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 We've got three little kittens! Well, not exactly little anymore as they are probably around 8 months of age. We found them last November in front of our house. My wife told me she heard a scratching sound outside the children's room (she slept with children in the early hours of the night). She thought they were rats. She asked me to go and check outside the bedroom on the balcony. We live in a townhouse with a very big balcony. So the next morning, I opened the door to check the supposed rats. To my amazement, I found three tiny kittens with their mother right next to our children's bedroom, behind the aircon unit. It was quite cold in the early morning and the kitten seemed to be shivering. They were not only tiny but also very thin. I called my wife to show her the kittens. She was like, "Oh". And I know they will end up with us. So we gave them food and lots of blankets to keep them warm. They were very playful. And as I have predicted, all three of them end...

 It seems I have abandoned this little blog for a looooong, long time. It was actually my first ever blog. I have started my blogging hobby on this little blogger platform when blogging was starting to be popular. That was the time before the popularity of social media, namely Facebook. We usually write blog posts and then tag each other in our posts (just link to each other). It was a nice community of bloggers from across the world. Life was simple. Then came WordPress and Facebook. Two giants in the WebSphere. Most bloggers either move to Facebook or host their own sites using the WordPress platform. I simply forgot this little blog. A few days ago, I just found my own blog by accident. It gave me a kind of nostalgia, a deja-vu. You know the feeling. And I think I should start writing on this tiny blog. Whatever, it doesn\"t need to be intelligent or useful. Just anything that might pop up in my mind. And this is my first post after a decade of disappearing from the blogger pla...

Myanmar  will hold its first nationwide free and fair election (sort of) in 25 years on 8 th  of November 2015. The main opposition party led by the Nobel laureate Aung San Su Kyi is poised to win a landslide election. It is interesting to see the election in the numbers. Read the full article here at Myanmar Election 2015 in numbers .

Myanmar Today has published information on travelling to Inle Lake. Travelers to Inle Lake can take direct flight to Heho near Inle Lake, take a bus to Taunggyi and drop on the way in Nyaungshwe or hire a car directly from Yangon, Mandalay or Bagan. Visitors can travel to Inle from Mandalay or from Bagan also. Details can be read at How to Go to Inle - guide to travelers .

I have started writing articles about Inle Lake and Shan State on Myanmar Today . The series starts with an introduction to Inle region , followed by tips on going to Inle Lake and Nyaungshwe, finding a budget hotels and guest house in Inle and Nyaungshwe, mid range and high end hotels in Inle, restaurants, places to visit in and around Inle and other tips for foreign visitors. You can see all the articles on Inle at Inle Travel Guide on Myanmar Today.

Myanmar Today is currently publishing series of articles on travel guide to Maymyo. These articles include introduction to Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) as well as how to go to Maymyo, where to stay in Maymyo , where to eat, where to go , and tips for travellers. You can read all the articles about Maymyo (or) Pyinoolwin on Myanmar Today.