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The Place Where We Were Born

by Ginger

leaving is not the same as forgetting…
When does experience end? When does reflection begin? Until a people can reflect on where they’ve come from, they will spend all of time searching for where they are.
This is the Hmong refugee experience, reflected and refracted in the scope of a lyric documentary by Kao Kalia Yang, writer, [...]

The War of Art

by Ginger

“The War of Art”, Could Your Life Be More? by Steven Pressfield seems like an interesting book that Darly has mentioned. I believed that all of us are creative in someway but we (Lao people, including myself) don’t use our full potential because there is something that is holding most of us back that is [...]

Town & Country : TRAVEL

by salat

The cover of Town & Country’s latest travel edition features a beautiful picture of a temple in Laos. In this winter 2007 issue, there is an article written by by Laurel Delp. Delp returns 50 years later after having spent her childhood in Vientiane and Luang Prabang. There are also some really beautiful pictures taken [...]

Who Is Big Brother Mouse?

by Ginger

When I first introduced Big Brother Mouse (BBM), I didn’t expect many questions over the matter and only wrote on my post here and also my blog that “I don’t know a lot about them”, but ignorance on my part is no excuse and I feel that I owe to my readers an apology for [...]

Green Mangoes and Lemongrass

by salat

I am guilty of having a collection of neat cookbooks that I almost never use. I think I got them mainly for the pictures. There are also many Asian cookbooks out there too. And this new one I came across recently would be a great addition. It’s called “Green Mangoes and [...]

From Forum To Blog To Blook

by Ginger

I’ve to admit that I first heard of the term blog on the old Laoplanet forum back in beginning of last year, where members were debating the pros and cons of blogging, in a thread discussion of ‘to blog or not to blog’, and while I was reading it, I’ve never thought that I’d become [...]