Slacker's Corner; Gibberish me

2008-03-23T21:03:00.000+07:00

Dude! I just had one of the best weekends ever! There's this group of visiting students from UuuuSsssCccc. We had to do a case analysis tgt. My friend and I were grouped with this guy (and others). He's half Thai half Malaysian. Anw, we hanged out on Fri night. We started at Cccuuurrrvvveee on Eekkaammaaii 'cos a few of his friends were there. It wasnt fun at all. Then we went back to his hotel to pick up more of his friends. He said there were 3 more...it turned out...6 more. My friend's little Jazz couldnt take us all to Ggaazzeebboo Ssuukkhhuummvviitt...so some of us cabbed there.
After Ggaazzeebboo, some of UuuuSsssCccc peeps wanted to party so we went back to my friend's place to take another car (belonged to my other friend). Then we headed to Iiinnnccchhh on Rraacchhaaddaa Rd. It was a cool place.
After that all the guys (except the half-thai) went somewhere else and we sent the girls back to the hotel.
Then my friends and I took the half-thai and another girl to 24-hour dimsum place near Cchhuullaa. We ate dimsum at 3 in the morning...I got home at 4. Long but fun night.

On sat we were planning to go to this evening ffllooaatting mkt (not too far from bkk) called Aammpphhaawwaa with the UuuuSsssCccc peeps. They decided not to go so there were only 4 of us. The place was so cool. I had nvr been there before. Too bad I didnt get on boat to see fireflies. I'll go back though...still dunno when...

And today, I was supposed to go to temple 'cos one of my friends was entering into monkhood. I woke up late so I missed many important rituals. After that, I went to my friend's place to bake (mostly to eat 'cos I dunno how to bake. LOL). We made cookies and cake. It turned out pretty ok though the cake wasnt really cooked. Anw, all of us had fun.

Haha...getting so fat this weekend. =)

2008-02-29T22:21:00.001+07:00

Damn!!!!
I shouldnt have cut my own hair.
I went to a barber to make it proper.
You know what I got?
Same old freaking hair-do!

I shouldnt have listened to the id inside me. I should have used superego instead. (--")
I've lost almost 3 inches of my hair...and that equals to about 8 months...8 months!!!

Anw, I'm done with midterms. Really wanna chill out somewhere...but my girls are good girls...they dun chill out at night...and they cant just pack their bags and head to the beaches...

Sux to be the only child...I want my cousin!!!
Too lazy to go downstairs...so no quality talking on the Internet...but I'll try to do sth =)

2008-02-23T00:00:00.000+07:00

I felt like I needed to do sth with my hair.
I cut it my self using a razor for cutting hair.
It looked ok.
but I regretted it.
(--")

2008-02-12T19:10:00.000+07:00

It's been a year!

I just cant believe how fast time can fly. Amazing eh?
I still remember this day last year vividly...like it just happened not so long ago...
Also, time really heals...not perfectly though...but it does do wonder somehow...

I think it's true that the first cut is the deepest.
It'd leave a scar that remind me of what happened.
I dun think I'll forget.
It'll flash back from time to time for sure.

Anw, let's roll!

2008-01-16T20:24:00.000+07:00

Prologue

Phu Kra Dueng trip: Dec 25^th-Dec 29^th 07

BBA 4^th Camp: Dec 25^th 07 – Jan 5^th08

Early Dec: decided to go to BBA camp as I had been to PKD before

A week after: PKD then camp as some good friends were going to PKD and I had a friend to travel with me from PKD to the camp in Lampang

A week after that week: a ticket to PKD had been purchased but no company to travel with me from PKD to the camp

Two days before Christmas: very confused of what to do, called all possible sources for info in going form PKD, Loei to Baan Na Mai, Lampang

A day before Christmas: still very confused and remained indecisive, called roonnong (referred to students in the class year below mine) and heard that there was transportation from Lampang city to Baan Na Mai on Dec 29^th …still no friend to accompany me from PKD to Lampang

Christmas day: finally a decision had been made; I was going to the camp. Still, I took the bus ticket to PKD with me when I left my grandma’s.

Day 1: Christmas Day (Dec 25^th 07)

I had been packing all day for the camp. I was nervous as I had never been to a volunteer camp before. I packed all things I thought will be useful during my stay in a very remote village of Lampang. A bus would leave from my uni at 1900.

At 1800, I left my grandma’s for uni. While I was walking to the bus stop, I called one of my friends who was going to PKD to confirm that I was not going with them. She talked me into reconsidering my decision. Unfortunately I did. When I was at the bus stop waiting for a bus to uni, I called my roonnong again about the transportation from Lampang city to the village. When I was sure that I would definitely have a means of getting to the camp, I walked to the nearby skytrain to take it to the bus station. The journey wouldn’t be that tough; I just had to leave PKD a day earlier than my friends had to, walked down the mountain on my own, and commute from PKD to Lampang alone. That was it. Also, it would be the adventures of my life and I couldn’t resist the thought of it. I could make it! I knew I could.

Day 2: PKD here we come!!! (Dec 26^th 07)

We arrived early in the morning at Pha Nok Khao. There we took a short rest (washed faces, brushed teeth, ate breakfast) before taking a ‘song theaw’ (you guys’ll see from the photos what it looks like) to PKD.

We took roughly around 4-5 hours to get from the bottom to the top (almost 6 km) and then walked about 3 km to our camping ground.

Here’s the map of PKD (on the mountain top)

We had to trek vertically 5.5 km and horizontally 3.3 km to get to our accommodation.

These are photos we took along the way:

before our long walk...everybody looked great

the carriers...they were super!!!

posting along the way

our first resting place

1st km

3rd km

half way there!

our last 'Sam'

almost there

5th km

accomplished!!!...still...we had to walk another 3.3 km to the visitor center...

in need of food real bad...

We met up with another group at Pha Makdook to watch the sunset together. There, I convinced Shaw (the one who supposed to accompany me to Lampang) to travel with me to Lampang as we’d get mutual benefit (we both accompany one another to Lampang and then he could take another bus to Chaing Mai which was only an hour away). He considered the deal and accepted it. Woohoo!!!

On our way back...

Day 3: long walk to Pha Lomsak (Dec 27^th 07)

It was so cold at night and in the morning. So all of us did it the western style; not taking a shower in the morning. Shaw moved in to our cabin as his group would leave PKD on this day. We left our accommodation around 1100 for Lomsak cliff. We walked along a trail and got to the cliff around 1400-ish.

We chilled out there (and slept) for a while before the time came.

Unfortunately, it was so cloudy on that day we could hardly see the sun set. After that we took another trail back to our hut. It was dark and quiet, so all of us sang songs while we were walking back. We shouldn’t have done that but singing really helped us. For the last walking path before we reached our camping ground, we took only 25 minutes to walk about 2.2 km. We were super!!!

After we took a shower, we sat down and had a chat. It was a good chat. We talked until about 2 am then dispersed to bed. So the plan to watch the sun rises in the morning was postponed to the next morning. And I was going to miss it. Anw, I had a chance to watch it when I was here about 3-4 years ago.

Day 4: Getting to Lampang (Dec 28^th 07)

I woke up early in the morning to pack my stuff as I had to leave today. Shaw and I waved goodbye to the rest. Bell, one of my friends I hardly talk to in uni said ‘nice to know you’. We really gotta know each other more during the trip. And I would have regretted not coming to PKD with them.

We trekked down the mountain. It took us about 3.30 hours.

Here's a son of a carrier. He was carrying a 7 kg backpack and he walked down with us almost half of the way.

We took a bus from Pha Nok Khao to Chumpae, Khonkean to take another bus to Lampang.

While we were at Chumpae...

Our bus was yet to be here.

We boarded the bus at 2000.

On the way, the bus passed this intersection called ‘Indochina’. The sign pointing towards the South called ‘Kuala Lumpur’. The sign pointing towards the West called ‘Rangoon’. I’m not sure about the East and the North though but I think they were ‘Hanoi’ and ‘Laung Prabang’ respectively. Cool!

Day 5: Wandering around Lampang (Dec 29^th07)

We reached Lampang early in the morning. We just sat at the bus station until the morning broke. I got a massage from P’Aim (my roon p’ who was supposed to travel to Na Mai with me) that someone would pick us up around noon and Shaw had to wait for his friend to pick him up. So we ate breakfast at a stall nearby, walked around a bit. Then we decided to take a horse carriage as the province was famous for this and we had nothing else to do.

arriving early at Lampang bus station

waited until the Sun came up

walked to the horse carriage station

took the horse carriage around

Shaw wanted to drink the specialty Northern-only coffee here before we walked back to the bus station.

When we came back, we met up with P’Aim and his brother Aom. Not long after that Shaw’s friend arrived. And P’Aim, Aom, and I dispersed around the area as the car would pick us up around 2.

P’Aim called me around noon to tell me that the transportation had arrived. I was quite amazed to see that it was a small, old sedan. To be honest, I expected a pick-up truck as I imagined Baan Na Mai to be a remote village up in a mountain. I doubted this vehicle’s ability to take us there. Moreover, I was puzzled that the car didn’t take us out of the city but to a provincial stadium. P’ Aim made a phone call to a lady who was supposed to fetch us and let her talk to the driver. Later at the stadium when we had met P’Kae (the lady), we found out it was a miscommunication and just a mere coincident. The driver was someone P’Aim’s dad sent to take all of us from the bus station (without him knowing) and it was a perfect coincident that we were waiting for P’Kae’s bf there too. The driver was just there first.

Since we were at the stadium and there were a ‘winter’ fair there, we walked around and checked it out as P’Kae bf had yet to be there.

When he arrived, it was time for us to head to our destination, Baan Na Mai.

I was assigned to stay at house no.14 with other 3 juniors; Thip, Win, and Sali.

At night, we all sat around the fire and enjoyed activities for campers.

Almost forget, the family cooked boa for dinner today. Dad caught it in the forest. Its flesh was just like fish but it tasted like chicken + fish to me. Yummy though.

Day 6: Maid in Baan Na Mai (Dec 30^th 07)

My task today was to prepare meals, along with my group mates for campers. I didn’t cook at all ‘cos there were so many pple willing to do the job. So I was content with doing errands and washing dishes and utensils. I had to wake up at 5 to help out with the job. Anw, it was fun.

funny photo...I like =)

These were campers who were on building duty.

Day 7: Brewing Alcohol (Dec 31th 07)

It was our group turn to get to know the villagers. The activity for the day was making local alcohol. I dun wanna say much here. I think you know why (hint:iiirrraaa =P). We talked a lot to them and we learned a lot from them. We even touched the fragile issue, politic. We saw their (actually there were only 2 villagers) perspectives and all.

walking into the forest

where the brewing was done

the stream nearby

the ingredients: glutinous rice, water and some flour ball...leave them for two weeks...then you'd get this...

brewing...

In the afternoon, we talked to the rubbish. We went around the village to pick up trash. Most of them were sweet wrappers and snack packages. Damn! These kids gotta learn how to throw garbage into the dustbins.

The kids asked me to catch fish with them. They enjoyed it so much. They did it for pleasure and food (more like snack for them). Then I got wet so I just took a bath in the stream. What an experience!

'leam' for catching fish

jacuzzi...= )

At night, we did activities for campers. Tonight we played the mirror game. Campers sat in a circle and we passed our camp handbooks around. There was a different question for each round. Let say the conductor of the game asks us to pass the handbooks to our left for 8 times. Then when it stops, we see whose handbook is passed to us. If the question was what TV character the owner of the handbook should be. We have to answer accordingly. I dunno I explain it clearly but the downside for this game for me at that time was I didn’t really many of the campers there (I was the only fourth year there at that time).

Suddenly somebody pointed out that it was almost time for the countdown. Then Aom said that it was only 10 seconds left on his watch. Everybody was then counting down to the New Year. When we were done, many people were wondering why we had to follow Aom’s watch. One girl said that it was still 1150 on her watch. Another girl said it was 1157 on hers. Anw, we were done with the countdown so we didn’t redo again. =)

We spent the night at the school. It was freaking cold. My whole body was hiding in my sleeping bag of 12 years and another two blankets. I wanted to go back to my home to sleep (all my housemates agreed) but it was too late into the night and our house was almost the last one in the village. Also, everybody was there.

Day 8: New Year (Jan 1^st 08)

The work for us started at one. However, those who were on cooking duty had to begin a bit earlier. Building was the task for my group today. However, we didn’t get to really build anything as the villagers who were supposed to help us were all drunk. All we did was just moved the earth to fill the playground area. That was all. Damn! I expected the harder job. Anw, it was understandable as this day was the New Year day. Each and every one of us needed a break.

Day 9: Green Hands (Jan 2^nd 08)

Didn’t do much today except making the field ready for planting veggies. Also, I didn’t remember the details for today much.

Oh! At night, we separated into small groups to talk about our experiences on whichever topics we liked to discuss and share. After a while, my group ended up talking about out high school times. I apparently had the least fun experience during high school. I think you guys know why. =)

Day 10: Inexperienced Teachers (Jan 3^rd 08)

Teaching!? I had no clue on what I was going to teach. Fortunately, one of the roonnong came up with what to teach for the kids at the diff levels. I was assigned to primary 3 with another roonnong. Honestly, I was bad. Moreover, the kids wanted to play with us instead of learning. I succumbed to their request (they wouldn’t listen to me teaching anw…so I went with the flow).

In the afternoon, we did Paper Mache. They were so interested at first but the excitement ran low real quick. They couldn’t do it so they just left newspapers lying around. Seeing that, we wanted to them the old ‘when there’s a will, there’s a way’. It failed. After they saw our end-products, they just asked them from us. We were like “NO! You have to do it yourself.” Nevertheless, we found our paper dolls missing from their whereabouts…ummmmmm…

At night, we had another serious game. Again we divided into small group of 4 but this time we had to draw graphs of our lives, showing the lowest point and highest point. Basically, we had to take turn to describe our low and high points. My lowest point was obviously my J2 time. However, if that didn’t happen, I would have never known my 3 good friends. And do you guys wanna guess my high point? Hahaha, it was when I went on exchange in Canada, seeing the world outside Asia. Damn. I loved it so much…full of wonderful experiences.

