The Ivory Tower*

At the beginning of the year, I was in a Knowledge Managment class, and The Ivory Tower – A Knowledge Management Fable article was chosen to be a part of the lecture for us to study at the time.

The assignment was to come up with a slide showing our understanding of the story, and present it to the whole class.

The story provides a clear understanding to me about knowledge creation and management.

Just this morning, I received a comment on my primary Thai blog from the author. Actually, I also got the exact, same comment at my slide page, but I did not know that the comment was there.

Hey – nice slide pack. Did you pick this material up as a CPA member? Just thought you may like to add a link to the original story – it’s on my blog at http://delarue.net/blog/docs/

Keith De La Rue
Author, “The Ivory Tower”

Once I saw that, I went to my SlideShare page and added his link to the slide description.

Besides, he also has his own SlideShare page here. Surely, I have subscribed to his blog feed and added him as a contact in SlideShare.

Knowledge Base*

My boss mentioned that the IT department in the office would start a knowledge base. I am wondering what kind of knowledge base that will be. A folder containing some files to share among their staffs? And that is it?

How will they gather the knowledge? Only explicit knowledge is concerned here? How about tacit one?

Knowledge Management is something I thought that this company should have had since I was studying Innovation in Management. I found that although we have what we call ’shared folders’, not everybody uses them. And though they use them, there is no guideline of how ones should store what to where. All folders are there, and wherever ones want to upload whatever, they can just do that.

To me, Knowledge Management has nothing to do with IT apart from using the technology as an enabler to allow the process to go faster in better organised manner. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that most people still think that Knowledge Management is all about technology. That is why IT is the department who starts this project.

Technology will have no role in Knowledge Management if we do not have any knowledge to manage and to store. Where can we find and how can we get the knowledge from people in an organisation are the main questions.

Aim Beyond*

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be
– By Paul Arden

This is a book that is one of the best sellers by Phaidon Press at this time.

I bought it yesterday at 350 Baht at Kinokuniya, Isetan. The book is very easy to read with pictures and bigger font size. I could finish it last night (FYI, I am not a book lover and rarely finish a book completely).

Some messages are known facts, but we (I) sometimes ignore and forget to think about them. Reading this is encouraging and it tells me to aim high, so that I always try to be BETTER (not just GOOD ENOUGH).

And now I at least found out that I like reading this type of books. I also noticed that there were 2 more books by this writer. I might consider buying them later.

Eat One a Week*

Reading this, I am urged to start my reading again. I have more than 5 books unfinished. I started a few and have not completed one of them. I bought some as a collection, e.g. The Chronicles of Narnia, and I have just finished one of the 7 books.. (Oh, so now I have more than 10 books unread, I think).

To my feeling, I may like reading a non-fiction one more than a fiction, but The Chronicles of Narnia and Pricess Diary are exceptions. How many exceptions will I have!?!?

OK.. Got urged.. and now I will just have to TRY HARDER to learn how to EAT books.

:p

Busy Week*

Awww… back on Monday again. Busy week, busy time, and busy life.

• To have carpeting done by this Sunday.
• To have movable library move back and forth during the carpeting process (to allow the carpet to be laid).
• To re-organise the seats and tables for Billing and Accounting Departments.
• To study for the Information Exploitation quiz on Thursday.
• To write up a memo to HR Manager for Employee Selection class, due Wednesday.
• To go to Rayong tomorrow (Tuesday) if time permits.

- -” Arrghhh.. how come, how come?

Besides, there are more pending but not urgent.

• Website re-design (Jeff, can you please send me to study a course on web design or something related first? Then, I will not have to learn how to use Dreamweaver myself.
• Polo shirts and cotton bags for HMC.
• Etc (can’t think of now).

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Non-Sense*

When asking for any security deposit back from a company or service provider, would I accept that my credit card has been credited when there is no proof?

No.

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And would Nikki accept that her credit card has been credited when there is no proof?

I do not think so.

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It is not $100, but $1,000! If I were a customer, I would shout at the rep from the provider, and would not leave this office till I had an evidence to prove that my money had been returned to my account.

How come Nikki left me and did not even try to forward me the receipt (which showed that the amount had been refunded)? I even asked her to take a photo of the receipt. She laughed and said the customer would have to wait till tomorrow.

