So it’s another year of remembrance, 59th Martyrs day. Do you remember about it?

Azarni day or Martyr’s Day is held on 19th July annually in Burma/Myanmar. It is held to mark the assassination of its founding father and independence leader along with his cabinet on this day in 1947 at 10:37 AM. This
year marks the 59th anniversary of this martyrs’ day. Assassinated cabinet members were General Aung San, Mai Pun Saw-Bwar Gyi Sao San Tun, Mann Ba Khaing,Takhin Mya, U Razak, U Ba Win (Elder brother of Aung San), and Dedoke U Ba Cho, Ministry secretary U Ohn Maung and body guard of U Razak, Ye Baw Ko Twe also died at this incident.
Shwe Ba

Last night after updating Burma Digest articles, I was trying to recall this “Aung San ZarNi” poem that we learn in primary days. I can only remember a few verses and was very disappointed with myself that I forgot this nice poem. Luckily I got full poem from artixlin today while I’m reading feeds. Thank you so much for that and I’m passing along so whoever forgot about it can remember again.

(၅၉) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အာဇာနည္ေန႕

ေအာင္ဆန္းဇာနည္

ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ ဆယ့္သံုး မွာ
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေမြးေန႕ပါ၊
တစ္ေထာင့္ကိုးရာတစ္ဆယ့္ငါး
ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဖာသား၊
ဇာတိ နတ္ေမာက္ မေကြးခရိုင္
သိၾကမ်ား ခုတိုင္၊
ႀကံ့ႀကံ့ခိုင္လို႕ ဇာနည္ဘြား
မိခင္ေဒၚစုသား၊
တစ္ေထာင့္ကိုးရာေလးဆယ့္ခြန္
ေျပာင္းၾကြ တမလြန္၊
မ်က္ရည္သြန္လို႕ ဘ၀င္ညိႈး
ဇူလိုင္ တစ္ဆယ့္ကိုး။
ျပည္ေထာင္စုရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးရွင္
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ တို႕ဖခင္၊
ေကာင္းေစခ်င္တဲ့ မွာစကား
ငါတို႕ မေမ့အား။

There is a great article about marythar day by Shwe Ba on this week Burma Digest posts and also have a read through Aunty Suu’s vision of her father.

My father made it abundantly clear that the army was meant to serve the people, that it should abide by principles of justice and honor, and that unless it could win and keep the trust and respect of the people, its purpose would be vitiated. He never intended the army to meddle in government. A liberal and a democrat, he saw from the fascist Japanese army the dangers of military absolutism. When he decided to work for freedom after the war, the beloved, respected general transferred command to a capable Sandhurst-trained Karen officer.

Also have a look at this featured article by Martyrs and Martyrdom by Dr. Sein Myint.

A martyr is a person who dies for their convictions or religious faith, such as during the persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire. Sometimes the term is applied to those who use violence, such as dying for a nation’s glory during wartime (usually known under other names such as “fallen warriors”). The death of a martyr is called martyrdom.

I also remember the song – “Bo Shu Ta Bin”. I’m not sure it’s related to RZarNay or TatMaTawNay but I like that song. Wish I could listen to that again if I have a chance but I can’t find mp3 anywhere on net. If you have that song, please share with me.

There is another song it goes like …rzarni nay ko taw ma may khal par pyi or something, it’s really nice. Well I forgot that one too… there’s too many things I forgot. Shame on me.

With respects and remembarance,
May

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က်မ အေမက သူသြင္ေပးေနၾက အာလူးကို ဒီေန႔မွ က်မအား အျမင္ကပ္ ဆႏၵျပၿပီး ကိုယ္ဟာကိုယ္ သြင္္ခိုင္းလိုက္ သျဇင့္၊ ဗိုက္ကဆာဆာ၊ စိတ္ကတိုတိုျဖင့္ အာလူးသြင္ရင္း ထြက္ေပၚ လာေသာ အေတြးအပိုင္းအစေလးမ်ားကို ခ်ေရးလိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ေအးစက္ မာေၾကာၿပီး၊ အေရာင္ကင္းမဲ့လွတဲ့၊ က်မရဲ့ လက္ေခ်ာင္းမ်ားဟာ…

