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ถึงแม้ไม่ได้เขียน blog มานานกว่า 3 ปี พอเจอถ้อยคำของ Jack Ma ในครั้งนี้แล้ว รู้สึกว่าอยากจะเก็บไว้ จึงได้ลุกขึ้น (นั่งลงเขียน) ปัดฝุ่น keyboard เก็บไว้สักหน่อย ถ้อยคำของ Jack Ma สอนมวยสหรัฐ ใน World Economic Forum 2017 - หลังจาก Donald Trump พร่ำหาเสียงว่าจะทำให้ America Great Again จะเอางานต่างๆที่จีน ญี่ปุ่น แย่ง (ขโมย) ไปกลับมาอเมริกาให้หมด จนในที่สุดได้รับเลือกตั้งเป็นประธานธิบดีของสหรัฐ (ใครจะไปเชื่อ) ครั้นได้รับเลือกตั้งแล้ว ได้เรียกหัวสมองจากคนทั้งในอเมริกา และนอกอเมริกามาพูดคุย..Mr. Jack Ma ก็เป็นหนึ่งในนั้น คนที่สัมภาษณ์ ถามถึงการพูดคุยกับ Donald Trump เป็นอย่างไร กลัวจะกระทบกับธุรกิจในจีนขนาดไหน เมื่อฟังคำตอบของเขาแล้ว ช่างเป็นการตอบที่มีชั้นเชิงยิ่งนัก สรุปสั้นๆแทนที่จะบอกว่าใครถูก ใครผิด จีนเอา (ขโมย) งานไปจริงหรอ กลับตอบด้วย ข้อมูลว่าอเมริกาวางแผนให้เป็นอย่างนี้เอง outsource งานด้านแรงงานออกจากประเทศให้หมด ส่งไปจีน อินเดีย Mexico จะเก็บเฉพาะงานมันสมองไว้ที่ประเทศ สุดท้ายได้งานชั้นสูงจริง งานชั้นต่ำไม่ทำ เตะออกนอกประเทศ เงินที่ได้ก็ล้นหลาม แต่กลับกระจ

I got a chance to visit China during the Songkran holidays. This time is my second time visiting this country, a country of 1.4 billion people! It was a short but fun trip. I got to see many interesting things, particularly the Chinese ways of living. There are many things we can learn from China. One big lesson is the language. Chinese people are proud to be Chinese and they seem not to care much about learning English. Even in the heart of the major city like Shanghai, I could not find someone who can understand me and able to give me directions. Next time, I have to do a little better. By visiting there, I got some urge to learn my ancestor's language now ;) One thing I can notice in China is its technology infrastructure, particularly, the transportation. China's metro system and intercity trains are pretty advance. Prior to my visit, I didn't realize how advance this country can become within the last 20 years. When I was young, I always heard people say the crap

I turned 30 today. Man..what a strange feeling. A decade has passed since I turned 20 back at Stanford. Yesterday, as I was waking up and laying on my bed, the only thought in my mind was 'this is the last day that I will be in my twenties. Tomorrow, I will join the thirties' club'. I once read about an old Chinese saying. It said 'at thirty, a man stands firm'. It is quite scary to think and compare my life with this saying since my ground at 30 isn't firm at all. Many questions popped up in my mind..questions like am I doing what I am supposed to be doing? Am I living my life right? such a hard question to answer :-\ I started to think of other alternatives that I could have been doing..options like working in a corporate world, taking on my family business, or super-focusing on academia and research fields. Will I be happy or more happy with those alternatives? May be I am biased but my gut feeling at the moment tell me the answer is probably 'no&#

Huihui is the name of my cat and she is the cat of the whole family as well. Huihui is our first pet (ever). I used to have little chicks, ducklings, and fish as I grew up...but I guess it didn't really count as pets since what I did was just play with them and handed them out to my grand-auntie to take care. Frankly speaking, I am not a cat person at all. Before Huihui, I always feel that cats are sneaky and insincere animals. And sincerity is a big part of my life. But one day, some time between March/April in 2012, a gray and white cat walked into our house, into our lives. This cat has a gray patch on her mouth that looks like a mustache. The first time I met her was me getting out from a car and walking into my house. She was sitting in front of the door, looking at me. My automatic reaction kicked in when I saw a random cat: "Chew chew..#feet stomp and trample!"...for all the cats that I had done this action to, they would just run away, but this one is still s

It has been a while since I celebrated and ran wild in Songkran festival. Come to think about it, it must be more than 18 years since I intensely shooting water gun and have real sore on my legs by running around. That was the time the whole family playing and the big 'villain' was my dad. What a fun memory to be reminiscent  about :) Anyways, this year..thanks to my friends Annie and Pear for inviting me out to join the Songkran festival at Central World and Silom, it was a great experience. Got to goof around with so many people (and animal)..like Central World/BTS guards, little girls on the street, both muscular and slim gays, and a couple of stray dogs along the roads. One of the things I found very useful to use during Songkran festival is my swimming goggles. When a person is in the (water) battle, the person has 2 weak spots...his eyes and his ears. Wearing these goggles reduce my weak spots by 50%!..pretty awesome, isn't it ;). And now I know who is right

Given that I haven't written anything for almost 3 months, this post might seem a bit out of place. Anyway, let say that since December last year, in addition to the responsibilities at the university, I have been working on a mobile application project, Noonswoon, with my two friends/partners, Peter and Theeranit (Amm) Pongthongmuang. It has been over 4 months with countless days, nights, and weekends spent together at LaunchPad . Despite a lot of hours putting into the project, at least for me, I have a tons of fun doing this...a tons of fun, but a tons of pressure too. Frankly speaking, this is my 8th startups project now. For my past seven projects, six failed and one has a micro successful exit. One thing I can tell you about startups experiences. Man..it sucks to fail.  Your parents start questioning you what you are doing..."remember your previous projects?", "you don't have the marketing skills", blabla and so on. :(..worst of all, you start