About reaching a number

I now have over 100 blogposts in here and 122 deviations at my DeviantArt profile.

The Identity of a Luk Kreung

uhm.. I mean me.

WARNING: This will be a funny (for me) post with absolutely no seriousness in it.

First: Is my face Symmetrical?

First I found a picture, in which I didn't look like a total moron (just a little bit, and even that was hard). The I Tilted it, cropped it and cut and slashed it.














And here's the result. Conclusion? I like my left side of my face best. 5555




Now, on to some other things:

My elven name (using only first name and surname): Nienna of Dorthonion (alternatively I could be Nessa of Dorthonion, Nessa Calaelen, or Nienna Calaelen, but I liked the first one best)

My Hobbit name (using same name as in elven name): Dimple Brandybuck of Buckland (alternatively, Ruby Brandybuck of Buckland, Dimple Deepdelver, and Ruby Deepdelver)

Luk Kreungs

I am what thais refer to as Luk Kreung, half child, ลูกครึ่ง, and what other people would call Eurasian or half-breed.

It is a big part of my identity, being Luk Kreung, that is. I am not a big star in Thailand, nor have I ever even lived there, but whenever I go people will notice me, look at me, point at me, talk about me, or talk to me. In Denmark most people thought I was adopted or didn't even notice that I was different. If we look aside from the few odd comments, such as "go home where you came from!", which I would question rather confused, on how people knew I was from Serritslev (the city I grew up in), or "Thai Whore - is it fun, being a Thai Whore?" (Middle School. I told my mum and someone got expelled temporarily from school).

The thing is, I wonder a lot about it. Maybe it is because I don't know my Thai roots so well that they become the subject of my obsession. Being Danish is nothing special, at least I didn't use to think so. However, after moving to London, I've noticed how things are slightly different here, and how some of it annoys me. For example, Denmark is a quite relaxed country, here everyone wears a suit, even those guys who polish your shoes in the airport. In Denmark, we don't even have people to polish our shoes, because everyone wears sneakers, and the business men (who wear sneakers in their sparetime) polish their own shoes. All the Danish guys I know, who work in suits can't wait to go home and change, whereas here the guys go straight to the clubs in their suits. They work harder, to earn more money, so they can impress girls with it a clubs. Who cares?

Someone remarked to me: "Yes, London is the right place to find yourself a rich boyfriend". It left me a little dumbfounded, as I was sure I had just spent the last 15 minutes telling him why I was in London in the first place, namely my boyfriend getting foreign transfered here... so why would I need a new one?

I guess, since I was brought up in Denmark, I have very Scandinavian values. I grew with parents who told me that money wasn't everything (my parents are in NO WAY capitalists, which used to annoy me to no end), and having a boyfriend who is true to you, values your opinions, helps with the cooking/dishwashing, and ultimately will pick up the kids in day-care is much more important.

I really believe that, but I guess it is a sidetrack to the subject of Luk Kreungs. I don't really know that many other Luk Kreungs, so I don't have much to compare with. My two cousins are Luk Kreungs as well, and we grew up pretty close to each other, so I consider them more siblings than cousins.

I remember being really annoyed that Thai people would always tell me to loose weight and go to Thailand and become a star. I guess it's the stereotyping and the fact that they considered me to heavy. Granted I'm not skinny by any means, but I think I'm pretty fine just as I am. Luk Kreung celebrities... It's not that I haven't considered how it would be like to be one, but it's just not that realistic. ;) So I'll settle for my rainy London life for now.

Okay, this is indeed a rambling. I got distracted by a good friend on messenger, music and what have you. And I'm hungry. Maybe I will record a video of how to make Som Tam later, and put it up here...

Google Hoaxes

Today while I was browsing around, I accidentially hit this wikipedia site about Google Hoaxes.

This is a list of jokes that Google have pulled through out time. I find them funny, don't you?
(I loove Google, and in genereal am a strong believer of "Google is your friend"!)

I will list a few (and it's strictly copy+paste from wiki), so to see them all go to the Wikipedia site on Google Hoaxes!

1. Google TiSP service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) was a fictitious free broadbandsewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan).

The user would drop a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)." The user would then connect their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Vista computer ("Mac and Linux support coming soon"). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, in which Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process.

The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing" of "personal bodily output" to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health. Google also referenced the cola-and-Mentos reaction in their FAQ: "If you're still experiencing problems, drop eight mints into the bowl and add a two-liter bottle of diet soda."

