ကဗ်ာ၊ စာေပ၊ လကၤာ ေတြဟာ ခံစားတတ္သူအဖို႔ တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္နိူင္တဲ့ ရတနာ တခုပါဲ။ က်မကေတာ့ ခံစားခ်က္ ကင္းမဲ့သူတေယာက္ ျဖစ္လို႔လားမသိ၊ တခ်ိဳ႕စာေပေတြကို၊ မနဲနားလည္ယူရပါတယ္။ ဗမာစာနဲ ေဝးေနသူအဖို႔ စာတေၾကာင္းေရးဖို႔ရာ အေတာ့ကို စဥ္းစားယူရပါတယ္။ ေရးပံုေရးနည္း ေျပာပံုဆိုပံု ေတြးေတာေဝဖန္ ေဖာ္ျပပံုကအစ အလြန္ကြာရွားလွပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ ကိုယ္ကိုကိုယ္ နာမ္စား မည္သို႔မည္ပံုေရးရမယ္ ဆိုတာကို အေတာ္ စဥ္းစားယူလိုက္ရပါတယ္။ က်မ လို႔သံုးရင္ေကာင္းမလား၊ ေမ လို႔ေျပာရင္ ေကာင္းမလား၊ နာမ္စားမပါေအာင္ လွည့္သံုးရင္ေကာင္းမလား၊ မလား၊ မလား နဲ႔စဥ္းစားေန သမွ် စာတေၾကာင္းေျဖာင့္ေအာင္ ေရးလို႔ရမည္႔ကိန္း မျမင္ေတာ့လို႔ ျဖစ္ခ်င္ရာျဖစ္ ေမာင္ဘခ်စ္ အေနနဲ႔ ေရးခ်င္ရာေရး ေတြးခ်င္ရာေတြး လိုက္မွပဲ ဒီစာေလး နွစ္ေၾကာင္းသံုးေၾကာင္း ထြက္လာရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ရွင္တို႔ကေတာ့ထင္မွပဲ ဒီမိန္းကေလး ဘာေတြေလွ်ာက္ေျပာ ေနမွန္းမသိလို႔။ ေဟာ သြားျပန္ၿပီ။ ရွင္ ဆိုတာႀကီး၊ “You” ကို ဘယ္လိုေျပာရမလဲ၊ ရွင္တို႔္ ဆိုတာ ေယာက်ာၤး ကိုသံုးတာ မဟုတ္လား၊ မိန္းမ ဆိုရင္ ရွင္မတို႔ လို႔ေျပာရမွာလား၊ မဟုတ္ေသးပါဘူးေနာ္…ထားပါေတာ့ေလ…

ခုတေလာ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ၿမန္မာ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ ေတြထြက္လာတာ ေတြ႔မိတယ္။ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ Personal Diary သေဘာမိ်ဳးေလးေတြျဖစ္ၿပီး တခ်ိဳ႕က အဖြဲ႔ လိုက္ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေရးပံုေရးနည္း စီစဥ္တင္ဆက္ပံု နည္းအဖံုဖံုကို က်မ ဂရုတစိုက္ လိုက္ၾကည္႔မိပါတယ္။ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး အားက်စရာေကာင္းေအာင္ ေရးနိူင္ၾကတာေတြ႔လို႔ တေန႔တေန႔ က်မ subscribe ထားတဲ့ feeds ေလးေတြကို လိုက္ဖတ္ရတာဟာ က်မအတြက္ ေန႔ဓဒူူဝ အလုပ္ကေလးကိုျဖစ္ေနပါေရာလားရွင္။ သူမ်ား စာေတြ၊ ကဗ်ာေတြ ေရးေတာ့၊ က်မလဲေရးျခင္တာေပါ့ရွင္။ ခက္တာက က်မစာေကာင္းေကာင္း မေရးတတ္ျခင္းပဲ။ က်မ ျမန္မာစာကို ၇ တန္း အထိပဲ သင္ခဲ့ရျပီး ျမန္မာစာေပနဲ႔ ေဝးကြာခဲ့ရတာ ၈နွစ္ ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ပါျပီ။ က်မ ေက်ာင္းတုန္းက ျမန္မာစာကို အျဖစ္သေဘာပဲ သင္ယူခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဗဟုသုတအေနနဲ႔ကလဲ ၇တန္းအရြယ္ ဟိုနဲနဲ ဒီနဲနဲ ဖတ္ခဲ့တာကလြဲလို႔ ဥႆုုံ နတိၱ လံုးဝမသိပါ။ စာသံ ေပသံနဲ႔ ကဗ်ာစပ္တတ္ဖို႔ ေဝးစြ၊ အနုအရြ အဖြဲ႔အနြဲ႔ေလးေတြနဲ႔ ရည္းစားစာေလးေတြေတာင္ မေရးျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ က်မအဖို႔ ဗမာလို ဘေလာ့ဂ္မယ္၊ ဗမာစာ ေတြေရးမယ္ဆိုတာ အေျပာလြယ္ေပမယ့္ တကယ္တန္းလုပ္ျဖစ္ဖိုက အလြန္ခက္ခဲေသာ အရာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

