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I posted about interesting items information I found, write my views on books I read, education, science and technology, Buddhism and meditation, economic and business, music, and movies, country and rural development. Articles are in English or Thai.
This is memorable calculator for me, 33 years old Casio FX-110 Scientific calculator.
The price I paid in 1977 was 580 Baht. It has 10 blue-color digits and needs AA-size batteries to operate. I remember well that when I used it in an examination room, such as in a Physical Chemistry class, I needed to have spare batteries to replace otherwise it would not last the entire 3 hr exam session. This one was great gadget, because few years earlier students were still using slide rules.
Around that time, I was still a sophomore student and my mom did not have money but I did not know. I told her I badly needed a calculator to use in exams and she had to get money for me somehow. I appreciate her motherly love, just an example of it, and much more now that she long passed away.
For the benefit of English speakers, I 'd like to add some information here about the content of this original blog.
Cuckoo clock repair shop in Bangkok:-
This is the only shop I know and the mechanic is an authorized technician who has been trained in Germany. His main shop is Black Forest shop, is in Summakorn village project 2, Soi Ramkamhaeng 112, Bangkok.
The owner and technician name is Mr. Apichart, his phone is 087 936 1911. You can try phone him during day time, including weekends.
From today 's Thai news, a criminal court fined a poor Bangkok garbage collection worker, who scavenged from the garbage piles and sold recovered old CDs on a footpath, over 100,000 Bahts for violating the Movie and VDO Act of B.E. 2551. Since he does not have money he would be imprisoned to pay for fine. (Note: Perhaps at a rate of few hundred Baht daily credit of imprisonment he would be jailed for about a year.) The family of the guy would try to borrow money to bail him out and appeal the sentencing. His family member said he did not know that selling old CDs was against such a law.
Thai people around the web expressed their great sympathy for the unfortunate guy, mentioning any irony that rampant selling of illegal copies of software and multimedia exist in the country and real pirates of CDs & DVDs often don't get caught, but poor innocent ones got caught and punished instead.
I wish the appeal court would re-sentence the guy in a more lenient way.
This Hindi song sounds familiar to Buddhists Worldwide. I have heard it since the 1960s after an Indian movie, Angulimal, which was based on a true story in Tipitaka, was shown in Bangkok. Today I just found that someone has uploaded a new version of this song to Youtube. Anumodhami. If you are Buddhists you might like to listen to it and find it mind soothing.
Thai translation of the song lyric I have copied from somewhere is pasted below :-
At Ranong, there is a news reporting that the sea level has increased up to 3 meters and there was flood in many islands and in the areas along sea side. I beleive that this is likely another sign of global warming.
What happened if thousands of skilled workers who worked for decades for an international company were unfairly laid off ? They would feel bitter and fight back ? What if they lost ? Well, some of them might start their own cooperative venture in order to help feed their families. That is how a new local brand of Thai quality lingerie for females, Try Arm, started. The logo of this brand is a raised fist showing their strong determination to fight their destiny and survive. You can guess by yourself from the rhyme of their brand whom they were working for and which company mistreated them.
If you want to support them, please go ahead. Their merchandises are cheap but the quality should be about the same as those of the international brand. (Unfortunately, I can only give them moral support by writing this blog for I can not use their products.)
Above link is toward a Thai article in a Thai magazine, Sarakadee, featuring a prominent conservationists known countrywide for his passion of old stories about Thai art & culture, folk history, people of former generations. Anek Navikamoon, is an author of over 148 books (non-fiction), based entirely on his decades of his detective-like investigations, interviews old people, and photographing in order to record on old stories. He has established a small private museum, House of museums. I admire him. This magazine covered him 20 years ago, and now again 20 years later, with an outstanding award given to him.
If Thailand had more people with exertive passion for worthy things like him, our country would be in much better shape.