nick’s (n)-line life

Discussion of the Kanamara Festival, Japan ["The Penis Festival"]

Happy Songkran everyone! สวัสดีปีใหม่ Songkran (สง�?รานต์) is the New Year festival celebrated in Thailand & Laos as well as, less ostentatiously, in Burma and Cambodia. In Thailand (and increasingly in Laos) the festival is marked by massive public water fights. Funnily enough, the water fights originally grew from people "sprinkling" water on each [...]

[pre-dated entry]
Kunming is cold. Not cold like England, admittedly but still cold. If England was an ice cube pressed against the back of your neck then Kunming would be a wet flannel to the forehead. Trust me, after the turbo-charged sauna that is Canton province this is cold enough to notice! Enough that I spent [...]

This post has been written in the form of a response to a post which appeared in An American in South East Asia.
I have tried to avoid going over old points, as far as possible, and to make sure that I focus on the criticism of my post rather than going over the substantive issues [...]