Wednesday, August 23, 2006

10 | Movie censorship, what’s that for?

This is a serious topic which contradicts the modern era in which people are free to receive without any barriers. Besides, it is such an insult to the audiences who are believed to be ignorant and lack of discretion to consider. Movie censorship is not a creative proper way to solve the problem, in my opinion.

Providing movie’s fact that whether it is a fiction or based on true story before the movie starts is too enough. Cutting some scenes by claiming its inappropriate content which is against one’s belief or fact is somewhat narrowed-minded. The objective of the movie is to express one’s idea toward the story which is one opinion toward the world, there’s no need to be correct and make it acceptable to the universal.

In order to cut or not to cut the scene, the absolute right should go to the director who is well considered and planned how the movie will come out the best. Those who are responsible for the movie censorship should respect the creator and the audience more. Movie is a piece of arts which need no barrier to stop imagination; this is the fact that should be concerned more.

Avoiding violent scenes or risks scene for children, it’s the direct responsibility of the parents who should be more aware and guide their children rather than leave it in the hands of movie censorship which can help only a little. Parental advisory effectively works more than movie censorship.

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09 | Desperate Celebrities


Being in the public eyes and spotlight might be an ambition many people dreaming of. Having a luxury house, car and money are packaged with the fame, this is a reason why people are so enthusiastic about being celebrities. It’s not only an American dream anymore but also a Thai dream and others dreams, everybody wants to shine their lights. Are you ready to exchange your freedom life with such reputation?

Living in the center and being surrounded by the people who look out on you might be such impressive moment for you. In the other hands, you are a creature in the cage which is watched by the people who impressed by your action. They clap and never take their eyes of you. Once the spotlight on the stage is out but the eyes of people are still left, in every movement, you will be watched and treated in different ways which gives you both positive and negative results. For sure, your privacy is required to be others in order to be a celebrity.

How awesome it is to be an idol for people! They tried to follow what you did in every detail, the way you dress, smile, laugh and cry. Whatever you do seems to be a trend setting; you can guide people and direct them to do what you want. But watch out and mind every step of yours or it will be a big trouble on you. You will be set high and forgotten that you are a human who can do wrong. You need to behave or at least try to pretend yourself as a perfect person or you will be condemned by those who worship you and set you so high. You can be an idol or an idiot in the same time.

The more to come, paparazzi and rumors are also included in this desperate celebrity’s package. Do you want to have one? Available now!

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

08 | Music : Every Breath I Take

A part of our daily lives in any situations, music affects people’s lives in untold way. Some people believe that music can express our identity and tell what kind of person we are. I agree with this in some point but not all of them since, nowadays, people try to express themselves to the people by the music which is guaranteed as a good song not the music they are really like by their heart.

I’m one of the people who are addicted to music and it completely becomes a part of my life without a doubt. Whether I’m hopeful or hopeless, music lifts me up by its powerful rhythm, tone and lyric. I have to say that it makes my life easier to face and it makes my day. I keen to learn languages through the lyrics by trying to interpret with my own feelings and ideas. It does improve my language incredibly; I learn many idioms, slangs and cultures.

Thanks to my father who loves listening international music, I had a chance to be inspired by the music of Simon&Garfunkel, Bee Gees, Carpenters etc. When I was young, I was curious to know what they sing about and this is my beginning to the world of international music.

Right now, no matter where I go, music is a part of me since I take it with my music player. When I was writing my paper or reading books, not only the relaxation it brings but also the new creative ideas it sparks me. Let myself be free and inspired by the music brings such meaningful things in my life.

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

07 | The Future Sound Of Music

Regard to the age of globalization, the way people receives information and media has been completely changed. In the music industry, there are big changes which give both the positive and negative results. Music becomes easier to be touched and inspired since there are no barriers between the language and countries. There are new genres of music which made by the combination of various cultures. However, no matter how the trend of music changes, it comes round and goes round just like the fad & fashion.

Pop is the basic genre which can be blended with other kind of music easily. Just like the jeans, it can go with any kinds of cloth easily and never turn to be out of date. Therefore, pop is popular and last by its simplicity which can be applied with another kind of music and produced different interesting results.

Once when pop music becomes nothing new, rock will take the place of it. With the stronger rhythm and beats, electric guitar becomes its key role. When rock fades away, hip-hop and R&B substitute for them. The combination between pop and rock produce this kind of music which becomes more popular until now but soon pop music will come back and take back its throne.

