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It’s all about hearing
Tamaporn Srilinjee, of
Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, speaks to PCEC members and guests on what you need
to know about hearing loss.
It was all about hearing at the Sunday, August 21 regular
meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club at the Amari’s Tavern by the Sea
restaurant. Master of Ceremonies Richard Silverberg introduced Tamaporn
Srilinjee to speak on what you need to know about hearing loss. Before and
during the meeting, several members and guests took advantage of the free
hearing tests that were being provided by Bangkok Hospital Pattaya in their
mobile hearing booth positioned just outside the restaurant.
Tamaporn received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English
in 1999 from Burapha University (Thailand) and her Master of Education
degree in Educational Technology in 2004 from the University of Texas at
Brownsville (USA). She has been a marketing executive and training manager
with Maroongroge Co., Ltd. (Thailand distributer of hearing aids) and
international liaison for Logistic Hearing Technologies, Inc. in El Paso,
Texas (USA). She has also been a guest lecturer at Ratjapat Suan Dusit
University and the Maroongroge Training Center in Bangkok. Her mastery of
English was quite evident and led to a very interesting and informative
presentation.
Tamaporn said that she would provide information on how
we hear, hearing loss, and what can be done about it. First, with the aid of
diagrams, she described the anatomy of an ear, which has three main
components; the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. She explained
how sound is captured by the outer ear, amplified through the middle ear,
and turned into nerve impulses in the inner ear that transmit the sound to
the brain.
MC Richard Silverberg updates
members on PCEC activities for the week.
She then described two types of hearing loss; one being
conductive and the other sensory neural hearing loss (SNHL). Conductive
hearing loss can often be repaired whereas SNHL can be prevented, but not
repaired. The causes of conductive hearing loss can be impacted ear wax,
swelling, foreign objects in the ear, congenital (born without some parts of
the ear), acute barrotrauma (often experienced by divers), ostoscerosis
(more common with females where the three separate bones needed for hearing
are fused together), and cholesteatoma (a tumor that can be fatal if not
treated). Some common causes of SNHL include infection, congenital, ototoxic
poison (from medicines), noise induced, and disease or illness.
She then showed some hearing test charts noting the
results which indicate hearing loss based on the level of sound at various
frequencies with 0-25 considered normal, 26-30 small hearing loss, 31-50
being moderate, 71-90 being severe, and 91-120 being profound.
If you have hearing loss, the first step is to identify
the nature of the loss and whether it can be treated. Conductive hearing
loss can often be treated such as removing impacted wax if that is the
cause; in other cases surgery may be required. However, for SNHL, the loss
cannot be repaired. Often a hearing aid can be used.
Tamaporn noted that there has been a significant
improvement in hearing aids in recent years; some that can be placed in the
ear making them almost invisible and many can now be remotely controlled for
different hearing environments. If the hearing loss is so severe that
hearing aids do not work, she said you can have a cochlear implant
(surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound).
After Tamaporn answered many questions from the audience,
Richard Silverberg brought everyone up to date on upcoming events and called
on member Roy Albiston to conduct the always informative and sometime
humorous Open Forum where questions are asked and answered about Expat
living in Thailand, recommendations for restaurants and movies are made, an
and perhaps a joke or two are told.
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PILC holds White Tea Party at Sheraton
Almost everyone was beautifully dressed in
white at the latest PILC monthly coffee get-together.
This month, 60 ladies from the Pattaya International
Ladies Club (PILC) arrived at the wonderful Sheraton hotel on Tuesday,
August 16 for their coffee get-together. The theme was “White Tea Party” and
almost everyone was beautifully dressed in white. The hospitality team,
Alvi, Ananya and Paque, had organized a so-called “media darling” contest,
which was won by Pat Burbridge.
Derek Franklin from the Father Ray Foundation also came
along. On this day it was exactly 8 years ago that Father Ray Brennan passed
away and he presented the PILC with a certificate of appreciation. He also
sold many tickets for the Lucky Draw on October, 7. Fantastic prizes to be
won!
The Sheraton Hotel served us coffee, tea and water, and
delicious sandwiches, scones and macaroons. We all had a very pleasant
morning.
Dusit Thani Pattaya shares success
of Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala and Auction 2011
Her Royal Highness Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn grants an audience to the organizers of the charity
dinner and auction as well as the general managers of the country’s top
hotels and resorts including Chatchawal Supachayanont (front, 3rd right), GM
of the Dusit Thani Pattaya.
