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Today is very hot. I really do not like hot weather. It makes me not want to do anything. I feel like I do not have energy enough to study. It is not an excuse. Of course, it is the truth.

On Sunday in the morning , I went to temple with my family. Every Sunday I must be go there . It is my routine . My family likes to give alms. After that , I appoint my friends. They are my old friends. I have never seen her for a long time. We were in the same high school. She is my closest friend since then. Actually, I haven’t heard anything from her for a long time, too . Yesterday, she just called me and asked me if I had a free time so that we could meet each other. Suddenly, I told her back tomorrow is a good day. Sure,I have a time for them . I miss my friends so much. I want to meet them fastest as I can do. I met my friends to go to Jatujack garden it can call “ JJ “ . I will buy a clothes . JJ has very hot temperature. It’s make me bad feeling . But I think , I must be patient because I love shopping. I walked until 2.00 pm. We had lunch together in JJ . The weather was very hot . I and they have many sweat. So I could not lived for a long time . We had to come back home at 5.00 pm. We got up the skytrain and got up the bus. I was very tried. However I have anything must do it.

I am trying to find a way to emotionally escape from the hot weather and traffic jam. I try to relax and not get annoyed by those distractions. I want to take this exam seriously while I can relax at the same time. I ask all my friends about this and they agree with me. They do not like hot weather and traffic jam in Bangkok. Moreover, all of them have their own way of relaxing. For example, one of my friends always listens to the music when he feels stressful and also when he is doing homework. However, when I tried to listen to the music when I was reading books. I found that I could not concentrate

The next thing I will do after I finish this journal is doing exercise. I think exercise is quite important. In the past, I did not exercise at all and that made me feel tired easily. For example, when I had to walk from the first floor to fifth floor by using stairs, I felt really tired and had to take a rest so many times. On the contrary, other people felt nothing or a little bit tired. I noticed that and I realized that I really needed exercise. Since then, I have exercise almost everyday. I feel like I am stronger no matter if it is just feeling or it is true. Moreover, after exercising each time, I feel comfortable. I think it is because I sweat. I guess I have a better health.

::: my sister's birthday :::

Tuesday, after finished study I appoint my boyfriend to go to Siam Square. I decided to buy a pair of shoes. We went there by skytrain. First we arrived to Siam. I feel hungry very much. I invited him to have lunch. After that we walk to see a shoe. We saw many shoes shop but I did not like it. Until we walk to BONNZA. I meet a shoe that I like on first floor. It was not expensive too much. I bought it. Suddenly , my eyes saw earings that hang on . I like it very much. I will buy it but my boyfriend did not permit me to do that. (T.T) He said about I had many earing in my house. I had to accept him .

Next day , my mother did not went to work because she had to go to the dentist. That is the time which I had to wake up but I was very lazy and sleepy. I told her , I will not go to University. I slept until 02:00 pm . When I woke up, I took a shower and get dressed to go to dentist with my mother. The hospital set up near RADWITEE hospital . It was far from my house very much . My mother drove a car and parked at LOTUS . Then my mother and I went by skytrain. We arrived to hospital on 05:00 pm.
I waited my mother to see the dentist for a while . When she
finished , we had a dinner near the hospital. We come back home at 07:00 pm.

Until now I realize that today is my sister’s birthday. Actually I called her already last night, but I think tonight I will call her again. Although I would wake her up, she cannot be angry with me because it is her birthday. I always give her a gift every year, except this year. I think I can remember. This is not an excuse. It is the truth. But I just don't know about today is what date.I don't look at calender. I hope she will not be disappointed about it. But when my birthday comes, I will be very disappointed if I do not get a gift from her. This makes me feel guilty. I will find something for him later when I go to department store or shopping center again.maybe I will go to rastaurant and buy chocolate cake for her.

I will go to bed soon. I am very sleepy right now. I am exhausted when I think that I have to get up early tomorrow. I hate traffic jam, but I cannot run away from it as long as I am staying in Bangkok.

*~ I Am Tired ~*

Today I was assigned a group work in BG1201 class. The teacher told us that each group should consist of four members. I grouped with my old friend and three of her friends. The strange thing was that I was the only boy in this group. I felt a little bit uncomfortable because I was afraid that I would be left out of the group. However, when I talked with the other members of the group, I felt more comfortable because they discussed about dividing work equally. Finally, we exchanged email address and telephone number so that we could contact each other about the group work.

Anyway, the work the teacher assigned us is that we have to write a short paragraph about what we think the story should be, continuing from what the novel left. In my opinion, this homework is quite challenging because we all have different opinions about the story. It must be difficult for us to agree on only one story. I have to read the novel and imagine what should happen next if I want the story to be happy-ending. I always love happy-ending story because I do not like the story that make me feel unclear, confused or curious what the story would be next. Now I really wonder what the other members will think if I tell them my opinion. I plan to do this homework after finish writing this journal. I hope it will not take so long time because today I feel very tired.

The reason that I am tired is because this afternoon I went to Siam-Square with my mother. It has been a while that I did not go shopping with my mother. I love shopping with her because she always gives me honest opinions about what I want to buy and, the most important reason, she pays for me. This afternoon I got new school uniforms, including shirts and skirts. Also, we went to have lunch together at my mother’s favorite restaurant in Siam-Square. I did not eat anything, though, because I am on diet. My mother was so helpful that she did not order my favorite food.

