I got this message from my contact form this evening.

Fiji Military really threatening me? For what? Just because they see my link on one politic blog? If it’s for real then send it as a formal letter with proper military seals. Come get me at my office since you know where I work.

I want a proper explanation from Military or whoever behind this nasty email. I strongly feel this as a serious harassment and would like to take action against it. This is a form of terrorizing the public. They are trying to demolish freedom of speech, most importantly shutting up bloggers’ voices, and leave people in terror to suck up to them.

Or is this some bad joke? Whoever playing this kind of sick joke will get caught one day and get punished. But to threaten someone like that, is just unbearable. If you wanted to make other people miserable then you just succeeded. I couldn’t have my dinner in peace and ate very little, you damn arses #@$%!

Feed Back Message from Mayvelous.com – 9 March 2007 5:26 pm

RFMF – Webmaster wrote:
This is to forwarn you that your site is among those listed on http://vakaivosavosa.blogspot.com/. The site is listed in our records as one which contains inciteful material. Please note that we are aware of your current work location and your link with Datec Pacific. We urge you to contact the author(s) of the above mentioned site to have your site removed. Failure to do this will be taken as an indication of your support for such sites and this may result in arrests of you and your family members under the current State of Emergency decree’s

Website: http://www.rfmf.mil.fj
IP: 210.7.5.151

The more they do this kind of threats, the more they’ll be degraded by countrymen and there’ll be no place for Fiji in the international/public eyes.

Politic is nonsense. Fiji politic is shit hole. I’ll be damned if I know how to spell the president’s name right or know who the vice president is. You are messing with someone who don’t give a shit about politic. So bite me.
Some freakin’ arses spoiling my friday evening! @#%!$ Garr GARRRRRRR!!

I didn’t realize today’s International Women’s Day until I got this nice wish from my friend. So here I am wishing all you ladies a Happy International Women’s Day!!

If you want something said, ask a man;
if you want something done, ask a woman.
-Margaret Thatcher

Check out how my friend send me the wish. Good writing and composition too. haha I’m flattered.

Thanks man, I’m really touched.

I came across this photo from U San Oo’s Blog, I just love it so sharing with you. Check out how she gracefully wear Myanmar traditional dress and the way she was posing. Just sooo cute!!!

Come to think of it…I’ve never worn a Myanmar traditional dress in my life yet. I don’t even wear a Longyi (Sulu). I’m going to get one next time I go back Burma. The photo is a bit blur but you get the idea of how Burmese traditional dress looks like.

I got this through my contact form last night. It’s called Blog to America, a site where you send a letter to America. It’s an interesting concept they are starting. They gather letters from all over the world about America. You can read and discuss about other people letters as well. The site is pretty new and there is no letter from Fiji or Myanmar yet. If you have anything to say about America, just submit a letter there and it will be known to the world. So, be the first to send a letter yarr.

Blog to America is a site where individuals from around the world post their opinions on the United States in the form of letters and comments.

Here is the email I got from them. It explains abit about their site. To know more about Blog to America, visit the site here.

Dear May,
My name is Yosei and I discovered your blog while browsing through international sites on the Bloglines website. I am one of the founders of a new site called Blog to America. I had a chance to read through your blog and I think your unique Burmese/Fiji perspective would be a great addition to our site. Our goal is to find individuals like yourself to help increase global awareness and create a greater understanding of the way the United States is viewed across the world. Our site allows people to write a letter addressed to the United States telling the world how they feel about any and all topics relating to the U.S.

If you are interested in writing a letter to the United States or simply interested in reading letters written by others please visit our site at www.blogtoamerica.org

Also, if you are interested in exchanging links, please send us an email with the URL you would like us to post. We would love to feature your site on our blog.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to reading your letter.

Sincerely,

Yosei

Alrite I’m just spreading the word. Now…what do I have to say to America…

I’ve decided not to let Dad drive me to work when I’m late. Not that he drops me everyday. Most of the time I’m late for work so he goes off early himself and I take taxi every morning. He picks me up after work everyday though. Today Dad’s on leave and offers to drive me to work. It’s already 9am and I’m way late. He drives with 25km/hr on clear road and 20-15km/hr on junctions and a bit crowded road. 10min drive by taxi took about 20min with my dad. I can even take another nap on the way. He’s just way over careful. If Dad drives on rainy days, the car would hardly move. hmm…I can’t complaint too. I’m just being lazy arse waking up late all the time so just have to let it slide.

This is one of the reasons I still don’t have my driving license. I got learners permit and started driving while I was in uni. I don’t drive too fast but I’m fast on my Dad’s radar. Also sometimes I’m a bit careless and don’t look much, (hey I’m not that dangerous driver) so he would always yell at me whenever I’m driving for not looking, not signaling, fast driving and too jerky at turning points. It’s just too noisy driving with him. So we had a bit of fight over my driving issues and I’ve decided not to drive anymore and only to drive when I get my own car. That would be ages for me to wait as I’m in no position to buy my own wheel.

