My intelligence

This is the hardest question for me to answer. I have had told form many people around me that I have music intelligence. I always refuse this compliment because I believe that everyone have gotten only 2 percents talent and 98 percents from your advantage. " Nobody can do anything since they were born." In my personal opinion I think practicing is the most important thing that could gain your talent.

When I was at senior high school I thought that I was the one, who played drum every well even though I was not. I was just like a little boy starts to play drums. I passed the exam from the college of music in my country. It gained my confidence and more ego. As a freshy student I had invited from many seniors student but when I joined the band with them everyone refused me. I was so depressing and want to stop drumming. It took me about 5 mouths to realized that the best that I could do is practicing the real rudiment.

I decided to go back to the basic and work hard with my major. It took about 6 months that I could hear the comments from people around me that your drumming sound changed. I quite really appreciate with that. This idea becomes my motto it makes me believe that everyone could do anything but it depends on your ambition. I would like to say " I am not a person who could do every things by using the talents but I am a person who could do every things by using my passion."

His words will always in my mind.

When people ask me, " Who are your favorite relatives?", I would like to answer that person is my grandfather. Since I was born I had been living with my grandfather and grandmother because my father and mother they worked quite a little bit busy. I have gotten my nick name from my grandfather which used to be my shameful nick name when I was in junior high school. I do not know why I felt like that but right now it is totally different. Anyway, one thing that I love about visiting my grand family is; every times I visit them they always give me many ideas about how to live with happiness.

My grandfather he is a positive person in this world. Every times I meet him he always said " I am so happy and proud with my life." Why? as a young boy this question pops up. I had not understood when I was 20 years old. The sentence that my granddad had said, it has come into my mind until these day. "Be happy and proud with your life" does not mean you are arrogant person but it has connotation in this sentence. It means you have to be happy and proud with your life. You have to stop and look at yourself, talk to yourself in the mirror then realize that how cool you are. Sufficient living is the most important idea. You do not have to climb to the top of the mountain if you are just a small little bug but you have to climb to the highest point as you can. It is not necessary to compare yourself with another. Do your best, life is too short.

My grandfather's motto will be always in my mind until I the day I die, also I am going to teach this motto to my children and He will never disappear from our family's mind.

Non-Baked Blueberry Cheese Pie.

If you are a person who really want to start making your own sweetest dessert this is the first easiest one that you should try to do. Every one said blueberry cheese pie is very easy to make because it does not need the oven  but it also has many techniques in each step of making.
I am going to write down the recipe and explain every steps that could make really delicious non-baked blueberry cheese pie for you.

First all of we have to buy the ingredients, it is not difficult for us to find all of this ingredients, at groceries close to your house.
All we need are:
- Graham cracker                  120 grams
- Butter                                    40 grams
- Cream Cheese                     180 grams
- Sweet Condensed Milk           5 tablespoons
- Lime juice                               2 teaspoons
- Heavy Cream                          2 tablespoons
- Blueberry Pie Filling              1 can

Butter, Cream Cheese, Heavy Cream are dairy product so as we know these suppose to keep in refrigerator but in this case before we start to make this we have to keep in room temperature at least an half hour because it affect to the cream cheese filling texture, cool temperature cause lumps.

Second step, making pie crust via grind graham cracker in a small bowl, it depends on person who like rough or thoroughly texture, just make a little tiny pieces. Put butter in microwave 30 seconds and mix well with cracker. Filled it into a small glass or pie tray and keep in refrigerator for 30 minutes. ( Optional: if we do have the oven this step we could bake it for 15 minutes in 375 fahrenheit to make it more crispy then keep in fridge.) While we are waiting for the pie crust, we change to making cream cheese filling, put cream cheese in stand mixer or a big bowl incase we do not have. Whisk cream cheese with medium speed until cream cheese became smooth then use the lowest speed, add heavy cream, sweet condensed milk and lime juice mix for a minute or until all combine well. Filled it into the pie crust, just left a little space from the edge because we have to topping with blueberry, keep in refrigerator for an hour.