Ha! If you were a customer, would you Nikki? Kid!

Thinking that the money would be automatically transferred to the customer’s credit card right away (and Nikki said so), I just went to talk to the customer and asked him to check with his card provider; while Nikki was leaving for home.

And it turned out that the card provider could not see any credited amount in the customer’s account yet!

D a r n . . . .  

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Wish I could go home now.. Moody!

Lesson-learnts

• Transfers to and from a credit card/ bank might not be done right way. Normally, it takes a daily process. For this case, the transaction would be done through the system around midnight.
• Don’t let Nikki go until the job is successfully done. Otherwise, she will not be contactable at all. No matter how often I call or text, she will just keep quiet without any returning calls.
• I should not allow or favour any customer with the credit card application anymore. Actually, the credit card application is not for Thailand, but Australia. And when it happens in Australia, it is out of my control (I cannot control the machine, as well as people’s minds and behaviours). Unlucky for the coming customers. No more credit card application from me ever!

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P.S. Anyway, this customer is also quite picky and always wants this and that in his way. When he came for renting the phone, it was like he did not read what I had emailed to him.

He came and started asking everything again. I spent over 2 hours with him. And when he came, he said he did not have $1,500 to pay in cash, and if it was possible to use his credit card. I favoured him and tried to get everything in the ways he wanted.. and now.. problem.. ! Duh! 

Next time, I would let all customers now that credit card use is not possible here. Customers have to ensure they have enough cash or can transfer the amount to our bank account.

Hectic Better*

One mistake being annoying me during these several months is that the words ‘and’ in the company’s affivadit that happened because I made a typo.

That would look very simple if I could just change from ‘and’ to ‘or’ right away, or if it did not affect anything in regards to the company’s business.

On the contrary,  the misprint was with the authorised signatory of the company where it should have been that only one person out of all has an authorisation. Instead of having ‘or,’ the affidavit contains the word ‘and’ between two names of the company’s directors.

The impact is that both of them have to sign all documents together, while only either one should have been doing that. That wastes their time, including those who prepare documents.

I am really sorry for that and upset for a long while.

Even more complicatedly, to change the authorised signatory, I need to get one of the CEO’s from UK to sign off the documents submitted to the DBD.  And they do not visit Thailand that often, but normally, twice a year, with 3-4 days each time.

Moreover, since the CEO’s from UK are not working in Thailand and they have no work permit, the signature must be certified by a lawyer who is a member of The Thai Bar that the signature is genuine. Or to be exact, the director has to sign the documents in front of the lawyer, and the lawyer certifies the signature; when the director does not want to go to the DBD to sign the documents in front of an officer.

Not only that, to change the authorised signatory, there should be a meeting held up among shareholders, or what it is technically called AGM or EGM. The minutes of the meeting should include the resolution of change director’s authorised signatory, blah, blah, blah..

Besides, the officer(s) there was so strict with wordings in the documents that sometimes the same person tells different things. For example, last time I went there, the details in the documents were ‘ABCDE,’ and there was no change this time; she asked me to go back and amend! T_T” Lack of standard, somehow.

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Anyways……….. PHewWwwwwWWww! It’s gone!

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After I failed getting this done last time Sandy (a CEO) was here, I successfully completed this task this late afternoon. Very relieved and feel like I have more focuses to something else now. Nothing to worry.

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;)

Candle*

Currently, I have my candle (got from a senior colleauge) lit and shining in front of me.

Although the candle is not a large one, I can feel the warmth and see the bright moon-like light.

Although the candle is small, I am touched with a hug of warmth.

Although the candle cannot do anything else, apart from being lit and shining, I thank it for the lightness, the brightness, and the warmth.

Those are being delivered into my heart.

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Time on IM*

After reading The 7 deadly sins of instant messaging from 43 Folders, I found that some of time has been partly spent on IM. Thus, I decided to turn off my MSN and Skype right away.

I still have Gtalk online because I send tweets through Gtalk sometimes.

Although IM does not normally consume much of my time, I reckon that having it offline would help me be more concentrated on what I am doing.

Next step I would try is that to limit my time on all websites, Facebook, WordPress, Blogger, Bloglines, etc, I like surfing around.

The activites on the mentioned sites consume my time more than IM actually.

