Monday, January 21, 2008

Hood Morning

Here's my street. We live at the end of a road, beside a transport canal. Our apartment is on the left.
Here's the ice factory. Ice boys are hot, because they lug giant bags of ice around the city.

This is the migrant workers housing. It is a big complex housing about 500 people in a tiny little space. The majority are from Burma, working both legally and illegally in the country, usually in construction, an extremely dangerous and unregulated industry; even the legal ones have hardly any rights, but it is better than living in the conflict zones in Burma, where the military attacks ethnic minority areas, raping and pillaging, forcing the people to be slave labourers.
Usually, I buy bananas for breakfast. The ladies at this stall are particularly unpleasant.

Laura buys bbq chicken, from one of about five different sellers. We call this dude Happy, cuz he's always smiling ('cept here).
This wall encloses what we call the vortex....There's something weird going on it there...I almost got hit by a sliding motorcycle on that corner...

Corner of street to work, other side of vortex. Except now we moved offices and are in a real business district... :( I guess DeeJay Domination is the best DJ in Asia.....

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