A man's story

this is my instructor ..that's it for today .. next time i will give u the url when i got the film scanned ..  

single post .. at the end of the day  

the couple 

Well, I just came out from the photo lab today and decided to post some of the pics from the chulalongkorn university that i went last Sat. All of the post are directed by my photo instructor .. the guy there u can see .. I would say that I really learn alot from him ... how to get the shadows, how to direct the post and all.. it was really fun that day .. =) i will keep u guyz informed when i have put the series on my website .. got to go for now .. bye 

This is a single use snap shot camera where u can find it any where. But it surprised me because this one use negative film of ISO 1600 which in Thailand you need to go to the professional film shop to get one. My mom just came back to Japan and she said that she still have some pictures left in the camera so I took the camera and try to snap some thing from it.. When i took a closer look at it .. wow ISO 1600 with flash for a single use camera .. wow .. I have been amature photograher 3 years now .. but i have never use a iso 1600 film at all. I have been using pushing film technique.. and my mom doesn't know any thing about the camera, just point and shoot .. used this kind of high speed film already .. can't wait to see how the pictures going to come out.. =) by the way it's from "Konica Minolta" with flash... cost 1134 Yen .. or about 9 us dollars ..  

This is the picture of my mom's family and family friend .. from the left ... pink kimono is my grand mother with my youngest uncle Sigemasan, bottom left is my grand father .. with my other uncle, Akihede. To his right front roll is my mother, my aunt (i call her obaasan), and my other aunt yachio. the rest i don't know who they are .... 

Yesterday picking my mom up from the airport. She went back to Japan for about a month to take care of her parents(my grand partens). As u can see the trolley .. guess how much does it weight ..  

At the end of the day, we were tiring .. this is the graduate .. mai... very friendly person .. from faculty of arts  

Yesterday I went to Chulalongkorn university with my photograph instructor to take pictures of a graduate. It was really a tiring day. Been walking sice 11 until 4.30 and after that I have some pictures left so I went to Jatujack park to clear the film off. Later i have no more energy to walk.. But it was a really fun day .. :) 

Congradulations my friend sajed.. He is a bright student from Engineering department. I saw him on thursday 24 June 2004 after "Wai kru ceremony" which is a ceremony for the students to pay respect to thier teachers. And also during wai kru ceremony in my university will have the orentation for the freshment and also handing out certificate for the honor students .. and yeah my friend got one!!! 

Umm can say that's a gift from god...

I went to a world civilization class and found that the class was cancelled. I didnt come to the previous class as I have to present proposal of my project. So I came down from the building and sit in my usual spot and think what the heck will i do in half an hour ? and definitly I decided to grab myself a lunch.. I went to the plaza to get a lunch box .. (some kind of rice in curry powder with chicken, shrimp, and squid) the tate wasn't that good but i was too lazy to go in the resturant. I found the girl.. yeah.. usually i don't see her much during this semester and on friday i have class the whole day and my usual lunch was sandwish. she has a break also at that time so we have a chat until 2 pm and i have to go to class and she went to the computer lab.


Nothing much happening there ...

and in the afternoon after I got back to Huamark campus, i went to return and hire more commics and went to sit at my usual coffee shop .. and i again met her.. well actually i wanna see her again ..

as i read commics she came to the coffee shop and we have a chat again ... (know u guys are boring right?) and later i found out that she gone out with someone already .. but i didn't feel sad or broken heart at all.. actually i didn't feel anything .. and i have learnt alot about her today also ..

I think i have made the right decision .. she want some one to look after her .. have time to take her out, get some food to her and stuff.. and i feel that i can't be doing that at the moment..

so for now wish her to be happy with her bf .. and i will keep her as a good friend ..


u might ask gift from god that i found her have a bf ? the answer is yes .. and i am happy for her .. just wish that the guy can take care of her real good ..

[Testing the train with a car full of sand bags]




[The tracks]

link to the subways station I took ..


Yesterday morning I watched a news program (cant remember the name of the show) and one interesting news apart from news of environmental activist, Charoen Wataksornthere (quote from pisal's blog ) is a grand opening of the subway on July 3.

As you know and some of you may already have been visiting Thailand, the major problems is the traffic jam.. I don't know why even the oil prices has been raising and people still using their own car. and I mean 1 car only 1 driver and no passenger.

Still don't know that Thailand is still a poor country? coz I see many new cars on the street every day .. and some are the Europian cars like BMW, Mecedes Benz, etc.. People complaining about the high gasoline prices but they still drive their car.

