Bangkok Trip, June, 2008

Delicious Ice creams

Oh I had a wonderful holiday in Bangkok with my husband last week. This was our third trip together and we had fun, not exploring the new places but eating and shopping. Though I find shopping, hectic and tiresome but it is fun sometimes. Food in Thailand is always good for the meat lovers and we both had fun, though he was kinda sick with an upset stomach (that didn’t stop him of eating). Whenever I am there I am always amazed to see women all over the place. Be it in the clothes shop or a car shop or even in the computer shops, more than ninety percent, we find that women are taking care of their business. I wonder what does men do, and where are they, if not to be seen around.

The gals works so hard and all those beautiful young girls who we see with the foreigners, I feel thay have their own sad stories to share. Once I read a book called "My name is Lon. You love me?" Tells the story of a gals journey as how she becomes a prostitute and struggles to keep up with life to secure her families needs. Many times I wonder how they communicate with their clients with such limited or no English.

Whatever the reason, I love the way they talk and say " No Have" or "Swa dee kha " and I just try and say "Kha pan kha" or "Thank you".

Gaidakot Visit

Training is over and it went good. More than training I was happy to visit the fields. We went to the two villages of Nawalparasi, Pabitranagar and Dundheni. Met lots of local people, saw their lives, spoke to them clicked snaps. There was this particular incident I want to share, I was taking picture of an 11 year old girl. Her name was Chun Kumari Kulami and studies at class one. After taking her picture, I showed it to her and and she asked me innocently, when is she going to get her picture. I didn't reply, coz I myself didn't knew the answer. She was so soft spoken that I could hardly hear what she was saying to me. She was on her own world, day dreaming about the pictures. She was confused as to which corner of her house was she going to fit her two picture. She was talking to herself, and even asked me and then answered herself that she was going to put one in her house and one in her aunt's house. I felt sad coz I was so stupid that I couldn't even tell her that I would send it to her as I didn't know when I would be going back to her village again. I have posted here one of her snaps and one with her friends all in a happy mood, smiling for the camera.