New Bangkok International Airport Transportation Guide (Suvannabhumi Airport)

This End of September I will be going to Bangkok and I am not sure if its fortunate or unfortunate I will be flying to the Bangkok new airport on the same day that it has its grand opening for international flights or full scale commercial service. My wife emails me a nice guide, which has information on public transport. I managed to find it also at 2bangkok.com.

Land of Zorro or Zorroine and Petrol price

We are in heaven. We walked among beings that float on cloud. Ah! This ain’t no cloud, this is haze. Yeap, we are again surrounding by dust particles. I guess the header “When to go” in lonely planet site could probably change to “To visit in the time of Aug to Sept, where you can walk inside ‘clouds’. You can pretend to be Zorro or Zorroine and nobody will care. You are require to wear mask at all times to truly reflect the Zorro Culture”

Since yesterday I have already use my old air filter and open it in full blast in my living area. I could feel my breathing becoming less smooth even I am with my nasal spray. My nasal passage is fill with “gold”, I guess I might need a “gold digger” to dig it out. For those who have no problem with breathing, I guess u might not understand. Each smooth breath is rare as hitting an oil field.

Talking about oil or petrol, I read an article recently; there is a possibility that the high price of petrol could be due to the manipulation of someone. If you do remember in 1997 financial crisis the economy of some South East Asia countries like Thailand. Indonesia and Malaysia almost got wipe out by the currency manipulator. Most countries are now more prudent and have put in place some risk management process in regards to currency fluctuation hence the manipulator would need to find another “item” to grow their money.

Petrol could be the “item” that they are now playing with. Petrol is a commodity hence it opens to manipulator. Hence we might seen or in the area of the “peak” price of petrol. And as always, everything goes up might comes down. Is there a possibility that oil countries will suffer the same fate as those countries during the 1997 financial crisis? There could be a 200x oil crisis…………….

A belated post on World Cup…..

There are some who says watching football is wasting time as all we could see is 22 players kicking and chasing a round thing. When I was young I used to play football along the corridor of my flat. For those who have ever played football, getting the ball past the opponent goalkeeper and in between the post, is a feeling that you could not get from doing any other things. Even if the post is make of 2 tree trunks or slippers strategically position opposite each other, the ommh…you get cannot be describe.

9th July ended the month long of ball kicking. It was won by Italy. What have some of us got as souvenirs on this world cup? Some have panda eyes due to the late nights. Some got Brazil jersey. My wife bought for my sister a set of BTS (Thailand LRT card) of the 11 “pepsi” players.


Below is 2 of the famous one......

Should I? Should I?

3 weeks ago as my wife and I were walking around Mid Valley, we came across a road show on a particular “toy”. I have been dreaming of owning this toy for quite sometime. We have even bought one in Thailand recently. It’s not exactly the same type but its close. I guess before long I will be buying one for my Malaysia home but I have never guess that 3 weeks ago that day is the day that I would splurge my hard earned RM on one.

That day started off with an innocent “look see” altitude until I saw the road show. As I walked into the shop my brain has already started swirling with “should I? should I?”. I asked the particular salesgirl if there is any promotion. She said there is a cash voucher of Rm200. After touching it, viewing it, I walked out from the shop with more “should I? should I?”. As we walked around shopping for others things, my mind continues swirling. Guess what, after many round of “should I? should I?” finally this 32 inch black beauty (on the left) now resides in my bedroom.


What is the different between the 42 inch, 3 LCD projection TV (on the right) and the 32 inch LCD? So far the 32 inch is smaller but it’s sharper. Less “square” was seen when the action is fast. It’s still got the blur effect when you look at it in a close distance. I have hook it up to my notebook it seems quite ok. Hence my verdict is the 32 inch LCD TV is better in terms of picture quality, it just got the extra omph to it.

Act of squeezing balls

I have not been blogging frequently and it seems a lot of my “kaki” is also not blogging much either. Maybe the fad is slowly diminishing. As for me it could be that my brain is not functioning as well as I wants to. It could be my nasal passage is still blocked hence not much oxygen went up to my brain hence not much words can be spilled out. The ENT specialist has advised me to go for a minor surgery. I am still flipping the coin; most likely I will seek a 2nd opinion from another ENT.

A female ex-colleague of mine whom I have known for 17 years call me up the other day, she was surprised that I am sitting in my house at 7 pm. I told her I reached my house more than half an hour ago as I will normally leave my office sharp at 5:30 pm. She was a bit surprised as she is still on her way back driving on the road. I guess she still think that I will still follow my old habits of slogging it out in the office way past the usual time.

Sometimes is difficult to let go or change certain characteristic of ourselves. I used to be quite critical on doing every job to a certain degree of quality. I am not Mr Perfect but I would try to ensure all things coming out from me are in certain quality. Even there are times like during some rare moments when I am doing household chores like washing dish; I would ensure that it will be sparkling clean. Even when I am doing a DIY on a cabinet I will screw and screw until it’s real tight. Maybe is some kind of mental sickness symptoms, hahaha.

