Sumit Punnakari

Make it happen!

2011-07-07T18:44:00.003+07:00

I was talking with Nai Kwae Mon (Canberra, Australia) on Skype today, and he invited me to visit Australia. I said to him that it's costly to go and he suddenly said something that changed my life forever. He said, "Make it happen!".

I was speechless for a moment. I thought to myself WOW! This is it. This is what I was looking for throughout my life. I had had big dreams and visions, but none has happen. And I don't know why they don't happen. Maybe, because I just keep thinking and never make it happen. WOW!

Now I know it, and I'm going to make it happen. Thanks to Nai Kwae Mon for the inspiration.

I come back

2011-07-05T23:47:00.000+07:00

Finally, I come back to this blog. And this is the best thing for me in year 2011. I come back to the origin of myself and that's a very good thing.

If you read this message, remember how glad I am to come back and work on this blog. I promise to come back often, at least once a week.

Best,
Sumit

Stick like a stamp

2010-06-08T11:13:00.000+07:00

Dear Sumit,
This is yourself writing to you, to remind you that you must stick to one plan like a stamp that stick to a letter until it reach the destination. You deserve to be like that, and you are, I believe.
Now, what should you sticking for???
To answer the question, just follow your heart. What is it that in your heart, deep down? You should know it by yourself, and no one else would be able to tell you. Nobody know except you, my friend. So, what is it?
Think and decide. Once there, just stick to it like a stamp.
Love you,
Sumit

Ideas

2010-03-25T11:27:00.005+07:00

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea as well, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” -George Bernard Shaw

Life is changing

2010-02-16T10:27:00.004+07:00

I want to put these lines as a reminder for myself (sorry, it's only for myself this time), that life is changing. It's really changing. I love it.

We all know that nothing is permanent, but how aware we are that they are changing. Not much for me of cause, maybe for you. Who know? But one thing certain is that once you notice it's changing, then that's probably the time that you really start to understand life. And that's exactly the state I am now.
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Citta Padhenam: Mind is the chief

2009-12-11T17:07:00.002+07:00

As the Lord Buddha said "Citta Padhenam" means mind is the chief, I'm totally agree with the saying and really grateful to the Lord Buddha for pointing this most important message more than 2,500 years ago.

I know as you all know, that we have to control our minds. And there is no other ways around, never let the minds control us. Well, most of the time it really did control us.

หลวงพ่ออุตตมะ

2009-12-08T16:09:00.000+07:00

ပညာ

2009-12-01T15:59:00.001+07:00

ပညာႏြံတုဲဒ္ွဒတုဲဇန္ ယာံပညာေအာန္လုေလာန္ဒိုဟ္ဒး၊ သာ္ဝြံက်ာ္ေဇှာ္အၥာအေစြာံခ်ဴလဝ္ပႜဲလိက္ေလာကသိဒၶိရ။

Chinese is coming!

2009-11-26T16:10:00.001+07:00

Chinese as the world super power is not a dream anymore. It's reality.

Know and honest to yourself

2009-11-26T11:03:00.002+07:00

I've learned a great lesson and want to share with you, my love readers.

The lesson is about knowing and being honest to yourself. I learned it in a hard way. And you can skip my mistakes for granted if you will. Knowing yourself means knowing who you are, what is you mission in this world (or your mission impossible?), and what will people remember of you once you left this planet earth. And from there, being honest about it. Be yourself to the fullest, no matter what others say. It's your life, not theirs. Who cares if you failed, except your parents, families and yourself. No one really. Believe me, I've done it and gone through it in an unforgettable ways.

Self Decipline is the Key

2009-11-20T16:57:00.002+07:00

I just read a book titled, "Don't Eat the Marshmallow, Yet" and really click with the idea presented in the book. In the end, success is more for the mind than the brain. 80% of success is accountable for the mind control, and only 20% for knowledge or degrees you have.

Buddhism offers the ideal technique to deal with the mind, through Bhavana (both Samatha and Vipassana). Einstein is proved again to be right for this.

Marshmallow Experiment

2009-11-20T16:54:00.001+07:00

Sacca Parami Day

2009-11-19T10:49:00.004+07:00

Today, I started to fulfill the Sacca Parami, Sacca Upa Parami and Sacca Paramattha Parami.

Sacca is truthfulness. From today onwards, I will speak and act with truth. And may I have the strength to fulfill the parami with the support from the Lord Buddha Gotama.

Golden Swan

2009-11-12T16:31:00.003+07:00

Golden Swan or ၐိုပ္ထဝ္ (bob-hto) in Mon language, is the symbol of the Mon nation. Sometime, Mon people might also called the Golden Swan as Hongsar (a Pali term) and proudly identify themselves as the sons of Hongsar (ေကာန္ၐိုပ္ဟံသာ).

I am also a son of Hongsar. And you?

English is a global language

2009-11-12T14:04:00.003+07:00

If you to choose a language to be use among the world populations, what would it be? My choice is English. Let me explain why?

