Most conclusive report: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

She was killed by gunshots or "no bullet wound has been found," as the Government claimed - Most conclusive report by Channel 4. In this report you see the gunman and how she fell into her bullet proof car.

The Kite Runner

Seen The Kite Runner today. I must admit I really enjoyed it, disturbing stories though...

Well, went for a walk yesterday then a cinema today. Now I run out of excuse for being lazy, need to be productive working on the 'mini project' for school tomorrow.

What an exciting thing to do for the New Year break, eh?!

While I'm waiting for a bus on Xmas eve

Merry Christmas everyone!

Trains booked | ปิดเทอมแล้วจ้าาา

Got my train tickets booked for my vacation. Hurray!

I can now relax a bit and ensure I finish writing up my mini project before off to Edinburgh on 12th Jan then Brussels on the 16th.

I'm sure it'll be time to get back to school (28th Jan) before long, but I won't think about it for now!

ในที่สุดก็ปิดเทอม หาทางไปเที่ยวได้แล้วด้วยค่ะ แวะไปเยี่ยมอเล็กซ์กะน้องอดัมที่เอดินเบอร์ค สก็อตแลนด์ ละเลยไปเยี่ยมเพื่อนที่บรัสเซลส์ เบลเยี่ยม ใครว่างไปเที่ยวด้วยกันได้นะคะ

มีการบ้านต้องส่งอีกเล่มนึง ต้องจัดการให้เสร็จก่อนไปเที่ยว จะได้กลับมาเรียนอย่างสบายใจ เปิดเทอมใหม่ 28 ม.ค. นี้ค่ะ

Semester 1 ended

We've come to an end of Semester 1, this weekend feels so much different from previous ones. Great that we can now rest a bit, though I still have a mini project to write up - that may take me about one week to complete then I'll take a real vacation later in January. See you in Edinburgh and Brussels.

South Park on a clear Winter day

Grandmother

I spent a lot of time with my Grandmother when I was little. She passed away over ten years ago, after that we "adopted" her sister as our ‘new’ Grandmother.

My sister emailed me the New Grandmother passed away today, aged 86. We’ll no longer have her for Christmas/New Year celebration like previous years, how sad…

วันนี้น้องเราอีเมล์บอกข่าวร้ายว่า คุณยายรินเสียแล้ว เศร้าจังเลย กลับบ้านคราวหน้า รึปีใหม่อีกที ก็ไม่มีโอกาสได้ให้คุณยายใส่หมวกปีใหม่ อย่างนี้อีกแล้ว พวกเราคิดถึงคุณยายค่ะ

Pocket Knife

Image gallery

Hm ok, this is a part of an assignment, creating image gallary of collages. So, I pulled of my stock of photographs starting from those from Thailand. Obvious that how much I miss home, isn't it?!



Chiang Mai - remembering my good old days...






Beaches and islands - no where better!

What busy students do

Yes, this is what a busy student, like me, does in the middle of stressful projects... taking pictures of trees and leaves!!

The Kilns

The Kilns, homed to CS Lewis, is now owned by CS Lewis Foundation, California.




















en route to the house...











One of old collection on the table in his common room (a kind of living room where Oxford scholars met) "Oxford University Calendar 1952"

CS Lewis Reserve - "The Chronicles of Narnia"

CS Lewis Reserve, a beautiful nature reserve 2 min walk from his house.

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

This movie perhaps has the longest title of movies I've ever seen.

I did enjoy it though, not least those beautiful scenes and interesting ways of presenting pictures.

[funny, i think!]
"I hate the yankee nation and everything they do." /a song played in the middle of the movie

It's also remarkably the first movie I've seen in the UK! So, I'm pretty "proud" of myself for managing to sneak in this free review. It did give a good break of the massive pile of homework I've got these days.

It took me over two months to make that happen, thankfully Brad Pitt didn't disappointment at all - though I did think the Coward looks cuter. haha

I must admit I do miss my weekly 120 Thai baht (less than GBP2) for two cinema tickets at home (thanks to the promotion buy 1 get 1 free of my credit card). Well, it won't be too long until I go back home anyway.

Hope it won't be too long until I make my way to a cinema again.

New software every day

Thought we've been very sarcastic, as we've been saying "We study a new software every day". Now it's Week 9 of 12, that's still held true - what a student life.

Funny thing for today was we even had to look at MatLab! Being a media technology, gotta see how image compression works 'behind the scene'. Good luck to us.

"Anything beyond failure...

... is a bonus!"

That's what I've been chanting for the week. Can't believe how much we got to finish and worse how difficult to be productive, everything takes forever to complete.

SolidWorks lecture today

Just a bit of an animation exercise during the lecture today, exploded view of your parts.

Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai 2007 - Final

Federer 6-2 6-3 6-2 Ferrer
Match played on Sun 18 Nov 07 in Shanghai, China

Thanks to ATP for being on YouTube, here's linked to the original page www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Es3ax5JKU

Art history timeline

Another commercial break off school projects... today 'we' present Art History Timeline - Pajaree reports from her student room for her own blog (yeah, how convenient!)

I do like art history and am very much interested in the subject, would like to write an article about it, hopefully some day soon...

Aside from a class we had years ago which I don't remember much by now - a bit of reminder here to myself.

