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ASEAN Youth is Connected...in New York City

2011-01-21T00:50:00.001-08:00

NEW YORK CITY-15 Aug 2010- It is my dream to travel the world! Last month I found myself in a beautiful state of Vermont, known as a state of green mountains, farms and maple syrup, United State of America. I’m not dreaming. This is true! It is greatest gift of the year I’ve been given after working hard for 2 years traveling around Mekong + ASEAN countries. This opportunity came across; because of a good friend + meaningful work connection from Sweet Mango Tours and Gross National Happiness American Project and it was kindly sponsored by Oscars Farm Vermont. My journey was accompanied a friend from the English Crazy Club.

On the way back from Vermont, we dropped in New York City for few days before heading home to Thailand. In the arm of the Big Apple, we got a chance to meet with Bennett Haynes, a friend who worked for ASEAN Youth Movement Media Team when he was in Thailand last year. Now he is based in New York City, working for a CSA (Community Sharing Agriculture) farm, called Hearty Roots. Everyday, he gets his hands dirty, working hard on farm, waking up early to get ready for delivering healthy vegetables for communities around New York City. Recently Bennett is in Bangkok for his TEDx talk on ‘Cultivating Alternatives’, the event starts tomorrow, be sure to check it out!

I’m ASEAN youth. It is America. Now I see the world!

Follow the ventures of my dream in America atwww.fromubon2vermont.wordpress.com

Behind the Posters for Peace

2011-01-21T00:40:00.000-08:00

Words by Jaruwan Supolrai
Photos by Max Ediger
Have you any dream you’ve been pursuing? Young people across Southeast Asia dream of a hundred different things. Some may dream of getting good careers. Some of you dream of having a big house and a luxurious car. And others may dream of being a full-time world traveler. But interestingly, this group of young activists are dreaming about peace, justice and rights for their respective regions.
AYM had a chance to interview six young peacemakers who recently returned home after taking part in three-month internship program with School of Peace in Bangalore, southeastern India. They painted and colored their confrontations and conflicts into posters for peace. Here are the good stories of the hopes and dreams behind their meaningful works of art!
Stop Violence Against Women!
A young female artist behind this poster is Haryanti ‘Rica’ Sulistyorini, 25 years old, originally from East Java, Indonesia. Her work background is women’s issues. She now works on the legal reform staff of the APIK Federation (Asosiasi Perempuan Indonesia Untuk Keadilan) in Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta to promote legal reform in her country with regard to women’s rights.
The inspiration behind Rica’s art piece comes from the many cases of violence against women in Indonesia that she encounters in her work. “I see that it is very sad and painful if women have to become victims especially physical abuse and I can feel very hurt for those women.” said Rica. She hopes her poster will help raise awareness about violence against women and believes that it is the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop violence against women and to respect women’s rights.
“You can feel like women is mother of the world, you must respect because without women, we all also cannot struggle for our rights and cannot change the world.” Her hope and dream for the region is that all people can live with no rape, no trafficking of women or children, no abuse and no war. “If we live together with peace, I think we can live until one thousand years.” she ended with a big smile.
Violent Colors

The Journey of Young Peacemakers

2010-05-13T03:50:00.000-07:00

Volunteer work benefits not only these school communities,
but also the volunteers themselves

Written by Jaruwan Supolrai, Special to Service for Peace Thailand

In the middle of the day, sweating under the hot, scorching sun, a volunteer group of thirteen young Korean students from Seoul National University in Korea, had carried sand bags, bricks and buckets of mixed cement, and are now painting the beam to complete a school library for under-privileged students in a rural village of Ban Nong Yao School in Bueng Kan District, Nong Khai Province, Northeastern Thailand.

Not only have they have learned to give through an educational service project by providing a room to read, but the young volunteers themselves have learned to appreciate the values of the happiness of giving and volunteering through the ‘Dream Catcher Library Project’.

This school library project is a part of Global Peacemaker Camp, which is an initiative of Service for Peace Thailand. The peacemaker Camp lasted for two weeks. The group had already finished one library for a school village in the Mae Chaem district in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand before traveling down to the Northeast to build this one in Nong Khai.

This young volunteer group is a member of ‘Global Inter-Culturing & Volunteering Club (GIV)’ from Seoul National University. The club does many activities concerned with volunteer work and cultural exchange programs.