Day 11: Preparing our Return (Jan 4^th 08)

It was the school sports day. The kids were divided into two colors: yellow and blue. So were we. I was in a yellow team. At first I thought we would be playing with the children so I equipped myself with running shoes and other things necessary for doing sports. It turned out that we had only to play soccer against the teachers, villagers, and some of the older kids. I was a bit disappointed. Anw, I did have fun cheering for my team. In the end, they were even. Each team won two categories out of the total four.

And before the games started, there were a New Year celebration for the students. The kids would come out and perform. They were great.

Furthermore, we had to make a card/mobile for each of our houses. Thank to Sali, our house no.14 had a very nice mobile for the family. We gave it to Mom during the night after our performances for the villagers (The clips will be put on you know where soon).

Day 12: BKK Again (Jan 5^th 08)

It was time to return to the polluted and messy BKK. We gathered at the school for the departure. There were several pick-up trucks waiting to get us to our awaiting big bus. Before we left, we stood in a circle with our host families, singing a song for them. It was a very emotional moment; many of them cried. And I almost did.

The villagers had souvenirs for us. I dunno how to describe it. Each of us got a small container for holding glutinous rice (the rice was their staple food and I ate it all the time I was there). They were made by the female villagers. I think I have a clip of a lady making this. I will also put it on you know where. She was so pro. I have to tell you that.

By the way, some of the locals wanted us to visit a cave nearby before we actually left. It was not that far from the village and we have to trek up the hills. The cave was not that fascinating but it was pretty in its own way. I didn’t bring my cam with me. Hence there were no photos for this.

The journey from Lampang to BKK was very long. Thus, Aom suggested that we all should stop by at his hometown, Nakhonsawan for dinner as we had to drop him off anw. So we did. At 2030, we were at the market next to Chaophraya River. There were tons of food stalls. I myself didn’t know what to choose. In the end, Sangswang, Bon, and I went for fishball noodles. Disappointed was the word for the noodles.I didnt even finish my bowl. Then we went for one-stick-a-baht satay. I suggested we each order 20…so 60 in total. But the guys were like we all could take 100. 100!? OMG. I ate 20 sticks, Sangswang 33 and Bon 47.

The market

At 2130, the wheels rolled to BKK. We arrived at BKK around 0100-ish. I took a cab back to my grandma’s and fell to sleep.

Epilogue

Mom was so good at cooking. We ALWAYS finished her food. And whatever we wanted to eat, she would cook for us.

FYI: Mom is only 47 but she is now a great grandma. Tle is her great grandson while Kum is her grandson Kum is Tle uncle. The average age of people there getting married is 18-20…very early compared to people who reside in big cities in Thailand.

Tle called us ‘P’Sao Ple’ (P’Sao= older sister Ple=I, myself,me in Thai Northern dialect) when his toddler friends visited the house. We (the girls) were so happy.

Thanks Kum for climbing up a tamarind tree when I wanted to eat tamarind and for catching fish for us to eat.

Thanks everybody for making my year-end trips such a wonderful memory.

P.S. I may not be able to put all the photos up here. So you guys can just visit you know where to look through my album and my photos.

2007-11-30T00:10:00.000+07:00

I'm in the middle of one of my busiest sch week so I'm not going to write anything much. I want to write a lot though. My trip to Koh Samet was both relaxing and fun.

Anw, I'll post photos and some captions on "you-know-where" soon...maybe next week...
Or I may just tell it right here. Let's see. = )

2007-11-22T23:03:00.000+07:00

I went to a temple fair with my frens after sch today. It was held at the Golden Mount. It's an annual event (I think) held during the week of Loy Kratong (where we float the kratong in the river). The festival will be on this coming Sat. However, I'll be in Koh Samed for the weekend. It's kind of trade-off. But one's gotta choose.

Anw, the fair was sooooooooooooo crowded. We strolled around the temple area (the Mount is located inside the temple compound). We walked up the stairs to get on top of it. It was so windy up there and the view was great. We had fun.

These are some photos from the trip. I put many on facebook so you guys can check them out there.

2007-11-15T20:27:00.000+07:00

What a day...what a day...

- woke up @ 8.08 and a class was going to start in 52 minutes
- two 59 buses...the first one was an air-con bus and the another one is a non air-con...went for the first one b'c it was nearer and the weather was freaking hot
- about 5 min later...the bus bumped into a taxi...and the non air-con shot pass by
- another 10 min gone waiting for another 59
- msg-ed my fren, telling her abt my situation while moving from one bus to another non air-con. What was the point of paying more?
- didnt watch where I was going, my head hit some sign attached to a lamppost. It hurt.
- officially late for class at 9.40

The moral behind this story is one should have made a correct decision in the beginning so that you wont regret whatever consequences that'd follow. Anw, how could one know that the decision made was correct/wrong in the first place?????

P.S. My head still hurts

2007-11-13T19:43:00.000+07:00

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I just got back my finance 313 mid-term back. My score is pretty low...40 out of 65. The average is abt 40-ish. SUX!!! I'm not asking for an A in this class. I only want a B. I got a C+ in the last class I took with this prof. I thought things would get better this time after my journal presentation went very well. But after today...I dunno...I will work my way towards that freaking B though.

Besides, my liking towards financial world has drastically decreased. The more I know about it, the more I learn that this is definitely not my cup of tea, nor marketing, nor accounting...this whole business world.

I'm graduating soon...and I dun want to work with excels- forecasting stuff and running regression all the time. I see no beauty and I wont have fun doing that.

Germany/Austria is my mission for now...hope I can find a job there soon...

2007-11-04T01:26:00.000+07:00

I'm happy! Why? It's very simple...I'm just back from my fave night-time place B r i c k B a r.

My friend Ian is going back to the States this coming Monday, so he wants to hangout with his friends before he leaves. When he told me that we'd meet at Brick, I was so happy. I hadnt been there since late April (last time in August didnt really count). We took photos...maybe I can upload for you guys to see later...they are on Ian's cam.

It was fun. All the bands were great and I heard a few nice songs (tH...I'm kinda trying to compile all these songs for you...gotta wait for a while as I need a few more night-outs...=P). There was a song called 'drink up' by a Thai rapper. If I had heard this song when I was there in April, I could have been even more drunk than I was then. This is how a line in the song goes in English- 'I'll drink up one more glass just to forget you for a second'. At the state I was at that time, I did believe that I wld definitely drink up to all those lines sang, though I knew I wldnt help. Lucky me it was played tonight so I only sang along. =P

Anw, how was your guys' Halloween? Mine wasnt that interesting...just hung out with a few friends at a gas station (yes, it's a gas station) near my usual night-time area...didnt get to wear any funny costumes...no trick or treat...sign (- -")

2007-10-21T23:18:00.000+07:00

What a fun night I had!

It was a B B A night out last night. We needed to free ourselves after a rough mid-terms period. We went to J E T, a pub on T h o n g l o r Rd. I was pretty excited to be there as it was going to my first time pubbing outside K h a o s a n Rd. (yeah...I always stick to my fave place, B r i c k B a r). Also, I hadnt gone out to real pubbing since Erik went back to my fave town.

There were about 30-40 of us and a couple of exchange students. We didnt drink that much (I guess). I only had 2 glasses of very diluted whiskey and coke. We danced a lot though.

I'm looking forward for my next night time hangout, hopefully at B r i c k. I'm still a good girl...just that I'd love to have occasional night time exercise. Hehe...

Anw, there were a couple of songs I heard when I was there...2 were pretty new...
You guys can check them out here:
I love this song...just heard it last night
This song was a bit faster when played there
This too

Still I preferred Brick...mainly b'c of most of the songs played there are like the song I love and
like this
and this

P.S. My voice is damn sexy right now...I didnt drink that much...maybe...I sang along too much =P

2007-10-12T19:06:00.000+07:00

I miss Canada! That's nth new to you guys.
It's Fall there right now...leaves changing colors...
I went back to my old posts...at this time last year I had so much fun and happiness...

Anw...

I need to talk to my Angels.
This Devil is going to die because she cant let this out on anyone here.
She tried...but no one seems to care...
writing it down on the diary didnt help that much...
confiding it with my cousin was like talking to a stone...sorry Cousin...-/\-
Is there a way to call you guys without paying an enormous sum of money?
huh...

P.S. dear Acid...I'm not thinking too much...I just cant take this shit anymore. I've been taking too much of it.

2007-10-03T00:18:00.000+07:00

I would like to dedicate this song to all my lovely friends out there. The song just popped up into my head (as usual).

Thank You: Kavana

Everybody's going home
It's time again to say goodbye
And I wanna say thank you for being there...
I know the time is getting late
And I don't wanna keep you here
The time has come for me
To show you how much I really care...

Friends come and go
But we've been through it all together
And time goes to show I owe it all to you...

Another year has come around,
And I'm so lucky that I ever found you,
Thank you, thank you, thank you baby,
And everyone that I've ever known,
Cannot compare to the love that you've shown,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, love...

Through the hard times, you understood,
And without you there, I never could
have coped with my problems on my own,
The years have gone by so fast,
The memories I have will last,
Inside my heart forever now...

And friends come and go,
But people like you are hard to find,
And time just goes to show, I wouldn't change a thing...

I've always known how lucky I am
to have you here beside me,
so before you go, I wanna say,
Thank you, my baby, thank you...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, baby...
Du du du du du du, yeah...
Thank you, thank you, thank you, love...

And friends come and go,
But we've been through it all together,
And time just goes to show I owe it all to you...
You... You...

2007-09-27T23:18:00.000+07:00

The Fish is buried under the workload again!!!

I remember that I blogged similar post last year (with similar heading). Anw, I think this year is even worse.

At this time (23.24 of a Thursday night), I was still in a sch blouse. Havent showerd...havent done anything but sitting in front of 'Tough' (that's how I called my lovely IBM).

I have been discussing projects and reports with my frens on MSN (RB423,FN313), checking files that my frends sent via emails (RB423,FN313) , looking thru regression excels (FN313) and trying to merge 4 word docs into 1 (RB423) as you guys can see from a pic below...

My exams are coming soon. I havent started studying yet.
Still have loads of assignments to do and chapters to read...sign...

And I'm so sick of excelllllllllllll
RB423, FN428, FN313...excellllllllll
I'm puking excellllllllllllll
(--")

I know you guys are having a busy time too...so Jia You!!! (Did I spell it correctly?)

2007-09-15T00:19:00.000+07:00

The Fish is Making Noise...AGAIN!!!!!!!!

How can I see you guys more often?
HOW? HOW? HOW?

I wanna be with you guys 24/7 (that’s a bit exaggerated but I really feel it rite now).
I wish I had more time with you guys when I was there. A few hours were not enough…not at all.
Life sux,…it really is…without you guys.
Miss you guys sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!
And seriously in need of your embraces!!!!!!!!

Deep-into-the-Blue Fish (I mean it)

The Fish is going bonkers!!!

2007-09-14T16:39:00.000+07:00

I miss you guys in SG so much.

I really wanna cry...no kidding!

2007-09-12T10:42:00.000+07:00

Lesson Taught by an American

This might sound stupid but it actually did happen. The story was that Dan, an American from Oregon, was about to go home after the practice. He spoke fluent Thai so I said 'waddee' to him. Waddee being the short of 'Sawasdee', a Thai word for hello.
He then gave me this stunned look. I asked him what happened. He said that I gave him 'half a wai'. Therefore, I had to say 'sawasdee ka' to him. He also asked how old I was. It turned out that I was younger than him. He said 'pen nong ni' (I was his 'sis'). Hence, I gave him the full 'wai' with 'sawasdee ka P' Dan'.
Man! This was really embarrassing. I had to be careful from now on then. I had to be a very nice and proper Thai (trying hard). = )

2007-09-01T20:20:00.000+07:00

Singapura: 2nd day

tH and her friends picked me up from feli’s hall in the morning. We went to Holland Village for breakfast at a place I cant remember its name right now. There were toasts, eggs and tea/coffee in a set. Nothing fantastic though. Then we headed back to tH’s hall.

We were going to Orchard Rd. today to meet up with our friend who stayed in the ulu part of the island- YP. It was raining so heavy that we couldn’t leave the hall until noon. To kill time, tH and I took some photos tgt.

Then it was time to go to town.
These are some photos I took on my way there.

It used to be a straight road on the left. Dunno why they changed it.

We met up with feli first at Taka. There I enjoyed my fave takoyaki- Takopachi. I missed it so much. We walked to food court at W i s m a A t r i u m. I wanted to eat both yong tao foo and laksa. I cldnt decide (as usual) so Feli suggested that I should get former and she would get the latter. We could share half-half.

YP came to join us after a while. After lunch, we walked to the Heeren. Then we walked back towards Lido for a movie in the evening. Along the way, we stopped at some points for desserts.

Ice-cream...

and more ice-cream...

Kendric (Feli’s bf) came around 6 to join us for dinner at NYDC.

It was a tiring day. However, the four of us got to be tgt again after 4 yrs.

Some extra photos.

Singapura: 3rd day

Eunice and I met at Holland V. for lunch. We both were craving for roti prata. We searched ard the area for a prata stall until we found one at Food Junction. I could also find prata in THA. Anw, it was diff from what was sold here.

Chendol...shld be in a glass tho...

After lunch, we still had time before I needed to leave to fetch my aunt at the airport. We decided to walk back to N U S. It took us almost an hour but the time was well-spent as we had a nice chat along the way.

M O E...4 yrs of free ed...thk you.

