Nepal
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Batuta
Nepal
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Batuta
The Aphrodisiac Restaurant
It is hard to forget a date in an aphrodisiac restaurant. Mochitos. Photo courtesy of www.or2k.org I remember the day. 29th May 2011. A beautiful evening in Kathmandu. The threat …
No Sex in this Honeymoon
I woke up this morning thinking about Ha Long Bay, for no particular reason. I’ve never been there, only seen it in photos, but it is what I dream about …
Open Fly at the Airport
Last week, I got an email from the most important documentary film festival, www.idfa.nl. They accepted my first feature length piece of work, Untouchable Love, in their Docs for Sale section. How I wish …
Happy-sad to be back home
Finally, I’m back home. I don’t know if I’m happy or sad. Maybe both. I returned at a period when the economy is in crisis. Inflation is soaring and the …
My Friend is a Prostitute
This is a goodbye Nepal post. It’s been almost twenty hectic months. Now, three documentaries later, I’m finally going home. Today, I have a screening of one of the three …
The Magic Song
There is a magic song in Nepal. If you sing it to a girl, she automatically falls in love with you, or whoever hears you singing it will offer you a bride. That is the superstition around the song!
My Favourite Inter-racial Movies
“Mississippi Masala” (1991) I like this one very much. It’s a beautiful story, makes you believe in love, and many say it’s the first time that Denzel Washington undressed and …
Bathing at the Roadside
Every morning, as I walk to work, I pass by the bathrooms of my neighbors. Well, not really bathrooms, for there are no walls, no tiles, no sink, no taps, …
Living in Public
You certainly have heard of all this noise people are making about the internet ripping away all our privacy and making us live in some Big Brother’s House? Well, if you come to Nepal, you’ll get a feeling of what it is to live in public.
Water! Water! I’m Burning Up!
Yesterday was the worst day of the year – well, apart from that day in January when I had two heaters running and yet I still felt frozen. One of …
Inter-racial Blues
I recently remembered a saga that happened about four years ago, in 2007. A friend of mine from the US came to Uganda on a filmmaking workshop – or something …
Snake in the Backyard.
After two weeks of beautiful weather and incredible time with an incredible girl in incredible circumstances, I’m back in my small and very boring town. Very hot here. 35 degrees, …