Adoption is a secret?

What I read

      From reading the article about world war II , I questioned about people or citizen who were in that time and have been affected. Then I tried to go on the internet  for more information and I found an interesting story named " The mystery of the baby in the box".

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What it says

     Peter Robin King , 74 years old man , was abandoned in a box on street when he was 10 years old and adopted by the Kings . Peter and his daughter tracked down about her father's past for reuniting the families and solving the mysteries. However the traces show Peter's ancestors and siblings , he was upset and doubt why  his biological parent decided to leave him.

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My response 

         I believe everyone deserves to know who they really are and how we can identify ourselves. Some people answered me the heredity , nation or tribe.There is no an exact answer and this might be a reason why Peter Robin spent many years discovered his biological parent. So, how does the adopted child feel to discover that adults who have raised you is not his real parent ? and is it good to tell your adopted child that they are adopted?

    Many couples who are unable to have children usually adopt a kid from orphanage hesitate to tell "Where are they from". Often parents who are reluctant to tell their youngster about the adoption because they might feel ashamed or inadequate that they could not have children of their own. Moreover, the child may be sad or angry.

     For me , adoption should not be a secret . It is good to know where you from for benefits in medical issues and it's help to build a strong bond of trust between parent and child. The adopted child may be upset at first but it's a natural reaction. It's better to create positive images of adoption

and show them that this is your family and always will be.

Racist advertisement

What I read

         I have never know how to make a blog so this is a new thing for me. After class, I read H&M stores in South Africa trashed by protesters after 'racist' ad from the guardian. I think it is interesting because the situation like this heppens again and again like they never learn from the past.

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What it says

         The angry protesters trashed H&M stores in Johannesburg, South Africa. After the H&M company's website posted a photo of a black boy wearing a green hoodie with the message "coolest monkey in the jungle" on his chest.

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My response 

           So many times we heard about protesters agaist the big company because of racist advertisement and this time it happens with H&M in South Africa. The meaning of word "monkey"  in Thai is playful or energetic but around the world it is not good meaning.  Back in the history, "monkey" used to call black people who were sold to be slaves. The masters treated them with disrespect and without human rights that made a  big wound in social until now. 
           I think this advertisement was a mistake by production team because they did not concern about sensitive content like this. So sad, many people thought a racist word is a joke but they never known how much the victims suffer from their behavior and how they get through. 
           By the way, I do not agree with what the protesters did. You can tell the world what you were displeased but you must not respond with violence. It will not make anything better and you have to get the result in anyway. What should we do? We should care people around us at least show small kindnesses without bias no matter what they are and where they are from. 
           

The Smallest Cat

What I listened to

After the class, I try to to make a blog myself, and it is nice that no problem with it. So, when I saw a story about Smallest cat in world: Footage of rare animal, I plan to share it with other classmates who interested in an cute animal, such as cats, like me. 

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What it says

In the clip, it says about the smallest cat in the world, Rusty spotted cat, that looks like a kitten in almost fully grown.It only lives in India and Sri Lanka.It weighs about just one kilogram, so people can hold it in one hand.

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My response 

I love cute animals, and when I was ten I have two kittens named Dorame and Pun. After I had read this story, it made me miss my two cute kittens because we have stayed together for one month. At that time, I lost my kittens because I have a cat allergy, and I was really sad to hear from my father that I could not live with them again. So when I saw a video about the cat that always look like a kitten, I fall in love with it.

Rusty spotted cat is such a rare cat that you can find it just in India and Sri Lanka. It is pretty small and cute, and that is why I love it. Because some normal cats look nice when they was young, but after they grow up they are not as cute as kittens, many people do not like them any more, and they are going to be stray cats which make a lot of problems.

It is true that cats are one of animals that I love, and I will never hate it. Although I love wild cats like Rusty spotted cat or lion or any kind of cats, I really hope that I will not meet them in any situations. 

Knitting not knots

What I listened to

When I was a child, around ten, I was fascinated by knitting, so when I saw the talk "How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement", it interested me. It's an unusual way to use knitting and crocheting. 

