Mon Sang Dao

I was there for awhile..A month, I think.

It’s my field study. My lecturer said the students have to be in the field about 7 days. 7 days!?!?!? What do we get from just only seven-day period? To find what bus we can take? Or to find some new place to eat? Seven days is too short for me to gain experience. I started to find some places to go. One day I found this place and I contacted them suddenly.

You should have seen my mom’s face when she knew that I’d be in Chiang Rai for a few months. She said something like “Again? You made decision without asking for my advice again?” and “Being far from home, where you got this idea from? Who you are like?” Well, if it’s hereditary. I thought I got it from you, mom.

The place I was is called “Mon Sang Dao” means stary-sky valley. It’s an alternative school for hill tribe girls. I think I shouldn’t express my opinion about this place much. I don’t know them well enough to judge them.

I love the girls there. They’re hill tribe girls, such as Karen, Hmong, A-Kha and La-Hoo. They spoke Thai but sometimes they spoke their own languages just to tease me. They said they like my confused face. Hahaha, it must be so funny, mustn’t it.

While being at Mon Sang Dao, we lived, cook, ate, slept and did some activities together. When you’re with some people for awhile, you talk to them, know what their lives went through and be with them when they have hard time, it’s not hard to get attached, right? And it’s so easy for me to fall in love with them and that place, either.

Someone said a picture tells a thousand words. There’re some pictures that remind me of a thousand things while being there.

If you take a photo of someone when they forget thierselves, you will get this lovely smile.

On the other hand, if they know what you're doing, you will get this instead.

This little Karen girl is quite smart.

She has heavy burden on her delicate shoulder while having a great dream

that she wishes somehow she can reach.

Some girls decided to back home on weekend.

Look at their faces, you can't say that they're unhappy when they're together..

Rock and knowledge...

Today I got a forward mail from a friend.
It’s about knowledge that we thought we have.

The writer compared the knowledge with bricks.
One of knowledge is one brick.The more we know, the more we lay the bricks.
At last, we will see nothing but those bricks we’ve laid.

That reminds me something.
When I was in Karen village, there’s a camp called “Young Scientist Camp.”
They came to the village to study about community forest.


There’s a guy saw me tried to play “Te-na”

Te-na, Karen harp

He walked to me and asked to play the Te-na.

The sweet voice of each string of Te-na sound valueless when he said,

Whatever part of string you play are alike.

If you made an instrument that have X and Y axis like this.

There would be the same voice whatever part of the string you play it.

My goodness…

I think about a book I’ve read.

Here’s a story.

There’s a boy stands on a hill.

He sees some small rocks around him.

Then he starts spending his time to lay those rocks higher and higher.

After that for many years, the little boy becomes teen age.

He’s satisfied to see the rocks around him, but that isn’t high enough…

He spends more time to lay more rocks, make it higher…

Time passes by…

The young man becomes mature.

He looks at his rocks, it’s higher than him.

So he can’t see anything but those rocks he’s laid.

Then he starts to demolish them.

At last, he becomes an old man when he demolished all the rocks.

Anyway, he’s glad to see things around him that he never saw when he tried to lay those rocks.

I know I’m not a good translator. :P

But I think the world still has so many beautiful things for us to see.

They’re waiting there for us to seek.

So why cage your mind to see only those rocks? Right?

Hidden cam. :P

Today I found a lovely girl that was in the last stage of pregnancy.


We talked for awhile. Goodness, she didn't even remember who her kid's father was. What a bad girl she was!


She looked at me like she wanted me to know that she's hungry. So I found something for her to eat. After that, she excused herself to have a nap.


I followed her quitetly and took a few pictures of this bad girl.

What a sexy appearance!!!

Hand-made card. ^ ^

Everyone knows that I love to make cards. ;)


Well, it's not for anyone. Just only for special ones.

Let's see what I could do for that one on this special occasion. ;)

First, I started from cutting thick paper into the shape that I has drafted.

Then mixed a colour that I want.

Kept painting...

These were what I got after that.

This stuff were painted and ready to be used.

Then I stuck them on the background paper and painted litlle more.

And I got this...

The right side was the front page of the card.
The left was... well, I call "the stary night."

And this was when it's finished. A card and a box... :D

I made a question mark and stuck it on the box just to try to make the one that I want to give it to wonder what inside it.

Once, I was asked why I had to do something, like a hand-made card or present by myself.
It's like they wanted to know why I didn't buy them instead of waste my time making them.
Well, I have no idea about what the reciever will do to the card or present I made. All I know is just I'm happy when I can do something for someone. :)