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"Ovation GC057 Celebrity Super Shallow Bowl Acoustic-Electric Guitar" is the name of my new guitar which I bought here. It was bought from Guitar Center, music instrumental shop near Pittsburgh International Airport. The brand "Ovation"-on of the best acoustic-electric guitars-could firmly guarantee its quality. However, this model price was quite low because it was made in China (-_-")

It cames in Red, which is my favorite color, the same its gigs bag. Nowadays, I have not much time to play it, but I'm trying to use it more. Actually, I'm taking one-on-one guitar course off-campus. It's time to be a musician now !!

Language Barrier

When I was in UD, I never thought about the problem of my English skills. The teachers were very nice and they always made me fell comfortable and courageous to speak. Everything was very different in the real academic study. The topic you were talking about was not an ordinary topic or headlines anymore. Frankly, they were about Privacy, Databases, Software Engineering Models, Networks, etc. They're the real hard-core academic stuffs! Moreover, professors talked very fast, almost. My classmates included Americans, Indian (which speaks very well), Chinese (the same level as me, good!), etc. I became a shy boy again after I had never been since I came in the US and in UD (other people thought I was pretty much talkative).

I have to try to improve this! it's directly related to my student's life. It's OK if I just walked into a supermarket and bought somethings. Nevertheless, it's not such easy. Thus, I decided to take an English workshop at the Office of English for International Students. Let's try and see what will happen... I hope it should be better..soon.

Welcome Back to School!

It's the first day of Fall semester today. I find a lot of students, more than ever in the summer break. The Cut (green field in the middle of CMU) is filled with undergraduate and graduate students. Some play volleyball, soccer, football (it's mean American Football here -_-"), or just take a nap inside the shade of trees. The campus comes alive over night. The weather is quite hot today. Nevertheless, my excitement overcomes all of the weather. I'm BACK TO SCHOOL. Yeaa Haaaa...!!!

Time stamp: 08/27/07
Place: CMU, Pittsburgh

School of Computer Science - Wean Hall

Here is the school of computer science of CMU. Its name is Wean Hall (from the name of a person). The building is very old maybe because it haven't much been re-innovated. However, inside is OK. CMU is big for Computer Science field, and thus this building might collects a lot of history within. I have one class in this building - Software Engineering for Information Systems. My office space is not here, yet it is in 300 South Craig Street building, the building of Software Engineering.

Thai Party on Chalfont Top Roof

Party time! Today we have a party at night on the top roof of Chalfont. Almost of Thai students join in the party, and there are nearly 30 of us today. Wow! The panoramic view from the top roof is very nice, as good as foods. Lots of Thai foods ,that I missed for a long time since I came here, have been served such as Naam Tok, Jaew, Yum Woon Sen, etc. Moreover, I have a chance to know many Thai people here. Thanks P'Namtoey for inviting me. :)

Time stamp: 08/18/07
Place: Chalfont Apartment, Pittsburgh

My Empty Room

Nothing to say. Just would like to show my room with nothing except a mattress inside.

CMU Quick Tour

Next day after I arrived Pittsburgh, My Thai friends and I went to CMU to get the ID card and look around. CMU was very small university compared to UD. However, it's beautiful. The "Walking to the sky" art artifact in front of the university attracted me the most. It's looked very vivid (like the real people), and conveyed good meaning inside. P'Ping and I got the ID card in a very short time from the room opposite to the computer cluster room called "the Hub". The mission was accomplished!

After that, we just walked fast around some buildings like Cyert Hall (Sai-Yert-Hall), Warner Hall, and University Center (UC). Finally, we went home.

Time stamp: 08/13/07
Place: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi, I'm Here, Pittsburgh

After the very short flight of U.S. Airways (about only 45 mins), I woke up because a kind old women satting next to me woke me up. I arrived Pittsburgh! The view from the sky seemed very nice. This city should be full of trees and hills. I tried to find where is Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), but I couldn't. Fortunately, the old women pointed it to me. It was located outside the downtown-where a lot of high buildings there-and looked very small.

I waited for a while before Thai people picked me up. They were P'Toon and Lek who had been living here for many years. They were very nice. It took 30 minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport to my new home, Chalfont Apartment. My roommates were in the room already. Their names were P'Ping and P'Pop, and they were as well really cool. Not many furnitures in my room (actually it's nothing), I bought a mattress and went to sleep, thinking about the next day.

Time stamp: 08/12/07
Place: Pittsburgh, PA

A New Journey Begins

4.00 AM on early Sunday morning, the alarm clock rang loudly over my head. What? It's still dark outside. Is it time to go? After I was confused with my self between dreams and truth, the cellphone rang at the same time. It's P'Ann, and mom respectively. They woke me up because I asked them to do since yesterday (Aug 11). OK, I was fully conscious now. With a little upset emotion in my mind, I took a bath, dressed myself (with the new sweater from A&F. Wow!), went to the room of my companions (P'Ta & P'Jeab), brought my luggages to the ground floor. Surprisingly, the car (Delaware Express, as usual) had come already. The driver was waiting beside the car. He helped me carried my stuffs, and placed them in the car. Not many people woke up at that time because they might not know that the car would came so early. I took some pictures with Kathy, P'Ann, P'Kung, P'A, P'Tuk, P'Boon, and Warang (Korean friend). My roommate "Zaud" was still sleeping. Maybe he didn't even know I would leave UD today.

