Rop's Reflections

Swam at Kaset tonight. 50 baht per person. They have five pools of various sides. Sound like a lot, but in actuality not really. The swimming students take up most of the pools. Especially after 6pm there are virtually no swimming lanes for public.

What a way to make the country look ridiculous. Protesters shut down local airports.

Yes, sure, make other people suffer. This is an unreasonable and uncivilized way to get your message across.

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Same old story in Thailand. I’m so tired of this country. People can’t think for themselves and act like sheep. They don’t know how to solve problem in peace. They don’t know how to communicate civilly. Once they choose side, the other side is always evil. Their heads got spun and brainwashed by protest mongers.

They don’t go to work, but decide it’s better to block the roads. They break down gates and destroy public properties. This morning, they took over a news station whose reports they didn’t like. Journalists had to evacuate from their offices.

This is not the way to move the country forward. Like it or not, the government came from an election. Let them work. People cannot go on the street and destroy things every damn time they don’t like the result.

This country will stay backward as long as there are idiots like these.

Thailand finished Beijing Olympics 2008 with 2 golds and 2 silvers. Congrats to the athletes.

My favorite moments in this Olympics: Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m wins. Argentina’s Mens Football Gold, Federer’s and Wawrinka’s Mens Doubles Tennis victory, and Somjit’s interview after winning Gold.

Flying can be such a pain. To travel from country A to country B, you often have to ask for a permission (visa) in advance, fill out forms, be treated like a potential criminal, and pay a ridiculous fee for that permission application unless you were born in a big, powerful country like the US. Then, you buy expensive ticket.

Then you have to go to the airport to be treated like a potential criminal again. You can’t just show your ticket and walk on the plane. You have to set aside time to go through security checkpoints, where you are told to take off your belt, wallet, watch, shoes, keys, cellphones, laptop, just to gather them and redress yourself again.

Then you wait for your flight, in a crowded airport where food is way overpriced but you are stuck and can’t do anything about it. You flight may be delayed, changed, or canceled. Then once you get on the plane, you sit in an uncomfortable seat for hours.

And after all that, there is a possibility of accident, like the terrible one that happened yesterday in Madrid. There are on average over 10 fatal plane accidents each year.

You have to deal with all that, just to move from country A to country B.

Lots of people don’t create, they just criticize. It’s the easiest job in the world to be a critic.

Nobody is perfect. Especially in this cruel world. Those who are living by strict standards and personal values can’t survive. You have to get dirty to clean a dirty bathtub.

It’s okay to criticize to make things better. But those who spend all their lives picking faults of others are wasting their and other people’s time.

Thailand still had only 1 lone medal from weightlifting from Prapawadee. Only 4 of 8 boxers still remain.

South Korea is amazing. Their medals rank 3rd or 4th right now. The country is smaller than Thailand. But they had great determination and training programs. That’s why they do so well in the Olympics, and everything else for that matter.

Watched Usain Bolt win 100m last night. 9.69s. Broke world record. A great performance by the Jamaican.

Federer also just won his Olympics gold, in DOUBLES! It’s been a rough year. Congrats to him.
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Thailand politics is pathetic. Politicians are always looking to take down the opposition. Forget talks and actions on real issues such as economy and education. The politicians are only interested in their own benefits.

The media consisted of sensationalists is also dumbing down Thai people by its biased and mindless “news.”

It is also difficult for a country to move forward when its citizens are forbidden by laws from merely speaking freely.

Just watched Redbelt, a mixed martial arts drama. I enjoyed most of the film. Strongly wished the script were tighter and the ending more believable. Handicapping a fighter is a dumb idea.

Some good acting, bad plot.