Opinion letter to the editor of the Bangkok Post Newspaper

Dear Editor,
More people should use the alternative fuels such as gasohol, biodiesel for their vehicles instead of petroluem fuels. Petroleum fuels or fossil fuels or conventional fuels are non-renewable resources which are removed from the Earth to provide humans with foods, cloths, houses and other things to continually upgrade the standard of living. However, there are increasing of demands for petroleum fuels due to the growth of world's population and expansion of industrial sectors, meanwhile the supply is decreasing and will be depleted in the future. It is time to reduce fossil fuels consumption to save such resources, and consequently there are many efforts to seek other energy sources. The renewable resource derived from agricultural products such as sugar can, corn, cassava and palm oil is one of the best choices suitable for our country. These agricultural products are needed to produce the various grades of the alternative fuels available in all gas stations. Moreover, the alternative fuels offer a number of benefits. One of the most distinct advantages is that alternative fuel burns a lot cleaner than normal petroluem oil, resulting to lesser environmental pollution. To replace the conventional fuels with the sustainable energy sources, people ought to use the alternative fuels for their transports.

EED
Ratchayotin BKK

Letter to Bkk Post Editor

To the Editor

I recently read your article in Sport Section dated November 27, 2011. I am writing this to express my displeasure with the way you described on Manchester United situation.

Sure, that Manchester United are not doing well as we expected, but i believe they are still in the transition time of the year. Obviously, Manchester United Fans expect them to win in every game and cup and we all know that will not happen. I think the way you just describe them is a bit offensive. I am sure that they are trying their best and have media throwing mud on them is not going to help them win any games.

Medias and fans should cooperate and be their inspirations by putting more supports on their hard works and encourage them in difference ways to win the games. The results are the prizes and finally, to make everyone happy at the end.

Sincerely,

Cathy S. (MUFC -Big Fan)

Patong Beach

In hot summer holiday, the most popular tourist destination is Patong Beach. It is famous beach in Thailand, located on Phuket's west coast. There is a clean, fine golden sandy beach and clear blue water sea with calm wave. During the daytime people can enjoy wide variety of activities here such as jet-skiing and parasailing through fresh air, swimming in cool water among sunshine, and strolling along soft sandy beach watching gorgeous scenery while sunset leaving the horizon. By night the beach has a bustling nightlife which includes hundreds of restaurants, bars and discos. Patong's nightlife never fails to attract curious tourists every evening, especially at Soi Bangla where is the heart of bar scene with neon light and deafening music. For these reasons, Patong Beach always has visitors spending their time blissfully all day and all night.

Samila Beach

Samila beach is the one of popular places in Songkhla that is in the southern part of Thailand. There is the statue of mermaid that is Songkhla's symbol. East of this statue are cat and rat sculptures. There are many benches and pavilions. Many people do a lot of activities on this beach. Some go for picnics. Some go for play kites. Some go for drawing. This beach is clean and peaceful. Therefore, locals and tourists love to go for relaxation.

The Beach

What comes to my mind when I think about the beach? For me beach is place where you can do anything that make you feel relax and forget all about this crazy and busiest world. One of the beach I like the most is in “ Maldives”.

Last summer 2010, I have got a chance to get away from work. After being on a long night flight, the plane has arrived and that was not just yet, I still needed to take a speed boat to get to the island which was about 45 minutes away from the airport. I almost went to sleep in a speedboat but the big waves and the darkness made me more exciting and dizzy while I was praying to reach the land safety. After reach the island I found myself a room and already too tired. I gave a bellboy little tip and went straight to that white soft bed without bother myself to take a shower or even brush my teeth.

