Hi there. Long time no see. Like, really long.
This post serves as a proof that I'm still here. This blog is not abandoned.
However, since I don't think I have any topic to write about, I guess I'll write about random stuff around here.
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First of all, #Hoennconfrimed
For those who's thinking "What the heck is Hoenn?", don't worry. I know that feeling. I always feel like that when people make jokes related to Game of Thrones.
Hoenn is a region from the third generation games of the Pokemon franchise. Yes. Pokemon. I'm a fan of Pokemons, and is a gigantic fan of the 3rd gen's Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
I grew up with it, so you can probably imagine how much I love it.
It was released 11 years ago, so it's pretty old.
There exists the remakes of old Pokemon games. For example, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, which are the remakes of the original Pokemon Red and Green: The ones that start it all.
Hoenn fans have been hoping, begging, pleading, and dying for the remakes of the third gen. Light has never shone upon us, however. The news about 3rd gen remakes are as loud as a silent woods. It even created a joke like #Hoennconfirmed, something like #HalfLife3confirmed. Also known as something that probably won't ever happen.
Then there comes an announcement a few weeks ago, saying Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire are to be remade.
#HoennConfirmed indeed. Thank you Game Freak, and thank you Nintendo. You have no clue how happy and @$#&*$@)%&K@& I am.
The game is coming in November. After I finish my university rush, I'll go straight and buy a 3DS, then I'll buy the game for sure.
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May has never been this exciting. Around the same time the Pokemon news was announced, another big news arrived. ZUN, the sole creator of the great Touhou franchise, and the god in disguise, suddenly announced the latest installment: Touhou 14.3: Impossible Spell Card. (It just arrived a few days ago.)
Dear god. Pokemon 3rd gen remake announced AND Touhou 14.3 released? What else is going to happen? A Touhou fanmade Anime that is released roughly every 4 year's gonna mysteriously popped up?
Miracle: "Yes."
Suddenly, without any announcement, A Summer's Day Dream, an unofficial Anime created by the fans of the original Touhou games, had its side episode released. What's amazing is the fact that this fanmade anime is regularly released every 4 years. And each release consisted of only one, 20-ish-minute episode. The first episode was released like 6 years ago. The second was 2 years ago. But then when people estimate the 3rd episode in the next 2 years, there suddenly comes the 2.5th episode. It was a bit short compared to the former two, but wow, what a surprise!
Miraculous Pokemon Remake Announement, Official Touhou's Next Installment Release, and Surprise Touhou Fanmade Anime Release?
What a month.
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Let's move on before I turn this entry into a Touhou entry.
In other news, Naruto Shippuden is getting more like a Wizard story when it's actually a Ninja world. Seriously, creating meteorites, sprouting a GIGANTIC tree, extreme element spells, and now casting a worldwide illusion through the Moon? Wut.
I still like it though. Actually there's nothing much in the plot, but somehow I still like it. I don't know why, either.
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U-Net is on its hiatus. They paused the project since people don't like it, but didn't say that they would cancel the project.
A few days ago they announced their new project: Alumni Test.
You didn't read it wrong, they plan on testing the Alumni, the people that are graduated already.
That's one ridiculous thought. It's probably never gonna happen.
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After about 7 years of killing things and destroying lives, Adventure Quest World's player's character is about to face the big meanie. The event will probably be big.
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My Grade 12 time's about to begin, but you won't really notice anything here because I've always been lazy, and rarely update the blog. The blog will still be alive and well. Who knows, I might update it a lot because I've got a lot to share with you regarding school life.
This year (especially May) has been big and busy. Too bad they all happen this year, when I have to concentrate on University. Tsk
Whatever, I'll carry all that with me and finish everything up. Because I can.
.Thanks for reading. See you next time!
Friday, May 16, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
U-Net and fury of Thai students.
Greetings everyone. I hope you'll stay with me until the very end.
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First thing first, what is U-Net?
