Bigger Surprise!!

It is more than a cup of coffee to keeps me awake in every mornings.

It is more than a cup of hot milk tea to makes me feel fresh in every late afternoons.

It is more than a little break I look for in every single day.

It is more than time and day off I always am excited with.





It is something that brightens up my day and makes a very big smile on my face for the whole day!










In the late morning, I've got a phonecall.

"We have something delivered to you in half an hour." There's a woman said on the phone.

"OK, I'm home all the time." I told her.





Since my old laptop retires itself, I thought I should get a new storage for my stuffs. So, last night, I went online and ordered an external hard drive.

"It must be the hard drive, but why it is sooner than the website says," I thought.





Half an hour has passed.....

There's a guy rang the doorbell and asked for "Alisa."

"It's me," I said.





For the thing I've got from the delivery guy..........

it is not what I expected to see........

This is not the external drive I ordered....

If so,

where to connect to USB port??

Actually, it does not look familiar with external drive....












More actually,

this is sooooo far from the thing called "External Hard Drive"!!!

Well...

My day seemed to be a little bit exciting when I thought my new HD would arrive.



But since I found that, instead of HD, I've got this HBD thingy

-- flowers, card, and chocolate --

it is enough to make me smile till I will get the real HD!

And when look at this orange thing,

It is enough to make my smile lasts until my next Bday!

:)

Big Surprise

There's a guy I have been being together with for 5 years.

On the day dad visit me to celebrate my 21 year-old birthday in a Japanese restuarant, I saw dad held a black bag, smiled and walked to me.

The guy was laying silently in the bag. I was so excited to see him.

That was a great gift for my birthday.





Acer: Aspire 3620 Laptop, that's the kind the guy is.

"Little Brother" That's what I call him.





Mom said that anything that is Khwan's should be durable....

From my experience, I totally agree with her.





I know I am not a good keeper. After within half a year, Little Brother has got a hundred scratches.

After realizing I would hurt him more if I wouldn't do anything, this is his new look.

Stop hurting me!

That's what he says...

It's several years that I had been spending time being together with him. LB had been being strong and tough, but, lately, he seemed to be naughty more and more.

I knew that he's protesting and giving me a clue that he wanted to be retired. But since I had no choice, so I insisted convincing him that he's not too old to hang out with me. I even pretended that I didn't see when he passed out and kept telling myself that he's still fine.

But obviously, he was tired easily while hanging out with me.

Was it because he's old himself?

Or was it because I didn't treat him well enough?

While I was keeping asking myself those questions, there's someone tried to convince me to replace my Little Brother.

Thinking about the day I have got him from dad and how nice LB had been treating me, I kind of feel sad to retire him.

On the day I celebrated my 26 year-old bday, there's someone took me to a place where he called "grocery store" and had me met a girl.

Actually, I was excited to know her, but I also stunned and was confused with what the one was doing more.

No matter how stunning I was and how much I tried to be stubborn, insisting rejecting his offer, finally, I was back home with the girl.

and, also,

a dog

After spending some time with her, as her type is HP tm2, I find that she's kinda girlish -- slim and touchy.

But she's kinda cool and I like her a lot.

Although I really don't get use to being spoiled,

but thanks so much to the one who introduced this touchy girl to me.

I guess it's time for my Little Brother to rest in peace.

Reasons to run away from home

Before I hop on the plane to the USA, I had chances to visit shelters for homeless children. Sometimes I went there with my friends to do activities with the children or sometimes I went there alone just to visit them and to see if there's anything I could help.

Children there were homeless for many reasons. One reason that was interesting for me is they run away from home.

When home is not where the heart is, for some reason, you don't feel warm or safe, you don't feel like it is where you want to spend even a night there.

That was why they ran away from the place where should have been their home.











OK....

Move a little bit closer, concentrate......,

and I'll tell you my secret that I never shared with anyone....








I once was about to run away from home as well.




As much as I can recall, I was 8 or 9 years old.

There were 2 cousins and I always played together almost every day. We were about the same age. I lived in the same house with one of them who was a girl. Another one was 1-year-older boy who always came to our house to have dinner with us every evening.

We were so close

so close that I did anything just to keep them with me since I loved to have them around me in every single day.




One day in summer school break, the boy told me that he would run away from his home because his parents quarreled.



"How can you be alone?" I asked.

"I don't know," replied him.

"I don't want you to go alone. I'll be your company. I'll come with you."




How about that, huh?

Such an innocent, in other word, stupid girl I was....




My cousin and I then set the date and time that we would run away.

In one morning, his parents dropped him at my place as they usually did during school holiday for us to play together. He came with his backpack and asked if I was ready.

"Is it enough?" I asked him while showing 2 t-shirts, 2 underpants, 1 shorts and 3 packs of instant noodle in my backpack.

"No, we need this too," he said and ran to grab a can of sardine from our food cupboard.

"Alright, now we're ready." He said.




"Where are we going?" He asked me while we're walking down from the second floor.

"I don't know. But I think I want to find my dad." Since dad did not back home that time, I had an idea to search for where he was.





"Why you guys have to go?" My another cousin asked. She knew what we were doing from the start.

"I don't like that my parents quarrel." He said.

"I will find my dad." I told her.




"Do you really go?" She looked at us sadly.

"If you guys go, then who's gonna play with me?" She asked the question that made me hesitate.




I looked at both of them hesitatingly.

I wanted to be his company and wanted to find my dad. At the same time, I also did not want my another cousin to play alone.




"What should we do?" I asked him.

"I don't know." He replied me.




