Archive for the 'Education' Category

Week of Woe for Thai University: blackmail, initiation death, and shootings

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The past week has provide a handful of  front-page-newspaper-worthy incidents involving unlucky, unfortunate, and/or misguided post-secondary students and one professor–all separate cases.
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How to Survive Thailand Roads & Traffic: Thai Motorcycle and Car driving safety

Friday, March 21st, 2008

After six years motorcycle driving experience in Thailand and counting, with all his limbs and organs still in working order, the author has gained sufficient experience hours on end on thousands of kilometers of urban and rural roads, paths, streets, sois, and highways, giving him the valuable insight, hindsight, and perspective to share with […]

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Take a stroll through the city without leaving your home: Chiangmai and San Francisco @ MapJack

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

This blog entry from Stuart G. Town’s blog informs about a cool new software-website called Mapjack. Similar to Google maps-Google Earth technology, Mapjack takes map navigating to the next level: Real time touring. Though Google Earth allows one to explore the globe real time in a partial-artificially rendered world, Map Jack uses actual still images […]

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Internet Amateurs: Hosting your own website and Domain Name

Friday, March 14th, 2008

There was a time when only diligent and determined geeks could become webmasters. Nowadays, just about anyone with a computer, internet access, and a basic IT knowledge base can create, develop, and host their own dynamic website.
As software and freeware become more accessible and user friendly, fundamental coding skills such as HTML and PHP […]

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Thailand Blog: Culture, Society, Lifestyle, News, and Insight about Thailand

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Doing a google search with the keywords, ‘Thailand Blog,’ the Siamerican was quite disappointed to find a hit neither for this web log nor the Siamerican in any of the top 100 results. Being that there were dozens upon dozens of irrelevant sites that ranked high, that weren’t actually Thailand blogs, it is clearly […]

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Gig - Kik- Gik lovers in Thailand: Thai casual polygamy sexual culture การมี กิ๊ก

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

As Jane and Jack sat side by side on the hot traffic-stalled Bangkok bus, Jack stared out the window. Though there was plenty of city action before his eyes, Jack wasn’t paying any attention. He was thinking about his ‘gik’.A familiar beeping sound knocked Jack out of his daydream and he immediately turned to his […]

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Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand: 17 month exile is over

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The latest breaking news in Thailand, Southeast Asia, and even the globe for that matter is regarding Thailand’s longest reigning elected leader, Thaksin Shinawatra. The disposed prime minister turned English football team owner-manager has finally stepped onto Thai soil after being away in a self imposed exile in the USA, England, and China […]

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After a month-long silence, the Siamerican’s Cyber Journal @ Thaiskale.com is back!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

You are probably wondering what happened to January, and why there isn’t any recent blog activity here. That is because the blog was taken down as to transfer web hosts. Previously, the Siamerican Wanderer was using a Thai hosting company paying some 1100 baht (now converts to 34 bucks) per year which was quite […]

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Proper spelling and speaking in the English Language: Is it really important or just redundant?

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

For all those folks who emphasize on the importance of exact and proper spelling, check out the following paragraph:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers […]

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Dreams, Goals, and Phases: Bangkok University degree ambitions and Vivid Dreams

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

It hasn’t been mentioned much lately in the cyber log– regarding the Siamerican Wanderer’s goals and ambitions to return to University, as he has thoughtfully and patiently been waiting for the waves of ‘distant visions’ to vibrate in sync with ‘current reality.’
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