I have submitted an inquiry for each insurance I am interested.
- Axa Smart Travel - Plan I (1 - 4 days: 550 THB)
- ACE Insurance - First Class Plan (1- 4 days: 775 THB)
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Travel Insurance Survey
Although I have got the medical insurance from EuMI, they suggest me to have a travel insurance for my baggages. I have done a little survey about this, and it is not pricey. The problem is: Whether it is possible to claim the insurance in UK while I purchase the insurance here? If it is possible, which is the claim rate in GBP?
I have submitted an inquiry for each insurance I am interested.
I have submitted an inquiry for each insurance I am interested.
Where is my accommodation offer?
In the last contact with the accommodation office in a month ago, they said that the accommodation will be allocated in mid-July. This is the beginning of August, and I am nervous about it already. Yesterday, I e-mailed to check whether my offer has been issued. It turns out that the accommodation office did not receive the confirm that I have accepted the unconditional offer. GOD! I e-mailed Judith Gordon today asking for her help in this. I hope that this is not risk the chance to get the accommodation. Anyway, they already collected me 250 GBP and guarantee the accommodation, so they must be on it.
I also have no MyED login. They said that I need it to confirm the accommodation offer. I e-mailed Lynda Henderson asking for help in this yesterday. There is no response from her yet.
I also have no MyED login. They said that I need it to confirm the accommodation offer. I e-mailed Lynda Henderson asking for help in this yesterday. There is no response from her yet.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
05 August: Groggy Sunday
Groggy Sunday
Today is very confusing day. Everyone but me leaves the house, and I have to do the finishing touch on the project:A together with watching over my mom's new groceries. Things get worse with the periodical short rain which makes me hurry to collect the clotheshorse now and then. The most annoying matter is the telephone calls about land selling that my mother is a middleman. I told her thousand times to call him back, but she never call. Thus, it ends up that he make a call in every hour to bug me. The day ends when I lost my temper and go to sleep. Yes, sleeping make me forget things. It is not useful to remember it though.
Courses in Bonn
Sandeep* forwarded an e-mail about course-accommodation relativeness in Aachen. In his e-mail the student of former cohort said that the first semester, we have to take German course which held in Aachen, but for net/media-centric people, we have to do the FIT lab in Bonn. He suggest us to take some courses at Edinburgh instead of Bonn since most courses in Aachen are better. These courses are the compulsory that have to be taken in Bonn:
* Sandeep is an EuMI student in my cohort. He is in net-centric Edinburgh-Trento.
** Tanin is my friend from Thailand who also an EuMI student with almost same configuration as mine except that his main university is Aachen.
***Pom is a student in EuMI in previous cohort. He is net-centric Aachen-Edinburgh.
Today is very confusing day. Everyone but me leaves the house, and I have to do the finishing touch on the project:A together with watching over my mom's new groceries. Things get worse with the periodical short rain which makes me hurry to collect the clotheshorse now and then. The most annoying matter is the telephone calls about land selling that my mother is a middleman. I told her thousand times to call him back, but she never call. Thus, it ends up that he make a call in every hour to bug me. The day ends when I lost my temper and go to sleep. Yes, sleeping make me forget things. It is not useful to remember it though.
Courses in Bonn
Sandeep* forwarded an e-mail about course-accommodation relativeness in Aachen. In his e-mail the student of former cohort said that the first semester, we have to take German course which held in Aachen, but for net/media-centric people, we have to do the FIT lab in Bonn. He suggest us to take some courses at Edinburgh instead of Bonn since most courses in Aachen are better. These courses are the compulsory that have to be taken in Bonn:
- Bonn: Computer Graphics -> ED: Computer Graphics
- Bonn: OOSC -> ED: Software Architecture, Process and Management (SAPM)
* Sandeep is an EuMI student in my cohort. He is in net-centric Edinburgh-Trento.
** Tanin is my friend from Thailand who also an EuMI student with almost same configuration as mine except that his main university is Aachen.
***Pom is a student in EuMI in previous cohort. He is net-centric Aachen-Edinburgh.
04 August: Study skill for graduate student
A study skill workshop held by British Council today makes me realize that I have to improve some skills. It is well known that basic study skills are listening, speaking, writing, and reading. If you get 600 on TOEFL PBT or 6.5 IELTS does not means that you will not have any problem in graduate study. Many skills such as note taking, discussion in seminar, and critical thinking is not well-tested in previously mentioned tests.