Today I had almost done one thing already, which is practicing my English skill by writing journal. This paragraph is the last paragraph before I take a rest and then start doing group work. I want to have a long sleep tonight because I got up so early this morning. Anyway, I think I can finish the group work early because I am good at imagine the story. The only concern is that I have to keep awaken when doing the homework.

" M y h o m e w o r k "

I have to admit that the homework the teacher assigned us today is very difficult. Right now I still have no idea what I should do about it. The homework is that I have to imagine, from the novel we learn in the class.This is very relevant to the law program that I am taking right now. It makes me more interested in this homework. However, at the same time, I do not know yet how to start this homework. I hope I can figure it out after finish writing this journal.

Today in the class, we had to present to the class our homework about a short paragraph of what we think should happen next, following what the novel described. I felt so nervous because I had to stay in front of the class. I think I am a shy person. I do not have enough confident

when I have to do presentation. So, I think I did quite poor job. After that, the instructor taught us how to present. The teacher told us that we should not just read. We should leave a space between sentences and some words. This would make the presentation easy to understand and look professional. I have to admit that when I did a presentation, I just read the paper and tried to finish it as soon as possible because I was so nervous. Now I know that I have to pay attention to the reaction of the audience and also try to leave a space between some words to make it easy for the audience to understand my presentation.

When I came back home, I felt so tired and needed to relax. That is the reason why I spent two hours watching TV and another hour surfing the Internet. It may sound like an excuse, but it really helps me relax my brain. Right now there is the World Cup soccer fever everywhere, even in my home. My father watches it everyday. I do not understand the game much. However, since my father always watches it, I have no choice but to watch it too. My favorite team is England because I know some of the players from the English Premier League. Anyway, I think watching soccer for two hours is too long and sometimes boring. It will be fun when we watch together with many people.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I still have classes. Actually I have classes almost everyday, except Sundays. This looks like a hard work for me, although I have only one class on each day. The traffic jam takes me three hours out of my twelve-hour-day time already. This is no point at all to waste a lot of time on the street, but do I have a choice? I think I need more than 24 hours a day in order to finish everything I want to do. The most important thing is sleeping, which is the most relaxing activity of human kind.

....Already weekend....

Today is Friday. It is weekend. I feel relieved although I have one more class on Saturday. I like to stay at home in the weekends because I do not want to go out to face traffic jam or crowd people in a department store. Ironically, sometimes the traffic in the weekends is even worse than in the weekdays. Actually, the traffic in the weekends should be better since people stay at home. However, people, in fact, choose to go out and spend their time in department stores, theaters, or restaurants instead. There are also people of my type who like to stay at home, relax and give some time for their selves.

This weekend, I plan to clean my room because it is so messy. A lot of books and CDs are scattered around the room. In the weekday, just going to school and doing homework take away all of my time. In addition to cleaning the room, I also plan to finish all homework. I am responsible for searching for data and information about the “New World”, which is a group work in world civil class. I do not know much about this topic so I think this is a good chance that I will have more knowledge since I can read through the story roughly while searching for information about the “New World”.


Although this is just the middle of the semester, I really want to finish this semester soon. I know that in the next semester, I will feel the same way as I do now. Actually, I really want to finish this law program and graduate so that I can do something I like such as taking courses about computer. It has been in my mind all the time recently. I wonder if I can be a lawyer or justice since I am not interested in law anymore. This weekend is a good time to think about this issue, although I know that I cannot figure it out easily. Right now, I think I have to relax and do some exercises. I want to be healthier than before. I do not want to just study and do homework. By staying home this weekend, I hope I can do all that.

THE FIRM "Chapter 9-10"

Chapter 9 “ Grand Cayman ”

Summary

Mitch and Avery Tolleson left for the Cayman Islands to do some tax work for a client. They settled into the firm’s apartments on Seven Mile Beach and Avery Suggested they go to an open-air bar on the beach. Then Mitch meets a pair of sisters. One girl went for a walk along the beach with him. There was darkness and alone. A girl approached him. She reminded him of Abby, Mitch’s wife. They made love. Next day, Mitch go to Abanks Diving School for speak with Barry Abanks Barry’s son, Philip Abanks. He was killed.

Vocabulary

Persuade = To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc

Cheerfully = In a cheerful manner, gladly.

Wander = To travel over without a certain course.

Engine = Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Drowned = To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Approach =The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

Distance = Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

Recognize = To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.


Chapter10 “ Dangerous Water ”

Summary

Lomax have news about all three of the dead lawyers had died in mysterious circumstances. It’s very interesting . Frist, Alice Knauss was killed by lorry that had been stolen. The driver drove straight in to her car and then run away. He was never found. Second, Robert Lamm, the hunter, his body was found in a part of the forest where there was few animals and the hunter didn’t usually go. It didn’t look like an accident. Third, Mickel’s letter was not handwritten and he had never bought a gun in his life. It seem to Mitch was swimming in dangerous waters. Then Mitch go to meet his wife to told her about Eddie Lomax and the five dead lawyers, how he suspected that none of their deaths was quiet what it seemed to be. And told her about their home is bugged and someone at Bendini, Lambert&Locke everything he do. He was very careful about what he said on the phone.

vocabulary

Mysterious = difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained

lorry =A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations

respectable =Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

Rush =The act of running

Investigate = To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena

inspect = To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

Badge = distinctive mark , Something characteristic, a mark, a token, sign.

Amazing = very wonderful

Agent = One who acts for, or in the place of