Biography of ‘SomThor’ by Álison

Biography of ‘SomThor’

Som Phophet, also known as ‘Som Thor’ (Som for his first name and Thor because of a Mythological Nordic God of War), born on 13th of March 1986 in Ayutthaya, the old capital of Thailand. At the age of 4 he and his mother moved to Bangkok. His father stayed in Thailand because he was a Major in the Thai Army. Som lived in Bangkok till he was 7 and then he came over to Melbourne in southeast Australia. He has a lot of siblings who are still in Thailand and some that live in Australia too.

For Som, Melbourne its a “pretty good city, it’s known for being one of the best cities in the world, people are nice, and night town life is pretty good here”. He said that Melbourne is a very modern cultural city with people from all continents. He enjoys living in Australia because it is ‘a peaceful country and everyone is pretty modern culturally’ and he also enjoys living on an island.

SomThor finished primary school in Melbourne and then he went to ‘Springvale High’, a high school in Springvale (Australia). During the last two years in Springvale he also did a course in ‘Hospitality Commercial Cookery’ so he became a professional chef.
Having finished high school and the course he started in hospitality operations and hospitality hotels, at ‘Holmsglen Tafe’ he then went to Victoria University in Footscray where he graduated after four years.
At the moment he is not doing anything related to hospitality, but working for a retail company called ‘Calls Express’. It is a department of a major company called ‘Calls Limited’, and he works for the logistic department, the trucking area, that sends all the trucks out to the other departments.

Som’s life ‘is all right at the moment’. He wants to become a floor manager at the Crown, one of the biggest casinos in Australia located in Melbourne, ‘which is actually pretty good and the work hours as well’.
Som is just taking a break for now, working in a part-time job, clearing his mind before he gets back to his full time job.
During his free time SomThor plays an online medieval RPG (Role Playing Game) called ‘Lineage 2’. He started playing ‘L2’ around February 2009 influenced by a friend who convinced him that it is a good game. He enjoyed the game because he likes medieval and war things like war movies, because he loves history and he is very good at it. About the movies he dislikes ‘lovey dovey’ and horrors. ‘You get paranoid’ he said about the last one. His favourites are ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Brave Heart’, good military movies like ‘The Last Castle’ with Robert Redford. And he also likes comedy and drama.

He can play the piano, and learned it because he likes orchestral music and symphonies. ‘I like a little bit of everything…but no pop!’ he said. He usually listens to Hard Techno at a bar he goes to with his friends. He likes Metalica, Without Purpose, etc.

Som is always a friendly outgoing person, he likes to joke around, watch ‘racing cars imported from Japan, like Mitsubishi’, meets new people, make new friends, go to gym but first of all he loves alcohol. ‘Alcohol is always good’ he said.








Made by:
Álison Martins
With special thanks to:
My friend SomThor