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September 27 Journal @ UEA 260907+Book Review: ในหลวงในรอยธรรม (Eng version)2355 (Norwich time @room48) Today, I was doing a Book review as an assignment of study skill improvement session in induction week so today I will post it in this journal. But before I start, let me tell some stories. Firstly, I've been to Soc-mart today and applied for 3 societies, Buddhist, Chorus and the Live music society. Secondly, I borrowed the first book from library 'Blink' !!! however, I still have problem with my library account that accessed via the internet, but the account is fine, just can't get in from my computer. Finally, I still can't register my orange's pay-as-you-go sim... so I just lost my 3 pounds for free!!! maybe it's because I don't go anywhere so I can't pay... (it's pay-as-you-go 5555) Ok, that's enough... enjoy the Book review... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book Review: King in Dharma Path Chol Bunnag (MADE) King Rama IX of the Kingdon of Thailand stays in the crown for the longest time in the world history. He is the Thai’s beloved king and has been examples in many ways for Thai people including the religion issue. This book I read, “King in Dharma path” is the book that illustrates this point very clearly. In this book review assignment, content will be divided into 3 parts. Firstly is that why I read this book. Secondly is to describe briefly about its content. The last part is about my opinion to this book. Why do I read this book? In Thailand, about 98% of its population are in the Buddhism, and the other 2% is mixed among many religion such as Christianity, Islam, Sikh, Hindu etc. From this point, we might be able to imply that Buddhism is our national religion. However, we have never had problem among us who have different religion, and one reason for that is because of our king. It has been doing for very long time in royal tradition, our King must be Buddhist and maintain and support Buddhism, however, he must also patronise and support those from other religion as well. King Rama IX, the present one, has been well known of his first speech when he has succeeded to the thrown, “...I will rule this kingdom by dharma for the well-being of all Siamese...” (Chanchaochai, 2006) From then, he has followed all the dharma as his way of life and worked so hard for his people just like what he has promised without religious or racial discrimination. He also ordained when he was 29 years old and lived like a monk, even though he was the king. However, I have never seen any book give any detail of what he was doing when he was a monk or what he was interested in the Buddhist teaching or collect his speeches about religions before. As a result, the reason I was interested in this book and decided to buy it before I came to UK is that it gives details of what he has done as a Buddhist and as a King of all Thai people without religious discrimination. What Is in this book? This book, named “the King in Dharma path”, was written in Thai language by Danai ChanChaoChai in 2006. It was published by DMG books publishing. This book I bought is the second edition. The content of this book is divided into 3 chapters. The first chapter is named “Dharma force of the Kingdom”. The second part is named “His majesty’s questions”. The last part is the collection of his lectures and his speeches. “Dharma force of the Kingdom” chapter is about his brief biography in the Buddhist dimension. His name, ‘Bhumipol Adulyadej’ means the force of the kingdom is irresistible, which the author paraphrase it as the name of this chapter. This chapter mentions the 10 Dharma of the Ruler (Tosฺsapitฺ Rajฺchadharma) which has been the principles for the King to rule his people since the first era of Thai history, and still be continued in his time. The detailed story of his ordaining, his way of living as a monk,and the appreciation of his mentors and his people are also described. Author also give some examples of his lecture to various groups of people and organisations, including U.S. Congress. The second chapter, “His majesty’s questions”, is about his dialogues with many well-known and respectful monks. His conversation is from the basic dharma, such as the basic meditation, and its application to society, such as a topic about the good society, to the advance dharma such as the practice, applications and result of the practices of transcendental meditation (wipussana gummuttan). It shows a lot about his interest in Buddhist teaching and his in-depth knowledge about the dharma. It also implicitly shows his kind and humble to these senior monks even though he was the king. The last chapter is the collection of his lectures and his speeches in which related to Buddhism. These lectures and speeches have been given in many occasions, such as the New Year, his birthday anniversary, special occasions of other religions, commencement day of universities. They have been given to many groups of people and organisations as well, such as the parliament, representatives of various organisations that came to offer a blessing to him in the celebrations of his birthday anniversary,domestic buddhist associations, the World Fellow of Buddhists, the Pope John Paul the second, the Islamic organisations, the Sikh organisations. The content of his lectures and speeches are in the scope of encouraging people to live the life of their religious teaching, suggesting the way to promote and support each religions, appreciating the kindness of other religions that initiate projects or schemes for the benefit of Thai society, and, gaining the consciousness of the society as a whole. My opinion to this book In my opinion, this book has done a great work of illustrating his majesty the king in the Buddhism dimension beautifully. It is full of details that can be quote or used in the future. The style of writing is tended to be appreciated his manner and way of life as an example to all Thai people who is Buddhists, to maintain his quotes and to avoid analysing and criticising, which is expected for Thai author. However, his presentation style is not quite good because some sessions are too long