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Today, someone told me that "In the cruel world, there were a lot of bias, and it was a good opportunity to study laws because when you faced a tough situation you could say that you had laws behind you."

In this powerful country, there is no way to avoid racial discrimination. I never thought that it happened normally here, the country called itself "freedom country," by the time I faced the discrimination myself. I think I never posted the story on this blog, so…

This is the article >> How ridiculous some NYPD are!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, about bias, many people just can’t accept the differences. For instance, about language, what if you were born in a country which has its own language and live there more than 10 years without any knowledge of English. Isn’t it ordinary? The answer must be "Absolutely yes." Yet, some people think the persons who don’t know English are stupid. Do they have too much expectation? They want everybody around the world to understand what they say, but not even once try to learn how others are. It’s disgusting.

OMG!! I couldn’t stick with my topic again ;P haha

Back to the rules, in my opinion, all rules are built in order that they will be able to control humans’ behaviors and make the peaceful world. All people should respect to the rules and take them in the positive way instead of using them hurt other people or getting benefits from the weak part of laws.

However, it sounds like an ideal thought that people can be in the middle and compromise with two or more parties who have argued. That’s why rules have been created in order to protect mankind and make the societies be in peace. People, basically, have prejudice but morality helps people know what is right and what is wrong. Thus, rules are not only laws but everyday life. Let’s try to find the wills behind the laws!!

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There are so many doors people have got to pass along their lives. Does anyone agree with me that life is challenging? It’s like we have to pass the test before getting to the next level, and sometimes we get lost and go to the way that we have never expected. However, that we have no plan for the way we’re on might be a great opportunity and change.

No one knows what’s going to happen next, and the future is hidden as its nature. I can’t explain how awesome that we’re in this position. In my opinion, every obstacles is the test. If you can’t pass it, the next door is still closed. Many times, people fail and be hopeless, but luckily, we have choices to choose; for example, doing it again and again, avoiding this path and finding a new one, giving up and stay put, living in their dreams doing nothing to improve themselves, or ask for subsidization. After we pick an alternative, things change. So, that means the next doors also switch.

“No pain, no gain”

In order to succeed in something, we’ve got to do something to get it. Compare to fairy tales, leaders must be challenged by another side which is always bad side in the stories, and they will achieve after a grand fighting and being the winners. This kind of stories, by the way, is a really good way for kids to learn how life is. Anyway, I think most people use Defense Mechanism unconsciously in order not to be hurt. We never realize that we do it but learn how to use it automatically. Therefore, people who do well in Defense Mechanism will be fine in hard situations.

For me, the door in front of me is opening after I get lost for a while. I don’t know what’s behind the door yet; nevertheless, I’m sure that hard working is coming so soon. Moreover, I’m living with my family’s expectation, so I’ll do my best, be positive, and try to get rid of stress. OMG!! I’m just about to smile

My door is opening. What about yours? Did you find it?

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At first, I used Windows Media Player playing all music. But after my boyfriend got an iPod mini around 3 years ago, I started using iTunes. I didn’t care or even concerned about the differences really. However, I did prefer iTunes because of its interface. Just so you know, iTunes has a nice, neat, and organized interface. Recently, I change back to Windows Media Player because it’s faster. I’ve got to tell you that I’m still using iTunes for my iPod but if I would like to play songs from my computer, I prefer using Windows Media Player.

It’s like Windows tries to make Windows Media Player look hi-tech by using visualization, but it really doesn’t work for me. I feel like it does interrupt my feeling really, I’m not using it though. For its library, it’s just too much to categorize every little things on this window. One more thing, if I were Windows, I would release something like podcast of iPod because there are a lot of people choose iPod because of this kind of service. Anyway, Windows Media Player is much faster than iTunes.

For iTunes , I’m just about to love its interface, but there are some problems have shown up. I used to open iTunes with iBook, and it worked very well. In contrast, when I opened it with PC, it was too slow and froze so often. This kinds of problems annoyed me a lot. I don’t understand how come Apple lets them happen. I’m not quite sure if it’s because of different OS. If not, why the results are so different. Basically, many people using iPod and PC should get the same priority as people who use all Apple products.

All in all, iPod needs to use with iTunes and I have an iPod, so I have no way to leave iTunes behind. Such a great marketing plan, isn’t it? Even though I love iTunes interface crazily, I use Windows Media Player more frequently because of its comfort.