The future sound of music is likely to come and go as stated but not that the same. With the new gimmick and application, the music styles are the infinitive creativity. Music becomes something international, without understanding the lyric people can enjoy. Cultures and music instrument from various countries are used and adapted in order to improve and bring the varieties to the music lovers.

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Friday, July 28, 2006

06 | If I had a million dollars (baby)

This topic is quite too far from the possibility since the only way to get this amount of money is to win the lottery. The problem is I don’t buy them so the chance for me to won the lottery is more than zero. However, there’s nothing wrong to imagine where the money would goes and how it will be spent.

The money will be divided into 4 parts. The first part is a half of them which will be deposited in the bank for some interests. This part will be kept for the security and will be used only in the emergency case.

The next half money will be equally divided into the second, the third and the forth part. The second part will be used for the investment. I want to own a business with my family; it’s probably a business with food, books which we all love.

The third part will be saved for my further study; I would like to study computer graphic or related fields in Japan which amount of money is required. However, I’ll use this only for my beginning; the rest of the expense will be paid the money I gained from working.

Since the money I won from the lottery is from the society, I would like to repay this forth part of the money to the charity especially for the children and the disabled people. Children are the future of the nation and many of them are unable to improve themselves well since they’re lack of chances. Hopefully, this money can help them at least to lit the light in their hopes and encourage them.

These are just my plans which seem reasonable to me but impossible to have this chance won the lottery since I don’t buy it. Nevertheless, money is not the key to everything and not everything money can buy. The meaning of money is about how you spend it not what you spend it for.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

05 | My favourite boring books

Have you ever thought that you are the unluckiest person in the world? Yes, that happens to all of us sometimes. But wait until you read the unfortunate series of the Baudelaires, you will think to yourself how lucky you are. Written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket, these sorrowful series of the three orphans’ dreadful adventures are the putdownable books which the writer discourages you not to read the dreadful disasters in every each of the volumes. For example, in the last thirteenth book he stated that “"This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.” I love his writing style though many people think it’s boring to narrate the definition of some words instead of going on with the stories.”

The story is about the three siblings who lost their family and fortune with the mysterious fire. Luckily or unluckily, there are a huge fortune left in the bank but the eldest sister’s age must be 18 years old in order to possess them. While waiting for the eldest sister, Violet, to reach her 18 years old, they were sent to live with other families which related with her family some ways. First, they were sent to their closest living relative, Count Olaf, who is cruel and later found that he involved with the mysterious fire. Count Olaf wants their fortune and tried every way in order to get them. No matter where the children were sent to live, he will disguise himself and try to exploit the children. With their own unique skills of the children, they are safe in the nick of time. At first they tried to escape Count Olaf but later they need to find him in order to get the truth about the fire and secret of their parents.

I’m totally a big fan of “the series of unfortunate events.” I like the concept of the story which tells us not to escape the problems but face it and we will learn from it. The stories are also detective style, giving readers many clues and let them guess how the story will end.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

04 | Consume, Consumer, Consumerism

It is undeniable that, these days, the world completely becomes the world of consumerism. People consume beyond their necessity which never seems to be satisfied. Money plays such a big important part in our everyday lives which people can’t live without. Shopping becomes a popular activity for many families which is considered as a relaxation. Caused by the capitalism, this consumerism is widely spread all over the world.

If you ask me, media has a big effect on consumer behavior toward the consumption. It shapes people ideas subconsciously about what they should buy and what they shouldn’t. The children and teenagers are completely the victims since their abilities to consider are not strong enough and can be guided easily. For them, TV is their God who they worship and believe.

It may be true that the censorship some contents but not all. Leaving the children with TV without advisory or someone to guide is dangerous. Thus, it the absolute responsibility of the parents to guide their child not the stream of consumerism nor the TV.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

03 | Price to Play (World Cup 2006)

Thanks to the world cup 2006, I got a phone call from a friend who had never been contacted for ages. It was the day after the final match of Italy and France, the day of judgement. Since I know who I was talking to, I suddenly realized that there must be something wrong. After the greeting conversation, he began to talk about his life in details. Unluckily, as I had expected, he cried and asked me if I can lend him some money. He lost amount of his money on the football betting. Moreover, he ran up debts of nearly 20,000 bahts since the first match. He told me that he was looking for a well-paid job so that he can get more money and repay the whole debts. He was threaten be the creditor that he will be in trouble unless he paid them all the debts. I asked him if his parents can help, the answer was he didn’t want to disappoint them. Thereby, I ended up the conversation with the excuse that I had just paid my money on textbooks and didn’t want to disturb my parents by asking them for more money.