and in the same format that makes people lose their concentration, and some parts are too advanced to understand by ordinary people who don’t have in-depth knowledge in Buddhist teaching. But if the purpose of author is to keep information in its original format, he has already accomplished his work. I guess that another purpose of the author, in which I think is the main purpose, is to promote or to gain faith in Buddhism from Thai people by take his majesty the king as their model. For me, I think it is impressive and I felt the way he wants when I read this book. All in all, this book is good enough to be bought into your bookshelf. It would be greater if you read it thoroughly and follow his majesty the king. At first you might not understand what he talked to the senior monks, but as you practice and live your life in Buddhist way, you will be able to understand those dialogue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0004 (Norwich time@ room48) September 26 Journal @ UEA 250907210907 (Norwich time@room48) I didn't write this journal yesterday. I think it affect me quite a lot because when I miss my reflection, my mind seems to be no calm, no concentration... I think this must be done everyday. At least to heal myself from some psychological phenomenon. These few days, I've been through sessions organized by the faculty and Ph.d. students, aimed to notify new students about necessary study skill and basic information about the subject. The process is ok. It's just like what we did in Thailand.... the group process.. not just lecturing. However, these sessions remind me of the greatest question of all , 'What am I here for? What next?' If I answer this question simplistically, yes.. I'm here to study Master. However, if I interpret this question more thoroughly and deeply, the essence of this question is that 'what knowledge should I acquire here in order to contribute Thai society? and in what way?' It seems to be the very big and hard-to-answer questions but it's important to be answered because this relates to my motivation of studying master, my dissertation topic which will , then, affect the optional units I choose... maybe the Ph.d. programme as well. 2212 September 24 ๋Journal @ UEA 2309072206 (Norwich time@room48) I'm feeling sick right now.. it's like I'm going to have a fever. Today is an ordinary Sunday. It was sunny today but It's gonna rain tomorrow, according to weather report. I woke up at around 0900. I cooked rice today with an omelet. I was so happy of eating rice. :D I took a photo of my first cooked meal too. It's a great learning step. I've never known that it is an electric stove and it was so hard to get hot. I also have problem of recognising which is rare which is well done but I'm sure that I'm gonna be good in the future. ... I went have lunch with Amm because she had no one to go with her and I had nothing to do at that time unless reading so I decided to go with her. She is so small, smaller than Tam+. But I can see energy in her eyes. She's quite a tom boy. She worked in the advertising company before coming here for course of Language for mass communication. She knows lots of things including music... but she said she's not good at it. We talk since then on MSN. It's good to have friends here. In the evening after talking to n'Fai, I went to City Sight Seeing bus tour. I was great. It lets me know that the Norwich city is so small and beautiful. I plan that I'll come out and walk and take a photo someday. Today it was too dark to take any photo. I met another Thai girl named Gaew. She's from Songkla to study Marketing and go back to be lecturer in her department (Marketing international program, Prince Songkla University) She's only 22, becoming lecturer since graduation just like me. However, she seems to be marketing officer in a company more than a lecturer... I think. The wind on the bus was so cold and I think I'm gonna get sick . I gotta go to bed now...coz there're many things to do in the morning.. it's an induction week, arrange by DEV and I have to walk across the University to the place they appoint, so goodnight kub :) 2219 (Norwich time @same place) September 22 Journal @ UEA 2209071230 (Norwich time @ room48) It's such a foggy shiny day in Norwich... Yesterday was an important day because it's a registration and orientation day both for each schools and for international students. Unfortunately, I forgot!!!! I knew it again when it was noon so I was late for the orientation and registration of my schools, my bad... Very bad... However, I have got all things needed already, including the registration pack which informs everything about registration and studying in this school of development Studies. There was also a meeting with the course director. My course has 2 directors which are gonna switch among them each term. One is Briton , ( I beleive he's gay or close enough) and another is Ethiopian professor who is gonna teach us Econometrics for Development... Yukk!! This session is very good because I have a chance to know my classmates' background and be facinated. There are only 3 people who were graduated from economics in the first degree, that's including me. Others graduated from Finance, Mathematics, Corperate management, Accountancy... Economics and law... 2 of them are NGOs, 2 of them once work or now work for government including the National Bank of Madagascar!! Raffi from Afghanistan is working as an Economist at ADB (Asian Development Bank) ... That's awesome!!!!. Actually, there were many things interesting happened yesterday but I have to attend another session for the postgraduate students. It's about the teaching and assessment which is very important. I'll come back and tell you more about yesterday and today stories. Bye 1240 (Norwich time @room48) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2104 (Norwich time@room48) I'm back. Just finished talking to n'Fai via Skype. :D Yesterday, after the session in our school, I went to international orientation session at the lecture theatre... (Just like the one in Thammasat. Ours is actually bigger) They taught us about how to use the library. Then they talked about the money management