Anyway, without MSN/ Skype on, I feel that I do not have to worry, wonder, and keep looking at the chat programmes whether my friends or those I expect are online.

Why do I have to expect someone to online? I do not know :p

 

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An hour after I sent this post, I found out that my MSN and Skype were online without showing themselves in my system tray (so I did not see them). I realised this when a friend from MSN said hello..

Hahaa.. OK.

I changed the settings of both MSN and Skype not to be automatically logged in, so that they are under my control.. Hehee.

The Great Whale Trail*

WHALES
2 November 2007

Dear Greenpeace’s Supporters,

Name the whale – a lifetime chance to name a humpback whale.

A once in a lifetime experience – your chance to name a humpback whale.

As part of the Great Whale Trail project, which is tracking whales via satellite, we have some humpback whales that need names. Not just any names, but some great names for some great whales.

We haven’t yet cracked the code of whale language so we don’t know what the whales call themselves but we are pretty confident they don’t call themselves, ‘33001, or 37232′, which are some of the names they have now.

Click here to go to The Great Whale Trail project

Click here to see the Whale Profiles

Click here to name the whale

Thanks,
The Whale ‘Tag Team’.

E-mail with Tweetr*

 

On 13/10/2007, John Ballinger <john@bluespark.co.nz> wrote:

Hi,

The font size issue was broken by AIR beta2, so I have to find that.  I have just finished system tray support but I want to add in notification support before I release it so it coming. I don’t see any real practical reason for the public timeline and don’t really want to develop that.

Re-the sent, currently I only show what Twitter returns from their API, really they should show your messages inline with the messages you have sent.  Sent wouldn’t make that much sense in a separate view and then it comes down to a  lot more work.

Several people have commented about the 140 char limit.  I don’t enforce it as that would make it harder to edit your message should you go over the limit, eg pasting a URL at the end.  You can see in the title bar the message limit, it would be better if it was closer to the actual text input but I have been working really hard to remove clutter from the UI, so put the current char count in the title bar worked quite well.  What I think I will do is ad a little tiny balloon that appears just above the text field when you type and shows you the char limit. That could work nicely.  OR allow you to type for as long as you like and send 2xmsgs just like SMS does when you go over you 160 char limit. Why not send 2x messages? Or 3x. That could be quite handy sometimes.  Any for Tweetr users re-combine them?  Will see.

Thanks for the comments. John.

—–Original Message—–
From: me
Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 5:10 p.m.
To: tweetr@bluespark.co.nz
Subject: RE: Comments

Hi There,

Somehow, I don’t think I can really change the font size. It looks the same from 7-11. I want it to be smaller, so that I can see more twits in one small window.

And here are some more comments on the tweetr.

• Apart from ‘inbox’ in Direct Messages, perhaps there should be ’sent?’
• Can the counter of 140 letters move to the bottom of the page near the text entering box? It’s easier to notice. Or, do not allow us to add more letters after we reach the max. The letters after 0, i.e. -1, -2, -n, do not show up anyway.
• How about ‘Public Timeline?’

All for now. Thanks

PS. I’m using Windows OS, btw.

And.. perhaps, an option for minimise the window to the system tray.. ?

:)

Thanks a lot

Tweets with Snitter*

 

 snitter @escribitionist Snitter doesn’t do TinyURL. Twitter does it automatically…most of the time. Thinking of using Snurl b/c it starts with SN. about 17 hours ago from Snitter in reply to escribitionist

me: @snitter what you mean when you say Twitter does TinyURL? However, I know your app does without clicking ‘insert tinyurl.’ its automatic. about 17 hours ago from Snitter in reply to snitter

me: @snitter just tried thru twitter site if you could see.. and i still see the full version. http://labs.adobe.com/downl… about 18 hours ago from Snitter in reply to snitter

me: @snitter and agree with ’snurl’ :D suits the snitter. about 18 hours ago from Snitter in reply to snitter

