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Notes on life, computers, and some other random thoughts.

EST. 2009 93 ENTRIES UPDATED NOV 3, 2017
3 Nov 2017
Iceland · Iceland Revisit

Iceland 2017: A Revisit

A windy, moist and cold weather hit my face when I arrived at Kaflavik International Airport last July reminded me of the first arrival here in this beautiful country called Iceland. For those who have just read this…

3 min read · icelandiceland-revisit
23 Mar 2017
Life

It's All in His Head

This contains a mild spoiler of the movie The Silent Voice: Koe no Katachi After seeing the movie "The Silent Voice" I have been thinking about many things in the movie which somehow related to my life. Nishimiya is…

2 min read · life
15 Jan 2017
Life · Work

The Late 2016 Review

Happy new year, everyone! 2016 was quite a year for me and here is a post to record and appreciate all those memorable moments. Chayen Chayen is a product I worked from January last year. It becomes the new flagship…

4 min read · lifework
2016 14 entries
9 Sep 2016
Life

What If Your Younger Self Meet You Today

\[Spoiler Alert: Fanday\] At the first week camp of AFS Iceland, I wrote two letters, letters to my future self which would be delivered between and at the end of the exchange year. They were good experiences, seeing…

1 min read · life
20 Aug 2016
Job · Work

A Job That You Can Get Up Every Morning

Frankly, there was once in my lifetime that I wanted to be something else. It was when my parents, especially my mum, wanted their children to be a doctor. In Thailand, being anyone who literally help someone is such a…

1 min read · jobworklife
6 Jul 2016
Work

Surround Yourself

There are many quotes that go with "Surround Yourself..." and something. I have read somewhere but I couldn't find what the quote exactly was, but it goes like "Surround yourself with the people you want to be". And…

1 min read · work
5 Jun 2016
Notes

Meaningful Little Things

I have never been emotionally intense like this before. An hour and a half watching "If Cats Disappear From the World", a drama Japanese movie, presented me many ideas about living my life in another different…

1 min read ·
7 May 2016
Life

Guilty Talks

I am a type of a guy who loves debating. Most of the time, I hold debating or correcting voice inside of my mind because it may be rude to talk to everyone about every topics, right? But the funny part is: the level of…

2 min read · life
24 Apr 2016
Life · Job

Leaving My First Job

When I was a student in college. If I failed a subject because I didn't commit my time at it, I did not study enough. If I passed a subject with an A, it was because I surely study hard. It was so easy to earn…

2 min read · lifejob
10 Apr 2016
Learning Notes

WIHL: UX Foundation

Yesterday I was at Geeky Base, a place to share tech-related skills, and attended a learning session about UX Foundation by @kamonlojn. Here are some bullet points I caught from the session and are worth sharing. VIMM…

3 min read · learning-notes
12 Mar 2016
Notes

The Reason to Be Immortal

We have seen many immortal characters through movies. When I was a child, the reason I want to live longer than I will do, it's fearing of the afterlife. Because my little scientist brain always tells me that there is…

1 min read ·
12 Mar 2016
Politics

What I Watch on YouTube Everyday: News

The title says it all! I have been using YouTube daily for many years and I would like to share you my top channels I watch every day. Today topic is: News AJ+ AJ+ is one of Al Jazeera Media Network, very active…

1 min read · politics
16 Feb 2016
Learning Notes · Programming

WIHL: Getting Jobs Done Is Not Enough

I have been this type of man since I was so little. The type of man who gets things done but without a good fundamental knowledge or a deep understanding in them. Today, I was interviewed by senior iOS developers from…

1 min read · learning-notesprogramming
12 Feb 2016
Life

This Comfortable Life Should Stop!

