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I've been a bit busy the last few days but I've joined the offsite forum now. Username, Rebel_Without_A_Clue

No problem. I actually had the day off on friday and spent basically the entire day on BB. I think most things are set up now. We just need to get the last of the mentors in place and it will be all good.

Thanks for the staff recap Yoda!

It looks really good indeed. Now, hope to see us gain the excepted results ;-).

A tiny question: what's the official Indian language?

Good question. I will defer to the Indian players but when there I had no issue using English everywhere and I think it is the second official language. Obviously Hindi is the first official language but I think Urdu is also very popular as is Nepali, Punjabi, Bengali etc but I think the people that have these as a first language use English as the common medium. But I could be wrong.

Yep, because in Prathet Thai for example, we have some players that doesn't leave in Thailand. I'm Lao for example... It can be interesting to use the appropriate language to try and comfort Indians on BB!

Last edited by Pipat Kitamakin at 5/2/2011 6:36:42 AM

There are like 27 official languages in India or something like that :P Unbelievable.

Yes every state is allowed to have its own official languages, very confusing.

I'm Lao for example

#23 I don't want to criticise your nation but...it has to be one of the most crazy places I have ever visited.

Vientiane was actually beautiful and fairly chilled out, considering it is still a Maoist dictatorship and there is an insurgency going on. There were some amazing places to visit, amazing tmples, cool restaurants by the river, sipping coconut juice by the Mekong at dusk was wonderful. I think there was one set of trafic lights in the capital, just outside the Presidential Palace right?

Then we went to Phonsavan. People there use bombs for everything. I sat on bomb chairs. Walked past bomb fences. Sat in bomb decoreted cafes. Ate off a bomb spoon. Wow. The Plain of Jars was amazing, but guess what? More bombs just siting around.

Next we went to Luang Prabang. People we know were shot on the way there by Hmong rebels. We planned to stay a couple of days but instead stayed two weeks. It is like paradise on earth. Well for a visitor anyway. So many great adventures and things to see there. Only bad thing a smashed a tooth in half and had to wait until I was back home to get it fixed so that hurt a lot for ages.

Loved Lao, had an amazing time, would love to go back some time, but probably never will.

Last edited by yodabig at 5/2/2011 10:49:44 AM

What do you mean by trafic lights?... my English knows some limits, even with a translator =P.

Ahhhh, Phonsavan... Yeah, this city meets a lot of bomb issues. Mine-clearing operations are still taking place today. & not only in Phonsavan. There are too much bombs in Laos. The colonial period (with the Indochina dissolution) and the wars that regularly took place still have an impact in nowadays lives.

Luang Prabang is known from tourists. People appreciate Laos because most of our landscape is still savage, primitive. You won't meet buildings like in Macao or Thailand for example.

Hope for you to come back in Laos again won day. It's a different place... Another way of seeing and enjoying life.

Traffic lights. An interesction with lights. Red, yellow and green. I only remember seeing one in the entire country.

Use English. It simplifies things unless two people know each other well.