Me, Myself and Mayvelous
16 Oct
Updated: My sincere request to all mmbloggers
Hey why don’t we just take these as a merry debate and let’s just not be too serious about it? I know some of you are really pissed at me but don’t you think you enjoyed reading all those comments on how pissed you are about my post? I’m sure in your unconscious mind, you are enjoying the talks.
As for me, I’m loving it! I have never seen this much numbers of comments and posts on one issue yet and I have never seen varieties of you-bloggers feelings before. I must say, I have achieved my purpose in placing the “voices” to where it belongs. (smile)
This is the whole point you see; bring up something to discuss on, debate on, talk about, think about, feel about, express about, swear about, be sad about, be happy about, be piss about. After all we human beings are very emotional creatures and sometimes it’s very good to show your true emotion as it sets you free.
Don’t you think KoNLS and I are doing the splendid job of making you think, making you speak up, making you comment on the issue that you have very different view on? I must say this is kind of interesting to see many people who have never commented/visited your site suddenly take interest in what you are saying and dropping their 2cents. After all that’s what the whole blogging is about (for me at least), to share ideas and viewpoints through effective commenting. Your comments (bad or good) are helping me see things in different perspectives, which in turns will help me a lot in my future purposes.
Boy, believe it or not, I seriously thank you all for this. First I thought of ignoring you, but that would be disrespect for all of you and it shows that I do not care about others, which is wrong. I made up my mind that, I will never be “don’t care” kind of person and I started this post because I actually care about mmBlogging community.
You are angry now but you won’t be angry for long. Once your anger fades away, you’ll be amazed that you actually voice up on what you believe in and stood up bravely to say so. I’m so proud of you and you know you are too. (smile)
I am told that in many culture, when a gal/lady is requesting sincerely, the gentlemen would consider. (smile)
Sweet arse kicking Excellent comments and posts I shook up.(wink*)
Post starts here:
I came across this Fiji site “Vakaivosavosa” the other day via incoming links in my admin. I didn’t know there are much of Fiji bloggers out there, but it seems like quite a lot actually exist and the number is growing. This site has a good list of Fiji blogs and he added my site as one too. How cool is that.
I have no idea how he come to know my site or who exactly the blogger is. I guess from the search hits people can reach each other. There are lots of new fiji blogs and links on his site that I never know of; very interesting. The blog is well established and focus on current affairs and politics in Fiji. The discussions are great with most of the posts receiving comments, impressive!
I guess blogs, blogging and bloggers are in massive blooming each day. Already there are 100+ known blogspot sites by myanmar bloggers compare to less than 5 Myanmar blogs when I started a few year back.
I tried to roll most of the blogs but after a while I lost track as the number increase with a great speed. I must say though, some blogs are not worth rolling along as 80% of them are inactive … I mean test blogs kind of thing but the other 20% doing very well.
Another thing I notice about Myanmar blogs are 90% copy cats. I mean, give me a break, every single blogs have to use the same old black skin? 99% of them have a shout box in it. And do you have to use the same shout box application/code also? Some new blogs just copy the whole thing including shout box code so you can see the other blogger’s conversation on their blog as well. Also, must every single blog have to publish background music or Odoe or downloads just becos this senior/model blogger is doing so?
Please be genuine, why do you have to continue copying what others do?
Where is your originality? Where is your creativity? Where is your imagination? Where is your uniqueness? It’s very depressing to see clone blogs one after another.
Myanmar blogs gene pool getting narrow. No wonder we are slow adapters. We can’t adjust ourselves fast enough with new medium but we tend to dwell on the same old habitual routine. Gosh I’m stunned.
My 2cents: Be creative, let your imaginations go wild for once in a while, show off your artistic side, do change that black background and be colorful for god sake. Instead of yelling 80% nonsense in the shout boxes and utilize comment feature on particular topic/post to give your constructive feedback once in a while. Let your voice be heard in a proper way, in a great manner, with legitimate reasoning. And let your comment be resourceful and supportive for each other.
I’m not degrading Myanmar blogs nor I intending any displeasure. I have a great respect for Myanmar blogging community and am very fond of some blogs as I visit them regularly. I guess I’m just doing a merry observation on Myanmar blogging community as they are blooming intensively. And now I’m starting to check out Fiji blogging progress as well. I’m glad no black background yet and no clone blogs yet.
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30 Responses for "Populating Blogs Gene Pool"
Ha Ha Ha. #1 Post Sis!! I’ll quote on my blog. Cheer!
မွန္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကေတာ့ ဒီဇိုင္းေတြဆင္ၾကပါတယ္။ shoutbox နဲ႔ background music ကေတာ့ က်ေနာ္လည္း personally မႀကိဳက္ပါ။ ဒါေပနဲ႔…ျမန္မာဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတြေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ခံစားခ်က္ေတြေရးခ်ဖို႔လို႔ လုပ္ထားတဲ့ personal blog ေတြျဖစ္ေနေတာ့လည္း…လူတိုင္းမိမိႏွစ္သက္ရာလုပ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္..ေပါ့။
ဟဲဟဲ…ခင္ဗ်ားလို မထင္ရင္မထင္သလို ေျပာတတ္တဲ့လူမ်ိဳးေတာ္ေတာ္ လိုအပ္တယ္။ ေျပာလိုက္တာအမွန္ေတြခ်ည့္ပဲ။ မွန္တာေတြေျပာတိုင္းလည္း လူတိုင္းကမႀကိဳက္ဘူးဗ်။ ေတာ္ၾကာဆဲစာေတြေရာက္လာဦးမယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ႀကိဳက္တယ္ဗ်။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ဒါမ်ိဳးမ်ားမ်ားသာ ေရးေပးပါ။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျမန္မာဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတြထဲမွာ ဒီလိုေ၀ဖန္ေရးမ်ိဳးလိုအပ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေတာ႔ အဆဲခံေနရၿပီခင္ဗ်။ ဟားဟား။
Hi May, cool site! and thanks for visiting. Am not a techie like you so much appreciate your help with the introductory posts issue. I still haven’t solved that – will try the script from FM before I try the blogspot one. Yes, Fiji blogs are growing, but like the Myanmar blogs, some of them are test blogs and have been idle for some time, so I don’t know how long I’ll keep up with listing them all. I’ll have to cull the list and include only the active ones soon. Keep blogging!