I no longer have the physical endurance like I used, I am changing the way I work. Some say work smart but in my area of work I do not think there is such thing as work smart. We are governed by tight datelines, just like a jinjang fellow wearing a tight pair of jeans, squeezing and splitting his beloved tentacles to their sides, one on the left and the other on the right. The pair of jeans is the management. The salesgirls that sold it, is the marketing department, promising the skies to seal the deals. The tentacles are like us, splitting ourselves into 2. One is the family, the other is our career. The jinjang fellow is us laughing on the outside by uncomfortable in the inside...

A photo of my wife nephew. My wife say his hair looks like mine.......

Dusk

I am not sure how many of you guys out there who is like me, a Cantonese listening to a Cantonese song but still find it difficult to understand the essence of the song. But I always believe Music and Songs is universal, a good song could really move you emotionally in regardless of what language is it. A language is used to represent the feeling. If someone pinch you does it matter if you say “pain” in Chinese, Thai, English, German, Spanish or whatever language. The “pain” is still pain…right? No?

Dusk is great, a song sang by Eason Chan, I got this translation from a colleague. I could not understand the meaning of the song when I first heard it. However it still manages to stir up some emotion inside me. When it reaches the chorus, the chord, the melody echo into my eardrum; it goes down through my throat and reaches my artery where my heart is beating. Beat by beat it brings me to another world, I was sitting on the edge of the mountain looking over a valley. The low lights emitted from the horizon, were like an old movie projector playing the past, images floating around, image of happiness, sadness and regrets….

Blur

I am like a walking Zombie. Why? I went for a follow up with the ENT and I was given some pills called Cirrus. The pills cause drowsiness. I could tolerate drowsiness but the worst thing is that it follows up with sleeplessness or insomnia. I was like a tuna turning and flipping in my bed caught by insomnia.

I finished the course but my brain felt like it is surrounded by load of invisible armies holding it back from giving some brain farts. It looks like all the wirings are messed up. Nothing much comes out of it. I even felt that my memory has deteriorated. I almost throw away my parking receipt which is supposed to accompany my monthly time sheets for reimbursement purpose. I remember putting it in a plastic bag which contains my newly bought audio CD. Somehow it creeps its way into the dustbin instead.

Talking about insomnia, I have a female colleague who is about to due in 3 weeks time. As I was talking to her, I saw her stomach, it’s quite big. It’s almost a foot and a half away from her body frame. How does a pregnant woman sleep? I normally slept leaning to the side. If my stomach is that big, I am not sure how someone could sleep soundly. Imagine facing this for 9 months. I salute all mothers in the world…….

Tag 4... A MEME

Selba tagged me.

Umm while I was doing this I realise that I have actually done something like this before although there is some slight difference. So I copy some of the answers from my previous post.

Four jobs I would stink at:
1. Politician – I could not go out and promise things that I know I could not fulfil. This is especially so when you are in Malaysia as almost everything is beyond your control and I dislike public speaking. Politician means constant public speaking. I do not think that I could not be on a stage and start talking trash, I also could not curse, whine, throw “jabs” at people, race and etc. I guess maybe I read too much news on our parliament sitting when curses were norm and courtesy is exception.
2. Salesperson – I am a type of person that if there are 4 bowls I will say 4 bowls. I do not lie “much”.
3. Owner of a business – I am not good at business or will I make any money out of it.
4. Anything that deals with maths...like acturial or accountant

Four pretend nicknames I’m making up for myself:
1. Super moo (Super Pig), if I did something great and when my wife knew about it.
2. Moo (pig), when I ate too much.
3. Cancer Man
4. One Kidney Man, a nick used at my office network chat.

Four movies I have watched over and over:
1. Forrest Gump, for its simplicity and hope.
2. Brave Heart, for its courage.
3. Green Mile, for its humanity.
4. ET, for something out of this world.

Four places I have lived:
1. Kuala Lumpur, place I born.
2. Bangkok, my wife country.
3. Jakarta, Indonesia, my project assignment for few years.
4. Singapore, my project assignment for few months.

Four things I love to do on my weekends:
Quite similar to Selba….
1. Surfing around the bits and bytes of Internet.
2. Walking and laze around in shopping complex.
3. Reading newspaper.
4. Eating.

Four TV shows I geek out to, or used to geek out to:
1. Iron Chef, for its cooking challenge.
2. Mr Bean, for its weirdness and craziness.
3. Malcom in the middle, for its family humour.
4. Cheers, for its comedy.

Four alcoholic beverages I’ve enjoyed on offshore vacations :
Those who knows me will definitely be shouting, Soo, alchohol? I am known as the “one sip sleep”, which means one sip and will go to sleep. However I have drank before, below is my list.