and the safety and security. After all of this session, I sense that this university is very care for its students, and very systematic. I am impressed. In the evening, there was a welcome reception at the Union house. That was quite good because of the free food and drinks, and the most important part was a space for all international students to get to know each other and also know some of their staffs. I knew many people there, but mostly I don't remember the name. I met 5 undergrad students, 2 from US for economics and history, 2 from Turkey-Cyprus for the pharmaceutical and , 1 from Bruni (Hui is her name) for pharmaceutical as well. I also met many friend from Ethiopia (Hewitt), India (Tri), Japan (Chisa , I've met her everywhere). Many staffs I met there as well, but I was quite impressed with staff from the Chaplaincy. Chaplaincy is a place for every religion to pray, be quiet, meditate, they also have groups of each religion so I was quite interested in it , especially the Buddhist group. Staff I met, Neil and another lady seemed to be impressed me as well because I really looked interested. :) After the reception, there were many games at the union pub, we , the DEV PGT, were team for playing it. That was a good time for us who had been there, i think. Even though there was no ice breaking but the game and quiz made us more familiar with those we have met, which is very good. Moreover, I have just known that Girmaye, the Ethiopian guy from my class, he runs the NGO, DKT international. This org aim to reduce HIV/AIDS and educate youth to avoid the risk of HIV infection. There are so many youth groups run under his org and they are sustained by selling condoms. He also mentioned about the Social Marketing. This reminds me p'Nui and p'Au and also those social entrepreneur concept etc. So I told him that I'd be appreciate to connect him with p'Nui which have a program in CNN, Be the change, in her hand, maybe she can help him get through the media channel. I felt like I was a natural network maker... 5555.... A A A About today, there were still sessions for international students and new undergraduate students. I still felt the same way as yesterday and also I think each units are so thoughtful for everything they are doing. I will not explain all of the session but there's one thing that I remember very well is that, on 11th October, there's gonna be a Jazz live band at the Grads bar. I'll be there for sure. 555 Today also another day for home students get into the university. it's like at TU dorm at Rangsit. When I was undergrad there, every semester I saw parents drove their cars to send their children with loads of things for their kids. This is the same. :D ... It would be hard to make up their mind when they have to let their children out here alone with other friends. ... -_-' . . . Before I forget, I met someone, she is a Chinese girl, named Linda. She arrived UEA the same bus as I did. We are also in the same school, and we've met each other many times also... I'm gonna see what it's gonna be... หึหึหึ But don't worry, I have to keep watch this because I don't want to be trapped into some relationship of unintended. That's all. Oh, how could i forget?... I met Thai girl also.. her name is Amp, she is here for a course about language or linguistic something.... The point is she is very strange... She graduate from Remote Education Scheme (กศน. ไม่รู้เรียกงี้เปล่า) and from Ramkumhang University. I don't know but normally who come this track of education mostly be those who are minority or poor or in a distance place in Thai society. But she is different. I'll try to find out more if there's any chance for me to meet her... .. .. .. All in all, I think I feel better when I meet my classmates and my friends, when I know that my girl is just one click away and we can say and see each other everyday, when I can call my parent anytime from here with low rates... :) That's good. very good. Then I think I have to focus more on information I get and my education... I think the hard part is passing. Thank you all who invented internet, msn, skype, and pc-to-phone international call for all the convenience we've got today. Thank you for everyone in my life who is there for me. 2138 (Norwich time@ same place) September 21 Journal @ UEA 2109070701 (Norwich time @ room48) I now that this is quite early to write a blog.. But I had a dream last night. I dreamt of an event that the faculty of economics held for some reasons, it is a show in a auditorium somewhere. I had a show to perform also. But at first I did that alone, then when the time is near... I call Oui, Yu+ and Jo to play together on the stage, play songs that we're familiar, songs from the old times.. Everybody dress like what they have always dress on the stage. I see Pun and Pat come to the show, Pun is wearing Jeans, T-shirt, sneakers and Heart-shaped glasses... :D n'Fai and my dad also come to the show... It was so happy. When I woke up, the song was playing so loud in my head... I really miss those days.. I miss playing music out loud like i usually did. I hope I can find some music society here.. However, I have an idea, it came to me when i went to the toilet (again..). Well, maybe we can still do what we like.... By this, I assume that everyone has a friend who own Macbook or MacbookPro... because it's now quite general to carry those things. We can make our music by the 'Garage Band'.. it's so easy to use... you just need a macbook and your instrument , then , solo... don't need wire or anything.. its microphone is very good. When someone create a song.. just send Garage Band file to others.. Then you find a macbook then record your line, then send back.... And I propose a name of us, it should be called "the Common room: World apart" 555 ... I'm serious about this, you know... 0715 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal @ UEA 2009071924 (Norwich time @ room48) Huhh... it takes a long time to finish the first blog of 190907... That's because right now... it's n'Fai's birthday and it's our 4th Anniversary... I sang her a song, 'Can't Smile without you'... but I can't finish the song because tear just kept coming out.... Then