I woke up at 7:00 am in the next morning and wondered if someone was trying to shake the room. I looked out the window, It was a bright sunny morning! I immediately stood up and walked out to a little balcony and looked around. I just realized that I was in the water… my bungalow was in the water! I walked down the stairs and saw tons of friendly fishes trying to say hello to me. I closed my eyes and asked myself if this was real or just my imagination. The answer was yes, it was real. I packed my essentials and got myself ready to go out. I didn’t bring a lot of "swim gear", but I did manage to find some cheap staffs from the hotel. I started to walked along the beach. It was quite and relaxing I could hear soft music in the background of the sea. I was amazed at the view of beautiful sandy beach with a clear blue sea! It was like paradise! As I found a nice spot on the beach next to the palm trees, I put my beach mat and get ready to the water. With the sun shining on me, I smiled and felt like I was living in another world. I walked towards the waves of the sea and couldn’t resist the temptations to swim in this crystal sea. I hopped into the sea to played with those friendly blacktip baby sharks, color parrot fishes and some others for hours until I got tired. I came back to the same spot at night to sleep on the hanging bed that tied between the palm trees and enjoyed looking at beautiful full Moon and stars. Well I told myself under the moon this was I wanted a simple life with nature not a luxury life with a busy world.

After 5 days of wonderful trip I had to go back work and I still missed Maldives a lot. There are many stunning shots I took from Maldives to show friends and family how beautiful it was, but I believe those photos are only be a part of your journey story to Maldives. What about the taste of the foods, the smell of fresh air, the new creatures you have discovered or even the enjoyment of taking to different people are something that you could not describe in the photos they only exist in your own memory.

Kai Bae Beach

One of the most popular places for my holiday destination is Kai Bae Beach on Ko Chang in Thailand. It is still peaceful and preserves the nature because it is unknown to tourists. It is covered with the clean finely white sand and surrounded by coconut trees. Consequently, it become the natural beatiful scenery. Just walking along the soft sandy beach is great relaxing for me . Beneath the surface of the sea, there are coral reefs in an exellent condition. I can spend time with snorkeling and scuba diving. Besides the spectacular view, the local people life is very interesting. Because most of them are the fishermen, their life is simple and depend on the nature. For example, they still live in the hut or the wooden house, and have an own fishing boat. They try to protect the area from damage, and therefore it is plenty of resources. It is my impressive experience to visit there. If you love the beach, Kai Bae Beach is the one of best choices to go.

Cozumel

White soft and smooth sand, crystal clear water, blue sky and a smell of fresh air can be touch at Cozumel, Mexico. Cozumel is a small island located in Caribbean Sea on the south of Mexico. It is the place where many cruises stop by in a day so their passengers can debark and enjoy activities at the Cozumel’s beach. Everyone enjoy spending time there. Some of them like chilling out on the white sand or on the sea surface and let the wave lull them. Some chose to go snorkeling to enjoy crystal clear water, white sane and teeny tiny little creature under the water. All the passengers had the fabulous times at Cozumel but sadly they all have to get back to the ship and go home keep good times and memories but leave this pleasant island behind as everything used to be so that everyone on earth can come and enjoy Cozumel.

Cha-am Beach

Cha-am Beach is one of popular tourist attraction. It located at Petburi provice. There has a deep magic sound of nature or a melody of ocean orchestra. There is a beautiful views for memory. For examples, the views of tidy bubbles of sea water aross the large blue sky and the green of pine leaves which is painted by the warm wind. As a result, you will get a special memory picture at Cha-am beaches. Moreover, you can do many activities such as riding a horse around the beach, eating delicious seafood with spicy sauce, walking around the beach on the little white sand, swimming in the warm sea water among the school of varity fish. Therefore, Cha-am Beach is the favorite beach of many people including me.

Hua Hin Beach

Hua Hin is one of the outstanding scenic beaches in Thailand. It is on the west coast of the Gulf of Thailand. This popular retreat offers everyone stunning view of long sandy beach and clear sea water. Also, it is such a pleasure walking along the beach hearing sea breeze rustles tall natural grow coconut trees. To be more excited, people could freely enjoy any activities such as horse riding, jet skiing, and swimming. Those are something that is well matched together with Hua Hin beach. If privacy relaxing is needed, many luxury hotels with elegant beachfronts are also available for travelers to choose. Besides, visitors could easily enjoy Hua Hin lovely local life style by hiring a motorcycle and having great impressive dinner in the local night market to indulge in food and drink which is an absolute must during the stay. All the superb beach view, variety of activities, and local life style make Hua Hin an attractive beach to go to.

