One Brief SCENARIO of Myanmar Future

What is the future of Yangon?

I met someone who is young and active to start something as business in Yangon and he assume all the changes as positive challenges to opportunities. Even he has that ideas, in reality, most of the business people are facing a lot of problems to be stabled and to be growth. One of the problems is very expensive land price not only to buy but also to rent in Yangon, and the increase of land price is the fastest and biggest amount in South East Asia, which is one of the challenges for those who willing to start a business for not just local people also Foreign Direct Investment organization.

Otherwise, Some people see this as opportunity for local people. Recently, all the land are owned by local people so that at least people can have money from this, by renting them rather than selling them. It is because the Land prices are expensive once they sell it, they won't afford to buy it again. That's why, the land owner should ask for loan from Banks to have structure on his or her land to use such as office building and get rental fees to have benefit from it. That's why, some people see this as opportunity.
  

                             What do you have in your mind?

What is going on there?

These are the downtown of Yangon City and one look of inside of City Hall during my visited in last week for teaching. As you know, the country is opening and moving forward to catch up with the world. On the other hand, there is lack of infrastructure and human capacity in the nation. What are you thinking what is going to happen to the biggest city of Myanmar, Yangon, was a capacity city of Myanmar, where now is holding EIGHT millions people. Some people say this "The Valuable Historical buildings of Yangon will be ruined if there will be no planning of City structures" because huge amount of investment from inside and other foreign countries are waiting to replace with their modern building in the valuable historical building. Then, It would be very ugly if you see many tall and modern buildings between historical building. That's why, the attraction of beauty of Yangon will be lost for tourism industry.

The next thing is that the city is holding EIGHT millions people with very few and bad transportation systems and utilities system. Can you imagine the heart of Yangon is full of tall sky buildings? Can you think of how hard will be happened for traveling in Yangon? Can you notice million of problems concern with utilities system will be happened ? I really feel bad for my hometown city.

I guess Yangon needs urgent helps to survive for long time.

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

The Taukkyan War Cemetery is a memorial to Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle in Burma during the Second World War.

The cemetery contains the graves of 6,374 soldiers who died in the Second World War, the graves of 52 soldiers who died in Burma during the First World War, and memorial pillars (The Rangoon Memorial) with the names of over 27,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in Burma during the Second World War but who have no known grave. There are 867 graves that contain the remains of unidentified soldiers. 

History

The cemetery was opened in 1951 and the remains of Commonwealth soldiers who died in Meiktila, Akyab (Sittwe), Mandalay, and Sahmaw were transferred here and the graves are grouped together by these battles. A large number of the 27,000 names of Commonwealth soldiers are of the many Indian Army and African soldiers who fought and died in Burma. Of the total, 1,819 graves, an unusually high number, are those of Indian soldiers.

Five holders of the Victoria Cross (VC) are interred at this site and the names of several (including five Indian VC holders) are inscribed on the Rangoon Memorial. Also inscribed, in English, Hindi, Urdu, Gurmukhi, and Burmese, on the Rangoon Memorial are the words they died for all free men.The Taukkyan Cremation Memorial, also at the site, commemorates more than 1000 soldiers who were cremated according to their faith.
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2013 Readiness Index Results Table

 

I think this rank is still low if we want our country to be one of the developed country and I am hoping that in next 10 years, this rank will go up to 10 something.

The Books that I have read and I am surely can give recommended

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The Poem that my student composed for me

I want to share the poem that I have received from my student as a gift for my teaching.
And I am very proud of him.