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What it says

In this TED Talk, Magda Sayeg tells us how she became an artist almost by accident as a result of knitting a door handle cover, then covers for street sign posts and eventually a bus and even larger things. Today, this "yarn bombing" has become an international phenomena, adding touches of warmth to dreary urban landscapes. 

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My response 

I really like Sayeg's description near the end where she describes knitting and crocheting as "granny hobbies". When I learned to knit and crochet, it was from my grannies and ageing aunts. In fact, it was pretty weird for a young boy to have such interests – we were supposed to play rough, do wood work, ride motor bikes and so on. I did also enjoy making things with wood and riding motor bikes dangerously, but knitting and other "women's" crafts also interested me. I almost never made anything practical, but I just loved the way a long piece of wool could be turned into something soft and pretty.

My family, especially my father, was very supportive of this rather strange hobby for a young boy, and I don't remember any of my mates at school being unpleasant about it, even when I developed a bit to the stage of crocheting lace borders for hankies. Maybe I liked it because it was something that I created, and that was satisfying, even if I didn't have the patience to knit a whole sweater.

What the speaker does not tell us is whether she creates her art by hand knitting or by machine. I hope by hand. It sort of seems a bit like cheating to use industrial-type machines to do it.

It is decades now since I've knitted anything. Maybe it would be good to get physically creative again.

Addicted to interference

Don't stink up my home!

What I read

Back home after class, my computer seems to be working fine, so I decided it would be a good idea to post at least one more example of blog post, this time practising reading and writing. In the Health section of the BBC News, I found "Most people who try one cigarette become daily smokers, study says", which interested me because I have mixed opinions about smoking, both personally and for others. 

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What it says

The main idea of the article is that smoking even one cigarette correlates with most people becoming addicted daily cigarettes smokers. The experts think this is a good reason to strengthen government controls to make it harder to sell cigarettes. 

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My response 

I am certain that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy. It also smells awful. However, smoking is also a pleasure for smokers, which is why they do it. My own personal experience is not exactly the same as that reported, but I'm sure the statistics are correct: if people try smoking even once, they are likely to continue and become addicts, which means they might suffer the serious health problems that come with smoking, such as deadly lung cancer.

But I don't agree with the proposed solutions. In a free society that respects people, you can't use the law to make bad, even stupid, decisions crimes. This is what the drug laws of many countries do, and it only wastes vast financial and human resources, but fails to stop drug use. Thailand is an obvious example. Yaa baa is illegal, but that has not reduced the use of this very popular drug, The law has, however, greatly increased corruption and made the drug problems worse, especially for young people, who are likely to also get criminal records in addition to drug problems. Another good example is when the United States made alcohol illegal between 1920 and 1933. This was great for the mafia and corrupt police. It was a disaster for society.

I think people should be educated about cigarettes, and they should be banned on publicly owned property such as streets and government hospitals, but that's all. I ban cigarettes in my home, but if people want to risk their lives in their own homes, that is their business and the law should not stop it.

Hyun's Interests

          My name is Hyunmeen Sul.
          I have currently worked as a mobile product designer in Bangkok since October of 2017. This IT work industry is very stressful and I am very stressed out on many occasions that needs me to be quick every time. Due to this, I usually like to spend my time as doing very peaceful activity.
          My first interest is listening to Jazz music. When I am listening to Jazz, I feel like walking on the moon and all my stress is relieved at the moment. In Bangkok, one of my favorite jazz places is The Bamboo Bar at Oriental Mandarin Hotel. I highly recommend this place if you would like to dip your toe in the water.
          My second interest is healthy life. Not only is getting in shape a good reason, but also I always desperate for healthy life. Due to these reasons, I try to go to a gym at least 5 days a week and cook and eat healthy food. I quit junk food since 2018 and hope I could achieve an accomplishment.

Kaimook's Interests

My name is Supitcha Worrawattanakul. My nickname is Kaimook. My hobby is playing piano. I start playing piano since I was 7 years old. I always pratice a piano when I have a freetime. I love to play piano because it makes me relax. Now, I'm interest in cooking because I love eating. My favourite food are pizza and chocolate cake. If I have a chance, I would like to learn cooking at Le Cordon Bleu.

