Additional photos from the Lao New Year celebration at Wattay in Vientiane, Laos. I don’t know about you but those ping kai and bung khao larm are calling me home.

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Happy Friday everyone. Here are more photos of Lao New Year celebration in Vientiane, Laos. This is from Wattay on April 13, 2008.

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Since I’ve a lot of strawberry left, I decided to try a new dish, its Som Tum and since I don’t have any papaya, I decided to substitute it with rutabaga (Thai/Lao people call it Ruba for short, it is believed to have originated from a hybrid between the turnip and wild cabbage) and instead [...]

My cousin, being the wonderful person she is, sent me a huge Edible Arrangement the other day!  Not only was the fruit incredibly fresh, it was freezing cold.  Ah, just in time for the heat!  (THANK YOU girl.  Love ya!)

And how about I bought me a new lens this week?!  I absolutely LOVE it!

The celebration of Lao New Year at Wat Simoung in Vientiane, on April 14, 2008.

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So… I was taken aback the other day when someone bluntly asked me if I ‘took all the pictures on my website’.  Do people really go around STEALING pictures off other photographers’ websites, put the photos together (in a website) and display them as their own?  I’ve met some conscious-less people in my time but [...]

The past few days I’ve been very busy so haven’t been writing so much. And along with writing goes blogging, which is distressing because writing short things is amusing and gives me a chance to relax my mind.

The world recently has not been relaxing. If someone hasn’t heard of the tragedies in Burma and China… well, maybe too poor or too far from even a radio. Unfortunately, that might be a

Yes it is not so easy to log on if the blog languge is KOREAN here :)BALI!Yes was quite difficult to leave Kota Kinabula again (flight was delayed, went back to town and had great fun playing “shithead” …)Finally after 3 days of travelling I got here…

This is a spin-off from this post, since it’s a new topic of discussion; let us start with a new topic heading to avoid confusion. Starting with Lao Buddhist comment:

“Is a Buddhist monk who buys a $100,000 car more materialistic than a monk who owns one in another way?
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Video clips of Lao New Year celebration at Hor Phra Keo in Vientiane. I have never been to this historical place for Boun Pee Mai and hope to attend the even in the future. As Khon Lao we should be there at least once in a life time.
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