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 Monday, April 25, 2011 at 5:05AM 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