V
@Vakaivosavosa: It’s nice knowing you and your site. Thanks for ur kind comment and dropping by here. I’m rolling u along.
Sometimes I wonder is it really worth talking how you feel at all…cos’ people don’t get what’s exactly u trying to say and they tend to take it so offensively.
This is another disappointing true fact I see on mm people. They are not open minded.
KoNLS n myself are not talking bad/making fun about mm blogs, I did mentioned in my post also that I’m not degrading mmblogs but I only mean to encourage and support or show the proper way of doing things. We are encouraging new bloggers every single way. But may be our way of encouragement is misunderstood as offensive behavior then I’m sorry. It’s all depends on how you interpret things. Everyone has different opinion, views and mind-set. So you may interpret/take as u like but try to confront with others views as well. That’s the best quality mm people(everyone) needs to adapt.
Yes most of the bloggers are non-techie n novices but will u stay like that forever? Won’t u want to improve ur skill? Nobody is born “know-it-all” u know.
You learn from others, u copy things (I do most of the time), then u improve with ur own style. If ppl keep going like this, (copy-copy-copy), but no personal flavor, how boring the world will be.
My point is, start from some easy thing but instead of staying in novice level forever, you upgrade ur skills n test thing out. As for me nothing is better feeling than testing new stuffs and achieve something by ur own self. I feel proud of myself when I can try out some new stuffs successfully.
AS MHT comment said the web medium/blogging medium encourage freedom of expression. But every freedom n expression MUST have limit. Well, everything has a limit. You got to know where that limit stands. Sure thing, post as u like about ur personal matters but see to the fact that will those effect others in very awfully mean way is something u need to consider and think about. Yes black is the new king, black is beauty and I LOVE Black too. But that black has been over used…the question is, are they using with new perspective or they using cos’ someone use it so well? (smile)
I only started this post cos’ I want to encourage fella countrymen to see the proper ways and I truly mean well to all bloggers. So like I said, try to be open minded and consider/think about others opinions as well. I’m sure you are strong enough to accept/handle some constructive critism…or are u a crying baby? (smile)
@NLS: I guess they’re more comfy swearing at fella guys than at a gal. LOL. I’m sorry about this post…if I cause any unsettle feelings and anguish, simply my bad…didn’t intend to.
vote ခြဲလိုက္ရင္ေတာ့ တို႔႐ႈံးေနၿပီ။
ဟီဟီ
hey may,
i know you meant well, and that you wanted to encourage Burmese bloggers to branch out and find their own identity. However, I think due to the internet being fairly new and blogging even newer to the Burmese ppl in Burma, it’ll take sometime for ppl to find themselves. Also, the tricky thing about freedom of expression is that there is no one to tell you when to stop or what is right or wrong, what the limit is, is there? i mean, the Burmese community that is new to this kind of freedom, one that was never allowed before in Burma or most close knit Burmese societies in other countries, and hence, might probably misuse it, like a lot of other people. But all this tripping and falling, I think is part of all finding themselves and realising that all things have consequenceses, even one that is highly priced as freemdom is to Burmese ppl nowadays.
I think, in the end, the Bloggers will self censor, be unique, or whatever, as they get a sense of what they are doing, and how “this publishing for the whole world to see thing” affects other people.
And about those cry babies who can’t take constructive critisism, well, let them cry about it. they gotta learn how to cry about it before they can take it like a man/woman, i guess.
And perhaps, some people who just love black, might get mad because they didn’t intend to copy they just wanted black, lol.
And about those cry babies who can’t take constructive critisism, well, let them cry about it. they gotta learn how to cry about it before they can take it like a man/woman, i guess.
I do like to see how ppl respond to comments and debates like these. shows you how mature some ppl are you know, and you are right, Burmese ppl do need to expand their viewpoints. Well, actually, most ppl need to do that.
xo
Vote ခြဲရင္ ရံႈးတာ မရံႈးတာ အဓိက မဟုတ္ပါဘူးဗ်ာ။ ဘာေတြ ဆီးရီးယပ္ ၿဖစ္ေနၾကမွန္းကို မသိဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ေၿပာထားတဲ႔ အထဲမွာ နာမည္တပ္ ေစာ္ကားေနတာလည္း မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေမ ေၿပာသလို ၿဖစ္သင္႔တဲ႔ ပေရာပါးေ၀းကို အၾကံေပးတာ။ ေရလည္ပိန္းတယ္ဗ်ာ။ ၿမန္မာေတြက ေတာ္ေတာ္ ေသာက္ၾကီးေသာက္က်ယ္ ႏိုင္တယ္။
လူတိုင္း ၾကိဳက္တာ ေရးႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔ ကိုယ္ေရးတာ သူတစ္ပါးကို မထိခိုက္ရင္ ေကာင္းတာေပါ႔။ ဒါမဟုတ္ဘူးလား။ လြတ္လပ္ခြင္႔ဆိုတာနဲ႔ စည္းနဲ႕ကမ္းနဲ႔ဆိုတာ ဘာမွ မပတ္သတ္ပါဘူး။ လြတ္လပ္လပ္ မလပ္လပ္ ကိုယ္႔စည္းကိုယ္႔ကမ္း ရွိတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးပါ။ ဘေလာ႔ခ္ေတြကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးေရးရင္ ပိတ္မယ္ဆိုတာ လူတိုင္းသိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔ ေရးၾကတာပဲ။ ဒါမ်ိဳးမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ မတားပါဘူး။ လူတိုင္း ေရးခ်င္ရာ ေရးေနၾကတာပဲေလ။ ကိုယ္သန္ရာ သန္ရာေပါ႔။ ေတာ္ပါၿပီဗ်ာ။
ေနာက္ဆံုး ေမ႔ကို ဟိုဘေလာ႔ခ္ဂါခ်စ္သူၾကီးက ေၿပာေနတယ္။ ၿမန္မာလို တစ္ပုိစ္႔မွ မေရးဘူးလို႔တဲ႕။ ၿပလိုက္ပါဦး ႏြားဆိုတဲ႔ ကဗ်ာေလး။
ဟုတ္ပါတယ္ ကိုညီလင္းဆက္ …. အစ္ကိုေျပာသလုိပါပဲ လူတုိင္းဟာ သန္ရာသန္ရာလုပ္ေနၾကတာပါ
“ဘယ္သူမျပဳ မိမိမွုပါ”
ဒါေပမဲ့ ဟုိဟာမလုပ္နဲ႔ ဒီဟာမလုပ္နဲ႔ဆုိတာကေတာ့ တားလုိ႔မယ္မထင္ပါဘူး။
Hmm, I feel bad that people are personally attacking you guys for your view points – but then I guess it comes with the territory of being able to express your self. I mean, if you don’t say anything, nothing will happen, and it will all be boring, etc. But if you actually bring up points then people actually sit up and think about it.
