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Niang

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About Me


I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Angkor Chey Village, Kampot Province, Cambodia.

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My Interests

books, movies, painting, gael garcia-bernal, talking crap with friends, writing, hand drums, questions about being-in-the-world, tattoos, comics/graphic novels, nip/tuck...Click here to learn what's happening in Darfur, Sudan

I'd like to meet:

Anne Carson.

Music:

Soul, Indie Rock, Reggaeton, Classic Rock, Oldies - specifically: Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Erykah Badu, Elton John, James Taylor, Juan Luis Guerra, Gypsy Kings, the Dandy Warhols, Ray LaMontagne, Shakira (in Spanish only, please), Ivy Queen, Remy Shand, Keb Mo', Ella Fitzgerald, Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack, Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Seu Jorge, Miles Davis, Missy Elliot...

Movies:

Bad Education, Steel Magnolias, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fresa y Chocolate, All About my Mother, The Life Aquatic, Beyond Borders, Lost in Translation, Billy Elliot, Constantine, Batman 1-3 and Begins, To Wong Foo - Thanks for everthing, The War, Corrina Corrina, The Shipping News, Moonstruck, A Day Without a Mexican, The Village, Anne of a Thousand Days, Splendor in the Grass, Quills, Suicide Kings, Hellboy, The English Patient, The Last Unicorn, Green Card, Frida, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Hours, Sleepers, Napoleon Dynamite, Best in Show ...

Television:

NIP/TUCK, Queer As Folk, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Miami Ink, The L Word, Blow Out, Arrested Development...

Books:

Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, J.K. Rowling, Zadie Smith, Ernest Hemingway, Alex Garland, Nina Marie Martinez, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Edward P. Jones, J.M. Coetzee...multicultural lit and women's/feminist lit

Heroes:

Sandra Cisneros, Hellboy, Reinaldo Arenas, Alice Walker, Margaret Cho, Batman, Ani Difranco, Most-Awesome-Professor Weir-Soley, Most-Awesome-Hand-Drummer Armando Mafufo...

My Blog

Video

So during our in-service traning a couple weeks ago, we visited this place called Resource Development Institute. Now they're a place that is doing some amazing work with sustainable farming, water sa...
Posted by Niang on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:44:00 PST

best night. ever.

... went to sparsely inhabited island outside Kep for King Sihanouk's Birthday weekend with a bunch of friends, new and old. Drank a few, played some drums, "sang every song that we ever knew," and we...
Posted by Niang on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:22:00 PST

3 things

1st Thing. i "chee kong" ('rode bike' in Khmer) from my village (Tboung Kmom) to the provincial capital (Kampong Cham) yesterday. Apx. 48 kilometers and even though the ride was terrific, squatti...
Posted by Niang on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:54:00 PST

PEACE CORPS

 FINALLY RECEIVED MY PEACE CORPS ASSIGNMENT!!!! Position: Teacher/Developer Location: Cambodia Leave Date: January 30th (but I'm actually leaving on Dec. 29 becuase my mom is moving to Pennsylv...
Posted by Niang on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:03:00 PST

this is 23.

So last night,  Bryan and Carmen came over to have some wine and watch Joel make this infamous cake he kept saying he was going to make for my birthday. It has peaches, caramel and strawberries a...
Posted by Niang on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:18:00 PST

Miami Book Fair Int'l

Miami Book Fair International!! ... is this upcoming weekend & weekdays and here are the things I'm interested in if anyone wants to join in: SATURDAY 12pm - General Dialogue - Dave Barry [...
Posted by Niang on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:09:00 PST

aghast

Heard this horrifying piece on NPR this morning and still haven't taken my jaw off the desk... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5701625 ... because yes, what we need more than any...
Posted by Niang on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:29:00 PST

HOOORRAAAAYYY!!!

I'VE BEEN MEDICALLY CLEARED FOR PEACE CORPS!!!!!!!   ...now just awaiting an assignment!!! ...
Posted by Niang on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:08:00 PST

my brain is rotting away

DAMN THAT PARIS HILTON AND HER CATCHY, TWINKLING LOVE-BUBBLE OF A SONG!!!! "even though the skies are rainy (lyrics?)...we can make it nice and naughty...something something something...baby iii'm pe...
Posted by Niang on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:54:00 PST

rocko's modern life

In the spirit of Bryan, I posted a subject line that entirely unrelated to the message contents. Then again, maybe not, but that was totally a fluke. I tried. Sooo...I'm in Miami. I finished my A...
Posted by Niang on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:12:00 PST