Aide Memoire
My memory needs all the help it can get and though I scribble down all kinds of things in my take-everywhere-notebook, this morning I find myself thinking that I need to make a list of things to research further once a reliable internet connection is available.
From Bangkok:
- Fingerprint patterns on terracotta pots
- Clay rollers from Ban Chiang, used for printing patterns
- What really happened to Jim Thompson?
From Kuala Lumpur:
- The different shapes and folds of the various Sultans’ headgear
Update on 2011-04-25 04:18 by Gill Thomas
From the lectures on board:
- www.5thpillar.org and the zero rupee note
- ipaidabribe.com
Books recommended by friends
- The Space Between Us
- Those who saved us
- The Weight of Water
- The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
From India
- different ways to fold a saree
- the "Song of the Lunghi"
- the Mahabharata
- Noor Jehan
- Kolam rice paint designs
From Sri Lanka
- the Giant Squirrel (!)
- moonstones
- temple entrances
- more about Polonnaruwa
- "Vatadge"
- pottery shapes and symbols pressed into coins
- Sinhalese script
- Mrs DE Chitty, whose house we so admired