My work mates “SSP“, “Strange Pants“, “Kiti” and “The Boss” team up to write a new blog called “Lunch in Suva“.

“Humans exchanging money for food in Suva between 1200 and 1430, and writing about it.”

It’s not a cooking/recipe blog, it’s about the lunches – the venue, menu, price and the verdicts. So just roll it along and for you next lunch, you can try out one of the places they mentioned.

ဒီအပတ္ ေဖြး ဆီက သီခ်င္းႏွစ္ပုဒ္နဲ႔ က်မရဲ့ သီခ်င္းႏွစ္ပုဒ္ တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္ရွင္။

ေဖြးရဲ့ ပထမတပုဒ္က ယုဇနဆိုထားတဲ့ “ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းကထက္ပိုခ်စ္တယ္” ဆိုတဲ့ ခပ္ျမဴးျမဴးသီခ်င္းေလးတပုဒ္ပါ။ ေဖြးအသံနဲ႔ ဒီလိုျမဴးျမဴးၾကြၾကြ သီခ်င္းေလးေတြနဲ႔ အရမ္းလိုက္တယ္လို႔ က်မေတာ့ထင္တာပဲ။

ေျပာင္လဲမသြားေတာ့မဲ့ အခ်စ္နဲ႔
ေဟာင္းႏြမ္းမသြားေတာ့မဲ့ အခ်စ္နဲ႔
မအိုမင္းေတာ့မဲ့ အခ်စ္နဲ႔
ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းကထက္ပိုခ်စ္တယ္။

[ MP3 ] Phwe – Nge Nge Tone Ka Htet Po Chit Tal

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ဒီ “အလြမ္းေန႔ရက္ရွည္” သီခ်င္းကို ေမစပယ္ညိဳကဆိုထားတာပါ။ ေမစပယ္ညိဳ အသံက က်မအတြက္ေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္နိမ့္လို မနဲလိုက္ဆိုရတာေတာင္ ဟိုျပတ္ဒီျပတ္နဲ႔ ဘယ္လိုဆိုရမွန္းမသိတာကို၊ ေဖြးက ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးေလး ၾကည္လင္ျပတ္သားတဲ့ သူ႔အသံေလးနဲ႔ လြယ္လြယ္ေလးဆိုသြားတာကို နားေသာတဆင္ၾကည့္ၾကပါဦးရွင္။

Oh Love…ရွင္သန္ရာ ဘဝေလးမွာ မင္းအခ်စ္နဲ႔ ေဝးရင္ေလ
အရာရာဟာေလ တကယ္ကိုအသက္မဲ့သြား…
Oh Love…ႏွလံုးသားေလးဟာ ေသဆံုးခ်ိန္မွာ
အဓိပၸါယ္မဲ့ ကိုယ္ရဲ့အလြမ္းေန႔ရက္ရွည္မ်ား…

[ MP3 ] Phwe – A Lwan Nay Yat Shay

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ဒီသီခ်င္းက အလြမ္းသီခ်င္းလဲျဖစ္၊ key ကလဲနိမ့္၊ မဆိုကလဲမဆိုတတ္၊ ေမစပယ္ညိဳအသံကိုနားေထာင္ျပီး သူ႔လို ဖီးလ္ေတြ အီးေတြ ထည့္ဆိုလိုက္တာ ဖီးလ္အသြင္းမ်ားသြားလို႔ အသံကိုထြက္မလာေတာ့တဲ့ က်မရဲ ဗားရွင္းေလးကိုလဲ နားဒုကၡဆင္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းပါရွင္။

[ MP3 ] May – A Lwan Nay Yat Shay

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ေမစပယ္ညိဳ အသံကိုဆိုလို႔မရမွန္းသိရက္နဲ႔ က်မအရူးမ ေနာက္တပုဒ္ထက္ဆိုလိုက္ပါေသးတယ္ရွင္။ စာသားေလးကိုခံစားလိုက္ရလို႔ပါ။ သီခ်င္းေလးက “အခ်စ္ဆိုတာ” ပါတဲ့ရွင္။

ငယ္စဥ္ခါ အခ်စ္ဆိုတာကို နားမလည္ပါ
အဓိပၸါယ္အေျဖရွာမရခဲ့ပါ
ရယူပိုင္ဆိုင္ျခင္းပဲလို႔ ရင္ထဲဆြဲျမဲမွတ္ယူထား

