Mickey's blog

It is Friday and the rain has been pouring since last night. I decided that I will stay home today and get my pen (just the play of the words, I actually type my article into my laptop) back at my "Web 2.0 and the future of Thai business" article. It has been almost three weeks since I finished the fifth page of the article. Then, there were so many projects happening that it took the time out of me: project with CT Asia. Anyway, I am writing this post up because I realize how great it is to be a lecturer at Chulalongkorn. We, people in the academia, have so much freedom in term of work life. As long as you are responsible for what you are supposed to do, you can do it wherever you want (at my own house in my case). There is no need to come work at 8am and finish work at 5pm likes many many other jobs. There is neither timesheet to fill in nor a boss to watch you over your shoulder. There are only students and co-workers. In addition, you have to keep learning in order to be ...

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted, one moment Would you capture it, or just let it slip? "Lose Yourself"~Eminem

I have been involved in a project that tries to promote entrepreneurship in Thailand. The project was started by an incredible man named Mr. Chalermpom, CEO of CT Asia, Co Ltd. . His vision is to revolutionize the way people do business in Thailand. Almost all of the businesses in Thailand, according to Mr. Chalermpon, are still in 'the old world', particularly, food&beverage, retail, energy, and tourism sectors. Very few are from the intellectual property (IP) base. The project wants to make Thai people aware of the potential business in 'the new world' (whether it is in nanotechnology, biotechnology, or software). We have many great scientists and engineers in Thailand. They created many breakthrough technologies; however, they failed to use such technologies to create a sellable product in the market. We want to change it now. We want to make scientists, researchers, engineers, marketers all work together. I really believe Thai people are super smart, no less tha...

I went to Krabi for the department seminar. We stayed at Sheraton Krabi, a wonderful hotel. The seminar is on Friday (the first day) and the rest we just did all the fun stuff like snorkeling, playing tennis, sightseeing, etc. Man..it was fun but I got a bit sick afterward...(too much fun? ;P)

Despite the fact that it is the summer session here at the university, I start to feel overwhelmed by the work I have to do. Most of the work is about learning new stuff though. In term of actual work work, I only have one article to write and the due date for that is in June. I need to prepare some material for the class but that is quite minimal comparing to the new stuff that I will undergo in the near future. Here are some of the things I plan to learn when I have time: 1. Adobe Flex (what are this things? It seems to get more and more popular. I want to dig down and find out what I can do with this new technology. 2. CakePHP, a better way to create a website using this PHP framework. 3. OpenSocial -MySpace platform, Hi5 platform. This is where all the social media trend is heading in the future. Books I want to finish (currently reading) 1. The world is flat 2. Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar 3. The Tipping Point 4. Crossing the Chasm Wow, it felt great to have things in my head transla...

My first day of work went pretty smoothly. The day started with many logistics I need to learn about being a lecturer at the university. I have a shared office with, believe it or not, my old friend back in junior-high and high school. My friend graduated from this department, went to work at LEK consulting firm for 2 years, and joined the faculty of Commerce and Accountancy recently. Dr. Pasu Decharin (http://www.pasuonline.net) is my advisor who will be guiding me through this transition. He is pretty nice and very helpful. The first task that he suggested I should be working at is writing an article for Chula magazine. The topic should be related to entrepreneurial stuff. Hm...any ideas or suggestions? Dr. Pasu had arranged the 'welcoming lunch' for us, the new lecturers', (so nice of him). We had lunch and talked in many topics, some were gossips, some were serious stuff. I kinna enjoyed it. You know..it wasn't like intimidating or quite welcoming. At the end of the...

The people who came up with this PlayPump idea are just genius. A lot of people say that they can create something out of nothing. But guess what, these guys can create something^2 out of nothing. Watch the video and you will understand what I am talking about.