(Dad: it will make your life easier!)

So I picked the cheapest one sold, a simple 21 Litre LG microwave, 1890 baht.

The best thing about cheap electronic appliances is the it gets simpler when it’s cheaper.

Just followed the unpacking guide: unbox and plug it

Done! Now I have another “human invention of the century” in my room!

ps. I’m a bit surprised that the interface isn’t bilingual, although it is simple and intuitive enough

Freakin scary isn’t it?

I simply cut the eyes from the image on the right and slap it on the left, and a little bit of photoshopping

I’m revising for my midterm, and this is what I do to relax lol

And I didn’t even have to put my head in a scanner to get something scary.

Anyway, Happy Halloweeeeeeen~!

happy clown

sun’s going down

(probably the worst haiku ever)

and here’s the full version:

(translation: First time… for you to chat unlimited, just 300 baht per month. To apply dial *630, for both One-2-Call! and GSM advance http://www.ais.co.th/BlackBerry)

Well, I’ve been using all 3 Thailand’s top mobile carrier far too long, so I sort of got the idea that “chat unlimited” means “unlimited BB push” (where chat = BBM), but I wanted to find out anyway.

So I dialed *630, and the first thing that greeted me was:

AIS Package Press 1

So I pressed 1, then:

Monthly Package Press 1

wtf, no info given?

Not that surprising for me, then I hit up the ais.co.th/blackberry link on my BlackBerry to see this:

All the text is SEO crap, didn’t mentioned a thing about the promotion.

I tried with Opera Mini, but then nothing loaded up apart from BlackBerry logo and AIS logo.

So when I got home and open the page with Firefox…

HOLY CRAP!

A full Flash site! (Took down my Firefox twice lol)

It’s a big shame that they posted a new BlackBerry promotion on the BlackBerryAIS facebook fanpage,

and the link is incompatible with BlackBerry’s browser…

FAIL

I understand that they want to make a flash site to be hip and attractive, but could they at least make it BlackBerry Browser compatible?

ps. yeah, it’s “unlimited push” as I thought.

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Update: Now they’ve finished their *630 menus, now it’s bilingual. Thank you AIS, good job.

So, if you’re reading this, I guessed you’re one of those hardcore bangkokian party animals who’s looking for a place to go for more thai-styled partying (i.e. not Khao sarn), after the cops raided your regular partying venue!

Well, let me start off with the most famous Bangkokian’s after hour place (after Renovate closed down of course): Scratchdog

Scratchdog is located behind the lobby of Windsor Suites Hotel, Sukhumvit 20. Scratchdog used to be a swamp or something, but they’ve been gradually improving over the years. The place serves you with regular upper-middle class drinks (i.e. JW’s Red/Black Label, Smirnoff). The place will rock you with technos and hiphop music with some fancy laser lighting. Usually the place started to get crowded after 1am, when the RCA, Nana, and some Ekamai crowds crawl up to the place. And on a sidenote, the hotel’s noodle stand just in front of the club’s entrance is awfully delicious for a drunkard like me! Expect lots of wasted expats and 20-22 years old Thai partygoers! Scratchdog usually shuts down around 3-4 am.

Next up is Noir, located at The Emerald Hotel, on the middle of Rachada road. This place is “THE” after hour place if you love trance and house gigs! Blinding light and the good ol’ drunk “skoi” chicks will cheer you up (Skoi: vanz, a.k.a. loud motorcycle dudes’ lovers). The crowded there are usually from Rachada soi 4 and soi 8, so expect them to be around 16-18 years old, even though their ID cards said otherwise! Noir closes sometimes around 3 am, or if the cops are generous: 5-6 am.

And if you’re around Ekamai or Thonglor, you’ve probably heard of this place: Wip, it’s the only after hour place that’s pretty much like a regular club. Located at the old “Liberty” building at the far end of Thonglor (at the foot of the bridge, on your right). The place will give you a standard Thai live band, and standard hiphop. Don’t underestimate this place, it gets so wild after the Ekamai crowds from Funky Villa and Nunglen fill in, dancing on the stage or sometimes the table are pretty mandatory for this place! You’ll see a lot of 17-24 Thai party animals there. Wip closes down around 3 am, or sometimes 4-5 am.

Moreover, if you’re drunk and hungry (for food), hit up Maldives (or Mao deep – literally  deeply drunk) at the famous “Mengjai” intersection. This place is in the middle of Rachada and RCA. You’ll be enjoying the awesome pool table, foosball, and open air atmosphere there. Delicious food and ‘chill out’ music are served throughout the late night, probably around 5-6 am, the place is registered as “pub and restaurant”, so cops normally won’t raid the place until 7 am. But beware of the drug checkpoints around.

Well, the last place I’ve ever been for afterhour is Wong’s place (no, it’s not a chinese restaurant, trust me), just off Sathorn soi 1 or Ngam Dupli, the place will fill you up with relatively cheap drinks, a bit retro (’70s) decor,and GAZILLIONs of Music Videos dated back from the ’80s! You’ll see lots of expats from everywhere and Patphong there!

So that’s it for this entry, I’ve just got a fried worm and grasshopper shoved down my throat by two farang girls so I’m trying hard (seriously) not to puke.

Peace!

ps. for really after-afterhour, go have some noodle, or some breakfast at 24-hour McDonald’s or some great Khao mun kai (especially at Pratunam!)

I heard of Prezi for a while, but I was too lazy to try it out.

But then I saw Rob’s Prezi at Barcampbkk3, and I loved the zooming and rotating thing.

The best thing about Prezi is the fact that it is flash-based, therefore it works in vector manner.

Another great point is that I can avoid slide-based (i.e. Powerpoint / Keynote) presentation using Prezi.

