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I tried to type in Myanmar

Yesterday I tried to type in Myanmar for the first time using Zawgyi Keyboard. Very difficult. I typed in word and thought I will cut and paste the finished product into the blogger. After trying for more than half an hour to get one paragraph in Myanmar, I realized that I cannot paste it into blogger! Everything turn out horrible. My Myanmar alphabets are jambled. Lots of question marks everywhere. Why is it too difficult to type in Myanmar on the web??? Anyway, it is fun typing in Myanmar. May be sooner or later I will be able to find a way to post it. Until then...

I am back to Myanmar

Hi all to all my friends out there. I am back in Myanmar a few days ago. I cannot use any mail as they are blocked here. Fortunately, I can still use this blogger so i can post some more posts in my blog until I travel up country a few days later. So I will not be able to post for another 2 or 3 months as there is no internet access where I am going. Anyway, I will be able to post again when I come back to Yangon. I will also post some more before I travel.

NYI LYNN SECK 18 DEN: Time to say Goodbye

NYI LYNN SECK 18 DEN: Time to say Goodbye "Okie. I was wrong! I have to accept whatever I had done. So be it. Here I published nearly 900 posts and I hope at least you could find out one small useful tip from them. This blog will not be active anymore. For my closed friends, I'll let you know when I start my new other blog. Again!! I dont need visitors. I m just expressing myself here. So pls stay away with me if you think I m insulting others. We, me and Mayvelous were very sorry for previous post, it doesnt mean asking forgiveness, that is what we truely believe. I do thank for everyone who visited here and couraged me for making many posts. I love this blog too much as myself. So I'll leave it as remembrance; likes old diary, and I'll start my new one soon. No comment pls!" by Nyi Lynn Seck I just read this post today, just a few minutes ago. I feel so sad and disappointed about his decision. I personally did not know him but i know his blogs. He has been writ

Some Photographic Resources for Photographic Beginners

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For those who are beginners to photography and want to improve your photo taking skills, here are some websites for you. Photo.net is a site where you can publish your photos and let other people comment on them. You can also give comment on other people's photos and read online articles about photographic techniques. There are also reviews on cameras too. You can also find great photographic articles here at National Geographic website. Useful and interesting articles on photography by professionals. You cannot upload your photos though as this is not a photosharing site. For a directory of photography sites, see them at Photo Galleries . List lots of useful and interesting photography sites under various categories. Technorati Tags: Photography

Money Exchange in Bangkok

If you happened to be in Bangkok and want to change your US dollars or pounds or Euros into thai baht, the easiest way is to go to a money exchanged from a bank located in most places, especially shopping malls and tourist areas. However, the rate they pay is too low. If you want to exchange large amount of money, say 1000 dollars, then a good idea is to go to one of those authoruzed money exchanges. They are not as numerous as the bank exchanges but they pay better than banks. A few days ago, I went to one such exchange which name is Super Rich . While those at the banks paied around 37.17 baht a dollar, they paid me 37.50 baht! and for 1000 dollars, it is 330 baht difference!!! It is located near Big C at Chidlom. Take MRT, get off at Chidlom, walk past Gayson Department Store to Ratchdamri Road to Big C. Enter the stree to the left of the bus stop near Big C. There is a sign board for it. You also get more if you want to buy some US dollars too. ဘန္ေကာက္မွာ ေဒၚလာ လဲခ်င္တယ္ ဆိုလွ်င္ေ

Mystic Myanmar

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Here is an excellent photo blog on Myanmar. El-Branden Brazil is a travel photographer, and you will see lots of his excellent photos in this blog. You can also go to other of his blogs on other countries too.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DIARY

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This is a photographic diary blog of a Myanmar(Burmese) professional photographer. Many interesting photos as well as tips on useful photographic techniques. In Myanmar language. He also has a picawa web album , with some interesting and excellent photos.

Myanmar Blogger Community

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A to Z (actually Z to A) listing of all Myanmar Blogs . Quite a complete listing of Myanmar Blogs. Not just listing but also some comments and brief information on the blogs too.