U-Net (University National Education Test) is a newly created test from NIETS (National Institute of Educational Testing Service). The ones who are going to do the test will be seniors in universities. ฺ Below is a Q&A picture made by NIETS' official Facebook page.
Here's translation by me.
Top-right, blue zone:
What is U-NET?
-University National Education Test.
-(Thai translation)
Top-left, light-green box:
Q: Does it have to be paid for?
A: No, because it is a government policy.
Left, green box:
Q: Does everyone have to take the test?/Is is a compulsion?
A: It is not a compulsion test and it depends on availability of subjects, faculties, and the academies. It is going to be used only with academies that are prepared and are willing to send their students to take the test.
Pink box:
Q: Do the test scores have any effect to consideration in job registration?
A: It depends on corporations whether they will include U-Net scores in their criteria or not. There are no coercion or agreements (from NIETS) with the corporations.
Yellow box:
Q: What reason is this test for? What does this test want to measure?
A: U-Net aims to measure the quality of academies, as graduates' quality is academies' quality. Also, the ones who take the test can use the results to assess their potential.
Orange box:
Q: The test is redundant with the academies' examination?
A: It is not redundant, as the test measure 4 subjects of basic skills. It doesn't emphasize repetition, and is based on Thailand Qualifications Framework (TQF), in which all universities take as guidelines.
Bottom right corner, green box:
Q: Why do you have to test on professional skills of specific majors when there are already licenses?
A: For professions that already have federations/ professional associations, NIETS will not redundantly test again.
The 4 subjects of basic skills are:
1. Thai language for communication and English language for communication.
2. Information and Technology for subsistence.
3. Media Literacy
4. Critical Thinking
Now then, let's see what that picture didn't mention and the problems of U-Net.
Firstly, when they say there is no coercion or agreement with corporations, they didn't include the part that they ask for cooperation from corporations to use U-Net scores in job registration. So how is that NOT a compulsion/must do test?
Next, the 4 subjects aforementioned are going to be added with another two next year. Those two are Morality and Ethics and Professional Skills of Specific Majors. I really, REALLY want to know how can you measure one's morality through exams. I also want to know what happened with "For professions that already have federations/ professional associations, NIETS will not redundantly test again.".
Moreover, how can you determine the "correctness"? Do all of us have to think the exact same way as you and your exam? Any of us who have different ideas (answers) are considered wrong?
Regarding the aim of measuring academy's quality and redundancy, when GAT/PAT (another troublesome tests) was announced long ago, they also say that GAT/PAT emphasize understanding, not repetition. However, if you come to Bangkok you'll probably see A LOT OF tutor institutions. I'd say students even concentrate there more than schools, and there are a ton of GAT/PAT tutor courses. That being said, how is this not a repetition?
In truth, U-Net will generate U-Net tutor courses. Students can concentrate on normal schools less because they have to take on specific subject tutoring courses, O-Net tutoring courses, GAT/PAT tutoring courses, TOEFL/TOEIC/IELTS/SAT and probably more courses, university's specific test tutoring courses, and when they think they escape all that in the university, they have to take U-Net courses. U-Net will not be able to measure the quality of the academies, but it will boost the growth of tutor institutions, thus ruining Thai education even more.
And if these aren't enough to convince you that U-Net is terrible, allow me to show you some questions from the past O-Net (Ordinary National Educational Test) (U-Net is something like this, only in university level.)
(From 2013's O-Net)
The reason why Europeans like to eat Thailand's Mussaman curry is?
1. Spicy and tasty
2. Mellow taste like soup
3. Colorful and attractive
4. Fragrant spices
5. Sour like spicy lemongrass soup
What's your answer?
(From 2010's O-Net)
Nok is a 17-year-old tennis player who received Women's Singles and Women's Doubles champion titles.
Question One: Nok is going to perform a valley, what position does she have to hit at the ball?
Question Two: What topic is Nok stressed about?
Question Three: How is Nok having sportsmanship?