ACJC

Kendric and Feli gave me a lift to the airport. They waited with me there too. It was very nice of them. My aunt arrived and we caught a shuttle bus to the hotel on the East Coast.

Singapura: 4th day

I would be meeting 3 friends this very day; Pris during lunch, my new friend at 4 at Raffles City, and CL at 8 at City Hall.

Pris...at a coffee shop near Bugis

Then killed time at S u n t e c C i t y...

Fountain of Wealth

I found Roots there! So I bought a new bagpack.

Then at 4 I met my new fren. Cant tell you who this person is until Oct.

He was nice enough to show me around the Marina Bay area.

A tunnel under the E s p l a n a d e

Ard the bay area

Finally CL at 8!

Jinglun (a guy I met in Ottawa and he happens to be CL's fren) joined us too.

We went for dinner at a burmese rest. near the MRT station.

Then a Bum Boat tour along S i n g a p o r e R i v e r. Nice!

Singapura: 5th day
The only appointment I had was that of Ho Jun. We would be meeting at 2 at Orchard MRT station. So I took my time by taking 196 from Parkway Parade to Queensway. On my way there, I saw many familiar and unfamiliar surroundings. It was good in a way that I could recall some memories I had in SG years ago. Btw, I was almost late to meet up with Jon.

Singapura: 6th day

It was my last day here in SG and I spent it by burning CDs at tH’s. Really productive eh? ; P

2007-08-27T13:16:00.000+07:00

Singapore: 1st day

It was very exciting for me to go back to SG after all these years. I didnt know how this small island had changed over the years. I had no clue at all what to expect.

Arriving at the S u v a r n a b h u m i Airport early gave me time to do some window shopping at the duty free. I had been searching for A d i d a s A d r e n a l i n H o m m e s for almost a year. I should have bought it when I was in Ottawa. Damn the Harper's tax and McGuinty's tax that deterred me from buying. It was 14 percent altogether! So I though it would be cheaper if I were to buy it at the duty free. To my dismay, I cldnt find it anywhere. Sian!

I was also looking for a wristwatch. That freaking theif took my A d i d a s watch. Still I cldnt find any that I like.

On the plane, I sat besides this ang moh uncle. He smelled of a cigarette. He drank coffee. Huh...where were all the cute ang mohs?

It was raining when the plane touched down. I was hoping (a bit) that there would be sb picking me up from the airport. No one came. Sob Sob... I had tH's number but I had no means of contacting her. The only notes I had on me were 50's and a 100. So I walked to Mc to buy a dollar pie with a 50. I asked for small coins in change. It was kinda troblesome but the lady was nice to fulfil my request.

tH was called. She told me to take M R T to B u a n a V i s t a M R T and she'd pick me up from there.

We took a bus to Feli's room in one of the N U S' halls where I'd be staying for two nights.

I left my duffle there and moved on to tH's hall. We hung around there for a while. Then she took me to this new shopping mall in SG called V i v o C i t y. We roamed around the place and ate.

These are photos from there.

Singapura: 2nd day will be up soon...I hope...

2007-08-09T10:00:00.000+07:00

my stuff got stolen! everything's gone. I left with practically nothing. my fave stuff were all taken. the theif took my nike bag and all that were inside. shit. so I'm broke.

hope i can get that freak arrested. damn him!

2007-07-29T13:59:00.000+07:00

Boredddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Are you?

I know I am....I am extremely boreddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
I have nth to do.
I want to travel the world. But one constraint...MONEY.
That's it.
I wanna workkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk...and get paiddddddddddddddddddd
Huhhhhh
I miss Ottawa...wanna go back there and Canada...then go backpacking throughout Europe.
wanna do it before I turn 28...

Done with all this shit...
such a gibberish me....

2007-07-16T15:35:00.000+07:00

The more I work here (S Q), the more I got jealous of the staff. Frankfurt, Zurich, Vancouver, Cairo…you name it. They have the Privilege Travel ticket to go there….I so wanna go……
The salary is not that high for the undergrads but for management trainees (with Master’s Degree) and managers, it’s pretty okay. The benefits...cool…
I think I have to be a grad before applying to any airlines…sian…
Anyway, I’m becoming a senior soon…and I have quite a few plans after my graduation. Hope they’ll work out fine.

2007-07-01T20:43:00.000+07:00

I went to Hua Hin with my TS2 friends last weekend. We had great fun. We didnt get to feel the sea (the beach was not that good. too bad for a fish like me ;( )

We did take loads of photos...below are just some of them...

First day at a restuarant in town...

Second day at an old royal mansion and the beach near where we stayed.

We did loads of jumping!!!

2007-06-28T11:42:00.000+07:00

Shit! Do I have to take this many!?

I'm sick...not that bad though.

I puked...my body's a bit warm...got sth like diarreah...It's not the first time I have this kind of shit. I know that it'd be gone in two days.

But one of my mom's sibling insisted that I have to go to the hospital. So I went.

That's all my story...hehehe...

2007-06-19T16:26:00.000+07:00

From a book by P a u l o C o e l h o ‘L i k e the F l o w i n g R i v e r’

Jewish Prayer for Peace
‘Come let us go up the mountain of the Lord that we may walk in His paths. And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken’

Lao Tsu, China (sixth century BC)
‘If there is to be peace in the world, the nations must live in peace.
If there is to be peace among nations, the cities must not rise up against each other.
If there is to be peace in the cities, neighbors must understand each other.
If there is to be peace among neighbors, there must be harmony in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, we must each find our own heart.’

I want PEACE!!! Ok dudes…I’m no miss Universe but I’m so f#*%ed up with the turmoil in the south. For the past few days, many innocent lives have been taken: teachers, children and villagers. Also, about 10 schools were burned down. Brave soldiers were killed unguarded. It was cruel and merciless.
I could only hope and pray that there would be tragedies no more.
P.S. I’m boredddddddddddddddddddddd

2007-06-13T17:02:00.000+07:00

Hey peeps! Sorry I’ve not updated this blog for a while. I was busy slacking around. Anyway, I’m now at SIA office in BKK. I’m supposed to be ‘working’. My job doesn’t require much, just doing basic stuff at the admin dept. I want to go to the ticketing and reservation dept so that I know how they do the booking.
What I like it here is the fact that the staff seems to be talking a lot about their trips overseas- Japan, Korea, USA, etc. Two of the accounting personnel are in South Africa right now. I wish I could travel this much.
At the moment, I have no work to do so…write sth on my blog.
I might be in SG on 20-22 Aug.

2007-05-30T04:04:00.000+07:00

D e m o c r a t s Party…going…staying…
T h a i R a k T h a i Party…going…staying
I dunno…the results will be out later today.
related link
What I know now is that the whole country is waiting for the verdicts. For me, I have my own rulings for each party. I’m not gonna tell you here ‘cos the info and tech ministry may decide to block my blog like they’ve done with YouTube. ;P

Another thing- M i s s U n i v e r s e.
I dun understand why they have this 15-pageant round. It’s totally pointless; all 15 just have to walk one round on the stage. That’s it. I mean… can you just cut it down to 10? It’s like the five girls who dun make it to the top 10 that they are umm…better…than the rest (except the top 10) but they are not.
Why I have a say on this? Two thai beauties made into this top 15 round for two consecutive years and they were unable to get into final 10. Press made a big deal…though not that big…abt it last year. “Thai beau got into a deeper round” and all those stuff. Luckily, this year the news would be focusing on the party dissolution cases. Besides, I think it’s not fair to give those babes hope that they cld go further in the competition and seize it from them so fast they dun have a chance to prove themselves. Might as well not to give it…

The freshly crowned beauty…I dun think she’s that pretty. Last year jap lady was much more….way more beautiful than this one. Anw, I like South American contestants. They are all hot (I think it’s just me. You know…I’m not really attracted to Asians).

2007-05-29T13:56:00.000+07:00

I got 2 Bs for James’ classes. Cool! It’s really what I expected.
Anw, I’m slacking here right now. It was all right for a couple of days but now I’m so bored. I wish I had things to do. I’m reading a book right now. Re-reading it is more like. I want to buy new books but I’ve been using way too much money this month (I spent it mostly on food. You know…this is my exam month and I do eat a lot during my exam period. My face is now bulging again. Hehehe…).
Anw, I’m so jealous of you guys for having stuff to do; TH’s learning how to dive. YP’s having her lab work to do. Feli’s doing her work. Bonny’s in China. PO’s traveling around South America. Erik’s in M’sia. Phil and Jerome are in Vietnam.
And Jay…she’s rotting here. I dunno why every time I’m home, I feel like doing nothing- nothing at all!!! That sux. Totally.

Forget abt the previous posts...I was just too bored.

2007-05-27T16:22:00.001+07:00

two photos...two years apart...
have I become more feminine?
nah...I dun think so. hehehe...

2007-05-27T14:59:00.000+07:00

2007-05-22T12:01:00.000+07:00

What a proposal! What a marriage! Share what you guys think on that after you watch ‘Pirates 3' k? Anw, I think it’s pretty cool.

2007-05-14T18:32:00.000+07:00

WOO HOO!!!

I still have an exam left. Anw, I have four full days to study for it. So I'll take a break for a night after 4 exams in 4 days. Oh! No more James for me...is that not a good news?

Btw, gtg edit the previous post for TH who requested some descriptions for the photos...

2007-04-20T16:23:00.000+07:00

Songkran!!!

The official Songkran period is on 13th-15th April of every year. However, the two Montreal guys- Jerome and Phil-were too excited about the event. They started splashing water on the 12th! Then they made Erik and I join the action.

We went for dinner at a restuarant near our place...nice view...

group photo...

Preparing for a real fight on the 13th!

madness!!

pretty soaked...

On the 14th, we traveled to Chiang Rai. On our way, we stopped at this hot spa.

We went for a water fight on the pick-up truck. Then we stopped to eat at a riverside.

After the tiring day...

To be continued...(but i'm so lazy to add more photos now...)

2007-04-20T15:56:00.000+07:00

Night Out after Thank You Party

2007-04-20T15:36:00.000+07:00

Photos!!!

Dun have much time to describe the photos here...if you guys have any questions on those photos...feel free to drop comments or your say in the chatterbox.

TUAMC Thank You Staff Party

The Dolphin Gang

2007-04-09T23:29:00.000+07:00

James' presentations were over!!!

I cant say how happy I am right now. This is so overwhelming! (Am I a bit too exaggerated?) Anyway, I'll be away for almost a week during Thai New Year (Songkran aka water festival). Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai are my destinations. I'll take lots of photos for you guys to see. It may take time though...exams are coming...

So...Happy Thai New Year (in advance) to all of you!

2007-03-30T22:24:00.000+07:00

I’m now having a headache. Reason? I dunno…it can be anything: heat, James, myself. The list goes on.

For the heat, it’s freaking hot here rite now. It was so damn hot this afternoon that my lip balm melted! It was flowing out of the container when I opened it. I sweated so badly. I got mad. Beware! I might get rabies! Hahaha…Anw, I wish I could jump into a pool at this moment. This fish really needs water.

James…I’m working on his two cases: one finance case and one management case. He’s taking too much of my time. I hope this hard work would be paid off. Yup, I may be too obsessed with James' cases and classes but I'm not the only one. Most of my classmates have ‘James’ in their MSN displayed names.

For myself, I just dunno why I cant get the answers for finance case correct. I’ve tried doing the excel and sending those numbers to James for gazillions of times. I am discouraged but I wont give up. Nonetheless, I still dunno how to get those correct answers. Strategic management case is about P&G this time. The company is in good shape. It’s so tough to find five problems to work on…let alone one…

Just like one my good friends wrote in her blog:

“You've got to get yourself together

You've got stuck in a moment

And you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better

Now you're stuck in a moment

And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over

And if the day won't last

And if your way should falter

Along this stony pass

It's just a moment

This time will pass

And so says Bono. Isn't it strange how for some reason, after you've listened to a song for the umpteenth time, when the lyrics leap out and grab you for the first time?

The song may have a darker origin, but I guess it applies to everyone no matter what is troubling our hearts.

For me, the moment entails putting together what seems like a million-piece puzzle that is my report. What's yours?

Just remember, it's just a moment.”

Yeah…It’s just a moment. It’ll pass. Go Jay!

2007-03-30T10:20:00.000+07:00

Dear SeaSafe Team,

You are welcome! Good luck with your competition in Texas!

Jay

P.S. What was that about licensing? I ain't got a clue.

2007-03-27T09:11:00.000+07:00

Beaches!!!

This trip to the south was totally unplanned and unorganized. I called my cousin on Monday to tell him that I might go to visit him in Khanom, Nakhonsrithammarat for the weekend. On Thursday, I told him that I’d definitely be going there. I’d leave BKK on Friday morning and he had to pick me up at Suratthani bus station in the evening. On Friday morning, I changed my mind and told my cousin that I’d be leaving in the evening instead (there’s only one daily direct bus to Khanom which leaves BKK at 8 p.m. but the bus heading to Suratthani departs hourly). The reason behind this? I thought it’d be better if I spent Friday morning and afternoon working on James’ case and the night for traveling.

I left BKK southern bus terminal at 8.00 in the evening and reached Khanom at around 7.30 in the morning. Dunno where Khanom is? Here’s the map.

We left my cousin’s house around 10 to catch a Ferry to Koh Samui. We decided to take a motorcycle there. I was in doubt of its ability to deliver us there. It was so old. My cousin hasn’t rode on it for ages. Even P’Pum (my cousin) said that he wasn’t sure that it still functioned. Anyway, we thought that it was more practical than driving a car to Koh Samui.

The pier was not that far from his place, only 24 km away. The ferry took us about 2 hours.

On the ferry…

Our mode of transportation

Arriving at Koh Samui

We then roamed around Koh Samui in a loop.

Our first stop, Granpa and Granma Rocks (dun ask why)

This is the Granpa Rock. We couldn’t take the photo of the Granma Rock ‘cos we were standing on it.

