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We had a very good time.Some students didn't join us.

Please come with us next time~
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HELLO:D

All friends agree to post pictures on Friday lunch^^
Sorry, Peter, is this blog just for studyig?
If you don't like it I will delete them.
We had a very good time.
Some students didn't join us. Please come with us next time~

I will picture you too.

Soojin's response to number 2 and 4, p211 of Quest

I choose number 2 and 4 .
First, I'm going to talk about number 4. As I said in class, in Korea there is an alcohol culture. This culture is similar to Chaina, but alcohol is not like a water like that. Korean would like to enjoy drinking some places like Meeting, MT(Membership Training) in university. If you watch a Korean movie, you can see a Korean alcohol and beer easily. Expecially, if the someone have a lot of stress, he or she find a beer or alcohol with their friends. In that case, they want to be drunk to relieve their sad feeling. If Korean freinds explain unhappy events like breaking with her boyfriend, failing a exam, they usually say to their friends including me, "Could you buy some beers for me?" Every begining of semester, in University some students die because they are drunk too much. Therefore, today university students try to change this culture. No more than 10 years ago, if an elder gave a glass of Korean alcohol "soju" to freshmen, the younger had to empty his or her cup. It was difficulte to refuse thier glass. Thesdays, students think that alcohol culture have a lot of problem so we have to change it. Lately, it is more easier to refuse drinking. However, it is still welcome if you can enjoy drinking in Korea.
Because of Alcohol culture in Korea, the rate of liver cancer is very high. That is a health problem in Korea.

krich's answer question #1,2

In my country the kind of illegal drug to use in people are depend on status and age. For example, Thai worker take Ya-Ba, Thai whisky and something is the price is cheap. But in case of teenagers who have money to support like to take something is more expensive. Because they think is so smart when they do something wrong and no one can catch them. That sound like show to other in the people that they have many powers to do everything that population cannot do.
There are many problems from people who take drug because it can increase many things such as crime rate, a number of addicts, and social problem. It is very hard to control someone who falls in the power of drug. There are many cases in my country; for example, the guys who fall in the power of Ya-Ba catch someone to negotiate to do something with police. Actually, he don’t want to do anything but it’s just stress of the people.

NAT's answer question 2 and 3

In my country, the use of diet drug usually results in psychological problems. After use this drug, they would have side effect, which is yoyo effect. People who suffer from this effect tend to overeat and then their weight would rapidly increase. This kind of health problem usually happens in people who want to lose their in a short time. After that, they would eat more and more drug to lose weight. Finally, they are addicted to diet drug, Moreover, people would have anxiety or panic disorder which cause social problems such as they may be afraid of communicate to other people.

I am surprised by drinking in China. According to Quest2, Chinese people usually drink alcohol with their meal. This means that they usually drink alcohol and drink alcohol instead of water. The reasons are social and physical. I thinks that drinking alcohol with this frequency would not good for health that they cliam. Personally, when I saw people who drink alcohol with their meal usually drink a lot. They don't drink for health. I used to read about drinking alcohol. It says that people should drink a little alcohol if they want to be healthy, so I am surprised that drinking with that reasons doesn't corresponse to physical health.

James on from Mexico with surprise and substance

First start with what surprise me from Mexico, I'm quite surprised by the alcohol drinking information from mexico because It says that poorer people drink more. It contrasts with Tobacco information that people in developing country smoking less than the developed countries which infer that rich people smoke more than the poor. So ,what is the difference between alcohol and tobacco? Why rich people smoke more but drink less while poor smoke less but drink moor?

Another thing is the substance that people usually use in Thailand. At this moment when i think about additive substance, right now in my head, i have an image of yellow clothes people, not monks but PAD. May be the additive substance most used now is belief though belief seems like non-substance. However, i think it will be the worst additive substance in our world if it is used in the wrong way. The war ussually occur because of some conflict in each side belief. You may have never thought about how much strong result it has on people. Only Belief can gather many people to risk their lives for it. And i think addiction to some strong belief may be more difficult to cure than other drug addiction

Yoann's answer to question 1 and 2

In my country, there are more and more young smokers in my opinion, because this "drug" is very easy to find even if it is very expensive. Moreover, a lot of teenagers smoke because they think the fashion is to smoke. I mean, they think they can be more respected if they smoke which is wrong, to my mind. They also want to refuse authority because most of the parents do not want their child to smoke so they do that, smoke, to express they refusal of authority. Another drug which is very fashionable among french teenagers is cannabis. This substance is very easy to find in my country and even if it is illegal it is not considered as a "strong drug", so young people think they can just enjoy the effects without becoming addicted which is wrong.
This consomation has several and severe effects on health, first the number of people suffering from cancer when they are about fourty years old seems to be increasing and the prediction are even worse because when you begin to smoke when you are twelve, you are more likely to dead early. Cannabis also has bad effects on consumers' health, even if they can not believe it and they do not want to believe it,they become addicted. Moreover when they are under the effects of drug they sometimes do things that lead to their death.