When I started out in CMMU, I was sort of determined to use Prezi for all of my presentation.

So far, I’ve made two for two classes, the first one is for my management class:

And the second one, for my marketing class. Although this one is more ’slide-based’,

since people were not used to non-slide-based presentation, they complained a lot!

I still picked Prezi over powerpoint, because I pulled most of the video ads from YouTube,

and powerpoint doesn’t work well (or not at all) with .flv videos.

And of course, Prezi is flash-based! Prezi loves flv!

So my second Prezi is more like a fluid powerpoint slide+YouTube:

Another plus point for Prezi is the ability to export the presentation into a standalone player!

So far, the only down point for Prezi is weak text editing, I wish they will have rich text editing in the future.

Oh, and also vector files import!

4 months ago I blogged about HOBS (or now HONOBS), just had one of the regular rants of how they couldn’t get the beer and the service properly.

And just when I logged in tonight, I saw these two comments on the approving queue:

“HONOBS” – House of No Beers???????

Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion but I believe that HOBS – House of Beers has the largest selection of Beers in Thailand in one venue!

They have 34 Belgian Beers where the following 4 are Draft Beers.
- Stella Artois
- Hoegaarden
- Leffe Blonde
- Leffe Brune

Ok, they was one point where they had a shortage of Leffe Blonde due to the Brewery in Belgium but there are still loads of other alternatives and Blonde Beers available to drink.

This is the 1st Negative Blog that I have seen on HOBS and I think they are trying to make a difference in Bangkok by making more available beers for us to try.

As for the Manager, he is a local and usually looks after everyone!

HOBS – House of Beers is a great place to have great beers! No where compares!

- Chris

and 1:30 hour later, the supporting comment came:

I think HOBS is great. Everytime I go there they serving me good. Manager and the staffs is very nice and friendly to me and my friend and take care us every time. I don’t know why you have problem. Maybe you should try to go HOBS again? If HOBS is bad, why it full of customer every day??

- Pluem

And surprise surprise, both comments share the same IP address:

Well, I had some great laughs about the content, and the fact that this is still the usual defense to customer complaints around here.

They’re just making fun of themselves, oh well, maybe I should give them another try.

But for now…

GO BAMBLU!

Machinarium is an awesome flash-based point and click adventure/puzzle game.

The artwork is spectacular, well-designed puzzles, and exceptional background music.

There’s a decent length demo on the site. The full version costs $20, requires 350MB space.

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Saw this game from @fringer’s tweet, the founder of Home of the Underdogs.

and having it still semi-transparent is pure awesomeness.

You will need:

1. Windows Vista with Aero Glass enabled
2. Firefox with default theme
3. VistaGlazz (Info, Download)
4. All-Glass Firefox Extension(Info, Download)

Just install and enable everything.

* – skip item 4 for Chrome,

…

bye bye themes.

Series อันไหนที่ชอบก็โหลด 720p พวก Heroes, House, Grey’s Anatomy

แต่พอหนังเนี่ย ส่วนใหญ่ที่มีให้โหลดจะโดดจาก DVD เป็น Full HD 1080p เลย ไม่ค่อยมี 720p

แล้วเวลาดู 1080p ในคอมตัวเองเนี่ย จะช้ามาก ภาพไม่ค่อยตรงกับเสียง (เสียงมาก่อน ภาพมาหลัง)

ต้องไม่แตะคอมเลย มันจะพอดูไหว (แต่ frame rate ออกแนวต่ำ ไม่น่าจะเกิน 30)

ปกติใช้ Media Player Classic ดู แล้ว @plynoi ก็บอกว่าใช้ Windows Media Player ดูจะลื่นกว่า

มันลื่นกว่าจริงๆ แต่ก็ยังไม่ถึงกับลื่นพรวดๆ

เมื่อวานเลยนั่งดูเครื่องเล่นพวก Networked Media Tank ที่มันยัดหนัง HD เข้าไปแล้วต่อ hdmi ออกทีวีดูได้แบบลื่นๆเลย

ดู spec แล้วมันก็ไม่น่าจะชนะเครื่องเราได้ แต่ทำไมมันดูแล้วไม่กระตุก

ไปถาม @mobilebomb ว่าดีป่าว (@mobilebomb เป็นมนุษย์ HD) เขาบอกว่าถ้าจะซื้อเนี่ย ซื้อพวก HTPC (home theater PC) ที่เป็น ion box (nettop ที่เป็น intel atom + nvidia ion เช่น Acer Aspire Revo) มาใช้น่าจะดีกว่า

เราก็นึก… ion box นี่มัน spec ต่ำกว่าเครื่องเราเยอะอยู่ ทำไมมันก็ดูไหว

spec ของ acer revo: intel atom 1.6 GHz, nvidia ion

เทียบกับเครื่องที่ใช้อยู่: intel core2 duo 2.13 GHz, nvidia geforce 9800gt

ซึ่งดูยังไงก็น่าจะแรงกว่า aspire revo แน่นอน แต่ทำไมเครื่องตัวเองดู 1080p ไม่ไหว แต่ aspire revo ดูไหว

เลยถาม @mobilebomb อีกรอบ เขาบอกว่าให้ทำตาม guide นี้ มันจะทำให้ Media Player Classic ดู 1080p ได้ลื่นขึ้น เพราะจะไปดึง gpu มาช่วย (ปกติมันคงดึงแต่ cpu ล้วนๆสินะ)

ถ้าขี้เกียจอ่านก็ทำตามหน้า 4 กับ หน้า 5

สรุปว่าดีขึ้นจริงๆ ถ้าใครขี้เกียจเข้าไปอ่านก็ทำตามวิดีโออะ ง่ายดี

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