Takas Interests

I have three interests this year
The first one is to improve my English skills better, so I want to add opportunity to study and use English in my work. 
The second one is to visit many countries near Thailand. As there are many world heritage sites and popular places for travelers in this area,  I want to visit as many place as I can. 
The third one is to maintain my health condition. I am alone in this country, so nobody can take care of me. I should be careful about balanced diet, regular excise, and enough sleeping time to avoid getting some diseises.  

New's Interests

Hi everyone! My name is Sarinya SUKCHAROEN. You can call me New! My favorite food is Thai food because it's the most delicious for me. My favorite type of music is pop, rap and EDM because it's so fun and we can dance! ;). My favorite musical instrument is saxophone and piano because their sounds are so attractive! My favorite sport is karatae because I don't have sports skills in any other sport. My favorite type of movie is about comedy because it makes us laugh a lot! and I also like the horror film, although I'm so scared and can't sleep alone, because it's fun and I wanna see my friends' face when the ghost appears lol!

Meen's interests

Long time ago, when I was young. I like to draw picture and design characters by my self. I use time to draw them for long time but in the fist time my family wanted me to get continue their company. In this time I didn't have any choice to choose my way and I must to drop my plan in my future. 15 years later, in the present. I told to my family is "I want to choose my way by my self. you don't get you way to me." and in this time I love to drawing any picture in the world.

Peter's interests

I'm interested in food, among other things. When I was very young, perhaps ten or twelve, I was keen to start cooking, and at that age, I really wanted to cook cakes, biscuits and other sweets. Boring things like real meals were not so exciting. As I got older, I continued learning to cook, and happily my mother was very indulgent. She did not like cooking, so she happy for her children to learn to cook at an early age. Some of my aunts were great cooks, and they taught my brothers, sisters and me a lot. 

After I left home for university, I ceased cooking. And these days I hardly ever cook. It is very easy to walk out and buy great food in Bangkok. There is, for example, a delicious kai yang and somtam stall in the market next to my condo, and lots of restaurants within a few minutes walk of my home.

My most long term interest is reading. I have read a lot since early primary school. Before I finished primary school, I had read everything in the small library in my country school. At high school in the nearby large city, the library had a lot more, and there was also an excellent public library in the town. These days, I still read for hours every day, but most of it is done on a screen - my computer, tablets or even my phone sometimes.

What do I read? I read history, novels, news, philosophy, economics and rubbish. Silly stuff like Dan Brown novels is great fo relaxing, but then there are also the joys of HOmer, Plato and modern philosophers.

Sorry, times up.

Tanya's interests

 My English nickname is Tanya. I'm a student at Rajamangala University.  My interests are listening to the music, reading and playing video games. Pop English music is the type that I listen during my free time. I could get really relaxed when I was doing that. It's one of the solution for releasing stress. Actually, It's helpful and works on me.

Paul s Interrest

My name is Paul.I interrst in culture.Every weekend,I spend time for walking around local market near my home,Bangkoknoi,Bangkok. I can see individual activities.For example,there are selling a local innovation,cooking a local food,painting a personel picture, and dancing a Thai song. 

Kitty's interests

I am Christina but my family and my friends called me Kitty. I will turn to 31 years old this April. I really love to reading novels and swimming in my free time and another thing is cooking but I am not a good chef. So,If you have a chance to eat my food, it is like you get a lottery. Good luck with that.

Fern, Interests

        I'm interested in learning people's life because people's life can reflect to their attitude and experience. When I spent my time on my trips in other provinces or aboard  , I feel  really excited  to learn how does people live and how do they think to things around they. Moreover, I can practice myself by trying adjusting myself to that environment and place's conditions. I usually note and take some photos about that place I've visit to keep it too. 

Best's Interests

When I was young, I always thought that I love in playing online games, but now I'm interested in reading novel, studying languages, listening to music and painting. I love to spend my spare time with all of these. so, I always paint the picture twice a week, reading novel every night, listen to music all the time and practice Chinese and English.