Tweets with Spaz*

 

 spaz I am releasing an update today that should fix the error messages you’re seeing in Spaz. Snitter is a great app too, though! about 18 hours ago

me: just realised that i’m in your ‘following’ list. so i can send my comments on spaz here? and thanks for the dm re the new released version. about 18 hours ago

 spaz yes, you can certainly contact me either via reply or dm about Spaz here. about 16 hours ago

me: just recalled one thing. i think spaz doesn’t support ‘thai font’ :) i’m from thailand, btw. fyi. about 7 hours ago

 spaz It’s a known issue with AIR HTML apps that non-US English keyboards aren’t supported properly, unfortunately. about 5 hours ago

me: hmmm.. tweetr support both reading and typing in thai though (snitter supports reading but not typing). about 4 hours ago

 spaz That’s because Tweetr is written in Flex/Flash, and Snitter is an HTML app (like Spaz). As I said, it’s an issue with AIR *HTML* apps. about 4 hours ago

me: i see.. thanks :) sorry, i dont have much knowledge abt software for developers though. :p about 4 hours ago

 spaz 8) it’s okay. You can’t tell if you’re just using the apps. I’d rather people ask than just assume it’s a bug with Spaz. about 4 hours ago

Common New Zealand Slang*

By chance, I found the link to some NZ slangs provided by a university’s website (SIT). Think it is interesting to keep here for memory. And this is the start of the catagory, ‘New Zealand*’ and ‘Language*.’

:)

The following is a list of some New Zealand slang and their meanings. Warning – care should be taken with the use of these words, we will not be teaching them in the classroom though you may hear them when in New Zealand.

Awesome
= Fine, excellent

Bach
= A holiday home (also known as a crib in the South Island)

Barbie
= Barbecue (also written as BBQ) – food cooked outside over a charcoal or gas fire

Beaut, beauty
= Something good or outstanding. Often used ironically to mean the opposite

Bro
= Term of address for a male friend or relative

Bright as a button
= Looking fresh, alert

Bright spark
= Intelligent, alert, attentive, awake

Bring a plate
= Everyone brings food to share. Don’t bring an empty plate.

Bush
= New Zealand’s native forest

Bushed, had it
= Exhausted

BYO
= Bring Your Own. A BYO restaurant is a restaurant that allows customers to bring their own wine to drink with their meal.

Chocka
= Full

Choice
= Fine, excellent

Clean as a whistle
= Sparkling clean

Clown
= Term of abuse, idiot

Crook
= To be ill or unwell. Also means a thief

Cuz
= Term of address for friend or relative

Dag
= An amusing person, a character

Dork
= An idiot or a physically uncoordinated person

Dough
= Money

Drive around the bend
= Annoy so much you lose your temper

Drongo
= A term of abuse, idiot

Dude
= A cool or good looking male

Feed
= A meal

Flat tack
= At top speed

Foxy, fox
= Used to describe a cool or good looking person of either sex

Fully
= I agree

G’dday
= Greeting meaning hello

Got the blues
= Used to describe a sad state of mind

Greenie
= A conservationist

Gumboots
= Waterproof rubber boots (called Wellingtons in Britain)

Grog
= Alcohol

Grouse
= Fine, excellent, often used to express delight

Hard case
= A tough but likeable person, an eccentric person

Hard graft
= Hard work

Head over heels
= Usually describing somebody who is very very happy

Heart of gold
= Describing a person who is very kind

Hook up
= Meet up or join in

Hoon
= A noisy person, a lout

In a spin
= Usually when too many things happen all at one time or too many choices

Jandals
= Rubber sandals or thongs (called flip flops in Britain)

Joker
= A man

Kiwi
= New Zealand native bird symbol. New Zealander

Lolly
= The usual word for a confection or sweet

Mate
= A friend, also a term of address

Mission
= An adventure

Mongrel
= A term of abuse or contempt for a person

Munted
= To be broken or distorted

Narley
= Cool, good

Nerd
= A boring person

Nifty
= Good (applied to a thing)

No worries
= Common phrase of agreement

On to it
= Efficient or intelligent

On a high
= A good feeling that can come from success

Once in a blue moon
= Very rarely, seldom, almost never

Paddock
= A field, also a sports pitch

Paint the town red
= To go out and have a good time

Piker
= Someone who opts out of an activity

Pop on over/ pop in
= Come and visit me at my house

Potluck dinner
= Everyone brings prepared food to share with all the guests

Pressie
= A present (gift)

