Cooking a Fried Rice (Kaopad)

Kaopad is a popular Thai dish. It's easy to cook and tastes good too!
Ingredients
1. Rice
2. Onion
3. Any vegetable you like
5. Any meat you like (here I use Chicken)
6. Egg
7. Seasoning (soy sauce, salt and pepper)

Check out more cooking recipes from Spicy Thailand

Breaking News Detection and Tracking in Twitter (WI:IWI'10)

On August 30, 2010, I delivered a presentation at the International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (WI: IWI) in Toronto Canada.

Twitter has been used as one of the communication channels for spreading breaking news. We propose a method to collect, group, rank and track breaking news in Twitter. Since short length messages make similarity comparison difficult, we boost scores on proper nouns to improve the grouping results. Each group is ranked based on popularity and reliability factors. Current detection method is limited to facts part of messages. We developed an application called “Hotstream” based on the proposed method. Users can discover breaking news from the Twitter timeline. Each story is provided with the information of message originator, story development and activity chart. This provides a convenient way for people to follow breaking news and stay informed with real-time updates.

Breaking News Detection and Tracking in Twitter (WI:IW'10)

Japan's toilets are fascinating

Japan, the gadget loving nation treats you (and your ass) well in the toilet. Look at these buttons and what they can do to ensure the cleanliness before leaving the toilet. The orange button is for stopping. You need it when things get out of control. The button with w-shape and spraying water is for cleaning your thing. The one next to it is the soft mode. (For non-hardcore) The pink one is for lady. The location of water being sprayed is different. Guys get the strange feeling (perhaps kinky) when hitting that button. The last one is for air drying. Below these buttons are more buttons and LCD display. You can adjust the heating of the seat, the deodorizer, etc. You might be able to play some puzzles to kill some time there.

If you happened to be in Japan, be sure to check them out. Go try every buttons. [WARNING] If there's a button that will change a sanitary pad for you then, that's gotta' hurt a lot for guys.

Bangkok subway's prohibited items

There are so many rules in Bangkok's subway (MRT, formally). I have attached what's written as 'Restriction' in this post. And at least I broke one rule! (No photos) Anyway it's not hurting anybody, I think :) You can see that the rules are pretty strict. You cannot shopping too much. You cannot even sit! No eating and drinking illustration don't seem to match with the Thai culture. People like eating grilled pork with sticky rice more than hamburgers, I think. And the drink is often served in a plastic bag hanging to your finger comfortably using a rubber band. But the most interesting thing here is that 'no durian is allowed'. And to illustrate that well, it deserves some colours! (others don't) Now you ask, do Thai people really like to carry durian around, especially to the subway? My answer is No! They are heavy and stinks. I think they tried to warn foreigners. Coz' they like to buy exotic stuff, right?

Thai Students in Tokyo Tech

A new Facebook group for Thai students in Tokyo tech has been opened. I designed this logo :)

Thai Tokodai
The social network group for information sharing, news, events and more.
Est. June 12, 2010 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135544986458927

Thai Keyboard Layout

Recently I bought a new laptop in Japan. The problem is, I type in Thai frequently (cause I'm Thai) but I couldn't remember all the characters' locations on keyboard. I should have paid more attention when I was in the Typing class. Though, I can do touch typing in English :p I tried to Google the Thai language keyboard layout, but they all look ugly, so I made my own version of Thai keyboard layout. As you can see from the image, it is indeed a Mac keyboard.

For people who are learning Thai, feel free to use it :)