Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Time difference

Today I have done something I have to do for my life although I don't know whether it will be good or not and how it's going to be. I only have to wait and wait and see.... I was stressed, nervous and excited in the same time at first until I feel like I wanted to throw up. But now I calm down...and wait.

One of my friends left from one country to another country and I just feel again that time difference always make difference. LOL I have some friends in a few countries and my own clock has to be ready to figure out the time of my friends who lives outside Thailand. Actually it's kinda fun but it's not easy to share the moments.

Sometimes, I feel that England is my second home country even though I've never been there hahaha but Nam's clock can think of English local time in a second. Thanks to English football, this is the beginning of the reasons why English time is in my blood! Then, Japanese and French local time because of work, Eastern time in USA and neighbouring countries which are just an hour different. And at last Australia.... I know what you want to say "Shame on you, Nam!" Yeah, I often get confused the time difference between Thailand and Australia and for god's sake, I lived there for a year (and 3 months)!!

After I found out this happened to me, I blame the south hemisphere thing. The season makes the hour runs in the opposite direction. When the rest of the world extend their time because summer is coming, Australia and NZ shorten their time because the winter is coming. I haven't checked that if I had a friend in Peru, what would it be like. Maybe I need more space in my little brain to remember the number of hours, season and month! Sigh! lol

Strangely, when I was in Oz, I know Thailand local time by heart and maybe Japan as well but I lost the local time of the rest of the world including my so-called second home country lol...Hmm, I need to improve my calculation skill I guess. hahaha

Saturday, 24 January 2009

And the first prize goes to...........

And the first prize goes to...........(sound like an Oscar, hehe)

Ultimately I won the first prize of lucky draw from F&O (Finance and Operations) New Year Party 2009 after 4 years!. I said "Ultimately" because when I worked in a previous company I also won the first prize from a division New Year lucky draw too not once but TWICE! The first time (and the first year) is MP3 Player ...the very first MP3 at that time with 64MB!! LOL and the second year I won a gold necklace :-) I still have this necklace until now hahaha. I worked there for 4 years as well butI didn't win anything big in the last 2 years before I quit.

So this is a good record. I will have to observe whether I will win anything in a new company (if I some day resign from L'Oreal, hehe)

I'm so happy. My luck is back! I hope next time I'll be lucky in love :-)

Check out some photos here.


That night, I dared trying this cocktail (not sure what it is) for 1/3 of the glass (size of vodka glass). It's quite risky for my life 555!



Namrin's new Sony LCD TV! Yo!


Lastly, for some reason, I would like to sell this LCD Television. Anybody is interested in? 10,000 baht after discount! Call me or email me or comment here....

Click the link below for 15 more photos : Happy New Year again, my friends ...Chinese New Year then LOL
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd191/namrinb/Photo%202009/NY%20Party%20by%20Finance%20and%20Operations/

Friday, 23 January 2009

Way too drunk

Nope, I am not drunk and wasn't drunk. I don't drink or as some of you may know, I technically can't drink. LOL

This is one of the nights I finished work at 10PM-ish and I got home around 11PM. During the walk from the sky train to my condo, I passed by this guy who made me think that "Man, you're WAY too drunk!"

Even though I don't drink myself but I think the persons who drink know their limit and this is a reminder to not try to go over your limits otherwise one day I will blackmail you, hehe!

Street is too hard to sleep on. I'm telling you so you don't have to try it by yourself :-P
You're right! I didn't dare taking close-up photographs of him because I was afraid he would awake and punch my (pretty) face! haha


But when a stray cat sleeps, he/she is professional. Look at the way they sleep. I mean the order of his body!! Graceful! LOL



The cat woke up after I took his photo. Oops! Sorry...cat

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

I have to think HARD! LOL

Yep, yesterday my workmate brought her laptop to work. It looked pretty good, Viao (Sony)! It's about 3 years old with 512 RAM, Pentium M 1.88 Ghz, Centrino, DVD writer I think ...and little more that I don't remember lol. It's pretty good and she let one of MIS team find out why it works slowly and he said it was because of her anti-virus program scanning files all the time. Woops!