ကိုယ္ေရးရာဇ၀င္

ကိုယ္ေလွ်ာက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔လမ္းမွာ

ကိုယ္႕ရဲ႕ေျခလွမ္းေတြ

ကိုယ္ေရာက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ေနရာမွာ

ကိုယ္႕ရဲ႕ရပ္တည္မႈေတြ

ကိုယ္တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ႕တဲ႔ အာဟာရေတြဟာ

ကိုယ္႔ရဲ႕ေသြးသားေတြပါပဲ

ကိုယ္ထုုတ္လုပ္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ အရည္အခ်င္းေတြဟာ

ကိုယ္ရဲ႕ဇစ္ျမစ္ေတြ

ကို္ယ္ရႈရိႈက္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ေလထုထဲမွာ

ကိုယ္႕ရဲ႕အသက္၀င္သက္ ထြက္သက္ေတြ

ကို္ယ္ေျပာခဲ႕တဲ႕ စကားေတြမွာ

ကိုယ္႔ရဲ႕ အယူအဆ အစြဲအလန္းေတြ

ကိုယ္လုပ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ အလုပ္ေတြမွာ

ကိုယ္ရဲ႕နဖူးေတြ႕ ဒူးေတြ႕ စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ေတြ

ညိွၽႏိႈင္းမႈေတြ ဇြဲနပဲနဲ႔ စစ္ထုတ္ခဲ႕ေပ

ကိုယ္ရဲ႕ခြန္အားမွာ ကိုယ္ရဲ႕လားရာ

သြင္သြင္စီးထား

ကိုယ္႔နားလည္မႈဟာ ကိုယ္ရဲ႕ေစစားရာ

ကိုယ္႔ အထိအေတြ႕ဟာ ကိုယ္႕ရဲ႕အာရံု ထြက္ရပ္ေပါက္

ကို္ယ္႕ရပ္တည္မႈဟာ ကိုယ္႕ရဲ႕ေရွ႕လယ္ေနာက္

အေၾကာင္းသံုးပါး ညီညြတ္ခဲ႔

ကိုယ္ေလ႔လာဆည္းပူးတဲ႕အခါ ကို္ယ္တိုင္ထြန္ယက္စိုက္ပ်ိဳးခဲ႕ေပါ႕

ကိုယ္ရိတ္သိမ္း ကိုယ္ေျခြေလွ႔

ကိုယ္႔ရဲ႕ ရာသီဥတု စံုစီနဖာ ၾကံဳေပတိုင္းသာ

ကိုယ္႔ဘ၀မွာ ကိုယ္ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ ကူးခတ္ခဲ႕ရတာ

ဘ၀အခ်ိဳးအေကြ႕ေတြ ျပဳစုပ်ိဳးေထာင္ယင္း

ကိုယ္႔ယဥ္ေက်းမႈကို ကိုယ္ရည္ေသြးတဲ႔အခါ

ကိုယ္ေရးရာဇ၀င္ ျဖစ္လာခဲ႔တာေပါ႔

ထူးျမတ္            

Bishop

28th January 2014 (Tuesday 3:45pm to 4:20pm)

8888 Silver Jubilee on 8th Aug 2013

8888 mean 8th Aug 1988. Starting from that day until 2010, my country, Myanmar (Burma), had been ruled by military government and we didn't any of rights.

Especially on 8th Aug, there were thousand of people, students, officers, teachers, soldiers and people were participate for demanding Democracy and rights in the country but government ignored and they shoot whoever demonstrated on road on that day itself but now we came to 2013 and we have chance to retold to our next generation then this is the play for 8888 Silver Jubilee on 8th Aug 2013. 

  

Burma Empires

We have three empries according to record before colonized by Brithish.The First Empire was called Pagan/Bagan Empire, 2500 years ago and the first Empire. The second empire is Taungoo Empire most part of Thai/Siam and Loas had been conquested by Taungoo Empire. The third and final empire was ruled almost the mainland South East Asian. It was Konbaung Empire.

The situation before the performance start In front of City Hall's Mandat

There were people waiting for performances, Traditional performances.... including me!! :)

Kids performance!!

These little girls are from primary school and they made beautiful the festival. They are so cute and so sweet :D

Traditional Dance by Myo Ma High School Students for Thingyan Festival at Myo Taw Win Mandat!!

