Thursday, November 22, 2007

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!!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don’t really know if I am ending up with the same ‘simple life style’ as yours when I ‘m back to Thailand. Anyway, I have plan that I need some activities like, attending an English class or Japanese or Spanish class to make kind of fun and also back to the exercise time as I used to when the time after work was 5.30 pm (not 11 pm as it is now). The only way to avoid getting upset with yourself is to have an activity with measurable advanced-level. If you do part-time job, you can measure how much money you collect. If it is exercise, how much calories you burn so far. If it is language class, how well you can understand those languages etc. You can start with normal lady’s passion such as beauty stuff. Now I start with my feet. Hahaha I bath them in hot water with some salt for a week and after that massage and lotion with a special one for foot. Heiheihei Get any motivation?? What part of your body will you start with??
Ps. Isn’t it ‘couch potato’.

Noon

Anonymous said...

noon,
Thanks, it's couch potato ja. Activity with measurable advanced-level??? Ummmmm I gonna start with number of the comment in my blog!!!! อะคริ อะคริ