“It was my first time to go abroad for volunteering. I feel the sharing communion between Thai people and GIV club members, especially when children ran to me and kissed me while I was walking in the village. I feel that I’m in heaven,” said 20 year-old Lee Yu Bin, a Agriculture Economics & Rural Development major from Gwang-Ju.

Volunteers and students enjoy helping each other to build the school library by making a level floor and painting the beams. Apart from this, they also enjoy playing with each other while working hard under the hot sun. They can relax, having fun and making friends at the same time. And at the end of the day, the homestay program is ready for them.

To have cross-cultural understanding, it is very important for young peacemakers to live and learn together with people of different background and cultures. The idea is to let them learn from each other, respect others and build relationship among themselves through different organized activities.

“I feel that I have made a difference in the community. I think we all realize that although Koreans and Thais live in different lands and use different languages, our thoughts and our minds are not different. We are (now) tied (to one another) with strong affection,” sincerely revealed Lee Yu Bin.

Before this camp, Lee Yu Bin thought Thais and Koreans would have only little things in common and there would be many differences between them. “But when I saw Thai students like Super-Junior and Big-Bang [popular Korean boy bands] and we danced with some grandmothers delightfully who came to our farewell party; when they tied strings on my hands and prayed sincerely for my health and happiness, I now feel that we are one and we're tied with even stronger affection,” recalled Lee Yu Bin.

Another GIV Club member expressed her feelings that “I didn't expect the people here would welcome such foreigners that much. Maybe that's because I've been living in the big city since I was born, people around me don't usually open their mind to strangers. But villagers here made me realize that they receive people and things sincerely,” said 19-year-old Lee Yoon-ju, a linguistics major from Suwon.

At the end of the program, school teachers, villagers and students arranged a farewell party. There was a Thai blessing ceremony, a beautiful local performance, and the volunteers were invited to joyfully dance in the Isaan [Northeast] style with villagers.

Volunteers are expected to feel their personal change and growth through this program by giving change to others like building a community library and participating in a cultural exchange program with villagers and children.

“It was a true life-changing experience for me. It was a priceless lesson to communicate not just with Thai people but with people all over the world. This opportunity has broadened my perspective in many ways,” added a 21-year-old Kim Seong Hye, a Civil and Environmental Engineering student. “I could grow up mentally and feel the pleasant atmosphere of volunteer work. I became more open-hearted to other cultures and new people. I felt happy and special sweating under the scorching sun!”

“Through this program, I think I became a person who has passion. In the past, when encountering difficulties I tried to escape from the situation,” said, 19-year-old Cho Yeon Hee. “Now I enjoy challenge! I think I got courage from this program. Before I was a very shy girl, but when I talked to Thailand's kind people, I became a little more of an active person!”

O Min Seok, 23 year-old-nuclear engineering major who grew up in Seoul said that “I didn’t know the joy of volunteering before. But when I saw children laughing, and every volunteer enjoying working and playing with the children, it also made me happy. Now I have recognized that volunteering is one way to be happy.”

Many people may think that building peace is a big deal and beyond the ability of just oneself, but in fact everybody can build peace all the time. Peace building can be accomplished by working in different kinds of service work and social activities.

Each single volunteer from the project is in a position of ‘peacemaker’, willing to do social service with volunteer spirit and always ready to give and share with under-privileged people.

“We believe that bringing ‘peace’ is a way to help reduce daily social problems and make worse circumstances better. That is why we aim to encourage our volunteers to be involved in service work,” cheerfully explained Hathailak Atcharakham, 25 year-old, project coordinator from Service for Peace Thailand. “We deeply hope that ‘volunteer spirit’ will be sustainably cultivated in their minds and will continue to grow more and more,” ensured Hathailak.

After the program, a young peacemaker is supposed to feel the state of being a leader within himself or herself, and appreciate the value of being a volunteer by helping others. In addition, a young peacemaker should be aware that he or she is not just a citizen that belongs to an individual country, but is a world citizen, who is able to share the same mission with people across the globe to make peace for this world.

Start a change, become a Peacemaker!
Learn more about Service for Peace Thailand at www.sfpthailand.org

Learn, Lead and Share to Make a Difference

2010-01-18T03:14:00.000-08:00

Words and Photo by Netting

“I only understand that working on community development is all about giving betterments to the villages by building road, schools, toilets and providing other needed services, but after attending this program I’ve realised the real meaning of community development, that we have to study and understand the situation of the village first and then help improving the quality of lives of villagers to sustainability”, said Ouch Thol, 33-year-old, one of participants from Cambodian Volunteers for Society (CVS).