That sentence was everything the exam provided. (Fun fact: The real Nok herself answered them wrong.)
(From 2011's O-Net)
If you get an erotic feeling, what should you do?
1. Invite friends to play football
2. Consult with family
3. Try to sleep
4. Travel with friends of different gender.
5. Invite close friends to watch movies.
The answer is choice one, invite friends to play football.
What a wonderful test.
There's a lot more details out there, but it will take me forever to mention them all. Anyways, I hope U-Net's going to be stopped.
Lastly, the reason why I'm writing this even though my English isn't that good to translate big topics is because it directly affects Thai students. Also, I've seen enough opinions from Thais, and I'd love to hear from others out there (by that I mean you). Please don't hesitate to comment!
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Wow, you really stay with me until the end. Thanks for reading!
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First thing first, what is U-Net?
U-Net (University National Education Test) is a newly created test from NIETS (National Institute of Educational Testing Service). The ones who are going to do the test will be seniors in universities. ฺ Below is a Q&A picture made by NIETS' official Facebook page.
(Picture taken from NIETS' official facebook page. Here's the link.)
Here's translation by me.
Top-right, blue zone:
What is U-NET?
-University National Education Test.
-(Thai translation)
Top-left, light-green box:
Q: Does it have to be paid for?
A: No, because it is a government policy.
Left, green box:
Q: Does everyone have to take the test?/Is is a compulsion?
A: It is not a compulsion test and it depends on availability of subjects, faculties, and the academies. It is going to be used only with academies that are prepared and are willing to send their students to take the test.
Pink box:
Q: Do the test scores have any effect to consideration in job registration?
A: It depends on corporations whether they will include U-Net scores in their criteria or not. There are no coercion or agreements (from NIETS) with the corporations.
Yellow box:
Q: What reason is this test for? What does this test want to measure?
A: U-Net aims to measure the quality of academies, as graduates' quality is academies' quality. Also, the ones who take the test can use the results to assess their potential.
Orange box:
Q: The test is redundant with the academies' examination?
A: It is not redundant, as the test measure 4 subjects of basic skills. It doesn't emphasize repetition, and is based on Thailand Qualifications Framework (TQF), in which all universities take as guidelines.
Bottom right corner, green box:
Q: Why do you have to test on professional skills of specific majors when there are already licenses?
A: For professions that already have federations/ professional associations, NIETS will not redundantly test again.
The 4 subjects of basic skills are:
1. Thai language for communication and English language for communication.
2. Information and Technology for subsistence.
3. Media Literacy
4. Critical Thinking
Now then, let's see what that picture didn't mention and the problems of U-Net.
Firstly, when they say there is no coercion or agreement with corporations, they didn't include the part that they ask for cooperation from corporations to use U-Net scores in job registration. So how is that NOT a compulsion/must do test?
Next, the 4 subjects aforementioned are going to be added with another two next year. Those two are Morality and Ethics and Professional Skills of Specific Majors. I really, REALLY want to know how can you measure one's morality through exams. I also want to know what happened with "For professions that already have federations/ professional associations, NIETS will not redundantly test again.".
Moreover, how can you determine the "correctness"? Do all of us have to think the exact same way as you and your exam? Any of us who have different ideas (answers) are considered wrong?
Regarding the aim of measuring academy's quality and redundancy, when GAT/PAT (another troublesome tests) was announced long ago, they also say that GAT/PAT emphasize understanding, not repetition. However, if you come to Bangkok you'll probably see A LOT OF tutor institutions. I'd say students even concentrate there more than schools, and there are a ton of GAT/PAT tutor courses. That being said, how is this not a repetition?
In truth, U-Net will generate U-Net tutor courses. Students can concentrate on normal schools less because they have to take on specific subject tutoring courses, O-Net tutoring courses, GAT/PAT tutoring courses, TOEFL/TOEIC/IELTS/SAT and probably more courses, university's specific test tutoring courses, and when they think they escape all that in the university, they have to take U-Net courses. U-Net will not be able to measure the quality of the academies, but it will boost the growth of tutor institutions, thus ruining Thai education even more.