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Living a life is not easy, but living together with somebody else is much harder. People who’re from different backgrounds, interests, and lifestyle can live together. What about how they live?? Have you ever think about living with someone as roommates for a long while? Will you have any problems? Will you fight? The closer people are, the more problems they have. And it’s real.

I heard a lot of bad experiences about roommates from people surrounding me; for instance, some roommates don’t care about cleaning rooms, some of them invite their boyfriends or girlfriends to Apt. and ask their roommates to get out for a while in the rainy day, or roommates break people’s privacy. I never have a roommate before until now in NYC where the rent is so expensive. I knew my roommate for around 6 months before we moved to this Apt. Although we were not so close, I knew she was a nice person. However, when we started living together, everything was alright and we were very careful about doing things in the 2 bedrooms Apt. The problems have shown up not because she changed or I changed but it was about the differences and lack of care.

I really have no idea about all these but we start do not like what another person do. She doesn’t like mine and I also don’t like hers. We know too much about another one. I think it’s because sometime people think about only themselves and forget to watch out how others behave or feel about what they’re doing. Forgiveness is the most significant thing for this situation. Even though it’s really hard to forgive someone and avoid fighting right after he/she make you be angry, we’ve got to do it. Adjustment is another important thing for people who live together. We have to be careful not to make another person feel too uncomfortable that leads to broken relationship.

Relationship is unpredictable, but I deeply believe that everybody can live with one another. We just have to be careful, care about others’ feelings, find the balance, and be happy to have others in our lives. I don’t know what’s going to happen here. I’ll do my best anyway. *(’v')*

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How cool that people, recently, are able to watch movies at home without going out to a movie rental store!! I’m just about to love it. I don’t want to go find a movie in a store because I just don’t like doing it. But who cares? Now, I’m just home and able to watch movie instantly via or .

Let’s talk about Netflix first because it exists before Apple TV. My friend’s uncle told me about this service because we all loved watching movies. I registered about almost one year later after I moved to a new apartment and found out that it was really fantastic. I’ve paid a little money for 4-5 movies a month. Moreover, I’m able to see some movie instantly without paying any extra. The price is absolutely reasonable. Furthermore, the service is great. The mail movie was lost once and when I let them know, they sent another one immediately. I was so impressed.

About Apple TV, I have to say that I never use or even see how it works in person, but I bet I can imagine after watching their guided tour: http://www.apple.com/appletv/guidedtour/ . I think it’s pretty cool but it’s kind of expensive compared to Netflix. I don’t think it’s worth if I have to pay $229 for an Apple TV (cute) box and $2.99 per a movie or $3.99 for HD.

Eventually, I couldn’t even tell whether Apple TV is better than Netflix or not since I will not buy it at all. And surely, I’m really appreciated what I have right now.

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In a dark room, it’s not easy to play computer without hurting your eye sight. However, I love to use my computer on my bed before going to sleep, so I need something to help me take care my eyes. Finally, I’ve found it!! I bet you guys are wondering what it is. It is a small thing in small amount of money and has more powerful light than what I thought when I bought it on the internet: GoldenGadgets.com

Ta Da… Here we are. It is what I’m talking about. It’s kind of long, isn’t it? And it’s blue, the color I like. The first time I saw it I didn’t think it would be this helpful, but I found out it was in the first time I use. It’s astonishing that a small thing like this help me a lot and make me enjoy playing my computer in the dark than I used to be.

Oh… I forgot to mention that it use USB in order to get it worked. ;P

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I’ve found a lot of different feelings about dogs in the world: especially in people in different landscape, culture, and lifestyle. The thing is the expectation of dogs is not so similar.

Here, in NYC, people raise their dogs as friends. They pay big amount of money for particular food for dogs, and caring such as taking a shower in pet care center, hair cutting, and medicare. Then, they keep them in the houses to be friends and walk them for a while everyday in order to let them do their business, but people don’t let them bark.

In my hometown, Thailand, we also raise dogs as friends, but we treat them by ourselves. We bath dogs by ourselves as a nice activity together and feed them what we eat. Eventually, we have specific foods for dogs as well and we feed them in the same way that Americans do. Moreover, we have vets for taking care about dogs’ health, pet care center with bathroom, massage room, swimming pool, and dogs salon. The other difference is dogs are not just friends but house’s guard because they’ll bark when they see strangers.

