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Adorable Mother’s Admirable Journey By Tin Moe Gee up “HE!” promts the bulls to go forward with bell jingling, A few who could tarry in rest house hear it and tally beads. And so the British period passed. Bombs booming and aeroplanes wheezing; Seek shelter in a religious dwelling The one ventures in up and down riverine trading While the freedom fight is commencing And so the World War II passed. Loud noises acclaim with pride the national independence Flags flying, banners streaming in craziness Like a tidal wave it climbs And shake the earth with violence. There is however a sadness as if the sky fell And so the Aung San epoh passed. The bell tolls, the whistle blows; The Victory Drum booms! A glow We are free, we are happy - but ephemeral. Blood everywhere; it’s real. Old sheds razed to ground; hills blazed to crumble, Mothers with babies fled and trembled. Everybody was in haste everywhere These were tregedies with no finish And so the Independence episode passed. So the ears come...

Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee. Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree: Or bid it languish quite away, And 't shall do so for thee. Bid me to weep, and I will weep While I have eyes to see: And, having none, yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee. Bid me despair, and I'll despair Under that cypress tree: Or bid me die. and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me, And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee. R. Herrick

Don't LOOK at anything in a physics lab. Don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab. Don't SMELL anything in a biology lab. Don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab. and, most importantly: Don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department.

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Here is a very nice weblog of TZM, an IT man from Singapore. He post lots of articles on mainly IT and internet. Interesting articles and IT news. Links to other sources too. Highly recommended. Visit TZM's play ground here .

If you want an RSS feed of world news, tech, science, sports, or whatever, from an RSS feed source, on your own webpage (or blog), this is the site for you. Here at Ticker, they will provide you with an HTML code for your RSS feed from any RSS source. Of course you need to know the RSS feed link, but if not, they provide you with either Yahoo or Google feed. Don't hesitate to have a look at it at Ticker .

Here is the official website of The University of Computer Studies Yangon . You can fnd out about the university, courses, conferences, research, and current news. Not a bad one for a Myanmar University website. There is also an alumni website too with a forum .

SUSHI I stumble upon this blog recently. A very nice blog of a Myanmar (Burmese) from Thaiwan. Informatiove articles. Recommended.

NYI LYNN SECK: Kone Baung Shin Tan A brief review of this book at Nyi Lynn Seck's blog. Read it there.

Finally I am back from Chiang Mai, and in a few days, back to Myanmar (Burma). Chiang Mai is quite a lovely town with near by mountains. They say there is no trafic congestion in Chiang Mai, but it turns out Chiang Mai also has a lot of traffic congestion, even on Saturday and Sunday. But the air is cleaner and the streets and roads are also cleaner than in Bangkok which is quite hot, humid, noisy, polluted and dirty. I like Chiang Mai better than Bangkok.

This one is from Jokes for All . Rules of the lab 1) If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. 2) When you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly. 3) Experiments must be reproduceable, they should fail the same way each time. 4) First draw your curves, then plot your data. 5) Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined. 6) Always keep a record of your data. It indicates that you have been working. 7) To do a lab really well, have your report done well in advance. 8) If you can't get the answer in the usual manner, start at the answer and derive the question. 9) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. 10) Do not believe in miracles--rely on them. 11) Team work is essential, it allows you to blame someone else. 12) All unmarked beakers contain fast-acting, extremely toxic poisons. 13) No experiment is a complete failure. At least it can serve as a negative example. 14) Any delicate and expensive piece of glassware will break before any use can be m...

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"The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity." U Thant, Burma, Secretary-General On international tolerance, Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Lecture, Columbia University, quoted in NY Times 8 Jan 64 "I don’t like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there’s a war." U Thant, Burma, Secretary-General On beginning his ninth year as Secretary-General, ib 3 Nov 69 "If you’ve got it, wear it." Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Advice to Prince Charles on use of royal insignia and other medals, quoted by Stephen Barry Royal Secrets Villard 85

Here is one of my all time favourite poems. When I am Dead, My Dearest by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.