Pub
= A bar where alcoholic drinks are served over the counter

Rapt
= Very pleased

Rellie
= A relation or relative

Rough ride
= A difficult experience

She’ll be right
= Everything is going to be OK

Shocking
= Very bad

Shout
= To treat your friends to something such as a drink or a meal

Skite
= To boast. A boaster or showoff

Smoko
= Coffee or tea break

Snowed under
= Usually has too much work or responsibility

Spuds
= Potatoes

Sticks
= Remote or rural district, the countryside

Stinge/Stingy
= Not generous with your money

Stoked
= Very excited

Sweet as
= Great

Swot
= Study hard, especially before an exam

Ta
= Thanks

To take for a ride
= To deceive or trick someone

Togs
= Swimming costume

Tucker
= Food

Turn to custard
= Collapse of ideas, schemes, plans

Unc/Unco
= An uncoordinated person, often used as an insult or taunt

Under the weather
= Feeling off colour, unwell, tired

Uni
= University

Varsity
= University

Veggies
= Vegetables

Wicked
= Fine, excellent

Wop-wops
= Remote or rural district, the countryside

Source: SIT

Upset Mum*

Rarely see my mum cry because of work or colleagues (She cries sometimes when we both argue). She is so strong. But yesterday evening, it happened.

She called and her voice sounded strange. When asked, she said she was angry with someone at her office. When we met, she told the story.

She was asked to do an extra job of other company (owned by her boss’ son) that is not under her responsibility. She was asked to do because she was skillful in accounting stuff. Unfortunately, when she works extra, she never gets paid for it.

Some outsiders, who just see her work extra, always think that she gets paid extra. Thus, when my mum spends some time on the extra work, which there is nobody wanting to take responsibility, she is monitored.

And last night, her colleague talked to her sarcastically, ‘What are you doing? What are you guys doing with the extra work?’

She does not have to do that, for god’s sake! She did help because the job was from her boss’ son, who is nice to and respects her, while she does not get paid at all!

Why can’t those people handle the job themselves them? Why asked my mother? Why made her upset and shed her tears! Damn it!

I told my mum that if she was not happy with the work she did, just quit. At my current salary, I believe I can take care of her although without her salary, we may not be able to over-spend as usual.

We will survive anyway.

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Jessica Simpson Sheridan Satchel in Lune*

 

Hola! I saw this bag last night from Central Chidlom, during the on-sale season. The price was 13,230 Baht, 30% discount from the original price of 18,900 Baht. The bag is really stylish (to my mum and me) though it is too expensive.

I got this picture from a website called Zappos. The colour looks too bright compared to the real one. I like the colour of the real one.

The price offered in the website is US$271.93.

While, according to the exchange rate at the moment (33.8338), the price in Thai Baht is around 9,200!!

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It is made in China!

O_o”

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Quite surprised that the importer set the price over a double of the original price. I reckon that this kind of businesses earns a lot of money now. Considering the importation taxes, shipping costs, operations costs, and so on; I am wondering if all of them cost so much that the importer has to set this high price?

Or.. they set the price according to the value of the product to Thai people?

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I am convinced that one of their marketing strategies is setting the price according to the value of the product.

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Now, why do Thai people have to value imported products more than their own?

How come Thais cannot produce qualified products under their own brands, while they have their skills?

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I think this is a really big problem in Thailand now.

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Pocket Mod*

Do you know the Pocket Mod?

From this website, you can create a disposable personal organiser with one piece of paper for an 8-page notebooklet.

Sounds nice, doesn’t it?

It is very interesting for anybody who does not like carrying a large or thick paper-made organiser.

This so-called Pocket Mod is thin and tiny. It is small enough for you to put it in your wallet and use it as a reminder of the day or month, as a small book that you can carry anywhere (convertable from PDF file to the Pocket Mod size), or even as a short note for your study.

Apart from creating a Pocket Mod from the website, you can also download its software and make one mod offline. To covert from a PDF file to a mod, you also need to download another software, and it is very easy to use.

I have converted my handouts in Thai Economics to a mod, and read it in a restroom.. LOL

Just something fun this week.

I will be busy tomorrow since I have a make-up class for Thai Economics and a wedding that I have to go… Oh well, it’s not my wedding though.. :)))

ThinkPad Z61t (9441-A15)*

(For the full specifications, please click the blog title.)

