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We are making progress with our building in Hui Kau Laam. Negotiating with the workers about the prize and discussing how to build the house wasn’t so easy, but we worked it out in the end. We are excited about the development in Hui Kau Laam. Go to our questasia website. For English or German
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Yesterday was an adventure altogether. Today I am still tired from the trip. We had to get bamboo in the forest for the new building in Hui Kau Laam. What I didn’t know was that it had rained for two days straight up in that area.Cati asked me if it is okay to go. I…
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Early tomorrow morning I will be off to Hui Kau Laam and from there off road up into the jungle. Villagers from Baan Pong have cut bamboo for the new house we are building in Hui Kau Laam. It is raining quite a bit so it will be an adventure to drive the dirt road…
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How can a little toe be so painful. I was on my way out of the house and quickly ran upstairs to get my ipod. There I kicked the bed with my little right toe. It hurt like mad. But I went downstairs and put my shoes of to go to the bank. When I…
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Yesterday when I was driving towards Hui Kau Laam I took in the scenery. It is the time of year when rainy season comes to an end. Everything is still green and the sky is clear. I drove the same road over the past eight years. I brought many people, tons of material and hopefully…
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This last days I had annoying facebook problems. It had to do that my facebook account would drop me out after a view seconds and I would have to login every time I went to another page. After restating the browser, deleting all cookies, reseting the browser etc. I figured out that the problem came…
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Bamboo comes in various sorts and sizes. I just love it. When it sways in the wind and the sound it makes.In Asia bamboo is used for almost everything. Hill-tribes depend on it on a daily basis. They build their houses from it, eat the sprouts, find edible worms in it, build all kinds of…
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Vor einem halben Jahr habe ich ein Programm endeckt mit dem ich Karteikarten schreiben kann. Anstatt wie früher eine Lernbox mit handgeschriebenen Karten zusammenzustellen, tippe ich die Wörter ins Programm und schon kann ich studieren. Das ganze nennt sich iflash von Loopware. Für Studenten, Schüler oder einfach unersätliche Wissbegierige ist iflash echt cool. Die Karten…
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I am on the way. Not only in the mountains. But also in my life. I reached mid-life (what a stupid term, especially because we don’t really know when we reached it). I realized that alot of what I learned over the years catch up with me and impact me for change. Change is good.…
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I know for my fellow Swiss this is probably old news. I red in the the Bangkok Post on Saturday that Ives Rossy crossed the chanel on September 26. 2008 with his jetwings. Then by coincidence I switched on the National Geographic Channel I they showed a documentary and the flight over the Chanel. It…