March 2006

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• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Road from Hoi An to Hué

  03.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  First grey rain in 3 months now. The land turns green green green. You’d think it was Ireland from the brochures, but for the palm trees and longhorn cows. Green paddies glow, flaring in the dim afternoon light. Sparks of white: scraps of cloth hanging from sticks topped with conical hats, sprinkled in the paddies [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Party policies allow me to live a full and productive life

  03.27.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Follow-up to that last post: I so didn’t feel inspired at 4 in the morning, as the Vietnamese seem to have two standing policies:

  Put all foreigners at the back of the bus.
  Never replace the shocks on the bus.

  But at least I have posted again – scroll down to March 6th. Funny thing: I actually [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Published again!

  03.26.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well we’ve been in Vietnam now for a few days and it’s not been as bad as all the news we’ve heard from people who’ve been. We haven’t been killed by traffic in Saigon; we haven’t been completely ripped off (only partially, and on several occasions); we haven’t had our asses dragged 5 blocks [...]

• 2006 Malaysia, 2006 SE Asia

  Article #3: Malaysia

  03.14.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  In Canada , we almost take multiculturalism for granted. Going for sushi or butter chicken in Vancouver , with a bunch of your friends, every one of them from different ethnic backgrounds, is simply no big deal; you may not even notice. Maybe it’s because modern-day Canada was built by “immigrants”, so that [...]

• 2006 Malaysia, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Welcome to the jungle

  03.07.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  While the né-Shivjis went to Singapore, the two in-law husbands (Arzoo and I) decided to hit the jungle. Taman Negara National Park holds what is reportedly the oldest rainforest in the world (130 million years) — having never suffered an ice age — and as such is home to all sorts of friendly plants and [...]

• 2006 Malaysia, 2006 SE Asia, Quixotic Notions

  Hussin and his Mah-Meri men

  03.04.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  There’s a store on the main street in Tanah Rata that sells local handicrafts. Ordinarily we’re pretty blase about these things (overpriced tourist dreck) but something made Nazma stop, and we went in. Then I looked up. Wooden masks on the walls, dozens of statues lining the showcases everwhere, and not the cheapo phony “antiques” [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  I still love Pai

  03.04.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Just a note that the Pai piece has been reposted with photos now. I’m frantically trying to post using the pseudo-modern computers here before shipping off to Cambodia tomorrow: will be too busy clambering around Angkor to write (though I guess we haven’t written much here either). Any posts on Malaysia will be backdated to [...]

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