Image: Visitors on a miles-long queue for a free entrance to the Louvre, top of the Eiffel Tower at the back. (Sorry it was such a boring cloudy day!) /May 2002

Here it goes the Timeline:

• 1886 - 1910: Post-Impressionism
• Late 19th century: Neoimpressionism or Pointillism
• Late 19th century: Symbolist Movement
• 1874 - 1886: Impressionism
• Mid-19th century: Realism
• Late 18th and 19th century: Romanticism
  
• England, France, Germany, United States
• Barbizon School - group of French painters, from about 1830 to 1870
• Neoclassical Art - art produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.
• Nazarenes - young German artists who formed a brotherhood in Rome in 1810 to restore Christian art to its medieval purity.
• Pre-Raphaelites - English brotherhood formed in 1848 to protest the formula-driven art of the Royal Academy
• 18th-century: Rococo Style
• Baroque
• Early Baroque (c.1590-c.1625)
• High Baroque (c.1625-c.1660)
• Late Baroque (c.1660-c.1725)
• 15th to the mid-17th century (elsewhere in Europe): The Italian Renaissance - In Italy the Renaissance emerged in the 14th century and reached its height in the 15th and 16th century.
  
• The Early Italian Renaissance
• The High Renaissance
• Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
• Northern European Renaissance Painting - the northern countries, such as Germany, the Lowlands (Flanders and the Netherlands), England, France, and Spain
• 12th-16th centuries: Gothic style - (The International Gothic style emerged by the end of the 14th century)
• 11th-12th centuries: Romanesque period
• 5th century A.D - the 15th century Medieval Art (or Art of the Middle Ages)
• From the early 3rd century Early Christian Art - Biblical figures on catacomb walls in Rome
  

Source: normajones.com

Thammasat friends

Evidently I do miss home, found an image of myself with a few close friends taken November 2005 - a stop-over at Bangkok from Chiang Mai en route for work in Cambodia.

Deadlines

Day time is short, same as short time to meet all courseworks deadlines - scary period of student life.

I try not to panic, focusing on what I can do for the moment - hope it'll be all done just fine. Wish me luck!

Winter days

Yeah, been a while since my last entry. Got a bit overwhelmed with so much to do, despite I do enjoy most of the stuff.

Being back on the blog, it's been depressive short days - the sun set at 4pm, how nice! Ggrrrrr...

I realise I don't mind UK winter days that much, as long as it doesn't rain too badly - only wish day time is longer. Can't wait for Spring.

Things to eat... yet again

Yes, and now I continue my nutrition matters... and there you go my typical lunch, well guess you don't know it's a pizza!

Today...

... it felt like a Thai day, my Sunday meals had been very Thai - lunched chicken red curry and dined broccoli stir fried.

Yes, there're also mushrooms, green beans, tomatos and the ultimate ingredient - chillis.

Bonfire

This was followed the firework display. I had no ideas why we should be watching this flame, perhaps you did! Alright then, later the morning my friend advised it was a part of 'Remembering the 5th November,' their Guy Fawkes day. More info www.bonefire.org

Oxford fireworks

Displayed at South Park, today 6.30pm.

My YouTube page

Yes, the URL is www.youtube.com/itropical - its colours does "look and feel" like my www.tropicaldiary.com now :)

"What is real?"

2 Nov 07, 3pm: Tom Shannon of Vicon presented their work at a guest lecture session titled "What is real?" at Brookes Wheatley Campus. Tom who is also currently doing a Ph.D. at Brookes was the company founder. He showed us all the cool motion capture they do for film industry, i.e., Titanic, Gladiator, etc. Aside from presenting what they've done, he also mentioned how they see this developed in the future that is producing a system that can capture motion without having to attached devices on actors/actresses.

Motion capture: Their work seemed orginally for medical purposes; for example, they captured how a boy walked in a not-normal way so that physicians provided effective surgery to help on his moves.

How they capture: Having devices on actors/actress, cameras capture movements then giving them their outfits and background.

Good news: We do have the facilities to do this in our studio provided by the company, of course. Who knows I may know how to 'master' that by the time I finish my MSc!

Vicon is the new name for the combined businesses of Vicon Motion Systems and Peak Performance Inc. Vicon is part of OMG plc, a public company trading on the London Stock Exchange.

My Static site: Pajaree at Brookes

Yet another website of mine, this new one went live yesterday after a fairly exhaustive attempt. The Static site is a part of web media module I'm doing now, it currently includes an image gallery of Sydney. Hope you enjoy.





Links to my other sites:
http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/pajaree
http://www.tropicaldiary.com

SolidWorks

Okay, Week 5 now - time to submit the Coursework 1 for computer-aided design module. Here how they look:





Basic guide












Oil pump













Idler arm

Queen's Lane, Oxford

Take a walk through New College Lane, then shot from a corner of Queen's Lane before getting out to High Street.






From New College Lane,
















walk through Queen's Lane...













... then turn right and left,








... look to the right, and take a video clip below.

"You're beautiful..."

Music video: Fed and Sharapova

Paul Kent Hall

It's been few weeks now since I arrived the UK. Life goes on same old thing, yes, catching a bus! The pic of my bus stop here, I don't like it that much as buses are always delayed and what often happen to me is being stranded freezing! Geee...

Oxford city centre

It was that nice sunny day when I first arrived, but not anymore!

Hollow Way: the neighbourhood

Here I am in Oxford. James Wolfe Road on Hollow Way, 10min bus drive to Headington and city centre.

Smaller pic looking off my window.

Landing into Heathrow

An hour before landing...

... landing now over London Heathrow airport. Soon, student life starts!

Smoggy Chiang Mai!

Poor Chiang Mai and all of us living here! It has been extremely smoggy days. I really hope my lung survives... sad.

Big problems, imagine it made my friends in Bangkok (yes pollute heaven) rang me worrying I may not be able to breath.

A square in Pisa

Lovely square, nothing massively impressive like in Milan but beautifully lovely. :)

Good old days: Bangkok landscape

Shot in 2004, the view off my balcony in Bangkok. Yes, as you may notice it's in a 'funky' quarter of Siam Square. In case you don't know: if you're cool and young, you hang out at 'centre point' there. Eligible? :)