Archive for the 'Burma 2004' Category

Solving problems

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

A photographer from 7Day News came today and took my photo for their paper. And I finally finished the presentation materials for the sound workshop. I realized this was necessary to make sure that language does not become too much a barrier - it is much easier for the participants to understand if […]

Creative times

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

I just finished talking with two young Myanmar students from Kachin state. LES came with them to talk to me about computer art because last night they came over (with two other young people) and they were curious about computer art and I did ask them to come back so I could show them some […]

First web design workshop

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

I finally finished the web design workshop this afternoon. We started the workshop yesterday at 1PM and ended at 6PM (I forgot about the time and so we went overtime!). Today we started at 10AM and finished at around 5:30. We all had a wonderful time and managed to finish a web artwork, then took […]

Acquiantances

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Finished my presentation (PDF, 3.86MB) today 1-3PM at Books for All - which I enjoyed a lot and I guess the audience enjoyed as well. I was very happy to meet familiar faces there. My translator KWT recently finished his medical degree but is interested in translation work and frequently works as translator for the […]

Acclimatization

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Just my fourth day in Yangon and already I am having a bit of an asthma problem (difficulty breathing) - and I’m not quite sure if it’s an allergic reaction to food (I really love the spices) or because of the weather (very hot and humid and sudden rain in the mornings). My hosts have […]