Finally, we usually serve blueberry cheese pie in chilled temperature before we serve just open the can of blueberry pie filling or any fillings we would like to have top it as we want and this lovely non-bkaed blueberry cheese pie is done.

Is not that hard to try to make your own dessert in a special occasion. Especially, non-baked cheese pie it has the base on the same pie crust and cream cheese filling but we could change it to Strawberry, Mango, Raspberry, cherry cheese pie via changing the topping. It is easy and tasteful. Shall we begin?

Amazing cuisine city.

Since I have been living in Chicago. I heard people said that this city is the highest population of restaurants. Although I have not been to many restaurants, just sight seeing I could feel how is it taste like. Many restaurants decorated very attract to foodies. It is totally different from the restaurants in my home town, our restaurants are beside on the streets and you can not be starve during the night.

I am a sweet teeth person. I love to have any kinds of dessert. Any time that I have invited to have desserts I could not deny or ignore that invitation. I used to have a dream that I would like to be an expert of chocolate. The reason why I want to be a chocolate master is just because in my country it does not really have someone know well about chocolate.  I had never known that Chicago has many culinary schools when I lived here. I searched chocolate school on the internet and I also found it, that school name is Chocolate Academy. At the first time that I found it, I was really thrill with this school but suddenly another ideas came up in my brain; I could not speak english very well, How hard is it for applying and also I had graduated form college of music. I broke up my dream.

I have been thinking about what is the best path of my life between music and food. I thought that windy city might be renew my life. Since I have found that Chicago has many restaurants and also culinary schools. It was surprised me when I had known that Chocolate Academy is here! I went there with my patient but I could not get into the school because at the front desk they did not allowed people who do not have an appointment so I came back with broken heart. But this experience did not stop me to try to find some good culinary school or excellent restaurants here.

In my opinion, I think Chicago is a cuisine city. Every times I walk into the downtown I could easily find the restaurant. I can have different kinds of food around the world here. Not just only the restaurant it also contains the excellent culinary schools. I love culinary school in Chicago because their have specific culinary school such a Chocolate Academy. This academy is going to teach you about how to makes chocolate in many different ways. If you want to be an executive chef, Chicago might be a great one of your choice.

Do or Die in the US ?

It was my first time far away from my family since my life had been living with my father, mother and sister. In fact, I would love to lived in my country but my mother she had been pushing me at all the time we started conversation. I understood her point and I knew english language is the most important thing that I should have to study and use it to continue my Master's degree study. At the time, I have no any informations about Chicago. I chose this city as I thought that there will not have many Thais but my prediction was completely wrong! Even though it good to knows someone from the same country incase i need someone hands on the accident situations. I came here with emptiness, full hands poor english skill. (I hope that my english is going to be better.) I could not communicate with Americans well. Every time I went outside of my host family I felt like as an alien living on this planet. I am look, speak, dressed and act different from another. This reason encourage me in learning and accept Americans culture.

I started my first experience day with my host family and my friends who had been living in this house before I arrived. We had just small conversation on the first day but I had shocked by listened them talked to each another at dinner time. I thought that how could I speak like that, how could I survive with my empty brain. As a lucky man I had met good friends in this house so they helped and  taught me with speaking skill. They told me about how to go to school, using CTA, where is the restaurant, grocery near by our house and informations they had had. They told me Chicago is dangerous if you use the CTA at the night time. You might have someone mugged on the train, so that scared me and I became crazy with awareness.