Bought this on Thursday 05th October 2006 and got it from the shop on Wednesday 11th October 2006. My mum’s manager’s son paid for this at the total of 45,400 Baht (after we got 2,000 paid at the very first time back just today).

The laptop itself cost 39,900 Baht (free VAT) and I needed a genuine Window XP Professional, so we had paid 7,500 extra for it. Unfortunately, this model Z61t was too new to Microsoft XP Pro, so the shop or even IBM Thailand could not successfully install the software (with operating drivers).

Thus, the shop decided to return the paid amount 7,500 after my mum had complained a lot over the phone to a lady from the shop.

Instead of getting all back in cash, I spent 5,500 Baht on 1GB RAM, and got 2,000 back in return (ya, that was after I had exchanged with a 2000-worth Targus bag and my mum complained non-stop).

Nice size, style with blonde titanium cover. Like it (or because it is a new one for me.. can’t tell though).

I Have Been Tagged, 8 Facts/ Things/ Habits About Me!*

I have been tagged by Eliana and Sheila

RULES: - Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a blog with 8 facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs…

1:-
Start with something simple. My name is Nalinrat. In Thai, it means ‘glass lotus.’ Well, you’d better call me Mook (as you’re calling), my nickname. This one means ‘pearl.’ Nalinrat was named by a monk, while Mook was named by my twin aunties. Mookie is another nickname my colleauges called because it sounds like an English name with ‘-ie’ sound (Jimmy, Susy, Nancy, blah, blah, blah).

2:-
Hey, think you might be able to guess that I am the only child… errm… the spoiled kid, say I was born when my mum was 37! So she was too old to have any more kids, while I really wanted to have a brother and a sister. More importantly, perhaps because she was a little too old for having a baby, I am a little nut (or ‘more than a little’ nut).. Heheee.. (a mother should not have a baby when she reaches 40 to avoid any disorder of her baby, as I know). Mum said I ate nothing but drank milk when I was young. One day, we had a meeting with our relatives and cousins (kinda a small party). We had grilled chicken wings with sticky rice. What I did was sitting there, looking at those chicken without eating, while my cousin had finished his wings and then kept looking at my chicken wings. I could drink a dozen of 250ml boxes of milk per day! Oh.. unbelieveable!

3:-
I chose to study English-German when I was in high school. With those two years study, please do not ask me to speak German with you.. LOL Forgot all! After the 2-year high school life (out of a normal of 3 years), I could pass an entrance exam to Kasetsart University (in Bangkok) in a 4-year Bachelor Programme in Translation (English-Thai). My life in the university was fun. I was young, thought of nothing but studying, and spent my life in the uni, malls, library and with friends. Money? Begged for my lovely mum, no wonder. Once I finished my B. A. Translation, I did another entrance exam for my 2- year Master’s Degree in English for Careers at Thammasat University. Meeting lots of new and maturer friends, I had learnt many things about both study and work experiences. After having studied for a year, I decided to get a job. Then I both worked and studied simultaneously, like others. Presently, as some of you may know, I have just passed an entrance exam for another Master Programme in Innovation in Management at College of Management Mahidol University. I will study a pre-course in Accounting in mid July and the real programme begins in September. It must be fun! I am back to class again! Hoorey..

4:-
Nothing much about work. I have worked as a freelance translator while I was studying in Thammasat as I had some spare time during the weekdays (studied only on the weekends). Then I also had a chance to work temporarily in an embassy as a Secretary to the Counsellor because one of my senior friends was working there and she needed a tempt staff for 2.5 months. My permanent job is the current one. I orginally applied for being a Secretary. Then I was called for an interview of a Receptionist. After the interview, I was called again for another interview (with the same company) for a position of Sales Administrator. I got this job after the interview was done. The verbal agreement was offerred and I began this job in the coming week! Being working here for over 3 years, I am now an Office Supervisor. I would like to gain more experience and keep moving on to higher positions. This is a reason I chose to study Innovation in Management.