• ကီးဘုတ္တစ္ခုေပၚမွာ သြက္လက္လ်င္ျမန္စြာ
  ေျပးလႊား ေဆာ့ကစား တတ္တယ္
• စာရြက္သားျဖဴ တစ္ခုေပၚမွာ၊ ညီညာဝိုင္းစက္တဲ့
  အကၡရာမ်ားကို ခဲသားမ်ားနဲ႔၊ ေရးျခစ္တတ္တယ္
• စုတ္တံတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို က်င္လည္စြာ ေဝႊ႔ရမ္းၿပီး
  ရုပ္လံုးေပၚေအာင္ ေဆးသားမ်ားနဲ႔ ျခယ္မႉန္းအသက္သြင္းတတ္တယ္
• သိုးေမႊးခ်ည္ခင္ကို အပ္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းႏွင့္
  ဒီဇိုင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ေဖာ္တတ္တယ္
• ဆယ္ေခ်ာင္းေသာ လက္အဆံုကို၊ စည္းခ်က္ညီစြာ
  အကြက္က်က် ယိမ္းႏြဲ႔ၿပီး ကကြက္တစ္ခု ဖန္တီးတတ္တယ္
• ဘတ္တံတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို အနိမ့္အျမင့္၊ အတိုးအခ် လိုအပ္သလို အားသံုးၿပီး
  ၾကက္ေတာင္တစ္လံုး တဖတ္ကြင္းထဲ က်ေအာင္ ရိုက္တတ္တယ္
• လက္စစ္မ်ားကိုေကြးၿပီး ဂ်စ္ကန္ကန္လုပ္တတ္ေသာ ညီမရဲ့ေခါင္းကို
  ေဒါက္ကနဲ ျမည္ေအာင္ေခါက္တတ္တယ္
• အလြန္အစသန္ေသာ ေမာင္ကို၊ က်စ္က်စ္ဆုပ္ထားတဲ့
  လက္ေခ်ာင္းမ်ားနဲ႔ ထိုးႏွက္ကုတ္ျခစ္တတ္တယ္
• က်မအျမင္ကပ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေသာသူမ်ားကို၊ က်မရဲ့လက္မ်ားက
  ေတြ႔ရာတုတ္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို ေကာက္၍ေသာ္၄င္း
  လက္ခ်ီးသက္သက္ ေသာ္၄င္း
  လွည့္ရိုက္ရန္ ဝန္ေလးေလ့ မရွိခဲ့

ဤမွ် အသံုးဝင္လွေသာ က်မ၏ လက္မ်ားသည္
ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္း၊ အာလူးတစ္လံုးႏွင့္ ေတြ႔မိေသာ အခါ…

ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္း ႏွင့္ အာလူး

ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကိုင္ ဆရာမနိုင္
ပြက္ပြက္ညံေအာင္ဆိုးလွ၏။

အာလူးတစ္လံုးသြင္ ရပ္ကြက္တြင္
ျပဲျပဲစင္ေအာင္ ၾကားရ၏။

အရပ္ကူပါ လူဝိုင္းပါ
အေမလာ လွည္ပါ တဆာဆာ။
အျဖစ္ၾကီးက ၾကီးသေနာ္၊
ေမာင္သာမိရဲ႔ ၾကီးေတာ္။
(Ok I don’t know where that come from.)

တစ္လံုးႏႊာ တစ္နာရီ၊ လုပ္ပါအံုး ကုန္ၿပီ
အသားထြင္သလား၊ အခြံႏႊာတာလား

လက္ကတုန္ရင္၊ ဓါးစုတ္က မလႉပ္ခ်င္
အခြံနာက မထြက္၊ ျပတ္တာက ငါ့လက္။

ဖြတ္မရ၊ ဓါးဆံုး၊ ငါ့အာလူးတစ္လံုး
ျပဳတ္လို႔ ထုေထာင္းၿပီး၊
ငပိေထာင္း လုပ္ခဲ့၏ ။ ။

French Fries လုပ္ဖို ၾကိဳးစားေနဆဲ က်မဘဝေလးပါ။

I came to work quite late this morning and the taxi driver said, “don’t worry about it, the guys will be watching soccar”. He was right, we can hear the yelling from the road when we got to the office. All the guys were downstairs watching and cheering semi-final. I just thought oh well crazy guys as usual and went upstair to my place. To my surprise one lonely guy was working hard in the empty office. I asked “All the guys are watching soccer downstair, aren’t you interested in soccer?” Then a cheer went on again from downstair. He quickly answered “Oh no they score again!!!”, and rush down to see the match. haha seem like he rushing up and down juggling between his work and the game. I guess it left me the only one in the office.

What with the guys and the sport anyway? Too much don’t you think? (Okok I know the answer, don’t answer that. :>)
Here is something for you to try out.

Letter To My Boss – Soccer Maniac

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I wish to let you know that the FIFA World Cup has began. This is not just any other tournament, it’s the World Cup! Please note that this tournament takes a month to finish, i.e from 9th June to 9th July. During this period take note of the following:

• Will be knocking off earlier than usual in order to watch the kick off of the first game.
• Do not be surprised if I report a little bit late every morning, it will depend of the time the last game finishes.
• Production will go up during this month as almost all employees will be happy and highly motivated (Check Maslow’s motivation Theories with Human Resource).
• I know you are into other boring sports like golf, bowling, etc. Please if you want to fit in the work environment for the next one month, try to know something about soccer, even asking a foolish question like “Is Zambia playing tonight?” is welcome, that is if you really want to fit in, or else no one will be a loner for one full month.
• Greeting each other in the morning will change from “Good morning” to “How was the game last night?”
• I will not accept to work overtime during this period as no amount of money can buy me to miss a game. Therefore make sure you do not give me any work after 19:30 hours.
• I will need to be up-to-date with the latest therefore the first 1 hour every morning is for accessing sports websites and other updates on the internet and also chatting with friends.

Lastly, please do not think you can fire me should you decide to break any of the above rules as you will have to fire everyone.

Thank you for your understanding.

Yours faithfully,

Soccer Crazy Employee!

Forza Italia… Forza Azzuri! and… Italy has made it to the world cup final!

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