Happy Chinese New Year to all Chinese, part Chinese, half Chinese, quarter Chinese, 10c Chinese, short Chinese, long Chinese , whatever Chinese and whoever celebrating it.

Unfortunately I got nothing to say except for the above wish.

Ok, that’s not true, I got some more to say.
I’m sure some of you notice I got some Chinese blood in me by my look. Big round face, flat nose, big teeth, glass etc.
Yep, I got a few percent Chinese from my Dad’s side. Mind you though, don’t say I’m Chinese in front of me. I hate that alot, I hate whenever people mistaken me as a Chinese girl.
No, I got nothing against Chinese, just that I don’t regard myself as one because I was born in Myanmar and I take pride in being a Burmese.

Well, to think of it, I’m not even a half Burmese. My dad being a 90% Chinese + 10% Shan and my mom being 25% Rakhine (Yakhine)+ 75% Burmese, makes me hmmmm…I don’t know…40%? 25%? Burmese blood in me.

But Yakhine and Shan are counted as one of the 8 major native races of Burma so yah…I count myself as Burmese (as countryman of Burma) but closer toward Rakhine.

One slack thing about being a mix blood is that, you don’t know which side you exactly belong to. Especially in my family, my father is half Chinese but he doesn’t know a single thing about Chinese. I mean he knows Chinese and their culture for sure but I mean in a way that he can’t speak or write or understand anything Chinese. So he can’t say he is Chinese except that he looks like one. That’s the main reason I don’t take myself as a part Chinese. I don’t know how to speak/write Chinese. I don’t belong to that race because I know nothing about them. I don’t know what’s the main significant of this new year celebration and stuffs.

Every year we celebrate do prayers at home. My father being the eldest in his family, he has to carry on the tradition to do the prayers. That’s what my grand mother says but she also doesn’t know how to speak/write/understand Chinese. They just passing along the traditions cos’ they are the eldest in the family and that’s what they are told to do so.

Every year we have a bit of fight regarding Chinese New Year celebration, me and my father (rather with granny). My grandmother says since I’m the eldest in the family, I’ll have to carry on this tradition when I have my own family. I give her a big “No”. I told them since I don’t know a thing about Chinese and I’m no Mahayana Buddhist or Tao Buddhism, I won’t do those Chinese stuffs. I’m 100% Theravada Buddhism so I don’t worship/pray for the deaths. Plus I’ll only do/follow things that I understand the proper significant of. Interesting enough, my dad doesn’t force me or say anything on this.

Anyway today yesterday my mom prepared some meals and we had a nice little feast for Chinese New Year. As usual fried noodles, fried vermicelli with veges, some chicken, pork, fish, prawn and a good soup are the must dishes for us. There are some Chinese sweets too but we forgot to buy “TiKwe” (the brownish chewy sweet thing) this year. Do you know you have to kinda invite your death ancestors forehand (say a day before or so) with proper date and time to visit the house. Kinda freaky huh LOL. And the food…you gotta have whole meat, whole chicken, whole pork kind of thing. I guess, after all those are for deaths/ghosts/whatever and they eat big meat rite? It’s just stupid and I don’t understand it at all. Then you light the candles and scented sticks to say prayers like, may all those deaths look after the family health, wealth, the children education, bless us all blar blar blar. And you hold those scented sticks, bend back and forth three, four times then let the death eat till the candles finished. The people can eat after that, but I can’t wait till the candles finish so I grab some food and dine together with the deaths My granny doesn’t approve of that but hey a gal gotta do what she gotta do when she’s hungry.

When the meal finished, we have to burn some gold papers, silver papers, fake money and stuffs. You make little toys out of those papers. Like a boat or a plane or whatever, we don’t know how to make nice stuffs so only boats we made…they look rather like canoe to me. Anyway I hope my death ancestors enjoy sailing around. :p

Ok, now the whole time I’ve been fooling around with things but my sister is really into it. She do prayers properly, she prepare food and wait till the proper time to eat and help making paper toys and burning them. Gosh I sometime don’t understand her, she’s very cheeky in most of the stuffs but quite religious and follows whatever the father does, after all she’s the dad’s fav gal. My brother and I don’t care much about those, I guess she should be the one who carry on the tradition and not the eldest, Me. :p

Anyway, my apologies to all the Chinese if I offend the traditions in some ways. I don’t understand the proper ways so please do ignore this foolish girl. But hey I love the foods, Chinese foods are always my favorites and I enjoy every single one of them. Deep respect for all the great chefs.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

It was such a joy to see the rain yesterday cos’ we got water cut and was praying for the rain. We got quite a lot of water cut last year and this year it’s starting again. Most of the time our area got water problem due to too much leakage, broken pipes, low pressures and many other unknown reasons. Last year it was about 2 months without water and we have to depend on irregular water tank supply. It’s so hard to live without water. Think about daily drinking water, cooking, toileting, bathing, washing, man just can’t live without water.

This week it’s been too low pressure, turn on one tap, nothing come out from the others. Wednesday afternoon it’s totally off. Lucky we saved some drinking water and a few for cooking. But Thursday was worse, no more water left in the house and called the water truck but that damn thing never comes so we pray for the rain and thanks to all the gods it rains.

What an irony living on an island without water. Life sux!
Ok, that’s it, I’m bored typing this useless post, gonna sleep now. Bye Bye.

I just found out that I have some authority to kick someone out from the seat.

Once you become an intermediate(not yet senior) developer, you’re getting some authority over juniors.

