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I went out to watch Myanmar Vs Indonesia game. Here's the goal video that I made. Enjoy!

I recently installed Fileserve Manager and thought it would be easier to download from Fileserve. Instead, it's been a nuisance. It took over as the default search engine for Firefox. The startpage was also taken. I tried my best to uninstall Fileserve Manager from my computer to little success. The program was gone but Firefox was still hijacked by Fileserve powered Yahoo search.

Luckily, I found one solution that worked from Firefox forums. If you are facing same problem, try the technique below. It might be of help to you because it worked for me.

In your firefox browser type about:config

It will ask are you sure that you are going to be careful.

Select "Yes"

In the filter bar type "fileserve"

For all of the results that it shows Right click and select "reset"

This will take your system back to normal.

It was October in last year when I went to Sripatum University to take part in Barcamp Bangkok. I was merely an observer who was just checking out how Barcamp really works; as I didn't have time to prepare something to contribute.

It was a nice experience anyway. I got to meet Myanmar Barcampers who came all the way to Bangkok to experience Barcamp. After they went back to Myanmar, they made a hugely successful Barcamp in Yangon. They are just awesome!

Here is the montage I made for Bangkok Barcamp 4. If you don't know what Barcamp Bangkok, you might get some idea after watching it.



Official website for Barcamp Bangkok is here. I recently heard Barcamp Bangkok 5 is coming. Hopefully, I'll be able to share something this time.

Last week, I experimented Facebook comments plugin on Thingyan Blog. It wasn't as straightforward as some tutorials show you how to do it. One reason is that Facebook has just rolled out a new version of comments plug-in. I tweaked here and there and got it worked finally.

From time to time, a few people would found my blog somehow and ask me about traveling in Myanmar although I don't write much about Myanmar travel. Most of them are unsure of how to get the entry visa and some want to know about places to go. Sadly, I don't have any first-hand experience traveling inside my mother land as I moved to Thailand in my late teenage years. But I do know pretty well about Myanmar travel destinations because I am making a travel plan for myself. I've always been dreaming about going back and travel inside Myanmar. Now, let me share 3 destinations in Myanmar that tourists must go.

Since my web-design skills are self-taught (books, online tutorials), I recently thought about getting a formal education in graphic design or visual communication. It could boost my credibility in my resume. I googled and found 2 decent schools.

Raffles International College offers professional diploma(1 year), advanced diploma(2 years) and Bachelor degree(3 years) programs in Graphic Design(Visual Communications). The professional diploma will set you back 150,000 Baht. I called them to get that info.

Accademia Italiana offers a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design Program. I don't know how much it costs. I think their main program is Fashion Design.

I'm quite interested in Raffles' professional diploma but classes are offered in weekdays only. That just ruined it. I can't get my diploma!

So, my fall back option is self-study. I'm gonna get Jim Krause's index series from Kinokuniya. The Designer's Ultimate Index (3-Volume Set) includes layout index, color index and type index; which will cost me 2000 Baht in total. Jim's design basic index is sold separately for 800 Baht. The cost is only 2800 Baht but I will need a lot of self-discipline.

Thanyarat "Film" Jiraphatpakorn is very well known in Thailand because of her beauty. Below is the photo of her when she was crowned Miss Tiffany in 2007.


Photo by Bangkok Post

One thing you might not know is that she is not really a woman. She is actually a transsexual! As I have been living in Thailand for years, I can certainly say that Thailand has the most beautiful transsexuals in the world. No wonder the top three impressions of Thailand are Thai hospitality, Thai food and Thai ladyboys. At least that's what the Chinese think. Take a look at the photo below.

Today, I've got a collection of nature wallpapers. And what I found was stunning green forest wallpapers. As usual, I share them here for everyone to decorate their desktop. Enjoy!

Bangkok | Dec 12, 2010 - Last Sunday, I had a chance to watch the football match between Myanmar and Thailand at the Rajamangala Stadium. It was the AFC U16 Women's Championship qualifiers. Our Myanmar girls needed only 1 point to go through since they had won the three previous matches and were group leaders. We mistakenly thought that Myanmar needed only one point or losing to Thailand without conceding no more than 7 goals because Myanmar scored 10 and conceded none prior to that game.

Myanmar girls fought hard but Thai girls won due to the fact that they are the host and the referee certainly had preference over them. Still, we thought we qualified because the score was 2-1. For the girls, they just didn't want to lose and were very saddened after the game. And we cheered up the girls just to lighten the mood.



The bad news came in the other morning. I thought Myanmar qualified but according to the news, they didn't. The AFC rule is that if 2 teams have the same points, the team with the better head to head record go through. So, Thailand qualified although their goal difference within the group were lower than Myanmar. It was very sad for the girls because they tried so hard. Anyway, we had fun and let them know we are very proud of them.

I cut the 42 minutes footage into 11 minutes and 30 secs. I hope this video reflects our girls effort and the Myanmar crowd's passion.