Every single day I had just gone to school then go back home very early. I felt like I could not back home after sun set. I had been told that Chicago is the highest gun shot in the US. Especially at the south side of Chicago, Where is the famous place for gun shot. I thought that I will not go to south side of Chicago. Unlucky, one day I had to move my house to Chinatown. That mean it quite a little bit south side of Chicago. When I told everyone. I had moved to Chinatown the feed back just the same word came out form their mouths “It is south side, It is dangerous, It is so far”. I could not explain how hard was it that I had to fight with this complain from everyone around me. I had been living there about 4 months. It did not has something wrong happen with me. I lived there very perfectly because there are many Asia restaurants, Asia market. As a boy who comes from South East Asia. It was very easy for me to find foods and ingredients for cooking. Unfortunately, Housing price was so expensive. I had decided to move to another house which is cheaper than it. I moved to new house at Irving Park Blue Line. My life had change one more time.

I have lived in the apartment close to Blue Line Station so It is very super convenience for me even though It is quite a little bit far away from Downtown. I am living with Thais. It has black and white side of being with people who come from the same country. One hand, They could help me whenever I have a problem also give me some advise or any informations about Chicago, where is the best place that I should visit, any activities that I should do when I am living in Chicago. On the other hand, I speak thai everyday so it affect to my english improvement, I do not want to blame on another, The best way that I should do is practice and try to use english every time I can.

I believe in this day, I have a great chance, I am living in huge English classroom. I still try to practice and learn more about language, culture, city and people. It totally different between the first day that my feet touched the ground, right now I am becoming more and more interesting in The United State Of America. This experience had changed my mind. It might be an easy circumstance for me if I moved to the new places around the world. No matter who you are, The best thing that we should do when we have to far away from our hometown live in any strange atmospheres , we should familiarize the new things at all the time and open our mind then try to learn. One day we will proud of ourself and the reason is we could live in any places around the world with happiness.

Do you really get through your culture?

Many countries around the world have different ways to live, eat, dressed, talk etc. Nowadays, the traditional culture in our hometown have affected from our high technologies invention. It is easy for us to notice that our traditional has changed at all the time. In my personal opinion I think the internet is the most thing that affected to our culture.

Since the internet had released, It has been the important thing in our life such as one port of my body. We indulge in it also we need it more and more faster. This is the point, people are using the internet in every single day of their life (probably in every hours or minutes). One thing pop up on my head when I heard the question "Does the internet affected to your own culture?". My answer is "Yes" because I could see people use their smart phone all the time. It makes people far away from each other. Instead of talking to person with eyes contact, right now we talk via using our fingers. We lost our beautiful conversations our feeling onto the words. How can we trust the words that we have just read? if we do not know how they are sincere with their typing on the letters. Do you agree with me? sometime it makes a question on your head " REALLY?"

Are you Bad Dieter?

As a normal living thing on the planet. All of us learn how to survive in the difference ways. Every single day we eat and drink but have you ever keep looking for what kind of food that we have been eating in a day. Is that a good idea?, to watch your eating habit, to protect yourself from the obese disease.

Cultural and Environmental might convince us to change our diet. From the good experience if my life since I have been living in The US. I have noticed that I could eat a large portion in every meal.This is not my excuse but this is the truth. I would like to say Americans eat a portion of meal bigger than Asians. By the way, We must control our eating behavior. Do not blame on everything, we can choose anything before we take it into our body. Their are many things that we can decide.

According to The New York Times, it is said that "Most Americans seek out fast and processed foods, not for the price, but for the convenience and the taste". As our society have been changing it affected how do people organize their life style. I experience it. The population of people who has low-income, time-stressed or middle class families. My personally believe that is not a big deal for us to change our diet. All we need is "Balance" our single meal. We should have the 5 food groups in 3 meals a day because it directly effect to your metabolism if we eat enough in our single meal it could not makes your feel starving but you have to avoid eating snack between meal. This is the thing that we should do.

Not even control our diet behavior also we had better to have an exercise in a day. It does not mean you have to go to the fitness club and take a serious work out. Walking 2,000 more steps in a day can prevent weight gain. When your body become healthier. It is going to tell you that what is the benefit thing that you should have for your body. It sounds impossible but this is the miracle thing in our body system. We do not have to make a huge change with our diet but just set a little small goal and try to do it. The small thing changes in the big difference when the times go by.