lol ok then Vince, take me with you to asia as an apprentice, I promise, I won't call you "paesano" in public! But yeah man jokes aside it's hard to find decent info online, magazines or even books. If everything goes right, I was planning to take a first trip to thailand or vietnam and start doing some indipendent research with people who actually live and study there. If you can recomend some initial starting point (friendly countries to visit etc) let me know. Ok now I gotta go dig out that 2002 article.
PS: dude how do I get on that vanishing flame list?
Mauro