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The Revenge of the Roosters

Oh well, well, well, you think that bad trhings happened to the kingdom of Thailand a lot lately, right? I just overheard the conspiracy theory of what's sort of in the process of coming when I went to a job interview on the same day of Bangkok subway collision. Here it goes...

To enter the Year of Rooster with the tragedy happened down south of Thailand during last year's Christmas and now subway crashed. Who knows exactly what bad thing would happen to us next. Maybe it is the millions and millions of chickens we killed earlier last year during the bird flu period that infected both naturally and farm raised chickens in the region. So now the lost souls of innocent chickens are coming back at us as we about to enter the year of Rooster, this Febuary 9th. Ughh..Scary huh? Ok just to a bit inform you with what is on our way, for your own safety, Fasten Your Seat Belt, please. ( Found this link via Stuart's Blog. )

Any thoughts? Yea right. What a THAI way of thinking!!!

Be Careful You all. Hey, a chicken is behind your back!!!

1 Year Anniversary

OK, it's been about a year and a month anniversary pf my little blog here already and earlier I planned not to mention about it because I think that I lost many of the early post , anyway, after the bug had been fixed the other day I found an 2003 archives. Just like seeing a long lost best friend I read through them all at once. Remebered how my friend laughed at story in my posts like The Legendary Naked Fishermen of Baan Phe and, the sequel, The Curse of the Mermaid. I really love these 2 stories.

Anyway, here comes 2005 and hope to bring you stories from this Bangkok City to your home. See ya.

Bangkok's Subway Crashed

Just a few moment after the rush hour in the capital of Thailand, Hundreads of people were in a hurry just to get to work or whatever destination in time. Some chose private transportation or taxis and some chose public transportation like buses, sky train or subway. Only 5 months of officially opening on 12th of August, 2004 and very few days since the government by PM Thaksin Shinawatra made a decision to drop the subway fare to 10 baht for 3 stations and 15 baht for more than 3 stations, moreover it is the first day after the school break for Thailand's University Games, Thailand's First Subway Crashed.

The first time I heard about this was from the radio when I was about to leave my house for a job interview. The announcer almost laughed, she said with a very insecure voice. I'm sure she thought how would this thing possibly happens. Anyway, half an hour later my eldest sister called me to ask if I was in the accident or not (she thought that it was the sky train accident) luckily I just took the bus and was buying a bottle of VitaMilk, my favourite soya milk. Isn't she nice calling me? Yes, she is.

Anyway, I'm alright and guess everyone I know is alright too. But a friend of a friend got head injured and lost his memory. He couldn't remember his brother who was with him on the same train too. Hope that it will be just temporarily. Here is the article from AP via Yahoo! news of the accident

Baghdad Blogger Is Coming To Thailand, Ugh...In Movie Form Though

As somewhat a lazy blogger here on tBlog site but I myself had managed myself to stumble cross the very interseting weblog called Where is Raed? a.k.a. Baghdad Blogger. Even  though the search for weapon from the US Government has been put off officially already. Anyway, at soome point after the blog itself has caught intention from people around the globe, then there is a generous people who make an interesting documentary on this. So to announce to the world from this blog community. Here to announce the 3rd Bangkok Film Festival 2005, I, myself proudly present to you the highlight movie of the event according to teh world of blogging:

Baghdad Blogger/ Salam Pax: Video Report from Iraq
Directed by: SALAM PAX
From ground zero in Iraq comes an entirely different perspective on the war. The pseudonymous Salam Pax came to worldwide attention as “the Baghdad Blogger,” an intelligent voice of reason and hope, reporting his feelings in a widely read “web log,” that was first written from the heart of Saddam’s dictatorship, and then in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion. Although an architect by training, his writing led to a columnist gig with Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Now working with Guardian Television and BBC “Newsnight”, he has filmed seven vibrant and fascinating video diaries that share the immediacy and honesty of his ‘blog. Taking to the streets with a small DV camera, he uncovers the everyday - and the extraordinary - in his traumatized country. This compilation program includes “Salam Pax Canvasses Opinion on the Capture of Saddam Hussein” (12/23/03); “Living in Baghdad One Year on from the Invasion” (3/16/04); “Salam Pax on Hopes For His Country s Future” (11/10/03); “Salam Pax Travels South to Najaf and the Marshes” (11/26/03); “Salam Pax Witnesses the Ashoura: the First Free Shia Festival Since the Fall of Saddam” (3/23/04); “Why is There a Lack of Enthusiasm for Allawi s Government?” (9/14/04), and “Arts and Leisure Activities in Post-War Iran” (9/21/04).

( The Myth of ) Card Reading

Monday Evening was spent in quite an interesting way as I got card reading from Richard. As almost every of my friends knows that I'm bored of working here for a long long time and my cards was telling the same. ( noted that P said that it's not the cards that tell the whole story but it was written on my face ) I had 4 out of 10 cards that said I was trapped and saw no way to go.

He told me further that in a next couple of days, I would receieve news about work maybe via email or telephone call but didn't say that it's either good news or bad news and might be somewhat job that someone offered me since lat month. Ughh as far as I could remember nobody told me about such offer at all. So it should be something about the airline job cos the result of the applicants who will make it to the next round of personality test will be posted on line. So I guessed that would be it.

Honestly I had a feeling since that day that I wouldn't make it to the next round and in fact I didn't find my name on the list at all. I didn't regret at all. Then only few moments later my cell phone rang. It was the woman from a pr agency that I applied for since September but I didn't get that job and in early December she called me again asked if I was interested in the 3 months long contract. I said no. This time she asked me if I'm still interested in working with her or not and would lik eme to come in and discuss on Monday 11 am. Oh well I was dying to work for them for ages, so I said that I'ld be in her office as she told. Until this point I was like feeling chilly on the back of my spine as I was thinking about what my friend, fortune teller said to me.

Hmm at some point I know myself that I am a BIG fan of card reading but I have to say that there is nothing that is so ACCURATE like this time. Is it just that psychology and he seems to be able to read my behavior and feeling. Or it's just myth that truly can bring out our fortune right in front of our faces.

New Year, New Job?

New Year starts a little bit rougly as I had to manage to get myself ready to get things together as the job application period was due. Maybe as well as my time to really get my life together. Since I finished school in 2002 I gave myself time to explore what I thought that I wanted to do but as almost 3 years past, my searching will come to an end from now on every decision change towards life would be made carefully and, if possible, forward not like standing still just like what I'm doing right now.

24 or 25 is the age of me and most of my friends, more than 30 percent of them complaining that they didn't want to be architects but probably 80 percent of them ends up being one. And I am one of the 20 percent. While I'm doing so so right now, many of my friend making 2-5 time better than me. Some of them start saving HUGE amount of money, some of them move into prime resendential area and some are living large. At the 25th year of my life, it's time to look for something serious not just the liquid dream.

Anyway, after an evening with BIG anxiety attack, I made myself to the Bangkok Airways Head Office to apply for the position. Thanks to Her Majesty, K.'s ( I think I got indirectly complained about using his name too many times here so I'll just leave this name that way ) Actifed as he got no sleeping pills left and that gave me calmness for the whole day after. Thank you.

Somebody asked me about my recent job and many of them think that it's a nice job and ask further that why I wanted to leave and become a "Flying Slut". I answered them that my job as an PR Executive for movie company sure sounds nice but I can not eat "nice". I'm 25 now if i'm still making somewhat I'm making now, I won't have anything in my life ever. And for some reason I'm bored of the way people will get salary here. As you were new to some company and you ask for certain amount of money and they would say that they can't give you that because they got somebody there working before you and get that same amount of money that you ask for even though you have much more ability  than the one working before. I think people should get as much as they are working for. Ughhh end of my complaint.

Wish me luck though.

Happy Monday Everyone.