Somtam!

Do you like to eat E-sarn food? Last week I recommended Shabu buffet restaurant that I always go to dine out. Today I would like to recommend a E-sarn food restaurant. One more my favorite food is “Somtam” or known as Papaya Salad in terms of English language. Since I have stayed here for one and a half year, I went to eat Somtam in many places. Yesterday I found that this restaurant “Laab Udon Phochanakarn” is the best E-sarn food restaurant. In the evening of that day, I and my boyfriend ordered six dishes which were Somtam, Laab Ped, roasted chicken, spicy pork soup, spicy Moo Yor salad, and Tub Moo Wan. They’re too many dishes for two persons, but we can eat all of them. Empty dishes left! That’s because we didn’t have lunch. Both of us were very full. A funny thing that happened is we only ate and said nothing. We said when we had ordered and when we had finished all of them. Perhaps, we both were very hungry. The restaurant is on Bangkok-Nonthaburi where near Soi Bangkok-Nonthaburi 39. I hope you may go to try eating E-sarn food here. You’ll say “Yummy! Yummy!”

Beam Kawee

   Beam Kawee is my favorite singer. I like him since I was 15 years old, so I want to write about him.

     Kawee Tanjararak, mainly known as Beam, was born on May 18, 1980 in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a singer from the popular Thai boy band "D2B" which included two other members, Worrawech Danuwong (Dan) and Panrawat Kittikorncharoen (Big).

    Kawee Tanjararak or "Beam" is a member of the boy band D2B, which was very popular in Thailand. D2B is one of Thailand's most famous boy band groups. However, on July 22, 2003, a member of D2B, Big, got into a car accident and being in a coma state. During Big's years in a while being sick, Dan and Beam continued their music careers and released several duo albums together. The duo became known as Dan Beam. One of his most famous songs included "Wela Mai Keuy Por" (Not Enough Time, เวลาไม่เคยพอ).

   

   I have ever met him in 2002 at Siam. He gave me his signature. I’m sad that D2B band has no big

The Ancient Buddhist Scriptures (Tripitaka Scriptures)

Last Saturday, I attended the exhibition of the ancient Buddhist Scriptures, likely known as Buddhism’s Dead Sea Scrolls, be temporarily enshrined at Buddhamonthon in Nakhon Pathom. So I have learned that thousands of the ancient Buddhist Scriptures were smuggled from Afghanistan before two giant Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taleban.

Mr. Sam Fogg, London Specialist, sold them to Mr. Martin Schoyen, Director and Owner of The Schoyen Collection, Norway. There were 5,000 complete scriptures and 8,000 pieces of broken scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, bark, leather and brass plates.
Archaeologists believed that these Buddhist scriptures have been written in the sixth century. The world’s oldest ancient Buddhist scriptures were found in Bamiyan cave and kept in 400-600 bowls. These scriptures were written with “Prommi” characters, which were used during Buddha’s time.

Besides, there are many Tripitaka scriptures of many countries exhibited such as Japan, Lao, Korea, Tibet. The story of two giant Buddha statues was told in multimedia presentation so I understand Buddha’s teaching that all things are impermanent.

    Sometime the couple have many problem in their life together. I think because they don't know more about them.(man don't know more woman, woman don't know more woman) This problem made them difficult to live and do many activities together. So knowing each other can made the relationship of them will be better.

There are the different of them  such as....

Relationships:

First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie was doing it on a semi-regular basis". When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know there's always a chance for us". This is known as the "I Hate You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.

Sex:

Women prefer 30 - 45 minutes of foreplay. Men prefer 30 - 45 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place as part of the foreplay.

Comedy:

Let's say a small group of men and women are in a room, watching television, and an episode of "The Three Stooges" comes on. Immediately, the men will get very excited; they will laugh uproariously, and even try to imitate the actions of Curly, man's favorite stooge. The women will roll their eys and groan and wait it out.

Bathrooms:

A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. The average number of items in a typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

Magazines:

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazine also feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Going out:

When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go out. When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she will be ready to go out, as soon as she finds her other earring, finishes putting on her makeup...

Mirrors:

Men are vain; they will check themselves out in the mirror. Women are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface--mirrors, spoons, store windows, toasters, Joe Garagiola's head.

Movies:

For women, their favorite movie scene is when Clark Gable kisses Vivien Leigh for the first time in "Gone With The Wind". For men, it's when Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit in Mae Clark's face in "Public Enemy".

The Telephone:

Men see the telephone as a communications tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people. A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

Dressing up:

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Politics:

Men love to talk politics, but often they forget to do political things such as voting. Women are very happy that another generation of Kennedys is growing up and getting into politics, because they will be able to campaign for them and cry on election night.

Weddings:

When reminiscing about weddings, women talk about "the ceremony". Men talk about "the bachelor party".

More anything else.......

Gratitude is the Top Virtue

All Thai should behave to parents or an important person because gratitude is the most important. Then people always keep this thing in mind. After I read the article of W. Vajiramedhi, I feel that it is real but now Thai society won’t think it. So, I would like you to read this article. Finally, you will know more clearly.

If you are grateful to your country, there is no way you will cheat.
If you are grateful to religion, there is no way you will walk an immoral path.
If you are grateful to king, there is no way you will violate majesty.
If you are grateful to your parents, there is no way you will make them cry.
If you are grateful to your teacher, there is no way you will not pay attention in class.
If you are grateful to yourself, there is no way you will be enslaved by drugs.
If you are grateful to time, there is no way you will waste your time doing nothing.
If you are grateful to food, there is no way you will eat without awareness.
If you are grateful to knowledge, there is no way you will turn knowledge to vice.
If you are grateful to love, there is no way you will cheat on your lover.
If you are grateful to respect, there is no way you will become two-faced.
If you are grateful to honesty, there is no way you will carry out misconduct.
If you are grateful to your family, there is no way you will break up one.
If you are grateful to nature, there is no way you will deforest.
If you are grateful to Mother Earth, there is no way you will discharge chemical toxin into soil.
If you are grateful to water, there is no way you will drop waste into a river.
If you are grateful to the sky, there is no way you will pollute the air.
If you are grateful to the world, there is no way you will create a nuclear weapon.
If you are grateful to humanity, there is no way you will launch a war of any kind.
If you are grateful to life, there is no way you will live a life without dharma.