I think alot of ppl, just took your posts as if it was attacking them but that is the nature of humans, I think – they tend to think the world revolves around them.
and you know, Ko NLS, about that comment about the proper way to do things and the rules that come along with freedom, it’s very interesting. kind of like a paradox, right, rules and freedom? I could sit here and talk about it all day but I won’t, lol.
It’ll blow over. maybe treat this as the very first debate/fight we have as Burmese ppl who are actually able to have a blog and write what we want on it. even though, some ppl call names and can’t argue properly – y’all know who they are.
According to this post, I would like to see how you get the statistic for mm blogs. I wonder how you get this conclusion with the percentages like 90% of mm blogs are copy cats and 80% of them are just trash.
And how do u define them as copy cat or how can you say that 99% of them are using shoutbox?
You seems like a blog guru for a long time. Is there any Blog Rules & Regulation or just tips .. I’d like to know them .. since I’m a noob in blog era.
I know some ppl ( I mean bloggers ) dragging other ppl’s resources, copying codes, using lousy layouts. But hey .. we are lagging far behind the technology boom, ppl from this kinda stoneage country can blog is sorta like miracle.
I dun see any positive view or encouragement to new bloggers ( esp: mm bloggers ). I rather like to see the way of blog guru and know how they become blog mentor.
Dear all,
I respect everyone who are in this world of blogging.
I have read the comments in NLS blog and here. I agree that we do need more creativity to stay ahead of others in this fast moving world. Only people who do different from othes become successful in this time.
What I understand is that using the same technologies don’t mean copying, eg- shout box. This is the developer’s achivement. The Developer of that techonology will encourage people to use it as much as they can. Most of us ( not only mm bloggers ) are using Blogger as a blogging tool. It’s not copying. If using the same shout box is copy cat, then using the same Bloging tool will be a copy cat too.
Hope nobody will mind with my comment
Cheers,
Nitu
What I wanna say is “Blogger” Not Equal to “Web Developer”.
I myself a developer/programmer/sorta like ( but not a web developer ). I use Blogger’s default template with very few minor modification.
So, am I a copycat ? What about phpBB community ?
If a blogger need to develope a geeky codies or amazing graphic designs in their own blog there will only a handful of bloggers around.
At least I dun use black background in my blog.
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ဟားဟားဟား ရီလည္းရီရတယ္..ဒီpostစတင္ကတည္းကေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနတာ
ဘာမ်ားဆက္ျဖစ္မလဲလို႔..ခုေတာ့ဘာမမဟုတ္ဘဲရႈပ္ကုန္ျပီ
က်ဳပ္အျမင္ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ဘယ္ေလာက္ဘဲေစတနာရွိတယ္ေျပာေျပာMayvelous
ေရးတဲ့စကားလံုးအသံုးအႏႈန္းေတြကသိပ္ေတာ့မေကာင္းဘူးဗ်ာ။
ဥပမာ က်ဳပ္ cboxထည႔္ထားမိတာ၊csscoding ေတြသင္မထားဘူးတာ၊ အဆူခံလိုက္ရသလိုခံစားရတယ္
Very sorry….to hear some kind of break-up among this fledgling burmese online community…
I really like your assertiveness and honest opinions….but you better watch out what you are saying…I found your westernized words and tone being a bit harsh and insulting to burmese blogger…..
Even if you want to point out the need of creativity in creating blogs, you should have put it in a nice way…
I think you really corssed the line…..
May all burmese blogger be united and stand together……
My Eng is not too good. But I didnt feel bad when I read May’s Opinion.
1. @Shoutbox : M didnt mention using cbox. If you used to read English Books, can leave this as fake one, the main tip is the texts on Cbox can be seen public directly. Ahh, you wont understand unless you got personal insulting on your cbox frequently.
2. She didnt mention for using black. Havent you seen ( but no personal flavor )? Think clearly and try to understand what she really wanted to say. The term personal flavor means, you can copy, we all copied, but we should change and put some of your own idea and creative efforts.
3. Copyright : you would never understand untill your own creative idea, or work has been stolen. Not money! It’s kind of brain sucking!
4. Be optimisitic! at least, I didnt feel uneasy for her point of view, cuz I believe my blog is not included in it. I used others’ coding but I transformed, added some flavor, and changed to my own style. I used black,yes, but different black template and coding from original template.
I think we are all missing the point. As for me I blog because I want to write. And 90% of us I believe blogs because we love to write. And as a writer I do take offense in what you are saying. It has been suggested many times that bloggers are journalist and ofcourse a writer.
