KPN...The Star...AF...

KPN is the real singing contest with all real talent singers. I really appreciate at least there is one high quality singing contest in Thailand. I follow this program for the first time this year and the final round will be on today, can’t wait can’t wait. If I don’t get call from standby(until now, i dont think so), then I will be over the moon to watch it. The last three mini-concert shows on air every Saturday on channel nine were great and I loved to bit which everyone did perform with their own great talent in singing but the only difference was their character and personality. The one I wish to win is Nok whom sang khama by Alicia Keys on her first mini-concert with the theme of "My idol". She dared to sing that song and I’m wondering there is any singer in Thailand choosing to sing this difficult song but Nok did. She was so daring but she thought right because her performance was great. Wow, with that tuff song, she ruled the competition since then, indeed. Of course, I can’t compare her talent with AI and X Factor Uk’s contestant but as a thai girl singing like that was superb. She needs to improve her English pronunciation in a way as her slow song singing was a bit quite obvious but it’s not that bad, I’m telling you.

I was crazy and used to love watching AF but since Petch AF2 was out from the competition on the third week, I was very upset and I didn’t watch the rest of the show since then as the rest of contestants were rubbish, Meng Seng!!!. I love Petch very much and she was obviously the best singer among others with her cool character and charisma on the stage. Then AF4 came along and I would say that was the best AF ever.
Papang was my favorite one, even her character and behavior were so annoying sometimes, well…many times I must say but I loved her variable talent and self confident on the stage . She was just 18 years old during the competition and became the 2nd runner up for that year’s final result which made me so proud of her. The winner was rubbish and he was the least talent among top five !!! I have always known that this program is already set up who is in, who is out, who will be top 5 and who will be the winner but at least the winner should sing well in a way.

Last year it was the first time I was watching The Star and now The Star becomes one of my favorite singing contest along with KPN because all winners deserved to win. Gam was the one that I wished to win and of course, she became the first lady to win this competition. I watched concert every week till the final’s round…wicked.

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The Station...Sathorn@Bangrak...

I did inspect my condo yesterday for the first round and I am satisfied for its outcome. It looks all right to me or it’s because I am not too picky and demanding as I should be after all and that’s the way I am. I will ask woody to come along with me for the second round though as he will be good at it, I reckon, then he might see some flaws which I am unable to. I have bought this condo without built-in furniture and wallpaper as they look terrible to me, so I got discount for approximately 80,000 baht. What a cheap things! There are two bedrooms and one bathroom, 60 sqm with price at 3.7 million baht. This condo don’t have the best location and exterior & interior design but with my limited budget, the station is worth it with money value and location (sathorn area), indeed(600 metres away from Sapan Taksin skytrain) I’m sure that I made the right decision to buy even this condo looks like grade C to me but it doesn’t look that bad though.

I will move to my condo either in may or in june and during that period, it will be a step of decoration which I can’t just wait. Well, I already paid 420k for stuffs for my new condo which I will try not to spend more than 400k for the rest. I wish I could do it. What I’m worried about now that I will pay monthly on a mortgage which is around 23,000 baht plus 5,000 baht which will be electricity, water supply, internet, ubc and things, then I will pay monthly at 28,000 baht…It’s a lot na and what if I don’t get my contract renewed by Qantas, then I have to get a job with salary at least 40,000 baht a month. Can I find that kind of job anywhere at all? Whatever happens, happens for a reason…face it and keep myself together as every problem has a solution. Anyway, I will ask my sister and brother to help me to pay for a mortgage monthly as well but I won’t ask much…just a thousand or two thousand baht each. Is that a good idea or it’s just a selfish thought;-p These pix were downsized to fit on my blog, so pix itself dont look that sharp at all...

Habitat...

I was informed on Sunday from habitat’s staff that the shop will be closed down at the end of march…What the hell is that!!!It’s not acceptable because habitat is my most favorite shop together with Realistic Situation in bkk…Well, I was told earlier in January that habitat(Thailand)might be closed down because the shop itself doesn’t make any profit at all as people would buy things when it is on sale. I have no wonder why? Buying habitat’s stuffs in London would be cheaper at half the price than in bkk’s and some stuffs are even cheaper than that, indeed. Of course, tax and shipment fees have to be marked up on products, then it seems expensive to sell here in Bangkok. I don’t mind for small stuffs because I usually buy it from London but what about the big things, dame it!!!So I need to find my new interior decorating shop then…and my question is where!!!