There are roughly about 6 billion people in the world and to my knowledge, there are more than 3,000 living languages (language with at least 1 speaker). Among these languages, English stands out as the most used language for communication between 2 different ethnic groups. Why not Chinese? or Spanish? you might ask. Because English is much more easy to learn and use. I'll come back to this article for more explanation why it is easy.

A simple thought: a decision at last

2009-11-12T11:45:00.002+07:00

I've been struggling with myself for so long, probably since I dropped out from Bradford in 2001. I simply didn't know what to do with my life, a failure? maybe. My dad died in 2001 and then my mom in 2003. I don't know when will be my turn.

But there is one thing I discovered recently. My passion towards English language. That's the only thing I'm sure about. That's what feed my mouth and the families. English has such a profound benefits towards my life. So why don't I just share my passion with the world? I can and I will.

The Law of Single Handling

2009-11-10T17:44:00.006+07:00

Article by Brian Tracy

The ability to start and complete your most important task determines your productivity more than any other skill. Maximum performance is possible only when you concentrate single-mindedly on the task—the most important task, and you stay at it until it is 100 percent complete.

Do the Most Important Task
You cannot do everything, but you can do one thing, the most important thing, and you can do it now. By setting goals and priorities, and then by selecting your most important task, you can dramatically increase your level of productivity and output.

Single Handling
Single handling is perhaps the most powerful of all time management techniques. It can increase your output by as much as 500 percent. It can reduce the amount of time you spend on a task by fully 80 percent—by the very act of launching into the task and disciplining yourself to stay with it until it is complete.

Refuse to Stop till Done
Picking up a task, putting it down and coming back to it several times, dramatically increases the amount of time necessary to complete the task. On the other hand, picking up the task and refusing to put it down until it is done enables you to accomplish vastly more in a shorter period of time than you thought possible. By disciplining yourself to concentrate single-mindedly on the most important thing you could possibly be doing, and then by completing that task, you increase the quantity, quality, and value of your output substantially.

Feel like a Winner
You can have all the talent and skill in the world. But if you cannot discipline yourself single-mindedly to complete your most important task, you will always have to work for someone else. You will always have to be supervised by someone who can make sure that you do what you should do, when you should do it. The good news is that every time you complete a major task, you experience a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. You feel terrific about yourself. You feel happy and elated. You feel like a winner.

Task Completion
By assigning yourself a large task and then by disciplining yourself to concentrate single-mindedly until the task is complete, you eventually develop the all-important habit of task completion. You program your subconscious mind in such a way that you look forward to major tasks because you know how good you are going to feel when you have completed them.

Action Exercise
Resolve today to develop the lifelong habit of task completion. You do this by selecting your most important task, getting yourself organized, and then working on it wholeheartedly until it is complete. Do this over and over until this habit of single handling is firmly entrenched.

Contact

2009-11-10T17:40:00.010+07:00

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I mostly prefer e-mail contact, because that's the most convenience for me to response. But if you have an urgent business or matter to discuss, feel free to call my mobile phone. With metta.

Tel: 087-806-8719 (Thailand)
E-mail: sumitpunnakari@gmail.com
Blog: www.sumitpunnakari.blogspot.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sumitpunnakari
Facebook: www.facebook.com/spunnakari

Library

2009-11-10T17:39:00.006+07:00

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I am reading Practical English Usage by Michael Swan
Start: November 12, 2009. Finish: (not yet)

Books I read & recommended:

As a Man Thinkieth, So is He by James Allen
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Law of Success by Dr Napoleon Hill

Portfolio

2009-11-10T17:34:00.011+07:00

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Books:
2009 English-Mon 3,000 Words, Bangkok (work in process)

Articles:
1994 A Mon Memoirs, Siam Araya Magazine, Bangkok

Resume

2009-11-10T17:27:00.014+07:00

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Sumit Punnakari, Humanitarian Worker & Writer

Education/Training:
2009 LL.B. Sukhothai Thammadhiraj Open University (studying)

2003 International Buddhist Leadership Training, INEB

2000 Cert. in English for Executive Skills, Bradford College

Working Experiences:
2010-current Assistant Head of Mission, Medecins Sans Frontieres-Belgium

2008-2009 Assistant Project Coordinator/Migration Focal Point, Medecins Sans Frontieres-Belgium

2006-2007 Project Manager, National Catholic Commission on Migration (NCCM)

2003-2006 Assistant Project Coordinator, Stella Maris Seafarers Center Songkhla

1995-1999 Translator/Field Administrator, Medecins Sans Frontieres-France

Languages (speaking & writing):
Fluent Mon, Thai, English, Burmese, Chinese, a little bit of French, German, Japanese and Arabic

Computer:
Fluent Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Buddhism in Plain English

2009-10-27T13:05:00.004+07:00

I finally ended up to Buddhism in Plain English as a theme for my blog. I've been struggled for long on which theme I should focus on, since I have too many in mind. I'm a Buddhist by birth, thanks to my parents who kept this wonderful tradition of practice. And I'm also a devoted Buddhist practitioner since I was 20 years old. Buddhism is my life.

I will share with you what I know and interested in. I will write in plain English because English is not my mother tongue and most importantly, I like to keep it simple and direct. Plain English is just what I need for such communication.