When all people came, it's time to say "GOOD BYE." I went into the car, and started thinking about the incoming life in CMU.

Time stamp: 08/12/07
Place: Christiana East Tower, UD

Good Bye - ELI, UD

On Friday August 10th, 2007, it's my last day to be in class at ELI. Although the class was not finish yet, I had to go to my graduate university, Carnegie Mellon University, on Sunday Aug 12th. The reason was the orientation program would be held during Aug 14-16, so I had to go prior to that days.

I gave two gifts to Ann, who took care me really nice. Actually, she was like my second mom! (I'm serious :D ). The gifts were a little purse with small wooden elephant on it, and a yellow shirt from my hometown, Nakhonsawan. She said that she will wear it on Graduation day (wow, thank you). It was quite upset when I had to say goodbye to everyone, especially Ann. Some tears in my eyes but I didn't cry out (thanks god!).

Time stamp: 08/10/07
Place: ELI, UD

Philly - The Brotherly Loved City

Philly - The Brotherly Loved City- was one of the most livable city I've ever seen! I had bad impressions from NYC, so I thought this city should be the same. Because it was a big city in US, it should be crowded and dirty. Ironically, everything was opposite. Philly I saw was very nice city. There were many high buildings in the downtown. On the other hand, I could find many pretty and small houses around the city as well. We started from the Independence Hall, watched the room that was chosen to sign the Declaration of Independence. Then, walking around the city to the river bank. The view near the river of Delaware was very brilliant.

Before going home, we found one precious place - Thai restaurant! Wow! I could eventually eat Pad Kaprao today. Thanks Buddha!

Time stamp: 08/12/07
Place: Philadelphia, PA

Good Bye My Friends

It's time to say goodbye. Three of my closest friends, Pinn, P'Tae, and Ben had reached their time to go! So sad (T T). The car (Delaware Express) schedule was 8.00 AM. I hardly woke up since 7.00 O'clock, and went down to Ben's room. Although I was so sleepy but I had to freshen up myself. Purdue gang were going to Indiana, while Pinn was going to Ithaca. The car came lately. It finally came at 8.15 AM.

The last message I thought in my mind, but hadn't said it out. "You were all going to pursue your futures, so DO YOUR BEST and SEE YOU AGAIN. My friends."

Time stamp: 08/07/07
Place: UD, DE

Longwood Garden, it's heaven!

This was almost the last trip in UD. Our (generous) host family picked us up in front of our dorm, Christiana Towers, and gave us a ride to Longwood Garden. It took nearly 45 minutes to reach the garden. Before I decided to come, I thought this trip maybe just sitting in the park and go back home. Sure, everything should be boring! What could you do much with a garden? However, everything was turned up-side-down when I was in the park.

It was a botanical garden (or park, I always switched between these two words). Moreover, everything was very beautiful. Lots of trees, flowers, pools, fountains, and small animals such as squirrels. There was a waterfall too! In the green house, many kinds of plant were found here. I saw many orchids which I thought they were in Thailand too. Unforetunately, Pinn, P'Tae, and P'Khang didn't come with us. They were so tired and didn't want to go outside. I really wanted them to be here because it was a terrific place to take pictures. P'Arm, Kathy, others took a lot of pictures here, and most of them were very nice. We stayed here and always kept walking from 2.00 PM until 5.00 PM. It's a proper time for come back home because I started to be hungry!

Time Stamp: 08/04/07
Place: Longwood Garden, PA

Food Bank

It's time to do some charity activities! Food Bank of Delaware was a place that provided food for many poor guys in this state (even the state was very small). We came to the food bank by bus from UD since 8.00 AM. There were many tasks to do here.

1. Assemble boxes and send them to the assembly line.
2. Put foods into the assembled boxes.
3. Collect empty food boxes.
4. Store filled boxes in to the stores.

My task here was the first person in the assembly line. I filled a bag of cereal and a can of pineapple into each box. Even if it sounded very easy, it might not be that such easy. The number of boxes I had to fill each minute was 6-7. I had to turn back and forth to pick up cereals and the cans. Moreover, the cereals which was in big bag ran out very fast. I had to open new boxes nearly every two minutes.

Finally, we packed 250 boxes of foods within only 1 hour! Wow, very good job! Although we all were tired from waking up in the early morning and did these jobs, I thought everyone seemed to be happy to work together. Before we left the Food Bank, we took some pictures to keep in our memories.

Time stamp: 08/04/07
Place: Food Bank, DE

Farewell Party at Christiana Commons

At last, P'Will, one of my friends at UD, had to go to his university. Thus, from the meeting on Jul 31st, we decided to hold the party on this day. It was a farewell party for every student who studied at ELI. Our special guest for today is Anne Owen. We gave our special gift for her which was a paper containing short messages from all of us.