က်မဟိုအပတ္တုန္းက ္ဘေလာ့ဂ္အသစ္လးေတြကို ေလွ်ာက္ၾကည္႔ရင္းနဲ႔ တခုေသာ ဘေလာ့ဂ္မွာေရးထားတဲ့ Statement ေလးေၾကာင့္ စိတ္အေတာ္ ေလသြားခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ (I mean, I’m lost for word or don’t know how to express on the subject matter. How to say that in Burmese?) ဘယ္ဘေလာ့ဂ္လဲ ဘယ္သူေရးတာလဲဆိုတာေတာ့ က်မေမ့သြားတယ္၊ သူေရးထားတာက သူဟာ ျမန္မာ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ေတြကို အလြန္ နွစ္သက္ပါတယ္တဲ့၊ သူဘေလာ့ဂ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္ အားေပးကူညီၾကတဲ့ Senior Bloggers ေတြကိုလဲေလးစားပါတယ္တဲ့၊ တခ်ိဳ႕မ်ားက်ေတာ့ အေတာ္လြန္ၿပီး ဗမာလိုေတာင္ ဘေလာ့ဂ္မလုပ္ၾကေတာ့ပါဘူးတဲ့၊ က်ြန္ေေတာ့မွာ သူတို႔ ပို႔စ္တခုကို ရွိတ ဲ့အဗိဒန္နွစ္အုပ္တြဲၾကီးနဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္အခ်ိန္ယူဖတ္ရပါတယ္တဲ့။ သူအေကာင္းေျပာတာလား ရြဲ႕ေျပာတာလားေတာ့္ က်မ မသိပါ၊ သူေရးထားတာေလးကို က်မ ေမေမ့ကို ျပန္ေျပာေတာ့ သူကလဲ ဒါေပါ့တဲ့ ငါဆိုလဲ ဗမာလိုေရးတဲ့ ဆိုဒ္ပဲသြားဖတ္မယ္၊ နင္ အဂၤလိပ္လိုေရးတာေတြ ဖီလင္မလာပါဘူး တဲ့ရွင္။ က်မလဲဘာေျပာရမွန္း မသိျဖစ္သြားတယ္ရွင္။ ေနာက္မွ ျပန္စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ေတာ့၊ အင္းဟုတ္မွာပ၊ဲ ဗမာစာကို ေလးေလးပင္ပင္မသိတဲ့ က်မေတာင္ ဗမာလိုေရးတာေလးေတြကို ခုန္ခုန္မင္မင္လိုက္ဖတ္ေနရင္၊ တသက္လံုး ဗမာစာနဲ႔ ႀကီးျပင္းလာတဲ့သူတို႕အဖို႔၊ တျခားစာေတြဘယ္ေလာက္ေကာင္းေကာင္း ကိုယ့္မိရိုးဖာသာ ဗမာစာကိုပဲ ေလးေလးပင္ပင္ ခံစားနိုင္ၾကမွာေပါ့ေလ။ အဲတာေၾကာင့္ တခါက အကိုျငိမ္းခ်မ္း ရဲ႕ ဗမာဘေလာ့ဂ္ေလးေတြဖတ္ရတာ ကိုယ့္ေဆြမ်ိဳးအိမ္မွာ ထမင္းတက္စားးရသလိုပဲ ဆိုတဲ့အေျပာေလးကို အခုစဥ္းစားၾကည့္မွပဲ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာနားလည္ေတာ့တယ္ရွင္။

ဒါနဲ႔ပဲ ဆရာၾကီးမ်ား အကူအညီနဲ က်မ ေမဗလပ္(စ္) ေဇာ္ဂ်ီဖြန္႔ေလးကို လက္တဲ့စမ္းၾကည္႔္ လိုက္ပါတယ္ ရွင္။

Thanks KoDathana (I don’t know his name), Ko Nyein Chan and all other Burmese Bloggers for their help and encouragement on Burmese Blogging. I’m still practicing. This post took me 3days (3hr/day, 1para/day) of my time. I want to write more but so tired and stopped it just like that. You bet, I’ll try again later.

