Lao Voices

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Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
One banana
Two mandarin oranges
Lunch:
Stir fry mixed vegetables
Steamed brown rice
Fruit mixed tea

Dinner:
Salmon salad
Rooibos honey tea

I feel a bit Laosey today and ran across some Lao videos by Settha100, his message ‘We are all Lao, Lao make, Lao products, Lao use, Lao share, Lao Pride and keep it Pride.’
Makes me wonder why I don’t listen more to Lao music, Enjoy!

Part 2 of Lao Wedding at Ban Sisavath Vientiane. The wedding reception was at Hotel Cosmo and Restaurant. This is a very popular place for those hiso (Lao term for high society) people to have a big event hosted there.

Greeting the guests and photo time.

Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
One banana
Two mandarin oranges
Peach tea
Dinner:
Meat balls soup

I think when we’re buying things at Wat (temple), during Boun Wat; our guard are low because we just wouldn’t expect people to sell counterfeit goods.
I’m sharing this experience with you, fell like we’ve been ribbed off, this is not to point my finger at anyone in particular but if I’ve known this, it wouldn’t [...]

As an addition to “What is up with the Thai bashing” I will try to make the point that Thai bashing by certain Lao people is not only pointless but also very counterproductive to Laos. The issues of kinship and cultural ties of Laos and Thailand have already been made. I want to emphasize a [...]

It is only human to criticize others, but before we do that, we should look at ourselves. We had a big discussion before of what it means to be Laotian and one poster said that the father of the child has to be Laotian for the father is the one that carries the Lao gene. [...]

Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
One banana
Two mandarin oranges
Dinner:
Green papaya salad
Brown rice vermicelli
Water spinach
Wing beans
Pork rinds

Video description: Lao Wedding at Ban Sisavath Vientiane.

First part of Lao Wedding in the morning at bride’s house.

No breakfast
Lunch:
One cup light soy milk
One banana
Two mandarin oranges
Dinner:
Beef laap on a bed of lettuce mix

Video description: 2007 World Vision Australia Youth Ambassadors talk about their experience of poverty in Laos.

Beauty pageants that are still in Laos, went to visit Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge, which they signed a guess book and were greeted by a Lao official that explained interesting information in detail. Source.

Video description: Thursday July 12, 2007. Former General Vang Pao will be released tonight or tomorrow, with $1.5 million bail.

Video description: A bail hearing in Sacramento for Gen. Vang Pao and 10 other men accused of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos was disrupted Thursday morning by a medical emergency.