တကယ္ဆိုရင္ အခ်စ္ဆိုတာ အိပ္မက္ပမာ
အျမဲလို ကာရံမ်ားမေသခ်ာ၊ ရယူခ်င္လဲေပးဆပ္လို႔
တို႔အေဝးဆံုးက လြမ္းေနမွာ
ဒီလိုအခ်ိန္က်မွ ရင္မွာခံစားရ

[ MP3 ] May – A Chit So Der

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ဒီအပတ္ေတာ့ ဒီမွ်ပါပဲရွင္။ 7ven အဖြဲ႔က ေက်းဇူးတင္ေၾကာင္းပါရွင္။

Sorry for the late post this week. No excuses, I’m just being lazy to post. Anyways, this week pick includes a lovely Tongan song and more of 7ven’s old songs. You can also check out previous posts here:
# 7ven Idols + Glass Alley
# 7ven Idols + NWP

Phwe – Icy7ven
This week I got two songs from Phwe’s old collections. “Ta Di Ya Nay Mhar Par” is about rememberence of the old university by Mie Mie Win Phay and Phwe sang it pretty well, though I think the song should be abit slower cos’ it’s suppose to be a sad song. “Pa Soe Nae Tite Pong” is Phwe’s favorite. The song is about wearing Burmese traditional dress – a gal is telling her bf to wear proper dress when he come see her parents. Her parents don’t like baggy cloths and next time if he doesn’t wear proper clothing, she will not accept him. It’s a good song though I find it kinda funny.

[ MP3 ] Phwe – Ta Di Ya Nay Mhar Par

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[ MP3 ] Phwe – Pa Soe Nae Tite Pong

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Tu’I kolongahau kaikoa
A friend from Tonga forwarded me this beautiful song. This is the first time for me to listen a Tongan song and I like it. Sometimes back, one of my friend sent me a PNG song which also has the similar name Maria or Mae in it. Unfortunately I misplaced the file and couldn’t find it back. But I think PNG and Tongan dialect are a bit similar…may be not. I also lost a CD with many good songs from South Pacific – Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and all those small island nations. I’ve been losing things lately, hmm so bad! Anyways, I requested the song details and here is what he sent me. Sweet isn’t it. I bet his gal must be really touched by it.

[ WMA ] Tu’I kolongahau kaikoa – Oh, my dear Maria

About the song:This song has been played throughout the three local and secular radio stations in Tonga: FM 88.6, FM 90 and AM 110.03

I wrote this in dedication to my current girlfriend. Her name is Demarise, who is currently studying in Africa. Due to the long distance relationship, and being, what we call it, ‘lovesick’ most of the time, I decided to put all my thoughts into a song, with my heart etched to it. The chorus of the song has her name in it.

I never thought this song would be recognized. I guess it’s just that I put my whole heart into it, where there are also others out there who can identify themselves with me. We all go through times when you think you will go crazy just missing somebody you love so much. I have translated the lyrics of the song in English, though I wish you knew Tongan because the heat of the matter is better explained in my mother tongue language, Tongan.

Read, listen and enjoy. And to all you lovebirds out there, just hang in there!

English Translation

Oh, my dear Maria

As the wind blows from the northern hemisphere
My thoughts are just filled with you
I don’t see anything else but your face in my dreams
It actually relieves me of the pain I feel (in heart and mind)

Chorus:
Oh, oh, oh, my Maria…

In the evening when the sun is about to set
It reminds me of your beautiful smile
I think of nothing and nobody else but you alone
Yes, the love of my heart (my lover)

Oh how I wish that I were near you
The thought of it just takes my breath away
Yes, I so cannot wait for that day
When I pledge you myself (body, heart, mind and soul)

# NB. The file is in .wma format and it got some keys in it. Just download it and you should be able to play as many times as you wish.
Thanks Hayden and Tu’i-K-K for the song.

May – G7ven
And finally this two is from me. “A Pyin Pyay Nya Nay” is about a girl day dreaming in a boring evening and sings about the thing she sees on the street. It’s L Sine Ze’s song and my recording is crap, overriding her vocal. “Nha Ko Tu Chit Ta Mhya” is very OLD song from a very OLD movie – “Thingyan Moe”, singing about two love birds. It’s a duet song but I sang for both. I can’t keep up the vocals … oh well…who cares!

[ MP3 ] May – A Pyin Pyay Nya Nay

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[ MP3 ] May – Nha Ko Tu Chit Ta Mhya

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That’s all folks! ta tar!

Scenario: The gangs are talking about salaries at USP (University of South Pacific).