After that, I spoke to my former-manager about the laptop. He said he could get one for me from Singapore but he had to contact the company first. Actually it's one of leasing laptaps after the contract is expired. The price is kinda blow my mind away. I thought maybe I could get it for my friend's birthday but it's 3 year-old laptop. Maybe it's not very interesting. I should ask my friend before I buy it, shouldn't I?

Today, one of our hair brands is looking for models for their Spring/Summer collection colour test (Summer here starts in March). The timing is right for me so I go for it. (29th Jan) However I have a very difficult decision to make. The theme is to dye your hair with one colour and then, highlight your hair. I'm indecisive that which shade I should go for. I'm so stressed as if it's tough assignment LOL!

Pls vote

Which colour should be highlighting my hair? This is a tough call really. Last year I did Red highlight and I LOVE it! It was such a great success (in my opinion, lol) so I would like to do it again. However, deep blue is also interesting. Violet is feasible to work on my head as well….Pls help me to make a decision. What do you think it will suit me or which colour would you like to see on my hair :-)

1) Red

2) Deep blue

3) Red and Deep blue

4) Other..….(only green, copper and violet available)

Oh, I personally don’t like copper. I think it’s too close to my skin colour.

Voting closes on 28th Jan!

Cheers for all of your opinions.

In the case you don't know what I did last summer lol:

Monday, 19 January 2009

Adverse economy

I don't mean to lecture you about how "prosperous" current global economy is at all. It's just at work, today, our MD gave his speech and greeted "Happy New Year" to everyone officially and we also listened to a speech from CEO from the video. Both things lasted like an hour....including other extra things in between. After that, I actually feel a bit discourage rather than motivated. How strange! I'm a self-motivated person. Maybe I need to be motivated from other people. Anyway, it doesn't mean that our big boss didn't encourage us but I think it just didn't work with me :-S

I think people in general (not only the management at work) talk about the decline of economy too often until I feel like we say it until we will become like it or we are like it but we say it worse than it actually is! If I was in other business, I may probably feel different. So I think we should look at the bright side and try to seek for opportunities which are obviously there or hidden there. We'd better be positive but of course, positive on realistic basis. Cheer up, people!

I managed to pick up my bank statement this morning. What's next? I'm looking for a cheap and better mobile phone than the one I'm using. I have used this one for 4 years already so you can imagine how OLD it looks and I'm afraid it's gonna be broken soon. Hopefully not but I'm afraid so. lol

Apart from a mobile phone, yep, a laptop. One of my workmates would like to sell one because she said it was kinda slow when booting stuff. I told her how about 10K baht ($285/EURO 212/ GBP 192/AUD 400 for est. current exchange rate against Thai Baht) She was quite shocked by the price I offered because when she bought it 2-3 years ago it was about 40,000ish baht. (time 4, please) Anyway, I told her it's better than sell it as a junk. She will bring it to the office tomorrow as she would an MIS member to check why it works so slowly. If it is slow, I think I get a chance to ask for more discount. LOL It's only 60GB and I don't know about other details of its capacity yet. ...still it's better to have one when you WANT one! hehe

See you tomorrow, maybe.

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Today to me to yesterday and to tomorrow

While I was having lunch today, there was someone raising her voice in a local restaurant. (Most of local restaurants here are not like a proper restaurant in Western countries). I had a look at the source of the voice and I found a couple started fighting each other over a topic I couldn't hear very well even though they spoke Thai. I was sitting at the opposite end of them. They tried not to speak so loudly but apparently everyone's eyes stared at them before they realise it's non our business, lol. I just felt sorry for them. They wouldn't enjoy the meal at all. The girl started to have tears in her eyes and she was saying sth like the guy didn't care about how she felt and now maybe this is her last straw or she might get emotional from time to time I do not know. At that moment, I feel like it's hard to be a couple. It takes a lot to be a HAPPY couple I have to say. I wish I'll have a happy one but again noone knows how I will end up. The girl didn't finish her lunch and she probably lost her appetite already. They left before I finished my lunch and I thought this was the thing I was going to write it today. Now I'm doing.

