Creating a new space for sharing stories

Chaiyapat
2 min readSep 14, 2021
These seats are for you — Taken on a flight flying to Tokyo for my Master’s degree study

Life always moves on without you noticing. My journey is not an exception.

Several years ago when I started software development, blogging platforms were one of the first software that I learned to set up. I tinkered with WordPress, Ghost, and finally ended up using Medium Publication with the custom domain that I have. I played around with it, I wrote some stories in it.

The most successful post was the summary of English 12 tenses that I wrote in Thai. I published that in 2014 because a lot of my friends ask me about English tenses. I thought, well I’m gonna write this, and send it to my friends when I got asked. It has 2.8 million views by the time that I wrote this post. It performed well in Google search results too. A simple search term of “English 12 tenses” (original query: “อังกฤษ 12 tenses”) in Google shows my post as the first result.

Google search result of query “English 12 tenses” in Thai, showing my post as the first result
Google search result of query “English 12 tenses” in Thai, showing my post as the first result

With the success of that English tense post, I feel like I raised the bar of my site quite high. I thought maybe people expect more posts about English grammar from me. Though I am no English teacher, I am just someone who wanted to send a convenient link to my friends when asked. I always feel scared to share anything on that publication.

However, I always know from the bottom of my heart that I want to share something.

That changes today, I decided to change my place to share my stories into a personal Medium account. While PIX7.ME remains the same, doing its one and only job, providing English learners in Thai with well-summarized information of tenses in English. While my personal Medium page continues as a place for me to share random things.

One of the changes in my blog is the language that I use. I aim to write in English as there is more audience that might want to read my stories. Every once in a while, I will share my story in other languages such as Thai and Japanese.

Hope you’ll be here to read my stories :)

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Chaiyapat

An HCI enthusiast embarking on a life-long learning journey. More information at https://chaiyapat.pix7.me