Pat's response to "Drug Use and Abuse Worldwide"

I choose questions 3 and 4. For Q3, I was surprised about the number of women that drink alcohol in India,because when I think of the women, their image should be like mother of the children, who takes care of the family, stay home, cooking kind like that and the men, working outside, having meeting, as the men stay more outside in the social they should drink alcohol more than women, but what I found in the box is opposite and the number in percent of women who drink alcohol is very high.
Q4. I think in Thailand we have kind wort which made from fermented sticky rice and people can produce it at home and it's been with Thai for long time, I think. So that I would say people in Thailand have been drinking alcohol since long time ago but in the past men drink alcohol more than women, I think because of the attitude, women that drink alcohol bad persons. But now women is more independent, they decide by themselves what to do so I think of women and men that drink alcohol is about the same. There are many reasons for drinking alcohol, such as drinking in the party for fun, drink for being a part of the society, drink to get rid out of the bad feeling.

Drug use and abuse

For answering question1h and 2h on page211 in Quest2, I think alcohol is the most popularly used in my culture because it's easy to buy it and its price doesn't expensive. In my opinion, people like to drink alcohol in order to reduce stress, feel more relaxed and less anxious from their studying or working. Some of them maybe think that alcohol can make them feel good and also forget problems when they get drunk. Perhaps some like the taste of alcohol as welll. Actually, I think the most important reason that people in my country like alcohol is sociability. For example, most of them maybe don't like alcohol, but they have to drink it in order to join the party with their friends or colleagues. Accordingly to health problems of using drug, there are many problems as a result of drug use in my country such as unconsciousness, difficulty breathing, dangerously low blood sugar and even death. In case of drinking alcohol, it may lead to brain problem like an intoxication. People who drink a lot are most likely to be overweight and have high blood pressure. And if they continue drinking, they may take the risk of damaging their organs such as the liver and heart and probably to get cancer as well.

Discussion about using drug in Thailand.

I'm going to talk in the first topic in Quest2 pages211
Many adicts in Thailand often use glue because it's cheap and it can find very easy. Even though many people, especially teenager, know about disadvantages of glue, they still inhale the glue because many teenager in Thailand have many family problems. Finally, they decide to inhale glue in order to help them to forget any problems, another point they may be induced by thier friends so that it shows that they seem like hero.

What noom reads?

When I was young, I found many interesting book but I rarely buy it because I realize that I never end it. At that time, my interesting books are about psychology or how to increase my IQ. I want to be smart so I read many book about brain function and I also do many test to check my IQ. I have to say that I was smart before. I used to get a high score for the test but now my brain is slower, it’s hardly to think or remember things. I always think that because I getting older and my routine work and I have less activity therefore, I decide to stop working and plan to study more to make my brain alert. Reading a book can help us gain a lot of knowledge. At home I have a lot of book, it usually about law because I studied law. I always update my book. I have to set a room in order to collect my books. I started to spend a lot of money to books when I studied in law school, at that moment I feel it worthy to spent money for it. I started to read many kind of book however, I rarely finished it. The book that I finished it must be a really interesting book for me. Anyway, I always go to book store. Almost everyday I have to check at book store to find something interesting for read. My interesting always changes from time to time for example; sometime I interest Buddhism, sometime travel or novel. That’s why I have many kind of book. I like to compare for each book.

What Kookai reads?

I have liked reading since I was young. I like to read many kinds of books such as cosmic, novel,magazine and newspaper. I usally read a newspaper everyday which I like to read Bangkok Post newspaper now. In Bangkok Post, I find a lot of interesting columns such as entertainment, opinion, business, outlook and so on. When I open it, I will read entertainment column the first because I need to update about movies. I like to watch movies whenever I have free time, so I can update new movies here. Nevertheless, I also like to read novels such as Harry Potter, Princess Diary, The nancy, Sophie Kinsella's novels and so on. It is not surprise why I like reading because whenever I go to book stores, I do not miss to buy books. Therefore, I will take more time here in order to buy books. I have a lot of books which they are like a small library in my house. Surely, I still do not read some of them because I have not free time. Anyway, I will read them immediately whenever I have free time. Absolutely, I will not miss them!!!

What did James read

I also like to read if i have to time. My preference is very broad from novel, business related book to applied Buddhist book. Since i took AEP class, i don't have much time to finished any new books. However, i try to read news in website everyday. the book i finished lately is a speech of buddhadassa pikku about the harmony of Christian and Buddhist's teaching in each religion canon. In Buddhadass view, those two believes are very quite similar if you infer the meaning from Bible instead of interprete word by word. Even, the distintive characteristics of buddhism , usually thought as the unique only in Buddhism such as non-self, can also be infered from Bibel. Also, the story in Genesis, which people in current period believe that it is nothing but just a fairly tales, can infer to the complicate Buddhist dharmma. However, because i've never read Bible more than one page ,i'm not sure that the christian people shall agree with this Buddhadassa's opinion.

