While I’m waiting for Naruto, we’ve watched a couple of other animes as well. The followings are some of the animes we watched recently.

Bleach : [ Wiki ]

I’ve heard some good reviews about Bleach so I decided to check it out. I must say it does live up to my expectations. Bleach is interesting, fun, full of actions and rapidly dwelling your interest. Although the characters are not that cute compare to Naruto, the actions scenes are very well drawn. Before downloading Bleach, my bro and I have a hard time deciding whether to choose Bleach or Death Note for both of them were top rated animes at that time. Then my bro decided that he doesn’t like the Death Note story and wanted to watch longer episodes, we started downloading Bleach.

After watching a few episodes of Bleach, I wasn’t sure which one I like more – Naruto or Bleach cos’ they both are great in their own ways. Bleach got more actions with little story development. Naruto got a good story build up and is funnier. I guess Naruto is for younger audience since the characters themselves are younger compare to those in Bleach. Still, both of them are superb and hard to decide which is better.

Saiunkoku Monogatari : [ Wiki ] [ Characters ] [ Characters Graphical ]

Ok to make it short, I love everything about this anime. The story is lovely and characters are just soooo cute! Currently it’s their second season but they licensed the show so previous sub-titler group dropped the project and was halted. But I heard another group has started picking again so hopefully we get to see/catch up the second season episodes soon.

Now, about the theme songs; every anime has opening and closing theme songs. In Naruto and Bleach, they changed lots of songs already since they’ve been on air for many seasons. For Saiunkoku, I love both opening and closing songs especially the closing song, “Saikou no Kataomoi“. The vocal is very sweet and can go too high note. Notice the very beginning of the song, there is one long – pitch note. I thought it was some sort of flute or instrumental sound but actually it really is the singer’s vocal. Man, she can sing or what? I try to scream like that but my throat gone kapoot as soon as I open my mouth. (Khway A’ Hlal Ninn pi htwet tal a tan lo pal) LOL Definitely it’s not my key. Oh and the vocalist, Tainaka Sachi, looks like Chaw Su Khin…the mouth I mean. I searched for the mp3 files but couldn’t find it before; lucky enough someone uploaded them on idols-unlimited a few weeks back and I quickly grabbed them from there. The 2nd song being my favorite, I’ve been listening repeatedly almost everyday and I don’t seem to get tired of it yet. I’m a sucker for this kind of slow, tiny, sweet melodious songs, some what good to sleep with. ahehehe.

The ending song has been changed in the second season and the opening graphic looks terrible. I love the opening graphic from the first season; they should have kept it. Graphic from part two of the first season is also good but for some reason second season opening graphic sucks. Anyways, if you like cute characters and lovely story, you should watch this anime. Make sure to listen to the following two songs too. I bet you’ll like it.

Saikou no Kataomoi – Tainaka Sachi (Closing Song)
[ MP3 ] [ YouTube ] [ Lyrics and Translation ] [ Song Review ]

Hajimari no Kaze – Ayaka Hirahara (Opening Song)
[ MP3 ] [ YouTube ] [ Lyrics and Translation ] [ Song Review ]

That’s all folks. Ta Tar!

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Image via: Wiki

The main character, Naruto, is too stupid, he keeps doing the replications and everytime he fights like that his opponant pops them up like balloons. Sasuke is boring. Sakura Chan is just a crying baby, the last episode I watch, she’s learning medicine so may be she’ll get some powers later.

Some of the other characters I like are: Neji, Gaara, Rock Lee, Kakashi and ofcos Jiraiya. Their powers are so cool.

Image Via: Wiki

If you’re into those animes, I would recommand Naruto. Just watch a few episodes and you’ll be hooked. I don’t know where my bro’s friend download the episodes from but you can watch online from this site: Watch Naruto

Some links to check out:
# Wiki Naruto
# List of Naruto Episodes
# List of characters in Naruto
# Read Manga Naruto
# Watch Naruto

Updates: Naruto Episodes + Movies Downloads
# Anime – Naruto & Shippūden
# Naruto Movie 1 – Snow Princess’ Book of Ninja Arts
# Naruto Movie 2 – The Phantom Ruins in the Depths of the Earth
# Naruto Movie 3 – The Animal Riot of Crescent Moon Island

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Beyonce + Shakira – Beautiful Lier

You don’t want to miss this. This one is an amazing combo of the two most favorite singers’ new song. Both of them are so HOT; Beyonce as a wild sexy woman while Shakira on the other hand is more sophisticated one with captivate charms. There was a comment about Shakira being the REAL reason behind Global Warming and I think I have to second on that. LOL

The song by itself is not that outstanding but you must check out youTube video. You’ll be replaying more than once for sure. Both of them got great vocal but Shakaria got this unique throaty-nosy voice which is more attractive in my opinion. Beyonce learn the salted-worm moves from the worm queen Shakira. I still prefer Shakira on those moves. I think Beyonce is much better with her wild leach-mambos.

