12 Responses for "Review: Short Story by Juu"

1. Thiri March 14th, 2007 at 12:26 pm 1

   Hi May,

   I accidently found your blog. I really enjoyed reading your writing on Computers, technology and also your reviews. This review on Juu is the first one I read and I enjoyed it, a lot.

   I can say that it is possible to fall down from loose shoe from personal experience. And you are right in saying that it will be just a tripping. Well, it all depends on the road. Since Juu is in Myanmar, it is possible. I had my ankle sprained in Grenada, WI, while I was jogging and I was making sure not to twist my ankle. Being so careful and I chose to jog on good street. Then I sprained the ankle. For my case, my loose ankle and road is the problem.

   I don’t know whether Juu was using me for her story on sprained ankle and always have problem with shoe laces. It is funny that just today my shoe laces were somehow untied for like 3 times and I read your blog.

   Well, keep up your good work, your Burmese is good. Sorry for the long post.

2. May March 14th, 2007 at 11:29 pm 2

   Hi Thiri,

   Thanks for stopping by and your kind comment. The story is interesting and I like reading her stories. Yah you are right in saying the road problem, I forgot about that part.

   Be careful next time you jog too. Oh hey you never know, you’ll get some sweets from a guy pass by. Should test your luck.
   Have fun with your laces too.

   Cheers.

3. Dr.Mg May 11th, 2007 at 2:15 pm 3

   Comment on Your Review on Juu’s Short

   For your Comment 1
   1. Yes, nowadays, you can find short story written style without main theme (stories) or subject, like we blog today. Some are based on impressism and some expressism. Generally, the shorts written according to the flow of concious mind without any directions (as our normal mind flowing anywhere at every seconds). This type of written style may base on the feelings, sudden impression and expression come out from the author’s mind and mode.

   For Your Comment 6
   6. Yes. It could be. I also have a Blood Sick, I am a matured man though..You may laugh at me.. But it is my weakness and one specialist told me this could be happened to some people due to some fault in their blood type or else (Sorry I dunno medical terms). At once, I was collapsed and vomitted when I was watching a nurse stitching my mum’s small wounded chin. I can’t forget that feeling and I really do not dare to see such scene. This is so-called Blood Sick, sam as high-sick and flight-sick…

   For your Comment 7. Bass Guitar is a critical and a Bass guitarist is a leading player in a band to control the key, timing and rythm..
   So I think Juu wants to use the comparable mood..that the girl felt like the guy’s voice like a base music which leads and controls the timing of her mood..at the moment she heard!!

   For your Comment 8. “Yellow Soft Sound”
   Yes, this is a sort of Oopamar (Example) Alinkar. In Myanmar language, we used Yellow Sound (ah than war) for the one whose sound are very powerful, sharp and great like a leader. I think “Wah Wah Nyat Nyat” sound means the girl felt that the guy’s sound is very powerful, but soft and crack-tone (sounds like Zaw Win Htut and Rod Steward)which could be a sort of opposite sex’s attraction to her at the moment she heard….

   That’s all I could feel with Juu’s short story.
   Cheers

4. Dr.Mg May 11th, 2007 at 2:19 pm 4

   Erratum to my comments.
   Impressionism and Expressionism..

   Also, I have a habit keeping sweet as I got stomach problem (Gastric) and doctor suggests me to keep it with me all the time..even when I play tennis..

5. May May 11th, 2007 at 3:56 pm 5

   @Dr.Mg
   Thanks for the comments, they are great and very helpful!.

   1. arh, so that’s what it is, now that you explained, I understand what Juu means in the story.
   6. I guess you have a hemophobia.
   8. Sounded like Zaw Win Htut and Rod Steward… they don’t have a soft vocal. ZWH doesn’t have a voice to sing proper Myanmar songs like his mother and his brother, so he goes for rock with his cracking throaty voice. Nope, I still don’t like the sound of that so-called “War War Nyat Nyat” (ZWH) vocal.

   Oh so that guy in the story must have the same problem as yours (Gastric) to keep a sweet with him.
   By the way, how are your teeth?