Today we are moving upstairs and switching places with sales team, so everyone choosing and reserving places.

I got in late and no good seats left for me but a good senior advices that I can use my authority to kick someone from the seat. (How cool is that :p)

So, I’m planning to use my full authority over some unfortunate juniors and take over the world!! (I mean seats)
Mwahhhwarrrr!!!!!!!!!

(Ok, I can never do that sound properly, but it creates a great feeling and a grand(rather stupid) sound effect saying it :p)

May: put this on the table.
Win: $1 MaSu(my home nick)

May: What! You little…put this on the table!
Win:You want something done, you know you gotta pay for it.
(I have to pay $5 if I want her to do the dishes, $2 to put my laundry together with hers while she washing them, etc)

May: Aung mar!(Burmese complaint/argumentative word) I bought you KFC just this evening and it costs 8 bucks.
Win: You didn’t buy me EXCLUSIVELY, you eat that too.

May: EXCLUSIVELY!! Hey whatever, it still over $1. You eat more so it covers this $1 already.
Win: But you’re the big sister, you are to buy me things.

May: Awwwwwww so I’m to buy things for you cos’ me the big sister and you won’t do anything free for me cos’ you’re younger?
You, little, smarth mouth, stupid, useless, cheating, nyit sote, lu lal kya ma, good for nothing, gal!
Just PUT THIS ON THE TABLE!!
Win: Blar blar blar blar… (making faces, closing her ear)

May: MayGyi (Mom!!), you daughter getting smart with me. (Yell)
Mom: “Win Win, twar nyit ma nay nal, lote pay lite, narr nyi tal” (quit cheating, do it, it’s noisy).

May: There, put this on the table now. (with winning tone)
Win: hooont! (and she throw them on the table)

# Case Closed. #

Moral of the story:
Being an elder is a great thing, if you know who to ask for help.
The beauty of having authority over youngers is satisfying, if you got $$ and know the art of how to use them.

I got this problem with gtalk. Some strangers keep adding me in their gtalk and when I ask who they are, they don’t know me and they thought I added them so simply just accepted the request. But I didn’t add them and it’s creating quite a lot of confusion for both side. I think gtalk picks up all the address in your gmail account and gmail picks every new email address that comes to your inbox.

So now I realised that I didn’t check my gtalk setting properly and forgot to disable “Add people I communicate often to my friend list” feature.

I think I got quite a few addresses from one burmese mailing list, which I have no idea how my email address got into that mailing list.
Anyway, sorry for all the confusing and if I’ve added you by mistake, please remove me from your list or let me know to remove you from my list.
Thank you.

This is just a follow up for yesterday post, “Web 3.0″. Like I said in that post, I wasn’t sure of what Web 2.0 is so I did abit of surfing and the results are numerious.
Anyway I got bored reading all of those so just noted a few quotes and notes only.
Always go for wiki and there you’ll know what web 2.0 is.

The term “Web 2.0″ refers to what some people see as a second phase of development of the World Wide Web, including its architecture and its applications.

I also found out the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Well I didn’t even know there was Web 1.0. I just know there is a web and now it got lots of versions.

Web 1.0 often consisted of static HTML pages that were updated rarely, if at all.

Proponents of the Web 2.0 approach believe that Web usage is increasingly oriented toward interaction and rudimentary social networks, which can serve content that exploits network effects with or without creating a visual, interactive web page.

Some comparison examples given there are:
“DoubleClick was Web 1.0; Google AdSense is Web 2.0. Ofoto is Web 1.0; Flickr is Web 2.0.”

A few more web 2.0 examples as follow. Not my compilation, I just digg it up and place it here to make my own copy.
You can see proper compilation with brief intros here.

• 43 Things
• Allmydata
• Backpack
• Basecamp
• BlinkList
• Blogniscient
• CalendarHub
• Central Desktop
• clipmarks
• Democracy 2.0
• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Findory
• Flickr
• gabbr
• Gmail
• Google Maps
• Kiko
• meebo
• memeorandum
• Netvibes
• Omnidrive
• Protopage
• Rallypoint
• reddit
• Remember The Milk
• Shadows
• start
• Ta-da
• TailRank
• Topix
• voo2do
• Writeboard
• Writely
• Xdrive
• Zoho
• Zoto

If you feel like reading some more about this web 2.0 thing, I found a few more articles that you might find it helpful.
What Web 2.0 means to me
Web 2.0? It doesn’t exist
10 Issues Facing Web 2.0 Going Into 2006
Wiki : Web 2.0
Paul Graham : Web 2.0

Ok, so that’s Web 2.0.
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Technorati Tags: Web1.0, Web2.0, Web3.0, Technology, WebMedia

Man I’m just starting to realize and utilize the very popular term Web 2.0 and now it’s been move up to Web 3.0. Damn speed of technology, sooooo fast!. My brain can’t keep up.
I wasn’t 100% sure of what the hell this Web 2.0 is and now I’m totally lost. I just know Web 2.0 is something like flickr, Ajax, Ruby on Rails…
It’s frightening the evolvement of these web things. Sometime I wonder why did I ever choose this tech career cos’ I don’t like changing things so often and I can’t get use to the new environment/stuffs quickly. I’m just a traditional girl, I like simple and slow things but that doesn’t mean I don’t like new stuffs…it’s just that the web is growing too fast and my tube light brain can’t keep up.

Link: Web 3.0 and other delights
Web 3.0