Ok if you don’t like worms and leaches then we could say…Jelly Shake and Shivering. But come to think of it, Jelly can’t twist and turn; they only bounce from side to side. So Shakari is definitely a worm and as for beyonce, I must say…she is more like shivering jelly. Hehe

They should make more songs with the combo, the record will sell like crazy. I want to see trio – Beyonce, Shakira and JLo, wow that gonna be so cool.

[ YouTube ] [ Lyric ]

Rihanna + Nicole Scherzinger – Winning Women

Last week we got www, this week it’s ww.
This is another hot pair – young, beautiful and talented Rihanna team up with Nichole, ultra thin hot chic, the lead singer from Pussy Cat Dolls (PCD). It’s for a new TV ad “Fusion Deodorant” or something. Not bad.

Ok enough with combos, I was planning to post some slow, nice songs this week but I just have to post the first two. Now back to my picks.

Norah Jones – Thinking About You + Wake Me Up

You must have heard of her, she was the top hit a few year back with “Come Away With Me” song. This two songs are from her new album, Not Too Late, which selling with a great number. She’s very good at making you sleep. I listen her songs whenever I want to sleep, and it takes me only half of her songs then I’ll be sleeping like a log. She got this unique vocal which is kind of drowsy yet sweet. I only like this two songs the most from “Not Too Late” album. Others are just too sleepy to keep listening.

[ YouTube ] [ Lyrics ] Thinking About You
[ Lyric ] Wake Me Up

Emma Bunton – All I Need To Know

Haven’t seen her for ages, she was one of the Spice Girls back in the old days. Emma looking abit oldish in the video but vocal is still sweet in this beautiful song.

[ YouTube ][ Lyric ]

Jewel – Quest For Love

Jewel is not really my favorite but I still like her. She’s more like country style or something. A friend of mine loves her songs, so this is for her. It’s from Jewel’s new album, “Alice in he wonder land”.

[ YouTube ] [ Lyric ]

Sarah Brightman – Stranger In Paradise

She is one of the classical vocalists. You know those sing with loud, pitchy, tiny voices in opera and stuffs. Yah, her songs are not that classic but they are slow and nice to listen. I like it anyway. It’s good to sleep with.

[ Lyric ]

And…that’s about it. Enjoy!

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A general knowledge questions:
# Name a country that begins with “U”?
# What is the religion of Buddhist Monk?
# How many sides does a triangle has?
# What is the currency used in United Kingdom?
# How many kidney does a person has?
# Starwar is based on a true story – true or false?
# How many Eiffel towers are there in Paris?

Politic, Current Affair:
# Meet Mr. John Howard – Prime Minister of Australia – Have you see me on television? Thank you it’s just very nice to be recognized. My slogan is “John Howard is my mate”
# Who is Tony Blair?
# Kofi Annan is a drink – True or False?

Geography:
# Mark the country on the world map.
# North and south Korea, which one is bigger.

Typical Americans. HHHTRSF. Thanks KoSein for the Link.

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Little Gal 1

Little Gal 2

Steve Jobs by Antony Hare (check out others from the uploader too)

Thanks Jason and Vince for sharing.

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Thanks Forlani for the album.

I bet most of you already got the two most hit songs – [ YouTube ] Promiscuous and [ YouTube ] Maneater so I won’t add mp3 for that.

All Good Things – A slow and nice song. The chorus will grow on you. “Flames to dust, Lovers to friends, Why do all good things come to an end…” Love the dog barking moon bit too.

Well the dogs were barking at a new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day til the feeling went away
And the sky was falling on the clouds were dropping and
the rain forgot how to bring salvation
the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die.

[ Lyrics + YouTube ]

Glow – Just glow yarrh!

