Sao Lao

Thai horror movie, Body Sop # 19, directed by Paween Purijitpanya, for those that like scary movie. Enjoy.

Movie synopsis: A human being contains 5 liters of blood, 6 pounds of skin, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 35 million glands. It takes a human body more than 25 years of life to grow such things. But one man actually believes he can rid himself of every single piece of human flesh by just using scissors and a small surgical blade. And he is going to prove it. Chon, a med student, starts seeing a psychotherapist after he dreams about a woman who he had only met once in a restaurant.

In his dreams, a mysterious man murders her, slices her body into pieces, and flushes them down a toilet one by one. The murderous dreams haunt him into his waking memory, and eventually he feels as if his own body is being dissected and carved up by the surgical knife. Slowly, the terrifying images take control of him. He comes to believe that the dead woman is sending him messages through these nightmares. But these are not messages for him, they are meant for her murderer. They speak of revenge, and say: “I am still here.”

Last Sunday I was still too sick to be walking around Rotterdam. I wanted to send money to Laos so Johan took me to the Money Gram agent at Rotterdam Centraal station. This is the second time that I used the service of Money Gram because it is easier than going to Western Union. I normally use the service of Western Union at the post office but the worker there has to enter all the information each time. Western Union has a new policy in place for several months now that you can only pick up the money in Laos in Lao currency. You can’t sent money online either, not from the Netherlands anyway to Laos.

With Money Gram, you can take out the money in either Kip or Dollar. They would charge you one dollar to have the money in US currency. This time Aunt Kian went half and half, taking half in Kip and half in Dollar amount. Some Money Gram agents in Vientiane even open till 23:00 hour on Sunday. That is 11:00 PM.

Since I had a few minutes before the Chinese grocery store closed I decided to make a quick stop and bought ingredients for making Lao bamboo shoots soup. Having post a picture at Laovoices.com of bamboo soup, I was having a craving for it. Afterward I took Johan to my favorite Dim Sum and Noodle restaurant for dinner.

I shared the 8 pices dim sum with Johan. For the individual dim sum, he ordered something with meat and mushroom while I went for squid in spicy sauce.

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