Changkhui: Changkhui

We have a guest. Khun Pisit is a CitiBank manager, who has been working in Hong Kong for a few years. He was an office-colleague of Koson during their IBM days and is visiting Koson in New York, where he is attending a training. This episode is a light episode, only touching on what living in Hong Kong is like.

Supposedly a direct sequel to the previous episode, but we would like to insert some PR news. Due to the blog post at http://badzboy.10thingsabout.com/archives/195, we would like to make some contribution. The blog owner was one of our fans, who was still working at the RS company. We invited him for a short interview and helped spreading the news. As for the conversation with Koson, he touched on a few more topics such as current programming trends, CEP and SOA. I left it for your judgement for what SOA was.

We crossed the Pacific to talk to our old friend, Koson in New York. Since he worked in Research and Development field, so it was appropriate to let him show us the current development in the industry he was in. This was financial sector. We talked about various topics, and the conversation was quite long. So we divided into 2 episodes. For this week he talked about Grid Computing.

A news trigged us to talk about the topic. This was a tradition, carrying on for as long as ones could remember in Thailand to throw a ceremony or a party to new comers especially for first year university students. And every year, things tended to get out of hand, there would be some injuries or sickness caused by such events at various universities throughout Thailand. Therefore, another nostaligic episodes on our experience during those years. However, since there were many of us, we had to divide the conversation into 2 episodes. This was the second one.

Kangg, from Siampod.com called to discuss his passion for iPhone. Well, in order to spice things up, we decided to meet and record an episode about it. But once, we met, we switched to a video recording since we also brought a notebook. We then discussed about the incident at Apple Thailand press conference on September 18. This incident was well published at http://www.siampod.com/node/2074. It involved an petition to Apple to support Thai in iPod.

A news trigged us to talk about the topic. This was a tradition, carrying on for as long as ones could remember in Thailand to throw a ceremony or a party to new comers especially for first year university students. And every year, things tended to get out of hand, there would be some injuries or sickness caused by such events at various universities throughout Thailand. Therefore, another nostaligic episodes on our experience during those years. However, since there were many of us, we had to divide the conversation into 2 episodes. This was the first one.

One of our fans, Ben Thaiaporn, shared his working experience. He used to work in Bangkok as a service engineer, went back home in Saraburi and worked in a factory, so he was able to compared life as an office worker and a factory engineer. Some of the stories were laughing matter now, but surely were not laughing materials when they happened. The sound quality might not be of the best quality, we recorded this via Skype connection, but the content should more than make up for it. We would like to thank khun Ben for his courtesy for the interview.

Back to the present day on this episode. We compared notes on what we had been through for the last 13 years. Lives went through all kinds of ups and downs. We exchanged our ideas on buying cars, homes and working experience. Unfortunately, mid-way through the episode, Passakorn had to leave to pick up his car, but our Indies Girl managed to pick up where he left and carried on the conversation. Surachai also jammed the session at the very end.

We went back in time to 1994 to refresh those memories when we had been working a few years. Some stories were nostalgic stories, but some were intended to share some frustration among new graduates. We hoped we did not confuse anyone when we opened the episode with the 1994 date.

This was the 1st year anniversary of our program and site, we touched a little bit on our site statistics. Since a few of us were going through a few interviews lately and also, the job interview episode was the 3rd top download episode in our program, so we decided to revisit the issue again. Since there were 7 of us, the discussion went much longer that we anticipated, so we had to divide into 2 episodes. And this was the second and last one.