Make me glow glow glow glow
How far can you go
Make me glow glow glow glow
How far can you go
You make me glow glow glow glow
Only you know how to make me
Glow glow glow glow
I wanna go and go and go and go

[ Lyrics + YouTube ]

Say It Right – Check out the YouTube video, she looks cute in there. Mumbling at the guy’s ear haha.

Oh you don’t mean nothing at all to me
No you don’t mean nothing at all to me
Do you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

[ Lyrics + YouTube ]

Afraid – Pretty fast beats.

So afraid of what people might say
But that’s okay cuz you’re only human
So afraid of what people might say
But that’s okay you’ll soon get strong enough
So afraid of what people might say
But that’s okay cuz you’re only human
So afraid of what people might say you’re going to break
so please don’t do it

[ Lyrics ]

Wait For You – I like the starting beat from this one very much and also at the end there is this drum (indian kind) beats is interesting. Pretty cool.

I’ll wait for you until the heavens fall
I’ll wait for you until the end of the world
I’ll wait for you until I no longer breathe
I know that it’s not impossible
I’ll wait for you until you finish your fight
I’ll wait for you until the timing is right
I’ll wait for you until you knock on my door
Cuz right now it’s feeling just like a movie yeah yeah…

[ Lyrics ]

In God’s Hands – This is slow one and quite meaningful too. So just added it as a bonus.

Now our love’s floating out the window
Our love’s floating out the back door
Our love’s floating up in the sky in heaven
Where it began back in God’s hands

[ Lyrics ]

Love this spanish song – Te Busque, which I think also included in her previous album. There are two version (English and Spanish), I prefer the Spanish version though I don’t understand a single word. Dig through the following chorus translation for my own amusment.

Spanish Version
Yo te busque de bajo de las piedras y no te encontré
En la mañana fría y en la noche te busque
Hasta enloquecer
Pero tu llegaste a mi vida como una luz
Sanando las heridas de mi corazon
Haciendo me-sentir vivo otra vez”

English Translation
I looked for you under the stones but I could not find you
In the cold morning and in the night I looked for you
until it drove me mad
But you arrived into my life like a ray of light
you healed the hurts in my heart
and you made me feel alive once more.

Okie, there you have it. Enjoy, Ta Tar!

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I just want to point out this one comment.
It really make my day. Soooooooo funny. LOL.

It’s a comment by dgrey

What kind of society puts a bride in a five million dollar diamond bedecked outfit and the groom in Mickey Mouse ears with a missing ear?

I’m sure every Burmese and everyone who know Burmese Custom will laugh at it. Oh Boy Mickey Mouse ear with a missing ear!!!
LOL Really good one, I never thought of it. haha.

May be I’ll write about Burmese Wedding and costumes stuffs later…

Watch the General Then Shwe’s youngest daughter – ThanDar Shwe’s Wedding.

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It’s very useful for me since I cannot watch movies online with my low speed internet and must take time to download. My example is on “Nge Chit Oo” movie from Khayanpyar Einmet.

The site is right-click disabled but that’s nothing to worry about if you’re use firefox with webdeveloper extention.

Go to the video page and click the icon at the bottom to browse to actual google video page as shown in the following screen shot.

It will direct you to actual google video page like this link.

Follow the steps below to download google video.

1. View the page source code and search for the keyword “googleplayer”
2. Copy and paste the videoUrl parameter (all of the characters after the keyword “videoUrl=”)
3. Press Ctrl-L to go to URL location bar. Type Javascript:unescape(“videoUrl”)

where videoUrl should be the last parameter you have copied into the clipboard.

4. It should output the actual URL on the broswer, copy and paste that URL onto your browser location bar again to download the FLV movie.
5. Play it with a FLV Player.

Via: How to Download Google Video

Notes:
#1. Ctrl-F on view source page to enable search feature, type in the search keyword.

#2. Some cases have to start after id/parameter as well. ie) in my example: everything after “videoUrl\u003d”,
start from “http” part till “%3Den” in the end.
Leave out “&autoPlay\u003dtrue\”
#5. I use this FLV player. The file (ngalchitoo) size is ~143MB by the way.

The easier way of getting video link is using “Adblock” firefox extension.

Read more about using “Adblock” extention to get google video link here.

You can also use some sites to generate url directly for you too (read the article for more), but this javascript method is just fine for me.

The same concept applies for YouTube videos too. Feel free to test around and enjoy downloading.

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We’ve been working hard to add your top-requested features to Google Talk, such as fast and reliable file transfer, and the ability to send and receive voicemail messages for free. We’ve even created a fun little feature for you music lovers.