The next day, while I was watching television, the news reporter reported that the rate of larceny had been increased dramatically since the end of world cup 2006. It was believed that the football betting of world cup 2006 leads to this high-rated robbery since the robber robbed in order to gain money and repaid the dept from the betting. Hopefully, my old friend wouldn’t be one of these people who solved the problem this way. Thanks, again, world cup 2006.

Ps. the illustration is taken from iannnnn.com

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Monday, July 03, 2006

02 | Student Life

School is the simulation of the real word, just like a reality show; there are many contestants which each are from the different kinds of the society. Besides, there are challenging missions for us to complete and many conflicts to occur while doing the mission with your team members. Once a mission completed, another more challenging mission is assigned and the new harder rules or conditions are made. Unlike reality show, the winner of the game is only not the first one who will receive the rewards but all of them will get the lesson in their own ways from school whether they will win or lose.

Before having a chance to study in Silpakorn University, I once thought that the biggest thing in life is the entrance examination if I can get through this there’s nothing hard anymore. It was a big attempt of mine and I was absolutely proud of what I had done for a while. However, I soon woken up by this University with the fact that life’s more to learn and experience, what I did is just the first episode of this world of reality I have to get through. “A real student life has just begun”, I thought to myself.

University consists of every kinds of people you can think of, some of them you might never thought they would exist in this universe. The people are harder to deal with than the school society, more similar to the real world. Blending myself into the group and surroundings is the first big mission of mine, it took me almost two months to completed this mission. In addition, taking all responsibility to your life is tougher, it’s good to manage your own life but the housework and spending money controlling is hard sometimes. The content of study is more intensive and quizzes are made often, I’m expected to be well-prepared unless I will fail. And others harder missions are assigned consecutively. The more missions I am assigned, the more experience I have.

At this point, I don’t afraid the difficult tasks anymore. I’ll try to do it no matter how many time I will fail at least I’ll learn from it. Easy is nothing, easy doesn’t make me grow and experience. So Mr. Jason, I’m here to let you hit me with your hard assignments. I’ll try no matter how hard it is in order to improve myself and grow :-P

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Monday, June 26, 2006

01 | The King of Thailand


Like sunshine after the rain, many unsettled political crises and the opinionative disunions of Thai citizens, now, have being solved and bound together after the royal instructions of the King. Besides, the 60th anniversary celebrations of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession to the throne is also a big good chance to joint the people together and make them realized how important the unity is in order to retain, maintain and develop the nation.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.usAccording to this big change, we can see how much the King influences Thai people not only just because he has a blood of a royal dynasty of Thailand but he’s the real King who genuinely cares the living of people in every regions of Thailand. His majesty the King invented and offered many solutions to his people; for example, his self-sufficient economy theory which suggests the people to balance their lives, assume economically and not to be commercialized in the world of capitalism. No matter how far it is, if there are any disasters or devastations, His Majesty the King will be there in order to help and encourage the victims. His Majesty the King dedicates his life to his people, that’s why we Thais dedicate our loves back to him and respect him as a leader of the family and call him “father.”

The 60th Anniversary Celebrations of His Majesty the King's Accession to the Throne was said to be the unforgettable day of Thai History. The whole country was changed into yellow; they wore the yellow t-shirts and decorate their houses with yellow flags in order to pay homage to the His Majesty the King heartily. The yellow t-shirts, every copy of the newspaper which has the King’s pictures were sold out in a short time. Thai websites put “We love our King” tags in their sites. Moreover, on the Thai online community also put the words “I ♥ the King” in front of their contact names. On the days of Celebration, in some provinces, reported that the record of crime was zero, there was not even an accident case. Thai families were utterly concentrated on TV in order to watch the King appeared and made a speech.

After the days of celebration, I, as a Thai people, had many chances to ask my friends how they feel to the King’s speech. Mostly, them and their families cried, realized and appreciated to the King’s speech. Again, Thai were awakened by the King to realize the meaning of the unity and to solve the problems reasonably. Personally, Thailand is going to be changed in the better ways with a more reasonable vision though there are still many conflicts right now. No matter what the result will be, at least we will learn from it.

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