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Awaken wins Pattaya Music Challenge
Winners and runners-up pose
with officials at the Pattaya Music Challenge 2012.
Vittaya Yoondorn
Youth band Awaken beat out 23 other rockers to win the 4th Pattaya Music
Challenge, taking home 10,000 baht in prizes.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and city officials hosted the battle of the bands
at Banglamung School Sept. 9. Fifteen of the 24 musicians ages 4-18 made the
final round.
The band Humor won second place and 8,000 baht and band P.O.T. took the
6,000 baht third-place prize.
The award for outstanding guitar work went to Thummarat Uyatrakul, of
Awaken. He took home a new electric guitar from Sound House Life and Studio
Pattaya.
In addition, the Social Welfare Department had invited Status Single, from
Mono Music Records, to play for youth to be inspired and to stay away from
drugs.
The Social Welfare Department organizes the annual Music Challenge to
provide activities to keep kids away from drugs. Officials maintain that
encouraging youngsters to take up music also can make them better citizens
when they mature.
First runner-up was Humor
band, receiving 8,000 baht from the mayor.
P.O.T. takes the 6,000 baht
third-place prize.
Contestants and honored
guests cheer for their children in the 4th Pattaya Music Challenge organized
by the Pattaya Social Welfare Department.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome
(left) presents the outstanding guitarist award to Thummarat Uyatrakul from
Awaken (right); an electric guitar from Sound House Life and Studio Pattaya
Awaken wins the title of best
youth band, and accepts the winning trophy and cash from Mayor Itthiphol
Kunplome.
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Diana Garden teaches
students table manners
Warunya Thongrod
More than 200 Banglamung students learned which fork to use at dinner
during western-style dining etiquette lessons provided by the Diana
Garden Resort.
 Banglamung
School Principal Noppadol Luangonn thanks Diana Garden Resort for sponsoring
the event.
Principal Noppadol Luangonn led the Sept. 15 field trip to the Pattaya hotel
where they were welcomed by Diana Group Managing Director Sopin Thappajug.
Hotel General Manager Thunyathep Bunkaew lectured the
Matthayom 3-4 students on manners and etiquette ranging from utensil use to
napkin folding.
 Diana
Group MD Sopin Thappajug welcomes teachers and students to the gala event.
“Banglamung School is becoming an international-standard educational
institute and since Thailand is entering the ASEAN Economic Community in
2015, I am determined to teach the children language and western social
manners,” Noppadol said. “I believe that table manners are important.”
Mattaneeya Srimunkhong, a Matthayom 4 student, agreed, saying she thinks she
and her friends will get a lot of use from the training.
Hotel General Manager
Thunyathep Bunkaew lectures the students on manners and etiquette ranging
from utensil use to napkin folding.
200 Banglamung students
attentively listen to the lecture before gaining some practical experience,
with the added bonus of enjoying a good meal.
Banglamung students learn how
to dine western style.
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Aksorn Thepprasit celebrates royal education award
Weerapong Dechbun (4th from
left), director of the Chonburi Primary Educational Office, congratulates
Aksorn Group Managing Director Nikhom Mohodrakhee (3rd left) and Aksorn
Group executives for their outstanding achievement.
Warunya Thongrod
Aksorn Thepprasit School celebrated winning the HRH Princess Sirindhorn
Royal Education Award honoring the Pattaya school as one of the year’s five
best in Thailand.
Aksorn Group Managing Director Nikhom Mohodrakhee led the Sept. 10 ceremony
with Weerapong Dechbun, director of the Chonburi Primary Educational Office,
and Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome.
In a grand procession,
students carry in a student with the royal award to be presented to school
officials.
Aksorn had been selected for evaluation in May and the
prize was awarded by Her Royal Highness July 23. The event featured
performances from different schools and a grand procession preceded
presentation of the award to Nikhom.
“The royal education award is not easily achieved because there is a tough
evaluation process and it is such an honor for Aksorn Thepprasit School to
have earned the valuable award guaranteeing the school’s quality education
system,” Weerapong said.
Principal Jeeraporn Muanginth said the school excels because it focuses not
only on academics, but students’ emotions, environment, intellect and
societal needs.
The event features
performances from different classes of the school.
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Dusit Thani funds Jittapawan College restroom renovations
Dusit Thani Hotel Pattaya and
Green Leaf Foundation executives pose for a group picture during the robes
offering ceremony at Jittapawan College.
Warunya Thongrod
The Dusit Thani Hotel and Green Leaf Foundation joined forces to renovate
restrooms at Jittapawan College.
Executives from the hotel and environmental group joined Buddhist
worshippers Sept. 12 at the college for monks to unveil the new facilities.
Thirty-six restrooms, including 23 that were are either air conditioned or
facilitate the disabled, were funded by donations from the hotel, employees,
guests and Buddhist followers. Dusit General Manager Chatchawan
Supachayanont formally presented the new facilities to Sangkharatpongsak
Wuthiyano, provost for Jittapawan College.
The hotel also presented the priest with monk robes, rice and other daily
necessities.
School officials said the old restrooms were damaged after many years of use
and the dharma school lacked the funds to do its own repairs.
(L to R) Janthra Chainam,
Srisai Suchatwuthi, Dusit Thani Hotel Pattaya GM Chatchawan Supachayanont,
and Ornop Supachayanont present alms to Provost Sangkharatpongsak Wuthiyano,
director of Jittapawan College.
The new restrooms have
facilities to accommodate the disabled.
The brand new restroom
facilities are quite ornate.
Benefactors and friends gather
for a group picture during the opening ceremony.
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Sweet smell of a great donation
Oussaneeya Puekthong, left,
and Jeremy Akoum, right, proprietors of The Perfume House, present a
donation of 13,620 baht to Father Peter Srivorakul C.Ss.R., president of the
Father Ray Foundation in Pattaya. The donation is the proceeds from an
annual soccer competition which is organized by The Perfume House and won
this year by the team from the Father Ray Children’s Home.
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