Lesson to learn: Don't fight over a meal, LOL

After that, I had a haircut. I'd better call it hairtrim but to my face, it seemed that the hairdresser trimmed my bang too short. I have to say I'd better do this myself if I know it would turn out to be like this. Maybe it's a bit too trendy for now. I didn't like it that much. I thought the hairdresser would clearly understood the meaning of the length at my eyebrows. Did she understand? I didn't whine or anything. I just paid her the money and thought I would never come back again. Thanks! I have to wait for 2-3 months until I get what I'm looking for, I'm afraid. And that may be about time for sth special for me this year. Here is the today's result.



I came back to find my friend lost his laptop during his trip in Indonesia. He's safe though which is the most important part. Thank Buddha...and God if you like LOL! However, laptop is not only valuable stuff but it is quite important in today's life. I feel very sorry for him and I know it's only little chance to get it back. You can find out for more story from here www.trevssalsatravels.blogspot.com

If any of you would like to sell a laptop at a friendly price, pls contact me. I need one in next a few months or you can sell to my friend because he needs it NOW lol.

Last but not least, I just realise I would like to post my trip diary here but I can't turn the time back. If you have any idea, I can re-write the date and make it looked like I have posted it for 4-5 years ago, that'd be great. Maybe at least 2 years are already awesome! Any idea?

Tomorrow I'll pick my bank statement at a bank. Then go to work after that. It's going to be an exhausting morning!

I will re-start

Today is just a day...OK it's Sunday 18th but it's not special. It may be someone's birthday but I don't know them in person so overall, it's just a day to me. However, it will become a big day from now on because I decided that I will start updating my blog to make it a proper blog from now on. I actually have written lots lots of my traveling diary but they're all on my emails. My photos are kept on 2 websites which, unfortunately, one of them were totally deleted after I had nearly 100 albums with it. It was cancelled because I didn't want to pay for the annual fee (It was free for long time) and I don't bother to upload them again on the new website. So my photos are scattered and slightly incomplete in cyber world. Eventhough I have it in complete version on my harddisk drive but it consumes A LOT of time to upload all of them again. I will probably arrange some of them in place and I will start my blog, not again but from now on.

This is probably going to be weird to start writing this as my diary. I have stopped doing it for 5 years. If I remember right, February 2004 is the month I have given up writing a diary. Yet, I write lots of emails to friends and write postcards or letters in between. I guess I just love writing. I'd love to express my feelings, my opinions, my silly and brilliant ideas in alphabets! And I have written diary in English more than I did in Thai. Can you believe that? I can say so because I'm now 30, hehe....but still I need to learn more to be a good writer. I may become an author some day if you can live long enough to wait for me to achieve that day! lol

I may not be a good entertainer but I hope I can make you smile or laugh or cry or think hard some time som how.

Thank you for reading Namrin on the Blog :-)

Namrin 18th January 2009

Saturday, 6 December 2008

I'm a newbie

Dear readers,

I have thought for a very very long time (more than 7 years) to have my own blog. However, today is my first day on blogger.com and now I don't know what to do, where to start, it's just my blog doesn't look exactly like what I want so I don't know what I should do first. I feel lost LOL! Now I'm writing here to see how my post will be like. And I hope the more I write, the more I know how to manage this blog.

This is actually my 2nd blog because the first blog isn't like what I thought after I posted the photos. I'm not so sure that I can do a lot here because it seems to have fewer functions than my first try on the 1st blog. Anyway, if I can work on my mainstream well here. You will definitely see me update it again and again, and again.

After this blog is built to be in a shape, I will publish this and I hope to hear from you no matter you like it or not. All comments and advices are welcome :-)

Thank you for visiting "Namrin on the Blog"
Namrin

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Namrin in Japan for work and leisure

I'm in Japan again for work and leisure. However, the time is limited so not much to entertain myself.

