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Join our Spinn Cafe's Group on Facebook. Kong (a.k.a. Pazu) བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས། email: kongjr@gmail.com (for all general enquries about Spinn Cafe & Tibet, in English, Chinese or Thai) mobile phone in China: +86.13659523997 mobile phone in Hong Kong: +852.81915725 local line in Spinn Cafe: +86.891.6361163 twitter: spinncafe ws: http://www.pazu.com (mostly in Chinese) msn: pazu88@hotmail.com (Please introduce yourself.) Book: Author of "Spinning in Tibet, Selling Coffee in Lhasa" (Enrich Publishing, Hong Kong. Feb 2009) Kong was born in Hong Kong and graduated with a degree of Biology. Throughout the past few years he travelled extensively through Europe and Asia and has visited South Korea, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, mainland China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. He cycled with Oat from Bangkok, Thailand to Lhasa City, Tibet in 2006, the trip took them 3 months (cycling time) and they arrived in Lhasa in November. When the idea of opening a cafe popped up in their minds, naturally Kong and Oat dreamt of doing this in Lhasa, and Spinn Cafe was born. Besides managing the Spinn, Kong is also learning the Tibetan language at the moment, though rather slowly. In Feb 2009, he published his first book, "Spinning in Tibet, Selling Coffee in Lhasa" (Enrich Culture Publishing, Hong Kong). Oat . Oat was born in Chachaeongsao Province of Thailand. He became a monk for 3 weeks in 2004 in Wat Sam Kor Temple where he learnt how to chant in Pali and behave like a good guy. Oat used to be a member of the rescue team of the Vajira Hospital in Bangkok and the Thailand Cycling Club, and the bike patrol police volunteer of Ayutthaya. The wide selection of cocktails in Spinn Cafe is all his effort, apart from making you a glass of Pink Lady or Pussy Cat, he is also a bicycle enthusiast who will give you an hour-long presentation on how to ride from Lhasa to Kathmandu without any hesitation. He's also learning Mandarin Chinese at this moment. He also would like to be known for his hilarious sense of humour. Dekyi Cholga (manager) བདེ་སྐྱིད་སྒྲོན་དཀར། Cholga is going to give us a detailed interview, but at the moment she just wants to let everybody knows that her husband is very handsome. His name is Ishi-la. Ane Cholma (staff) ཨ་ནས་སྒྲོན་མ། Cholma was born in Tanja Village of Meldro Gongkar, east of Lhasa City in the Year of the Rat. She moved to Lhasa when she was 16 years old and studied Chinese in the Thongkar Language School. Meanwhile she spent 5 years working in a hotel until it was taken over by an Amdo Tibetan. Cholma has six siblings in her family and most of them are all in Lhasa right now, but one sister lives in the countryside to look after the farms. Tashi Choechon (staff) བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Choechon was born in Zhama Village of Meldro Gongkar in 1989. She spent most of her life in her hometown. Like most other girls in the countryside, she came to Lhasa to look for more work experience and opportunity. At first Choechon worked in a hotel but she got quite ill after 8 months and she decided to quit. She missed her hometown very much and went back there to look after her parents for 6 months. But again, she was so bored by the dull and peaceful life in the village and so came back to Lhasa to look for another job. Now she is working for us and we hope she will like it here. Donma Yangjom སྒྲོན་མ་དབྱངས་འཇོམས། Yangjom was born in Sekong Village of Lhokha Prefecture, she finished her secondary school education and came to help her uncle (who was a weaver) to do some houseworks. Working in our cafe is her first job ever, she is also learning English right now, she always have an English vocabulary book in her hands. Lhakchon Wangmo (staff) ལྷག་སྒྲོན་དབང་མོ། Lhakchon was born in the Year of the Dragon (1988) to a poor family in the Kachong Village of Shigatse District. She came to Lhasa when she was only 6 years old and was offered a job as a nanny for 9 years without any salary. About a year ago her boyfriend married her and when I asked her if they have any children, Lhakchon laughed shyly and said no. Lhakchon went to school for a very brief time only and she didn't have any chance for further education after she became a nanny. Her parents still live in the village of Kachong, she only visited them 3 times while she was a nanny for 9 years in Lhasa. She hasn't contacted her family for quite a while already. PS: This page contains Tibetan unicode fonts, if you have any problems displaying the text, please check out the reference written by THDL.