NEAR DEATH!!!

Have you ever felt so terrible when the date of exam is coming? I have it right now. I took six subjects for these semester. Even though I took them less than last semester but I think this semester is harder. One of all reasons why I think I could not do so good in the exam because I am a lazy boy (I confess). I tried to read a book when I was alone. Keeping my head stand, I could not read more than two hours. I will be so sleepy or have a headache. So I need more time than another to read books. I am a slow reader. With every subjects, if I want to read to understand or remember it, I will take many hours to finish it. I am taking serious about the exam but sometimes I lost my concentration. I have just 5 days left before the exam days.

I think the subject, that will be a problem for me, is a juristic acts and contracts law, Law of Insurance and Introduction to Economic. In the juristic acts and contracts, there are lots of articles (around fifty four aritcles) that I must remember them. But I am not good at remembering either. It takes times for me to remember just one article. It like I have a measure in my head so when it full, it will stop and said "NO MORE, NO MORE. Let's play game or watch a television". I have to force myself to fight with my laziness. I am trying to fight the "Dark Side" in me.

I have many plans to do after all of my exams end such as going to the sea or somewhere and drinking beers. But the first thing, I have to do to get my rewards, is do the best I can on my exams. And then I will enjoy my long weekend.

The last and the worst day at Kol-Chon-Kai (Episode III)

It is the day I had been waiting for. It is the last day to be at Kol-chon-kai. Today is Sunday 21st January 2007. I woke up at 5.30 am. It was the latest get up for me in five days. I woke up with hope and clean body, ready to go home. Hoping today could be the best day in five days here, but it did not come out the way I wanted. Before we leave Kol-Chon-Kai, there will be a couple things to do. And the two couple things are crossing a pond with a rope bridge and jumping from a thirty feet tower. I thought I would go to jump from the tower but I did not. Here is the story why? It was about 7 a.m. I went to the pond and lined up to go on the rope bridge. There are three kinds of Rope Bridge which made by one, two, and three ropes. First, I took three ropes because I wanted play safe and did not want to fall in water. It was a little shaking but I came across safely. Then I wanted to go to the thirty feet tower, but my friends hold me and said let play that two ropes. At that moment, I had a feeling some kind of fear and I exactly did not want to play it. But all my friends (there were about ten) were going to cross the bridge how could I refuse? I could be a pussy if I negate (I should had said “NO”). So I went on with them. When I walked to the middle of the rope bridge, it started shaking so hard. The ropes were unstable and then it made six of us fell in to water. And the water was not so clean. I was the one in six people who fell into water. I felt terrible and jacked up. I thought why is this happen to me? What the fuck this I do wrong? My uniform was all wet so I needed to change back to my old uniform which were the dirtiest cloth I had ever wore. It took me thirty minutes for changing my uniform and repacked my stuffs. I thought today I would go home happily but I did not feel happy (not even close). I did not want to do anything at all after I fell into water. So I did not jump from the thirty feet tower (that’s suck!). And the bad thing did not stop coming. When we were on the bus all of my friends were out of water and I was out of water. I was so thirsty. I have never been that thirsty in my life (as I remembered). In the bus, a soldier, who was in charge, orders us not to open a window more than one inch. The weather was god damn Hot! And the bus ran very slow because a fucking accident. But he (the soldier) let us open the window just one inch how thoughtful was he? We were supposed to be at the dropping point in two and a half hours but it took us almost four hours. I was happy when I saw a big building in a big city. Yeah I am home now.
It has been fun and suck but I confirm to not going back there again.

~end~

Kol-Chon-Kai_Episode II

On Friday 19 January 2007, it was the day we had to go in a jungle and stay there for one night. I woke up at almost five in the morning. I lined up to get a gun. It was a gun that was used in the World War II (very old). I walked about five kilometer from the base to another base in the jungle. There were three small bases for training. After we had breakfast, we went to our first base where we were trained how to cover ourselves in a battle field. I covered my face with a green color like a Rambo. We were all got our faces in colors some got green like me but some got yellow or black. And we learned how to communicate by the radio. When we finished training, it was a time for lunch. Not much on lunch but I needed to eat. In the after noon, we went to another base to learn about orders and all movement that would come from our commander. We ran with a gun on a small fake battle field (there were effects of gun shot). I was so tired. Everything there were make me tired. And then about four o’clock, we had to cooked for our dinner. We had to start the fire for cooking rice, chicken, pork, and soup. It took us almost an hour to finish our dinner cooking. But it was the best meal since I was there in three days. At night we went out to see stars and learn the names of them. And we were trained how to walked and searched at night. Then it was a bed time. But before I went to sleep, a bad thing happened. I lost my toothpaste and underwear at the same time when I was brushing my teeth. I hardly sleep because it was hot that night.

After four and half hour for sleeping, here it is Saturday 20 January 2007. I had a feeling that today is going to be tough because all my friends, who had come here, told me so. We walked out from the jungle base to a fake battle filed (but it was so much bigger from the day before). When we walked, we were singing songs. I could feel the hot air coming in the morning. I got to be the attacking team in the morning that was a very good thing because in the morning is less hot than the afternoon. They separated many groups to go for attacking. My group had to wait two hours, it was very bored. We started at two kilometers from the target. We walked through a corn filed about a hundred meters. It took us thirty minutes hell to finish our attacking but it looked like an hour for me. We went up and down on the ground and run with a gun. It caused me lost of energy. I was thirsty and I had not been thirsty like this in my last two years. It was very hot and dusty. At noon, we had lunch and I drank two sodas. It was a good break today. Then in the afternoon, I had to go for defending team. There was nothing much for defending team. I was just sitting in a bucker, waiting for the attacking team to arrive. It was much hotter in the afternoon. But I got luck to be in a bucker in the afternoon. We finished at about four o’clock in the afternoon and then it was time to go back to the base. I was the first group to take a shower (it was the first thing I wanted to do then). And I had the best dinner at Kol-Chon-Kai. At night we had so kind of good bye party. One of my friends went up a stage for singing and he broke a microphone, it was awesome. I thought it was done now because I am going home tomorrow. But it did not seem to be done.