My Beach

On a bright,breezy day I normally go to the beach. I don’t have the particular favorite beach I just go to the beach that doesn’t effect by the pollution much. I will sit on the fine sandy beach and listen to the sounds of the sea-tides rushing in to the shore and watch the glistening endless sea. The smell of the salt water and the scent of sunlight make me feel calm and peaceful. It’s not only you can enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the beach but also the varieties of activity you can do at the beach . You can see people chatting happily, reading some books , taking a nap ,walking along the beach or playing sports such as beach volleyball, swimming ,surfing , diving ,etc. One thing that I like about the beach is everytime I go there I feel that I was in the embrace of nature, so small and vuluable. I really like the feelings ,so sometimes when I feel sad I will close my eyes and imagine about the beautiful sandy beach and the deep blue sea.

homework on 23/10/2011

Hello

I was absent the class on 23 october(the second class) because my house was flood. I would like to ask anyone who read this blog for homework. Would you mind telling me about assigment(s)?

Thank you for your kindness

Week 2 Question

Hello Dan,

Hope you are alright.

Last Sunday (week2), we were assigned to write 1 descriptive paragraph just like page 32.

However, we need to describe a beach and make it sound interesting.

Still we need to submit in this blog within this Friday 28th ?

Look forward to your reply soon.

Regards,

Ponjan (Praw)

A Favorite Place to Relax

I feel relaxed when I am at home. First, I can throw a small party with my family members, relatives and friends. My family and I throw New Year's parties every year, we throw birthday's parties for family members and we hold dinner parties every week. Second, I can do a lot of activities I want to do: for instance, watching television, listening to the radio, surfing the internet, reading books, exercising, planting trees, playing with my dogs, Finally I can see all of my family members at home. When I face with problems I ask them for advice. We share experience everyday. For these reasons, my home is the place I want to stay for relaxing.

My favorite place to relax

In the hectic world, you need a special place to rest and relaxation. A place where you can be you, and a place where you can escape from everything and just happy to be there. It can be different for everyone but for me that place for rest and relaxation is “ My kitchen”.

Kitchen is a great place to unwind, you know what because there is food there. Eating food is one of the enjoyable things in the world. It also help your body release happy chemicals and melt away all stresses in your life especially when you successfully created a yummy dish.

Not only kitchen is great the place for relaxation because it has food. For me, kitchen can be a place of art and spiritual where you can create your imagination of cooking , practice your mind to do things in order or even feel fresh after cleaning all the dirty dishes.

Kitchen can also be a very social place where everyone in house or friends gathers for chatting and joke around. You feel connects with others as you may learn that friends and family are the most important thing in your life.

Finally, I believe that my kitchen is the most relaxing place I go. Everyone still needs a favorite place to relax. Where is yours?

My Favourite Place to relax

National park is my favourite place to relax. First, There is many beautiful places in one place such as Phu-Ka-dung National park consists of the great views of cliff to see the sunrise in the morning at Pa-Nok-An, and also can see the end of sunlight in the evening at Pa-lum-sak. Moreover, You can do many activities, for example, camping, swimming, jogging and climbing. These activities help you to excersice including entertain and relax. The most important, there is quite because I can cut off busy society in sometimes moving to the national park which is full of trees and the tidy animails. You will hear only the sound of natural. It helps me have more concentrate. As a result, I would like to go to relax at the national park when I have a free time.

My favorite place to relax

Where is your favorite place to relax? My home is the best place for me. I always feel free, warm and happy when I stay at home. Many things at here are attractive to me. Firstly, my house is located in town, but it is very peaceful. It also has a natural environment. One side is close to an empty land and the others are surrounded with a lot of trees. Consequently, it becomes shady and cool. When the wind blows as well as the sun shines through inside of the living room. I can smell fresh air, so I like to stay in this room. Eating delicious foods from my mother and lying on the soft sofa bring me relaxed and energetic. In addition, my house always keeps clean and tidy. It is very pleasant and fascinating me. Finally, staying at home is safer than going outside. I believe that everyone has ever heard a lot of bad news in each day. Those mostly happen outside, for example accident on the road, mugging, murder etc. However, I am not worried about such risks when being home. I also feel safe. Whenever I am exhausted, I can easily find happiness at home to get better. Home, a heaven on the ground for my simple life, is the perfect place for me to relax.

