Entries Tagged as 'Health'

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Cut Hair Sir? Trim Face?

I opted not to get a faecial.

Authentic Nepali Barbershop Experience
It’s not just dull scissors, dirty towels and sketchy straight razors any longer!
NOW, featuring MORE (more, more):

spine punching
eyebrow twiddling
arm pinching
nostril manipulation
earlobe flicking
temple compressing
neck cracking
collarbone stretching
forehead slapping
cheek circling
throat stretching

But wait–that’s not all. If you act now, you’ll also receive…
A SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT!
(all for the low, low [...]

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Soft Wrap: About Time For a Goldanged Salad!

Finished our last interviews day. We are pretty much done with filming. Figured we could take part in some risky behavior (not that going scurvy is not a risk). 
Now it is all about T + T = T. (Transcription & Translation is Tedium.)

Friday, June 20th, 2008

KTM is on Strike: Nobody’s Going Nowhere Today

Stayed up till 2am last night preparing for our BIG DAY of interviews. We have had this Saturday all booked up and scheduled perfectly for over a week now. We were supposed to conduct our interviews with Pragya, Manita (her mom), Shanta and her brother, Kumar, today. Saturdays are key because it is the only [...]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Bindhaya: The First Little Sister

Yesterday we visited with and briefly interviewed one party to the Creation Story of the Little Sisters Fund.
It’s a sweet story that I don’t want to spoil here, but Bindhaya was the first girl that Trevor Patzer was introduced to after he asked Usha Acharya how he might help the country of Nepal.
We had met [...]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Food, Glorious Humble Food!

Ringmo Restaurant, one of Kathmandu’s very first restaurants (36 years old, according to Dil, a co-owner), is right up the street from us.
They’re serving the food we’ve been looking for. The menu is humble and 100% homemade, as far as I can tell.

So far we’ve eaten the best hot-and-sour soup either of us has ever [...]