This one-week programme of ‘Lesson Learnt Sharing Workshop, Training and Field Study Trip’, organised by Cambodian Volunteers for Society (CVS) in collaboration with Thai Volunteer Service (TVS), Oxfam Australia and Youth Resource Development Project (YRDP), brought together 50 Cambodian young hearted-volunteers to share and learn their experiences on community development through volunteerism in order to strengthen up their skills on working social development.

CVS and YRDP have been playing an important role in supporting, training and providing volunteer opportunities for young people, especially graduates and university students to contribute and learn from the communities. “Our youth volunteers have been working in the communities for several months already, but they still lack of working skill and social work skil. So they need this learning and sharing forum among themselves”, explained Pen Somony, 27 year-old, programme coordinator from CVS.

After those young volunteers have presented and shared their lesson learnt experiences to their volunteer organisation and other volunteers, a two-day training on Community Organising (CO) process and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques have given to them before heading for the field study trip in the Mekong community villages of Kratie province, northeast of Cambodia.

CO process is a practical process of working in the community and it guides you from the very first step of staff introduction and orientation to the last step of monitoring and evaluation. Meanwhile, PRA techniques has come along as useful study tools for them to understand the community in different contexts, which consists of data gathering, social mapping, seasonal calendar and transect walk for instance.

Participants of field study trip are divided into 2 study groups. One goes to Ksach Lev village and the other goes to Koh Kchnare village. Both villages are located on the Mekong riverside of Sambo district, which is the neighboring area of the proposed location of the hydropower is. The people of these two Mekong communities mainly rely on the natural resources; fishery and forestry. Education and health are still in the poor situation due to the distant location of the village.

Through the day light, volunteers from each group worked on their assignments; the physical and history data of the village, the relationship in community, the cultivating production, culture, spiritual believes , and the community situation. And the end of the day, each group presented what they have learned from their assignment to the whole group.

Sopheak, one of the CVS young volunteers happily reviewed that she have learned how the social mapping is useful to her ‘community work’, from theory to practice, this study trip brings her to the real situation. ‘Since I’ve been in the community for already three months, I was there with few instruments for community development and I don’t know how to use it effectively like this,’ She is excited to apply those tools when she goes back to her host village next time.

Nearly the end of the study trip, all of young volunteers, children and villagers together and helped fix the road in the community by digging and carrying the soil and the small stones to repair the dirt road. All people in the village were happy for our voluntary project.

‘I hope all people in Cambodian communities have a real heart for their community, they don’t think about only themselves, they must think for today, tomorrow and for the future, in peaceful, beautiful environment.” Added Thol in the end of study journey.

As it is believed that the youth volunteers are potential social activists working in communities. “In the long-term goal, we hope that their capacity of working in social development and volunteer spirit will be more and more built up and they will collaborate among their volunteer networks and also encourage other Cambodian young people to work for community and civil society in Cambodia.”, added a 27-year-old Sambath Bun, a programme coordinator from YRDP.

Children, Family and Radio

2010-01-18T03:11:00.000-08:00

Thai Youth Community Radio Program Helps Build up Their Warm Family

By Jaruwan Supolrai

In Thailand now, local radio programs are mushrooming in every corner of this Land of Smiles. Thai youth are getting involved in this sort of project and they produce many interesting programs. Family is an interesting issue that they are currently working on. Do you ever think that this activity can help build up a warm family in their community? If yes, how? This article has the answer for you!

Every Saturday afternoon, a youth group in a small community of Tha Sao in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand, run a radio program about the warm family through their local community radio station. This activity is supported by the Human Mapping Project of the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University in Nakorn Prathom.

“I am proud to be a part of this program to help bring happiness and warmth to the families in my community”, said 14-year-old Kru ‘Niko’ Ranad, one of budding little DJs who works on this warm family program. Each person in a team is given different jobs like search for news or information and interview people, but they work together as a final product.

“It is very great for me to hear the feedbacks from my friends, family and people in my community and it is a sign that they are being aware of a warm family issue and they want to have a warm family”, Niko added with smiles.