Another is my father loves writing too. And I am teaching him a bit about how to use this cool bloging thing to express himself. Do we want to scare people like him off? Do we want to create a digital divide or do we want to actually close that gap? If he and if people like him reads your post, they would be discouraged. For IT geeks, it might be possible to do that. Yet a good number of people do not customize their blog because a) the original template was so well design and suits his needs very well (if it aint broke don’t fix it) and b) they can not and should not care any less of how similar to other blogs their looks and feels is, but should be caring about the actual content of their site, which is inf I think we are all missing the point. As for me I blog because I want to write. And 90% of us I believe blog because we love to write. And as a writter.
Another is my father loves writing too. And I am teaching him a bit about how to use this cool blooging thing to express himself. If he and if people like him reads your post, they would be discouraged. For us IT geeks, it might be possible to do that. Yet a good number of people do not customize thier blog because a) the original template was so well design and suits his needs very well (if it aint broke don’t fix it) and b) they can not and should not care any less of how different their looks and feels of thier blog, but should be caring about the actual content of their site, which is infact the post. Content is King (Black being the new King may be open to debate, however Content is King is what every bloggers need to be told about. They should be encourages to focus on thier content and the quality of their post. Not how it looks. RSS feeds anyone? We just want to read. I actually use Feed Readers. Hence the quality of the post is and should be of primary concern to a good number of bloggers. It is already asking a lot that we have learned to use computers for god sakes! Now don’t make me learn HTML or CSS! Content is King (Black being the new King may be open to debate, however Content is King is what every bloggers need to be told about. They should be encourages to focus on their content and the quality of their post. Not how it looks. RSS feeds anyone? We just want to read. I actually use Feed Readers. Hence the quality of the post is and should be of primary concern to a good number of bloggers. It is already asking a lot that we have learned to use computers for god sakes! Now don’t make me learn HTML or CSS! That is for default templates to take care of on my behalf and that is the way it should.
Mayvelous may have a point for now, though as a good number of current Burmese bloggers tend to come form IT. Therefore I am assuming that you believe they should customize their blog and have it branded to identify themselves more well. Or does your comments hold true for the day when 90% bloggers would not be IT geeks but would be people like my father? They just want to write. And I just want to write too. I have a life outside of my blog. And I guess we all have a life outside of our blogs. Better things to do. I hope you understand what I am trying to say. So please do think about it.
I have also done some research on what you have posted. The result is that a very significant number of tech blogs world wide are using defaults. And there is a reason for it or are these people just not imaginative or creative but just plain dumb? And mind you these are Tech blogs and not blogs of Joe User. My results may not be reliable hence I shall outline the method I used. I went to technorati and searched for keyword “tech”. And if Techorati is using some kind of rankings, that I am assuming the top ten results were the best match. Again this is an assumption, and if you wish to differ than tell us so. Let me continue. I clicked some blogs (not all ten, sorry don’t have too much time to spare), and it looked like a good number them were using default that came with whatever bloggins software that they were using. And worst, some of them are even hideous! It prove my point that it is the content that matters. And content is king. Is my research screwed? I care for you comments on these. And the finer point I am making about bloggers not required to come from the world of IT. We want a lot of bloggers from various fields, we want them to be the 90% of Burmese bloggers, which is currently not true. Apologies if I am ranting out a lot. Could not help it.
@yangonthu
A lot of people did got frenzy. And is indeed using their freedom of speech, and they are using these making out very valid points on why the comments on Myanmar Bloggers are wrong. Are we suppose to just let Mayvelous send the wrong message? Should we not say why her comments are just plain wrong? We are using it to counter misleading and dead wrong statements made about how blogging should be. It should be easy that is the point. We are telling her that a good number of us are not techies. And she is saying “no one is born with it”, and should learn how to improve the brandings, identities, look and feel etc of thier blogs. But that is not what blogging is about and that is what we are trying to say. Thanzin has said it will by giving a parallel with a Diary.
@Ravi:
Oh yes, this is the kind of comment I’m hoping for. I ABSOLUTELY agree with you about “Content is the King”.
And yes, I have miss out that very important fact. Thank you so much for mentioning here. That is very true in saying people like your father and mine who are not use to tech stuffs can also blog using default template. I have no objection on that as I myself use available ready-made template. That’s the main purpose of having free templates and services for non-techies to be able to use easily.
You are mistakening me on technical bit. Ofcos I realise very few of mmblogger out there are tech experts. I’m NOT telling anyone that they must learn coding or designing. My whole point here is, it’s good to explore things rather than doing exact same thing as others do.
Even on your point of “content is the king”, will you still sit and watch if every single blogger on blogosphere talk about one same topic?
Say, they talk about music, one talking about pop culture and others also follow that one on n on n on n never ending stories of pop culture.
Won’t you suggest them to write about anything else other than same old pop culture?
Say, “hey i think you guys too much in pop, why don’t you talk about rock? I think rock is nice too. etc.” It’s just a humble suggestion. Either they take it or not is totally different story. You got an opinion, you gotta voice about it. Yes, they can choose to consider your suggestion or choose to ignore it or they can attack you just like here. That’s totally up to them to decide.
Do you get what I’m trying to say here?
This is exactly what I’m trying to do. I’m just suggesting “hey wouldn’t it be nice if u guys consider other styles/templates too? I think it’s kinda fun having your own unique way. Don’t you?”
That’s what I’m saying. I’m not talking anything about technical part nor I saying I’m tech expert.
But I seriously love your “Content is the king” bit. (wink*)
Ok. I better shut up before I start about your point a bit farther. haha.
Thank you for your very constructive critic.
Cheers
This is to all mmblogger community:
I have never intended or thought that my wording are insulting or too harsh for you guys. May be I’m not so use to the way how you guys talk.
But seriously, I am NOT insulting anyone and I absolutely NOT FORCING you to do anything. These are just my thoughts on the matter, how you choose to take it is your part.
