Lao Voices

As I was laughing at these badly translated signs, I keep thinking to myself, maybe my English is this bad because Engrish is not my native language. When I first started writing, it was very bad; one of my teachers in High School once asked if I was playing with a dead dog, that [...]

In response to Salat’s Ginger’s very funny post “what’s your head” I have a few comparable linguistic confusions also knows as “Engrish” or “Chinglish”.
I did not know people fish like that…

You are welcome!

I think this sign can be confusing, What’s Your Head? My head? What’s wrong with it? Lol…Please don’t answer, I don’t think I want to know.

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

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 [...]

When I first saw this music video, I thought about Nye’s post on Water Lily Pond at Wat Lao Buddhavong. From what I can read, this is a Lakorn Pheng (Lao Soap Opera song) by Lao Art Media. It looks really good and I want to see it. I hope Lao Art Media will [...]

A very familiar song I heard as a kid in Laos on the radio with my Grandmother. I even knew the words to it when I saw the video for the first time in my life.

In response to Darly’s post of the movie, Rescue Dawn. I got the chance to watch and listen to Dieter’s escape from a Lao POW in the documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. This so called documentary was also directed by Werner Herzog, from the movie Rescue Dawn and came out in 1997.

When [...]

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”. [...]

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.

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