6. Dr.Mg May 11th, 2007 at 5:56 pm 6

   I do not mean Zaw Win Hut & Rod Steward’s sounds are soft. I mean they have crack tone..Again, in Juu’s expression, “Nyat” means soft and whisper..People with Crack-tone can speak very soft..”Wah” means powerful and sound like gentle man..
   In summary..Wah Wah Nyat Nyat means, gentlly, powerfully, softly with crack tone..
   To my personal view, Juu attempted to inveted a new literary style by using repeated words Wah Wah and Nyat Nyat to make it more siginficantly..

   For example, Dagon Taya invented a new literary style in your selected poem ” May”..(see the words: Lay Nu Aye and Ta Nort Nort.. These two new words are now historic and Dagon Taya is famous for these words and May poem..)

   I do not force you to like such sound, I just correct your understandings on Myanmar language and the way how Myanmar authors write and how they like to mean exactly..so that next time you read
   Likeness or unlikeness is your personal choice, it’s fine..

   (My teeth are still very strong, I have not been visited Dentist in my life so far..)

7. Dr.Mg May 11th, 2007 at 6:01 pm 7

   …mean exactly..so that next time you read Myanmar shorts or poems,,you may think and feel more in deep..I hope…

8. Dr. Mg May 12th, 2007 at 9:59 am 8

   Hi May,
   Further to my above in put, yes, in Myanmar literary, sounds and voices has colours, please refer these examples below if you have not heard before.
   Ah Than Wah (Yellow sound): Powerful, successful
   Ah Than Pyar (Blue sound):”He shouted until he got blue sound/voice”: when express the ultimate feelings of angry, happiness, fighting..The sound/voice almost going to collapsed or getting trouble to shout further due to the high-pitch tone.
   Ah Than Nat (Black sound): To express a very deep,strong, violent and terrible sound. (eg. I heard Ah Than Nat Gyi yesterday night from the wood behind our village) ( He shouted with his Ah Than Nat Gyi)..

   hoo..
   I think I feed in too much in your blog post..But to be honest, I just want you to get true taste of Myanmar literature when you read next time..Myanmar language is actually complicated and hard to learn for those who study late (expecially foreigners)

9. May May 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm 9

   Oh that’s right. Now that you mentioned it, I remember those sounds. I know about Blue sound and the Black sound but the Yellow is rarely used one I think…or may be just my ignorance that I never know of it before.

   Very true, Myanmar literature is very hard to understand especially for those like me with very limited knowledge. Thank you so much for explaining me with such patience.

   Seriously, that “May” poem by Dagon Tayar, I don’t even know it’s called “May”. I thought it’s “Alinkar shin ….”. I think the first verses are direct copy from “May” then the later verses are adaptations of another poet.

   Learning Myanmar language is hard, but to understand properly is even harder.
   “ဆရာ မျပ၊ ငပိိေတာင္ ေကာင္းေကာင္း မဖုတ္တတ္” ဆိုသလို…although I try hard to understand some part, I can never get it right until and unless someone point it out to me.

   I learn something new today and I sincerely thank you for explaining to me. ေမတို႔လို ျမန္မာစာနဲ႔ ေဝးၾကေနတဲ့လူေတြအဖို႔ စာတပုဒ္ဖတ္ျပီး၊ အဲဒီစာရဲ့ အႏွစ္သာရနဲ႔ အဓိပၸါယ္ကို ေကာင္းေကာင္းနားလည္ဖို႔ဆိုတာ ေတာ္ေတာ္ၾကီးကို ခဲရင္းပါတယ္။ အခုလို စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္နဲ ေသေသျခာျခာ ရွင္းျပေပးတာကို ေက်းဇူးအထူးတင္ ေၾကာင္းပါရွင္။

   Also thank you so much for visiting mayvelous.

   You have a good weekend.

10. steve May 14th, 2007 at 2:11 am 10

    Hi May
    I must say this post is really entertaining.Moreover, many times previously I find it difficult to read Juu’s books quickly and finally I had to give up to finish while Patricia Cornwell’s psychopath fictions are easy for me. Now I just learnt that the reason when you analysed Juu’s story sentence by sentence. May, you have been star among bloggers, I think.

11. Zay Phyo Thit August 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm 11

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12. Zay Phyo Thit August 24th, 2008 at 10:59 pm 12

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