And if these aren't enough to convince you that U-Net is terrible, allow me to show you some questions from the past O-Net (Ordinary National Educational Test) (U-Net is something like this, only in university level.)
(From 2013's O-Net)
The reason why Europeans like to eat Thailand's Mussaman curry is?
1. Spicy and tasty
2. Mellow taste like soup
3. Colorful and attractive
4. Fragrant spices
5. Sour like spicy lemongrass soup
What's your answer?
(From 2010's O-Net)
Nok is a 17-year-old tennis player who received Women's Singles and Women's Doubles champion titles.
Question One: Nok is going to perform a valley, what position does she have to hit at the ball?
Question Two: What topic is Nok stressed about?
Question Three: How is Nok having sportsmanship?
That sentence was everything the exam provided. (Fun fact: The real Nok herself answered them wrong.)
(From 2011's O-Net)
If you get an erotic feeling, what should you do?
1. Invite friends to play football
2. Consult with family
3. Try to sleep
4. Travel with friends of different gender.
5. Invite close friends to watch movies.
The answer is choice one, invite friends to play football.
What a wonderful test.
There's a lot more details out there, but it will take me forever to mention them all. Anyways, I hope U-Net's going to be stopped.
Lastly, the reason why I'm writing this even though my English isn't that good to translate big topics is because it directly affects Thai students. Also, I've seen enough opinions from Thais, and I'd love to hear from others out there (by that I mean you). Please don't hesitate to comment!
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Wow, you really stay with me until the end. Thanks for reading!
Friday, April 18, 2014
12th Rant: Apology and Plea
Good day everyone.
Songkran festival has passed. It was crazy.
Not in a good way.
There were a lot of news about improper deeds here and there.
There were people showing their pubic areas.
There were girls dancing in a....erm...."priceless" way...
There were casualties and injuries, and there were accidents.
They all happen every single year. I repeat, every single year.
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The people who showed their genitals were arrested and paid 500 Baht each as their penalty.
They also apologized for their deeds, saying like they knew it's not good to do so.
My question is: Why bother doing it then?
Of course everyone knows it's not good to do that, yet you did. It shouldn't be like you did then apologized and perhaps paid a bit of money and finished. That shouldn't be how it works. maybe we should strengthen the laws so that people will never do it so carelessly again.
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Those cases ended up with apologies. Still better than pleas. There are some cases where you did wrong, but then you say what you've done was intentionally good, with the keyword being intention.
What I've seen so far are:
1. I have a good intention. I did it for the sake of goodness. You have to look at not only my deeds, but also my intention too.
2. I actually did something. What about you? Have you ever done at least something like me? If not, then don't complain.
3. You aren't me, you won't understand. I'm at hardship, that's why I have to do it this way.
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Well then, allow me to point out a couple of things here.
1. Whatever you do, regardless of your intention, your wrongdoing is still wrong. Good intention doesn't change the fact that you do the wrong thing.
2. What others do or not do doesn't affect YOUR doing. The point is you, not others. As long as you do wrong, others have perfect rights to complain your wrongdoings.
3. Hardship doesn't permit perpetration. In fact, nothing permits perpetration.
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I sincerely hope someone will come across this and spread it over to those plea-talkers.
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Lately it's been shorter and shorter, but that's me for you: unpredictable. Thanks for reading.
Songkran festival has passed. It was crazy.
Not in a good way.
There were a lot of news about improper deeds here and there.
There were people showing their pubic areas.
There were girls dancing in a....erm...."priceless" way...
There were casualties and injuries, and there were accidents.
They all happen every single year. I repeat, every single year.
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The people who showed their genitals were arrested and paid 500 Baht each as their penalty.
They also apologized for their deeds, saying like they knew it's not good to do so.
My question is: Why bother doing it then?
