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I've been tagged by SeChang!

Hey..I have been tagged by SeChang, our APAC SE leader on last Friday. It takes me few nights to contemplate about my top five things. Here, they are:

1. A New Video streaming Server My personal impression with Sun is the company always ahead of time in term of product advancement. My first project with Sun Video on Demand product dated in 1998. Internet just became a major wave during that time. Thailand has not had any nationwide ISP yet. we caught lots attention from cable operators, cinema, and Telco operators. However, the major obstructcal in  those days was there was no digital content widely available yet. No DVD or MP3. We had  the first customer that installed our system in a luxury Karaoke & restaurant, Baan Nang Thai,  in Sukhumvit road.

2. What a wonderful day! During my study in US during mid 90s, I visited many places from Boston to San Francisco, Chicago to Orlando. Still, my best memory was in New York City, for the most beautiful afternoon that I sat along Hudson river at South Street sea port. The light wind blew south made a wave with sparking light in Hudson. I was a wonderful, beautiful day.

3. I love Krabi Though, I am not a sea sportsman. Do not dive in deep sea water without life support. After my first visit to Krabi beaches at the southern path of Thailand when I was sixteen, I tried to learn many game in sea sports. Not good at them yet. Still, the picture of deep, clear water with a soft, white sand keeps calling me back to that area again and again. Hoping one day, I can go there and enjoy the activities all day long.

4. You do not get it, you have to earn it. That comment from my visiting professor told us during my study for a master degree. After graduated, I realized that his statement always valid outside the academic world. It applies to actually everything in life. Do not expect anything to come easily. SUCCESS..You have to EARN it.  

5.  OpenSource, OpenOffice & Pladao In 2000, Sun Thailand had an initiative to promote StarOffice to Thai Market. However, StarOffice and Openoffice were not ready for localization. Thus, we decided to take the pre-released version of OpenOffice and localized it to a Thai OpenOffice called Pladao. Within six months that I led the whole development program and finally launched it to Internet on our H.M King birthday Dec5th, Pladao became our success. There were thousands waiting in Grand Hyatt convention center to get the Pladao CD on the formal launched date.  More than 1 millions copies distributed all over country. Pladao 2.0 had a similar success in 2003.

It's my turn to tag others. Few of our ITAs are quite active in blogging both for internal and external. So, let them share their five things too. : Wut, Wit, Luckchai, Peerapong, Siam.

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