why everyone altogether could know whose the paper was when they could see the name...












"Thesis"













Maybe you know why they turned to me, don't you.









And once again, I could read my friend's lips.

Hmmm.... Somehow I might misunderstand...

Why I could read it as "footwork."??