5 Days at Kol-Chon-Kai (first part)

On Wednesday 17th January 2007, it could be another day that I did not want to wake up. It was the day that I have to go to student military camp or “Kol-Chon-Kai”. I packed my stuffs all night I slept at 1 a.m. and woke up at 4.30 a.m. I had my imagination in my mind “how terrible it can be?” but today the answer was coming.
I arrived at a meeting point at 6.00 a.m. and waited for a bus to go. All I thought when the bus was leaving the meeting point (Suan-Jao-Chead) was home. I had 30 ABAC student friends go with me. It took us almost three hours to be in Karnjanaburee province. We went to the place that Thailand used to have a war with Myanmar which we call “The nine armies’ war”. We went there to listen to the history about the nine armies’ war. Then we went to the real military camp. The weather was so damn hot! As you know, Thailand has two seasons which are hot summer and very hot summer. We went to see a real field that we will have to shoot real bullets with a real M-16 on the day after. There was nothing much today. First I thought it doesn’t that bad but how could I know about another four days. I got a good tent for sleeping and the weather at night was very cool anyway it’s better than hot. The worst thing on this day could be I did not take a shower because army teachers did not let us. I think they want to save a water bill (just kidding).

Thursday 18th January 2007, it was 4.30 a.m. and it was a time to wake up. It was very cold in this morning. We departed from the base at 5.00 a.m. to a training shooting field. We had a breakfast there. My group had to wait for almost three hours before we got a shot. I shoot thirty bullets but they appeared on my target just six of them. Now you know how suck I am! When we finished shooting, we walked back to the base for lunch. In the afternoon, we went to a place where it has ten stages for us to go through, such as a ten feet wall, wood bridge and rope stair. It was fun. After that, I went on a mountain called “Kol-Chon-Kai”(or crashed chicken mountain in English). The mountain is so steep. It took me lots of energy to go up there. Its distance is two kilometer. There is an image of the Buddha and four bells at the top of the mountain. I was very tired but today we were allowed to take a shower. It was a ten minutes shower that pleased me. Nothing happened at night just sleeping, pretty tired.

The freedom of the press or speech in Thailand

Thailand is a democracy country. Thailand gives the right to all its citizens. Thailand’s constitution gives Thai people their right and their duty based on what they could do and what they could not do. In Thailand the protest is not forbidden if the protest does not disturb other people or peace.

Everyone mostly can say everything they want in public if the talk does not violate anyone’s private life. According to the big protest of those people who did not like the old prime minister, in Thailand last year, those people have rights to say about the prime minister because the prime minister is a public man. The press or newspaper can manage their own information to the public. Mostly the government does not involve in any press. However something could not be shown in the television if the government asks for it. But almost everything could be published in newspaper. Thailand gives the freedom to a mass media and people to publish or give a speech without intervention. But sometimes, the government intervenes in a mass media if some news is not proper in a situation, for instance, to keep peace in the country or prevent a riot. Some news could be prohibited by the government because it is better to be kept in silence. The government firstly must concerns about the peace in Thailand. Sometimes they have to do something to keep peaces.

Thailand gives the press and mass media the freedom to publish everything. But sometimes, the government must intervenes or prohibit in some news if the news could make a big confusion.

I am back!!!

I came back home at 7.30 pm. yesterday. After the longest camp (I think), I have ever been. I feel so glad and very happy to be home now. The military camp was very tough. The weather there was very very hot! I think you could not imagine how hot it was? I got my body all dirty and dusty. The first thing I did when I get home is taking a long shower. And then I ate a lot of food to full my stomach. I never felt so good since I went to the military camp. It can be the worst place ever for the entire boy in Thailand. I am glad for not going back there again. I can be one of my nightmares ever. There were a lots of thing happened which some of them were not good I could say why I got so unlucky? I will tell you later about my long military camp whish is actually just five days. I am so tired. Just need some sleep.

Preparing for my Military Camp

Today I went to ABAC(my university) after a short break for mid-term exams. But I do not have much time to rest because on this Wednesday I have to go to a military camp for five days. There is called "Kol Chone Kai" where is located in Karnjanaburee province. It is near the border between Thailand and Myanmar . My friends told me it is very hot(like Hell!). I have to go there to be trained so I know how it would be in a real situation (not really). I have to be very patient for five days. Everyone told me that toilets and bathrooms are not very pleasurable to use. I imagine that it could be worse than toilets in all gas stations in Vietnam (they are not close to be called a restroom). But I have to go for my country. As a citizen of Thailand, it is my duty to go there (sound powerful, don’t you think). The truth is I do not want to join the real military, you know, to be a real solider for two whole years. So I chose to be in a corps army student when I come back, I will be a back up force not the real front line solider. And I do not have anything to worry about if I finish the third year in the reserved military school. Because when I am 21 years old then I do not have to join the army force. So I can keep study and do work or get a job without breaking the law. Even though it will be just five days I do not feel like I want to go there at all. Anyway every male citizen must g o so I am a man than I will go too. Wish me luck to save my ass back this time. See you soon!