eethuu 2021-07-30T00:48:55Z http://eethuu.com/feed/atom/ WordPress Eethuu <![CDATA[Living in Astana]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=710 2021-07-30T00:48:55Z 2018-12-11T22:51:11Z I relocated in Astana in January 2018. After Thailand and Hong Kong, it was a bit of a shock to land in cold place again. And by cold, I mean really cold. Last January the coldest day (well night really) was -38 C. What makes it even more fun is that Astana is located in the middle of nowhere and the wind that blows through doubles the coldness effect. Well, the temperature is more likely to stay around -20 C during the winter, and as long as you dress to the weather you’ll do just fine. In summer the place is beautiful.

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Astana in nutshell

Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan, which celebrated its 20th Birthday this year. With population of 1 million (and growing), it’s located on the banks of Ishim River, which divides the city into left and right banks. Left bank representing the new side, with most ministries and official buildings, and right bank is where the local population traditionally resides. Astana represents and offers opportunities for young driven professionals.

President Nazarbayev relocated the capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997, and the old city of Akmola was renamed to Astana.

The main religion is islam, but it’s not visible in every day life.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Pacquiao vs Mayweather: Hugs and Missed Punches]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=652 2016-06-17T13:51:06Z 2015-05-04T11:15:05Z It finally happened. For a number of boxing fans a dream came through. After years of waiting Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather finally stepped into the same ring. Was the waiting worth while? Yes and no… Many questions were answered, while lot of speculations continue.

The fight – coined as the “fight of the century” turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment to many, who expected to see a world class bout.

Pacquiao Mayweather

Manny started of slightly stiff while Floyd maintained his distance and style. Nothing ground-breaking in the first two rounds. In the third round Manny started to add pace and both gained hits. Fourth was probably the most action packed round of the whole fight and Floyd looked to be in trouble a couple of times, while Manny delivered in couple of good crosses and body shots, followed by flurries. After the fourth round the pace slowed down. Manny chasing, Floyd running away. Twitter filled up with amusing tweets after the fight ‘accusing’ Floyd for running away and hugging instead of boxing. This one in particular: “I wish my girlfriend was more like Floyd, when we fight he would just hug me”.

Now, who won the fight? According to the judges Mayweather by unanimous decision.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[How to Get (And Renew) a Driver’s License in Thailand]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=647 2017-03-23T08:42:40Z 2015-04-18T01:50:00Z Bangkok Traffic

For many people driving a car in Thailand isn’t the first option that comes to mind, when traveling around the country. There are a lot risks related to it, and so many affordable other options to choose from. Living in Bangkok, you really don’t need a car, at least as a single person or as a couple without kids, because of the convenience of BTS and MRT. But every now and then, it would be nice to jump on a car and drive away for the weekend. As most rental car services require a local license, it makes renting a car a whole lot easier to have one. Here’s how it’s done.

Preparations

If you have a license issued from your country, you don’t have to do the license from scratch. If you have an international license, or license from any English speaking country, you just need to contact your Embassy in Thailand, and ask for a magical thing called “embassy stamp” that clears almost everything in Thailand. But, if your license was issued in a non-English speaking country, you need to get a transcript from your country explaining what the driver’s license is for and what vehicles you can drive.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Mail Server Pro – Corporate Communications Platform]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=638 2015-03-24T15:32:34Z 2015-03-24T15:08:36Z Mail Server ProEmail and data security is something that has been raising a lot of eyebrows recently. To be honest, it’s not something most of us actively even think when we post something on Facebook, send an email or SMS, or even make a phone call. Fair enough, most of us got nothing to hide, but still, some things perhaps we think are more private than they actually are. I had an eye opener to many of these things recently.

When you send an email out through the traditional manner, it leaves your server and travels to the recipients mail server. Actually this was the first application of the internet. Sadly not much has changed since in the way emails are sent, as this isn’t very secure way to transfer data. Sure, there is a thing called encryption, which provides certain level of protection, but due to a different kind of security aspect, the encryption cannot be too difficult for government agencies to decrypt. In other words they want to be able to intercept and read certain emails. In principle this is fine, but if they can do it, so can other people, who might not have good intentions of what they will do with the information.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Shanghai trip and Inside 3D Printing Shanghai Event 2014]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=622 2014-11-10T07:47:07Z 2014-11-10T07:41:04Z After successfully getting the Chinese Visa done at the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok, we were all set to travel to Shanghai. The first edition of Inside 3D Printing Shanghai took place over 2 days at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. The show was coined to be a large one, and I think the local partner did a good job attracting visitors to the exhibits and conference. The total number was estimated between 2500-3000 over two days.

Inside 3D Printing Shanghai 2014

3DPI team this time consisted Ari and myself, and our goals for this show were to get video interviews with a number of industry experts including Wim Michiels from Materialise, Harry Kleijnen from Philips, Lionel Dean from FutureFactories, Maltesh Somasekharappa from Wipro and Ian Gibson from Deakin University. The video interviews is somewhat new concept to 3DPI.TV and we are still learning to climb the ropes. Filming in a noisy tradeshow environment can be tricky and changing the location constantly adds a little extra challenge to it.

The whole trip was amazing. Cathay Pacific treated us well from Bangkok through Hong Kong to Shanghai and back. The hotel we stayed in was probably the nicest I have ever been in: Langham Xintiandi. Just simply amazing service.

