Introduction

Hi! My name is Mahaporn Mungkala. You can call me Ruud. I was born on the first of September 1989 in Bangkok. Now, I am seventeen-years-old. I am the only child in the family.

My first name, Mahaporn, comes from two words in Thai. First is the word 'maha' and the word 'porn'. The word 'maha' means great, big or enormous. The word 'porn' means blessings. Together, the word 'mahaporn' means 'The Great Blessings'. There are two reasons that my parents named me like that. The first, as a christian, we believe that a children is a special girt from God that was given to the parents to take care and raised up the best way they could. The second, my dad as a lawyer, at the time of my birth, there is one client that came to ask for help from my dad about his lawsuit. That lawsuit brought quite a big sum of money to my family. These two reasons were the reason that I was named 'mahaporn'.

Some of you might wonder why a Thai person's nickname is a Dutch name. This is the reason why. Seventeen years ago, one Dutch football player, Ruud Gulit, was my dad's favorite football player. This is the reason I was named 'Ruud'.

Now, let's talk about my education background. My first school is 'Pensmith'. Pensmith is a Thai school. I studied there from grade one to grade seven. After grade seven, I resigned from that school and apply for Traill International School. The reason is that I wanted to improve my english skills. Traill International School is a small international school, and was established in 1966. This school has approzimately about 400 students. I studied grade eight to grade ten here. This helped improve my english language skills to a better level. After grade ten, I resigned from Traill International School. I started to do some self-study at home for aobut six months, the I decided to take the high-school equivalency examination to get the high school diploma. As a result, I passed and recueved a high school diploma. After fetting the diploma, I took the SAT exam.. On the exam, my math score was 620, my reading score was 510 and my writing score was 480. These exam results gave me the oppertunity to apply for most of the university in Thailand. However, I chose to come to apply at Assumption University because of the university's law program. Assumption University's law faculty is the only university in this country that teaches some subjects in english. This gives me the oppertunity to to improve my english language skills and study law at the same time.

My free times:
I spent most of my free times in four things. Those four things include guitar, basketball, internet and church.

First of all, I must tell that I liked to listen to music very much. About three years ago, I had a chance to listen to one Thai music band 'Silly Fools'. This band's guitarist was said to be one of Thailand's best guitarist. This person makes me wanted to learn to play guitar. However, I didn't take any classes, but bought a book and learn to play it slowly by myself. Everyday, I spent time on the guitar, practicing and trying to improve my skills.

This is all I wanted to talk about for now, the rest I will talk about it the next time when I revisit my blog. Have a nice day, and GOD BLESS YOU!!