One day is what I have and so, I took a day trip to Nikko with my Japanese friend, Hiromi. I met Hiromi in Sydney as a classmate. Hiromi visited Thailand 2 years ago and I was her guide taking her around BKK and Pattaya. Now it is her turn to take me around. It was great and Nikko is beautiful. It's the most perfect autumn I have ever had. You can see that leaves change their colours. I brought own my sunshine as usual.

http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd191/namrinb/Photo%202008/Tokyo%20and%20Nikko/

See ya soon.

Sunday, 12 October 2008

Namrin in Pattaya for foam party and more

Hello,

I'm back. Actually this album should my SCUBA diving trip that I did in July but occasionally, I make an express way for my own favour lol. Surely next album will be underwater photos with sharks and more! Pls stay tune!

There are quite a lot of photos as it is 2-day activities. The main purpose to come to Pattaya this time is to go to the foam party at Hard Rock Hotel with Ploy (my friend who lives in Pattaya). Sound interesting, huh? But before we explore how the foam party like. Let's go through the story step by step.

I don't know what happened to my life but this is the second time in a month that I had to wait for my friend for a very long time. How long? It's only one and a half hour. The worst record was 2 hours and a bit!! My question is why it had to occur within a month? I try to think that it's time to pay back for myself being late a bit here and there to other people (if you believe in Karma). Colin, Ploy's boyfriend, drove me to Pattaya. Thanks Colin even though I had to wait for quite a long while but I'm not angry. We arrived at noon and went straight for lunch. After that, Ploy told me that she and her elder sister would like to go to the temple to release some fish and birds back to nature. It's a good deed Thai Buddists do. I don't know whether I have ever really done that as I'm not practically religious. Anyhow, I joined Ploy's sister and her sister's friends. I felt great after doing a good thing! We bought eels, a few types of fish and frogs or toads and free them in a big pond in a temple. I hope they are all fine and won't be fished back to the market :-)

Next stop, we passed the Silver Lake which is a grapes farm. They sell the grapes' products here and also built a resort for people who travels to Pattaya. It's mountaineous with a huge lake and nice flower garden. I didn't feel like I was in Pattaya which is a beach city. It's like I'm in North of Thailand, hahaha. Nice views with some pretty girls there!!

Then, our main activity is here! We went to Hard Rock Hotel where they hold the foam party every Saturday. It was really crazy and fabously fun. Dress Code: swimwear, bikinis, spaghetti tops, shorts, you get the idea, don't you? I don't remember how long we were in the foam pool but seemed like a few hours. It closed at 1AM and that was the time we left, hahaha! After the foam pool, we jump into a swimming pool to get rid of the foam from our bodies and then played water basketball with other hotel's guests. I did score one but Ploy, Colin and P' Kay (Ploy's friend) didn't see it! Oh, NOOO!!! That was my impressive shot! How could you guys miss it?? D'oh!! lol

It rainned in BKK and other provinces around but it didn't rain in Pattaya throughout this weekend. Told you I bring my own SUNSHINE! LOLOLOL ;-) It was great weather and kinda too hot actually. I woke up late after a long night. After lunch, we went to the go-kart circuit. This is also my call, lol. Something I fancy doing in Pattaya :-D To be honest, I'm not a master driver but you know the thing that you like doesn't need to go into the same direction as the thing you are good at. i.e. a big football fan doesn't have to play football brilliantly, right? Just like that :-D It was a great excitement when driving on the circuit. And when you hear the sound of go-kart engines, I just can't imagine how it would be if this was Formula 1 racing.....Feel good! I was not quite racing with my friends. There are a few other people driving in the same round too. And I have to say wow! They were fast and furious. Two are Westerners and 1 are Thai guy and one of the girls in our group, she drove very well too. Those were on a race lol. Ploy, Colin, I and if there were a few more, we just leisurely drove LOL but still didn't have time to enjoy the view of the trees and the pond. Everything seemed to be quick and I needed concentration, and we were so close to the ground!! And that is exciting and challenging you can feel!

That's all for now. Coming up next...let's go under water (go under me-Nam!! hehe :-P)

http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd191/namrinb/Photo%202008/Pattaya-Foam%20party/