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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.

workstation

I don't really have an office here, officially. But I've adopted the Ban Thai veranda as my new workstation. I was staring at a chameleon as I drudged over writing these malaria guidelines.
Check him out, isn't he sweet? Sometimes his head turns red. I caught him on camera during his "blue" period.