There is a big Stage for performances and people to play water! during performances time, there were many famous singers and celebrities sing sounds and of course I enjoy the traditional performance which is beautiful and amazing to see! people in crowed also enjoy and they are happy and they cheer up performers. It like people cheer singer and performers to made them their best on stage, Which is awesome!!!!  This is one of them.

Story of Burmese Calendar...

One thing I am really sad for Myanmar people that most of them forget about their own calendar!!

Once people from our neighboring countries said that "our new year in April around 13th,14th and 15th" Myanmar people easily response to them like "0h! yes, same with us! our new year in April too"

I feel that we have lost our memories about being Burmese and being citizenship of Myanmar! You know what! these neighboring countries, mostly mainland of south east Asian countries, such as;Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and some other ethics are using Burmese Calendar which is based on Lunar Calendar system and solar system!

According to history, burmese calendar, called Burmese Era, born after two Eras which were Maha Era and Buddhist Era.

Buddhist Ear started after Buddha's Parinibbana (Buddha Dead) which was created by India astrologists and based on Surya Siddhanta calendar system that was wildly used in India at that time! Buddhist Calendar system plays important role for monks to mark and celebrate for Activities according to Buddha! Which calendar was brought to Burma with Buddhism!

Time bye Time, One of the Burmese King, known as Phy Era, rearranged the calendar with the help India astrologists to make it useful for people to use as well!

Then Maha Era, that was lunched in Northern India, some say Nepal, and it spread to the rest of all Buddhism nations.

Maha Era was used until Bagan Era, recorded as First Nation of Burma. King Popa Sawrahan recalibrated the calendar, named the new era Kawza Thekkarit with a Year Zero starting, which is also known as Burmese Calendar!

The calendar has been used continuously in various Burmese states since its launch in 640CE. It was also used as the official calendar in other mainland Southeast Asian kingdoms of Arakan, Lan Na, Xishuangbanna, Lan Xang, Siam, and Cambodia down to the late 19th century. Today, the calendar is used only in Myanmar as the traditional civil calendar, alongside the Buddhist calendar. It is still used to mark traditional holidays such as the Burmese New Year, and other traditional festivals, many of which are Burmese Buddhist in nature.

Thanks for reading!!

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Here is Online 100 years Burmese Calendar !! Enjoy!!
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Burmese Traditional Chess

Are you a fun of Chess ?

then why don't we try Burmese Chess on online ?

let's me share about Burmese Chess...

Sittuyin (known as Burmese chess), is a chess-related game which is a direct offspring of the Indian game of chaturanga which arrived in 8th century AD. Sit is the modern Burmese word for army or war; the word sittuyin can be translated as representation of the four characteristics of army—chariot, elephant, cavalry and infantry.


To Know how to play then;
go to this link;
http://ancientchess.com/page/play-sittuyin.htm

Have Fun!

here you goes;

The National Anthem with Lyric...

List of the 135 tribes and ethnic groups in Myanmar

Kachin

Kachin group includes 12 ethnic groups. Kachins are located in the north-east of Myanmar in the mountain, not so far from the Chinese border (Yunan).
(1) Kachin, (2) Trone, (3) Dalaung, (4) Jinghpaw, (5) Guari, (6) Hkahku, (7) Duleng, (8) Maru (Lawgore), (9) Rawang, (10) Lashi (La Chit), (11) Atsi, (12) Lisu


Kayah

Kayah group includes 9 tribes. Kaya group is located in the mountain in the center-eastern part of Myanmar. They are very close to Thailand.
 (1) Kayah, (2) Zayein, (3) Ka-Yun (Padaung), (4) Gheko, (5) Kebar, (6) Bre (Ka-Yaw), (7) Manu Manaw, (8) Yin Talai, (9) Yin Baw


Kayin

Kayin group has 11 tribes. Their population is widespread in Myanmar, from cities near Yangon, to the Thai border and south Myanmar..
 (1) Kayin, (2) Kayinpyu, (3) Pa-Le-Chi, (4) Mon Kayin (Sarpyu), (5) Sgaw, (6) Ta-Lay-Pwa, (7) Paku, (8) Bwe, (9) Monnepwa, (10) Monpwa, (11) Shu.