1. Corona Beer, I took this when I went to RCA, a place in Bangkok famous for pubs. My Manager coaxes me into it. And I drank straight from the bottle and with a slice of lime inside it. According to him, the lime will absorb the alcohol hence I will get less intoxicated.
2. Kahlua, the coffee flavour liqueur.
3. Shandy, no this is not a joke, this drink causes me headache….
4. A brandy, not sure what name is it and I was taught to eat cheese along it. I have a sip of it to taste what it likes to have brandy with cheese.

Four things I could NOT live without (besides oxygen, H20, and miscellaneous life-sustaining substances):
1. Human “networking” like phone, email, internet and etc.
2. Radio
3. Cars
4. DVD related hardware like player, disc….

Four of my favorite foods, partnered with people with whom I enjoy eating said foods:
1. Steam Cod Fish for it unique taste.
2. Fried Mee Hon, my one and only vice food.
3. Stir Fried Vegetables, for its fibre.
4. A steam boat meal, when I am in Bangkok.

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. At home with my family, enjoying each other company.
2. Bangkok, in my house with my family.
3. KLCC, for its great shopping variety.
4. Low Yat, for its high tech gadgetry.

Four people I mercilessly tagged
Aiyah those I “casually” know has already done this, so maybe to those I know a lot, ...... Ronaldo, Beckham, Crespo and Ronaldiho. I know you guys are free, after all your team is out of the world cup…..

World Cup matches Live on Net....

I did not subscribe to Astro Sport channel and there is some matches which is not shown live in TV1 or TV2, hence I could not see some World Cup matches live. But now I heard there is a site in which you could see. Try it guys, I am trying but you need to download their player or something as I do not understand Mandarin….click this link. which will bring you to the site. Is it possible? Try! Try! Try!

*Updates at 9:30 pm* Give up half way on the above link as the download is very slow...

Or for those who is not from Malaysia and their country do not have live broadcast at all then you can also look at my previous post on Live TV1 and TV2 from Malaysia TV channel which broadcast some matches live......no need to download anything.

*Updates at 9:30 pm*
Or you could click on this site and find some live TV from other countries which shows it live. I did not try the first link which is a bit confusing as I do not know mandarin. In this site I manage to find Live Thai TV on this site, now watching live in Thai and no downloads is needed... hahaha, Equador now 1 - 0 against Costa Rica. Oh for your information Thai TV broadcast live in differrent channel everyday or for differrent matches, which means if now is TV5, the next match could be TV9....

Simple Pleasures Tag.

I got tagged by Consuela. First I would like to say sorry for doing this late, as in Bangkok there are a few days without internet access.

Instructions

1. Name ten (10) of life's simple pleasures that you like the most;
2. Then pick ten (10) people to do the same; I will skip this part.
3. And try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.

Consuela did a very good job in doing this with photos, I will do mine the basic way with just text.

1. Taking Photos, I love taking photos, nothing excite me more than capturing the moment in photos. Photos of food, scenery, faces and etc, I am hoping to buy a good camera with a good zoom as I am a bit shy to take photos of human hence I need a good zoom lens to help me bring the object nearer. I believe photos are our extended memory.

2. Eating lunch or dinner with families, nowadays we spend more time with our colleague, our PC and our work, dinner is the only time we could really sits down with the family. That’s where we could really have some quality time.

3. Walking and laze around in shopping complex, I love spending time in shopping complex; it could be that I am intrigue by human activities in their act of shopping for things. I love watching them walking pass by with their best outfits as it’s like an open catwalk.

4. Travelling, this is where we are exposed to another world. A world that is different from us. We humans are born explorer, we love to seek and try something new, and we do not like idling away. Hence travelling is for us to seek adventure and to learn new things of how another human being live in another part of the world.

5. Watching DVD or movies, the 4th dimension of our 3 dimension world where we could die and alive another day. A world that is fill with glitter. A world that that is created by thoughts and imagination.

6. Surfing the net, a place where almost a major population of the world converge. A world where knowledge is layout in bits and bytes, allowing us to search for it. A channel for us to explore, find, verify and research.

7. Watching Cooking shows, my favourite cooking shows now is Iron Chef. I am not sure why but by watching shows such as this I believe it gives my some kinda of pleasure, although I might not be able to taste the cooking but knowing how it was cooked gives me a high.

8. Buying things, this is my ultimate therapy, a reason for me to continue working. I believe this increases my endorphins level. If I have the money I could imagine shopping non-stop for the whole day.

9. Writing, believe it or not I love writing. I am a man of few words hence I used writing to pour my thoughts out. When words were written and express the way I wants, I feel fulfil.

10. Listening to radio, the music and chats by the Deejay pulls me into another dimension. It brings excitement out of my morning and evening drive to and from work.

Fireworks in photo

Some of the good Fireworks photos taken, the high resolution is found in my photo blog.