Funny story. My wife and I were watching and listening to some You Tube videos the other night, like we do often. Many times she tells me she knows this person or that person from the music videos or pictures of Vientiane that I click on. Anyway, the other night, I typed "classic Lao song" in the search window of You Tube, and clicked on a video.

A couple of seconds later, my wife said, "Honey, that is my cousin. It is my mother's, brother's grand-daughter." I think I said something like, "What?" We still sometimes lose each other in translation. 555 Anyway, to make a long story short, the girl is the second cousin to my wife's children. I'm not sure what cousin that makes her to my wife. Maybe 2^nd cousin once removed. I never understood that "removed" part of relationship. So I will not try to figure it out now.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbkm4I1GiU

Enjoy the video! BTW, she is now married and semi-retired I believe.


Mittaphone Vilahack

I just linked it using the insert hyperlink button (the first one, the one with the globe). As for inserting a video directly, I have no idea.

Thanks Admin.  I'll try it here.

She also said she was on a 'longtail boat' when what she was on was like this:



I'm not sure what the English name for that kind of boat is but, my understanding is a Lao 'longtail boat' is this:

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 31^st Mar, 2011 at 10:23pm:


Some of the things Lao expats (living outside of Laos) say here are also not true.

I spend a lot of time online correcting western views of Laos.  So many people think Laos is a cruel repressive place run by evil old men, where nobody can own property, nobody can own a business, nobody can choose what work they want to do, etc. etc. and where people are routinely carted off by the authorities to be tortured and break rocks in a concentration camp for the slightest infringement.

It's not true!

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 31^st Mar, 2011 at 5:43am:


Thank Admins. How about posting a picture? I still don't know how to do it. Let say you want to copy and paste picture on LP forum.

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The girl in the picture doesn't look like the one in the video?? Are you saying Mittaphone is the girl in the video??

BorLeumBanGerd wrote on 31^st Mar, 2011 at 11:54pm:


The video, I understand was made 4 or 5 years ago. She has since married and has children. She was 16 years old in the video. I think she is 21 in the photo. People change. God knows, raising a family will age you. I know.