Chin

Chin is a very big ethnic group in Myanmar, They live close to the Indian and Bangladeshi border in a hilly and remote region of Myanmar.
Chin, Meithei, Saline, Ka-Lin-Kaw, Khami, Awa Khami, Khawno, Kaungso, Kaung Saing Chin, Kwelshin, Kwangli, Lyente, Gwete, Ngorn, Zizan, Sentang, Saing Zan,Za-How, Zotung, Zo-Pe, ( Zo, Zanniet, Tapong, Tiddim (Hai-Dim),Tay-Zan, Taishon, Thado, Torr, Dim, Dai (Yindu), Naga, Tanghkul, Malin, Panun, Magun, Matu, Miram (Mara), Mi-er, Mgan, Lushei , Laymyo, Lyente, Lawhtu, Lai, Laizao, Wakim (Mro), Haulngo, Anu, Anun, Oo-Pu, Lhinbu, Asho , Rongtu.


Bamar

Bamar has 9 tribes in his group. Bamar group is located around the Irrawaddy river and in the delta of the Irrawaddy (Yangon area)..
Bamar, Dawei, Beik, Yaw, Yabein, Kadu, Ganan, Salon, Hpon.


Mons

Mons are very important in Myanmar and Buddhism history in Myanmar. Mon group is located south of Bago (around Moulmein) and the ancient Mon capital was Bago (Pegu).


Rakhine

Rakhine group is located west of Myanmar, along the Indian ocean, close to Bangladesh.
Rakhine, Kamein, Kwe Myi, Daingnet, Maramagyi, Mro, Thet


Shan

Shan group is a very important and powerful group in Myanmar. Shan State is very big and spread from Chinese border , Laos border, Thai border to the end of the Shan plate (near Taungoo or Mandalay).
It is possible to make very interesting treks in Shan to see local tribes (Kalaw, Inle, Kentung) but most of the Shan State is still a restricted area.

Shan, Yun, Kwi, Pyin, Yao,Danaw, Pale, En, Son, Khamu, Kaw , Kokang, Khamti Shan, Hkun, Taungyo, Danu, Palaung, Man Zi, Yin Kya, Yin Net, Shan Gale, Shan Gyi, Lahu, Intha, Eik-swair, Pa-O, Tai-Loi, Tai-Lem, Tai-Lon, Tai-Lay, Maingtha, Maw Shan , Wa


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Showing of ethics where they live

About This Blog

I am not a writer. I am not studying History. I am not the one theist my Country.
I am the one who loves my country and the people of Myanmar (Burma).

As I said above, I am the one who love my country and that motivates me to share knowledge about my country Myanmar/Burma to those who want to know and who need to know.


When I talk about my country, there is something I can never leave to mention which is "The Irrawaddy/ Ayeyarwady River". She is flowing in the middle of the country. The Journey begins from the northern part of the country to the southern part of the nation. She flows city by city, town by town and village by village to give love. People in the nation used to call that river as "Our blood/ Our heart" in the poem or stories. They say she is either our past or our future.

Yes.. She is our past because she approves all the stories that I had learn from books are true. She also describes herself as the oldest one in the nation to tell the bed time stories of the country to new and new generation and she is still taking care of us as she did taking care of our great grandfathers ...... Moreover, She loves all the children of the nation with the same only one heart! She gives me many memories in life and I will always be missing you whenever or wherever i am!


I love you "The Irrawaddy/Ayeyarwady River" as I love my country, Myanmar(Burma)!


River