Lao Voices

Breakfast:
One banana
One cup light soy milk
One cup cappuccino
Lunch:
Green papaya salad with water spinach

Dinner:
Take out Indonesian (shrimps in red coconut curry, spicy green beans, spicy aubergines) and steamed jasmine rice
Lemon grass green tea

The two posts about the bodhi tree by Ginger and Salat made me think of this video clip. The first time I saw “the leaf, not yet falling” was at the First International Conference on Lao Studies in May of 2005.

I wrote this for a friend who said, “I think God making the clock run too fast for me.”
When I think of time, a Thai song came to mind, Puen tee lek lek (A Little Space) by BOY Trai, part of the song said, being an adult is not easy, not familiar of what I [...]

After the recent Bird Flu outbreaks in Laos and the fear of human-to-human transfer of the H5N1 virus, and watching movies such as Grindhouse and 28 week later I started wondering what would happen to a society when a fullblown lethal virus would spread.
Oddly enough, the closest proxy that delivers insight to an outbreak comes [...]