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The next time I am in Laos, I’m going to spend a day visiting Nam Ngum Dam. I can see grilled fish on the menu for the next day.

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 [...]

No breakfast
Lunch:
Sub Way ham, turkey, and roast beef sandwich
One cup cappuccino
Dinner:
Green papaya salad, brown rice vermicelli, water spinach, and wing beans

As I was adding a short clip of Alexandra Bounxouei at Laomusic.la’s video section, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the young Lao idol. Here was a clip of her at Wattay Airport International, showing to the world of her arrival and being greeted by her family, on August 16, 2007.
Are we (the fans) [...]

Most Lao families probably have a couple of traditional silk scarves already. But in case anyone is still looking for one, this company A World of Good has them for sale at $20. They also sell Lao made placemats and handbags too. Each one of your purchases will go a long way. [...]

Sometimes there is a rainbow at the end of a rain and when you don’t expect it, you can even witness a double rainbow. This was what I saw earlier today.

No breakfast
Lunch:
Hot dog
Green tea
Dinner:
Grilled chicken (ginger and oyster sauce seasoning) salad with mango yogurt dressing
One cup cappuccino
Fruit mix tea

A female version of “I love you with all my heart” Lao soap opera music video, produced by Lao Art Media.

Continued from Part I
The belief of ghost in the house not only dictates our sleeping positions, but also our waking up in the morning, it has to be early in the morning for it to be Sirimoungkhoun (lucky, karma, or prosperous.) Back when I was little, we didn’t have an alarm clock, no need [...]

I visited Laomusic.la a couple of days back and thought Darly has gone mad in changing her websites name. I knew in the back of my mind that Dot-la stands for our country, Laos. I’m wondering how many different Lao websites will be switching over to Dot-la, and if this is going to [...]

Dot La. This official Lao top level domain extension was sold to the highest bidder and is now mostly used under the flag of Los Angeles…. That does not matter to us. We will simply reclaim all dot la domains, one at a time
Starting with two revamped sites. Laomusic.la migrated [...]