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]]> 2 Eethuu <![CDATA[How to Apply for Chinese Visa in Bangkok]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=615 2016-03-14T09:12:22Z 2014-11-01T08:41:52Z *Edited March 14 2016 with hat tip to Mike Mason

The Chinese Visa Application Service Center has moved, as of Sept 2015. The new address is now 5th loor,1550 Thanapoom Tower, New Petchburi Road, Makkasan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand, 10400. Visa / Passport photos are available on the 2nd floor, as are computers for printing out forms or documents. It is located at the Petchburi station on the Metro.

Applying for a Chinese Visa in Asia and especially in Bangkok as a foreigner can be troublesome. After a quick search through related forums can even increase the level of headache as everyone seems to give different advice. It doesn’t help much that some of the information is dated back couple of years.

Chinese Visa Bangkok

There seems to be a discrepancy regarding what documents are required for Chinese Visa application. Looking at the information on Chinese Embassy Bangkok website it seems like an easy process, but reading comments online makes the whole thing quite a lot messier. Calling the Chinese embassy service isn’t much use either. I tried 3 times: morning, after lunch and before office closing without any luck. The last frontier seemed to be just to go on-site and see how it all goes.

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]]> 15 Eethuu <![CDATA[Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara 2014 Recap]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=605 2014-10-27T13:12:11Z 2014-10-27T13:05:35Z We finally landed in San Francisco after two long flights. First one from Bangkok to Dubai took only 7 hours, and then another 15 hours from Dubai to San Francisco, where we continued by taxi to Santa Clara. Flights went well, luckily I got some sleep, and felt alright despite the 14 hours time difference. We stayed in Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, the hotel attached to the conference center. It was very pleasant stay in many ways (although it was slightly freakish of them to reply with commercial messages to my instagram posts about the show). The breakfast surprisingly served more than toast, bacon and eggs, and after five days I still fitted into the same pants.

Hyatt Santa Clara view

The first conference day was mainly workshops, which I didn’t attend as we were quite busy putting our booth together and organizing interview schedule for 3DPI.TV. From what I heard from some of my friends who attended, the workshops were good. We managed to get two interviews done on the first day. The first one was with the couple behind Table Top Inventing: Steve and Debby Kurti. Both very nice and professional. Steve seemed to be more of the tinkerer and Debby taking care more of the admin side of things.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara 2014 Preview]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=573 2014-10-15T03:31:35Z 2014-10-15T03:28:11Z Inside 3D Printing travels back to the US next week to see the second show in Santa Clara Convention Center. Unfortunately I missed the show last year, but what I heard from our team that was present it was a great show. So, a lot to be expected this year as well. 3D Printing Industry is co-producing the show with the organizer MecklerMedia, and we have a team of four at present including the US based writer Scott J Grunewald, video producer Tony Hofmann, Ari and myself. We’ll have a booth at the show and will be filming video material as well as covering the show on 3dprintingindustry.com as usual.

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The latest shows in Tokyo and Hong Kong were successful as always. Tokyo show attracted over 35,000 visitors in total for the cluster of tech shows bundled together. Despite being based in Asia, I do prefer the trade shows in the western countries. People in western countries are perhaps more extrovert and therefore easier to engage with. In Tokyo we did a small survey through a translator. Getting answers from the visitors seemed to be tricky even for the local translator.

The show in Santa Clara this year is coined to be quite big.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Elon Musk – A Real Life Iron Man]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=570 2018-12-11T23:29:54Z 2014-09-14T12:41:58Z Tesla Elon Musk

Talking about inspirational entrepreneurs, many come to mind, but one is literally flying a lot higher (no pun intended :) than the others. Elon Musk, who even the Iron Man movie makers used as a role model for Tony Stark, is one of the most inspirational entrepreneurs out there today. Within a short period of time he has become successful in four different industries. And not just any industries, but some of the most competitive ones there exist. Starting from PayPal, which revolutionized the way we handle money online, he has moved to new ventures in power industry with SolarCity, automobile with Tesla and space travel and exploration with SpaceX. Considered crazy by his friends at the time he decided to focus on electric car that would survive in the tough car market – something that the car giants had not been able to accomplish, he has risen in the media spotlight with total three successful businesses today.

I have been familiar with the name Elon Musk for a long time, but only recently started to study more the way he works and his ideology towards creating successful businesses. He is quite a fascinating character who apparently clocks in 80-100 hour workweeks, sometimes even more.

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]]> 0 Eethuu <![CDATA[Bali Trip]]> http://eethuu.com/?p=561 2014-10-22T12:49:03Z 2014-08-01T02:20:17Z I have been planning to visit Bali since I came to Asia early 2000, but never really had the chance to make it happen. Known to be a popular tourist destination amongst Australians and developed Asian nations, Bali attracts over 3 million tourists annually. The beaches and waves are famous amongst surfers, but Bali offers cultural sites and natural attractions as well.

Bali Kuta Beach Chairs

A few weeks back I had a chance to finally visit Bali. Being more of a business focused trip, I didn’t unfortunately had much chance to enjoy the holiday activities, but had chance to get a glimpse what Bali is all about.

I arrived there Thursday afternoon and had no troubles getting through the airport procedures. Somehow the famous tourist destinations always make it very pleasant to enter. Finding a taxi to the hotel in Kuta beach was easy. The hotel I stayed in was a very positive experience. The staff was overwhelmingly friendly, included free breakfast that was more than instant coffee and toast. Overall the hotel, located right next to the beach, was bargain for the price. If you are planning to stay in Kuta and want an inexpensive hotel next to the beach check out Best Western Kuta Beach.

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