bugs and polio dog

here in a place somewhere in b----, bugs are the size of my hand...



and there are dogs with polio.


the cardboard box is his bed. people throw trash in it. i tried to take him home with me, and when i went back to find him, they said he left. i'm not quite sure where he could have gone with his wobbly legs.

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lek & yai

I just found out that my friend's dogs were poisoned. It's a really sad day for me because I loved Lek and Yai so much. Strange things happen in MS, I don't know why anyone would do such a thing...

What I'll miss about Thailand

Typical for dogs to travel in this manner. And typical that the raw meat stand is right next to the boiled corn and hair ornaments stand in the marketplace.

thailand's method of reprimanding misbehaving cops

bbc news - thailand

china

A village that we visited to practice sampling and pre-testing of a health survey near china

back in t/b border

i was asking the secretary of the --- dept of health and welfare about the new large clinic that was just built in one of his villages, thanks to a private funder. we were just catching up, shooting the shit, we'd both been out of the town.

me: so there was an opening celebration for the clinic?
secretary: yes. lots of food. people like to eat food at celebrations.
me: how many beds does the clinic have?
secretary: twenty
me: wow, that's big.
secretary: yes it is big...but i don't think this clinic will get burned down....
me: wha?!
secretary: even though it is large, i don't think it's that much of a priority right now for the SPDC to want to attack this village. they are setting up army posts close by to do some mining, but i think they found very little valuable minerals so far. so this clinic will not be important to them...
me: oh.