Vanjie Lauzon
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously presided
over the third annual Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala Dinner & Auction held at
the Royal Ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok on August 4.
The culinary extravaganza raised almost 12 million baht,
proceeds of which were donated to the Princess’s Border Patrol Police
Schools project, which looks after underprivileged schoolchildren in the
border areas of northern Thailand.
The gourmet fest is the brainchild of siblings Nuntiya
and Patcharin Hame-Ung-Gull of Gourmet One and Beverage One importers and
suppliers of fine foods, who launched the first event in 2009 with the
collaboration of the Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok and the Tourism Authority of
Thailand.
This year the setting saw a combination of creativity and
style when 23 executive chefs from various five-star resorts and hotels in
the country, including Thai Airways International, gathered to showcase
their culinary panache in creating a 9-course gourmet menu for the guests.
Dusit Thani Pattaya’s
Executive Chef Adrian W. O’Herlihy (left) stands proudly with Thailand’s top
executive chefs selected to participate in the prestigious 2011 Bangkok
Chefs Charity Gala and Auction.
Dusit Thani Pattaya’s Executive Chef Adrian W. O’Herlihy
worked with his team composed of Chef Jose Borja (Renaissance Bangkok
Ratchaprasong Hotel), Chef Mario Hofmann (Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok),
Chef Dominique Bugnand (Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Chiang Mai) and Chef
Santo Zoppies (Thai Airways International) in creating the selection of
canap้s and hors d’oeuvres.
“It’s a truly exciting experience for me to have been
part of the Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala and Auction 2011. The privilege and
honour to have worked hand in hand with the most brilliant chefs in the
kingdom was just fantastic knowing that we were doing something we loved and
for a great cause,” says Chef Adrian.
The 22 participating hotels included Dusit Thani Pattaya,
Dusit Thani Bangkok, Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre, Four Seasons
Hotel Bangkok, Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok, Grand Millennium Sukhumvit
Bangkok, InterContinental Hotel, JW Marriott Hotel, Siam Kempinski Hotel, Le
Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, Plaza Athenee
Bangkok, Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel, Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel,
Shangrila Hotel Bangkok, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Bangkok, Sukhothai
Bangkok, Banyan Tree Hotel, Landmark Bangkok, Renaissance Hotel, St. Regis
Hotel, Oriental Darathevi Chiang Mai and Thai Airways International.
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Lucky winner of Dine ‘n’ Fly Campaign at Hilton
Pattaya announced
(L to R) Simon Bender, Food &
Beverage Manager, Hilton Pattaya; Montree Sattham, Director of Human
Resources, Hilton Pattaya; Pol. Maj. Aroon Promphan, Tourist Police Division
Pattaya; Harald Feurstein, General Manager, Hilton Pattaya; Peta Ruiter,
Director of Business Development, Hilton Pattaya.
Hilton Pattaya this week announced the lucky winner,
Kullanith Chalanak (Ticket number 0835), for its promotional campaign ‘Dine
‘n’ Fly with Hilton Pattaya’.
The prize includes return airfares for two, two nights’
accommodation and daily breakfast at Conrad Hong Kong. There is one more
great holiday to be won and this fabulous experience of dining at the Hilton
Pattaya continues until 30 September 2011.
Lions Club offers lunch for 200
Donates scholarships, medical equipment
The Lions Club of Pattaya,
helped by Lions Somsak and Sunee Nakhson, donate wheelchairs to Somdej Na
Sriracha Hospital.
Montree Kotchawong
The Lions Club of Pattaya hosted lunch for more than 200
students, monks and families and donated medical equipment, scholarships and
food to those in need.
The Aug. 20 event at the Nakhson residence in Pattaya was
organized by members Somsak and Sunee Nakhson and saw 38 monks and four nuns
from Thamsamakhee Temple conduct a prayer ceremony and provide those in
attendance a chance to make merit.
Lunch for the monks and for students and parents from
five Pattaya schools followed.
The Lions also donated aluminum rings to be used as
material to make prostheses for Banglamung Hospital; 10 wheelchairs to
Somdej Na Sriracha Hospital, 25 scholarships to five schools in Phak Hai; 13
scholarships to journalists’ children and more than 200 packs of rice and
dried food to people with low income.
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