2. , Google Romance was announced on the main Google search page with the introduction, "Dating is a search problem on April Fool's Day 2006. Solve it with Google Romance." It pretends to offer a "Soulmate Search" to send users on a "Contextual Date". A parody of online dating, it amusingly had a link for "those who generally favor the 'throw enough stuff at the wall' approach to online dating" to Post multiple profiles with a bulk upload file, you sleaze in addition to Post your Google Romance profile. Clicking on either of these gave an error page, which explained that it was an April Fool's joke and included links to previous April Fool's Jokes for nostalgia.

3.

Google Gulp, a fictitious drink, was announced by Google in 2005. According to the company, this beverage would optimize one's use of the Google search engine by increasing the drinker's intelligence. It was claimed this boost was achieved through real-time analysis of the user's DNA and carefully tailored adjustments to neurotransmitters in the brain (a patented technology termed Auto-Drink). The drink was said to come in "4 great flavors": Glutamate Grape (glutamic acid), Sugar-Free Radical (free radicals), Beta Carroty (beta carotene), and Sero-Tonic Water (serotonin).

This hoax was likely intended as a parody of Google's invite-only email service called Gmail. Although ostensibly free, the company claimed the beverage could only be obtained by returning the cap of a Google Gulp bottle to a local grocery store: a causal loop. In the Google Gulp FAQ, Google replies to the observation "I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus?" by saying "Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing."

4.

Blogger "Google Weblogs (beta)"

The Blogger dashboard featured an announcement for Google Weblogs, or "GWeblogs," or "Gblogs," the next revolution in personal publishing. Features include algorithms putting your best content at the top of your blog (rather than publishing by reverse chronology), automatically populating your blog's sidebar with the most relevant content, posting directly into Google search results for maximum visibility, blog headers refreshed with images from Google's team of artists for anniversaries of a scientific achievement (similar to Google Doodle), and automatic content generation ('Unsure of what to post about? Just click "I'm Feeling Lucky" and we'll "take care" of the rest!')

5.

Introducing AdSense for conversations

We're happy to announce the launch of AdSense for conversations, a new type of monetization solution that "puts the 'context' in contextual advertising". Now, in just a few simple steps, you can begin displaying ads that are relevant to the topics you're discussing -- in an unobtrusive screen above your head.

Anyone taking part in the conversation can hit the ad with their hand to immediately take advantage of the product or service being offered. With our new Teleportation Technology(TM), you'll be transported directly to the site where the service is available, or have the product appear instantaneously in your hands.

Videos of the day

Scary video:



Funny videos (in thai):











I especially love the last two, and although they're old they still move me.


And a weird reply on eBay

About online reputation

Well this is about two things, really.

First:
Today I went to (ANOTHER) job interview in the city. It went well, I think. I don't come overly prepared, usually, because I believe in the philosphy that a possible employer should see the real me. I am quite confident in myself and my skills and achievements (although they haven't landed me a job yet), and I simply WILL NOT lie or pretend to be someone I'm not in order to land a position.

Okay, I do research the company and my contact persons before I go in to an interview. Today I checked up on the person who interviewed me. I had done this earlier, but not thoroughly enough, but now I have. I will not mention any names here, but I did find some concerning information. I mean, I'm just out of university and although I think I'm smart I know my own limits and that I am probably not Mensa material. However, this person had (OBVIOUSLY) entered a review of himself into Wikipedia. I've read an article (in a Danish Women's magazine, and I quickly discarded it as crazy) that you should do just that, so that you make yourself available to a google/wiki search of your possible employer. I wouldn't do that, because in all honesty I think it's a bit pretentious, and if you're "worthy" of being mentioned in Wikipedia someone else should write your review. Google I'll let speak for itself.
Anyway, this person had listed quite some remarkable details, for example a really IQ and quite a few languages that he supposedly speaks fluently. One of them was Danish. At my interview he asked me, if Goddag isn't Hello in Danish, and I can only agree, but from here to speaking Danish fluently I think there's quite a gab.

Second:
Google Pagerank

I just checked my Google Pagerank and according to it www.Thamawat.com is 2/10 and www.thamawat.blogspot.com is 3/10. I know it's not much, but last time I checked I had 1/10 on the latter and 0/10 on the first, so I guess that's quite some improvement.

Indian people throw out Children from 15 metre tower!

The citizens of Solapur in the western part of India believes that throwing their children from a 15 metre tower into a white sheet will secure the children good health. According to the supporters of the 500year-old tradition nobody has ever been hurt during the throws.

I think it looks like fun, and if you notice it, one of the girls isn't even crying after this trip. I tried it as an attraction once in Tivoli Friheden in Aarhus. Okay, granted I made a choice to do it, and I was 19 or something... but still... :) On the other hand, how do they get the right baby afterwards? I mean, they throw them, catch them, hand them to someone else. Is it a very cynic point of view to say: "Beware of the baby snatchers"?

I got the video from TV2 Nyhederne