Top's interests

I am interested in scientific research and technology especially stem cells research for regenerative medicine. This issue sounds very exceptional since we can repair, replace and regenerate the patient-compatible organ to replace the damaged or defected organ of patient. this strategy can recover the function of lacked tissue and improve the quality of patient's life by using only one specialized cell types. apart from the working life, I am very interested to read a novel. I can read almost book styles. My most favorite book styles are novel and psychology, respectively. there are a reason behind my style since I love to study and try to understand the human thoughts, minds which are correlated with their behaviors. I does not only love to read, but I also love to listen the music in free time.

Mask's interests

Hi every one, My name is Mark. my passions is stock. I like to read stock books in my free-times and find more information about stock on the internet always. the reasons that I interested about stock because one day I would like to work's analysis stock. And of course I hope I will success in investment like my family. if I have much money from stock in the future I will travel around the world like my family. my family is my idol. and now I following family. for the favorite book is cash flow money written by Robert Kirosaki' s money is thinking. how do you think is your answer. 

Brittany's Interests

My name is Brittany. I come from China, and I have stayed in Thailand for almost four years. Now, I would like to talk about my interests. I like going shopping, going to the theater, listening music, reading books, painting. I am a business school international student,  so in my free time, I also do a part time job like introducing products to the other people. Therefore, I can put what I learned into practice. I also do translating work. 

My interests is quite broad, and they are benefit to my future success. When I was a senior high school student, I wanted to be an actor. I watched many movies, for example: Movie from Marvel company, and Disneyland, too. I watched these movies in English. It did helped me improve both my listening and speaking skills in English. What's more, I think it also improve my translating skills. 

Kampu's Interests

      I love to read novel in my free time because it helps me to relaxed and teaches a lot of things to me, such as history and people's character.The book I like the most is "I'm really a supper star".It is a comedy and romantic novel that I always feel happy when I read it.In addition, I sometimes like to do craft because I am good on doing it, and it can make a money.However, I do it just once a week because it takes a lot of time, and I do not have enough time to do it.

Tasty questions

It doesn't look like a human in pain

What I read

As I enjoyed my morning coffee, I browsed the BBC News as usual. There wasn't much that interested me since the front page was full of the same recent stories such as the US presidents filthy mouth, and even the Tech section, which I always look at, didn't have anything very exciting. But then I found the article "What's the kindest way to kill a lobster?" in the Science section. This interested me because I do enjoy lobster, and I also worry about some of the moral implications of our eating habits. 

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What it says

The article says that scientists have come to believe that their efforts to avoid bad experiences suggest that lobsters feel pain at least to some extent, even though they don't behave the same way that mammals and other animals do so that we know that cats, chickens, cows and pigs certainly feel pain when they are hit, starved, cut or otherwise tortured. The article also presents suggested ways to make lobsters unconscious before throwing them alive into a pot of boiling water. 

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My response 

Is racism a bad thing? I mean, is it OK to treat someone badly because, for example, they have black skin? How about sexism? Is it OK to say that women can't be engineers, can't drive cars and can't study English because they are ... women? I hope we agree that the answers to all of these questions is no. But then, why would it be OK to cause suffering to animals just to give humans a tasty mouthful of food? If we have to give a morally strong, relevant reason reason for treating women differently to men, for example, that women are more likely to be trusted by rape victims than men, so should be employed over men as police officers dealing with rape victims. I tried to think of a good example where skin colour, that marker of race, might be a justified reason for discriminating, but I couldn't think of one. Perhaps you can help me in a comment?

My point is that human beings seem to be prejudiced in favour of our own species in the same way that man were traditionally prejudiced against women and that white people, or whatever group had power in society, were traditionally prejudiced against people of other colours. Why, after all, would it be morally acceptable to kill and eat pigs but not people? The answer here cannot be "because humans are humans and pigs are pigs." That would like saying it's OK to treat women like silly toys owned by men because "women are women," which is no reason at all.

So, should I be enjoying lobster? And steak? And ham? And lamb?

I think the answer is that it's OK to eat meat because it's not the killing that is wrong, but the causing of pain. But I'm still worried. Since a new born baby is about as intelligent as a baby pig, and they are about equal in feeling pain, is there a good reason to treat them differently? Is there some reason I haven't thought of that justifies treating human animals differently to other animals when it comes to killing and causing pain?