Updated: Thanks so much for corrections, but I think I’ll leave it as it is for my very first post. I’ll come back later and will laugh at it. Thanks bros.

From Ko Nyi Lynn Seck
Hello Sis
May I fix some spelling for you!

Dictionary- အဘိဓါန္
Daily Activities – ေန႔တဓူ၀
Want to write – ေရးခ်င္တာေပါ႔ရွင
္
ခုံခံုမင္မင္
Traditionally – မိရိုးဖလာ

ဆရာလုပ္တယ္လို႔ မထင္ပါနဲ႔ေနာ္႔။ ဆရာၾကီးလည္း မေခၚပါနဲ႔။
ညီမ ဘေလာ႔ခ္မွာ Slang ေလးေတြ ေတြ႕လိုက္ရေတာ႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္ သေဘာက် မိသြားတယ္။
ၿဖစ္ခ်င္တာၿဖစ္ ေမာင္ဘခ်စ္
စိတ္အေတာ္ေလတယ္
အားေပးလ်က္ပါ။

From Ko Dathana:
here are some spelling mistakes i saw…
စာတေၾကာင္း, တေန႔တေန႔ = စာတစ္ေၾကာင္း , တစ္ေန႔တစ္ေန႔ (spelling for “one” is တစ္ )
ကြာရွားလွပါတယ္ = ကြာျခားလွပါတယ္
ေန႔ဓဒူူဝ = ေန႔တဓူဝ
ေရးျခင္တာ=ေရးခ်င္တာ
ကိုယ့္မိရိုးဖာသာ ဗမာစာ =ကိုယ့္မိရိုးဖလာ ဗမာစာ
and… u should say ျမန္မာစာ instead of ဗမာစာ

Believe it or not, I’ve never been to any funeral back in Burma and been to only one funeral in Fiji which was my classmate’s mother funeral.

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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Is she Burmese? Her surname, “Myint”, sounds very Burmese. She looks like one too.
If she is then great! Good to see some Burmese faces in well recognized companies such this.

Janice Myint
Customer Support

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Oh I wanna complaint about technorati.:D
I can’t see any technorati back links in my wordpress dash board. Before I can see who linked me but now I can’t, been a while now. Don’t know how to fix or it’s technorati problem that they’re not tracking my site??

Link: Technorati Staff Profiles
Check her blog

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Happy Chinese New Year to all Chinese, part Chinese, half Chinese, quarter Chinese, 10c Chinese, short Chinese, long Chinese , whatever Chinese and whoever celebrating it.

Unfortunately I got nothing to say except for the above wish.

Ok, that’s not true, I got some more to say.
I’m sure some of you notice I got some Chinese blood in me by my look. Big round face, flat nose, big teeth, glass etc.
Yep, I got a few percent Chinese from my Dad’s side. Mind you though, don’t say I’m Chinese in front of me. I hate that alot, I hate whenever people mistaken me as a Chinese girl.
No, I got nothing against Chinese, just that I don’t regard myself as one because I was born in Myanmar and I take pride in being a Burmese.

Well, to think of it, I’m not even a half Burmese. My dad being a 90% Chinese + 10% Shan and my mom being 25% Rakhine (Yakhine)+ 75% Burmese, makes me hmmmm…I don’t know…40%? 25%? Burmese blood in me.

But Yakhine and Shan are counted as one of the 8 major native races of Burma so yah…I count myself as Burmese (as countryman of Burma) but closer toward Rakhine.

One slack thing about being a mix blood is that, you don’t know which side you exactly belong to. Especially in my family, my father is half Chinese but he doesn’t know a single thing about Chinese. I mean he knows Chinese and their culture for sure but I mean in a way that he can’t speak or write or understand anything Chinese. So he can’t say he is Chinese except that he looks like one. That’s the main reason I don’t take myself as a part Chinese. I don’t know how to speak/write Chinese. I don’t belong to that race because I know nothing about them. I don’t know what’s the main significant of this new year celebration and stuffs.

Every year we celebrate do prayers at home. My father being the eldest in his family, he has to carry on the tradition to do the prayers. That’s what my grand mother says but she also doesn’t know how to speak/write/understand Chinese. They just passing along the traditions cos’ they are the eldest in the family and that’s what they are told to do so.

Every year we have a bit of fight regarding Chinese New Year celebration, me and my father (rather with granny). My grandmother says since I’m the eldest in the family, I’ll have to carry on this tradition when I have my own family. I give her a big “No”. I told them since I don’t know a thing about Chinese and I’m no Mahayana Buddhist or Tao Buddhism, I won’t do those Chinese stuffs. I’m 100% Theravada Buddhism so I don’t worship/pray for the deaths. Plus I’ll only do/follow things that I understand the proper significant of. Interesting enough, my dad doesn’t force me or say anything on this.