More photos at the attraction

Then we moved on to the beach nearby, Lamai beach. Unfortunately, we passed the small street leading to the beach so we didn’t get a chance to see its beauty.

We took a small break at one of the zenith points to enjoy the bird’s eye view.

Chaweang beach was our last stop before we left the island.

And here, I was a bastard to my good friend, PO, who is working hard on his thesis in Sweden.

Departure from Samui

We were back on the mainland at around 5.30. P’Pum took me to a beach near where he used to live. I didn’t know what it’s called nor did my cousin (I just cant believe this!).

I went into the sea and had fun while P’Pum sat on the beach watching me behave like a 12-year-old kid. And again, I was being a bastard to PO.

Seafood was our dinner, obviously. That ended my first day. By the way, he told me that sunrise at the beach was stunning but we had to wake up super early in the morning. I asked him to set the alarm clock and wake me up the next morning.

My second day started at 8.30!

It turned out that P’Pum was too exhausted from yesterday to wake up so early in the morning. So, we missed the sunrise. Nevertheless, I hoped that we would be able to get a real southern breakfast at one of many small coffee shops in the central market. It was too late though. We had to buy drinks from a small stall and get the food from somewhere else and brought them home.

This was what I was talking about: grilled sticky rice, sticky rice and milked tea.

The food would taste nicer if we got to eat it at the coffee shop. It really would (to me). I think it might be because of the ambience…I dunno…

Our journey for the day was to go the one the beaches in Khanom where my cousin claimed that it’s the best beach around the area.

I have to say that my cousin is not a very good photographer. I climbed those rocks so that he could take photos of me standing on it. But…

I have to borrow Bonny’s frequently used sentence ‘you are disqualified!’ to use with my cousin for this. By the way, I have to thank him for taking these photos for me. He was also sitting and waiting for me while I enjoyed myself at the beach and in the sea. He didn’t complain at all. I love my bro!

For this…I tot it was time for me not to be a bastard to PO

Closing time…time really flied. I wished I could stay there a bit longer. However, I needed to back to BKK as work was waiting for me: James cases specifically.

We (P’Pum has a meeting in Chonburi and he needs to stop by in BKK first) left Khanom at 6.00 in the evening and arrived in the busy city at 5.30 on Monday morning. I went back to my Granma’s, took shower, and left to uni for 9.00 class.

2007-03-23T14:31:00.000+07:00

TUAMC was over.

TU won. Anyway, I dun think they should be proud of this stolen victory. Honestly, I dun think they deserve it. As I've written here before, there were better products and biz plans. Even the plan from Chula was better (can you believe this coming from Jay?). I didnt know what my SeaSafe team ended up with. Still, they will get a chance to go to Texas for the Global Moot Corp.

During these 3 days, I gotta meet many new people: co-staff, bizmen and many others. I had a chance to see many good presentations. Also, being a member of the staff team, I learned how freaking hard it was to organize such a big event like this. However, that's nth compared to friends I've made: P' (pronoun for sb who's older) staff from MIM program and Nong (pronoun for sb who's younger) from BBA, BE.

For the classes I skipped during this period, I'll photocopy my friends' notes and study them by myself when I have time (James is now taking most of time away again).

2007-03-22T10:15:00.000+07:00

TUAMC 2007

Jay's supposed to be working right now!

This whole event is about competing on the business plans for the grad students. On the first day, the teams had to set up the booths to sell thier plans to investors and venture capitalists. I'm assigned to be the NTU team liaison. My team booth was next to a booth from HKUST from Hong Kong. They were so prepared with lots of props. I was so impressed.

On the second day, all the 20 teams were divided into 4 divisions and presented to panel of judges. I watched my team, a team from CU and SeaSafe from HKUST. And again, SeaSafe won my heart. Their salesmanship would be graded A++ by James. Their product was great and their business plan was practical. They breezed through to the semifinal and then the final round.

What many of the staff are wondering at this moment is how come all 3 Thai teams are in the final. Ok, a plan of one of the teams is sound. However, for the other two teams...umm...I'm not saying anything but there are other teams with much better products and plans.

Anyway, I'm with SeaSafe. I hope they win the competition. SeaSafe: From the Sea, For the Sea.

2007-03-21T21:44:00.000+07:00

OK...I've spent almost an hour writing and uploading the photos on the E-Week competition my friends and I participated in. However, the stupid blog didnt publish it for me and I couldnt recover the post. Shit does happen. Damn it.

I wont spent another hour doing it again as I have James' cases to do. Anw, I'll try to tell you about it bit by bit on the next few posts. But this might take weeks. So be patient k?

2007-03-17T14:16:00.000+07:00

BBA 15th Anniversary photos as promised

ASES members with Aj. Hugh

Supposedly to be setting up booths

Our honourable ASES Chapter

Party @ night

2007-03-15T15:19:00.000+07:00

Update!!!!!

Relaxed weekend...

Friday: China Town

The Gang: Erik, Bonny, Phil, Jay, and Jerome

What a poser we are!

Jerome and his durian (he ate it after he had beer...OMG!!!)

Phil's gone bonkers!!!

I ate tons of food on that day. I dun think I'll get my pre-Canada weight back soon. But I'll try. I really hate the feeling I have around my waist now.

Saturday: BBA 15th annivesary party

I was there as a program officer of ASES. Our club had set up a game booth and a photo booth. Program and finance depts were in charge of the game booth. Marketing and technology depts were in charge of the photo booth. We tricked many alumni, our friends and our juniors to our booths. Not many people were interested in the photo booth as we charged a pretty high price for that. Anyway, we've raised quite an amt of money for our club.

Jerome at our game booth

Erik and Phil at the second year booth

Actually I have more photos on this party. You guys have to wait though. I'll post them as soon as possible.

Sunday: Floating Market

I went there with Kampoo and Phil. Jerome and Erik were supposed to come too. However, they were too drunk to wake up. What a party boy they are!

It was about noon when we headed back to the uni. I called my cousin and found out that he's in town. I told him that I'd take a bus to where he was but it'd take time. I jokingly said that I was going to take a cab there if he'd pay for it. He agreed! He wanted me to help him shop for stuff he needed.

I got to the shopping mall abt half and hour later. We went for ice-cream as usual. But this time was diff. We ate loads of ice-cream. Overall I think we ate like a dozen scoops (I have to admit that I finished more than half of it. hehe..). For dinner, we went to Jap restuarant and filled ourself up with yummy food. No wonder why my weight havent gone down that much. Haha..

He'll be back in town again this sun night. We plan to go out eating again on monday afternoon after I finish my class. Cant wait for monday to come!

2007-03-05T13:00:00.000+07:00

NYC Part 2

Dec 28th: Liberty Statue and Wall St. (again) and Times Square

Dec 29th: last day in NYC

The Empire State and Grey's Papaya

2007-03-05T12:48:00.001+07:00

What a school life!

I still have loads of work to do after exams. There is no break for me. So tired. Anyway, I think I’ll do better this half of the semester with better time management.

Aj. James will be gone for next two weeks. Everybody is planning up trips. So do my friends and I. However, I have to plan it carefully as I have 2 projects due when Aj.James is back in town.

Anyway, I went to a temple near my grandma’s last Sat. It was one of the important Buddhist days. I dunno what it’s called in Eng though. My aunt asked me whether I wanted to go. At first, I didn’t want to go as I have to study for James’ exam yesterday. I changed my mind later as I was so bored of studying.

I have to admit that I am not a very good Buddhist. Nonetheless, it kinda bothered me when people didn’t turn off their HPs or at least put it on a silent mode when the monk was giving teaching (correct me here…I dunno what the right word is). Phones kept ringing. And there was a kid that made noise throughout. Not very peaceful at all…

You guys may not believe me but I actually felt a sudden surge of peace and serenity when I stepped into the ground of one temple in BKK. It happened when my cousin was here almost 3 weeks ago. This temple is called ‘Wat Suthatthepwararam’. We walked past it and I had this urge to get inside. So I dragged him along. We walked around. I dunno abt P’Pum but I felt so calm…so peaceful…

I’m thinking abt going there again in the near future. I just wanna go there and do nothing and see whether I’ll feel the same or not. It may be my quiet corner in a busy and noisy BKK (too bad it’s not as near as Botanic Garden to TCHBS or the Parliament Hill to the Rez).

2007-02-18T11:16:00.000+07:00

I’ve just realized that I dun have a sanctuary here. That sux, totally!

In SG, I had Botanic Garden to go to. In Ottawa, I had the comfort of the Parliament Hill. In BKK, I have none. Is that not ironic?

I remember going to the Botanic garden when I didn’t want to study, when I had enough with Physics and when I had nothing to do. I just walked there.

I remember visiting Parliament Hill when I missed you guys. I went there crying in the freaking cold winds. My eyes were sore like shit. One good moment! Haha… I walked there when I was bored. I walked there whenever I felt like it.

Here, I haven’t found my place of comfort.

Anw, I dun wanna live in SG. I hate its guts, esp after the AFC. I bet the Straits Times wrote bad stuff abt Thailand and praised its own national team. F*#* it! I dun understand why they keep doing it.

Ottawa is a nice place to be. I love it. What a peaceful town it is. However, I freaking missed Thai food (all the food that can be found in Thailand) while I was there. Still, I was able to gain like 5kgs with bread and cereal I ate. Also, my face was seriously damaged by the cold weather. My stamina was gone. Most importantly, there’s no beaches! I love beaches. (Fake beaches in SG are not qualified)

Damn it! Freak it! F*#* it! I haven’t found my place on this ‘wonderful world’. Maybe I’m just pretty choosy. Dun you think? Haha…

In my place…in my place…

2007-02-16T11:20:00.000+07:00

Exams are coming and I am still lost.

BA401: what to study for it...umm...no idea
FN413: freaking hard...I still dunno what those financial techniques are.
MA216: ...lost...Ajarn sux! Dunno what she's talking about. No motivation to study at all (Actually there is...I wanna pass this freaking sub, once and for all!) I miss Ms. Kek, Mr. Lim, Mr.Tan. They are the best Maths teachers, ever!
FN311: mugging hard for this one but the material doesnt seem to seep thru my brain...sigh...
FN415: no mid-term...thank you Ajarn!

Anyway, Chinese New Year is soon approaching, I wish you all a better year than the last. If you guys have extra Hong Bao for me, that would be great. Haha...just kidding. I want Hong Bao but too bad I'm not a Chinese...huh!

Almost forget, I'm still free during mid-march. If you guys change your mind, I'll be glad to fly to SG to see you all. I need at least two-week notice, make it three, to get a reasonable tic price.

Good luck and take care!

2007-02-14T11:20:00.000+07:00

My NYC trip Part 1
A bit too late to post this but better late than never! (took me weeks to post this)

Dec 25th
At Brian's...

Exploring the city a bit...

Brian and Lea

At Grand Central Station...and this is how much debt America is in now.

Cooking dinner...this photo is similar to the one we took in Thailand..

Dec 26th
Meet up with friends

Medison Square Garden: home of NY Knicks and NY Rangers

Brian's making dinner and Lea's baking cake. Yummy dinner!

Still...we couldnt resist eating Krispy Kreme at midnight.

Dec 27th: Brian's b'day
WTC

Brian's Office: Deusche Bank

NYSE and AMEX

Financial District from Brooklyn side

Brooklyn Bridge

The FED and Wall St.

Bull market

Brian and his cake

and Lea...

2007-02-13T16:01:00.000+07:00

Hey guys! I was planning to go to SG during March. I talked to TH about it and she said that it's going to be a waste of my money as you guys wont have time to go out with me. However, she said that I might be able to go there during your holidays as you guys might stay back for some stuff.

But yeah...I dun exactly want to go out with you guys. I just want to see and be with you guys, just like the old time. That's it. Anyway, after all these years, we'll have loads to talk about. So I think I have to wait.

And now you cant blame it on me. It's all TH's idea.

Btw, I really hope to see you guys soon. I need you all.

Since Valentines' Day's coming tomorrow, I just wanna tell you guys that my wasted heart will love you guys forever (always and all the time...not only on Valentines' Day). Haha..so cheesy...

2007-01-29T02:23:00.000+07:00

JamesJamesJames!!!

Schoolwork is killing me. Actually, it is not that bad. Only 2 subjects, BA401 and FN413, that require extra hard work. Both are taught by Ajarn (that’s what we call our prof. here) James, the toughest grader of all Ajarns.

I went to school everyday last week to work on his cases with my friends. I am expecting to do the same this week. I happen to be presenting these two cases on the same day, one after another. I’ve been working on these cases with my groups for more than a week. It seems that we are getting there but…now I feel we are nowhere near our targets.

Aj. helps on calculation part for FN413 (though his responses are only correct or incorrect) and on minor stuff for both. I once e-mailed him to ask for a clarification on one of the cases. He replied, ‘you should be able to figure this out by yourselves.’ My group and I were like…thanks Aj...you are so helpful.

Never in my life have I been expecting someone’s e-mail this badly. It’s only because I need his response to continue my work. Are our answers correct? Is our problem statement acceptable? I once sent 5 e-mails to him on the same day, each on diff aspects of the finance case. I looked up my inbox every 15 min after every e-mail sent just to check whether he had replied them or not.

I would be done with these two cases on next Tue. I just cant wait for that time to come! Still, I have another 4 cases with him.

No more James ever again!!!

Wish me luck! I need it a lot.

2007-01-13T21:59:00.000+07:00

Ottawasick...

I miss the quiet place.
I miss the fresh air.
I miss walking around downtown.
Actually, I miss everything...
...except the food.

...Ottawasick

2007-01-03T09:20:00.000+07:00

Photos!!!

Quebec City

2006-12-23T11:12:00.000+07:00

My special someone has requested me to blog before I leave for New York City. She wants something to read. Actually, I want to wait for all the photos first before I write about the Quebec city trip (as I dun wanna write so much. I want to use photos to tell the story). I don’t have any photos with me (I’ll tell you guys the reason for that at the end of the post) However, I cant turn my dear darling down. This is it.