So today, we’re excited to be releasing these features to a small percentage of Google Talk users. We’ll be rolling these features out to all Google Talk users on the U.S.-English interface in the coming weeks.

Via: Googletalk Blog

My favorite one is voice mailing. You can send voice mail to the followings:

• Online contacts
• Offline gtalk contacts
• Old Gtalk Version Users
• Other email (yahoo, hotmail, etc) contacts

Oh when you send voice mail, the message goes like this.

The person you trying to reach is not available.
Please leave your message after “Me”.
Meee!

The last “Me” part is funny hehe.

Online Contact with New Gtalk Version

Offline Contact

Old version user

Non-Gmail Contact

I’m not a fan of direct file sending but still it’s good to have it since other messenger services got it.

Direct File Sending

The music playing status is cool too. I just love the music icon.

Music Status

Receiving Voice Mail

Anyway I just sent about 20 voice mails to my online, offline and other email friends now. hehehe :d I hope they appreciate my most sensational voice LOL.

Oh yah do drop me some voice mails too so I can check out your fantastic voices.

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Well it is a classic drama and my parents offered quite a good opinion of it so I watched the Keira Knightley movie and also following these series. I read the book when I was young, I think while I was 6th std, and I didn’t understand much. I kinda thought it’s a boring story with lots of long sentences which after reaching the end, you forgot what said in the beginning and lost the whole idea about that line. Of course my understanding of english language at that time was at the level of basic primary and I preferred reading Burmese cartoon than these long complicated English classics.

Now that my understanding improved, I’m reading the story again and cross checking with the movie and the tv series.

Austen’s perfect comedy of manners–one of the most popular novels of all time–features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.

I watched the first episode and was disappointed with the followings:

• the gals are ugly, especially Jane who is suppose to be the prettiest, turns out to be the ugliest of all,
• Mary looks like an Indian gal, look silly with glasses. She looks sick. Play piano pretty well for the supposively bad pianoist.
• the mother, Mrs Bennet, talks too loud and so fast. I can’t stand her, very annoying character. Plz! I thought the gangs from Gilmores Girls are fast but they are nothing compare to this classic motor mouth.
• the dresses are awful! talk about bad designer/fashion, too tight around chest and the gowns are just so ugly.
  bright coloring on top and all white at the bottom!!! What are they thinking!
• the hair-dos, awwaugghh!! Can’t they do better hair style than those curls stick up on your forehead. Look so bad on Jane since she got thin face and fat neck, so the sticky hair make her head thinner and the neck fatter.
• Mr. Bingley’s sister, Miss Bingley, she looks like some gay freak! I think she’s even taller than her brother Mr. Bingley.

Well this is only from the first episode, may be too early to judge the whole series bad, so I’ll follow the nexts and see how it go. Oh yah I do like Mr. Darcy though, he looks much better than Mr. Darcy from the actual movie.

Some quotes I got confused with:

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt ME; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

What’s it mean by “I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men”?Give consequence to? Slighted by?

“Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the BOULANGER–”

The two third/forth/fifth?????

“If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day’s tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel.

What the heck is tete-a-tete?

I’m still reading the book half way. This time going slow and reading line by line so I understand all.

Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet

Keira Knightley as Miss Elizabeth Bennet

Bennet Girls

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice Book Covers

Read about Pride and Prejudice TV Series here: Pride and Prejudice
Read the book review: Google Book – Pride and Prejudice

Shoot me an email (use contact form), if you want to have ebook of this novel. Zatlite got some good classic ebook collections.

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I came across this website and was surprised to see some video of Burmese Monk Funeral and a post about it. This one was at Shan State – “Inle”, I don’t know exactly the monk name. Seem to be happening at some rural area more like a small town or a quarter.

The movies on this page were taken when I accidently ran into a funeral of a high ranked Buddhist monk. I rented a bike and was cycling along the shoreline of lake Inle when all of a sudden a saw a large fair and many people partying on both sides of the road.

The funerals always been a noisy event, I’ve seen some famous monks funerals on TV back in Myanmar and they were more crowded and noisier than this one. I’m not sure it’s always been like this but quite an eventful display all those funerals are. Ok I can’t really tell you more about it since I have no experience of my own to share with you and it’s abit out of my knowledge.

The movies can be found here. You can read more about his experience on the event here.

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