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You know where I want to be right at this precise moment ? I want to be on the banks of the Mekong River in Vientiane in Laos. Right now, the sun would just be hitting the horizon, the sky …

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This story is a few weeks old. It’s been a long road, getting back to Australia, and I’ve had to pass through Malaysia and then travel hundreds of kilometres through various Australian cities before reaching my temporary “home” here. I …

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I watched a great movie tonight. I figured it would be good, because the cover just looked awesome. It was clearly a bunch of mostly middle-aged guys who were in a rock band in college, but they are forced out …

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Yes it’s another movie review ! I know I know, these aren’t travel stories, but appreciating foreign culture is part of what travelling is about, and despite having access to a large number of Asian movies on BitTorrent, there is …

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Paper cranes and fireworks

NOTE: I originally posted this on one of my (many) other blogs, but in retrospect I think it’s quite suited for here. While it’s specifically about two stories of East Asian origin, I had always intended for this blog to …

 

Riding Through Laos

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I know I haven’t talked very much about my time in Laos. I was without convenient computer access at the time so I was unable to write the sort of lengthy articles that my activities normally deserve, although I still …

 

A slow boat through Bangkok

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Yesterday I wanted to go into the western part of the city. It’s where most of the government offices are, the King’s palace is there, and there’s also a bustling tourist district there. But it’s for the newbie tourists. It’s …

 

Bangkok at Night

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So I recently showed you my neighbourhood in the morning. But how about at night ? Well, in Bangkok, you can never see the stars. You’ll see a dusky red moon, but never a star in the sky. I didn’t …

 

Bangkok Girl – Falang (Behind Bangkok’s Smile)

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I have been watching some movies with the residents lately, since noone has a DVD player and we are sick of HBO nonsense. I played them the Aussie classic “He Died with a Felafel in his Hand” by British writer …

 

Getting change in Thailand

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I had what was surely my longest all-Thai language interaction this morning. I couldn’t call it a conversation, but it was an interaction. I needed two 10 baht coins for the washing machine, and you just never seem to get …