I sang her 'Happy Birthday'. We missed each other badly... We stayed together after that about an hour, talked about things that have passed, good feelings and experiences we had together... one thing that was missing was the touch..all we can do was to close our eyes and imagine that we were holding each other...we both cried. I could even smell her hair... T_T 2 out of 4 anniversary, we have been apart. First time is the first year, I had to go to Japan for UN summit. I wrote her a song also... the second time is today. I'm in UK... Every year we'd talk about the next milestone that we want to reach for our couple. First goal was to stay together until I graduated (This covered our 2 years). Second goal was until she graduated. This year aim for my graduation and she comes for Master in UK. I even thought go back and marry her then come back together for studying. However, we must get through this year together.. it's gonna be the hardest year and distance is our test. But if I look in the other side, actually we are only one click away from each other... Happiness is always followed by suffering.. like Boyd Kosiyapong once said in his song that... " when you are happy, you must be prepared for the following suffering... so that we can handle the painful truth" .... in the end, it's stated that "... We have to learn and live with it. Be intelligence and conscious.. Stay with what you have , not what you dream... and do your best" (Kosiyapong,B. Live and Learn. lyrics from album 'Million ways to love'. Bakery music..) Come back to my situation, Well, I have to learn and live with it... this is inevitable. However, I think it's hard to catch up our feelings and understand the uncertainty IN that situation... and it'd be heartless if I don't show any feelings just to keep myself from suffering... I think the equilibrium of this is to catch up with it always, but it's not bad to show your feelings or even cry... We just have to understand when it has passed and must not be suffered repeatedly afterwards.... . . . One more thing... I have chosen not to stop relationship with my girl because I believe that this is a test and if we couldn't pass it, it's so hard to be a good husband. I think I've been immunized by all the experiences I've got from Thailand... P.S. I sang her a song "แค่ความรัก" ... I just warped to the last night at Barbali... I still miss everyone and everything there. :) However, I have to move on !!! 2014 (Norwich time @ same place) Journal @ UEA 1909071640 (Norwich time) I'm talking to n'Fai and seeing face via Skype..!!! It's good to have skype. Actually this is on the 20th... but I think I should tell you about the 19th first... the 20th will be on the next entry. Everything seems to be better now for me. I've got many new friends now from my class and accommodation. My classmates are very international. There are friends from Malaysia,Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar,Bangladesh, Afghanistan and another from Latin America. My roommate are Chinese like I said before... I have a chance to talk with Isaac from Ghana.. Let me record it here... I talked to Isaac after class because we just accidentally walked the same way, he was going back to his dorm and so was I. We began to talk about football, he started because yesterday had a Uefa Champions League matches. He is Barcelona's fan. ... He is about the same age as I am, 25. He's now working for NGO which working with community and promoting micro-finance as has been doing in Bangladesh, the Grameen bank. ... We also talked about the political instability in both continents. ... I brought him to Tesco also... as Jo brought me 2 days before... Yesterday, I'm quite sure that the meditation is very necessary, especially when we also do the Yoga. My friend, Bung, said that Yoga is like we open a door and windows of a room, our body....and also make the way in the room clear for air to flow in and out to clean the room and give it power. So if we just clean it and don't give it power or maintain it to be stable, not fluctuate too much.. we can use our mind and body as we like. ... I know this because I didn't meditate yesterday... and I forgot lots of thing and feel no calm. Self-study during the day is also necessary. It will makes knowledge we get in the morning more clear and more memorable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bought many things from Tesco today. I tried to change my menu. I bought Tuna spread, a bag of spinach and other vegetables for salad, a bottle of milk, bananas and apples... I think this would be better than the boiled broccoli for sure.... and it really is!! I also talked to my roommate about sharing kitchen accessories also. So now I can try some other menu.... which I'm capable of cooking it. 555 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oh another thing is that , my pre-sessional course is ended already. The test will be in 2 weeks after this. I have to catch up the math part which was begun before i arrived. But I think I won't be out of my hand. However, I must not take it for granted also... I have registered and took care of things about student card. I also mailed to inform it.helpdesk that there's some problem with their system because I cannot log in to the registration page.... they are working on it now... So now I have to wait to processing my financing. 1910 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 19 Journal @ UEA 1809071847 (Norwich time @ room48)
Hi there,
Today is freezing ... it's very cold. I think it's been like this because it rained last night and in the morning, heavily. Rob, my teacher, said it might getting colder. I hate cold weather !!
This morning I tried to cook something. I boilded broccoli and carrot then dip them in garlic-mayonese source and ate it with bread, strawberry and milk.... .... Well, I suggest anyone who is reading this space, not to try it. They are not quite good combination. Carrot is ok, but the broccoli, it has some smell.... The best way to cook it is to stir fried it with the oyster source. And I think bread in UK is different from bread in Thailand. It's thicker and I felt full immediately after a few bites.