Of course everyone knows it's not good to do that, yet you did. It shouldn't be like you did then apologized and perhaps paid a bit of money and finished. That shouldn't be how it works. maybe we should strengthen the laws so that people will never do it so carelessly again.
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Those cases ended up with apologies. Still better than pleas. There are some cases where you did wrong, but then you say what you've done was intentionally good, with the keyword being intention.
What I've seen so far are:
1. I have a good intention. I did it for the sake of goodness. You have to look at not only my deeds, but also my intention too.
2. I actually did something. What about you? Have you ever done at least something like me? If not, then don't complain.
3. You aren't me, you won't understand. I'm at hardship, that's why I have to do it this way.
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.
.
.
Well then, allow me to point out a couple of things here.
1. Whatever you do, regardless of your intention, your wrongdoing is still wrong. Good intention doesn't change the fact that you do the wrong thing.
2. What others do or not do doesn't affect YOUR doing. The point is you, not others. As long as you do wrong, others have perfect rights to complain your wrongdoings.
3. Hardship doesn't permit perpetration. In fact, nothing permits perpetration.
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.
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I sincerely hope someone will come across this and spread it over to those plea-talkers.
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Lately it's been shorter and shorter, but that's me for you: unpredictable. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
11th Rant: Ignorance
Hello.
Oh dear god it's DEADLY hot here.
Just, wow, c'mon this is not a desert!
This is the consequences of Global Warming, isn't it? Sigh, humans...
By the way, do you know that there are still people who do not believe in it? Yes, I really mean it. There are people who don't believe in Global Warming.
When I first learned about this, I was like "The heck!?", and I'm still like that.
People, oh people, haven't you got educated from schools? I'm certain that your Science teacher must have told you before about this. Oh people.
I'm not really sure what could have made them so ignorant, probably false facts. We really need to be careful about facts nowadays. Lies are everywhere. Nevertheless, I don't think Global Warming is a confusing crisis that can be lied about so easily. You know.....
Uhhhhhhhh... oh people....
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There's even more about it. Recently I've heard about anti-vaccination stuff in the western world. I kind of dove into details and found something ridiculous. There are quite a couple of reasons for not getting vaccinated. The most reasonable one would be because you are allergic to the vaccine. The unreasonable one though...
Some people state that some vaccines are dangerous. Well the thing is some of them do provide evidences. Then another group of people provide their evidences, pointing out that those claims are wrong. I actually appreciate this kind of.....um...discussion. Two sides fight with evidences and proofs, not with saliva. Anyways, the result is that vaccination is obviously something you should do. Yet there are people who still believe in the (proven wrong) facts and oppose against. Oh people.
The worse case is the idea of "Since other children attain vaccination, your children don't have to, because they are surrounded by protection.". Oh my gosh, how selfish. Seriously, it's so selfish. What if a lot of people think like this and choose not to get vaccinated? Furthermore, there are some who really rely on others to get vaccinated because they themselves are allergic, thus cannot get vaccinated. Now that's another case, but choosing to rely on others when you don't have to? Geez.
I heard there are already outbreaks ongoing. Let's see how ignorant can you be.
Oh people.
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While I'm not really confident about the aforementioned anti-vaccination issue, I am certain about this one.
It's about cosmetic products, more accurately cosmetic pills, here in my country.
Lots of them are sold by completely random sellers, not by doctors. They claim a lot of usage of the pills and even provide a lot of information of how they work. The types and processes come in massively various ways, from Collagen stuff to Hormone things.
Of course, many doctors and actual medical experts deny those pills and even warn about dangers from consuming them. Lots of the pills' information is totally false. Many of them are in fact useless, and a considerable amount of them are harmful. Some are claimed to lighten your skin tone, but in reality, and perhaps in return, you will eventually get skin cancer.
Some sellers defend themselves by saying:
(Let me warn you, the next thing you are about to read is the worst phrase I've ever heard in a while.)
"Don't believe those doctors, they oppose to us because they lose their own benefits from our business."
I'm literally speechless.
