For my holidays I went to Ko Lanta, an island in the Andaman sea. I was slow taking pics, but my Thai friends I met sent me some....This is Mai. Him and his friends party all night, every night. Luckily they live in Bangkok, so they've been involving me in their escapades.
Yep, reclining in a tree.
Looking a tad too happy. This is Oui, he kicks ass. Functioned as the interpreter.
A shot of the restaurant at the guest house I stayed at. And my foot.
Cambodia endured one of the worst genocides in Asia, in the 1970s and into the 80s. The Khmer Rogue, a communist group that took over the country in 1975, killed millions of people in a case of "autogenocide". The Khmer Rogue was led by a bunch of paranoid maniacs that destroyed their whole party and anyone associated with members that were considered traitors. Thousands of people died during their policies that forced everyone out of the cities and into rural workcamps. This is a school that was used by the regime as a torture centre. They were extremely systematic in recording the people they tortured and killed. The building is now a museum filled with pictures of people before they were interred. 
Some Buddhists monks erected a stupa to put the "souls" of those murdered at ease. The skulls fill the inside of the glass stupa, on the outskirts of Phomn Phen.
This is one of the tuk-tuk drivers that is stationed outside my apartment-- and his pet goat. Recently, however, the goat has mysteriously disappeared and I fear for its whereabouts. 
Apparently, if you are blind in Bangkok, your only recourse is to buy a machine that pumps backing tracks and walk around singing to it, in exchange for donations. This guy is working the weekend market.
Alternatively, if you are blind or disabled in Bangkok (Cambodia too) you can start a band and rock out with a bunch of like-situationed individuals. As pictured on the streets during a celebration for the King's birthday. Note the yellow shirts; representing the monarchy. People sport them all the time, especially on Monday cuz the King was born on monday.
I think Flava Flav is doing a stint as Mr. Thailand.
Also on the King's birthday, there was a huge outdoor concert pumping bad-ass Thai songs that resembled dancehall/dub style. The boys were pulling some crazy moves, a mix of classic Thai dance and dancehall. Thai Granny came along and taught me some moves.
This is my supervisor Ruki, a Sri Lankan. For those not in the know, I am an intern at Forum-Asia, a regional human rights ngo. I am a research assistant working on Sri Lanka and north east India, monitoring and reporting on the respective conflicts. Ruki knows how to party--hard. For those in the know, he is wearing a cobra commander hat.