X: These gangs at USP, their base salary is 80K.
Z: They are ripping off students. Filthy rich.
X: What if all of us salary is 100K?
Y: Fiji is not that rich.
X: I’m just saying…what if our IT team salary is 100K? Everyday pizza…”Z” will be twice that size.
Z: How Rude!!
(* Chuckles *)
X: Haha I’m just joking.

Thought: The higher the salary, the better/more food in take, the bigger your size will be.

Hello hello, I forgot to post a music pick yesterday, I was fully occupied (watching movies, eating, sleeping); anyways I’ve selected six old songs this week and am going to introduce one new singer. Incase if you haven’t heard/are wondering what this post is about, you can check an introductory post last week which explains about this.

This week songs are especially dedicated to self-proclaimed “Ko Ko” out there. LOL nah…I just found some of our old songs with “Ko Ko” in it so compiled it together here.

Phwe – Icy7ven
I’ve introduced her in last week post. This week she sang the following two songs. I think “Tate Ta Kho A Chit” is from “Mu Paing Chit Thu” movie with Kyaw Thu and May Than Nu. Very old one, if I remember it right. It’s a nice movie though I forgot the whole story, I guess the song was sang when Kyaw Thu was away and May Than Nu got sick…or something like that.

The 2nd song is from May Kha Lar’s album sang by Yu Za Na. I think Phwe is better than Yu Za Na in vocal. I don’t like Yu Za Na voice much cos’ it’s kinda like throaty and flat. But she knows how to sing so it’s good for her.

[ MP3 ] Phwe – Tate Ta Kho A Chit

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[ MP3 ] Phwe – Ko Ko Ko

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NWP
This guy is my OLD school friend. He’s a shy one; young, good looking, smart (doing his Masters), kind, patient (that’s what he said, but I don’t think so), single (all the ladies out there, if you’re interested, just give a buzz lol) and he sings quite well too. There you go man; I’m saying all good things about you so you owe me a good lunch. Bite sar nay tal kwa!

Both songs are nice. I think “Kyin Nar Lo Chit Pa Ya Say” is originally sung by Doe Lone. NWP sang it quite differently in terms of ah…how to say…breaking parts and the tune. But his version is also good and easy listening. I don’t know who sang “Myat Lone Chin Sakar Pyaw Nay Pyi” but it’s a nice one too.

[ MP3 ] NWP – Myat Lone Chin Sakar Pyaw Nay Pyi

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[ MP3 ] NWP – Kyin Nar Lo Chit Pa Ya Say

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Mont Kwyay mal, nout htet sing htar oo naw. ha` ha`

May – G7ven
Aww, I don’t know her at all. I heard, she got a nice vocal and her friends adore her, so she assumes.
[ MP3 ] May – Lo Ta Ya

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[ MP3 ] May – Ko Ko Ko

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There you have it. Drop me a line or two if you wanna join us.
Send me your voices and a bit of your info to mayvelous [at] gmail [dot] com
## Listen our last week picks here.
Tar.

The IT team I’m working with at the moment is made up of very young and cheerful youths in their mid 20s. They do numerous daily routines such as maintaining websites, reports, support calls, tech job such as fixing printers and whatever people ask them to help with. Most of the time, guys are running around different departments and picking calls. Very few times, you’ll find them sitting at their desk. They do shifts and some stay up really late to finish their work. Though they are busy, you will find them cheerful, always ready to make a joke and are quite loud. Sometimes they would pick on each others, calling names and saying bad things against each other. They are doing it just to amuse themselves during the busy hours and bring up team spirit.

I enjoy working with them, they amuse me most of the times and would never get bored listening to their chatters. Indeed, it’s a good team and working environment (except for closely packed room).

The followings are some of their conversations I picked up today:

Playing Music
Scenario:The guy was playing some instrumental music and others starting complaining at him.

X: May, if this disturbing you, let me know Ok? For the rest of you, you got no choice.

May: It’s Ok.

The Rest: Wow Vayah, Like that huh!

X: It’s always been like that!

(*Laugh*)

ID Card Idea.
Scenario: The guys were discussing about their new ID card design.

X: Hey who’s the best graphic designer here? What about the layout?

(One guy (Y) went up to the board and started drawing)

Y: Let’s make it like this.
We can put our logo here.
Our address at the bottom
Name here
Photo here
Then we can add Shimmering stuffs around here.

X: What’s the shimmering stuffs?

Y: You know, some sparkling things. Something like…in nightclubs. The shining stars and the sparks.

Z: Oh rite, put some neon light balls and some dangling stuffs at the bottom of the card.