Here we go, Buddhism in Plain English.

[Photo credit: www.dhammakaya.net]

What is my true purpose in life?

2009-10-22T13:09:00.002+07:00

To be the best and richest writer in history.

So what? Well, I want to be the richest man in the world because with that, I can donate most of the money I earned to the poors and needies. And by being the best writer, I want to realized my fullest potential. I know that if a human mind is set for anything, it can achieved. Why not mine?

You can have the same goal if you want, join me in the big dreamer club. But don't forget that to success is to help other success first.

พระโพธิสัตว์

2009-10-16T17:37:00.000+07:00

พุทธภูมิธรรมของนิยตะโพธิสัตว์ ในการเพิ่มพูนบารมีให้มากยิ่งขึ้น มีน้ำใจประกอบไปด้วย พุทธภูมิธรรม 4 ประการ คือ

1. อุสสาโห คือประกอบไปด้วยพระอุตสาหะ มีความเพียรอันสลักติดแน่นในจิตใจอย่างมั่นคง
2. อุมัตโต คือประกอบด้วยปัญญา มีปัญญาเชียวชาญเฉียบคม
3. อวัตถานัง คือมีพระทัยอธิษฐานอันมั่นคง มิได้หวั่นไหวคลอนแคลน
4. หิตจริยา คือประกอบไปด้วยพระเมตตา เจรีญจิตอยู่ด้วยพรหมวิหารเป็นปกติ

อัธยาศัย ที่ทำให้พระโพธิญานของนิยตะโพธิสัตว์แก่กล้ายิ่งขึ้น มี 6 ประการ
1. เนกขัม พอใจในการรักษาศีล การบวช หรือบรรพชา
2. วิเวก พอใจอยู่ในที่สงบ
3. อโลภ พอใจในการบริจาคทาน
4. อโทส พอใจในความไม่โกรธ เจริญเมตตา
5. อโมห พอใจในการพิจารณาคุณและโทษ เจริญปัญญา
6. นิพพาน พอใจที่ยกตนออกจากภพ ไม่ยินดีในการเวียนว่ายตายเกิด ประสงค์นิพพานเป็นอย่างยิ่ง

Commitment

2009-10-16T10:04:00.000+07:00

Commitment? You may ask. Yes, commitment. The one that you give to yourself and others around you. It's the commitment that you should and must keep. It's so important, let me explain why?

Commitment, according to Merrium Webter Dictionary, means;

1 a : an act of committing to a charge or trust: as (1) : a consignment to a penal or mental institution (2) : an act of referring a matter to a legislative committee.
2 a : an agreement or pledge to do something in the future; especially : an engagement to assume a financial obligation at a future date b : something pledged c : the state or an instance of being obligated or emotionally impelled "a commitment to a cause".

For those meanings given, I like the one that says "an act of committing to a charge or trust". I personally like the word trust, a commitment to trust. The trust of yourself and the trust of the others. Commitment and Trust, these are two words of mine. Thank you for reading.

Buddhist Psychology

2009-10-15T16:20:00.000+07:00

Today, I decide to study Buddhist Psychology. And I will become a Buddhist Psychologist in 10 years. I promise to myself that this decision will be firm and unshakable one. I promised.

孙子兵法 Sun Zi Bing Fa

2009-08-26T15:37:00.000+07:00

Sun Zi's Military Philosophy (孙子兵法) or what most of us know as Sun Tsu's Art of War or Sun Zi's Art of War is my specialty. Let's explore what I know about the treatise.

Sun Zi or Philosopher Sun is the first military strategist to compile a comprehensive treatise on Military Strategy. His treatise

Writing is addictive

2009-08-26T14:10:00.000+07:00

I find it really good to know that I love writing. Writing becomes part of what I am and it helps to realize what inside of me. It's addictive and more than anything else, I love it.

Mon Programmer Resources

2009-08-04T14:56:00.000+07:00

1.OpenOffice.org The leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
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Hi, there!
I'm a Mon by birth (with some Chinese influence, but not much), and am very proud of being a Mon. My mom and dad are both Mon from Burma. I born in Thailand. Thanks to Thailand for being my birthplace.

Still, I see a lot of things going on for the Thais (โชคดีมากเลยนะครับ!). Looking back for the Mons, there're a lot of things to do or need to be done. That's the reason why I'm in the game. I gave myself a duty to study, work and read hard in order to become what I am today.

Success for Executives I

2009-02-18T07:18:00.000+07:00

If you happen to search and found this blog, the only word I can say to you, my dear friend is, "Congratulation!" You just come to the right place to learn more about Success.

I will always be there to help you and for free of charge. The only thing I will ask from you is that you have to totally commit to success. Because if you're succeed, then how many more people would be happy and enjoy your achievements? Think about your parents, wife/husband, children, friends, teachers, professors, coworkers, and whoever that close to you, how much your success is concerned. Just think about it and say to yourself that, no matter what will happen, I'll success for all the people whom I love and who also love me.

Feel free to email me: sumitpunnakari[at]gmail.com and I promise to always be there to help you.