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My name is Chavalin Svetanant. I graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok receiving a first-class honour degree in Japanese in March 1997. For 6 months after graduation, I worked as an interpreter of Japanese at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. I was then granted a Japanese government fellowship (Monbusho) to further my graduate study at Kyoto University. Here at Kyoto campus, we have many distinguished Thai students. They have organised a Thai Kyoto Homepage as our communication centre.

I left Bangkok for Japan on the first of October, 1997. My master programme at Kyoto University lasted for two years to finish. I remembered when I first arrived here, I stayed at the Kyoto University International House, which was really a nice place. In February 2000, I finished my master degree and was working for Ph.D. for over three years. I finished my doctorate degree in March 2003. Now I am back home in Bangkok, Thailand. I was much obliged to all who were valuable parts of my success in Japan; most especially my own sensei, Professor Masanori Uchida. I know he was very tired indeed supervising my dissertation project.

In conclusion, I lived in Kyoto City for over six years. Kyoto is the city of Japanese culture and tradition. The city became the capital of Japan in the 8th century. It was the political, economic and cultural centre of Japan until Tokyo was made the capital in the mid-19th century. There are 1,600 temples and 400 shrines in this city and all of them are fascinating.

At present, I am a full-time instructor at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Tel. 66-02-218-4750.

My father is an instructor at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; he will retire in 2004. My mother is the Senior Expert of the Department of Corrections, Ministry of Justice in Bangkok. I have one elder brother now working as a manufacturing engineer in an American company in Virginia, USA. He has one daughter born in America.

I have two lovely cats, Jiew and ET. Both are very old indeed (over 15 years old). ET is like my cat sister; she sleeps with me in the same bedroom every night.


Professor Masanori Uchida	Mom's visit during April 2001.

I have never believed myself that I did really finish doctorate degree at Kyoto University, one of the top five universities in Japan. Kyoto Imperial University was founded on June 18,1897 by Imperial Ordinance as the second university to be established in Japan. It was renamed Kyoto University in 1947. So the university has been established for 106 years in 2003.

When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man. I put a childish ways behind me.
(Corinthian 13 : 11)

Love as it is promised by the wind,
as it is tendered in the heart,
as it is written across the sky......
Love makes all things possible;
it is hope's shining star.

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you can send e-mail also to chavalins@yahoo.com

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Dog fortune teller in Kyoto City	MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 14, 2000