What I love about habitat are design and its affordable price and I do fancy lots of things in its shop. There will be about 80%habitat products on my new condo, so I don’t need to tell u how much I’m so in love with this brand. There is another one called “Conran” which was introduced by Woody. Honestly conran’s design as a whole is more beautiful than habitat’s but with those prices, I can just buy only some stuffs from its shop. I have to behave myself in a way, though.

Well, I just got a letter from habitat saying a contract with Habitat UK will be ended and its last day of business will be on March 29, 2009. Of course, I am invited to attend a Private Sale on Thursday and Friday before a final clearance sale starting on Saturday. I will go to have a look for the last time and I will miss you very much Habitat;-(

The Movie...

I just went back from seeing The Reader and Revolutionary Road which they were quite good film, indeed. I prefer Kate’s acting in The Reader to Revolutionary Road, even her onscreen time in The Reader was lesser than another one but with her amazingly superb cold look and cold heart acting was worth to see. I’m a bit confused that her acting in The Reader being categorised for best actress in leading role instead of best actress in a supporting role??? I thought she should be categorised in the later one.

Another one actor I must say something here is Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road whom he had a WOW performance, even he was onscreen for only two times but he completely managed himself to steal a scene over Kate, Kathy and others with his mental disorder acting. I really love his pain in the ass performance very much indeed and he reminds me two of all time masterpieces in celluloid film whom they are Dame Judie Dence (a native of Dublin) and Sir Anthony Hopkins (a native of Wales). Dame Judi Dence was playing in Shakespeare in Love which her onscreen was not more than 10mins or something but her acting was so outstanding and powerful and she completely made me to believe she was a complicated, snobbish, bitchy Queen Elizabeth 1on that period. Sir Anthony Hopkins was playing in Silence of the Lamp in 1991 with his soft-spoken and scary aura in Dr. Hannibal role which he was onscreen not more than 20mins, I reckon but he blew me away with his performance.

I did see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Sunday with roen and it was also a good film. Roen had just finished reading its original screenplay and told me the movie was totally different from the original story but I don’t really care as I love the idea of an ordinary life under not so ordinary circumstances as Benjamin himself aged backwards. Brad Pitt had a superb performance in the first half of the movie when he acted old and believed me he looked so bloody old;-)but after half, he was a bit invisible in a way as Cate Blanchett’s performance was out shine on the screen to the end. At the end of the day, it just felt like seeing another American movie in a way but a good one, indeed.

I started seeing Hollywood movies since I was 13 years old with my two close friends whom they were kasit and tieang (they were my best mates at Amnual Silpa school). We went to see movies every week, indeed and saw every kind of movies…comedy, drama, thriller, action, sci-fi…etc since then. The cinemas at that period we had often been to were McKenna, Hollywood and I could not just remember other two of them which they were located on phyathai rd. where they were close to my school. After seeing any films, we always talked and criticized abt any movies we saw and I loved this part really which many times it led us to have argument and disagreement from one another with our own point of view and win-win attitude;-)

I was a bit picky bitch seeing any movies when I was in uni and nowadays I am ways too picky to see any movies, after all. I do love any movies that could touch my feeling in some ways or all the way which mostly they are a kind of either drama or drama-comedy. My all time favorite movies always touched me at the beginning of first ten minutes play, otherwise I would walk out or sit still till the end.

I would love to talk, to express, to share my point of view and to criticize abt movies with my close friends nowadays but I would rather keep that to myself as Woody who isn’t into seeing movies or reading;-( and Roen who is into rubbishly commercial movies but at least I can talk abt reading stuffs with him tho;-)...

Mom's Curry...

I just had my mom’s fish yellow curry with bamboo shoot (Gaeng Leuang) being brought by my sister from langsuan district. I did ask her to do it for me weeks ago and this was the right time regarding my day off’s period and my sister visiting bkk. It was absolutely yummy as usual but I have to ask my mom that next time she had better make a curry less spicy. Whenever I had her curry, I needed to put towel on my shoulder to wipe the sweat away every 30sec, I’m telling ya. It’s very spicy, indeed and its taste was damn great but it’s torturing myself at the same time. It’s like I am watching Billy Elliot and Pulp Fiction at the same time, darl;-)Well, at the end of the day, just imagine how my tight AH feels like after getting out of the loo;-)

I am thinking to go to visit my mom&dad very soon, probably early in april and I will ask my mom to teach me how to cook some curry and stuff. As my condo will be finished very soon and I will have my own kitchen(it will look beautiful, of course;-) and that would be abt time that I have to learn cooking for myself, can’t wait…..