Moreover, I'm sensing that I might have a problem with digesting milk because every time I drink milk it'd be gas in my stomach for somehow. I hope my body can adjust to digest it very soon. Maybe I ate soymilk too much back in Thailand.
Today I opened my email and I've found n'Pun's email. He's my beloved brother. We sang together a lot. I also met Ratee, n'Jo's girl in MSN, p'Yod of Mitrsiam band. I miss everyone. I miss singing and playing music with them. I've never thought that we have to be apart. It's been one of the best part of my life. ... When these stoty come into my head, it was so suffering. Being apart from beloved object , persons or activities is a suffering. ... Buddha once said. My father told me to be with the present and try not to think of the past or expect anything of the future.
I was wondering about what my dad told me, (when i was walking to my class). I wondered, eventhough it'd be suffered, can we really abandon our past? ignore it? .. I think it's very difficult. and the more you suppress it, it will explode in the near future.
In my opinion, we should not avoid it. We just live the way we are. We just have to know what feeling is occuring to us. And you have to always remind yourself that happiness comes and goes, as well as the suffering. Take the good experiences in the past as your gift of life, the bad one as a teacher... Be fun and facing new experiences and persons with joy, intelligence and conciousness...
Oh, I'm teaching myself nina ... Thank you god or the nature of mind that brought me these solutions.
-/\- Satuu
Oh, another thing that I've noticed today is that beautiful ladies always be in faculty of arts, in some language or literature courses. ... Why I don't have any of my classmate like that ... T_T ... 555 just kidding. It's good to have my present classmate. They are friendly and generous. We try to help eachother get through this course. ... I'm glad to have these friends....
Now I'm quite close to Jo, Malaysian girl... coz I help her with some statistics, and she helps me in directions and where to buy things...and other stuffs that the forecomer knows. I knew today that Bari who comes from Africa played basketball before, then he broke his ankle 7 years ago, so he can't play ball anymore... I understand that very well... must be apart from something you love most.
I once loved basketball. I should have been able to 'dunk' if I wasn't sick (ไข้เลือดออก). I stayed in bed for 2 weeks and lost my strength. I can't jump as I could anymore...
Well, it's good to have friends here. It's good to have life like I've been through, with joy, with suffering...
And I'll get through my life in UK with joy, intelligence and consciousness!!! UK ! Here I am!!! YEAHHHHHHHHH
1927 (Norwich time @ same place
September 18 Journal @ UEA 1709071900 (Norwich time@ room 48)
Yesterday I forgot to write the second part of the day. So I'll tell you now before I tell you today story.
After I wrote yesterday journal, I review statistics again, then I went trying the laundry after having some fruit for lunch.
The laundry here cost 1.80 pounds and 50 penny for dryer every 15 minutes. At first I didn't know that I need to bring the detergent, actually I didn't know how to use it at all, fortunately, an african family was in the laundry and taught me how to do it and let me use their detergent. How nice...
However, I've learned that I should go laundry only when there are a lot of clothes to wash, and wash only when they're stink. Clothes here don't have smell like we have in Thailand because of the whether... I think ... it's cold so bacteria that generate smell isn't active. Anyway, I should buy some detergent to wash my clothes and underwear...
In the evening, my roommate and his girlfriend cooked a familiar menu... it's like หมูผัดพริก ... seems delicious. However, I didn't join them coz I've planned not to have dinner, just fruit. But this guy, he was very lovely. He gave me a boiled egg. It was so good!! T_T (Actually I was hungry but I didn't wanna be his burden.)
I also went crazy again last night. I played Rome total war 3 hours in a row!!! which is bad, both for my study and my eyes. Then i went to bed and felt sorry for what I've done...
Ok ... let me write what I've written today...
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0919 (Norwich time @ the Zest)
It's been 5 days here. I have a cry. Depression is in the afternoon and so on until I go to sleep. Depression I'm saying is like when you feel stress and frustrated all the time, and you can't do a thing you've planned. All this time, I've been thinking how to get out of this.
Yesterday, I thought that, maybe space can relief this symtom because when I went and took a walk, I'd feel better. Sometimes I thought maybe meditation can help. Well, it helps for a while... until 2 pm. But even I tried all of that, I'm still depressed... not fresh enough to read.
Until this morning, I just realised that It may be because of the hunger. Maybe I was too stinky to pay for lunch and dinner (which I knew I should after I went to Tesco today!!) Shifting to fruit for a meal immediately is too hard for my body. I've got this from my meditation.
Thanks to Jordan for a boiled egg... T_T Love him. I will find the way to pay him back someday.
0926 (Norwich time @ same place)
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1928 (Norwich time @room 48)
From my finding this morning, I realise that I have to keep balance my body and my soul for my best result of studying. Eat too less cause the hunger and depression. Eat too much is costly. Meditation and yoga is ok i'll continue doing it.