What's BALL read?

When I have free time, I usually read books. I like to read many kind of books such as science, history, sports, and fashion. I prefer to read the history while I have free time. For example, I often read about the ancient chinese, especially silk road. "Silk road" it means the path of ancient chinese, local poeple near the road and european people to use in traveling between Asia and Europe. And chinese poeple usually use silk instead of gold to excahnge the products and were able to pay the taxes in china. Silks were very popular in china and Roman too!. Silks which were imported from china to sell in Roman were very expensive. Likewise, the value of it was at the salary of soilder in Roman use all year!

What Pat reads.

Actually, I love books and I like reading, almost anykind of books but except text books or books that I have to read for studying, I don't really enjoy reading them but I have to. My fevourite kind of books, nuber one is, the biligual poem books. This kind of books are mostly in the size of pocket book, not too big so you can carry it with you anywhere and it usually writes about love, encourage, feeling. So when I read it I thnik like it is true oe not what in the book says, and it quite easy to undertand because it about the ehings that near you, I can also learn English vocabulary from these book, without look for the meaning in dictionary because the translation is right there, on the other site of every pages.

What Yoann reads

I usually read several types of books or magazines and I will try to explain what they are. Firstly, I like reading in English I don't read anymore in French because reading in English helps you to improve your skills and it is the best way to learn a foreign language, trying to understand some word in their context and learning some idiomatic expressions. Secondly, I often read magazine and especially magazines about football or planes which are my hobbies. Thirdly, when I read a book, it is often a stephen King's book , because I like his way of writing and when I read him, I find it difficult to stop reading because there is a lot of suspens and I'm fond of it. I also like reading thrillers for the same reason, suspens is important for me to enjoy a book. Finally I also like reading French poems which I find very good.I like reading that kind of books because it calls your imagination and it makes you think and reflect, it permit you to escape, for a while, from reality.

What Tuk Reads: Life's Compass

The latest book that I've read is Life's Compass (It's a thai book so I translate it's title into English). This book may seem to be the ordinary dhama book, but it isn't. In my point of view, the most interesting thing in this book is the writer, Thitinart Na-Pattalung. She graduated the master degree from London university in business major at the age of 20. By 25, She had her own company and it was going very well. Unfortunately, when she turned 27 her husband died and left one little daughter and deft whih was almost one hundred million bath with her. She had no idea how to deal with it. This story sounds like tredgidy. However, within 5 years she can clear th

Voting is not fair

Last week, I have read about voting. Kennth J. Arrow, an economist, says that there is no voting system is perfect. He gives the reasons that voting is fair when we are all three condition. One is non-dictaatorships. It means no one can force you to vote. Another is pareto efficiency, this means if people in society are all agree with some alternatives, that alternatives will become a social perferrence. The third is that voting has to be independent of irrelavant alternatives. Kennth mathematically shows that the dictator exists when we have more that three choices to vote. If we have more than three choices, whatever voting methods we use are not fair. This topic interests me because I usually thinks voting is the best way to find the best agreement.

What krich reads

Nowadays, I have to read some book, which concern about engineering knowledge, because I have to take the test for my engineering license. It’s so easy when I just graduate from university but now it’s quite hard because I change my gold to study aboard. I focus on English. I forgot mostly knowledge about engineer such as shear force diagram, bending moment diagram. I’m not sure that I can pass the exam. However my senior said it’s quite easy. It’s like a real work so easier than subject in university, but I still worry. Since I finished university I didn’t work. I just came to Bangkok and try to study English. I can say that today I have a English book more than engineering book. That’s sound a bit odd for my friend and my family when I told them. Moreover, I read English magazine.

What Sweet Reads

When Peter assigned me to write what I read, I 'm not clear what exactly he would like me to do. Threrfore, I will write about newspaper because I always read newspaper almost everyday, unfortunately,it's a Thai newspaper not like a Bangkok Post or something like that.Whenever I read it, I read almost all of the articles, but I usually pay a lot attention to the topic about entertainment. Nowadays, I think that I try to read an international newspaper more than the past because it can make me practice my English skill, but I have not too much time to read it everyday. In my opinion, reading newspaper either That or international newspaper is very useful for every people....

What Soojin reads

Lately, I have read two books, Introduction of economy and Word power made easy. Actually, I was not interested in economy and that is not my majoy, but I have to read it because of preparing Korean law school. When I read it again and again, I feel interesting, although sometimes it is quite difficult to understand.
And my second bood, Word power made easy, is a kind of Enlish learning books. It inform about the English word, by etymology. Before I read it, I didn't know the latin, greek which are root of English. I think it is so good because if I know a etymological meaning of one word, I can infer the other word's meaning and recite a lot of English word much easier. My father recommended it to me and I have gotten some help from this book.
Therefore, I read one Korean book and one English book. Sometimes I confused English with Korean so, I can't catch the meaning of English word even though it is easy and I already recite it.