Most of the information that they talk on the radio program is basically about the ways to a warm family, which are concerned with food security, nutrition, sanitary or even suggestions about travel places that the family can go for a holiday or local wisdom knowledge that should be maintained.

Another Little DJ Lai “Lai” Wanthong, 17 years old who used to dream of becoming a DJ said that,” I was very excited and nervous when I first was on air and another exciting activity is to go out to interview the ‘model warm family’. Being a part in this radio program is very challenging for me, it taught me how to manage my time between school and my work and I feel that I am more responsible.“

“Our main objective of the project is to promote the happiness and strengthen the relationship of the family. By that objective, we believe the youth will be the best target group to link with the family. The children and youth will also be the future of the families and communities”, explained, 59-year-old Ajaan Suvannee Promchan, a project investigator who works at the Field Research Station of Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University in Ubon Ratchathani.

Before the little DJ team had a chance to work on their radio program, the research project team organized a training workshop for them to lead them the way to work as a DJ. The workshop provided them with how to write news, how to search for news, how to make a adverting spot and as well as how to write a radio feature story.

The result of this activity turned out quite great! The children enjoy working on their radio program and the parents also help them to search for news and interesting issues to talk through the radio program or even teachers and friends at school also are kind enough providing them with their useful information for their work.

And more importantly those people always encourage the little DJs to work hard and follow up with the program. This shows that the project can be a part of helping building up a warm family to people in their community.

It is good that the youth group enjoy working on the radio program to promote the warm family’s campaign in the community. It is also beneficial that the children have had chances to improve their public speaking potentials before these little hands will be moving to the real world of work.

That is a story of a group of ‘young people’ who are filled high energy to work on the radio in order to strengthen the relationship of people in their community. On the other hand, they are just a small group who might not be able to make a big change, but it is believed that these young little hearts are filled with hopes and dreams to make a big difference in the future.

Question of Hopes and Dreams

2009-12-06T04:00:00.000-08:00

I was dreaming of working for NGO organisation since I was in high school year. A year after my graduation from UBU, I decided to move to work in Bangkok, which is a place that I never dream of living before, I finally am making it here at TVS (Thai Volunteer Service Foundation), currently working as a co-ordinator for the Collaboration for Young Generation in Mekong Region, working here I am using English alot in writing, speaking, listening and reading, I will be traveling both nationwide and around Mekong Region countries alot, I'll be writing feature articles and taking photograph a lot. What else could I ask for me??

Am I living a dream? What about all the dreams that I left behind in Ubon???

Working here is not that difficult and not that easy, but it is challenging for me. Not only the knowledge of English that I have will enable me to work for TVS. But I still need to learn all kinds of social problems in Thailand, neighboring countries and the world. I have to know about human right, environments, peace, violence, local wisdom, cultures, FTA, volunteerism and so many other issues that I have to learn and to turn professional if possible.

So, I think that earning a master degree is a need now, which I never thought before. I believe I am kind of being on the right track, I think that working for TVS will help me to think of which way I should turn to in term of professional choice....but I still do not know what I really want to do in the future...NGOs? Magazine? Photographer? Teacher? Writer? Interpreter/ translator? English Crazy Club Org?

Am I living a dream? What happens I really love working here? What about people and all the dreams I left behind in Ubon - they are waiting for me? What should I do?

Am I caught in the middle? I am.... after six-month time is over. I think I will know what my answers to this question is all about!

In between hope and dream...

-Netting
21 August 2008
Huay Kwang, Bangkok

Discovering Me - A Daughter of Isaan Commuity!

2009-12-06T03:41:00.000-08:00

for Myself and Everyone I Know

Traveling is one of the best teachers
who help me discovering my spirit
and my soul answering the call to who I am,
what I am and where I’m coming from

Since I’ve traveled to many several
countries in Southeast Asia and especially
in the Mekong countries and
finally I’ve found my own ‘cultural root’,
deeply realizing that
I’m a daughter of Isaan community,
a woman of Asia,
the owner of Eastern civilization
and a young citizen of the ‘changing world’
I’m a dreamer and a believer of this era.

Wandering around, meeting and talking to the locals
and listening to their stories.
I’ve gained a deeper appreciation of my
culture and people of their simplicity of
relaxed, slow, harmonious life.
And I can’t wait to tell other about this.

