If the US wants to get serious about public health, perhaps we should take a page out of Bangkok’s book and start offering free outdoor aerobics classes. Must be a Southeast Asian thing — I’ve seen it done in Vientiane, Laos: aerobics, Thailand, Bangkok, Laos
Tag Archives: SE Asia
Manila’s Hobbit House Bar
I’ve talked to people who’ve been to The Hobbit House Bar in Manila — the joint is owned and run by little people. Supposedly the atmosphere is not exploitative at all; they’ve apparently got good live music and tasty vittles. Next time I’m in the Philippines, it’s at the top of my to-do list. Hobbit+House, […]
“From Portland to Phnom Penh”
Michele McLellan: “How I learned to relax and build a house on the Mekong River.” Cambodia
Amazing Photos from Burma
Some truly stunning pics. Click on thumbnails for related galleries and narration. (Via Gridskipper.) Myanmar, Burma
My Metro Card Collection: Caught on Film
As I’ve mentioned before, I collect metro cards from around the world. And I received a nice item in the mail yesterday from Miles B. and Susie: a Boston T card. (I’ve ridden on the T a few times but have always forgotten to snag a card for my collection.) Many thanks, you two. I […]
Haze in KL
BBC: Malaysia has announced a state of emergency in two towns after air pollution reached dangerous levels. The pollution is blamed on fires lit to clear land in neighbouring Indonesia, seriously affecting air quality and visibility across the Malacca Strait. Air quality readings taken in the two towns showed pollution markers to be above the […]
Vietnam War Reenactors
WaPo: “Vietnam Buffs Bring Jungle to Va.: Reenactors Evoke a War Many Would Rather Forget” I consider myself to be way ahead of the curve, so I shall be staging an Iraq war re-enactment this weekend in the Arizona desert. (I’ve got Syria, Iran, and North Korea re-enactments tentatively planned for next summer contingent upon […]
The Largest WiFi Hotspot in the World is in…
Tokyo? Nope. Seoul? Uh-uh. London? No. New York? Try again. As the New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof says in his column today*, it’s in Hermiston, Oregon, a town of less than 25,000. Amazing stuff — the hotspot stretches for some 600 square miles. (My Dad lives in Pendleton, not far away.) WiFi, Oregon, Kristof, Cambodia
Cambodian Gubment Sez: Stop Sending Nudie Pics Via Mobile Phones!
AFP: “PHNOM PENH – A teenage craze for sending doctored naked images of female celebrities to each other by mobile phones sparked a demand by a Cambodian minister for government action against pornography. Cambodia, phonecam
Nap Cap Pricing and Indigenous Indonesian Clog Wearing Customs
In an ongoing email thread, my Dad and I have been pondering an interesting question he raised: since Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch, did the native population ever take to wearing clogs? He writes: Newl- Did you notice that the NC [Ed — he’s referring, of course, to the previously-mentioned Nap Cap] is $99.95! […]