I have exactly 1 hour to get ready to go out for diner. Shower, mascara and essential oils in my body cream. And I am out of the door. But before that quickly some news…

Yesterday, after a long day of hunting inside manufacturers showrooms, which I will post some pictures tomorrow, I came back to the hotel, had a one hour massage and got to see the movie “Slumdog Millionnaire” with Luca.

trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q

The award winning film is about 3 Muslim street children in Mumbai, India trying to survive in a VERY hostile environment, including child labor and prostitution. I always want my kids to see how different other children live their life compared from theirs and how lucky they are…

Then at 7 pm, I met Adam and the 3 of us, we had diner at “chez Marco”, a French restaurant in Chiang Mai close by my hotel. I actually got to meet Marco, he is French from his Mom and Japanese from his Dad. He was on crutches because he almost got killed driving his scooter. He had a large scar on one side of this head and his body was kind of crooked…. I found out that number one cause of death is due to motorcycle accident in Chinag Mai… he was indeed lucky to survive the accident.

I eat nice meet, spaghetti arrabiata, beef carpaccio, a big chef salad with a nice Bordeaux.

We spoke about the refugee camps situation close to the Burma border. Adam recommended me to watch these few websites.

http://www.tbbc.org/camps/camps.htm

there are a total of 9 camps all together with people living with little hope for tomorrow.

This is a must see video documentary, about the world’s longest ongoing war. For more than 60 years, Karen rebels have been fighting a civil war against the government of Myanmar.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/201181073919760492.html

can you imagine that some of the people living there have never known anything else than war?! This is absolutely insane….

On our way walking back to the hotel, we passed by the animated night market so famously know by tourists from all over the world.

I bought 2 fabrics bags, very unique, with bright colors. The lady who makes them is an indigenous from the high mountains of Chiang Mai.

She said that she grew up making these kind of bags. She said that she has Japanese clients and actually I saw the bags for sale in Shibuya last week. Small word.

Some photos of some Akha hill tribe women & children in Chiang Rai province. So colorful, so beautiful pattern and designs! It reminds me a lot of ETRO collections actually.

Gonna go now!