5:-
Talking about all favourites of mine, let say…….. My fav COLOURS are black, brown, green, khaki, yellow, orange, cream, and white (sooo many colours in my hearts.. LOL). Fav FOODS&DRINKS are Thai, Japanese, pomeloes, papayas, green apples, rambutans, oranges, nuts, beans, whole grains, greens, fish, dark chocolate, latte, green tea, cereal with milk, cocoa, fruit juice… errr.. uncountable. In short, I can eat anything.. Fav types of MUSIC are pop, soft rock, UK garage, Craig David, Ne-Yo, James Blunt. Fav HOBBIES are surely blogging, then swimming, listening to music, surfing the Internet, and watching movies. Fav PLACES are all nature places, esp waterfalls and forests, home, my relatives’ house in Pak Chong (northeastern Thailand) and New Zealand. What else of my fav’s here… Hmm… Tag me again if you want to know then.. Haha.

6:-
What else should I talk here… !? Oh, my habits and personalities.. Firstly, undeniably, I am spoiled! Why I am talking about being spoiled as a good habit!! Hahaa.. No, no, this is not a good habit. I am just telling the truth. That’s it! I can be very kind and extremely mean when I feel like to. I mostly do anything as per my ‘wants and moods,’ not ‘reasons.’ I know this is not a good habit, and I should change. I am trying to, honestly. I am quite outspoken when I feel that the other party(ies) would accept my comments. Otherwise, I will just keep quiet without any comments. I am not a lying bitch, so I prefer being quiet to telling lies when I do not want to be blunt. Well, I am quite lazy and gross though (my mum usually says so) when I do not want to do anything else, but get stuck in front of my PC or TV (eeeee). I get bored of something/ someone somewhat easily when I feel of no excitement left. I hate people’s pretensions, sarcasm, selfishness and overstatement (tell me who likes this kind of human beings!!!). I am a bit boyish (like you, Eliana). Maybe because I am the only child, I should be able to take care of myself. I can lift up a 20kgs gallon of water for a cooler, while some men in the office do not want to do. I am a bit hyper-active (some of my friends said so) and energetic. However, in some mood, I can be indifferent to things around me and I will just sit still silently. Most importantly, I get upset easily, but will forget about it after. In summary, I am a confusing gal.. LOL.. Oh, lastly, I will be dreamy when I watch a play, series, or movie, but hey, I do not mix those dreams with reality!

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Something bores and discourages me when I confidently intend to do something and I am insulted since I start thinking and I have never even started it yet. You know what! If someone does that to me, I will just stop and give up. No rule can be applied for all! Words that will affect in a good way with me is showing your trust, making me feel I am trustworthy.. and you know.. I will try to do my very best to get anything done. I like being trusted and when I feel so, I can do things well. I feel like I should not miss finishing and succeeding any parts cos that means I will be upsetting someone who trusts in me. On the other hand, if I am insulted, what points I have to do or try further to show someone who judges someone who has not even started their jobs. This is a part of a stubborn me!

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For my future, I now plan to own a land in the north of Thailand close to a mountain, forests and waterfalls, build a one-storey big house on the land, do farming, and stay there with my mum. Family? Well, I keep forgetting about my own family each day. Why? I am not saying I do not believe in love or soulmate. I surely do, but if I have one, he would show up one day. I do not need to struggle to get one, who may not be the ‘right’ one. For now, I wear a ring on my left ring finger to tell myself that I can marry with myself.. Staying alone is a bit lonely sometimes, but not all the time. It depends on myself who should find something to do. My mum now starts worrying about me not getting married.. Hahaa.. I can recall when I was young, she would always agree and encourage me to get a good job, earn well, and stay alone to avoid any problem that she had faced in her married life. Her thought has been changed! She now tries to convince me that I should get married if I find a good person. She tries to tell me not to close my heart. I don’t! Do I?

Anyway, all for now.. been blabbing for a long time.. Hahaa..

Here Is the Answers*

Hehe.. I accidentally kept a friend of mine wondering what the answers are.

Yesterday, I was very hectic. A few jobs had to be done by the end of the day. I left at 2000hrs for home.

Anyway, here you go, the Skins See if the answers make any sense.

Q: “Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.”

A: In its original form, the first two sentences have absolutely “nothing” to do with the question: “Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them.” Ignore those two sentences. They are there only to throw you off. (Worked, didn’t it?)

What’s left is the actual riddle itself: “There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.”

The key is the phrase “the English language.” In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word “language.” “Language” is definitely something that “everyone uses every day”! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would just be another trivia question, and not a riddle.