I came back from Quebec city yesterday night. It was one cool trip as I got to meet my friends who have gone on exchange program across Canada: Yam and Peaung from Alberta, Tong from Calgary and Bo and Ploy from McGill.
Ottawa folks (Fai, N.P., Bonny and I), Yam (she came to visit Ottawa), P’ Beam and her mom, and Meng got to Quebec city first. There we met Meng’s friends, Guy, his wife Christine and his daughter, Marie-Anne. We were so well taken care off by Guy. We really appreciated it.

On second day, Meng drove us to the bus station to pick Bo, Ploy, Tong and Peaung up (Tong and Peaung stopped by Montreal before coming to Quebec city). We spent most of the time taking photos and traveling to places (Guy drove his car and Meng drove the van).

P’Beam, her mom, and Meng had to come back to Ottawa on the second night. Fai and I decided to come with them as we have been to most of the city. We’d love to spend our second night chatting with our friends but it was so expensive to come back to Ottawa by ourselves ($76 for one way trip ticket from Quebec to Ottawa). Bonny and N.P. decided to stay.

Five of us stopped in Montreal for dinner. Then Meng took us to Mt. Royal (if I didn’t get the name wrong). From there, we could see the city in bird’s eye view. Also, we saw one big fire blazing in the city. Black smoke rose into the sky. It was very scary. After that, Meng drove straight back to the Capital.

Now, the reason I dun have any photos with me was that I forgot to put the memory card into the camera. I was about to take a photo when it said ‘no memory card’. I wasn’t really surprised as this wasn’t my first time. Do you guys still remember a post that I wrote about a beautiful sunset at a park near the Parliament Hill? I told you that I’d take photos for you guys to see how awesome it was as I didn’t bring my cam with me. I did try to do that but…

My batteries were empty on my 2nd trip there. On my 3rd attempt, I forgot to put my memory card. And for my latest time, I was too late. The sun had already set (I had my cam ready for the first time).

Btw, I’ll try again. It might not be as beautiful as the one during Fall but I’ll take it for you guys to see.

2006-12-20T08:48:00.000+07:00

BEWARE! Long but funny post and loads of photos ahead...

"take this night and all it's stars
well could it be anyone else with you?
no no no
take this time now and all this charm well
could it be anyone else here?"

Again?

Songs kept playing in my head when I was doing my exams.

It happened when I did marketing exam on Sunday night. That time I knew I did visit YouTube too often (details on this will be followed after). Having learned my lessons, I stopped tubing those two songs (and a few others). I listened to the radio instead. The radio station played this song, a night like this and I went to tube it. Once. I swear. I only watched the song once. However when I woke up this morning, the station played it again. So, I listened to the song 3 times in total. It wasn’t as bad as the previous exam (the song was slow, unlike those two). Still…I’m speechless.

Anw, I’ll tell you guys what I’ve been doing during the past few days.

I studied and played and slacked. But when the marketing exam was drawing near, my boredom level rising so bad. I couldn’t concentrate. I went to tubing and gone bonkers.

This is my advice; if you ever get bored on studying, just listen to some music that will make you go like

Hugh Grant here or
this guy here or
just sit on a chair and move your body and shake your head like I did…haha…

These are some of the songs I’ve been listening to

KnockKnock
BamBamBabaBamBam
FairyTales
OhShit
Ohhhh…
ScoopySnacks

Once in a while, I got bored of those songs, so I went to knocked on other’s people doors and took their photos (I’m leaving here soon. I want these photos as souvenirs).

Guillaume, my nice neighbor (though I wanted to kill him sometimes when he's making loud noise at night). This guy is an assistance to one of the Canadian MPs.

David, my (self-proclaimed) naughty little brother. He's also very sweet.

Patrick, my (another self-proclaimed) lovely little brother (though I perfer the naughty one 'cos I can beat him up...haha). He's a page at the Parliament.

Patricia, my fave gal.

Grace, Tricia's roommate, another sweet gal.

It's a pity that I couldnt get photos of Jean-Francois. He's one cool guy (except that he smokes). It would be lovely to have him as an older brother. I have other photos of him though.

Perfect! JF as my older brother and David as my younger...dream comes true man (I wish)!

Christian, one of my best exchange friends I've made. He got away with the candid shot.

Pio, my another best exchange friend.

I didnt get photos of Louise, another good exchange friend. She's left for her holidays.

And today, it was snowing in the morning. I was extremely happy. Good sign (or not) for my last exam.

After exam, Christain and I went to eat Subway's special. Finally, we had Subway together after we'd been talking about it for almost the whole semester.

When I was back to my room, my neighbor knocked on my door. He came to say goodbye before he left for Montreal. So lovely of him!

Pio came to my room to take photo with me while I was packing my stuff. We took some but there's only one on my cam.

My room during the packing...looks like a guy's room (I bet many guys have tidier rooms than mine)

And yeah...I've hugged so many friends today (as I'll be leaving for Quebec city tomorrow and they'll be leaving for their home) : Guillaume, Tricia, Pio, Chistian. Oh! It's only four. Anw, I feel like I've hugged at least 10 friends.

2006-12-18T10:41:00.000+07:00

"...Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on..."

I SOOOO screwed my marketing exam up!!

"...Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world's a little brighter
Come on, come on..."

if you guys wanna know why...read the next post...hehe...=P

'...I wanna go all night
Ain't no stoppin' 'till the breakin' of the dawn...
...I wanna go knock knock..."

2006-12-16T05:03:00.000+07:00

Ok. I’m now in the middle of studying for my last two exams. Also, I’m facing a dilemma.

My next exam is on Sunday night. It’s marketing exam. There’re MCQ and case sections. I have to study the whole textbook for 100 MCQs that worth 10 marks! For the case section, it’s open-book. I’m at chapter 10, 8 more to go (plus 5 cases). Damn, I dunno the time spend studying for it would worth the opportunity costs.

The last exam is on Tuesday. It’s finance. This one is also an open-book exam with 100 MCQs. I’m definitely going to study for this one. Ok, I might not study that hard for it but I think I’ll be able to concentrate more on Monday before the exam. I know what I dunno about the materials taught in class so I’ll be able to focus on that and work it out.

What bother me at this very moment is whether to study for the marketing exam or not. The two fish in me are fighting. One wants to go out and relax: walking along Confederation Boulevard, going to 24 Sussex Dr., exploring the city a bit more. But the other one want to bring a good grade home (though I only want a B for marketing class). The good fish says study, dun be complacent and stay home while the not so good one says go out and enjoy myself as an exchange student with the time I have left here.

How? Any advice?

2006-12-14T11:08:00.000+07:00

I didn’t plan to blog this early. However, many things happened during the first half of my ‘stressful’ exam period. I want to share them with you guys.

Friday December 1

There’s a lighting ceremony in front of Tabaret Hall. Patricia asked Bonny and I to join her and Brianna. Why should I turn her down? No matter how sucky it would be, it definitely was going to be better than studying.

It turned out that we were too early so we decided to drop by at the Second Cup nearby. It was so near to the Uni but I had never been there. So did Tricia and Bonny. The place was packed. I had wanted to try Second Cup hot chocolate for sometimes as it supposed to be better than Tim Hortons (also, it’s more ex).

After drinking, Tricia and I came to an agreement that Tim Hortons hot choc was so much better than that of Second Cup. Still, it’s better than Beavertails hot choc.
I’ll be faithful to you, Tim (only for hot choc ‘cos his coffee sux real bad. Or it’s just because I dun like drinking coffee?)

Then we walked back to Tabaret Hall. We had to wait for quite a while before everything started. There was a countdown and the light lit up. It was not an impressive lighting. The color combo was…umm…out of sync. The colors just didn’t go well together. Carol singers sang silent night in French. Cool! We didn’t stay until everything ended ‘cos it’s getting colder ( I'm ok with the cold weather right now. Thank you P’Pum for the warm jacket!)

Monday December 11

I had my first exam this morning with Fai and N.P. It went pretty well, though I left a question blank. I should be ok if I didn’t make stupid mistake on other questions. Then Fai and I went to have lunch in the kitchen. There we met Bonny, Pam, and Nin. They were cooking.
I went back to my room and got a call from Kristina. She said she left my marketing casebook at the lobby and told me to get it from there. I went to back to the kitchen and chatted with the rest. Then I went to the lobby to get my casebook.

When I walked back to Marchand, I heard the fire alarm. I also met Matt and Brandon at the door. They told me there’s fire. I didn’t pay much attention to them (Matt and Brandon are ones of the last that I listen to). I thought it might just be another fire drill so I decided to go up to get my jacket and stuff.

Everybody was running down the stairs but I was walking up. I met Patrick and Guillaume on the way. They said I set the fire. I was like ‘yeah…’ I climbed the stairs until I met one of the C.A.s. She told me to get out of the building but I insisted to go back to my room. I gave in.

Seconds later, Fai walked down. She told me about what that caused the fire alarm. This was the story told to me by Fai.

Not long after I left the kitchen, Antoinette came in and cooked her pork chops. As always, she left her pan on the stovetop. Then there was smoke coming from the pan. Suddenly, it changed to fire. Fai, Bonny, Pam, and Nin saw everything. They were panicking. Fai took the pan and she was going to put water onto it. Luckily, Bonny stopped her just in time. Fai asked Nin to use the fire extinguisher. Nin couldn’t pull the thing out so she gave it to Fai. She stuck with it for a while before the thing was out. She used the fire extinguisher but forgot to aim the host at the fire. Her shorts were all yellow. Still, she was able to put the fire out.

After the accident, everybody on the 8th and 9th floors was talking about it. Nobody could study, including me. What worse was I had another exam in the evening, shit!

I also realized about how silly I was. I didn’t listen to Matt and Brandon (if you knew them, you wouldn’t have listened to them. so I wasn’t really silly on this point). I didn’t give a shit on the fire alarm, thinking that it might just be another false alarm. The lessons learned this time was something I’d remember for a long long time.

On the other hand, I wanted to be in the drama. I wanted to know what and how I would do in this situation. Would I be calm or freaked out? How would I react to the fire and smoke in front of me? I really want to know.

I met Tricia in the kitchen on the next day. We talked about the fire and all. Both of us felt sorry for missing the drama. We jokingly said that we should set another fire so we wouldn’t miss it this time. Haha…great (or wicked) minds think alike.

Oh! The exam in the evening was not bad. I could do it, given that I didn’t make any stupid mistakes. I spent whole night slacking.

Wednesday December 13

I chatted with Erik on MSN on Monday night. He told me about the question session at the Parliament. It’s a session where the MPs argue on policies and stuff. It sounded interesting. When I saw Guillaume in the (clean and shiny) kitchen on Tuesday night, I asked him about it. He told me that the last session would be on this Wednesday (which is today). He also asked me why I didn’t tell him earlier so he could kinda bring me in (he’s working for one of the MPs there). Sorry friend, I just knew about it.

I did go there today; I sat in the public gallery. It was fun and interesting seeing the politicians quarrel. The speaker would let the members of the oppositions to ask the government questions. If the questions were specific to the Minister of Finance, the Minister would then answer those questions. They behaved like kids in there: yelling and booing at each other, standing up and clapping when their fellow party members asking or answering questions.

I couldn’t hear much of the stuff they were saying as there were lots of commotion in the House (boos, shouts, claps, etc.). There were questions on education, tuition fees, equality in Saskatchewan, CIA planes, etc. I had no clue what they were talking about ( I wish I could ). What I heard most was promises kept and promises broken. Damn! Politicians, despite of nationalities, love to make promises that they hardly keep.This was what Stephen Harper told the oppositions ‘you broke our promise.’ (I bet he’s broken some too). The Finance Minister said something like ‘14M in taxes…gone…gone…gone!’ Still, it was interesting and fun enough to keep me there until the end of the session.

I got to see most of the Canadian politicians and I didn’t know who they were except the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. If I gotta to see Thailand House of Commons, I would go like ‘That’s Abhisit. Oh! It’s Chuan and Suthep over there. Yuck! Stupid Thanksin, Suranant and Sitha. Banhan is smaller than I think he’d be.’

I had never paid much attention to the debate during question sessions in Thailand. I followed big news and stuff. I only watched the no-confidence motion (อภิปรายไม่ไว้วางใจ) once (but not all of it as the debate usually lasted for a couple of days). It was not like what I saw today. It was much more orderly with little commotions.

Shit! I better go back to study. See you guys soon! =P

2006-12-07T09:36:00.000+07:00

Mug, Eat, and Sleep
(go nuts and get rund)

My first exam is coming in less than a week. There're no more classes to attend and no more projects due. This means that I seriously have to start studying [It also implies that I'll gain more pounds (add on to almost 6 lbs I've gained previously) during this time].

I didnt mug today: only some light reading. I took about 5 naps and ate like nobody's biz. สาด! Shit! Scheisse! I hope my mugging ability would improve soon or else my GPAs would surely drop.

I shall now excuse myself to go back to my study. Damn, why is it so hard to be a 'chao mugger'!?

P.S. I'll come back in abt a week or so. Hope I wont go bonkers before that. Hehe =P

2006-12-06T03:59:00.000+07:00

Today is our king's birthday. Since he's a father to all Thais, we use Dec 5th as our father's day.

This was what he said on the day he accessed to the throne, "We will reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of the Siamese people." He has been doing that for 60 years. Look at how tired he must have been.

He must be even more tired this year as loads of many uneventful situations have occurred- political turmoil, violence in the south getting worse, flood, etc. I just keep my fingers crossed that next year will be a better year for Thailand.

If you guys wanna know more abt the King, click here

This is my fave picture. I love it.

P.S. You guys can click at my sidebar under 'ITubeUTube' heading. The first 3 links are clips about the King.