Suddenly, there's a sound from outside.

"Ice-cream truck!" I screamed.

My cousin and I threw our backpacks on the floor. Then three of us ran outside to catch the ice-cream truck.




"Maybe we can run away from home again later." My cousin said while his mouth was filled with ice-cream.







That is the silliest thing I have ever done in my childhood.

I think my cousins even forgot about it already.








This morning, I have got another reason to run away from home from one of my nephew.

He told me he would run away if I would not go back to Thailand.




"Why would you run away from home if I would not back home?" I asked him.

"Because when aunt Khwan is not here, I have no one to play sword, little soldiers, racing car, and robot with."




Well....

It is such a good reason to run away from home, isn't it?





"OK.... so if I wouldn't back home, where would you run away to?"




With an innocent heart, his reply made me a big smile and laugh out loud.




"Umm.........,

I will run to Seven-Eleven!"

The Great Match

Are you a sport fan?



I can't call myself as a sport fan. Although I like to watch sports (I try, at least), but not every kinds. Mostly, they are soccer, basketball, tennis, and important games like Olympic, Asian Games (of course, I am Asian.) and else. I cheer any players or teams although I don't really know them.

This year, there's an important game that I couldn't miss.

It was World Soccer.

This year, the game was in South Africa.

In contrast of Paul, the World Cup octopus oracle,

every teams I cheered lost....

Since I had a few chances to catch up the game, but only the last two matches I could watch, so I was looking to the matches and so excited about it, especially the final match -- Netherland VS Spain.


At first, I was Dutch side. But, disappointing, after watching the match for awhile during yellow cards were overblowing around the yard and the scenes that soccer players thought that they were Kung Fu fighters because they had nothing to lose, I changed my mind to cheer Spain quietly.

Handsome Alonso was Kung Fu kicked during the second half.

Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to the game as much as I have expected.

I was interupted....

Not as what I usually did during watching soccer match when I was home.

It was not a big bowl of popcorn.

It was not large pieces of pizza.

It was not a big bag of M&Ms.

But, well, confession....,

for the match I had been looking to for 4 years and for the thing that interupted me,



I think it made the soccer match the greatest ever!

My 1st July 4th

In my life, I never had any idea of celebrating July the 4th until I had chance to do it this year in the USA.

My plan was to visit my friends and to watch Independent Day famous fireworks for the first time. So my friends and I took trains from my small depressed town to NYC for this occasion.

As realizing it was Independent Day,

so I tried to be a part of national flag.

Clear blue sky

What a perfect day to watch fireworks!

We finally got to the area by Hudson river,

11th Ave and 22nd street.

The fireworks were around 9:20 in the evening. But since there would be A LOT of people go there to see the fireworks, you should have gotten there earlier to get your spot.

That's why we got there around 4 pm to reserve our spot. Then, we had a plenty of time to hang out around there before fireworks.

It was a sunny day

so you can see people were hanging out in the sun.

Some people were enjoying the sun.

Some were under the shade.

If you notice, mostly, they were Asian.

This girl also loved the sun.

Though it was so hot,

another girl still was fine.

But not for Thai..........

Allow me to cut the scene to the fireworks....

I am excited to show you what I have seen in the sky on July, 4th evening.

I saw Venus.

And then Saturn (s)

Big orange one?

Is it Jupiter?

And a thousand shooting stars

Let's get back to the nature

Butterfly

Dandelion

Kinda palm tree?

A reason I like fireworks is they look like stars that are not too far to reach.

Too sad, in a blink of an eye,

they fall....

and disappear....

Some people say love is like fireworks.

They are thrown into the sky.

They sparkle for a second and fade away.

So I wish my love would be like the last set fireworks,

wish there'd be something make it last as long as it can be.

When one is about to fade away, another one is launched and lively sparkling,

then another, and another, and another....,

and to be wonderful and memorable till the last second.

Do you believe in destiny?

I just finish reading a research about new trend of Thai teenagers. It says, nowaday, teenagers tend to believe in destiny.


The first question I have for this reserch is what the sample group of the research is.


Before I would go too serious, I'd better stop since my English skill is not good enough to discuss about this topic academically.


If the researcher asked me if I believe in destiny, I would reply them suddenly,


No, I do not.







Believing in destiny is kinda dreamer's stuff, especially young girls.


I am a dreamer, either. Sometimes I even lose in imposible dreams that would never happen in real life and have myself hoped. But about destiny, I am not.

"Do you believe in destiny?" There's someone asked me.

"No," replied me.

"Isn't there anything unbelievable happened in your life?"





Unbelievable stuffs? Like what?


Like you were in first-aid room at the time your ex got injured, and that was the first time you saw him?

Like finding later that your ex was your classmate when you were in kindergarten?

Like finding that your ex is the owner of a tiny soldier you have found by accident at a playground and it still is in your drawer?

Like finding that the guy you're dating is the one you have found by accident at a place you traveled to?




It is not destiny or fate ot whatever. It is just coincidence.

Which path you're gonna make,

you are the one to makes it yourself,

not destiny or fate or else.

The same guy who asked if I believe in destiny said to me,

A thing happens for some reason.





I met my first boyfriend for the first time when I was in the first-aid room when he got injured from playing soccer for some reason?

I found that my ex was my kindergarten classmate for some reason?

I once met the guy I am dating at a place I visit coincidentally for some reason?






What is the reason?

Destiny? Fate? Coincidence? or whatever....

I give it only 25% that the thing happens for some reason.




Then, the thing will be good or bad, possible or not; I will smile or cry;

the rest 75% is in my hands.