Mattie's Diary

My Son

2008-12-06T07:10:00.000-08:00

Pansip is his name.

The cutest boy around!!

He was born on Mon 21 July 2008.

New year's trip to Chiangmai

2007-08-23T03:15:00.000-07:00

This may be funny to write about my New Year's trip this time of the year in my diary today. Well, I just started creating my blog a week ago... but I still love to share it anyway.

Our family went to visit Flora Expo 2007 in Chiangmai for our New Year holiday. The trip was very impressive. Full of colorful flowers, fruits and vegetables. They all came from all over the world. Dessert plants, tropical plants or event plants that need to grow in a cooler place like tulips were presented there. The flower designs from different countries shown their own uniqueness. After all even it's been 8 months already, I will remember this wonderful trip for always.

Beauty of flower arranging

2007-08-22T21:24:00.000-07:00

The pictures I posted today are the flowers that I have arranged long time ago. Flower arranging has always been in my interest. Besides enjoying the beauty of colors of nature, I just found while reading the book about MI:Multiple Intelligences that it also help us improve our visual/spatial intelligence as well.

My first baked burgers!!

2007-08-20T09:01:00.000-07:00

Last sunday, I invited my brothers and a friend of my hubby to join our dinner. We decided to have our home made burger. Normally, I would grilled each piece of burger meat one-by-one on a non-stick pan. However, this time there are 5 burgers to make so I decided to bake them instead. The result? Yummy!!!

If any of you would like to try. Just put the round raw burger meat on a buttered tray. Spread the meat out flatter than you actually need and also try to make the middle part thinner than the edge since the baked one will shrink into a smaller round but thicker than the raw one. Put the tray into the preheat oven at 220 degree celcious. This time I didn't measure the baking time so you may need your own observation. If you see your meat is getting brown on the top bring the tray out of the oven and then put a slice of cheddar cheese, or any kind that you like, on top. Then put it back in the oven. Baked untill the cheese melt and burn a little bit as shown in the pictures above then it's ready for you burger!!

Interesting reading

2007-08-16T23:26:00.000-07:00

A couple days ago, I've read a very interesting book. It's about MI:Multiple intelligences. The main idea of the book is that genius can be created and we all have at least 8 aspects of intelligence in ourselves, which are:

1. Linguistics Intelligence
2. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
3. Spatial Intelligence
4. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
5. Intrapersonal Intelligence
6. Interpersonal Intelligence
7. Naturalist Intelligence
8. Musical Intelligence

Originally, the book was written by Howard Gardner, a professor from Havard University under the title: Multiple Intelligences. However, the one I read was written in Thai by his student under the title: อัจฉริยะสร้างได้ which can be translated in English as Genius can be created. I guess the Thai version is probably the concept summary about MI that the author, Vanessa Ress, has learned from her instructor.