Sao Lao

Little Sidney is a big trouble maker these days. She is almost a year old if I can remember correctly and wants to touch everything in sight and go places. When I talk to my aunts in Vientiane I can hear Sidney in the background making a fuss because she doesn’t want to lock behind bars, sort of speak. Putting her in a room with a gate locked doesn’t make Sidney very happy because she wants to go outside and play with the big kids. She can hear noises on the streets and want to take part in the action. What a friendly little baby that doesn’t afraid to hang out with big people.

These two clips were taken of Sidney around the time of the Boat Racing Festival in Vientiane (October 2007). She was 6 months and a half.

Last Wednesday was so windy over here that it made me feel sick for a couple of days. The wind was so strong and even though I had my winter cap on to cover my ears, I felt the wind and had the feeling of being under water and drowning. By the time I got to school I was feeling so dizzy and head such a headache and felt as though my head was going to explode. During the train ride to school I saw birds, mostly small and medium size ones resting on the ground. Some of them tried to fly but they didn’t last for more than a few seconds and had to huddle on the ground with their peers.

The recently bloomed flowers were taking a pretty good beating by the strong wind.

These little black birds gathered around on the ground because they couldn’t take flight long enough to get anywhere.

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Club Zaa: Pit Tamraa Saep “คลับซ่า ปิดตำราแสบ” is a Thai

Movie plot:

Every high school has to have that super cool kid and at Somchai-Saisamorn it’s Dong. He is the new kid in school – thrown out of everywhere else and with one last chance in this upscale institution. The girls go crazy for him and rain their handkerchiefs upon him in some sort of female sex ritual. The boys of course envy him. When you have the cool kid you of course need to have the nerds – but in this Thai high school all the boys seem to be nerds (and looking back, weren’t we all?) and Dong is their savior. He forms Club Zaa in order to teach them coolness; to hide their dorkiness as best they can. He drills them hard like a Marine Sergeant and teaches them how to go after the female sex with confidence - because there is of course a cool person somewhere in all of us. There is also one stringy haired dingy looking girl allowed in to the club but there seems to be little hope for her – until she magically blossoms into a beauty.