Today, after I finished my business about registration in the afternoon (1430) I went to gradstudent commonroom to finish my exercises. I met a guy who just graduated from this course this year from Tanzania. We'd been very surprised that we were in the same program. He told me that it's not difficult, Econometrics is not that hard. He seems confortable and enjoyable studying here.
After class, I have a chance to talk to Jo, Malaysian classmate, more about many things. First, she said that she was gonna need help about the study, especially statistics. Well, I said I'll do my best, as much as I can to help her... then other things... She is a government officer in Study and planning unit. The government sponsors her for the course, and requires Master degree in development economics in order to go back and work. She is now 31 years old, has a family with one daughter.
The reason I write about her is that she took me to Tesco!!! She is my savior... Things there are extremely cheap.. That's why I was right of being stinky and not eat too much food. This time I take it as a survey. I bought many things such as milk, strawberry, broccoli, carrots, jam, bread, garlic mayonese dip... all of that was about 5 pounds...!!! which is equal 2 meals at the Zest. I'll gonna see how long I can eat this stuffs. Now, I plan to wake up and boil water so I could have a few minutes boiled vegetable to eat with dipping mayonese, bread and milk. :D ... I'll buy sandwich for lunch... that's it... then I'll go to Tesco after class for apples.
I'll try this ..hee hee hee... It's gonna be fun for this trial and error.
When i walked back to the dorm, I thought, it's good to have friends here. Relationship with my roommate and classmate is developed. I hope it's gonna last until the end. ...at least, It's good to know that there's someone being homesick or depressed like me.
Tonight, I'll continue catch up the mathematics and working on how to explain Jo the null hypothesis and 95% confident!!!
1947 (Norwich time@ same place)
P.S. It's been cloudy windy and a little bit of shower today... whether
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2004 (Sameplace)
I haven't publish this yet, my roommate knocked my door and bring me a fried rice he made for me. .... how lovely. This dinner gave us a chance to talk to each other. He's 23 years old and has benn in UK for 10 weeks. He came to study English first. That's why he seems to know everything like where to buy things or even cook. He said he can't cook at home, but staying here made him had to cook and he just realised then that he is a good cook. ( He's good jing jing) I think I have to learn from him....
However, this is not what I've planned. Meet the Tesco is the best thing that can make me follow my plan, especially to have the meal I want, especially fruit for dinner. ... I think I have to talk to him about this la....
Well, that's it for today. I have to finish this meal, wash dishes and do what I've planned. September 16 Journal @ UEA 1609071035 (Norwich time @ room48)
I've just cried a lot la... My picture and feeling of me and n'Fai in the science park (ท้องฟ้าจำลอง) appeared while I was reading BBC news!! I really feel that it would be great if she's here with me..
I'm good now. Crying helps me release some stress...
Yesterday, I walked around University la... at 1700-1900. I saw many beautiful place here... Let's see in the album and you'll get what I mean.
UEA is a quite old. The buildings are old. However, here has many spaces, trees and fields... also a lake with ducks, birds, rabbit and squarrels. I guess if this is TU, it must be gone by now and become some unplanned building which is not beautiful and not healthy.
Before I went for a walk, I was depressed. This must be a symtom that a psychiatrist told me before I came. I kept playing game for 3 hours. I felt bad, but I just can't do a thing... So I've found that... It's good to walk around. I have to play Yoga and walk around for a while coz I shouldn't apply for sportspark yet, coz I'm gonna have to pay full price.
On weekend, pictures of family are all around. when I walk back my court along the lake, there were father and son, fishing.. in the field, Japanese father and son were playing football. THat time I really thought of having someone around...
Well, I'd better go reading now... see you
10.49 (Norwich time @ same place)
Journal @ UEA 1509071109 (Norwich time @ under the tree)
Today is a sunny Saturday. There were only some shops open today, the Zest and the Paper shop. So I deposited my stomach to the Zest in the morning. Lunch is not planned.
There are less activities on the weekend, no class. I intended to stay in my room and read. But it is quite too warm and lack of air, so I change my mind and came down, sat down under this tree, write this journal and take some photo.
Many internation students arrive UEA today. I've seen only Chinese, they're everywhere. I saw some Indians. Maybe there are some Scandinavian.( I assume this because they seem to be hot here.)
Many families bring their children and dogs out for a walk.
It's quite strange because I haven't seen any rabbit around. Maybe it'll come out when it's more cloudy or in the evening. THere are some birds, I guess it's a macpie ??... pigeon and sparrow are not seen much here. Maybe there're in London only.
1124 (Same place)
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I'm writing this diary in my room at Nelson court, 3rd floor, room 48. I'm alone now, don't have roommate yet. Today, I arrived UEA around 4 pm. which is quite late. When I got my room, it was about 1730 (I've lost in the campus , cannot find the court for about 30 minutes. However, at this time, things are getting better now. I have things to buy tomorrow morning, including soap, shampoo and bed pack.