Source: http://www.riddlenut.com/gryriddle.php

Q: “Angry and Hungry are two words ending in ‘gry.’ There are three words, (Using popular terminology) in the English Language , that end in “GRY”. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.”

A: Answer is terminology. (It’s the third word ending in gry. Usin(g) popula(r) teminolog(y)

Source: http://www.riddles.com/riddle.php?riddleid=1111

There can be another Q related to GRY. “I was told there are only three words ending with -GRY. Two are hungry and angry. What is the third word?”

It uses the same trick as in the first Q above. I believe you now know the answer, huh?

Q: “What is the shortest sentence that contains all English alphabets?”

A: People answered either 1 or 2 below.
1. Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
2. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

I think 2 should be the best answer as all words are words from a dictionary, not a name like Jackdaws. Otherwise… my name is abcdefghifklmnopqrstuvwxyz…. LOL

Manage Colours*

There are 4 colours in total, Red, Yellow, Blue and Green.

RED: Fast Pace and Task Orientated
RED/ Strengths: Practical, Strong willed, Decisive, Efficient, Desires change, Competitive, Independent, High Ego stength
RED/ Improvement Opportunities: Domineering, Pushy, Impatient, Attacks first, Tough, Harsh

YELLOW: Fast Pace and People Orientated
YELLOW/ Strengths: Optimistic, Enthusiastic, Persuasive, Animated, People oriented, Talkative, Stimulatin, Influencing
YELLOW/ Improvement Opportunities: Emotionist, Undisciplined, Excitable, Reactive, Disorganised, Vain, Manipulative

GREEN: Slow Pace and Task Orientated
GREEN/ Strengths: Perfectionist, Accurate, Persistent, Serious, Orderly, Cautious, Analytical, Logical approach
GREEN/Improvement Opportunities: Critical, Stuffy, Picky, Judgemental, Fears criticism, Needs information, Sensitive

BLUE: Slow Pace and People Orientated
BLUE/ Strengths: Supportive, Agreeable, Contented, Calm, Amiable, Thorough, Dependable
BLUE/ Improvement Opportunities: Unsure, Awkward, Possessive, Insecure, Resistant to change, Slow to make a decision

The two highest in scale plotted in a graph are one’s colour. I got Red (first highest) and Blue (next highest). I am Red/Blue.

How about having your boss who is soooooooooo ‘Green,’ while you are sooooooooo ‘Red?’

I also reckon that the boss might be Blue/Red or Green/Red, not Red/Green as he is now though. He is too slow in making some decisions when needed (gossipping, gossipping.. :p). Thus, when talking or asking him to decide on something, sometimes I felt awkward and I would leave that with him till I forgot and he recalled about that himself.

The main reason of doing the colour test and know our colours is so that we can manage our colours in different situations. We all have all four colours, more or less. Just need to manage them and use a colour at the right and proper time.

Well, I tried to manage my Red though I could do so only in a short period, say a week or two (cannot make it ‘always’).

I am thinking of re-doing the colour test (we should do it every year to see the changes of colours we are). The colours can be changed when time passed by. Perhaps my Red is higher than last time!

Well.. that is it for today.

Riddles*

 

I chose to play around in Yahoo Answer : Education & Reference group. I even found myself cannot answer so many questions. They ask about maths, biology, history, etc, though somebody asks others to finish their homework (this is bad).

Apart from those we study in school, they also ask something fun to know, like riddles.

Q: “Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.”

Can anyone answer? I give you the answer tomorrow. Quite tricky, but it keeps your brain working and exercising!

There is another way round to ask GRY riddle.

Q: “Angry and Hungry are two words ending in ‘gry.’ There are three words, (Using popular terminology) in the English Language , that end in “GRY”. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.”

See? The answers for these two Q’s are different, but of course, they are playing with letters and words.

Well, I think the answer for the first Q is more reasonable, though.

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How about this one?

Q: “What is the shortest sentence that contains all English alphabets?”

I believe if we spend some time on it, we should be able to get the answer too. Of course, different from the general answers cos it will be from our own brain.

Worth trying, actually. I will do when I have time.

A: “I love you..”

Oh, not enough. That includes only 1, 2, 3, … 6 alphabets.

Anyway, time to go home now. I enjoy trying some new riddles, which should also help improve my Engilsh and brain. Hope you do too. That is why I share them here.