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I made about 80,000 Bahts (2700 USD) in 20 days with the initial investment of 220,000 Bahts. How? In the stock market of Thailand, aka, SET (Stock Exchange of Thailand). Many people had told me not to set my foot close to the Thai stock market. They were saying that, Thailand stock market was so volatile and filled with bad (and rich) people. These people made so much money by doing insider trading while leaving the innocents licking their wounds at home. But after a few days of scrutinizing the history of Thailand stock index, I came to my own conclusion that this was the time to invest. Early of this year, SET was at 850 points and now it was at 380 points. I convinced myself that it would be hard for the market to tumble any further..(don't you think? 50% should be the maximum, right?). The price of PTT ( Thailand Petroleum company ) stock used to be around 400 Bahts/stock, right now it was 140 Bahts/stock. Banpu ( Coals - Energy company ) used to be at 450 bahts, right now it ...

As promised from the previous post, I will tell more about how I gave 500 Bahts to one of the students in my entrepreneurship class. So the class was on Wednesday and it was the first lecture of the semester. There is a limit number of seats in the class, namely only 40 students can enroll. It turned out that more than 60 students showed up for the first lecture. I told myself, wow..this class was quite popular. There are two lecturers for this class, particularly, Aj. Santhaya Kittikowit and I. Aj. Santhaya is quite charming and easy-to-work with faculty at Chula (I heard there was quite hard to find this type of people at Chula..Lucky for me! :) ) The first half of the class began with Aj. Santhaya lectured about the class's logistic and the basic concepts of entrepreneurship. We have a 10 minutes break and then my show was on. The topic of my presentation is "How to become a millionaire". The term "millionaire" I defined was to earn 30 million Bahts which rou...

Now it is 1.11 am and I'm still preparing for my class tomorrow (oh it is today, actually). I think it will take another 2 hours to finish my presentation. Oh dear. This week is a tough week for me. Why? It's because I was bombarded with many classes to teach, Tuesday all the way to Friday, 5 lectures in total. The new semester just started and there were a couple make-up classes from last week (from Piyamaharaj Holiday). I don't know why I am ranting about this rather than finishing up my presentation. I guess it is a way for me to release some pressure in myself? Anyway, I gave a one-hour lecture on my (first) entrepreneurship class today. It went very well and I have quite many things to talk about..like I gave (bribe?) student for 500 Bahts at the end of the class..I don't know whether doing that is against the university's policy or not. But I was certain the whole class learn something from that 500 Bahts. Anyway, it is always "better to ask for forgiven...

since my last post. It was just hard to keep up with this information world, leave alone creating your own information. Anyways, it has been quite some time since my last lecture. I have learned many things along with my lovely and (not so) lovely students. The good thing is I can feel that I am getting better and better at teaching. I have a couple of bad lectures which I feel sorry for my students (sorry guys!). But you might wonder why I am writing this post again. Two days ago, I wanted to dig down some information that is why I came to my blog, (remember the PlayPump?). I came across my New Year (2008) Resolution, which are the following: (copy and paste) 1. Learn how to play golf 2. Learn how to play guitar 3. Learn Japanese 4. Exercise 3 times a week (tennis, swimming, weight lifting, soccer) 5. Go to Japan 6. Read one book a month 7. Start one company 8. Change my sleeping habit (go to bed by 11pm and wake up before 8.30 am) 9. Create a homepage 10. Learn web design and Dreamwe...

My dad just jumped into the blogging business. I think it is interesting to see the early-adopter of baby boomer generation in the internet era. My dad is definitely an early-adopter in internet..why? I think this one fact says a lot: He has a Facebook account 3 months ago (in March, 2008). Did it say alot? I bet it is ;). Anyways, I am just very excited to learn that my dad is starting to write a blog. His blog is at http://ranthongkhunkai.blogspot.com/ and it will be in Thai (sorry for anyone outside Thailand who wants to learn more about gold industry in Thailand. In case you really really want to learn about this stuff, I suggest you post your comment on his blog. I think he is more than happy to translate the part that you are interested to English (his English typing skill is so much better than Thai typing skill) ) The blog will be about what he has been working in the past 30 years....about Gold Business. The topic will vary like when to buy/sell gold, how to invest in gold, ...

My friend just finished migrating Meddee.com out of Thailand. It wasn't that he did not trust Thai people, but it was the fact that he has less control on the server itself. For instance, he told me that he couldn't just restart the machine when he want to. He needs to call the guy at Internetthai (the company that he hosts the site on) and ask them to restart it for him. Also, there is no way for him to know if the server is currently not functional. He moved meddee.com back to the USA, hosting it on Softlayer. I guess he makes quite a right choice. The hosting service in Thailand isn't quite reliable and also there are a lot of politics in Thailand. I don't want to blame the system, but you know what..if this site gets so popular and someone with the power wants to shut the site off like YouTube.com, what else can my friend do? The country is supposed to be a free country, but people in power here are not acting like it..so sad :(. Anyway, I told my friend that ther...

First of all, I would say something about writing a blog...it is damn hard to keep up with it! In the past couple weeks, I have been to many places like Japan and Vietnam. But guess how many blog posts I did in the past month? Zero! :(. I will try to keep this blog sync with my life even though I know that there are just a handful of people who are reading it. This post will be about Japan. I went to Japan with the group from Department of Commerce, Chulalongkorn University. There were 15 people in the group. We were in Japan from 15 - 22 May, 2008. Tokyo and Nikko were the two places that we went during this trip. I've never been to Japan before and this trip would be my first time. I was quite excited since everything I heard from Japan was always cool like automatic toilets, cheap digital camera, on-sen, etc. I really like Nikko. I felt like there was so natural, waterfall, mountains, and all the trees. It felt very relaxing. And plus, when I was there I did something that was t...