Turning a Person to an Icon

 

 Whenever we introduce ourselves "from Myanmar", (here in Singapore) people would reply "So, how is Aung San Suu Kyi? And your Government is no good at all. How are you people doing with that kind of government? We can't understand how myanmar people can cope with them".  

The answer is: We've been used to them.

When our parents were young, they've been taught to -be honest, pay respect to elders, try hard to study, and obey the rules and regulations without complaint. If someone could find a way to neglect rules by some means, he/she could be a black sheep in a herd. To say frankly, very rare people came out of negotiation with elders to get what they want but elder's won't. Resulting we became icon of obedient society.  

People these days, became more and more negligable to hardening rules and tightening rulers' grip. Well, come to think of it, some people really don't get along very well with governing system. How do they stand till end of every day? The only thing: 'It's not my business', and fleeing out of those rulers' grip. We are good as dead meat in our own way.

While the majority of society turn out in this way, a courageous person had stood out for those majorities. Thinking for her own life, there would have no way to lead and stand for these used-to-be-with-brutal people.  But she really stood for everyone including herself, in front of all of us. She is the one. She is our democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Well, we've got a situation today.

Reuters Updated News

There, we would see how's the unfaired judgment was announced on our National Democracy Revolution's Icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The society and situations turned out in harder and faster water-fall way. Our leader's life is not for drowning, we trust her with our lives. But I hope the most important thing for current situation is to trust ourselves firmer and better way. She had showed us her way of standing her own ground. She defended her status in the fair and clean way. The unfair judgement has nothing to do with her own courage. I do hope all other people, including me, have infected with her courage.

Features of Yahoo! Mail

It's been really interesting if you are mail-holic. If I say so, many online database specialists would beat me in minute. Web-based mail system providing communication service plus entertainment. Well, creative ideas are found everywhere!   This post is created using Yahoo mail service. In my homeland, Gmail and Yahoo are popular free-mail services more than Hotmail. (So poor MSN!) Gmail can provide much more storage and Web-Themes while Yahoo step out with this featured writing space. Google services were found to be somehow following Yahoo's procedure.   Hopefully Google would launch it's new features in faster pace. Cheers!

Comfortable Bad Aspects?

                  I've been watching some Japanese movie and drama within this month. Actually, I don't have any idea of discussing Japanese traditional or cultural facts here, in this post. And I'm a Myanmar, in fact. Having different traditions and cultures, some points of view are relatively different, too. While I've been watching this drama, I saw the emptiness and starvation of "comfortable relationship" among people.

HotaruNoHikari01.3 by wilona2008

                     Back in 1960's, George Mikes (in his book: Wisdom for Others) told, "It is much easier to forgive great virtues than small faults." And he often heard remarks like : "To hell with him, he is a brilliant man but never stops talking," OR "Yes, he may be the greatest mathematician in neighbourhood but he keeps scratching his bald head and I don't like that at all". Are these all Bad Aspects? If we met each other for a quite short time and just have fun, we might not have seen what we would not bear of others. In long term relationship, even talking/ walking/eating or doing daily stuff would bother each other. He tried to found a solution; there is no need to be patient with other people's faults (because we all possess irritating faults in our own way).

                   Comfortable? Could we be really comfortable with all that unknown sides of our "chosen" ones? Absolutely, YES. Only after having non-profit relationship based on some less-emotional state. Once we want to show-off in front of a person, we can't be honest on ourselves. We simply want to be as flawless as possible, at least for that person. Before our bad aspects could beat our appearance, we just want to be the best. In this way, our honesty level is lowered by ourselves. Perhaps I might have mixed up different types of relationships. I can't help it, but it's the way I feel it.

                   Mostly in friendships, we could find that type of relationship. Sometimes, that friendship leads  unbelievable great benefits. Even in daily routine, the time we used together, would build a brotherhood among colleagues. So, questioning about getting along well with each other? There might be small-scale argument, disagreement, quarrelling, or other daily events among people. As long as we could be honest, there would be trust-worthy relationship awaiting ahead. And what a sad! That's the great difficulty in real world.

                    Well, now, come to the point of friendship. Honestly, I'd prefer the honest friendship to much harder love-relationship, for myself. Even so, I may not be able to avoid the tendency to show-off in my beloved one's appearance. So, how could I build that honest, trust-worthy, valuable relationship with my heart-pounding, head-aching, expensive, special person? There must be a point of balance that would make our life to be filled with love, kindness, empathy and FORGIVENESS. First, to ourselves, then to other.
                     Actually, there is no need to be patient with other people's faults (because we all possess irritating faults in our own way).  
                      Yes, I'm thinking much about it, and I will need to think more in coming days, too..... Perhaps, we might be able to check it out in our daily life.... :) for better relationships!