I am dreaming of leaving my work
to lying in the happy hammock
and relax under the mango tree,
telling those wonderful stories
through the eyes of mine as a young
blood writer and an aspiring photographer.

In the end
my heart
will find
home of
Isaan community

English Crazy Syndromes

2007-02-20T08:09:00.001-08:00

Been busy with the end of my semester, but I've always been thinking of updating
my blog. Now our English Crazy Club came up with the English Crazy Syndrome Project, which are brought into many ways of presentation, first is a feature article written by me, second is English Crazy Syndrome T-shirt by me and my crazy gang and last one is English Crazy Syndrome Short Film by our Learn2Give volunteers, Amy and Brandon and the crazy team. Would you like to know what are those 10 English Crazy Syndromes. Here we go!

The 10 English Crazy Syndromes:

I will speak English to myself in the mirror everyday.
I will speak English with my neighbour’s buffalos.
I will write love letters in English to my teachers.
I will dream in English and have nightmares too.
I will sleeptalk using especially rude words in English.
I will bring an English dic. everywhere, even to the toilet.
I will read English newspapers to my pet dogs and cats.
I will sing English songs very badly and loudly everyday.
I will watch English movies every week, even crap ones.
I shall be called ‘English Crazy’ if I do all of the above.

Stay updated with my Netting's World blog. More to come and more to wait.
Cheers! -Netting

Netting is BACK!

2006-12-09T07:28:00.000-08:00

It's been almost a year I haven't been back to my blog! Now I am back again.
Too many things have passed me by, too many lives that I have seen, too many places that I have been. I am currently on my three more months to go on before I leave the university. This semester, I am conducting another research as my final project, called 'Possible Solutions to Difficulties Encountered in the Organisation of English camp' and of course the case study is about my English Crazy Club. I am now almost half way done. Cheer me up. I am coming back here soon when I am done! -Netting

Another Busy Days

2005-10-29T00:18:00.000-07:00

Things around me always keep me busy all the time. It seems like I spend my life without weekend and vocation. Last night I just went back from BKK for an 5 day-educational trip: English & Communication Student's Field Trip. Before this trip we organised an 7 day camp - Sasom Dream Homestay Camp in a rural village in the same area of Nakor village where Greenway camp is located:

The new semester is approaching in a few days. I did not take a rest yet. I wish I could sleep for one or two weeks and wake up in another week. Could I do that?

By the way, my next month's schedule is still tight! On 3th Nov - the checkup at Siriraj Hospital in BKK, On 5-6 Nov - Trekking in Dong Natham Forest, touching the sea of fog on the mountaintop in Khong Chiam District. On 12-13 Nov - English Winter Camp at Niyom's old highschool.and on 16-20 Nov - Being a bus guide for the participants of the ship of southeast asian youth program 2005.

STILL I really don't know why I have to turn my life into this kind of path - travel over and over again. Let me ask you, have you ever been giving up on these of stuff, Netting?

Human Settlement Foundation

2005-09-28T09:35:00.000-07:00

The week before, I worked as a interpreter for the Human Settlement Foundation in Ubon. It was worth a sacrifice - as I skipped a translation class on Friday. I learned a lot about the 'Poor Assembly' fighting for their rights and better things in life. I was inspired and encoraged to learn more about this kind of issue. I feel stronger for my fight for making things better and maybe I would write a book in English about their fight. Sounds interesting? And I seem to love be an interpreter a lot - at least I've got paid 1,000 bath. It is a lot better than setting in class and got no paid. And one more thing I truly learned was the Filipino accent. - Netting

A Foggy Day

2005-09-14T06:22:00.000-07:00

Couldn't believe it, yesterday was a foggy day ever in Ubon- because of the depression of the weather hit our area. I felt like I was not in Isarn(the Northeast of Thailand) but somewhere in Western countries where the there are cover with the mist.

Two days ago, I had a final exam part one on Written Expression II. The test was quite easy for me, there seemed to be no problem to me. The instruction was to summary the newspaper article from New York Times - The Shameful Response To Katrina. It was atually a shameful response I have ever known. I learned more about American government.

One of my roommates, Tuan is back from her Australian Field Trip and Cultural Exchange which was supported by the University of Sydney. She has been very lucky and in a few week she is going to Cambodia for her another 4 month-scholarship of GMS. She shared many differents Australian things on a long her unforgetable trip. Can't see wait to hear more about her next trip in Khmer lands.