(we love the king)

2006-12-05T11:35:00.000+07:00

Dood's Field Trip

Finally, Patch and Dood got to meet after 3 years.

We didn’t have a chance to meet when I went to Toronto in early September as he had to work. When he said that he was planning to come to Ottawa to visit me here, I was damn excited (I thought I am not going see him for another 10 years after my Toronto trip).

Old memories flooded my head when I met him: the fun I had during the 1st 3 months in ACJC, the stupid back-row council, paper planes flying in the lecture theater, exhausted PE lessons, Fun-O-Rama, etc.

Anw, being the ‘local’ here, I had to be his tour guide for the weekend. So the journey began.

The parliament

We were lucky to see they turned the pages of the books in the memorial chamber. The pages are flipped everyday at 1100 so that all the names in each book are seen at least once a year.

Bonny told me to go to the Wall of Whisper. It's a statue on the left of the Parliament. She said that I only need to whisper thru the wall and a person on the other side would be able to hear me clearly. We tried but we couldnt hear anything. Maybe we didnt do it the right way. I think I'll try it again before I go back.

The beautiful church (that I cant remember its name)

A walk to Museum of Civilization

Quebecois poutine at La Pataterie Hulloise

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Zak's (2nd day)

Before he left

Then we walked to China Town and the bus terminal. It's time to say goodbye. We jokingly said that we may see one another again in the future- 3, 5 or 7 years. But I hope we'd meet in SG so that we can have a full SC4 reunion. That'd be fun.

2006-12-02T01:25:00.000+07:00

Little Jasmine

Blogged about relationship and stuff yesterday makes me want to talk about one of my friends, J.P. He’s a friend I’ve made when I went trekking in Chaing Mai during Songkran (water festival) two years ago. We’ve been keeping in touch ever since.

These are photos we took.

He’s a Dutch expatriate working in Thailand at that time. He used to work in Singapore, South Africa, and many other places around the world. He’s working in Japan right now. I really want to be an expat like him. I bet it’s fun to work in different countries and experience different cultures and people.

Anw, the point is he’s a daddy now. He sent me this link to his online photo gallery. There I’ve found many amazing photos.

Daddy’s little girl named Jasmine. Beautiful is she not?

P.S. YP, I think they are more cool than your pics of cancer cells, apoptotic bodies, neuroblastoma cells, etc (Speaking from an ex-bio student’s point of view, both do show wonders of life and of living. Even though, I preferred to learn about blastocyte and embryonic cells to cancer cells).
P.S. 2 Today is the first official snow day. Photos will be added later

2006-12-01T11:52:00.000+07:00

IMPROPER ASSUMPTION

The last presentation for this semester was over. It went pretty well. Two projects were presented: portfolio selection and personal finance project. For the latter project, we needed to come up with assumptions (lots of them) in order to predict the future cash flows – incomes, expenses, savings and investments. My group consisted of Fai, N.P., Christian and me. Christian, being a very studious and hard working, came up with initial assumptions and figures for this project. We were awed by the word document and the excel spreadsheet he did. However, we found something disturbing on the assumptions he made. This was what he wrote for one of assumptions, “at the age of 30 he will marry his girlfriend who is pregnant at that time.”

We went, “No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

This conversation came after.

J&Fai : Seriously, we have to change this.
Christian : Why? What’s wrong with this?
J&Fai : This is so wrong. It’s unacceptable.
Christian : People are doing this.

Then we kept going on about it for a while and Fai left for the restroom. Christian and I continued the chat. I told him my point of view. I knew people are doing this but it’s not the norm of Thai culture. It’s improper. Okay, many couples do cohabit. I’m fine with that. It’s everywhere, even in Thailand (I’m so sure that there’re cases of pregnancy before marriage, the infamous case was of the well-known Thai actress. It caused much stir in the country. People kept talking about it for months).

Nevertheless, what really disturbed me is the fact that a guy marry a girl because she’s pregnant. It’s like the guy has to take responsibility for what he’s done. Pregnancy…responsibility…are not reasons for marriage. I think it should be the other way round: a guy marries a girl then she’s got pregnant. That’s the way. Then he told me what’s happening in Germany and Europe in general. As you guys might have guessed, it’s something like what happening in Hollywood right now. After that, we went on chatting about other things related to that issue. He talked about his relationship. He said he used to have a girlfriend but they kind of broke up ‘cos of distance. He’s away on exchange program and she’s going to be away too. I told him it’s a stupid reason to end a relationship. If he and obviously her are willing to work on it, they should give it a try. Brian and Lea were in that same situation but they survived. Three years into the relationship, they're still going strong. They are now living happily together in New York. Fai came back and she ushered us to get back to work.

It’s good to have that conversation with him. I rather bored talking to him about studies, exams, projects and subway daily specials (I take 3 courses with him and we are in the same groups for 2 projects). I can say that I’ve made one new good friend.

By the way, he also jokingly said that if our parents ever going to see the report, they’re going to come after him for being such a bad influence to us. I told him not to worry about it ‘cos we are changing that part. We changed it to, “they get married at the age of 30 and they are expecting their first child a year after.” Sounds better eh?

2006-11-28T00:47:00.000+07:00

FROZEN FISH BURIED UNDER SCHOOLWORK

Ottawa ~ It's getting colder and colder here. However, some of my friends told me that it's supposed to be colder than it actually is right now (honestly, it has already been cold for me). I dont know whether I should be thankful or be worried about it: Be thankful as I wont be frozen too early or be worried as the cause of this would definitely be one of the environmental concerns. The latter is the priority (obviously). Captain Planet, we need you!!! Of course, I can do my part 'cos saving our planet is the thing to do. The power is mine!

Done with the frozen part, now comes the schoolwork. There're loads of stuff to do: piles of work on my desk. I dont really know where to start. Thus, I always end up surfing the internet, listening to music and slacking around. I prioritize my work. However, after I do what's needed to be done, I dont feel like studying anymore.

I have a group project due this week. It's kind of done so I'm not really worry about it. Still, there're 2 more group projects due next week. One is going nowhere and another one is getting there. Finals are coming soon. I have loads of stuff to study for. Finance materials are definitely tougher. Marketing exam involves detailed information. I need like 80 GBs of memory to remember all the facts in the textbook. Accounting is pretty okay but it requires lots of practice. And the fact that Dood is coming to visit me this weekend really add on to the pressure (though I cant really wait for this weekend to come). I need (at least try) to finish those projects before he comes so that I can spend time with him doing stuff that I've been wanting to do here.

But...what am I doing now? Blogging! Even though I know that TH probably be the only one who visits my blog at this period of time (as the rest of you guys are being 'choa muggers' right now. I'll be one soon. Maybe, I'll start when I wake up this morning), I still blog.

Also, I am thinking about writing on the stuff I find interesting when I'm here. Actually, I've planned to do that after I finish with my finals. Nevertheless, there are many stories I want to share with you guys. Each of my post would be pretty long. I dont like it to be that way. So, I'll blog it when things pop up into my head, given that I'm not in a mood of studying. I think I'll start with the story of my group's personal finance project that triggerred cultural talk.

Reported by Jay

P.S. I knew it's long but I couldnt help it. I've tried to put photos for this post but it didnt seem fit.
P.S.2 Thank you for sticking with me 'till the end. Love you!

2006-11-20T07:24:00.000+07:00

One of those days is over!!!

I have to give thanks to the trip to Mt.Tremblant.
I really enjoyed it there: the town, the crapes, desserts at Casey's and the hotel room.
It's my first trip after the one to Montreal in early September.

On the second day, I met this kid, Daniel by chance. He was jumping along the walkway so I joined him. We raced up the hill. It was fun. Then his dad called him. We said goodbye but then he ran back to hug me. He's so adorable.

This is the day I fall in love...hehe..

See this...he was holding my hand.. = )

P.S. I'll put the slides on other photos for you guys to see later, maybe after my finals. There're lots of work for me to catch up with right now. By the way, I'll keep you guys posted on the silly and fun stuff I do here. Love you all but now I love Daniel more. Haha...

2006-11-15T02:11:00.000+07:00

Is it because of the weather?
Is it because of me?

Suddenly I feel so lonely.
Suddenly I miss you guys who are halfway around the world so badly.
Suddenly I dont want to stay here in Ottawa anymore (even though I like it so much).
Suddenly the trip to Mt. Tremblant is not worth going (as it means that I have to wait for two more weeks to see Dood, a good friend I've not met for 3 years).
Suddenly I am not in a mood to do anything alone anymore ( though, I'm dying to get out of the Rez and do sth. But without you guys...it's just not the same). I want to spend time with all of you guys ( be it hanging in the boring TCHBS or just eating yummy food at Tha Prachan).
Suddenly I am in tears.

When was the last time I chatted with Mae, YP, Feli, A, Or+ ( and the rest) on MSN?
When was the last time I skyped with TH?

I really miss the time we spent together.
I really miss your voice.
I really miss your presence.
I just miss you.

Two more weeks until a reunion with my good old friend...

I can only wait.
I can only hope that the weather will get better.
I can only anticipate this feeling to fade away.

P.S. I know many of you guys are having or preparing for exams...so good luck to all of you. สู้ตายนะ!! Jiayou!!

2006-11-11T09:10:00.000+07:00

Evolution of

into

2006-11-09T05:39:00.000+07:00

What a way to start a day!
I had my breakfast with Grant (the sweetest guy on my floor) this morning. We shared our boxes of cereal (it's obvious that I have more than he has). I tried Post Shreddies he brought. It was nice. Maybe I'll add it on to my collection...hmmm...= )

And yesterday morning I had breakfast (cereal of course) with Christian (the German guy in my group) as we had to finish up the last bit of our group ppt before the class started.

Two mornings...two breakfasts...with two guys...hehe..

Still there's one guy I really want to have breakfast with. I've been longing to have breakfast with him for quite a while. He's Tim Hortons.

Looks good eh?

And this would be my ideal day: breakfast with Tim (Hortons), lunch with Jimmy (the Greek), and dinner with Ben and Jerry('s). I would be so happy (so broke and so fat by the end of the day...hehe..).

2006-11-07T10:13:00.000+07:00

I have this project to do for my marketing class. We have to come up with ads for this beer. This is what we ended up with (actually we have 3 executions all tgt but we only shot this one. The other two storyboards are in drawing). What do you guys think abt it?

CANADIAN @ HEART

2006-11-06T04:25:00.000+07:00

Somebody stops me!!! 13 boxes now!

I woke up this morning and saw this outside my window. It snowed, wet snow though.

I didnt go outside with my flipfops like I did last time. It was too cold for me to do anything except lying in my comfy bed. =P

Also, I bought this mag (again).

One thing I dun understand about it is that why an issue is out a month earlier. Last time I bought Nov issue in early Oct. The one I bought today is Dec issue. Weird eh?

I was back to cooking mode, even if it's only for today.

The baked potatoes took freaking long.
Next time I cook, I'll stick to ข้าวไข่เจียว (rice with omelette). = )

2006-11-05T11:31:00.000+07:00

Girls just wanna have fun.

Invitation card...

The drinks and the girls...

Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

I wanna have my own copy of this! Cool eh?

I only took photos of drinks I think I'll like (all are Tequila and Vodka based).

Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My fave part: shots

Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

I vote this for the best costume- Red Head in Bed.

I didnt stay long and I didnt drink at all. Btw, I wanna try all the shots I havent drunk yet. Next party maybe...hehe...

2006-11-03T10:16:00.000+07:00

A small piece of Tim Hortons donut I had today is making me eating non-stop.
I told myself that I was going to eat only a small piece of Boston Creme.

I did it.
BUT...
Gib mentioned abt how many Tim Hortons donuts my frens in Calgary eating each day while we were chatting on MSN.
After we were done chatting, this monster urge inside of me tried to get me to finish the Boston Creme.

"You have to finish that yummy donut!"

I suppressed it by eating apples.
5 apples were gone.
Then the donut's gone.
I was conquered ( he really got me man).
That was just a starter.
SO...
2 of

Shit!
I really need to sweat.
havent played squash for freaking long...
too damn cold to run outdoor...
treadmills at the gym are always occupied...

อยากเล่นสควอชโว้ย
I wanna play squash.
Ich mochte squash spielen gern.

and eat squash too...Haha..

2006-11-01T11:48:00.000+07:00

My first Halloween...

This is a bag of candy I have for the kids.

Two class skippers...

...roamed around Sandy Hill.

The kids were extremely cute.

The best part...

We walked along Blackburn Ave. and saw this house with a very nice Halloween decorations.

So we stopped by and took photos with each and every item.

Then this...

N.P. was the first one. Nothing happened.

Then it's my turn. I felt that there's a hand coming to grab my shoulder. It moved! I screamed and went to hug N.P. (who screamed 'cos of me) Everybody was looking at us; toddlers puzzled and older kids and parents giggled. What a scene...what a scene...

Frightened me right? So I went trick or treating the wife.

This was what I got (I finished a package while we were walking back to the Rez)...not bad for a first-timer.

The aftermath...

212 Blackburn Ave. I'll be back!

We didnt go to Children's Hospital though. It was 7.30 when we were done with Sandy Hill. The kids at the hospital would be asleep by the time we got there. Actually, we were thinking about the possibility of us being kicked out by nurses for going there a bit late...haha...

Parliament Hill became our next destination.

We kept walking...

until we reached...

where I bought...

(chatted with TH on skype and told her abt it. I also told her abt 12 pounds of apples I bought yesterday. She said 'you siew(บ้า)!').

I dun think I have to see a doctor any time soon. Haha...

What that's left ( I did eat some bars during the night...Hehe...).

Happy Halloween!

2006-10-31T08:55:00.000+07:00

TH, Feli, YP... I wish you guys were here.

And Dood...YOU'D BETTER GET YOUR ASS HERE REAL SOON!!!

