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Not far from Bangkok's Khlong Lod canal lies an optician's run by a man named Waiboon Tungyuenyong. It is set in a long row of shophouses that lines one side of Atsadang Road.
The story of the shop and its owner is replicated many times over in this part of the city, with one exception. This particular store also doubles as a purveyor of bamboo saxophones.
“Sometimes people ask me to teach them, but they don’t have the patience, and they can’t pick the wood," says Waiboon.
“I was born here, upstairs," Waiboon explains, gesturing to the ceiling. "My parents came from mainland China, and they ran a shop, like a 7-Eleven. Next door was a general store, selling hammers, nails, mosquito nets. This area was the centre of Bangkok around 80 years ago. The suburbs were just fields."
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My opinion:
I think that this sir named Waiboon Tungyuenyong would have to be an example to follow for a lot of people. Waiboon are demostrating to the world that the phrase: if you want something you can achieve it, is fully true. When Waiboon wanted play saxophone, he started learning all the tunes of the classic music listening the radio. When he had memorized all the tunes, he started to fabricate a bamboo saxophone. Waiboon had tried to make a good bamboo saxophone for four years, but one day a client in the shop asked to Waiboon if he could play one of the bamboo saxophones. Waiboon thought that the bamboo saxophone would not work, but when the client tried to play it, it sounded fine. How much people in the world that we know can try for four years fabricate something like a bomboo saxophone? I have the answer: anyone. I'm very surprise because the insistence of Waiboon to fabricate a saxophone and to achieve one of his dreams. I think that all the people will have to insist like Waiboon to achieve their dreams, if we try it we can accomplish our objectives!
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