Influence

ABC nightline interviewed one of my favorite singer, Seal. The topic is about "Inspiration Behind His Music". He just released a new Album "System" this week. He stated the most important person who inspired him to sing was his teacher. From a boy who never sing to a successful singer and song writer. One of his billboard song is "Kiss from a rose", soundtrack of the Batman. He mentioned about this song on his interviewing session. It is "Times like these" by Foo Fighter. He said love the sentiment of the song and the chorus.
Well, since I am easily influenced, I searched in youtube right away. Here are three of many versions of this song.

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again


I am a one way motorway
I’m the one that drives away
Then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I’m a wild light blinding bright
Burning off alone

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky
To hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

What a life?

My life is so simple these days. No exciting things 24/7. It's like I am cruising on a smooth asphalt road. After I came back from Nan trip, everthing started to calm down. Here is my simple plan for a day. I get up around 7AM. Get myself ready to work. Hop on the car and drive to the University. Make a quick stop to get a cup of ice coffee at gas station along the way. About 8:30AM, I park the car and chat with some grad students for about 15 minutes. Then I move myself to my office on 7th floor. After I get to my desk, I turn on the computer and log on to my hotmail and check if there is any update on friends' blogs. If there is notthing new that means I get to start working. I move things around on my table. I don't know why I have to do this almost every morning. Maybe it is just to kill some time before I start working. I open up files for classes and start preparing the lectures. Half hour or so before 11:15AM I log on to MSN to send a message to Yasmin. 11:10AM get in the elevator. 11:15AM pick up Yasmin to lunch. 12:00-12:15PM back to the department. Stop to drop some snack at graduate student's room. Make a quick chat before taking elevator to 7th floor. By the time I come back from lunch, other faculties are still having lunch. They usually invite me to have some food or desserts. Of course, no hesitation to try some. After that, I am back to my office and continue with what I am doing in the morning. Before going home I stop at Bar Mai to get some food for dinner. After I get to my room and change my outfit, I immediately have my TV on. Unwrap my dinner and enjoy TV dining. Water my cacti every 3 days. After that I turn to be a potato couch. Take shower and go to bed around midnight. That's all for my day, mostly. It is so simple. Too simple.

I sometime wonder what will others do in their free time? I sometime feel guilty because I know I have a lot of things to do. There are million things in the world that I don't know but I still kill the time by watching soap opera. While I am watching TV and killing cells in my brain other may read books, doing excercise or do whatever more beneficial activities. I don't just think about this today but I have been thinking about this issue for quite a while but I can't change my life style. The devil inside me always win.

Think about our life is so short. I am now 32 and I don't think I will live beyond 80. That means I have 48 years to go. I have 28 working years. Based on 8 working hours a day and 22 days a month I have 59136 working hours left. I want to make my life more useful after I spent my parents and goverment resources to make my way on education... Let's make a quick calculation, suppose my parents spent 1000 bath a month since I was born to 12 years old, and 3000 baht when I was 13-17 and 6000 baht when I was 18-21 and 10000 when I was 22-32,
12*12*1000=144000
5*12*3000=180000
4*12*6000=288000
11*12*10000=1320000
Total = 1932000
This is the minimum they spent with me and it is not including the subsidization from community tax in term of scholarship the government provided.

Let's say if I give my parents 5000 baht every month for the next 28 years (it is even impossible for now), it is only 1680000 baht. What is a kind of investment?

After using all resouces, I am called a well educated person but I still don't have a certain plan for my life. Oh! that is to far...I still don't have plan for next week!!...suck...what a shame!!!!

Jerk & Gent

I was very disappointed after he canceled his concert in Thailand last year. Of all this, he is still my most favarite male singer. Some of you may have heard his songs eg. Angle, Supreme, Rock DJ. etc. Some may have heard about his wierd and outrages behaviors. Most of his songs (>70%) contain explicit lyrics but he had it composed in very interesting ways. An article said his songs will make you more energetic because the beat is synchronized well with your heart beat. When I heard this article, it was very questionable. Again, I tried to prove this hypothesis. I listened to his songs and matched the beats with my heart beats. The result showed most of his song matched well with my heart beats but I was not sure that it make me more energetic. I embeded two versions of his performance. One when he is a jerk, the other is when he is a gent! What do you think of him if you see these performances in different time?

I am going to visit Nan province.

I am going to visit Nan this weekend. Nan is one of northern province that I have never been to