Lao Voices

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I’ve posted earlier about my relatives in Laos making khao thom for Boun Khao Phansa. Here is a video I previously posted at the old LP media section about Boun Khao Phansa.

We’re having a heat wave in our area the last couple of days; it’s in the southeastern part of the United States. Many of my friends are complaining that it’s too hot, one day last week, it was 100F, and today might reach 95F.

I’m a bit odd that I like hot weather, it makes me [...]

I just found out about “Rescue Dawn” today. It is on top of my list of summer movies to see. Since I was in Laos in January, I missed the film’s premier at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (24, January 2007). Now I have to wait till the 23rd of August to see “Rescue Dawn”. [...]

07 August
Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
One banana
One orange
Lunch:
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Forest fruit mix tea
Dinner:
Beef laap salad
Ben & Jerry New York super fudge chunk ice cream
Rooibos honey tea

A very nice song about Suanmone Town in Vientiane, Laos. Check out the beautiful scenery. This music video is dedicated to all those Tai Suanmone out there. Happy Friday all.

I don’t recall ever celebrate or take part in Boun Haw Khao Padap Din, this is the first time I’ve heard, and it’s very new to me. It is a Lao somber festival in which the living pay respects to the dead. It’s marked by a ceremony of exhuming previously buried bodies, cleaning [...]

The below article is an excerpt from the article “Laos: war against an impovered state” by Willy Van Damme translated from Dutch to English by yours truly.
In short: general Vang Pao is a drug lord and CIA agent who held many Hmong hostage in his firm grip of violence and opium trades. Vang Pao’s key [...]

This is what our parents and grandparents were going through. We all know how the war ended and so much casualties on both sides. To me, this was a domestic disputes and the children suffered when the parents are divorced and can’t work things out. It was interesting for me to watch the clips because [...]

05, August
Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
One cup cappuccino
Lunch:
One cup light soy milk
One banana
Two oranges
Dinner:
Cucumber salad
Grilled chicken
Brown rice vermicelli
One hot chocolate milk
Green tea, jasmine

Americans are classified as “hard workers”, but not necessarily the most productive, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics. It has compared America’s output per worker, and output per hour, with that of other rich countries.
Using output per hour, however, shows a different picture. Employees in Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and France all churn out [...]

Recently Ginger wrote about her visit to the Lao temple in Washington, D.C. and how she got to see a Bo (Pohl) tree. I was inspired to share a picture too. This picture is from a Bo tree at a Lao temple in northern California. I like how the new leaves start [...]

03, August
Breakfast:
One cup light soy milk
Lunch:
One banana
Two oranges
One cup light soy milk
Green tea, orange and mint flavor
Dinner:
Tum carrot
BBQ ribs
Ben & Jerry New York super fudge chunk ice cream
Green teas, jasmine flavor
Rooibos honey tea
04, August
Breakfast:
One cup cappuccino
Lunch:
One cup light soy milk
Two oranges
Dinner:
Spring rolls with shrimps and BBQ pork fillings
Ben & Jerry New York super fudge [...]

To all fans of Alexandra Bounxouei out there. Here is a karaoke from the Thai drama Pleng Ruk Rim Fang Kong, “เพลงรักริมฝั่งโขง”.

I read an interesting post at Amphone’s blog this morning on Dragon Boat Race 2007 and want to share a bit of history behind the festive event, which I posted at the old Laoplanet forum in the past.
Dragon boat racing began more than 2000 years ago on the banks of the life-sustaining rivers in [...]

After reading this article, it really surprise me that the main focus and attraction to get students to attend a university in Japan is not the quality of academics anymore, but it was the hot spring in the dormitories, which Fukuoka University of Economics is the only one that have offered this so far. [...]