Natural Power Part 1

Last Weekend. after I ate Lao food with Leo people in my favorite cafe (Lin's cafe, Look at pictures), I took a walk with one of my friends. Then she taught me about "Flower" and "Natural Power".

1st Pic : Name : Pak cham Pha :This flower is a symbol of Laos
2nd Pic: Name : Ton Hure Sikhi : lemon grace
3rd Pic : Name : Bai Teui : when we make ALOE Drink, they boiled and use it for taste and color.

4th Pic: Name : Dok Nuat : English Translation is "flower of Beard ". looks like bread,right?
5th pic: Name Hou Seua : when child get stomachache, it is used with tea to cure.
6th Pic : Van Chod : When we cut body, they will put this to stop bleeding.



Last picture : Name : Dok Kai : egg flower : flower is exactly EGG, 555. They just put eggs on for dry.

Recently I spent a lot of time inside,

But I realized once I look up to "THE REAL WORLD",
we have a lot of things to learn.

I didn't come here to stay inside, but to see the wild and real world!!
What do you wait, Yuki !!

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ

Introduction of the LAO FOOD Part 1

Do you want to eat??

Look at the pictures, this is THE LAO FOOD that I had never eaten before coming here.
first picture Pin maa : Dig BBQ (Tasted by Yuki)
Second picture Pin mu : PIG BBQ (Eaten by Yuki)

3rd picture : Pin jilo : Crickets (Eaten by Yuki)
4th picture : Don't know name : Cicada　（セミ） (haven't eaten by Yuki yet)

Movie Star Life is coming soon??

Another Life

A few month ago, I received a call from my Boss, "Now promotion movie for Savannakhet team is here from Thailand, and they ask me to be a main actor". And I said "That's nice, I love to promote Savannakhet (where I stay), and just a few minutes movie, no problem!!"And I went to meet the actress and casts in the movie.

But at the time I didn't expect that this would be an extremely hard work and give me a incredible experience.

In reality
This Movie name :"Savanh(Savannakhet), I love you (Koi Hak Chao in Lao, Can ruk tue in Thai)"
Place : Savannakhet city
Actor Name : Yuki
Length : Around 90 Minutes
Numbers of Scene: around 50Scenes
Number of Cut in one Scene : around 4 Cuts
Number of Take in one Scene : 4 Takes
Number of actions : around 1000 times
Nationality of Staffs : Thai and Lao
Language in Movie : Lao (me as well)
Working time : from 4:30AM to 0:00AM for 4 days.

This is the first time and maybe the last time in my life to be actor of a movie. Of cause I didn't know how to play well. But the most important thing to play is to be the person in real. I have to feel what the actor feels, I have to understand what he work, and I have to love what he loves.
So only for 4days taking the movie, but I really could feel I live another life, which is really precious and excited life.

9th to 11th of April, I will be the actor again.
And next year 2012th, it's gonna be on air!!

Official ODOP logo for the future

New ODOP logo

Our project (One District One Product Pilot Project) will finish in this Nov. The purpose of this project was/is the first trial to see how the ODOP will work in Laos. It means that ODOP or these kinda of activities such as OTOP in Thai, OPOP(One Province One Project) in Cambodia and OVOP(One Village One Product) in Japan, have all different system and scheme, though the same and concept are smiler.

For example, Laos doesn't have much business inside, so we have to depend on the business of Thailand in terms of suitable bottle, making label or whatever, otherwise we couldn't make high quality product.

And Laos doesn't have much budget for ODOP, so small unit government is really hard to support this activities, not like OTOP or OVOP. So we may need to unit the government by the regions (called regional approach).

But good point of this activities is that we can access to some good cases in Thailand, so many cases on the processes of product development can depend on the technique and knowledge of Thailand easily.

Anyway this project gonna finish soon. But I hope that they can continue ODOP activities sustainably. And I hope I can help them in the future as well.

You can see the new logo of the ODOP. This is the one Laos government made by themselves for future ODOP. How do you think??

Happy birthday my sister

Happy Birthday for my sister, Nat

On 25th of Feb, it was my Lao sister's birthday. Just a small party it was with her friends and me. thanks to blackout in Savannakhet, candle on our cake is more beautiful.
Cerebration makes people happy, so am I. That's why I love party.

Anyway thanks for everything you have done for me, Nat.
I wish you had a best year

Eco Tour in the south of Laos

Eco Tour in the south of Laos

It was first experience for me to be guide man of "Eco Tour" from Japan in south part of Laos. We visited to Banana Fiber village (Saravane), Pakse, Rattan Products village(Saravane), Temple (Savannakhet), textile village (Savannakhet) Massage place (Savannakhet) and beautiful Mekong river (Savannakhet).

Because we, producers and ODOP members, would like them to know the process and background of products before buying the products to know the "real" value, tour being able to visit to project sites was a best opportunity. (Without knowing and understanding realty, we can't know the real value of any products.)

I, myself, has a lot of new awareness in this tour. This time, I'm going to show a lot of pictures.

1st Pic : Natural dying. 2nd Pic : place to practice weaving Banana fiber. 3rd pic: experience.

Paksee pictures.　lunch in front of a beautiful water fall.

1st pic : Rattan tracking. 2nd pic : villagers. 3rd pic : opening ceremony

1st pic :Home stay program. 2nd pic : dinner with villagers. 3rd pic : Experience

1st pic : Monk gave bracelet with wish. 2nd pic : traditional Massage.
3rd pic : Mekong river sunset

They became to love place in Laos where they visited.
I loved to introduce my lovely country.
Come to join in our tour to see amazing Laos

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ

Power of tradition

Making Pyramid !!!!!

I had a muscle ache yesterday, coz I worked out for making small Pyramid whole day.
As I wrote in this blog before, our ODOP project final products, which is pottery is still on the process of making kiln by bricks. And this time we invited two OTOP Pottery Producers from Thailand to help construction of Bricks pyramid to burn bricks.

Producers made more than 3000 heavy bricks, and this time we had to carry all of them from a place to another. They are really heavy and it was really heavy work.

But you can see below pics. That is beautiful, isn't it?? This products is the one producers are making by HANDS. They don't use any electricity, every single process is by hands!!

Our ODOP project was somehow called "helpful project for laos villages". But what we are doing is supporting what they already had or used to have to make better. Basically most of the products were took over from ancient period. This is we can call "Power of tradition".

Respect what they have done
is first step for supporting them.
Without it, we can't do anything good for them.

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