2006-10-29T22:55:00.000+07:00

I have 25- hour day today. WooHoo!
Anw, it is one extra hour wasted.
I havent done anything productive since Friday.

It was freaking cold when I woke up in the morning.
It was chilling when I walked along the hallway
It was shivery everywhere.
So I went back to my warm bed and stayed there all morning.

Half of the day wasted...

P'Beam (she's an exchange student from last year who decided to finish her undergrad here), Bonny, Pam, Nin (an exchange from B.E.) and I went to a Korean rest. with Meng (He's a fren of P'Beam. They've known each other since last year) for lunch. The food was good (nothing compared to Thai food though. Hehe...). We ate a lot. I couldnt remember what we ate as they were all in Korean. After that Meng drove us back to the Rez.

In the afternoon, there was a Halloween party for floor 8th and 9th.

Pumpkin carving...

While everybody's having fun with the pumpkins, Fai's enjoying...

Yeah...she did like it.

We didnt stay 'till the end as we had to leave for Saunders Farm for the Haunted Maze thingy.
They said it's like a hauted house and it's only during Halloween period.
Surprised that I went with them right? They said it wouldnt be that scary and I wanted to see how it's like.
Meng came to pick us up at the Rez. The place was pretty far from the U. It's surrounded by fields. It didnt feel like we are still in Ottawa at all. It was so dark when we got there though it's only 5-ish. The place looked really spooky. There werent many pple around. We found out later that the farm closed at 5 on Sun and the Maze thingy started at 6 p.m. on weekdays. It seemed like we have to come back here again (I dun think we would). Btw, I was kinda glad abt it.
We didnt know what to do after that. Meng suggested grocery shopping and then we went to WalMart at somewhere west of Ottawa. We bought loads ('cos Meng driving us home).
Do you guys know what I buy?

These...

(Fai bought some, too. She has 11 boxes of cereal now)

And this...

It's called Sip-A-Bowl. I saw Grant ( a sweet guy on my floor) using it when he eats his Cheerios and I've been wanting it all along. Mine is blue and Fai's is green (cereal killers need their weapons). I think Grant's one is yellow.
This is my collection of cereal.

Now comes the prob. I have too much food.

Moreover, I have milk, veggies, eggs and 2 boxes of Eggo in the fridge.
I need to plan carefully on how I am going to finish all the food.

2006-10-29T08:53:00.000+07:00

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head...
...Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'...

It's been raining all day today.
It was raining when I woke up, and I didnt feel like getting out of my cosy bed at all. I just wanted to stay under my blanket forever ( the other reason for this was it's freaking cold in my room).
It's still raining right now.

Anw, I've been wanting to eat Ben and Jerry's for a few days (Tues and Wed-feeling blue...Thur 'till now- just want to eat it). I still couldnt decide on what flavour I'd buy. The dilemma lies between 'Chunky Monkey' and 'Chocolate Fudge Brownie'. I could buy two but it wont be so healthy ( as you guys know, I'll finish them all at once).

Damn, I wish P'Pum was here so I dont have to pay for it myself (For SG kakis, P'Pum is my cousin who always buys me ice-cream when he visits BKK. Actually, I kinda force him to treat me. What a nice sis I am. Hehe...)

And on Thursday, I went to a Hockey game with my frens. It was Ottwa Senators against Toronto Maple Leafs (the Sens rival...it's like TU vs CU and ACJC vs RJC) game. I really had a good time watching the game. It was one cool experience.

Scotiabank Place: Home of the Ottawa Senators

Inside the stadium...

This fellah was sitting next to me during the game. He was such devoted fan of the Senators. He kept shouting at the Leafs fans. Anw, it was kinda funny. We called him P'Suck ( he painted 'LEAFS SUCK' on his cheeks). I shouted so much that my voice was gone during the third period ( I wouldnt shout as much if I wasnt sitting beside this guy). It was fun. I really enjoyed it.

The Battle of Ontario...

The Senators (in red) and the Leafs (in white)...

Can you guys see the puck here?

Face off..

Red Light! The Sens Scored...WooHoo!

The Sens won 7-2. This guy scored 5 goals for the team. Dany Heatley rox!

The goalie, Ray Emery was awesome. He saved so many shots during the game. He's like Peter Schmeichel of the hockey world.

I've learned that we could trade the ticket for a slice of pizza for every 6 goals scored by the Sens. That night we scored 7 so I could get a slice with my tic. I didnt know which to go for. Pizza from Pizza Pizza was sth I'd wanted to try. I wanted to keep the tic as a souvenir too. So before I could decide on it, I took a pic of the tic (in case I chose pizza).

In the end, I chose the tic. Fai and N.P. went to claim their pizza yesterday. It's pepperoni pizza. I've told you guys that I'm not eating pork here. And I'm not going to.

After the game, we went to Suite 34 for a Halloween party.

Tequilla shots...

N.P. got stuck with Yassin...

Now comes the food part.

Fai, she's in love with cereal. She called herself a cereal killer. I think I'm becoming one too.

This is not a lot compared to Fai's collection. She has 7 in total and she has been eating a few more in the past two months. It's not that I like cereal or crave for it. I just want to try sth new. Sth that I cant find in Thailand. Btw, Post 'Banana Walnut Crunch' is still my fave.

Today I finally bought a cup of Tim Hortons. It's not coffee though. It's a cup of hot chocolate. I liked it. It tasted pretty good. Anw, I'll try the coffee soon.

I cooked today. It's the same old thing...stir-fry veggies. But I dont care, I havent had it for almost a month.

Before...

After...

2006-10-25T22:49:00.000+07:00

Today’s my day off. So I spent my day tidying up my room and did the laundry.
I did a pretty good job right?

My cosy bed…

Anw, I cant believe that I have only abt 2 months left before I go back home. Time passes by so fast. So I kinda list down things that I have to do before I leave Ottawa.

This is my list.
1. walk to Alexandra Bridge to Quebec side, stop at Imax, then walk back to Ottawa via Du Portage Bridge (been wanting to do this since I got here…dunno why I keep postponing it. Better do this before winter comes)

2. go to the nicest park in Ottawa
3. eat the best poutine in town
4. go to St. Laurent (I’m the only one out of 5 outgoing girls who has nvr been there)
5. complete walk along the Parliament Hill
6. try Tim Hortons coffee (I’ll see what’s so nice abt it though I dun drink coffee)
7. explore Ottawa (have to go somewhere else besides downtown area)
8. snowball fights
9. skating on Rideau Canal
10. cant think of anything…there’s gotta be more…

Moreover, Bonny and I are planning to go to NYC to visit our friend, Brian. We are free when he’s not. He has to work. We have our projects, quizzes and exams. We need to find out when we are going there, urgently. We dunno when we are going to have a chance to meet him again. (TH,YP, Feli…I know what you guys are thinking. I do plan to visit you guys in SG…it’s just our schedules clash…Anw, I’ll see whether I can go there in Feb. Benjy's going to be back during that time too.)
Talking abt Brian makes me think abt Tyler, Brian’s nephew. He’s a very adorable kid. I haven’t met him but I visited his website for a few times. He’s getting cuter and cuter.

Cute eh?

2006-10-25T10:56:00.000+07:00

I NEED BEN AND JERRY'S!!!
I NEED TO WALK!!!
I NEED TO LET IT OUT!!!

Today is my worst day in Ottawa. Btw, I'm not going to write lots abt it. What is done is done.
You guys just know that my last two exams were disasters. My day sucked and someone knocked the stupid door on my head. It's damn painful.
My head is like this now...

Let's change the topic.

TH said that I should translate the song for some of you guys. But it's freaking hard to do that. So I'll just tell you roughly what it's abt.
Umm...it's about this guy who is trying to find a word to describe the feeling he has towards his girl. However, he feels that there's no words that can describe it. And he believes that the actions would worth more than words: the way he looks at her, the way he treats her...all those stuff...
Even a Piscean like me thinks it's cheesy here but I swear to my Babe that it sounds better in Thai. I think Mea agree with me, right?

Anw, do you guys miss me? I know you do 'cos I miss you guys too!

Yeah...I supposed to be studying for the past week that I disappeared.
BUT...I did more than that...

Let's see what I'd been doing. It's quite long but you guys have to stick with me k? You dun wanna miss silly photos...Hehe...

Wed Oct 18,

Many of my floormates had already finished their mid-terms. Patricia was one of them and she put this on my door.

Thanks dear...Anw, I still love her. What a nice girl she is.

Thursday Oct 19,

I tried to study but the party animals on my floor didnt allow me too. They made so much noise (as always). I couldnt concentrate. I wanted to go to the library to study but I was so comfy in my fisherman pants that I didnt want to change to jeans just to go to the library and it was so cold outside. Finally, they left for a pub ard 1 a.m. This was what I did after they left.

This Matt...dun wanna talk abt him...

And these two girls...they woke me up at 4 in the morning twice! Can they just keep quiet and go to sleep like normal pple do?

I went back to study after that...didnt do as much as I wanted to though.

Friday Oct 20 and Saturday Oct 21,

Party again!?
Please...I had to study...
I didnt sleep at all that night. But dun get me wrong, I'm not that studious. I finished reading what I had to at ard 3 a.m. I wasnt sleepy so I googled the internet until 8 in the morning.
I started with 'chip and dale' and I found this amazing website- http://www.retrojunk.com/
Then I went...

"Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers
Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'n Dale - When there's danger."

and then...

"Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart

GO-O-O PLANET

By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet...

...We're the planeteers. You can be one too.

'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do.

Looting and polluting is not the way.

Hear what Captain Planet has to say:THE POWER IS YOURS"

and then...

"They're Pinky and the Brain!

Yes, Pinky and the Brain!"

Actually there were more...but I just skip those.

I went to a movie website for some OSTs I wanted to listen. Then I visited YouTube to see those MVs (e.g. grow old with you by Adam Sandler). The by-products from the movie website are quotes from movies.
These are some of my fave ones.

Love Actually:
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

Dodgeball:
Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't anything to regret for the rest of their life. Well good luck to you Peter. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you forever.

Angels in the Outfield:
My name is Maggie Nelson. I take care of foster kids. One of these boys is the child who can see angels. He could stand up right now and tell you what's going on and I'd know you'd just laugh at him. But, when a professional football player drops to one knee to thank God for making a touchdown, nobody laughs at that. Or when a pitcher crosses himself before going to the mound, no one laughs at that either. It's like your saying it's okay to believe in God, but it's not okay to believe in angels. Now, I thought that they were on the same team.

We all need someone to believe in. Every child I have ever looked after has someone: an angel. You've got to have faith. You've got to believe. You have to look inside yourself. The footprints of an angel are love, and where there is love, miraculous things can happen.

Then I stuck at YouTube for the rest of the morning!
It started from Matchbox 20 (push, unwell, disease, 3 a.m.) and then Hootie and the blowfish (only wanna be with you), The Wallflowers (one headlight, heroes,sleepwalker), Alanis Morissette (ironic), Frank Sinatra ( I wont dance, I’ve got you under my skin), and more.

Damn! Most of the things I mentioned here are making me miss the 90’s.
I love the 90’s.

Then Sat morning came…

Couldn’t stay up anymore, so I went to bed at 9 a.m.
At 10 a.m., Bonny called…
Bonny: Jay, are you coming with us this evening?
Jay: (extremely sleepy voice) No, I have to study…3 exams on Mon and Tue.
Bonny: Ok.

At noon, Bonny called again…
Bonny: Are you sure, you’re not coming with us?
Jay: Yup. I dun wanna go out…really need to study.
Bonny: It’s only from 4 to7. It wont be long.
Jay: I’d love to but I just cant…
Bonny: Ok.

BUT
At ard 4.30 p.m., Fai called…
Fai: Do you wanna go out?
Jay: No. Why?
Fai: Look outside! The weather is so nice. I dun wanna stay in my room. I cant stand it anymore. Let’s take a walk.
Jay: Where?
Fai: Loblaws…
Jay: Umm…not interested ว่ะ (wha = lah)

After I hang up the phone, I looked outside my window again. The weather was really really nice. It was sunny and all. So I told myself ‘what the heck am I doing here in the Rez? I should enjoy the day by taking a stroll along the canal’. I knew I should be studying but the slacker Jay always got the best of me.
I walked along Rideau Canal to the Parliament Hill, went across to Major’s Hill Park, to ByWard mkt and then I walked back to the Rez along the same route. I spent quite sometime at the park. You guys’ve gotta be here to know how pretty the scenery was. It was beautiful. I was awed. I bet Feli’s going to love it here. It was a shame that I didn’t bring my camera along with me. Anw, I promise that I’ll take some photos for you guys to see. I’ll definitely walk there again (and again and again). I picked up some maple leaves from the park and I took a photo of them when I got back. At least I have sth to show you guys…haha…

It’s also Bonny’s B’day.
She got cakes from us and from her local friends.

From MP and WanTing...

And then from us...

love her expression!...

enjoy eating...

taking turns...

Gals gone nutters after eating too much sugar!

It was not a productive day. However, it was fun.

Sunday Oct 22,

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
It's snowing in Ottawa. Even though it's wet snow, it's still snow. I went outside to take photos. I didnt want to put on my shoes so I wore my flipflops out. My toes went numb. I'm not going to do this again.

Jean-Francois was amused when he saw me taking photos. He gave me a smile that saying sth like 'you are just like a kid'.

N.P. was so hyper during the night. She came to my room and sang and dance 'hips dont lie'! She did it twice that night.

I was so bored with reading and studying that I started to take photos of me and my room.
The story behind these photos? I took photos of my room and the view outside so often but I didnt have any photos of myself with my room and with the view. So...

Can you guys see me here? I kinda blend in right? Haha... : )

Babe and I...

Exams can make one go crazy...

Monday Oct 23,

ADM 3352 at 1430...It was not hard. It was an open-book exam. Therefore...
I listen to Hootie and the Blowfish's 'only wanna be with you' for almost thirty times!