I do not know how to say in your “nice way”, do advice me so that I can properly make use of it in the future. Ok let me repeat again and make it clear again that I’m insulting/mocking NOBODY…but like I said b4, how you choose to take things is absolutely up to you. Don’t you think this is pretty much a freedom of speech?
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ဒီမွာ ဘာမွမေရးေတာ့ဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘာေတြေရးခဲ့ သလဲဆိုတာ ခင္ဗ်ားလည္း သိၿပီးေလာက္ပါၿပီ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္နဲ႕ ဒီကိစၥက ဘာမွမသက္ဆိုင္ပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေရးထားတာေတြကိုဖတ္တဲ့ လူေတြကေရာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လိုေကာင္မ်ဳိးကို ဘာဆန္တယ္ ညာဆန္တယ္ ေအာင္တန္းက်က် ေအာင္တန္းစားဆန္ဆန္ ေရးတယ္လို႕ ထင္လည္း မတတ္ႏုိင္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းပဲ ေျပာတတ္တယ္။ ဒါပါပဲ။
This one comes from the contact form: feedback. The sender has very good mean for me to keep it private yet I have requested him to make public as he sure has lots of good thoughts and intention for me. My thanks again to KoCho of mmblues
ညီမ ေမႏွင္းၿဖဴေရ။
ညီမေၿပာတဲ ့ထဲမွာ တစ္ခ်ိဳ့ဟာေတြက မွန္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိုဳ့ကေတာ့ မမွန္ဘူး။ တင္းပလိတ္အနက္ေရာင္သံုးတာလိုမ်ိဳးၾကေတာ့ညီမေလး ေ၀ဖန္လို ့မရဘူး။ သူကဘေလာ့ဂါရဲ ့
ဖရီးတင္းပလိတ္ဘဲေလ။ တစ္ၿခားအေရာင္ေတြက အနက္ကိုမွမမွီတာ။ ဥပမာ အၿပာ၊အစ္ကိုစမ္းၾကည့္တာဒစ္ဂ်စ္တယ္ စကရင္မွာၾကည့္ေကာင္းေပမယ့္
စီအာတီမွာေဖ်ာ့ဖ်ဲဖ်ဲၿဖစ္သြားတယ္။ေနာက္ စီေဘာက္စ္လဲ တူတူဘဲ။ဒီအထဲမွာ သူမ်ားနဲ ့မတူခ်င္တဲ ့၊ တီထြင္ဖန္ဆင္း၊ထူးၿခားခ်င္တဲ ့ သူေတြကမတူေအာင္ သူတို ့ဟာ သူတို ့
ေၿပာင္းသြားၾကမွာေပါ့။ ေနာက္ညီမေလး ေရးထားတဲ့၉၀ရာနွဳန္းတို ့၊ ၉၉ရာနွဳန္းတို ့ဆိုတာက ညီမေလးခန္ ့မွန္းရံုခန့္မွန္းထားတာေလ။
ညီမေရးတဲ ့ထဲမွာ မွန္တာေတြကအကုန္ေကာ္ပီကူးတဲ ့ဟာ။ဒါကသိပ္လြယ္လြယ္လိုက္သူေတြ။ေနာက္ ကိုညီလင္းဆက္ေရာညီမေရာ ေၿပာတဲ ့ ဘန္၀ဒ္၊ခရက္ဒစ္၊ ေကာ္ပီရိုက္၊
ပလာဂ်ီယာရစ္ဇင္၊ ဒါေတြအကုန္မွန္တယ္။
သို ့ေသာ္ ညီမေလးကၿမန္မာေတြကို သိမ္းက်ံဳးၿပီးေ၀ဖန္တာ၊ Generalise လုပ္တာသိပ္ေစာတယ္။ ၿမန္မာေတြ Slow Adapterေတြ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ဆံုးၿဖတ္ဖို
့တစ္ၿခားလူမ်ိဳးေတြ Adaptလုပ္တဲ ့ႏွဳန္းကုိညီမသိရမယ္။ လူမ်ိဳးေတြအမ်ားၾကီးရဲ ့ အမူအက်င့္ကိုညီမေလး သိရမယ္။ မဟုတ္ရင္ညီမေလးရဲ ့ ေကာက္ခ်က္က
ဘယ္မွန္မလဲ။ ေနာက္၊ကိုယ့္နိဳင္ငံရဲ ့အားနည္းခ်က္ အားသာခ်က္ေတြကိုညီမေလး သိရမယ္။နားလည္ေပးရမယ္။ ထိုင္းမွာေတာၿမိဳ ့ေလးတစ္ၿမိဳ ့ကမူလတန္းကေလး တစ္ေယာက္
အင္တာနက္သံုး နိုင္ေပမယ့္ကိုယ္တို ့က မသံုးနိဳင္ဘူးမဟုတ္လား။ ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳ ့၊လူမွဳ ့ေရး၊ ပညာေရးေတြကိုၿဖန့္ၾကည့္ရမယ္။
ညီမစိတ္ေစာၿပီး ေ၀ဖန္တာကေစတနာကေနေ၀ဒနာၿဖစ္သြားတာေပါ့။ေနာက္တစ္ခုက ညီမရဲ ့ေ၀ဖန္ေရးမွာ သံုးတဲ ့စကားအသံုးအႏွဳန္း၊ နဲနဲေလွာင္သလို စကားလံုးေလးေတြပါေနတယ္။
အေနာက္နိဳင္ငံေတြမွာပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းေ၀ဖန္တာဟာ သဘာ၀ ေပမယ့္ကိုယ္တို ့လူမ်ိဳးက မရဘူးကြ။ကိုယ္တို ့လူမ်ိဳးကတစ္ခါတစ္ခါ ေသြးဆူတတ္တယ္လို ့ အစ္ကိုထင္တယ္။ ညီမေလးကဒါကိုနားလည္မယ္၊ ဒါကိုသတိထားၿပီးမွ ေ၀ဖန္မယ္ဆိုညီမ ေထာက္ၿပတာကို သူတို့နားေထာင္ၾကမွာေပါ့။ ယူေကမွာ၀န္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ကိုသတင္းစာသမားက အမွားေတြ
တသီၾကီး ေပၚတင္ေထာက္ၿပေပမယ့္ ၀န္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ကအၿပံဳးမပ်က္ဘူး။ ပါလီမန္မွာအာဏာရနဲ ့ အတိုင္အခံအၿပန္အလွန္မ်က္နွာခ်င္းဆိုင္ၿပီးရင့္ရင့္သီးသီးကိုေ၀ဖန္ၾကတယ္။ အၿပံဳးမပ်က္ဘူး။သို ့ေသာ္ ကိုယ္တို ့လူမ်ိဳးကိုယ္တို ့ စနစ္နဲ ့မတူဘူးေလ။(မတူေသးဘူးေလ)။ ဒါကိုမတူရေကာင္းလား၊ ဗမာေတြ Open Mindedမၿဖစ္ရေကာင္းလားလို ့ ဆူမဲ ့၊ေလွာင္မဲ ့ အစား နားလည္ေအာင္လက္တြဲ ၿပီး ဆြဲေခၚရမယ္လို ့အစ္ကိုထင္တယ္။ ဒါေတြေၾကာင့္ကိုယ္တို ့ေတြ မတိုးတက္တာလို့ ေ၀ဖန္ရံုနဲ ့မရဘူး။ၿပဳၿပင္လာေအာင္ ညီမေလးအပါအ၀င္ အစ္ကိုတို ့အားလံုးက၀ိုင္းဆြဲရမယ္။