And guess what, some people believe them and spread it over.
People.....
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It seems like I too was ignorant about something.
I underestimate the level of ignorance humans can be.
I know I'm no one to judge others, but when reality is obvious yet people deny reality....
Heh....
Humans are interesting, aren't they? Sometimes they are so clever, yet there are times they are so blinded. They create awesome things, yet they destroy many. They try to maintain the world, yet they ruin it over and over. Some of them raise concern about dangers,
yet the other simply deny.
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Thanks for reading.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
10th Rant: Vacation Review and more!
Hello there! Long time no see!
The truth is that I came back like 2 days ago, yet I was too lazy to update the blog. Sorry about that.
Anyways, I'm here! And I can't wait to share my vacation with you!
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First thing first, my first destination point was Tara Mantra hotel at Cha'am beach, Petchburi. It's about 2 hours away from my home, so I listened to a music marathon along the way, and of course all the music are original, and remixes, of Touhou BGM. My ears hurt.
Tara Mantra itself was quite nice, but I felt so-so. It's simply because this was the fourth time that I came here already, so it's not impressive to me anymore. Everything was okay except the building design that was quite confusing, I still remember the first time I came here that my family and I got lost.
One thing I really appreciated, for the first time even, was the calmness of the room's balcony. It was SO peaceful that I felt so, so great. I really enjoyed my whole 5 hours of sitting outside, enjoying the scenery of the sea and sky, and drawing stuff in my iPhone.
Yes, I've been drawing things in my iPhone5 for quite a while, but it's small and is very painful to work with. I use SketchbookX for iPhone, and on top of that I did not pay to unlock all gimmicks, so my resources are very limited. I still manage to draw a couple of things though, namely my first ever fan-art (I drew Maleficent.).
For my family we usually make our vacation an "eat'n sleep" type. We get to the hotel, we sleep, then we go for meals, then come back and sleep. Isn't it great? xD
So I guess I'll share some restaurants I found they'er pretty great to you. The first one will be "Dee Lek", just a few steps away from the hotel. Their food is mostly European-Chinese/Thai, so please don't expect it to be as good as the original ones in Europe. Nevertheless when you compare it to the rest of the oh-so-many restaurants around it, this one's the best. The amount of food is that of the European size, and it's quite rare to find here.
Speaking of the size, "Aree", an Indian style restaurant even a fewer steps away from the hotel, also gives stunning amount of food per dish. What I like about their dishes are the sauces and taste. When you order a steak with some particular sauce, they really cover the meat with sauce to the point that you can't identify the meat, but rather a blob of sauce. The taste is extreme, too. There's no holding out when it comes to taste, if you order a spicy dish, it will be truly spicy. There's an exception, though. You can select the level of spiciness, so no worries. Oh, that reminds me. This time my brother and I ordered 2 different Indian dishes with my bro selected Lv.1 spiciness while I selected no spiciness at all. Ironically, the dishes turned out to look, and taste, almost the same, with a sole exception of spiciness. My bro favored my Lv.0 curry (which is still spicy, somehow) and I, on the other hand, liked his Lv.1 curry.
Let's travel a bit further from the hotel, shall we? Our next stop would be "Yao Seafood", a quite famous restaurant. As the name suggests, it's proudly presented dishes are seafood. Their prawns are delicious, as well as their snapper. Their drawback, though..... Well, the restaurant is, unbelievably and unacceptably for a famous restaurant, really dirty. Flies came after food was served, and the plates had a lot of ants on them.
I would suggest a better place for seafood, and it's called "Sang Thai Seafood", located in Hua Hin. Compared to Yao Seafood, this is on another level. Everything I've ordered, by about 5 times so far, is delicious, but the best of them will be Mantis Shrimp Stir-Fried with Garlic. It's SO delicious and it earned the title of the best dish of this trip. I still fancy its purple-white meat, ahh....