Recently, one blog has come to my attention. Here is an excerpt from his interesting blog. It is in Myanmar (Burmese) and the articles are quite interesting, both content and style. 06.06.06 06.06.06 လို႔ အတိုေရးလို႕ရတဲ့ ဒီေန႔ေလးကို မနက္ကေရဒီယိုကေျပာမွပဲ သတိထားမိတယ္။ Old Man The Omen (thanks tekong) ဆိုတဲ့ ႐ုပ္႐ွင္ထဲမွာ ေစတန္နတ္ဆိုး၀င္စားက ဒီေန႕မွာေမြးတာတဲ့။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ဒီေန႕မွာ ကေလး မေမြးလိုဘူး ဆိုဘဲ။ စင္ကာပူက မိဘေတြကို လိုက္ဗ်ဳးၾကည့္ေတာ့ မသိလို႔ထင္ပါရဲ့။ ဘယ္သူကမွ မလိုလားဟန္ မျပၾကဘူး။ ေမြးၿပီးမွ သိေတာ့လဲ ဗိုက္ထဲျပန္သြင္းလို႔ရတာႀကီးမွ မဟုတ္ဘဲေနာ့။ ေမာင္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစိတ္၀င္စားတာက အသံလႊင့္ သမားရဲ့ အေျပာေလးပါ။ 06.06.06 ဆိုတာ ဒီရာစုႏွစ္မွာ တစ္ရက္ဘဲ႐ွိပါတယ္တဲ့။ နင့္ …ကလႊားတဲ့။ ဘယ္ေန႕မဆို ဒီရာစုႏွစ္မွာ တစ္ရက္ဘဲ႐ွိတာပဲမဟုတ္လား။ 07.06.06 ကေရာ။ 11.07.06 ကေရာ။ 25.12.06 ကေရာ။ 01.01.07 ကေရာ။ တစ္ရက္စီဘဲ႐ွိတာမဟုတ္လား။ ဒီေလာကမွ ာ ေန႔စြဲႏွစ္ရက္ထပ္တူမ်ား ႐ွိလို႕လားဟယ္…။ Please visit Nyein Chan's Blog here .

Here is another map showing Rangoon in 1912 . The map is bigger and clearer. Please click the map to see full size.

Here is what Rangoon (Yangon) was look like in 1914. Yes, this is not a photo, this is a map! An old map showing the area of then Rangoon. Royal lake is the Kandawgyi, and the area marked in yellow is the Cantonment. You can see that Rangoon then was just the downtown area and around Kandawgyi Lake. Click on the image to view at large size.

The Irrawaddy Dolphin was identified by Sir Richard Owen in 1866 and is one of two species in its genus (the other being the newly discovered Australian Snubfin Dolphin). It is similar to the beluga in appearance. It has sometimes been listed in either a family containing just itself and in Monodontidae and Delphinapteridae . Nowadays there is widespread agreement to list it in the Delphinidae family, a family of which the name was simply produced by merging the words Monodontidae and Delphinapteridae . Read more about Irrawaddy Dolphin here at Wikipedia . Here is an article about Irrawaddy Dolphin at World Wilf Life (WWF) .

The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company , founded in 1865 in Burma (Myanmar), grew to become the 'greatest river fleet on earth' with over 600 vessels carrying some 9 million passengers a year along the Irrawaddy River of Burma at its peak in the 1920's. Nowadays the 'forgotten fleet' is unknown and this website tells just some of the incredible stories of this Company, its people and the legacy that lives on today and continues to inspire adventurers and writers. Visit the The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company website.

The history of Burmese poetry is long and interesting. Classical Burmese poetry comes in many lengths and forms, but most of it is characterized by a repeated sequence of 3 internally-rhymed lines consisting of 4 syllables each–a pattern that has become known as Climbing Rhyme. Read the full article by Smitha Chakravarthula explaining about Burmese climbing rhyme at this site . Read another article on Burmese climbing rhyme at Climbing Rhyme . Search in Blogger about other blogs on Burmese Climbing Rhyme or search google for Burmese climbing rhymes .

This is the Kipling's famous poem "Road to Mandalay". Ironically, Kipling was never been to Mandalay in his life. He had only been to Moulmein (Mawlamyaing). By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! 'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green, An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat -- jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen, An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's fo...

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I am going to Chaing Mai this Friday with One-2-Go Air. I planned to go there by bus or train previously but unfortunately, the roads are flooded as well as the rails. I think it is safer to use the plane instead. I will be in Chaing Mai for three days. I will post the photos from Chaing Mai when I come back.