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ozlao Newbie to Lao Pride Offline I Love Laos! Posts: 2	lao parties 24^th Mar, 2011 at 4:53pm Hi i am new to vte and why there is a lack of respect from lao when theey are having parties? Neighbours etc?
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PEACE God Member Offline Posts: 719 DIN FAR Gender: Age: 53	Re: lao parties Reply #1 - 24^th Mar, 2011 at 5:35pm What do you mean? Lao people do not like you? ozlao wrote on 24^th Mar, 2011 at 4:53pm: Hi i am new to vte and why there is a lack of respect from lao when theey are having parties? Neighbours etc?
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ozlao Newbie to Lao Pride Offline I Love Laos! Posts: 2	Re: lao parties Reply #2 - 25^th Mar, 2011 at 12:34am I mean the excessively loud music to all hours of the night.
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Reply #3 - 25^th Mar, 2011 at 3:05am

We tend to get annoyed if loud music is played all night. I'm sure most people feel the same way in other countries.

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Re: lao parties
Reply #4 - 25^th Mar, 2011 at 5:57am

ozlao wrote on 24^th Mar, 2011 at 4:53pm:

Hi

i am new to vte and why there is a lack of respect from lao when theey are having parties? Neighbours etc?

Hi, mate.
There's something you should know about your new host country: Beer and partying go hand-in-hand. A mug of Beer Lao in one hand and a microphone in the other! You should stroll down to the vicinity and 'pop in'. Everybody's invited to Lao parties. You may even be peer pressured into performing your own rendition of the latest hit songs. All good fun when under the influence of alchohol (and/or drugs). Something you can reminisce and laugh off the next day you wake-up all hung over. Then do it all over again!

However, if you do reside in laos full time, then I do sympathise. Some of the howling that goes on is akin to a monkeys mating call! No bs.

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Reply #5 - 25^th Mar, 2011 at 6:58am

Larb Dip wrote on 25^th Mar, 2011 at 5:57am:

ozlao wrote on 24^th Mar, 2011 at 4:53pm:

Hi

i am new to vte and why there is a lack of respect from lao when theey are having parties? Neighbours etc?

So true

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Reply #6 - 25^th Mar, 2011 at 10:47pm

Larb Dip wrote on 25^th Mar, 2011 at 5:57am:

However, if you do reside in laos full time, then I do sympathise. Some of the howling that goes on is akin to a monkeys mating call! No bs.

I do reside here full time, and what is annoying about parties is the LEVEL they set the amplifiers to. They seem to think that loud in itself is good, the louder the better, and don't seem to notice that levels that are too loud actually distort the sound quality rather than adding to it.

That and the really annoying set up of the mikes and amplifiers which seems to go on for ever. I hear it wafting right along the river when there's a party:

"Allo.....allo...nung song sam....allo...nung song sam.......(SCREACH!)......Allo...allo...nung song sam....(SCREACH!).....nung song sam.........................(SCREACH!) allo............"

..................and on, and on, and on.

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Re: lao parties
Reply #7 - 26^th Mar, 2011 at 3:36am

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Larb Dip wrote on 25^th Mar, 2011 at 5:57am:

However, if you do reside in laos full time, then I do sympathise. Some of the howling that goes on is akin to a monkeys mating call! No bs.

Yes, we do love our (Siamese) music. Wink

We have no problems cranking the stereo decibel levels to capacity! It only sounds distorted from a distance. I can assure you that this isn't the case when heard within the confines of the venue.

I'm assuming from your complaint that you're not much of a party-goer yourself.

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Reply #8 - 26^th Mar, 2011 at 11:33pm

Larb Dip wrote on 26^th Mar, 2011 at 3:36am:

I'm assuming from your complaint that you're not much of a party-goer yourself.

You're right, but my wife loves parties. She just held one for local women to celebrate International Women's Day (it's a big day here). I went to bed before the party really got going, but posted some pictures taken of the early party moments and posted them on a forum I visited.

One forum member said it looked like a hell of a boring party. You'll probably think the same.

Have a look.

Early party guests

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=495&pictureid=4453

Starting up the BBQ

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=495&pictureid=4458

Neighbours bring their own poultry to the BBQ.

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=495&pictureid=4459

Have to invite the old ladies, too.

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=495&pictureid=4457

Who let the old man in?

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=495&pictureid=4455

The party guests are having BBQ duck and kao niaw. My wife is cooking up some steak and baked beans for me. I love Laos and its people. The food...................not so much.

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/picture.phpalbumid=494&pictureid=4450

I believe the party got quite wild later on. Lots of ten lam, karaoke, etc.

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Re: lao parties
Reply #9 - 27^th Mar, 2011 at 2:53am

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Larb Dip wrote on 26^th Mar, 2011 at 3:36am:

I'm assuming from your complaint that you're not much of a party-goer yourself.

What photo's?
I can't see anything. Maybe I'm blacklisted from that disagreement we had a while back.

Since it's an exclusive Women's party, how many times did their 'mating calls' wake you up? You know the one, shot through their throats with abandon after a joke or two. I think it goes something like this:
ooohhhwwwwwwwwwwwwww heeeuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
Once that first howls starts, it's completed collectively IN unison! Grin

Baked beans in Laos, of all places? Where do they sell such luxuries? Or do you import? Do your two boy's eat Lao food? Or do they love their baked beans just like their father?

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Reply #10 - 27^th Mar, 2011 at 7:43pm

Larb Dip wrote on 27^th Mar, 2011 at 2:53am:

Baked beans in Laos, of all places? Where do they sell such luxuries? Or do you import? Do your two boy's eat Lao food? Or do they love their baked beans just like their father?

I can see the photos. What's going on?

Administrator (or anyone): Can you see the photos?

As a Hong Kong waitress once said to me: "Yu Bleeish guys are the wors.......yu only wanna eat food like your Mummy make!"

So I eat a lot of imported food like baked beans. Trouble is - while its cheap food back home, because it's imported, it's an expensive luxury food here. Luckily, a Vientiane bakery has just started making pork pies - they're pretty good too!

My boys prefer Lao food.

After all, it's what their Mummy makes.

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Re: lao parties
Reply #11 - 27^th Mar, 2011 at 10:04pm

I can't see the photos either, sorry.

But here are some other photos for everyones viewing pleasure.

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Re: lao parties
Reply #13 - 27^th Mar, 2011 at 11:03pm

When there's a party in Laos, there's always Beerlao. And maybe some dancing.

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Larb Dip God Member Offline Lao Pride, and No. 1 Lao Pride Admin' fan from NZ! Posts: 1383 Hadxaifong, Vientiane Gender: Age: 37 Awards: 1	Re: lao parties Reply #14 - 27^th Mar, 2011 at 11:40pm No Larb dip? What's the occasion? Whay are they so happy?
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