ဥပမာ ေနာက္ခံသီခ်င္းဖြင့္တာ။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ ့ကၾကိဳက္ၾကတယ္။ အစ္ကိုကေတာ့မၾကိဳက္ဘူး။ ညီမနဲ့အယူအဆတူတယ္၊ မီဒီယာပေလယာလုဒ္လုပ္ေနရင္စက္ကိုဟန္းေစတယ္၊သီခ်င္းတစ္ပုဒ္ထဲ အၿပန္ၿပန္ဖြင့္ေနရင္ စာဖတ္ရတာသိပ္အေနွာက္အယွက္ၿဖစ္တယ္။ဒါေပမယ့္ ညီမေရးတဲ ့ထဲမွာေနာက္ခံသီခ်င္းဖြင့္တာ၊မီဒီယာ ပေလယာထည့္တာဘာေၾကာင့္မေကာင္းဘူး ဆိုတာ
မေၿပာထားဘူး။ ညီမသာ မီဒီယာပေလယာရဲ ့ ဆိုးက်ိဳးကိုေထာက္ၿပခဲ ့ရင္ သူတို ့လဲသေဘာတူၾကမွာေပါ့။ Odeo ကေတာ့သံုးရတာ အဆင္ေၿပလို ့၀ိုင္းသံုးၾကတာ။ ဒီဇိုင္း
အၿမင္အေၾကာင္းကေတာ့လူတိုင္းက ညီမလို ပါရမီမပါဘူး။ ေနာက္သူတို ့ကဘေလာ့ဂ္ေလးေလာက္ ေရးရရင္ဘဲေပ်ာ္ေနၾကတာ။ ညီမက ၿမန္မာဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတြ ဖြံ
့ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္တာၿမင္ခ်င္တယ္ဆို ညီမဆိုဒ္မွာ၃လ တစ္ခါေလာက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးဘေလာ့ဂ္ေလးေတြကို ေရြးၿပီးညီမ ဘာၾကိဳက္တယ္၊မၾကိဳက္ဘူး၊ ဘာေၾကာင့္ Blog of the monthေရြးတယ္ဆိုတာကို Critic လုပ္။လူေတြဖတ္ၿပီးအခ်က္အလက္ေကာင္းေလးေတြ ရၿပီးလိုက္လာၾကလိမ့္မယ္။အေၾကာင္းအရာပိုင္း၊ရသပိုင္း၊ ဒီဇိုင္းပိုင္း။ညီမလုပ္ထားတဲ ့ Blogger Template Little May ဆိုအရမ္းေကာင္းတာေပါ့။ ေမ၁၁သံုးတယ္။ ညီမရဲ ့ Side kickမွာသံုးထားတယ္။ ဒီလို Templateမ်ိဳး ညီမလုပ္နိုင္တာ သိလာရင္ တၿခားကုိယ္တို ့ဗမာေတြလဲ ညီမကို အားက်ၿပီးညီမ ေလွ်ာက္တဲ ့လမ္းကိုအလိုလို လိုက္လာၾကလိမ့္မယ္။
ကိုညီလင္းဆက္ေၿပာထားတဲ ့သမီးရည္းစားဓါတ္ပံုေတြအေၾကာင္းလဲမွန္တာဘဲ။သို ့ေသာ္ ပိတ္လို ့ေတာ့မရဘူး။ Common Sense ပါဘဲ။ ေနာက္ဘေလာ့ဂါ စည္းကမ္းေလးေတြ။တစ္ခ်ိုဳ ့က တစ္ကယ္ကို မသိလို့ အမွားလုပ္မိၾကတာပါ။လြန္ခဲ့တဲ ့ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ ရက္ဘေလာ့ဂါေန ့မွာ ဘေလာ့ဂါေတြေယဘူယ်အားၿဖင့္
လိုက္နာသင့္တာေလးေတြကို၀ါရင့္ ဘေလာ့ဂါေတြ စုၿပီးေရးဖို ့၊ အစ္ကိုကိုညီလင္းဆက္ကိုတိုက္တြန္းခဲ့ဘူးတယ္။ၾသဂုတ္လဆန္းေလာက္ကေနးတစ္မွာ။မလုပ္ၿဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကလို ့။
ဒီထဲမွာ ကိုမ်ိဳးဟန္ထြန္းေပါက္ကြဲသြားရာက စၿပီး တၿခားလူငယ္ ဘေလာ့ဂါေတြနဲ့ပါစိတ္၀မ္းကြဲစရာေတြၿဖစ္ကုန္တယ္။ ညီမ ေစတနာကိုသူတို ့ မၿမင္သြားဘူး။ညီမေၿပာတာေလး နဲနဲလိုသြားလို ့ သူတို ့အထင္လြဲသြားၾကတယ္။ကိုမ်ိဳးဟန္ထြန္းဆိုညီမလိုဘဲ ပင္ကိုယ္ပါရမီရွိတ့ဲ ၊ အရမ္းေတာ္တဲ့၀ဘ္ဒီဇိုင္နာဘဲ။ သူကၿမန္မာေတြ ကိုသိမ္းက်ံဳးၿပီးညံ ့တယ္ဆိုတာကို
မခံခ်င္ၿဖစ္သြားတာ။မွန္တာေၿပာတာဘာမွၿပသနာမရွိပါဘူး။ေၿပာပံုေၿပာနည္း ဘဲလိုတယ္။ေရွ ့ေရွာက္လဲ ေၿပာပါ၊ေ၀ဖန္ပါ။ သို ့ေသာ္အမ်ားစုကို ၾကည့္ၿပီးေလယူေလသိမ္းကိုေတာ့
သတိထားေပါ့ေနာ္။ ညီမကလူေတြမုန္းမွာ ဂရုမစိုက္လို့ ဆိုလို ့ရေပမယ့္၊ပါးပါးနပ္နပ္ေၿပာေတာ့ညီမေၿ႔ပာတာေတြ သဲထဲေရသြန္မၿဖစ္ေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့။ ဒီဗမာေတြငါက အေကာင္းေၿပာေနတာနားမလည္ဘူးလို ့ေတြးမဲ့အစား၊ သူတို ့ကိုဘယ္လိုေၿပာရမလဲ ညီမ အေတြ့အၾကံဳတစ္ခုရတာေပါ့။ ခုလိုလဲစိတ္အေႏွာက္အရွက္မၿဖစ္ေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့။
ညီမေရ၊ အစ္ကိုက ဘာမို ့လို ့ဆရာလာလုပ္တာလဲလို ့ မထင္နဲ့ေနာ္၊ ညီမက ေတာ္တဲ ့သူ၊ထြန္းေပါက္တဲ ့သူမို ့ေလကုန္ခံၿပီး လာေၿပာတာပါ။ေနာက္တစ္ခုက ဘေလာ့ဂါ
ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမေတြအက်ယ္က်ယ္ ၿဖစ္ကုန္လို ့ နဲနဲ၀င္ေၿပာၾကည့္တာ။ တကယ္ေတာ့ညီမေၿပာသြားတဲ ့ထဲမွာယူတတ္ရင္ ရနိုင္စရာေတြအမ်ားၾကီးပါ။ ဟိုတစ္ေလာကတင္
ညီမဆီမွာဘဲ ထင္တယ္၀ဘ္ဒီဇိုင္း အမွား၁၀ခုလားမသိဘူးဖတ္လိုက္ရေသးတယ္။၉၀စုႏွစ္ေတြရဲ့ၿပယုဂ္ေတြဆိုၿပီး။
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And my replies
Very interesting points my dear brother and I appreciate it a lot. That’s rite I might have picked the wrong wording to express my views. I’m so use to say things openly here and never got a comment back for my use of words yet (I mean from non-Burmese). I guess it’s language problem too. The effect of English language is very different from mother tongue language. Although the meaning might be the same, due to the use of foreign language which people aren’t familiar much, the true meaning might deeply altered.