Anyways, my second destination was at Hua Hin (indeed), and I checked in at Putahracsa Hua Hin resort. It's a really great place, but I think it's too expensive (about 4000 Baht per night). What I liked the most would be the crew. ALL of them are polite and lovely. The resort itself was beautiful (though there's no peaceful spot like Tara Mantra), and the only negative thing I could find is the stairs along the walkway. There are so many stairs that when combined altogether I guess it's equivalent to about 2-3 floors, and those are only the ones along the main passage that you have to walk everyday. So, if you have knee/leg problems or you are...umm....old.., please bring healthy people with you so they can support you.
I also went to a mall full of brand names. Never before in my entire life that I buy even a single brand name product. Guess what? This time I bought 3 clothes, and their prices are equal to 15 of my usual clothes. But hey, did you know that in my entire life, and this time counted, I've bought only about 10 clothes! 90% of my clothes are all inherited from my relatives, and MY clothes are almost nowhere to be found.
I guess that's what you get for being the youngest of the clan.
To make myself more comfortable, I went to a night market in Hua Hin and bought a luxury, velvet watch at the price of 159 Baht.
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Once I came back I immediately tried to caught up with whatever I missed on the internet, and I found out about an ongoing talk of the town in my country. It's about a marching band of a famous school. I don't really want to go in detail here. My apology, but if you want to know more you will have to find out in the news instead. What I want to say here is what I learn from it.
1. You are a student. While under the name of the school whatever you do will affect the school. Normally most people don't care how bad you are, but whenever you are on duty of a student, remember who you are, and act carefully.
2. If you want to drift, discuss it with your comrades first, so that you will drift in the same way and not foil each other.
3. Sometimes it's better to keep you lips attached and nods. The more you say aggressively, the worse you get.
4. There will always be haters in this world, and so do opportunists.
5. Once you make people hate you enough, no one will care about your glory, and they will always be ready to stomp on your mistakes.
6. Internet/Social Network is a very strong force. Of course you can make use of it, but be ready for consequences. Water can lift the boat, as well as to drown it.
7. Hatred is a very powerful force indeed. Don't get carried away by it.
8. Don't make people hate you either.
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I think I have more to say, but I can't recall it :(
Anyways, that's it for today. See you next time!
And as always, thanks for reading (and special thanks to the mysterious +1 person! Thank you very much!)
The truth is that I came back like 2 days ago, yet I was too lazy to update the blog. Sorry about that.
Anyways, I'm here! And I can't wait to share my vacation with you!
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First thing first, my first destination point was Tara Mantra hotel at Cha'am beach, Petchburi. It's about 2 hours away from my home, so I listened to a music marathon along the way, and of course all the music are original, and remixes, of Touhou BGM. My ears hurt.
Tara Mantra itself was quite nice, but I felt so-so. It's simply because this was the fourth time that I came here already, so it's not impressive to me anymore. Everything was okay except the building design that was quite confusing, I still remember the first time I came here that my family and I got lost.
One thing I really appreciated, for the first time even, was the calmness of the room's balcony. It was SO peaceful that I felt so, so great. I really enjoyed my whole 5 hours of sitting outside, enjoying the scenery of the sea and sky, and drawing stuff in my iPhone.
Yes, I've been drawing things in my iPhone5 for quite a while, but it's small and is very painful to work with. I use SketchbookX for iPhone, and on top of that I did not pay to unlock all gimmicks, so my resources are very limited. I still manage to draw a couple of things though, namely my first ever fan-art (I drew Maleficent.).
For my family we usually make our vacation an "eat'n sleep" type. We get to the hotel, we sleep, then we go for meals, then come back and sleep. Isn't it great? xD
So I guess I'll share some restaurants I found they'er pretty great to you. The first one will be "Dee Lek", just a few steps away from the hotel. Their food is mostly European-Chinese/Thai, so please don't expect it to be as good as the original ones in Europe. Nevertheless when you compare it to the rest of the oh-so-many restaurants around it, this one's the best. The amount of food is that of the European size, and it's quite rare to find here.