This party had only Thai food! Because it was Thai party, Anne had a chance to try many Thai foods we cooked our self. Khai Jeaw, Larb, Kaeng Kheaw Waan, etc. were cooked especially for today. Anne said with tears filling her eyes that tonight was a special day for her and she would never forget us. So did we Anne...

Moreover, this party had many special activities such as Mr. & Ms UD vote, games, and Karaoke !!! (wow!) Everyone seemed to be enjoy very much in every activity. Many girls cried during the speech of Anne. Maybe because the relationship that was created during the 2 months we were together made us sad when we had to leave here. However, lives had go on. Everyone had his/her tasks to do. Let's see you again in the near future...

Time stamp: 08/02/07
Place: Christiana Commons, UD

Meeting at Christiana Commons

This was a meeting that Anne requested because she would like to explain about the VISA transfer process. This meeting was also about the farewell party which would be held on Thursday Aug, 2nd.

Time stamp: 07/31/07
Place: Christiana Commons, UD

Yahoo! Hershey Park

Yes! We had a trip every weekend, and this weekend is Hershey Park. It was an amusement park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Its name comes from one eminent person, Milton S. Hershey who was a founder of a famous chocolate brand, also named Hershey. Beautifulness of the park was very attractive to the comers. In addition, the rides were also very brilliant!

There were maybe more than 7 roller coasters here, and I rode almost all of them. The Big Bear, Storm Runner (which was the fastest and the most excited roller coaster here. It came in the red rail), Wild Cat, and Thunder & Lighting (two rides go at the same time like car racing). The rides turned up-side-down, twisted, and ran very fast. I thought I would die definitely if I fell from my seat. However, the safety of this park was very cool. The timing of playing each ride was great too. When I couldn't stand riding one ride anymore, it was finished.

Some of my friends had trouble with one ride, they felt nausea after riding it because it went forward and backward immediately. Fortunately, I knew this from them, so I didn't ride it. :D

The meal there was expensive. I spent 10$ for fried chickens, French fries, and Coke. Moreover, there was tax here which I was not familiar with. No tax in Delaware was one of the best thing.

One of the most fun stuffs in Hershey Park should be the Water World. It was very very big and contained a lot of machines. I played Whirlwind which was the water slider, and it was very awesome. When the time was near 8.00 PM, we went to the chocolate factory to see how to create the Hershey Chocolate, and took the bus to our home-UD.

Time stamp: 07/29/07
Place: Hershey Park, PA

A day in Big Apple

Finally, the day to New York city had come! I always dream of Manhattan as a very big, civilized, beautiful city. As in many blockbuster movies: Spider Man, Fastastic4, this city should be very fascinating. However, when I arrived here, everything was opposite. This city was like a big trash! It was very dirty, crowded, traffic jams, and constructions. It was very different from DC which was very clean, beautiful city. I arrived NYC about 10.00 PM by bus from UD.

The Statue of Liberty might be the most famous place in Manhattan. I took a free ferry to see her even if I couldn't be on the island her stands. It took about 1 hour to go back and fourth between the two shores of Manhattan. The sunlight was very strong, so I had to wear a cap and sunglasses :p.

Ground Zero was a memorable place of the 9/11 tragedy. There was only a construction site which removing the reckless of the World Trade Center buildings. Nothing was interesting to see, so I had just taken one picture, and continued walking to other places.

At last, our triumphant to find a Thai restaurant found an end. In China Town, there were two Thai restaurant I saw. Thai Angel Cuisine seemed to be more Thai, then we chose it.

Our decision was correct. All waiters were Thai, and the foods taste were very Thai! They were spicy. I really missed Thai food since I cam here.


The last place of our trip is the Central Park in the middle of Manhattan. It was the only one park in the island, I thought. There were many artists here waiting for drawing pictures for pedestrians. Nevertheless, the park was quite dirty, and filled with lots of people. We stayed there about 30 minutes and went back to the meeting point at the Empire State building because it was near 7.00 PM now. Let's go home...








Time stamp: 07/22/07
Place: Manhattan, NY

One bad thing about A&F

One day in Chirstiana Mall, I was seeing stuffs in Abercrombie & Fitch shop inside the mall. When I turn around to the other side and my back is opposite to the big banner of A&F man. It fell down on my head! I stopped for a while when my friends came to me. It was not much hurt but a little bit dizzy.

I thought I should get some T-shirts or jeans from A&F :D, but the only thing I got is an ice bag to relieve my pain. It was a bad day for me.

Dinner at a host family house

On Tuesday, July 17th, 2007, we were picked up by host families to go to dinner in the afternoon. The foods were very much greater than the dining hall's. After the dinner ended, there were many religious discussions occurred. I was in one of the discussion with Brad on the upstairs. They asked very deep knowledge about Buddhism which I couldn't answer. Oh! my Buddha. I should be more concentrated in my Buddhism high school class!

Time stamp: 07/17/07
Place: Host family's house