Note Taking
Seminar Discussion
Critical Thinking
What UK value?
Independent, Innovative, Individual
My webcam
I bought two webcam from Pantip today. It is Oker which cost me 900 THB each. The image is fine, but the USB plug socket at the camera is quite loose. It hangs my desktop for several times. I wonder if it is the problem of my very old motherboard or the device driver because it also crash my laptop once.
Note Taking
Seminar Discussion
Critical Thinking
What UK value?
Independent, Innovative, Individual
My webcam
I bought two webcam from Pantip today. It is Oker which cost me 900 THB each. The image is fine, but the USB plug socket at the camera is quite loose. It hangs my desktop for several times. I wonder if it is the problem of my very old motherboard or the device driver because it also crash my laptop once.
Friday, August 3, 2007
03 August: Have Hep. B antibody
Blood result said that I already have Hepatitis B anitbody, so I don't have to take more 3 vaccines.
I visited TCDC (Thailand Center of Design and Creativity) and see the exhibition about automaton (The mechanical toys created from woods, not the finite-state automata, even if it has the state finite ^^). The creator of each automaton is great in both imagination and mechanical skill. Some of them is very complexed and juxtapose reality in very funny way.
There is another exhibition about design in UK. The theme said that you can earn while you do the work you love. Many design work in UK is in this way. I spent too much time in the automaton one, so I don't have enough time to see this one in detail.
Project: A is accepted by the contractor. There is minor feature improvement that have to be done. I think that I can close this project in Sunday.
It's time to start researching about professors at University of Edinburgh!
I visited TCDC (Thailand Center of Design and Creativity) and see the exhibition about automaton (The mechanical toys created from woods, not the finite-state automata, even if it has the state finite ^^). The creator of each automaton is great in both imagination and mechanical skill. Some of them is very complexed and juxtapose reality in very funny way.
There is another exhibition about design in UK. The theme said that you can earn while you do the work you love. Many design work in UK is in this way. I spent too much time in the automaton one, so I don't have enough time to see this one in detail.
Project: A is accepted by the contractor. There is minor feature improvement that have to be done. I think that I can close this project in Sunday.
It's time to start researching about professors at University of Edinburgh!
Thursday, August 2, 2007
02 August: Vaccinated
The Thai army sport club is new running venue for me. I went to farther than I usually run and find that place with calm environment, good air, not so hot, and no dogs. I will try post some of its photo when I have time.
I went to Thai Red Cross Society and vaccinated today. University of Edinburgh recommends me to be vaccinated for Meningtis C and MMR, but I further ask for more vaccination on rabies and infulenza for my own safety. Today, I took 4 needles of vaccine and one more for blood checking for Hepatitis B. Next week, I will take two or tree, depending on the Hepatitis result. And in next month, I will take the last needle for MMR. Today, it cost me 2,850 for vaccination and 450 for blood testing. More detail on this, I will write later.
During my transportation time, I read the latest volume of Harry Potter. I have go through 3 chapters now. This is the slowest read of the book in this series. I finished book 1 - 6 by spending about 2 -3 days on each book. (Maximum 3 for the last book.) But, for this book, I have another plan. I try to capture most vocabulary out of it and try to observe the writer's style. I think that this may be beneficial for my future as a graduate student in author's homeland.
I modified some Drupal module for my project: A. Although it is a good practice to develop the user interface of the module, I decided to turn to hard-coded work making watermarking module work with another image uploading module. This because I can not think of the cross-module user interface. May be, I have to write another module to connect this two? Not today, I am very exhausted and the deadline is tomorrow. Since it will turns to production environment tomorrow, if there is anyone drop by my blog, you can see the project on http://www.amornsak.com. (It's in Thai though. :) )
I went to Thai Red Cross Society and vaccinated today. University of Edinburgh recommends me to be vaccinated for Meningtis C and MMR, but I further ask for more vaccination on rabies and infulenza for my own safety. Today, I took 4 needles of vaccine and one more for blood checking for Hepatitis B. Next week, I will take two or tree, depending on the Hepatitis result. And in next month, I will take the last needle for MMR. Today, it cost me 2,850 for vaccination and 450 for blood testing. More detail on this, I will write later.