Speaking of the size, "Aree", an Indian style restaurant even a fewer steps away from the hotel, also gives stunning amount of food per dish. What I like about their dishes are the sauces and taste. When you order a steak with some particular sauce, they really cover the meat with sauce to the point that you can't identify the meat, but rather a blob of sauce. The taste is extreme, too. There's no holding out when it comes to taste, if you order a spicy dish, it will be truly spicy. There's an exception, though. You can select the level of spiciness, so no worries. Oh, that reminds me. This time my brother and I ordered 2 different Indian dishes with my bro selected Lv.1 spiciness while I selected no spiciness at all. Ironically, the dishes turned out to look, and taste, almost the same, with a sole exception of spiciness. My bro favored my Lv.0 curry (which is still spicy, somehow) and I, on the other hand, liked his Lv.1 curry.
Let's travel a bit further from the hotel, shall we? Our next stop would be "Yao Seafood", a quite famous restaurant. As the name suggests, it's proudly presented dishes are seafood. Their prawns are delicious, as well as their snapper. Their drawback, though..... Well, the restaurant is, unbelievably and unacceptably for a famous restaurant, really dirty. Flies came after food was served, and the plates had a lot of ants on them.
I would suggest a better place for seafood, and it's called "Sang Thai Seafood", located in Hua Hin. Compared to Yao Seafood, this is on another level. Everything I've ordered, by about 5 times so far, is delicious, but the best of them will be Mantis Shrimp Stir-Fried with Garlic. It's SO delicious and it earned the title of the best dish of this trip. I still fancy its purple-white meat, ahh....
Anyways, my second destination was at Hua Hin (indeed), and I checked in at Putahracsa Hua Hin resort. It's a really great place, but I think it's too expensive (about 4000 Baht per night). What I liked the most would be the crew. ALL of them are polite and lovely. The resort itself was beautiful (though there's no peaceful spot like Tara Mantra), and the only negative thing I could find is the stairs along the walkway. There are so many stairs that when combined altogether I guess it's equivalent to about 2-3 floors, and those are only the ones along the main passage that you have to walk everyday. So, if you have knee/leg problems or you are...umm....old.., please bring healthy people with you so they can support you.
I also went to a mall full of brand names. Never before in my entire life that I buy even a single brand name product. Guess what? This time I bought 3 clothes, and their prices are equal to 15 of my usual clothes. But hey, did you know that in my entire life, and this time counted, I've bought only about 10 clothes! 90% of my clothes are all inherited from my relatives, and MY clothes are almost nowhere to be found.
I guess that's what you get for being the youngest of the clan.
To make myself more comfortable, I went to a night market in Hua Hin and bought a luxury, velvet watch at the price of 159 Baht.
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Once I came back I immediately tried to caught up with whatever I missed on the internet, and I found out about an ongoing talk of the town in my country. It's about a marching band of a famous school. I don't really want to go in detail here. My apology, but if you want to know more you will have to find out in the news instead. What I want to say here is what I learn from it.
1. You are a student. While under the name of the school whatever you do will affect the school. Normally most people don't care how bad you are, but whenever you are on duty of a student, remember who you are, and act carefully.
2. If you want to drift, discuss it with your comrades first, so that you will drift in the same way and not foil each other.
3. Sometimes it's better to keep you lips attached and nods. The more you say aggressively, the worse you get.
4. There will always be haters in this world, and so do opportunists.
5. Once you make people hate you enough, no one will care about your glory, and they will always be ready to stomp on your mistakes.
6. Internet/Social Network is a very strong force. Of course you can make use of it, but be ready for consequences. Water can lift the boat, as well as to drown it.
7. Hatred is a very powerful force indeed. Don't get carried away by it.
8. Don't make people hate you either.
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I think I have more to say, but I can't recall it :(
Anyways, that's it for today. See you next time!
And as always, thanks for reading (and special thanks to the mysterious +1 person! Thank you very much!)
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