Web and "FATS"

Surfing the Net
Having a snack

(And in this way)

Thicker the fats
(around my belly)
Kicker of Web!
(ever merrily)

While I was having my lunch today, one of my friend noticed my waist and reminded me to control my bodyweight. Well, so far, I couldn't think any fact overwhelming my bodyweight gain. Just one thing, that must be my eating habbit.
I've been in regular "walker" as my routine to work needs 20 minutes walkway. And place of lunch is 5 mins walk for nearest. Whenever I went back to home, I took longer walkway, enjoying carefree moments. So, I hope my "exercising" is not quite useless.
For nutrition, I've tried to avoid "trans-fat" inclusive meals. And I'm almost vegetarian for very long long ago.
Usually I arrive back my room at 7:30 PM or later than that. When my dinner is ready, the time is already 8:30 or 8:45 PM. As we've been busy or in stress at our lunch time, our dinner is the only enjoying thing for us. Rice and some other starchy foods are our favourite. You can imagine the carbohydrate and calories that would become "fats" as we don't have anything to burn after dinner.
As I've been keeping busy at work, my only entertainment after dinner is "surfing internet". While surfing it, I kept having snacks, thinking I deserve this luxury. Well, the result is - the increment in length of my belt.
If I was addicted in Web only and didn't take snacks at that time, my "fats" problem wouldn't be that bad. The self-entertaining plan of snack-and-web is really hard to control. May be, it is one of life styles we could have been enjoying.

Learning, Earning and Development

Once, my parents were living in basic needies and simple life. We all total 4 offsprings were grown up and looked after with their small income. They told us with deep inspiration that " where the learning is there the earning is". I thought at first, they want us to learn very well while we were young and we could make some smart earning one day. How badly was I wrong? Many youths from our country, either educated or uneducated, meet the same obstacle in their way to success; unemployment problems. Our country is a slowly-developing country and the ruling people are not thinking of how to make our natural resources in making country economically grow. The result is; we are stranded at certain learning levels and can't make ourselves our earning any better there.

The truth is bitter. Some of my friends got out of our country and continued their studies there. The only comment I could get is, "We are too late behind". Behind of what? Earning and improving lifestyle? Educational improvement and learning aids? Simply the development of other countries? Or of every facts? Possibly the last would be the worst to accept, but it is a truth.

The vicious cycle...... yes, that must be it. We lost ourselves in our own ways. We lost our younger period that would be the best for learning. We lost our courage that would be the greatest for facing obstacles while we were learning. Those lost things would lead us to lose our future; the future earning, the future development, the future ourselves. Many Economic Prophets explained about financial crisis which would drawn us with it's hands of octopus.

Well, our future is not as fragile as it looks, let me hope. I'm not sure we all could survive this crisis, but we've been through difficulties under Juntas' boot. Where the learning is, there the earning is. So, can we make our learning where we earn? With the effort to live under boots, why don't we gether the effort enough to get learning environment around us? I'm glad many of my friends get moving on their way even I'm not moving in pace.

Hoping the higher tide, I'm pushing myself for learning, earning, development and personal confidence improvement....

My Birthday!

Actually, today is my 30th birthday.
Therefore, firstly I'd like to serve my blog's visitors with this birthday cakes.
Those are simple cupcakes with cream-whipped 30's on surfaces.
Those simple cupcakes are just filled up with tastes I've got along my life.
Some creamy periods, sugar-sweet moments, starch-fully days, and many more.
And covered with thoughts I've got along that journey.


I've been missing my mother who had passed away 3 years ago. And my father will be missing me, I'm sure.
Such a bitterness of loneliness has been accompanied with some sweet sense of love, family matters and some sour selfish thoughts. I'd like to be in a place I've shown beside.
There would be no more conflicts between me and my beloved people. There would be no more noises of silent from inner conflicts of myself. There would be no more "no more", then.
Anyway, I'm now on the way of finding myself. Perhaps it would take longer time than I hope to finish or shorter than I want.

And here comes my birthday wishes.
I wish for myself that I could do better self so that I could avoid providing useless helps to others.
I wish for my beloved people that they could find their happiness in much easier and faster way than they hoped.
I wish I could transform my competitions ahead to be stepping stones for harder struggles I would have met before end of my life.
And last but not least, I wish I could avoid "if's" and "then's" in my coming days.

Wishing all "Be happy moments ahead for you".

Chinese zodiac sign or birth year for your future forecast

Good luck for you all.....
I got this cute forecast from one of my friends' email. Whatever the future hold in store for me, I'd be there, and yet, we loved to be shared. 
That's why I share this message at my blog.
Wishing all of you to be OK everything in your way!

Click on your Chinese zodiac sign or birth year below and have a peek at your fortune: Career, Money, Love and Health in 2009, in the year of Ox.
 
 

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Type of Listener Test

The Test Says: You Are an Okay Listener

You try to be a good listener, and usually you are. But some people are just so boring and difficult to listen to! Your mind tends to wander during some conversations. You are likely to space out a little or try to change the subject to something more interesting.

Are You a Good Listener?

This is really interesting and small-but-smart widget I've found there. This test coupes our daily social interface routine. Sometimes, I asked myself if I really listen to others as well as myself. And the answer is as above.
So, how's your listening ability to your heart and to others?