Anyway today yesterday my mom prepared some meals and we had a nice little feast for Chinese New Year. As usual fried noodles, fried vermicelli with veges, some chicken, pork, fish, prawn and a good soup are the must dishes for us. There are some Chinese sweets too but we forgot to buy “TiKwe” (the brownish chewy sweet thing) this year. Do you know you have to kinda invite your death ancestors forehand (say a day before or so) with proper date and time to visit the house. Kinda freaky huh LOL. And the food…you gotta have whole meat, whole chicken, whole pork kind of thing. I guess, after all those are for deaths/ghosts/whatever and they eat big meat rite? It’s just stupid and I don’t understand it at all. Then you light the candles and scented sticks to say prayers like, may all those deaths look after the family health, wealth, the children education, bless us all blar blar blar. And you hold those scented sticks, bend back and forth three, four times then let the death eat till the candles finished. The people can eat after that, but I can’t wait till the candles finish so I grab some food and dine together with the deaths My granny doesn’t approve of that but hey a gal gotta do what she gotta do when she’s hungry.

When the meal finished, we have to burn some gold papers, silver papers, fake money and stuffs. You make little toys out of those papers. Like a boat or a plane or whatever, we don’t know how to make nice stuffs so only boats we made…they look rather like canoe to me. Anyway I hope my death ancestors enjoy sailing around. :p

Ok, now the whole time I’ve been fooling around with things but my sister is really into it. She do prayers properly, she prepare food and wait till the proper time to eat and help making paper toys and burning them. Gosh I sometime don’t understand her, she’s very cheeky in most of the stuffs but quite religious and follows whatever the father does, after all she’s the dad’s fav gal. My brother and I don’t care much about those, I guess she should be the one who carry on the tradition and not the eldest, Me. :p

Anyway, my apologies to all the Chinese if I offend the traditions in some ways. I don’t understand the proper ways so please do ignore this foolish girl. But hey I love the foods, Chinese foods are always my favorites and I enjoy every single one of them. Deep respect for all the great chefs.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

I got this article, Create an e-annoyance, go to jail, from a friend and was happy to hear the enforcement of some law against annoying cyber freaks.

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It’s illegal to annoy

A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity.

Cyber culture is very vast, somewhat uncontrollable and very scary sometime. Human by nature are very annoying chimps and only by a few (so call – superior) level of intelligence separates us from those of the wilds. Values, respects, responsibilities and disciplines represent who you are and stand out among others. Unfortunately not all of us qualify for such that it’s disappointing to see lots of low beings among us.

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What the …

Can’t they find better name than this?

“BurmeseBuddhistChristianHindu”

Well I got this email “Join this group”, one look and I go “No Thank You”. I’m just not religious type and I hate that name. So…how to say…eeky-creepy.

Ok this is their main page message. The very first thing they need to do before unite all religions is to use small/title font. Please don’t ever use all caps. It’s like yelling at the visitors.

WE SHOULD MAINTAIN OUR BUDDHISM IN BURMA.WE NEED TO GET ALONG CHRISTIAN,HINDU IN BURMA.WE CAN GET ALONG WITH CHRISTIAN AND HINDU.IF ANY BODY WANT TO MAINTAIN OUR BUDDHISM,YOUR CHRISTIANITY,HINDUIAM PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TALK AND JOIN OUR GROUP.
BUDDHA STATUE DESTROYED BY ISLAMISTS IN AFGANISTAN.

Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BURMESEBUDDHISTCHRISTIANHINDU/

I was reading “Rip Web Trends of the 90s” over at NCZ Online and was disappointed to realize 80%+ myanmar sites still make use of those 90s styles he mentioned.

These are the things we all included on our web sites by default, and now have gone the way of the dinosaur:
# Guestbook
# Counter
# Image Maps
# Best Viewed With
# Splash Pages

I would definitely love to see myanmar sites get rid of those especially “Splash Pages”, “Counters” and also try to make the site compatible with FireFox as 90% of myanmar sites are totally crap once you view with browser other than IE.
Also need to reduce their great love for flash, well flash is nice if you can make it faster load but seem to me they just never finish loading.

Another thing about myanmar sites is that they use heaps of animations and messy background images. Each page changes different background images and you just don’t know which page you come from or might have a great doubt about whether you’re in the same site still.
Consistency is the main thing myanmar sites lack.

Now now, don’t start…I know my site is crappy too but it’s good to consider some constructive critism right?

Link: “Rip Web Trends of the 90s”