Postcard from Laos. - Happy New Year 2553

...It was a very staid affair by Laos standards. People started drifting off around 4...the drunk drivers that would be around. Laos has developed to the stage where they...do enjoy the company of the ordinary Laos person. They are much less pretentious and socially inhibited than the high-so Laos. It was not long before I really...their lack of english and my woeful Laos did not inhibit communication or the ...

a pill a day keeps the doctor away

..., I have always found them cheap and readily available without a script everywhere. Health services in this country are not the greatest. In fact they are pretty basic, so most expats (and quite a few Laos) go to the expensive Australian embassy doctor or if it can wait go to the Hospital in Nong Khai in Thailand. Last month I went to the Wattana Private Hospital in Thailand to have a plantar ...

THE LAST TEN YEARS

... It was as if, when arriving at immigration, I was handed a big bag containing a BRAND NEW LIFE. Since coming to Korea I've traveled to following countries: Japan (3 times), China(3 times), Vietnam, Laos (3 times), Cambodia (twice), Thailand (3 times), New Zealand, and Myanmar (very briefly but I got the fuckin' stamp). I've been back home five or six times and am heading to The Philippines in a...

Happy Birthday!

...and their actual ages were estimated. Many came from poverty we can't imagine, so the thought of celebrating a birthday with a party or gifts was just as unimaginable to them. These people came from Laos or Ethiopia, from Burma or the Sudan. So, after a year where I missed nearly every one of my flisters' birthdays, I want to virtually acknowledge the thousands that for the first time today are...

Tell-tail

... then brushing it across her brow, repeating this several times before she answered, "I didn't go too far. I stayed on the continent, traveling southward for the most part. I did stop in Nepal and Laos, but I mainly lived in the Philippines and Indonesia." He smiled. "I'm sure you've a hundred tales to regale me with." "I bet I have." They momentarily sat in silence, comfortably staring at one ...

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

... fortress and claim the nearby territory in the name of Laos or Burkina Faso or something. But getting it to Laos would be somewhat of an issue, since you couldn't ... of shipping fees. The solution to this is simple. Laos has monkeys, oil, gas, tires, metal and blowtorches. Just ...m boring. We don't have to get it to Laos, we just have to plant the flag in the ground....

topology

Sinxay, a Laos folklore hero, fires a blazing arrow to light the cauldron at the 24th SEA Games in Vientiane, Laos  Can anyone explain why if I carefully coil up the cable for the power pack to my laptop before putting in in my backpack it invariably comes out tangled and I spend ages untangling it before I can ...

... down to the end of the island and caught a little long boat out to the middle of the Mekong, between Laos & Cambodia, and sat out there on a rock and watched the fresh water Mekong dolphins swim by. Yay! Watched a ... walk to the other side. It's quite funny all the fees - $1 to stamp the passport to leave Laos. Then $1 for a piece of paper saying I dont have swine flu, then another $1 (on top of ...

because everybody's after love.

... occasion, boo. i recently met up with a few friends, and now my ideas have somewhat turned radical; im thinking that perhaps saini and i could backpack through Southeast Asia covering Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. haha berangan. im useless on a bike and helpless when it comes to battling cockroaches in dingy hostels so im thinking this could possibly be the worst idea. of ...

Ant egg soup

So my Asian side of the family introduced me to a new strange food: ant eggs. They taught me how to prepare Ant Egg Soup and made me strain the ant eggs which helped me get used to them. Some of them were partly hatched and staring at me, a few were fully grown. It didn't gross me out since they were all dead. Come time the dish was done I just took a spoonful without thinking about it. The eggs...