This place is very peaceful. So quiet, I could hear my thoughts.
I tool a lot of photograph today. I may a guy named Jonathan (J.V) while I was taking photo around the court. Great view. J.V. is a mountain climbing instructor who come to use sportspark of UEA 3-4 times a week. He seemed very enjoy the peacefulness and the view. We talked ( actually he told me) a lot about climbing, how it is hard, and how Britain has the highest standard in this field. He plans to go to Thailand next February.
While I was travelling to UEA, I;ve learned so many things, such as, firstly, travelling in pairs or more has some advantages than travelling alone. You can deposit bags to your friend then go to toilet, or help each other carry bags. Secondly, men are all the same. I sit next to a guy reading 'NUTS' magazine. It's like FHM, again. I'll see whether I'll find this phenomena again in UEA.
I've sent email to inform my arrival and my address to my family. There are many things to deal with tomorrow. I'd be better go to sleep...
2146 (London time@ Nelson Court UEA) วันเดินทาง และวันแรกในมหาวิทยาลัยอันนี้เป็นสิ่งที่จดบันทึกะหว่างการเดินทาง ในวันแรก และวันที่ถึงมหาวิทยาลัย จาก สมุดครับ
13 September 2007
0953 (Thai time)
0353 (London time)
ในที่สุดก็ได้หยิบสมุดของฝ้ายมาเขียนซักที ตอนนี้พี่อยู่บนเครื่องบิน TG direct flight to London ในราคา Etihad ตั้งแต่ขึ้นมากินแล้วก็นอนยาวเลย ตั้งใจว่าจะอ่านหนังสือเลยไม่ได้อ่านเลยแฮะ ตอนแรกจเขียนด้วยปากกาขอเปลี่ยนเป็นดินสอก่อนนะ (แหะๆ)
หลับไปนานมาก จนประมาณ 6 โมงกว่า ก็ตื่นขึ้นมาเพราะว่าหนาว และแอร์การบินไทยเอาน้ำออกมาเสิร์ฟ
พี่นั่งที่นั่ง 51B อยู่ตรงกลาง ทางขวามือเป็นคนป้าอะไรซักอย่าง คนไทย (มารู้ที่หลังว่าชาติอะไรก็ไม่รู้) ขึ้นเครื่องมาแกกินนิดเดียวแล้วก็หลับยาวเลย ทางซ้ายของพี่ชื่อ Live เป็นคน ออสเตรเลีย อายุ 23 ปี ตอนนี้ทำงานอยู่บริษัทสารเคมีเพื่อการเกษตรอะไรซักอย่าง ชื่อไม่คุ้นเลย เค้าจบมาทางด้านเกษตร ตอนนี้อยู่ในช่วงพักร้อน (4 สัปดาห์แหน่ะ) เค้าผ่านเมืองไทยมาเพื่อ transit ไป London, France, Germany และ Spain ทั่วเลย แต่หลักๆเห็นว่าจะมาดูรักบี้นะ เราสองคนเห็นตรงกันว่า ผิดหวังกับ TG เพราะไม่มีอะไรเอนเตอร์เทนเลย เทียบกับ Direct flight ไป NY ไม่ได้ มันจะมีจอให้ทุกที่นั่งเลย สงสัย Etihad จะดีกว่าจริงๆ
ต้องขอบคุณ Live ที่ทำให้พี่เห็นประโยชน์ของ iPod ฉบับเต็ม ตอนแรกก็คิดว่าจะมีเมมโมรี่เยอะไว้ทำไม และจะมีหน้าจอทำไม แต่นาย Live แกเอารูปให้ดูผ่านเครื่องที่คล้ายๆ iPod นี้ (ของ ZEN) แล้วก็เล่าเรื่อง ...เอออ..ดีแฮะ
เราคุยกันสพเพเหระบ้าง หยุดบ้าง แต่ก็ดี ได้คุยหลายเรื่อง กำลังคิดอยู่ว่าจะถ่ายรูปเก็บมาฝากน้องฝ้ายได้มั้ย (ตอนนี้เค้ากำลังอ่านหนังสือคล้ายๆ FHM อยู่ ... 555 ผู้ชาย!!)
ตอนนี้ 1006 เวลาประเทศไทย เดี๋ยวพอแค่นี้ก่อนไว้เล่าต่อ
Miss You!! คิดถึงคุณพ่อ คุณแม่ คุณยาย และทุกๆคนด้วยคร้บ
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555 ได้รูปมาแล้ว จริงๆกว่าจะคุยรู้เรื่องก็ลำบากนะ เพราะสำเนียงออสซี่ฟังยากเหมือนกัน ... โอ้วว สาวๆในหนังสือ น่ารักมาก ...เอ่อ ขอโทษที ...
พี่กำลังคิดอยู่ว่า จะเขียนเป็นภาษาอังกฤษหรือภาษาไทยดี เพราะไทยก็ดู privacy ดี อังกฤษก็จะเป็นการฝึกเราไปในตัว...
