Pro, Con, and Antipasti

I can say that this year’s one-week summer break was.. well.. awesome (despite of the broketipsyandultrabored part on the last night of the days). I volunteered for this International Debate Education Association Asia Youth Forum (IDEA AYF), which at first I likely to cancel. This event was held from 14-27 May 2012 at Pattaya for the first ten days and Bangkok for the rest. The good thing about joining this is that it’s like a paid vacation for me since they provided all the accommodation, food, as well as the lodgings :P. They even gave us extra payment, which actually was not much but still okay. Even though most of the times were quite boring, I was happy since I met a lot of new people, which made me realize how the world is actually very small. It is just funny to meet a person that you used to know before, or a person from another country who knows your long-lost friend from your hometown. The more you connect the threads between you and your acquaintances, the more you understand how great the networking nowadays.

Judgmental Thoughts About My Grumpy Little Kitten

If you want me to be hyperbolic, it’s already thousands times for me telling my teenage sister how I dislike her attitudes on social media, especially Twitter. Her immature attitudes for being so lazy, underestimating herself, and projecting her unstable feelings. How I could know she is so lazy and unstable, you might wonder. It is all can be shown from her tweets. All of those useless ramblings and rants made me mad sometimes and I could not do anything but to give her some words through personal messages.

Yeah, my mature-enough teenage lady sometimes can act like a grumpy little kitten, virtually. Although my mom and auntie said that she studies very hard at home (sometimes she slept late night to study), I just could not believe them. I ended up judging her and comparing her with her friends who seemed work harder than her. And again, how I could know her friends work harder? It’s all based on twitter, again. Well, I often see such young teenagers (my sister’s friends) tweeting like “Have been working five hours for this project! Oh! I do really need to sleep! No time to eat” and all those gibberish overloading my timeline. It is actually very funny and I don’t have any sympathy for them at all. Instead of tweeting to show how busy they are, they can actually use that wasted time to sleep or eat or simply taking the right way to rest, Am I right?

rambling #2

Just done working and now I’m rewarding myself to check my tumblr and write some.. Nanti siang sebenernya ada ujian and I haven’t even reviewed anything yet.. I just want to do something else than reviewing those handouts right now..

Well, I will be older in less than a month Insha Allah. Rasanya biasa aja sih tapi

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Telephoto Graflex SLR

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Eyewitness. A photograph I took in 2006.

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New York Times Magazine’s collection of amazing clips inspired by legendary villain characters directed by Alex Prager (2011).

I wish Prager would make the real film, especially for Jessica Chastain’s character! That amazing lady’s creepy laugh revives me Mary Maloney from Alfred Hitchcock Presents ep Lamb to the Slaughter.

Click here to watch the clips or just simply find em on Youtube :-)

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(Source: jagdishsingh, via movielove)

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The meaning of ‘Buddha’ is “the enlighten one”. Anyone can be a Buddha, as long as they can show human beings the way of righteousness.

It is known that Buddha images from Sukhothai era (from the mid of 12th to the mid of 13th century) are showing this wide smile and lifting eyebrows, basically representing a peaceful expression. It is because the life in Sukhothai era, which is the first kingdom of Thailand, was very peaceful, full of happiness and prosperity. Sri Indrathit, the first king of Sukhothai, governed the kingdom like a family. He let his people to call him ‘Pho Khun’ (Father), and they usually met together in the palace to discuss about everything related to the kingdom. In that time, food and water were also free. They could catch the fish from the sea and river, and pick any fruits they wanted from wherever they found lush fruit trees. The first economic activity they did was exchanging stuff, or known as ‘barter’.

While in Ayutthaya period (the mid of 13th to 18th century), the Thai king was no longer in paternal relationship with his people any more. Kings were treated as ‘Devaraja’ (God-kings) whose sacred power was associated with the Hindu gods. Many strange cases like the sudden death of one later king occurred, which finally conclude as a treasonous throne stampede. Attacks from Burmese also happened once again, which this time had killed one of the greatest heroines of Thai history, Queen Suriyothai. This dark history made a belief why Buddha images from Suriyothai are mostly showing serious yet unruffled faces without any lifting eyebrows, since the Buddha from that time were always hoping for betterment in solemnity.

*The Buddha images above are courtesy of here and here.

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Just one of loads of funniest moments in my all time favorite xD

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