We're sitting in one of the Thai Airways Royal Silk Lounges at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International airport, waiting to board.

We arrived at the airport with lots of time to spare, but the lines were ginormous.

We persevered, and ended up getting an upgrade to Economy Premium, although we're not in the same row. We'll try nicely to get seats next to each other...

Anyhow, it's a good 17 hour flight before we land at JFK and then taxi over to La Guardia for a flight back to Toronto.

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Yesterday (8 March) for International Women's Day, Ending Inpunity for Violence Against Women, I was asked to take photos during the UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot's address at UNESCAP.

The message is sobering because as real development progress has happened in developing countries, violence against women has not been fully tackled and building a real awareness in developing countries is still a challenge. I believe that this major issue will be a drag against development and progress if it remains underground and/or ignored.

The photographs are highlighted in the featured story on UNAIDS website.

View the photo gallery

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Happy New Year... well, Happy Chinese New Year of the Pig?

I've been very much absent from any writing and blogging as of late, so here are my so-called good excuses: I've gotten married, work is more-or-less consuming, my hobbies (photography) are starting to ramp up, and oh... I just got married.

I can't believe it's been over 3 months since our wedding, and time has really seemed to have flown by. During this time, I felt that my blogging and photo posts were on hold until I could finally get myself a round tuit. So, here's a post to get the new year rolling.