Sabaidee

About

🙏 Sabaidee (ສະບາຍດີ) is a commonly used expression in Lao cultures and is a warm greeting to strangers, friends, and family alike. Also, the very first lesson in HTML is printing the phrase "Hello, World!" to the World Wide Web. And in polymerizing these two ideas, Sabaidee World was born, welcome! Follow along with me as I share codeblocks I'm learning and updates from my life as a Lao American.

 
1. <!DOCTYPE html>
2. <html>
3. <head>
4. <title>Sabaidee</title>
5. </head>
6. <body>
7. <h1>Hello (Sabaidee) World!</h1>
8. </body>
9. </html>

Blog

December 14, 2025

He said: Let's go west
She said: yes
And baby boy said: zzzZZzz..

Using break tags, <br> and </br>, I was finally able to get this proposal post down just so. I actually proposed in Japan with a covert plan that involved a bag of kimchi, a 30-year old film camera, and a little bit of help from a friend. The break tag itself provides line spacing useful for poems and paragraph separation for readability and when I finally found the right combination of images and words, I really wanted to capture that same old feeling we created from Japan.

The moment felt just right when we were in DC this past weekend. There were several events on Saturday including attempting and breaking the Guiness World Record for the most number of couples kissing under a mistletoe (1,435) and John Cena's final wrestling match at Capital1 Arena.

After warming up with a bowl of lobster bisque and navigating a temporary power outage at DC's annual Christmas Market, we stumbled across a vendor selling a pair of rings repurposed from war scraps that were Dropped + Made in Laos. And like the break tag, we found our space from something that was originally broken.

December 23, 2025

Mini Milestone: inadvertently starting potty training
Baby was constipated for a few days and grandma helped him with a sink bath
And now he poops in the sink in the mornings and evenings, almost never in the diaper

Learning CSS and JavaScript has been harder than potty training. A lot of the times I've been going through trial and error, testing on mobile devices trying to find topics that work. I came across the reveal function where a mouse hoover allows you to see an image behind a masking image. I wanted to do a mouse click originally but that involved too many lines to work with.

Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for specifying the presentation and styling of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML

Luckily for us, we no longer have to cover baby's butt with a sheet (diaper), largely due to grandma's serendipitous concern for her grandson. Wait, watch, and wonder works magic.