Again maybe because of the public transport are not as good as developed countries as us Australia and Japan (Only 2 countries I been to =( ) They have a proper bus, train schedule. So people can estimate the time to get to the place they wanted to.

But in Thailand the good estimate is during rush hours can prepare yourself for about 2 hrs. to get to a short distance .. for example to get from my place to uni is takes about 15- 20 min by taxi without traffic (offcourse there are some short cuts where the bus couldn't go but not much) but if i go on a bus during rush hours i have to spend about 1.5 - 2 hrs to get to the place inculding time to wait for the bus..

I wish for better transportation ..

more news on subways

ieiei I should say three-times happy ..

Happy No. 1 is that My cousin in the states (Sandy) replies my mail. It's not that she never reply me but I have been sending email asking how she is and all those stuff. Before we used to see each other often on icq and msn but now she's been working and stuff plus the time different in Thailand and the states so my night is her day and her day is my nite .. ieiei so how we suppose to see each others ?

So yeah I am really glad to her from her and we exchange our blogs and she shows me her photo web in yahoo also. She's like me, like to travel around and take pictures where ever we can :). She has many interesting pictures especially my other cousin .. her brother offcourse .. ! and yeah congrads for the new boyfriend ..

Happy No. 2 is that last nite when I am about to log off my internet .. (I still use the 56Kbps modem)I saw my secret girl (feel funny to use the word admire) on msn and we just say hello and ask how she is doing and stuff. I haven't see her lately so wanna have some chat .. and she say that she couldn't find the information for her project so I went and help her searching for a while. Anyways I didn't help her much as we can't find the info for it..

Well Jeremy, I understand what u say and thanx for that .. I feel the same as what u said also but now I don't think it's the right time yet .. I am pretty occupied myself with projects and stuff.. but i'm sure she has some hint already :)

And Happy No. 3 I actually we .. my friend and I went pass our project proposal without any trouble. Means that we don't need to do extra work. Our scope is cover the project enough and we haven't got many questions from the comitttee also. that's really great for us. coz we think our scope is cover enough already and our technical skills are within the limit we set our scope for.

The other groups who went to defense their project before us got ask many questions and been asked to add modules and increase scope and some have to rewrite thier project.

luckily our group just need to rephrase the wording and few corrections. which is recentable. means that the paper could be resent again in 1 hrs maximum if edition.

U should see when I come out from the meeting room, I was cheering out lound .. YEAH !!!! lucky no one is in the hall way else the would think that i went crazy :)

well that's it for today ..

this is for pung..rest in peace girl, no more exams now ... have nice friends in heaven.. 

Even though I have seen u few times and I might have not talk to u at all. We are not close but I really feel sorry for u.

Pung a 21 ys old height about 155 weight about 40 was murdered by a 15 yrs old boy. in the news paper say that he has to kill her because he was self defense. But my friend says that his uncle known the uncle of the girl cliam that she was stabbed 7 times only because she was screaming for help. and the boy was the girl's brother's friend. He only come to rob the house to to out party...

He is going to be a big murderer when he grouws up if my friend's word was true. but to kill some one just to rob is very bad .. even to rob some one or steal from some one is bad already..

Why can't the kid just stay home? he should not need the money to out at nite at the age if 15? I really want this guy punished to the maximum count that the law allow and don't want him to be back walking on the street..

Rest in peace pung... see u in heaven..

that's my fire fighting uniform 

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Last nite about 10.30 I was preparing myself to watch Euro 2004 football and there was an fire alarm sound. I telephone the office in the building. I am living in a 20 floors high resident building and I am also a volunteer fire fighter. After I got the information that the alarm is from the 13th floor so i walk down the fire escape stairs. Met with about 3 security guards and we check every room on the floor but there is none and after that the security guard told me that there is another alarm on the 18th floor so we go up and check.

I have checked 13th-18th floor and emphersis on the 13th and 14th floor as we smell something. But after many time checking there is no signs of fire. so we split up.

Got to my room and watch the second half of football match. Feel sorry for the Germans that they could not score the Latvia and Latvia should have got a penalty kick at the end of first half. :)

I have thought about this few days ago and didn't have time to post. Feeling uncertain about what would I do after graduation. Actually I have never felt this way before. Not even during last semester. Before I just felt that I have to take only 5 more subjects and complete what we call training project, which could be equalvilent to mini thesis and I could be free from student status and become a complete working man.

But some how I felt that this world is so big and I am going to fight many other graduates bear hands. I felt that I am not as good as others, not as smart as others, how to start looking for jobs, etc. Actually have known all the steps already. I used to feel that I could manage many things eventhough I am not academicly as smart as others but I have more experience inside university and been working out side campus a little.