About the black template, my whole point of mentioning about it is that, out of 30 free blogger templates available in blogger admin, why only this template? Ok so everyone love black. I’ve mentioned it before and I’m going to mention it again, I LOVE BLACK too. More than half of the cloths I have are blacks. My hair black, my eyes black, my skin black, my laptop bag black, my pens black, my books/diary black, my table black, many many black things I love about.
People lost the whole point of encouraging them to test out other templates and instead they think I’m critising about their choice of color. I’m not telling them not to use that template but have they try/test out others options yet, is the question.
That point of using only black template leads to my another point about increase in copycats. Don’t you ever notice that every single new mm blogger have exact same display as KoNLS blog? The color, the buttons, the links, sometimes even those delicious tags directly from NLS. Isn’t it some what astonishing? I mean for me as fellow blogger, I very much like to see lots of varieties and I always wonder why…why are they exactly the same every single time? Ok may be they are new so it’s easy for them to just copy, that’s fine. But what about others? Others who are already over the stage of newbie? Do they ever plan to move on a little farther or are they going to stay forever as newbie?
Now those comments about me being bossy and being too much technical comes in here. I think they hardly ever read my posts properly before. Every single time, I wrote about some technical articles or latest tech news or anything at all, I always mention in the post that “I’m sure some of you have already heard/know about it, but for those who don’t, can make use of it…etc” I have never in my life put myself as “senior” or “I-Know-It-All” or “me the best” or “Hey everyone, follow me, do as I say” kind of craps. I only suggest the options, I do not force anyone, I welcome others suggestions and opinion.
The more critics I got from others, the more I learn about different views and ways of looking at things. That is called effective knowledge exchange. Being able to take other people critisms and turn them into useful, productive way is the best quality a man should have. As for me, I’m fine, spit at me, swear at me, piss at me, as you wish, I’m listening you, I’m thinking over your actions, I’m absorbing your points, and I’m give a work for my brain to decide over best solution and finally I’m turning your horrible critics into something useful for myself and later I’ll be thanking you for showing me the different way of looking at things. I sincerely hope others would take a bit of time to think and see if they be able to turn critics into something useful.
Ok now moving on to generalization, yes I generalize things. I generalize things over current/present facts. As the word “generalization” itself mean just averaging thing, taking overviews or briefs on overall cluster. They should not/need not be accurate. In my line of work, I need to do lots of generalizations over project plans and time frames. Am I wrong to guess/generalize thing? I’m sure everyone generalizes over things once in their life at least.