Chindits Special Force Burma 1943-1944

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The Chindits were the largest of the allied Special Forces of the 2nd World War. They were formed and lead by Major General Orde Wingate DSO. The Chindits operated deep behind enemy lines in North Burma in the War against Japan. For many months they lived in and fought the enemy in the jungles of Japanese occupied Burma, totally relying on airdrops for their supplies. There were two Chindits expeditions into Burma, the first in February 1943 Operation Longcloth, consisted of a force of 3,000 men who marched over 1,000 miles during the campaign. The second expedition, Operation Thursday, in March 1944 was on a much larger scale. It was the second largest airborne invasion of the war and consisted of a force of 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with air sup

Myanmar Character Picker - Myanmar (Burmese) Virtual Keyboard

ဗမာလိုေရးမယ္။ Well, here is a Myanmar Character Picker, where users can input Myanmar texts without knowing Myanmar keyboard. It is a neat little program and looks quite useful and easy. Unfortunately, there are a few short comings especially as I cannot find Ya-Yit and Ya-Pint, as well as I don't know how to write Pat-Sint. Also there are some unfamiliar Myanmar characters, too. Can anybody make sense of this little useful utility. If anyone of you know how to write Myanmar without using keyboard, please post it in the comments. Also let us all know if you know how to put ya-pint and ya-yit in this Myanmar (Burmese) character picker. For now, here is Myanmar Character Picker / Myanmar Virtual Keyboard / Burmese Virtual Keyboard .

New Burmese E-Books downlaod site

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Here at Myanmarisp.com , you can download some of the best Myanmar e books in pdf format. They have quite a nice collection of Myanmar books. They also show you the download size so you can decide which book you should download if you have a slow internet connection.

နယ္စပ္ ေရွ့တန္း ေရာက္ မင္းသား Won Bin

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ျမန္မာေတြ ထယ္ေစါက္ လို႔သိထားတဲ့ မင္းသား Won Bin ဟာ ယခု အခ်ိန္ မွာ မဝင္ မေနရ စစ္မွုထမ္း တာဝန္နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ ကိုးရီးယား နယ္စပ္ မွာ ေရာက္ ေန ပါတယ္။ ရာထူးကေတာ့ သာမံ ရဲေဘာ္ ေလး ပါ။ လက္ရွိ အသက္ ၂၉ ႏွစ္ ရွိၿပီး ဆိုေတာ့ သူ႔ တပ္စု မွာေတာ့ အသက္ အႀကီး ဆံုးပါ ဘဲ။ Read more about this news here at video.phpmyanmar.com .

The definite Macromedia Flash simulation of the three-rotor ENIGMA

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Perhaps most of you have already heard about the famous German Enigma machine used in the Second World War to encrypt sensitive data. The allied had given extensive effort to break the enigma code. Now you can have your own enigma. Here at Enigma , you can experiment, even send emails to your friends, with this famous enigma machine. Read about the Enigma and how it works here at Wikipedia .

Popular Science Magazine

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You can now read the famous Popular Science Magazine free of charge online. Lots of interesting articles on what is happening in science. News advances, now gadgets, new cars, new scientific advances, anything about science and technology for general population. Worth a bookmark so that you will be always up to date in science and technology.

Science Toys - Science Projects for you

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Science Toys has a collection of science projects you can do at home with your kids, or yourself. Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. Easy to do projects but quite interesting and fascinating.

Burmese Historical Chronicle

Recently, I came across a very interesting and professional site on Burmese history. It is the English translation of Burmese Historical Chronicle by U Kala . Detailes translation of the famous Burmese Chronicle. Well done. Worth a book mark. Highly recommended. Here are his other websites on Burmese history. The Burmese Chronicle: U Kala's Mahayazawingyi (c. 1712): Computer Readable Burmese Texts This is the Burmese version of the same chronicle, downloadable in PDF. Burma - Yunnan - Bay of Bengal (c. 1350-1600) Another blog on Burmese history.

To Electra

I DARE not ask a kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air That lately kissed thee. Robert Herrick

The Charge of the Light Brigade

HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ‘Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!’ he said; Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley’d and thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash’d all their sabres bare, Flash’d as they turn’d in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder‘d: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro’ the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel’d from the sabre-stroke Shatter’d and sunder’d. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to

Myanmar Blog Directory

Here, the Burmese blogger Nyi Lynn Seck has compiled a list of Myanmar bloggers as well as some useful articles on how to set up a Myanmar Blog on the web. At Myanmar Blog Directory .