" I'm such a baby yeah. The dolphins make me cry.
...
Yeah I'm tangled up in blue. Only wanna be with you..."

Nevertheless, it's still not powerful enough to get N.P.'s Hips Dun Lie out of my head! She kept singing the song into my head.

I think that's all for my 'intensive' study week.

Oh! I almost forgot abt food.

Sandwiches that kept me alive.

My 3 musketeers...I like the 2nd one the most.

My toasts helpers..

2006-10-18T09:01:00.000+07:00

Why do random things keep popping into my head lately?

This morning...
A song popped into my head while I was taking a shower. And it kept playing in my head throughout the day.
It's a Thai song, so I hope some of you guys dun mind me writing this in Thai.
It's a very old song called 'แทนคำนั้น' พวกแกจำกันได้รึเปล่า โคตรชอบเลย

อยากจะมีคำพูดสักคำที่แทนความจริงจากใจที่มี
อยากจะสื่อความหมายดีๆที่พอจะทำให้เธอได้เข้าใจ
คำบางคำที่ดีสักคำหนึ่ง คำบางคำที่จะซึ้งกินใจ ที่จะพอจะใช้แทนใจจากฉัน
แต่จะมีคำพูดคำใดที่แทนความจริงจากใจให้กัน
ต่อให้คำเป็นร้อยเป็นพันก็คงบรรยายไม่พอได้เหมือนใจ
ความเป็นจริง ที่เห็นที่เป็นอยู่คงจะดีกว่าคำพูดใดๆและไม่มีสิ่งไหนมากมายกว่านั้น
แทนสัญญา.. แทนสายใยในหัวใจ.. ที่นิรันดร์
ก็คือความจริงใจที่คงมั่นที่ตัวฉันนั้นมีให้เธอ
มีหัวใจ.. และสายตาแทนสัญญา.. ว่ารักเธอ
และจะมีเพียงพอมาให้เธอ.. ผู้เดียว

And yesterday morning while I was having my toasts...
I realized why I keep on snacking on friuts, veggies, and toasts for the past 10 days or so.
It's because I hadnt had any proper meal since I started studying.
I wanted rice. I wanted a proper meal.
BUT...
It would be too time-consuming to cook (preparing, cooking, doing the dishes).
SO...
I decided to go to Rideau Center for Jimmy The Greek.
AND...
It was a really good decision!

I was so full...felt so good...
I didnt snack at all 'till dinner (if you dun count 2 apples, a plum and a nectarine every hour after lunch).

Anw, I went to ByWard mkt to add fruits and veggies to my collection...

FYI: I finished all oranges in one day. There are only 8 apples left and the veggies are like...more than half gone.

Back to dinner...
I know a have to eat a proper meal but due to time constraint...
I made a big bowl of salad (actually it's more like a big pot) and drank 1 1/4 cup of milk (2/4 just milk and the rest with Cheerios).
I thought it was a big meal for me...but no!
I'm now hungry again...with that...I think I'll go find sth in the fridge to snack.
Haha...= )

2006-10-16T04:29:00.000+07:00

My staple food for the next couple of days...

2006-10-15T10:09:00.000+07:00

Let's see how long they are going to last...

2006-10-14T06:32:00.000+07:00

I shall believe TH and be a little bit more relaxed.
Anw,I'm on exchange.
What an excuse! LoL

It's freaking cold today.
The winds were and still are extremely chilly.
I wore 3 layers of protection (a T-shirt, a sweater and a jacket)...It didnt really help.
And this song kept playing in my head...I changed the lyrics a bit though...hehe

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Ottawa and Rome
...
Mmmmmmmm

Another winter day has come
And not gone away
In even Ottawa and Rome
...
Mmmmmmmm

Let me go home
'Cause I’m just too far from where the warmth and good food are
I wanna come home
...

but you know...I'll survive (as long as I know how to cope with the weather...I know I will stay alive)...hehe...

Damn, I need gloves urgently!

Apart from that...I'm succumbing to all the temptations!

1. visiting doc-depot always becomes a pathway in googling the Internet and doing sth else (eg. updating my blog and looking around others')
2. studying always becomes an excuse to eat and snack more (I still exercise and try to eat fruits. But those fruits are nvr enough for me. Bought 8 oranges yesterday...now I left with none).
3. there are more...

I think I'm not a person with a strong will.
However, I'm so determined not to eat pork when I'm here in Canada.
Do you guys know why?
It's because of him.

Dont you guys think he's cute?
If no, see him again...

He's such an adorable babe.
Anw, I havent eaten much pork here. I think I'll be ok...but when I go back home...umm... = )

2006-10-12T08:31:00.000+07:00

After my second napping of the day, I had a strong urge...desire...whatever you guys called it... for ข้าวไข่เจียว (rice with omelette). So I went to the kitchen and made it.

+ =

It tasted so good for such a simple dish.
Simply delicious...

Now, let's be serious.
My first exam is coming in less than a week. I have this pile of materials to study for...

I even did the agenda for my revision...

The problem was I kept dozing off! Eventually, it became a nap. Three naps today. Damn...I'm doomed!

I need to get rid of my bed...see how close it is to the desk...

Btw, why the hell on earth am I here updating my blog!?

2006-10-09T10:58:00.000+07:00

The Awesomely Ouchful Weekend!!!

These were the awesome parts...

Sat Oct 7: Turkey Lurkey!

We were invited by Kavi and her boyfriend Rostam and Karine to our first Thanksgiving dinner. There were loads of food and they were all so delicious, esp the pumpkin pie. Thanks them all for the wonderful night!

The table...there were names on the plates.

Wow...what a feast!

It was the best dinner we've ever had in Canada!

Sun Oct 8: Gatineau Park

Breakfast at Erik's...Yummy!

It was the guys who made them!

Alex made the pancakes.

Erik did the strawberry sauce.

Best Canadian breakfast ever! Thanks guys.

Then it was time for Gatineau Park.

A walk to the cavern...we played ultimate while we were walking there.

He does look like Jim Carrey here eh?

Umm...I've nth to say...

Beaverhouse...

and our 4 beavers!

It turned out that we were not that prepared to get inside the cavern...so we ended up taking photos instead.

This was the cavern we supposed to get inside.

My precious...

The scenery...very beautiful...

I love this photo. Great job Fai!

Candid Camera!

At a Mexican Rest. in ByWard mkt...

Beavertails...finally!!!

A very friendly and funny guy at Beavertails...

Yumm Yumm...

And that was the end of the day.

Now comes the ouchful part...

Tonight and tomorrow (Oct 9)

Damn! I still have so much work to complete. The problematic ones are ADM3343 and ADM3351.
I couldnt do qn no. 16 for 3343. It's...I dunno what...
And there's so much to digest and absorb for 3351...that darn duration and convexity. I just couldnt get it!
That...ouch!!!

2006-10-06T10:20:00.000+07:00

Another healthy grocery shopping at Loblaws...I spent ard 10 bucks on them. Damn! I wish I were in Thailand. I could get almost 10 kgs of fruits with the same amount of money.

I also bought this. It's one nice magazine. I believe it's like 'Health and Cuisine'. There're loads of recipes inside it and they all look yummy!

I'm not becoming a Canadian though. Still I like this country and I love Ottawa. Dont take me wrong...I do miss Thailand. It's just I also like it here. Thailand and Canada should not be this far apart. For that, I think I have to dream on...haha...

2006-10-04T11:57:00.000+07:00

After waiting for almost two weeks for it, my post finally reached me. Does anybody call this an expressed mail?

These are what my mail had been through...

From http://track.thailandpost.co.th/
ผลลัพธ์สำหรับ EE059631877TH
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28 กันยายน 2549 7:18:00 ต่างประเทศ รับเข้าระบบ

From https://obc.canadapost.ca/emo/basicPin.do
Item Number:EE059631877TH
2006/10/02 AM OTTAWA, ON Item successfully delivered to Receiver
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2006/09/2813:18 VANCOUVER, BC International item has arrived in Canada

In the afternoon, Fai and I went to pick up our passports from U.S. Embassy. We got the visas and they last for 10 years! If Brian got married with Lea within these 10 years, I can attend their ceremony (given that I have money to fly to U.S. haha).

This is my pick-up card.

And yesterday, my watch broke. I didnt know what happen to it. It became like this...

This sux! This watch is sth I cant live without. I have to put it in my pocket so that I can check on time whenever I want. Sometimes, out of my habit, I rolled up my sleeve just to fine that my watch was no longer on my wrist! It would cost me loads to fix it here so I think I have to get used to having it in my pocket from now on.

I will end today blog with a photo of another dish I cooked today. It's a macaroni soup. It did taste good (to my taste buds). There were only white and red onions, white radish, crab sticks, soya sauce and 2 cubes of Knor...I kept the leftover for tmr so that I wont have to cook again.

2006-10-02T04:05:00.000+07:00

How come my blog is flooded with photos of food!?

I've been spending too much time in the kitchen and at grocery stores. I have to stop buying food and eating them unnecessarily. I dun wanna get fatter here. I wanna be healthy and strong when I go back home. Anw, it's so hard to stop snacking, especially when I have to study and do homework (loads of work to catch up with).

Btw, I did cook today. It's sth similiar to what I did last time 'cos I ran out of 'creative' ideas. It's a little bit more colourful this time with the purple, yellow and normal cauliflowers I bought from the ByWard mkt yesterday. Also, I didnt put baby carrots in as I need to keep them for my 'healthy' snacking during the nights.

P.S. There was no creation no.7 as I was too lazy to cook. I only microwaved the leftover and ate it with rice a few days ago.
P.S. 2 TH, help me! I dun think I can stop eating lor...(remember how much I ate when I was in SG?)...sian and sign...

2006-10-01T07:40:00.000+07:00

The weather was extremely nice. It was sunny and not too cold. Fai and I planned to play the new frisbee at the lawn in front of Tabaret Hall. However, the rest werent free. Also, it wouldnt be that fun if there were only two players. So, we ended up going to ByWard mkt and Loblaws...

The healthiest grocery shopping ever!

Last night I was so bored...so I took photos of the night from my room.

2006-09-30T12:30:00.000+07:00

This is my new frisbee and it's ultimate! It's so much better than my old small one. I'm definitely going to have fun playing it with my friends.

2006-09-29T02:27:00.000+07:00

Has anyone ever wondered how many dishes one can make with only two heads of broccoli, one red pepper, one yellow pepper, and a package of baby carrot?

let's count!

no. 1 and 2 have already been posted on previous posts

3.

4.

5.

6. my latest creation...

I was so proud of my latest creation that I took photos of how I made it...

part of it was kept for my creation no.7 and part of it became the sauce for my linguine...

linguine + sauce = ....

cheese added...and melted...

looks yummy...tastes...umm...=)

2006-09-25T00:28:00.000+07:00

boatcruise last night and I didnt drink!

2006-09-23T04:15:00.000+07:00

another look-ok meal...eat it at my own risk!

2006-09-22T11:31:00.000+07:00

1200 : went out to buy groceries at Loblaws with Fai, Bonny, NP, Pam and Peach
1300 : got so hungry...told myself that 'i'm gg to cook today'
1400 : got even hungrier...
1430 : back at the rez and started to cook
1530 : took too long to prepare...rice's not done...cldnt eat the meal in time...
1535 : started to eat instant noodles while waiting for the fish to be done...
1540 : the fish was done...wrapped everything and put them in the fridge...
1545 : finished with the noodles...
1550 : ran for 1600 class...
2000: reheated everything i cooked...they didnt look as good as they supposed to be...the taste was allright though...hehe...

2006-09-20T23:24:00.000+07:00

What a memorable day!

long live the King!

Military Coup in Thailand...

Luckily that there's no violence...gotta be grateful for that...
anw, หน้าเหลี่ยม Get Out!!!!!!!!!

1848 and Minglewoods...best night ever!

just to prove that i was there...

2006-09-19T11:30:00.000+07:00

I bought the course package for ADM3326 and it costs me CAD $37.35 for that! It's so expensive. I wish I could photocopy it at P' Ooi's. It would be so much cheaper...much more cheaper...

so expensive...zu teuer...โคตรแพง...Moose Moose...

2006-09-17T16:25:00.000+07:00

Our day trip in Montreal

my 1st bite in the French city...apple turnover...

a walk along the old Montreal

where we spent lots of money...

on...

the obsession with the stop signs

Tom Yam Soup at Montreal Eaton Center...so not like Tom Yam...

Montreal chocolate milk freak...

back to where we started

last stop before leaving the city...

2006-09-16T12:56:00.000+07:00

took a walk along Rideau Canal...then the Parliament...and ard downtown area...

I'll definitely take a stroll along this route again...anyone interested?

2006-09-15T13:54:00.000+07:00

Today's Jessica's B'day...so we went out for a cake at 9 sth...damn late for a cake
went to somewhere near ByWard mkt...

then we found a vietnamese restaurant that served dessert
we ordered slices of cake...except Chad who's insisting on eating a bowl of noodle soup...
we waited for quite a while for our cakes...and then they came...
one by one...

Vicky's

Erin's

Jessica's

Jay's...cheesecake...fattening eh?

cldnt get photos for Bonny and Fai's

Chad and his noodles...and there's Patrick...

more photos...

before we left...

walking back...I met my pink gay on my way back...he was with his gang...

that ended the night.

2006-09-13T11:46:00.000+07:00

nth else to say but...I've become a chocolate milk freak!!!

if I had to rank them...
Mac's
Dailyland
Sealtest
Neilson
havent tried this Na...sth yet...bet it wont be long before I get my hand on it.

2006-09-11T22:06:00.000+07:00

I bought a textbook for ADM3326 Advertising and Promotion. It's so expensive. It costs me CAD$116.76! I nvr buy this ex a text before. Moreover, it's a marketing textbook. My second marketing class in my life. I dunno how well I'll do in this class. Hope I get at least a B.
This is how it looks like.