If you see this kind of situation in person, I bet you’ll be surprised how different dogs are in both places. What I always keep in mind is differences are good things. How could you understand the word "exciting" if everything is the same around the world? And what if every single persons in the world are the same, what will challenge people to think apart, to develop things, to invent new technology, or else. There will be not interesting at all. Will it be the end of human beings that way?

An Americans said to me that "Americans treat their dogs so well, then their dogs have good manners (no barking)" I was wondering if he forgot about the different purpose to let dogs bark. Anyway, people can’t understand all behaviors in different cultures even though they move to and live in the place for more than 10 years. What about people who have been in some places for a while? Is it fair to judge people who are different from you in many many ways by your narrow vision?

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I do have a question in my mind which is "what will you do when you have to split 9 cents half and half?" It’s such a silly question, isn’t it? Yet, I never thought about this kind of question before I’ve faced this situation yesterday. Let’s talk about the choices.

Hmm.. Let’s start with take 4 cents immediately. In my viewpoint, this is fine because it show how nice you are, and that 1 cent is less significant than your relationship.

In contrast, what if one person is greedy enough to take 5 cents as fast as he/she can. In my opinion, it’s not such a good manner. The next question will be "How do you feel about such a person like that?"

Furthermore, the only alternative for me is let’s another person choose first. I think it’s the way to show how I respect him/her. And if he/she let me choose first, I’ll take 4 cents for sure. I won’t let this any kinds of bad feelings ruin the relationship.

Can you guess what I did? I did let her take all of them and said "it was OK, and you could take them all." Then, she took them all and didn’t say anything.

It’s so fun to learn about people from how they behave. Many times, I thought it was impossible to happen in real life, but it was surprised me that I was wrong. Maybe I believe in human beings too well to be true in every single one.

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I just got a pink Centro for a week from my lovely boyfriend as a present for Valentine’s Day. It’s so early, isn’t it? Anyway, I would love to state about the first time I saw the pink Centro and how I like it. :O

I read about releasing pink Centro about 2-3 months ago. My boyfriend and I need to buy a new cell phone in order to replace Treo 650 (It was his.) which is broken, so we wait for the pink one because I like pink color. Then, we went to the sprint store on W34 St, NY in the first week that we heard about selling pink Centro. However, there was no real pink Centro showed there. I did ask the front desk personnel to see it, but she gave me a brochure and said “it was the same as you saw in the picture.” After that, I asked about the contract from another person because we already were Sprint’s customers, and it looked like she didn’t want to answer any question at all. OMG!! How nice a Sprint customer service personnel was!! I really appreciated her help. Therefore, I got out.

When we got home, we tried to figure out by ourselves how to buy it online which was a lot easier because we didn’t have to deal with a representative in person. Finally, we brought it online with no problem at all. >> It’s like complains, isn’t it? I’m sorry, and I’ll get to the point soon. ;P

How cute the pink color is!! Can you imagine? It’s not pale but bright. And the light underneath the pink keyboard in the dark makes it even cuter. I’ve used a few model of Palm pilot before, so I think the Centro model is pretty good. Since it’s adorable, easy to carry, and fast, it becomes a beloved device. Moreover, Centro catches the Sprint signal much better than Treo 700p. I can say this because it’s so hard to use treo 700p in our apartment, but Centro has no problem about the signal. I never thought that Palm would improve this before, so it was kind of surprise. Nevertheless, what makes me extremely surprise is the size of this handheld device. Because Palm is always strict about the same old model, it never changes really. But Centro is much smaller compared to treo 650 and treo 700p

Does it sound good? I bet most women will like this pink Centro. Don’t you think about getting one for your love? ;P

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I just have the first chance to try slingbox the week before last. It’s incredible!! How good that you can watch TV everywhere? How worth that you pay your cable bill every months and have it with you all the time? Even if I have only a slingbox AV, it’s good enough for me now. I’m just about to love slingbox. Anyway, I’m thinking about the quality of slingbox pro if it’s much better than the one I have which reaches my satisfaction. I would love to try once. ;P

My lovely slingbox is small and light weight, so it fits around my computer area perfectly. Moreover, I can say that it’s pretty because of its shape and color that you’ll see in the photos.

Using slingbox is really easy. At first, you’ll have to install its program, then with double-click on the shortcut, you’re all set. It sounds too easy, isn’t it? Let’s get one, you’ll never regret.

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