Let me think ... umm.. Let's make it this way. I'll write whatever I want la kun because I'm excited about being in new place and I don't want to lost in translation. So I'll write in English for a while so I could get used to it more. And I'll write in Thai when I am in UEA la kun kub.
1013 (Thai time)
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0949 (London time @ Central Bus station, London)
It took about 2 hours to get out of the immigration zone. It was hot and sweat, I sneezed many times. I lost with Live at this stage..but I met new friend.
This new friend is named Mon. She worked for Consulting company, L.E.K., the British company. She's quit now. She came here for study MBA at Cambridge... Hi-So mak mak.. By the way, She's Thai. She gave me a namecard and email.
Well, since I stuck in the immigration zone, I have to wait for another 2 hours, ticket must be changed the time from 0915 to 1115. On the bright side, I have time for resting for 1.30 Hours.
I've noticed that UK is just like a ผู้หญิงขี้งอน/เอาแต่ใจตัวเองนิดหน่อย It will be a little bit difficult to get in, however, in the end, things go as planned, or at least, almost...
I've lost 3 pounds for ticket alteration.
Second thing, I've noticed that Thai people who come to UK, if not look like Korean or Chinese, they must be a big sized person. I didn't mean that they are fat, but they have big structure.
One goo thing of meeting Mon is that it lets me know that I should not have deactivate my mobile. I should have set it roaming. Secondly, I should Note down Ae's mobile no. ...... I'm alone and don't know who to contact. I think I'm gonna visit Cafe Nero for food and drink...
I'll write you again soon...
1007 (London time @ Central bus station)
September 15 Journal at UEA 140907I am in UK at University of East Anglia for 2 days. Stories about the day before will be told later. For now, let's talk about today.
(I type in English because I need to get used to the language very quickly, especially speaking language.)
Today was my first day in a math-stat prep course. It was very exciting. I met Rob Grand, my Tutor at 0930 in GradStudents common room. He took me to class which is in another building. In UEA, building seems old but it's quite useful and peaceful. It's a suitable place for study. On the boards there are lots of posters, but very tidy and easy to look.(isn't like boards in TU)
I met my classmate at the comlab which is my classroom for prep-course. There were six of them. No Chinese, Japanese or Korean, for now. Mostly they came from middle east and africa, I haven't remember their stories yet but some come from Egypt India and others. There was only one girl, from Malaysia.
I was very concentrated because I know that Math and Stat are my weakness. ...
My class is divided into 2 period each day. Morning session is lecturing, 0930-1130, and evening session is discussion, 1530-1645. Practically speaking is that in the morning we listen to lecturer, then he'll give us exercises (today- 8 problems in 4 pages). At first, I think it's very challenging. So after I had lunch, buy a network cable (it's a selling machine, choose product ->insert coin-> then boom!, we've got it-- LAN cable, USB, infared mouse!!) and get a bedding pack (pillow and duvet) , I went up to my room, took a bath (I've just bought a soap that morning) and continually did exercises. I'd almost done them all.
I went back to class at 1530. It turns out that there was only me who did the homework. Noone did it. AT ALL!!! I don't know why. Maybe they knew about this already.
However, I didn't mind. I take this as a self-competing study. If I do my best and try to do better than tomorrow, I'll have the result it should be. Moreover, I'm trying to balance myself-like play yoga and meditate every morning, walk around and take photo after class. I plan to go to sportspark asap ( After I catch up the study content... I came later than my classmate).
Oh, another thing, my roommate has arrived. He's Chinese named 'Jordan'.(Maybe his chinese name is hard to pronounce). He's here for marketing course. There're many chinese, japanese, korean and Thai here. Most of them come to learn business... Marketing or something. Some group of Thai students are here for nursing course. I see them all walk around in campus, in pairs or in groups... For Development studies, population is different. Mostly, students come from South Asia,and Africa. I'm the only Thai student.
.. I miss my friday night with Yu+, Jo', my dad, Giftz, n'Fai and all the fans and Barbali restaurant. ... However, I have to move on, we all have to move on. ... good experiences together are still inside me... just waiting for the next meeting.
I miss my grandmom, my dad, mom, n'Fai ....
Thank you today- Rob Grant for making me understand statistic more than ever., classmate who encourage me by do no homework (you guys better do it na -_-')
- N'Fai for talking in MSN yesterday. That's help.
- Mom for email answer... don't forget to come and read kub.
- p'Mol, for email too.
- Lake, trees, rabbits, squarrels, cold whether and everything at UEA including all the holy spirit and kind people that made my arrival and staying at UEA better and better. September 05 ... แอบซวยเหมือนกันนะเนี่ยเอ่อ... เรื่องดีๆผ่านไป ... ตอนนี้ตกเครื่องบิน วีซ่าออกไม่ทันครับ เซ็งไปเลยวันนึง
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