Thank you ภูสุภา for your kind comment and sharing this:

Fish is in the sea.

Ship is sailing over the sea.

Fish and chip is simply meal for me.

Sheep is in the field.

Our Thai language has a lot of room to play around ('Trojan horse', double meaning, musical replay, context transform, ...). I too am glad to have experienced and enjoyed some of the Thai language intricacies. Our culture is based much on the mind.

English will be a common language for ASEAN.

English will be used in government, trade, education, ...

We look forward to a (not too far) future day, when our teachers, engineers, nurses, doctors, craftspersons, ... work alongside their peers in ASEAN and the world as equal partners. Our Thai professionals are not lacking in technical skills or experiences but we have not enough opportunities to present our skills in wider arenas.

Our children will be Thais but they will be able to travel the world for new friends and opportunities. They will carry and communicate our unique and beautiful culture to others -- using a common language tool like English.

What would we rather do when we stand proud as one citizen of the world? We will sit on a wooden floor and talk --yep, in Thai.

Happy New Year 2555.