The Zuckerberg Way of Relieving Rage

          What is with the sudden parental crackdown on what I wear?! The raised brow before I walk out the house has always haunted my only-daughter life, but now skirts and shorts that used to pass inspection are "too revealing"? WHAT WHAT WHAT? At this rate I'm going to run out of long pants! I bet this is the result of a paradigm shift in bottoms' length. What do I mean? I mean the freshman skirt that I've been wearing to classes faithfully. To be even more of a rule-stickler, I've been wearing my skirt at the stipulated length: covering calves! They're so used to not seeing my knees, I guess, that they begin to equate knees as my "privates". Two people need a reality check. 

Left: parents' expectation // Right: my day look choice from Forever21.com

I also don't think long pants will lower my risk of getting raped. Sorry.

10 Most Awesome Wikipedia Pages (Categorical)

In No Particular Order:

1. Music: Sadistic Mika Band

We've all Wikipedia-ed our names haven't we? 

2. Culture: Stereotypes of East Asians in the Western world

Bowl-cut for boys. Straight long bangs for girls. And we all do martial arts.

3. Fashion: Mullet (haircut)

"Redirected from MULLETS" - For some reason, people feel the need to type it in capital letters. 

4. Human Behavior: Awkward Silence

"When Europeans communicate with Japanese, a period of meaningful silence is sometimes misinterpreted as an awkward silence." ... *awkward silence*

5. Facial Hair: Toothbrush moustache

So relevant to life.
Note: if you search "Hitler's testicle", you'll be automatically redirected to "Adolf Hitler".

6. Websites: Wikipedia

A Wikipedia page about Wikipedia?? Genius.

7. Food: Fried egg

Hands down the cutest Wikipedia page, ever.

8. Personalities: Lord Voldemort

Lovely profile pic.

9. Movements: Troll (Internet)

"In Thai, the term 'krean' (เกรียน) has been adopted to address Internet trolls." - Wikipedia deserves respect for this.

10. Politics & Economy: Thaksinocracy & Thaksinomics

Votebuying: check. Cronyism and Nepotism: check. A double standard and biased judiciary: check. Populism: check. Conflicts of interest: check. Tax evasion: check.

Rent-seeking and extortion: check.

Blurt

10 things on my mind right now:

The flood will come. 1
Will there be any attractive single men at the Hong Kong debate tournament? 2
Can't wait an eternity for my friend to return my Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows;
am seriously considering buying ANOTHER COPY. 3

Post-flood diseases. 4
The ongoing demise of my academic well being at Nitade. 5
The mental acceptance it takes to swallow your jewelry so calmly. (watching Schindler's List) 6
The ethics of shopping for unnecessary items during desperate times. 7
How to think like Steven Levitt and write like Stephen Dubner. 8
The words noetic, zeitgeist, eugenist, and provocateur. 9
Burger King milkshakes (plural) in my stomach. 10

Wordless

The Movie About The 7-Eleven Seaweed Snack Owner

Recognize this snack?

 www.taokaenoi.co.th

          It's Tao Kae Noi! The fried seaweed snack we all see commercialized on TV, on the side of the rod maes, at BTS stations, and of course, right on the shelves of the 7-Eleven down the street. But do you know what impresses me more about the snack than its availability at 3000+ locations for a cheap price? That the owner of this Thai, multi-billion-baht snack brand was only 19 when he shook hands with the big bosses at 7-Eleven Thailand HQ. Oh and did I mention that at the time his family was 40 million baht in debt? 

          To be honest, I knew none of this before Wednesday night when I attended the pre-release (for Commarts students) of the new GTH movie, TOP SECRET: Wai Roon Pun Laan (TOP SECRET: Teenage Billionaire). The story is based on the real success of Itthipat Kulpongvanich, "Tao Kae Noi" himself. (Tao Kae Noi means Young Entrepreneur or Little Millionaire.)

          Directed by Songyos Sugmakanan, an alumni of my faculty, TOP SECRET is apparently the first biopic about a Thai entrepreneur. Hopefully, it won't be the last because I do enjoy The Social Network type movies. For a film about a convenient store snack, the scenes are uncommonly artistic. But then again, this is a GTH film. One of my favorite scenes was the turning point of the story, when Ittihipat, or "Top", in the car with his girlfriend, eating some fried seaweed she brought back from the beach, realizes he wants to start a fried seaweed business. Okay, that description sounds cheesy, but it really was visually aesthetic. 

          In a chestnut *movie allusion*: good story, true story, GTH, Top played by heartthrob (albeit with a very 'guan teen' face) from BBA Chula, fried seaweed. Go watch it. And don't forget to buy a bag of Tao Kae Noi seaweed to accommodate the viewing experience.

Left: the least guan teen of this movie's promotional posters. Oh, brother.
Additional notes: 
Top is played by Patchara "Peach" Chirathivat.
The real Top will be 27 this December

          The only warning I have to offer is that it'll make you feel like an unmotivated slob. I am not doing enough to make a living. Look at me, blogging for no money.