Well, there are still lots of schoolworks waiting for me to be done, English for homestay preparation, homework assignments, studying for the final exam. And tomorrow I am going for an interpreter work for the Filipino reseachers in the Ubon city for two days or more. Can't wait until tomorrow even though I have not prepared anything yet. More than anything I need some more sleep since tomorrow is my big day. - Netting

The Big Homework

2005-09-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

for the Students of Siam

Find in each face something to love
Look in each pocket for something to share
Listen to every bird and hear the symphony of life
Whistling through the leaves

Seek in every flower the infinite colors of the rainbow
Stand up when all other are sitting
Have vision beyond the masses
Spread opportunities from the truth you have gathered
Guide others by your wisdom

Value yourself:
Don not sell your life at the market for a daily wage.

Achieve your own greatness through action:
Don’t wait a season and do not waste a cloud

Explore your ultimate life:
Don’t simply watch as others climb trees and swim in oceans
But be the forest and be the ocean

Select your role:
Perform with the strength of a hundred suns
Breath deeply and let your education shine
Don not merely cast a shadow

Love others through the touch of a hand, a smile,
A kind word, a shared tear, a quite moment

Create such a garden of your life that in fifty years some flower
will remember and a sacred drop of joy will come to
their face and the people will see in that tear that life is
worth a sacrifice, the struggle for eternal grace
greatness not on the front pages, but in the knowledge
that every day you have truly give

Then, rest a moment – not among the cars and clothes and
electronics you have bought, not among the cassettes
and rings you’ve collected, not among your achievement,
your degrees, nor your pay raises, but among the silent poor.

Listen to the hush of poverty,
The silent closing of hope:
Reach forward with open hands
Listen to the stream that flows through the lives of the poor
Drink the water:
Know the universal taste

Look up the sky from where the rain has come
Where the sun beams, and see

A reflection of yourself of which you are truly pround

Adapted from "A Promise for Siam" by Tom Radzienda

This is also one of my fantasting poems - Netting

Only A Piece Of Paper

2005-09-11T08:57:00.000-07:00

"I was young; I was naive;
I was amazed, I thus come
to search for the meaning,

I hope to gather so many things,
In the end they gave me only
a piece of paper"

This poem is one of my favourite, I first read this poem in Thai version when I was a first year student. Now I am already a forth year student and just have a chance to read it English today.
This was taken from my classmate who writes the paper about tragic"October 14" event of Thailand occured 70 years ago.

Yesterday's night, I checked the Siemens Scholarship result from the Internet. Things did not always turn out that way - not always go on my way. My expectation went wrong. I was not chosen to get the scholarship. I told myself not to be sorry for that too much that"Netting, you can't lose what you never had!" But anyway, one of my friends at my faculty got the scholarship! She deserves it!!

Still I am working on Sasom Camp shedule and expecting to be done by this week and submit to Mae Suvannee. Besides, I am currently doing a report on the topic of "Anna and Siam" for Reading in Thai History course. I will talk more about this issue tomorrow if I have enough time! - Netting

Back to Ubon City - Nice Weekend

2005-09-10T00:57:00.000-07:00

Today, I just went back from my grandma's house with Nit, to visit my father who is ill. I was very glad that he is in a better condicition now. Besides, yesterday evening, we had a chance to have dinner with Mae Suvannee and Por Vicha and talked about the upcoming English camp at Sa Som Camp in Khong Chiam District.

It has always been busy time for me, but that is the way I
always am. Being busy is better than being nothing. I can't
wait for the next camp to get prepared. But first I need to
manage everything here done, homework and final exams.

Sieze the Day

Netting

A Same Old University life

2005-09-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

Today is still a busy day for me. My work and my study keep me busy. Final exams are coming very soon and many homework assignments need to be done before the end of this month.

I haven't finished reading "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" yet. I need to finish a persuasive essay for Written Expression II Class tonight.And I must finish the outline of my Reading in Thai History report to summit tomorrow.

Today I have been waiting for the result of Siemens Scholarship Program 2005-wishing I was one of 40 lucky students who win the scholarship of 20,000 baht(so I could buy a new video camera for me). But there is no result to be declared yet - maybe tomorrow.

I promise to try to post as often as possible (now I have an Internet access in my room already).Okay! That's enough for today.Good night!

Netting