Since the semster began, I felt that wow I am really getting out and I felt that I am not quite ready to get out yet. I still want to be baby sitted. Why? I couldn't explain myself. I've been study bachelor degree for 7 years now and I am 27, I should be start working and get married soon. BUT I looked at myself that am I that skillful to fight? which ring will I fight?

My thought for now is to graduate and maybe go back to sydney to open my eyes and ears to look at the world. Maybe to America or some other countries. I still want to travel around the world and taking photos. Maybe working part time and travel around that area and move on.

So life after graduation is still mysterious to me...

Yesterday, (fri 18 june) I've met my secret admire who studies in my uni after haven't seen her at all for a long time. Actually only once when she was on a fone since the semeseter began.

Why don't I make a move? well, I've met her after I broke up wih my gf a while after and she seems to be a nice person and very cute. First time I saw her in a big group of people who hang out in the court yard in the uni with a group of her female friends and some guys also. It was quite a big group. We came close after not a very long chat and I felt as if I have known her for years.

But during that time I was studying and also have to work part time in the SDS group(event organizer). I didn't have much sleep at all. Coz of working and studying at the same time and I felt that I was really tired plus I just broke up with my girl and could not face another broken heart. As I said, she is very cute and very nice person so there should be some competitions and I felt I'm not ready.

And again this semester is my last semester with lots of reports and projects still feel that I didn't have time for her. And time to start a new relationship yet. Only see her face for few seconds can make me happy already.

And today (18 june, 2004) I met her at the coffee shop where I ususally hangs out and do projects while I was having a piece of cake, orange juice, and reading commic waiting for Pisal to telephome for dinner. She came there and getting ready to go for a seminar. We had a chat for about half an hour which seems very long time.

I think she might have some hint already that I like her but I am not ready to tell her yet. Maybe she won't know it from me. Hope she have a good guy to take care of her ..

Maybe after the Soccer match, this morning I was preparing to go to a class which suppose to be at 12.30 - 14.00 but I thought i was having a class at 14.00 and I didn't realized until a friend (Eak) called and say that he could not come to the meething this afternoon and try to arrange for tomorrow. Than I was realized that I mixed the days up. We had a good laugh.

Imagine wating a whole day doing nothing. wake up quite early morning around 7.00 am and checking email and go through some points on the project and spend 4 hrs of transport back and forth between my home and Huamark campus and from Huamark campus to Bang Na campus and come back.

Well the good point is that I have dinner with pisal and his brothers, do some snack shoppings and went to his house watching NBA game of Detroit and Lakers... was a good game and the Lakers was loss.. Than we have our own game of NBA live 2004 on ps2. After that turn on Euro 2004 and watching first half of Greece and Spain while Spain was leading 1-0. As I am writing this the Greece had a equalizer of 1 - 1.

First of all, I saw a friend (Shin)that Eak and I kick him out of the Training project group. I thought he is not going to talk to me anymore but he still talking to me. This is very cool.

After that Pisal and I went to have dinner at the BBQ plaza and went to his house to burn some cd and play NBA live 2004. We were having 4 consecutive loss :( . And cheering Soccer EURO 2004. our favorite team for the match LATVIA and they were loss...!!

I drag my sleepy soul home.

Well, Today I woke up little late at about 9.30 am as the Euro 2004 fever. I was watching croatia and swizerland with no plan today so I deciede to sleep in abit. I was about to wake up, got a phone call from a friend that My other friend (DJ) is going to a singing contest and the event is just accross the road from my house. I jumped to the shower and get dressed.

I took 2 rolls of films of ther people and my friends as well. From watching we have talented singers and bands and I was feeling good because some of them are aged about 12 and got to final 18s. In later afternoon would advance to final 5s and so on. I decided to come back home and clear some work first.

I will post the pictures next time :)

WISHING U GOOD LUCK "DJ" ALL THE BEST MY FRIEND...

Well, today have some time to stay home and surf net. I have just been upload new pictures to my site today and thanks to my friend pisal, who introduced me to this site to report ne that some link doesn't work properly. It was the Yahoo that they closed my account already.

Well today is the official day that I started an online diary .. wow .. Never think I would do such thng like this .. thanx to my friend pisal to show me things such an easy to use and free!!!

I really like the last word free!!

Well hop around .. there would be more updates soon :)

Ohh and I have a photo website, you guys can visit :)

ok gotta go .. chao..