During my transportation time, I read the latest volume of Harry Potter. I have go through 3 chapters now. This is the slowest read of the book in this series. I finished book 1 - 6 by spending about 2 -3 days on each book. (Maximum 3 for the last book.) But, for this book, I have another plan. I try to capture most vocabulary out of it and try to observe the writer's style. I think that this may be beneficial for my future as a graduate student in author's homeland.
I modified some Drupal module for my project: A. Although it is a good practice to develop the user interface of the module, I decided to turn to hard-coded work making watermarking module work with another image uploading module. This because I can not think of the cross-module user interface. May be, I have to write another module to connect this two? Not today, I am very exhausted and the deadline is tomorrow. Since it will turns to production environment tomorrow, if there is anyone drop by my blog, you can see the project on http://www.amornsak.com. (It's in Thai though. :) )
01 August: Blogging Habits (beta)
I planned to blog my EuMI life at least 2 lines per day. The beginning of the month is a good day to start my blogging habits. For the summary of each day's blog, read the first line of each paragraph.
Last Friday, I got a pack of letters from University of Edinburgh. It contains documents about matriculation, international student advice, graduate student advice, and some welcome party registration form. I have read it through on last weekend and will post some useful detail here after this hectic week.
I bought a running shoe form Adidas yesterday. Super Nova control 10 numbered 9 1/2 is my shoe. After using it once in the morning, it is worthwhile for its 3,170 THB expense. (It is actually 4,170 THB, but I have turned in my old shoe to get the discount of 1,000 THB.) The photo of it can be found in my blog in Thai.
I went to the NAiST lab and had been assigned to write a paper on my work on Tree Editor. It is my effort to create the tree editor on the web platform which does not need any special program (except Firefox browser) installed. The paper will be presented on SNLP 2007 held by my laboratory, so I have 14 days from now to write it. I may not be able to present it since the conference will be held in the end of this year. However, it happen to held on my Christmas break and they provide me the expense on plane, I may come.
In the late evening, I go shopping again for an electric shaver. I always want one since I found the documentary about shaving on either Discovery Channel or National Geographic Channel. Since I can shave quickly and safer without using foam or water, it may help me to shave often. If anyone in Thai and know me, they usually found me unshaved especially in the busy week. It cost me 1,470 THB since it is a rechargeable one which I prefer since I can use the unlimited electricity in my house at EDI. It is warranted for two years, internationally. Its photo can be found in my blog in Thai.
My website project: A is goes well. In this Friday, I will submit the work and get 5,000 THB to pay my expenses.
Last Friday, I got a pack of letters from University of Edinburgh. It contains documents about matriculation, international student advice, graduate student advice, and some welcome party registration form. I have read it through on last weekend and will post some useful detail here after this hectic week.
I bought a running shoe form Adidas yesterday. Super Nova control 10 numbered 9 1/2 is my shoe. After using it once in the morning, it is worthwhile for its 3,170 THB expense. (It is actually 4,170 THB, but I have turned in my old shoe to get the discount of 1,000 THB.) The photo of it can be found in my blog in Thai.
I went to the NAiST lab and had been assigned to write a paper on my work on Tree Editor. It is my effort to create the tree editor on the web platform which does not need any special program (except Firefox browser) installed. The paper will be presented on SNLP 2007 held by my laboratory, so I have 14 days from now to write it. I may not be able to present it since the conference will be held in the end of this year. However, it happen to held on my Christmas break and they provide me the expense on plane, I may come.
In the late evening, I go shopping again for an electric shaver. I always want one since I found the documentary about shaving on either Discovery Channel or National Geographic Channel. Since I can shave quickly and safer without using foam or water, it may help me to shave often. If anyone in Thai and know me, they usually found me unshaved especially in the busy week. It cost me 1,470 THB since it is a rechargeable one which I prefer since I can use the unlimited electricity in my house at EDI. It is warranted for two years, internationally. Its photo can be found in my blog in Thai.
My website project: A is goes well. In this Friday, I will submit the work and get 5,000 THB to pay my expenses.
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