Y: Yah then we show it to everyone – this is our ID card. Auu very attractive.

Z: Haha, hey make it as Business card. Everyone wanna have one too.

(*Laugh*)

Spy
Scenario: The guys were gossiping about something in quite low tone

May: Alrite guys, I’m off

X: Auu, there she go. You know what, don’t talk around May. She’s a spy from Datec

May: What? Spy?

Y: Oh yah becareful with your confidential information. May is watching.

May: Haha yah I’m a spy. Professional Spy

May: May, James May – 0007 here.

(*Laugh*)

I said no more music pick last time rite? Well…I lied, kind of. I was digging up old emails and I came across some of my friends’ songs; then the idea struck me – to do music picks on those. You see, a few of my friends are really musical and they have such good talents that are hidden behind their busy selves. I, as their good friend, have a responsibility to promote those hidden talents and show them off to the public. You never know, one day they’ll thank me or swear at me. hehe.

Phwe – Icy7ven
First of all, I like to introduce this young and talented missy – Phwe. She’s one of my 7ven friends and is a great singer in our group. Her best interests are to sing, chat and diet. She can sing for hours, no need any water or backup. She sings at home, in the loo, in bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, her friends’ places, and any place she can possibly think of singing. At the moment she is concentrating on her study. Due to her parents’ no-singing policy, she has to finish her studies first then follow her dreams. Already she got bookings from her friends to sing at their special occasions.

[ MP3 ] Icy7ven – De Ta Thet Lone

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[ MP3 ] Icy7ven – Htar khalt mal thu

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[ MP3 ] Icy7ven – Ma Kwal Chin Buu

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Missy sang at last year Thingyan festival too, I bet she’s practicing for this year Thingyan as well. You can request her to sing any song you have in mind. Oh yah she can sing quadri-lingual, Myanmar, English, Indian and Nepalese. How cool is that! Last time she sang me “Kush kush ho te hel” song and I think even Ashwaya Rai need to practice more on her vocal to catch up our Missy. hehe

Glass Alley
This is one of my friend’s high school band, sort of. A group of hsch friends teamed up to do a bit of recording. Sadly, the band is pretty much no more due to their members getting married and entering the chaos of daily life. The members were Meli, Albert, Jonathan, Steve and Forlani (my friend). I think Forlani played bass and did the intro part. Don’t know who the vocalist is but he’s got a potential. Sounded like John Mayer’s voice. There you go, shout me something good. Haha

[ MP3 ] Glass Alley – Turn Back The Hands

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[ MP3 ] Glass Alley – Standing In The Rain

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These two songs are from one of their live shows. The recording is not that good in some parts but I think it’s alright. Both are their own creations so no replication please.

May – G7ven
A Ham, Ahamm! Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, lend me your ears. I have a great pleasure to introduce this amazing, talented, beautiful, magnificent, gorgeous, the marvelous (Cut, cut!), ME. A ha` ha`

Hey nothing wrong with promoting yourself alrite. There is this marketing theory – the more you promote yourself, the more people will buy from you. (or something like that) Not that I got anything to sell you, I’m just giving an example…well you know what I mean. I don’t think you need farther intro for me. I don’t sing anywhere and singing is not my specialty. I listen most of the time and am a good listener. Just for fun, I do sing from time to time for my own pleasure. I got a great support from my family, especially bro and sis to shut myself up whenever I try to sing.

[ MP3 ] May – Ta Saint Saint Yin Htal Mal

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[ MP3 ] May – AChit ATwet Kan MaKg Tal Thu

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[ MP3 ] May – Hlet Kyi Par Oo

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In Hlet Kyi Par Oo, ahoot* cough* cough* I was screaming that much but that person never look back. What a fool. I got a sore throat after that. A friend sent me a scratched background music so it came out terrible. All my recordings sux. Well who cares! Do excuse me, if you hear some dog barking at the background. My dog wanted to sing too (or may be complaining my singing), so just to satisfy her, I have to record a few of her woofs* as well.

Alrite, that’s all for this week. Hope you enjoy listening all our songs and our sweet voices (especially mine rite?).hehe

I requested some songs from a few friends of mine so you’ll get to listen more from simple and ordinary talents in weeks ahead. Oh yah, if you’re interested to join us, do send me your songs. It doesn’t have to be your own creation. It can be Karaoke versions too. I just wanna hear your voices. Like my friend said, “any publicity is a good publicity”, so don’t be shy, lend me your voices.

Send me your voices and a bit of your info to mayvelous [at] gmail [dot] com

Ciao!