About bandwidth thefts, intellectual property rights and personal matters, you have agree on those and koNLS explained a lot already so I need not stress on that.
The point on Burmese adaptive nature, you must at least notice that we don’t take things easily, we don’t change things easily, we don’t take blame easily, we don’t admit things easily, so on and on. We take things slow, we move on slow, we change things slow…hence, I’m generalizing myself again, we adapt with our environment/surrounding changes slowly. You are right, there are lots of races and societies that I don’t know of. I do not know how they adapting new things but my generalization is based upon my present society ie. Fiji multi-racial background and my current career industry ie. Very fast growing IT industry, I must say, people here must/are adapting new things pretty fast. But then again these are just my incompetence generalizations.
You are very right; we have very different systems and societies. Here, even 5year old kids and street beggars have the right to talk back to the Prime Minister and he cannot arrest/harm them a single bit. I fully understand the differences. I’m not scolding or mocking anyone and the whole intention is to show the differences but the question is people willing to see those differences? Are they willing to open their eyes?
Again you are right, mmbloggers have very limited resources. Expensive internet fees, limited facilities, limited knowledge on latest technologies etc and we can never compare with those of other countries. Here comes in my main point; with those limited resources, what are they planning to do? Lots of mmbloggers complaints that they have to pay for expensive internet with crappy speed and trying their best to blog what they like. That’s very good actually, for they have lots of dedication and hard work to actually do what they like doing. I’m really impressed about it. Ok now, while following their own dreams with that much of limited resources, won’t it be better, their dedication, affords and times are spend in a manner in which improves their personal enjoyment as well as personal productivity? Or are they only wasting lots of time and money for simple enjoyment pleasures? Yes I know, you will say, that’s not my business what/how they do with their time and money. But then again, in your points you have asked me to help them change their habits so am I not doing so in my points? Are they not seeing or getting my points? Or are they just too afraid to open their eyes?
I have written good means and suggestions about blogging and design matters in the past. Yes I remember that post about 90 style sites and 10 web design mistakes. And Yes, I still remember how offensively they have taken my good will and foolishly turn it against themselves. I have tried so hard to tell them in the best way I can, but I know as human beings, nobody has the same intake. Some take things in positive ways and others in negative manner. So yes, again I’m going back to my very first sentence about language barrier. I write things seriously yet I joke around sometimes. I believe a little humor wouldn’t hurt, such as the words “copy-cat” and “crying-babies” are a childish way of playing around/arousing people feelings.
Over here, we say like “copy-cat, kiss a rat..”, “Oh you are just a crying baby, boo hoo”, as day to day humble jokes which nobody tends to take seriously. So am I mocking you? No, definitely not, I’m just adding my own thoughtless flavors to spice up my post and oh what a hella spices I’m getting back for my own thoughtlessness. (smile)
I guess, they take things too serious as the truth always hurts.
From your feedback I have learn a lot about my weakness as well as my lack of skills and incapability in the choice of words. This is the best constructive critism I have received over this whole affair. I sincerely thank you for your kind critics and explanations. You have shown me a new perspective and I’m so grateful for that. This is the best example of giving legitimate reasoning/comment to earn one’s respect as well as appreciation. You are a true blogger and well respected countrymen indeed.
@MYO HAN HTUN
Oh I never thought of you that ways. Yes I read through all your comments and they actually make me think. I like thinking and I like people who makes me think also. Sure we all have different ways of talking and I respect your style of talking. I feel like, we have some similarities as we talk so openly.
Thank you par AKo.
I’ve seen some world’s greatest programmers’ websites are in WordPress’ default theme, yet providing good information.
Where is their originality? It’s somewhere else.
Btw, even you didn’t change the WordPress theme and color.
Cheers!
@gold4mm
Errrm, just letting you know that Mayvelous is not using WP defualt theme, which is Kuberick. She is using squibble (as you can plainly see if you scrolled down to the bottom). And she has also customized it. However you are correct in saying that a very significant number of really good tech blogs just use defualt templates. I have already made that point in my comment above.
@everyone
I think we have all made our points very well. And it has been noted by parties concerned. I guess it is time to stop now, we dont’ want to get feeling hurt more than it has already.
if this were a forum, i’d say topic closed.
ျမန္မာေတြက ေသာက္ၾကီးေသာက္က်ယ္ႏိုင္တယ္ဆိုပါလား…။ ဒါဆိုရင္ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔က ဘယ္ႏိုင္ငံက ဘာနဲ႔ စပ္က်တဲ့ဟာေတြလဲ? ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရာက္ျပီး ကိုယ္ဘာဆိုတာေမ့ေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ေသာက္ဖင္ေခါင္းက်ယ္တာပဲ။
@Myauk: Ako Myauk yae, dar taw. taw taw lay yine twar pyi htin par tal
KyaMa sakyar pyaw mhar twar tal kateSa ko, taw taw lay pone kyi chalt nay kya par lar.
Bar lote pay say chin par ta lal?
Apology lote ya mar lar? Begging lote ya mar lar?
Cry pyi duu htout toung pan ya mar lar?
KyaMa sakar a tone a nhone ka yine tal so yin, A khu AKo toe comment tway mhar yae htar tar tway ka, a sa poung myar swar po yine nay kya par pyi.
Kyae Nut thint par pyi.
MainKaLay tayout yal koPine AMyin ko, arr lone ka Mhya way nar tat kya yin,
Arr lone yal sal so mhu tway ko, hto MainKaLay taYout htal bal lout nar ma lal so tar yaw sarNar mhu shi par ta lar.
I tried to be civilized but I guess I expected too much. From now on, I, May Hnin Phyu, hereby swear that I shall NEVER EVER mention anything about mmbloggers anymore.
Thank you all for your CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACKS.
The post is CLOSED now.