Last month, I was creating a resume applying for Google and found my timeline for creating products stuck when I joined Volevi. Oakraw and I, we have a dream creating tech company in Thailand. But we hadn't been working…

1 min read · life
29 Jan 2016
Learning Notes

WIHL: Dedication At Its Finest

Close by my office, there is a food cart selling roast bananas, Thai easy-to-prepared snack. The cart is operated by a "grandma" around her 70s or 80s. I have hated those roast bananas for a long time, they are too…

1 min read · learning-notes
13 ม.ค. 2016
School

ประสบการณ์การเตรียมตัวสอบ TOEIC

เนื่องจากคนถามเข้ามาหลายคน ก็เลยมานั่งเขียนบทความเอาเลยละกัน บทความนี้จะเกี่ยวกับการเตรียมตัวสอบข้อสอบ TOEIC นะครับ หมายเหตุ แจ้งให้ทราบก่อนว่าบทความนี้เหมาะกับคนที่มีความรู้ภาษาอังกฤษระดับใช้ได้อยู่แล้ว,…

11 min read · school
6 Jan 2016
Learning Notes

WIHL: Sitting in the Other Bench

It has been 6 months working at Volevi and also 6 months being a public transport commuter. My routine would be like this: taking BTS, our skytrain network, then taking "Songthaew" to my workplace. Songthaew is a…

1 min read · learning-notes
2015 13 entries
31 Dec 2015
Life

A Review of 2015

Happy new year everyone! Thanks for reading this blog in this special occasion. As you may know, I use this little space called blog as my diary, because I know from my experience that reading what you have thought in…

3 min read · life
29 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: Always, Always, Test Before Ship

Today, I have the worst cinema experience ever! It shouldn't be that bad consider that we were in one of the biggest cinema in Thailand, Paragon Cineplex, and also in IMAX theatre with the price of 400 THB. The film we…

1 min read · learning-notes
26 Dec 2015
Thailand

Merry Christmas (And a Story About Christmas in Thailand)

Merry Christmas, Gleðileg Jól and สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส everyone! It was a cool year this year. I finished my Bachelor degree, I was first employed in a company. Anyway, I will write more about my year and my upcoming…

2 min read · thailand
21 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: Water Is Fundamental For Living

Hi. Sorry for this late post. Last week I was at my employer's place for a Christmas party and kind of a new app starting camp. Anyway, I was home last weekend and there was a problem with my home's water system. One…

2 min read · learning-notes
13 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: User's Feedback Is Important

A few months ago, YouTube changed its Android application to eliminate Hamburger bar and intensively used tab layout. I was happy at the design except the Subscription tab. I have subscribed to 371 channels so far and I…

1 min read · learning-notes
12 Dec 2015
Learning Notes · Programming

WIHL: Web Framework

Since I was a child playing with website, I somehow hated HTML and other UI elements. I hated it when I had to code something to match my imagination, because it never would do. I have changed in these few years but…

1 min read · learning-notesprogramming
11 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: Humanity Restored

I am a big fan of AJ+, the news channel on YouTube by Al Jazeera. I browse this channel daily and watch almost every videos in it. Last night, I watched this video and almost cried, happily and sadly. That pause and…

1 min read · learning-notes
10 Dec 2015
Learning Notes · Programming

WIHL: Creating Branch Is Essential

I have to admit that I am not so used to Git. I do follow some of its commands on how to checkout, commit, pull, and some basic stuffs. But I had zero knowledge on how and why Git is so essential. Thanks to my company's…

1 min read · learning-notesprogramming
8 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: This Little Comfort Zone

I may seem confident in someone's eyes, but from my closed friends', they won't think so. I am self-doubting and somehow insecure. To be honest, I love when everything is well planned, well organized, has lowest…

1 min read · learning-notes
7 Dec 2015
Iceland · Learning Notes

WIHL: Time Is Really a Precious Treasure

Last night while I was tidying up my bedroom at home, I found many name tags that I weared from multiple camps and events. Half of them were from the time when I was a Google Student Ambassador in 2011. Some were from…

1 min read · icelandlearning-notes
6 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

WIHL: Speed WordPress Up

My friends and I are starting the website called Droid a Day which mainly uses WordPress. The problem I found today is WordPress slow loading time. So I have done some research and came out with two main things to be…

1 min read · learning-notes
5 Dec 2015
Learning Notes

What I Have Learned

This week I was thinking about improving and extending my knowledge and skills. So I decided to write this blog in a shorter way, around one or two paragraphs about what I have learned in a day. It maybe about coding,…

1 min read · learning-notes
3 May 2015
Notes

Lifetime Decision?

My friends are applying to many companies for the last fews months. Yes, we are graduating and the next stop of our life should be working, wedding, parenting, so on. But I don't want to work, I want to live and have…

2 min read ·