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Trying to finish Cyprus trip. Four new videos uploaded into previous posts.

After trotting around Southeast Asia over the summer, I'm now back in the UK - Cambridge to be exact. Am trying my best to update as frequently as my clinical course will allow.

Entries on Italy and France two winters ago have been put on hold indefinitely. Read: possibly never. But we shall see.

Entries on Greece and Turkey last winter have also been put on hold for the time being.

Posted:
Don Det (Laos), Don Khone

Places yet to blog about:
Ban Nakasang, Champasak, Pakse, Tha Kaek, Vientienne, Vang Vien, Ban Phoudindaeng, Luang Prabang, Khon Kaen (Thailand), Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), London (England), Cambridge

Friday 7 September 2007

McDonald's II

(3 of 3 of The Two Towers)


The girl in front of him puts on her makeup. Two empty paper cups stand before her on the McDonald's tray. Her boyfriend talks to her but she's clearly not paying attention. In front of her mirror propped up against her makeup bag, she applies foundation and blush to her cheeks. Darkens her eyebrows and adds a dark blue eye shadow above her eyes. Carefully, she draws a fine line just below her eyes with one of those glitter pens. Then, blackens her eyelashes with those eyelash curlers. Her boyfriend gets up and leaves her. The lipstick follows last of all. She picks up her mirror and looks into it. Fluffs her hair. And smiles satisfactorily at her reflection. Her boyfriend returns with a tray of burgers, chips and drinks.

This is what 'New China' is all about. Not industrialization. Not modernization. But affluence and decadence.
Random thoughts at
Chronicles

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