My favourite place to relax

Wong Tong Park is te small park in my village but it includes many convenience things for me to relaxing. It rarely to find te park near big city which has the fresh air like this because of a lot of trees, far from main road and cleaning everyday. It also has the courts for me whenever I want to join or exercise with my friends at tennis, basketball or softball courts. It looks like our meeting park. Moreover, there are small coffee shop and food shops in the park area. I always buy snacks or fire-rice in 7-11 minimart then sitting on the grass to eat them. The coffee shop is opposit the park. I sit and drink coffee in front of the shop. Many trees nearby me ,the soft air blow and listening light song in the shop make me very enjoy and relax. Not only me love this park but also my friend too.

My Favourite Place to Relax

Whenever I get too stressed, I always go to my bedroom and put my feet up. First reason why my bed room is the best for me to relax is I keep my books in my bed room. When I read a book, the book helps cooling my temper down because of its wonderful story. Moreover, my bedroom is isolated, so it is quiet in there. I like being alone when I am stressed out and not answering to anyone's question so that I can concentrate and do my important activities. Finally, my bedroom has bed and air conditioning. I can take a little nap without any interruption from noise or hot weather. There is no relaxing place I could think of but my lovely bedroom.

My favorite place to relax

There are three reasons why my home is my favorite place to relax. First, there are already everything you want at home such as food supply, entertainment things, convenient things, etc. Secondly, it's about safety. My home has good security systems and also has village security and dog. So, when you feel safe, you can relax. And my third reason is about privacy. I think when you don't have to share things or rooms with other people and have your own territory, these feeling of privacy can make you feel relax the most. It's like what people use to say " There are no place like home. "

My favorite place to relax

If I need to find a private and comfortable place with many things I can do in order to relax myself, it should be my home. The first thing is that home is a personal place. No one can see what I do in my home, so I can do whatever I would like to. Another thing is that it is comfortable being at home. There are very soft bed to lie on and sofa to take a nap. It's also convenient to use a toilet. Lastly, there are multiple choices of things to do. At my home, I can surf the internet. Then I can chat with my friends, play games or read some fun stories. In addition, I can watch TV or movies while I lie on the sofa. It seems to me that nowhere else can take my stress away like my home.

My favourite place to relax

One of my favourite places to relax is my home. First, because it is located in the suburb of Bangkok, I could stay away from any busy activities going on downtown. So, my stress from work could be wiped away as soon as I come home. Second, the perfect place in my house is my bedroom. This part faces East towards the morning sun. This makes me feel so fresh to start my day. Last, living with my beloved family surely gives me such a pure happiness. I do not have to neither worry nor be serious about how I should behave since there is no official rules. We understand each other so well. It cannot be anywhere else to make me feel calm and happy but home.

My Favorite Palce to Relax

My house is a great place for relaxing. When I feel tired or stressed, my priority is house. I stay in my house make me feel less pressured because no one can interrupt my private time at there. I feel stressed, so I have to do something that I want to do fully like watching full TV programs or doing something without interference. My method of relaxing is also getting fall asleep. I use energy the whole day. I am tired. I want to sleep in a quite bedroom with a comfortable bed in my house so that I can charge new energy. When I wake up freshly, it gives me energy to follow a new day. My house has good environment. It is quiet. It also has several plants and is not overgrown. Two tall mango trees cover my house from shining sunlight. I sometimes see squirrels walk on cables and hear the birds' sound. When I feel seriously, I see green leaves and listen to the birds' sound. They take me out of previous complicated thought and I feel more relaxed. Whenever I am stressful and tired, I go to my house in which the best place for me to take a rest.

My favorite place to relax

The park opposite my home is a relaxing place for me. Whenever I feel stressed, I can go there to calm down and feel better. I like to go there because it is quiet, beautiful and not crowded. It is relaxing because even though it is in the city centre, you can't hear any noise from the traffic. I love to go there and just listen to the birds singing. Another thing is that is it so beautiful. Seeing the green tall trees and blowing in the wind takes away my stress. I also love looking at all the animals there. In one day I can see brown squirrels, lots of different birds and even big horrible ugly lizards. Finally, it's not crowded. Sometimes when I go there, I am the only person. I love that beacuse it helps me to feel better after coping with the crowds of Bangkok.
Across from my home is really the best place for me to go whenver I feel that things are too stressful for me.