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filed in Animals, Language, Misc. on Oct.22, 2008
Did you know that roosters in other parts of the world speak a different language than roosters in America? A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of using the word “cock-a-doodle-doo” with my European friends, and they had a good laugh at that ridiculous word. “Why?” I asked. “What do roosters say where you […]
Tags: animal sounds, cock, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, dialects, Language, onomatopoeia, rooster, translations
filed in Nepal, Photo Set, Uncategorized on Oct.19, 2008
They don’t have the whole “electricity” thing figured out yet in Nepal. The power lines here are a tangled mess of coroded wires, hanging like cobwebs, loosely strung in every which way with no semblance of a plan. The guy in the photo above is working on the power lines, apparently ignoring all the little […]
Tags: black outs, electricity, hydroelectric, infrastructure, Nepal, outages, power, power lines
filed in Animals, Nepal, Photo on Oct.11, 2008
Long cow is looooooooong! We’re now about halfway through the second half of the Annapurna Circuit (the “Jomsom Trek”), and this gigantic bovine showed up out of nowhere! My friend Brian (from Ireland) took this photo, and Hans is the one in the middle.
Tags: Annapurna Circuit, bovine, cow, Jomsom Trek, long cow, Nepal
filed in Nepal, Photo Set on Oct.10, 2008
The Dabur Foods Company owns rural Nepal. The tiny towns that dot the Annapurna Circuit are relatively untouched by modern commercialism and marketing, with one exception: Real Fruit Juice ads. The the yellow logo of the Real Fruit brand is plastered EVERYWHERE along the Jomsom Trek portion of the Annapurna. (Otherwise, there isn’t a billboard […]
Tags: advertising, Annapurna Circuit, billboards, Dabur Foods, fruit juice, Jomsom Trek, marketing, Nepal, Real, sign
filed in Animals, Culture, Nepal, Photo Set on Oct.07, 2008
These goats don’t know it, but they’re headed for the dinner table. While we were trekking around the Annapurna Circuit, the Nepalese people were in the middle of the 15-day national festival of Dasain. Dasain (sometimes “Dashain”) is a Hindu harvest festival, where families gather together, feast and make merry, recite mantras, and worship the […]
Tags: Dasain, Dashain, feast, festival, goats, Nepal, slaughter
filed in Culture, Nepal, Videos on Sep.27, 2008
This is a short video I recorded from the window of our jeep while we drove from the China border to Kathmandu. Nepal is a really great country to observe through the window of a vehicle. All the houses are built right up next to the roads (because the canyons are so steep that there […]
Tags: Bhote Kosi, drive by, Nepal, observations, village
filed in Animals, Nepal, Tibet, Videos on Sep.26, 2008
As we drive along the bumpy gravel track of the Friendship “Highway” between Tibet and Nepal, we are constantly confronted with roadblocks. The most common? Gigantic herds of goats! Apparently, the goats that people eat in Nepal are raised in the grassy plains of Tibet, and then marched along the highway down the steep, precarious […]
Tags: Friendship Highway, goats, herd, Nepal, Tibet
filed in China, Language, Photo Set on Sep.25, 2008
I’ve just spent two months in China, and despite Beijing’s best efforts to improve translations nation-wide, I’m happy to report that Chinglish is still everywhere. There’s nothing better than awesomely hilarious mistranslations! The opposite of Recycling Bathroom notice
Tags: China, Chinglish, Mandarin, mistranslation, translation
filed in Tibet, Videos on Sep.21, 2008
Our shadows taller than our souls…
Tags: desert, shadow, Tibet, video
filed in Animals, Photo Set, Tibet on Sep.20, 2008
Yaks are pretty much the coolest animal of all time. Sure, they may just be big woolly cows with sweet horns, but they’re a way of life for everyone in rural Tibet. The nomadic yak herders live in tent encampments in the windy Tibetan planes, surrounded by their herd, and yaks are the source of […]
Tags: cattle, China, Namtso Lake, Tibet, yaks