But then Dad gets relax over my Bro and Sis driving. Come to think of, they are worse than me on driving but he doesn’t complain much. I think the eldest are always to suffer the most as they are the first to get tested while parents adjusting themselves with new changes. Man that just sux being the eldest. Anyways…I’m still not driving and still waiting for the day to get my own wheel. sob sob*

ပ်င္းပ်င္းရွိသည္ႏွင့္ သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္ေယာက္ပို႔ထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာစာ အတိုအထြာေတြထဲက ဂ်ဴးရဲ့ “အခ်စ္ဆိုတာ ၾကိဳးနဲ႔သီဖို႔ မလိုတဲ့ ပန္းပြင့္္ကေလးေတ”ြ ဆိုတဲ့ ဝတၳဳတိုေလးကို ဖတ္မိပါတယ္။ ဝါသနာအရ စဥ္းစားရင္း ေတြးရင္း ေမးခြန္းေလးေတြေပၚလာ လို႔ ခ်ေရးလိုက္မိပါသည္။

၁။ ဇာတ္လမ္းအဓိကမဟုတ္ေသာ ဝတၳဳတစ္ပုွဒ္ လို သူႏွင့္ကၽြန္မ ခ်စ္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

ဇာတ္လမ္းအဓိကမဟုတ္ေသာ ဝတၳဳဆိုတာ ဘာကိုဆိုလိုပါသလဲ၊ ဝတၳဳတစ္ပုဒ္မွာ ဇာတ္လမ္း အဓိကမဟုတ္ရင္၊ ဘယ္အရာဟာ အဓိကပါလဲ၊ ဇာတ္ေကာင္ ေတြလား…သူတို႔ဟာလဲ ဇာတ္လမ္းမရွိပဲ ဇာတ္ေကာင္ျဖစ္လာနိဳင္ ပါသလား။

၂။ အာရုံငါးပါးတြင္ အခ်စ္သည္ အနည္းဆံုး တစ္ပါးပါးျဖင့္ စတင္တတ္သည္ဟု ေျပာပါသည္။

ဤစာပိုဒ္ကိုေတာ့ ေထာက္ခံမိပါသည္။ Theoretically အေနနဲ႔ လက္ခံပါသည္၊ Practically မစမ္းသပ္ရေသးပါ။ ပုထုစဥ္တို႔ သေဘာအရ ထိုအာရုံေတြႏွင့္ မည္သူမွ်မကင္းလြတ္ႏိုင္၊ တစ္နည္းနည္းႏွင့္ စပ္စက္ေနၾက ေပရာ၊ ထိုစာကိုလက္ခံမိပါသည္။

၃။ ခ်စ္သူတစ္ေယာက္ကို ဘယ္အခ်ိန္က စခ်စ္သြားမွန္း မသိဘူးဆိုတဲ့လူေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္ညံ့တာပဲဟု ကၽြန္မထင္ပါသည္။ သည္ေလာက္အေရးၾကီးသည့္ အေျပာင္းအလဲတစ္ခုကို လူတိုင္း သတိရေနသင့္သည္ ထင္ပါသည္။

ဘဝအေျပာင္းအလဲေလးေတြကို အမွတ္ရ သတိထားႏိုင္ျခင္းသည္ အရည္အျခင္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္မည္ဟု ထင္ပါသည္။ ထိုအရည္အခ်င္းကို ကၽြန္မ အလြန္ ျမတ္ႏို္းတန္ဖိုးထားေသာ္လည္း လူတိုင္း ပိုင္ဆိုင္မွုမရွိတာကိုေတာ့ လက္ခံမိပါသည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာအရာမ်ားသည္ အမွတ္မထားမိပဲ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားတတ္ၾကပါသည္။ အလိုလိုျဖစ္ပ်က္ ေျပာင္လဲမွုမ်ားကို စမ္းစစ္သတိထားႏိုင္ေသာ အရည္အခ်င္းတစ္ခ်က္ ပိုင္ဆိုင္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ကၽြန္မသည္လဲ ၾကိဳးစားဆဲပါ။

၄။ ကၽြန္မက ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးခ်ည္ရာတြင္ အလြန္ညံ့ပါသည္။ ကၽြန္မ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးသည္ တစ္ခါေျပးလွ်င္ အနည္းဆံုး တစ္ဖက္တစ္ခါေတာ့ ျပန္ျပင္ ခ်ည္ရတတ္၏။ ၾကိဳးေျပျပီး ၾကိဳးႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္းလံုး ဘတ္လတ္ဘတ္လတ္ ဒယဥ့္တိုက္ေနသည္ကို ခဏခဏ ေတြ႔ရတတ္ပါသည္။

ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးခ်ည္ျခင္းသည္ Rocket Science ထက္ပိုမ်ားခဲယဥ္းေနသလားဟု ေတြးမိပါသည္။ ၅ႏွစ္ ကေလးငယ္တစ္ဦးသည္ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳး (သို႔) ဖဲျပားၾကိဳး ကိုစတင္ ခ်ည္ႏိုင္ၾကပါျပီ။ ထိုမိန္းကေလးသည္ -
၁) ေဝါ့လ္ကင္းရွဴး (ၾကိဳးပါေသာ ဖိနပ္မ်ား) ကို သိပ္မဝတ္ျဖစ္၍ ေသာ္၎၊
၂) ဖဲၾကိဳးေကာင္းေကာင္းမခ်ည္တတ္၍ ေသာ္၎၊
၃) ခ်ည္ျပီးေသာ ၾကိဳးစရွည္ကို ဖိနပ္အတြင္းသို႔ ေခါက္မထည့္၍ ေသာ္၎ စသည္ျဖင့္ေတြးမိပါေတာ့သည္။

၅။ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးေျပျပီး တန္းလန္းက်ျခင္း၊ ဖိနပ္ေဟာင္း၍ ေခ်ာင္ေနျခင္း ထိုႏွစ္ခုေပါင္းလိုက္ေသာအခါ ကၽြန္မ၏ညာေျခေထာက္က လိုခ်င္ရာကို မေရာက္ဘဲျဖစ္သြားသည္။ ထိုအခ်ိန္မွာပဲ ကၽြန္မလဲသြားပါသည္။

ဖိနပ္ေခ်ာင္ေသာ္ ထိုဖိနပ္သည္ေျခမွကၽြတ္ႏိုင္၏။ တစ္စံုလံုးထိေတာ့ မကၽြတ္ႏိုင္၊ ေျခထိုးဖိနပ္ျဖစ္၍ ဖိေႏွာင့္သာထြက္ထြက္လာတတ္သည္။ က်ိဳးပါဒရြတ္ဆြဲေနလွ်င္ ခလုတ္တိုက္ယံုသာျဖစ္မည္ထင္ပါသည္။ လဲသြားသည္အထိ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါ။ ေျခကို ဘယ္ညာယိမ္း ကစားရေသာ အားကစားျဖစ္လွ်င္ေတာ့ လဲက်ေကာင္ လဲက်မည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ အေျပးေလ့က်င့္ျခင္းသည္ တည့္တည့္ေျပး၍ ပုံမွန္ႏွုန္း ေျခကြက္ခ်ရ၍ မည္သို႔မွ်မလဲႏိုင္ေပ။ ထို႔အျပင္ ေခ်ာင္ေနေသာ ဖိနပ္ကို မကၽြတ္ေအာင္ သတိထားေနရေသာေၾကာင့္ေျခလွမ္းကို သတိလြတ္စလြယ္ မေလွ်ာက္ႏိုင္ေပ။ လွ်ပ္တပ်က္ သတိလြတ္ ဒေယာေသာပါး လုပ္မိမွသာလွ်င္ – ထိုေခ်ာင္ေနေသာ၊ ဒရြတ္တိုက္ေနေသာ အခ်က္ေတြကို ထည့္၍ ၇၀% ႏွုန္းခန္႔ လဲက်ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ဒီထဲက မိန္းကေလးအတြက္ လဲက်ျခင္းငွါ မျဖစ္တန္ရာပါ။ ခလုတ္တိုက္ျခင္းမွ်သာအျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဆံုး ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

၆။ အဲသည္က်မွ လက္ဖေႏွာင့္မွာ ပြန္းျပီးေသြးခ်ည္ဥေနတာကို ျမင္ရသည္။ နီရဲေနတာပဲ။ ေသြးဟုထင္လိုက္ခ်ိန္မွာ ကၽြန္မ မူးျပီး ထိုင္က်သြားျပီ။

အျဖစ္သဲလြန္းသည္ဟု ထင္ပါသည္။ ေသြးေၾကာက္တတ္သည္ကို လက္ခံပါသည္။ သိုေသာ္ ေသြးေခ်ဥသြားျခင္းမွ်ႏွင့္ မူးေမ့လုမတတ္ျဖစ္ျခင္းသည္ ပိုျခင္းသာျဖစ္၏။ ထိုမိန္းကေလးသည္ နန္းမေတာ္ မယ္ႏုႏွင့္အမ်ိဳးေတာ္လွ်င္ေတာ့ မေျပာတတ္ေပ။

၇။ အဲဒါ သူ႔အသံ။ သူ႔အသံသည္ ဂီတာတစ္ခု၏ အေပၚဆံုးၾကိဳးႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္းတည္း တီးခတ္သည့္အသံလိုပဲ ကၽြန္မ အၾကားအာရံုထဲသို႔ လွိုဳင္းခတ္၍ ဝင္ေရာက္သြားပါသည္။

ဂီတာက်ိဳးသံ မည္သို႔ထြက္သည္ မသိပါ။ အေပၚဆံုးၾကိဳးႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္း ဟုဆိုသျဖင့္ အသံလံုးၾကီးၾကီး low note… ေဒါင္…ဆိုေသာ အသံၾကီးျဖစ္လိမ့္မည္ ဟုခန္႔မွန္းလိုက္ပါသည္။

၈။ သူ ကၽြန္မအနားမွာ ထိုင္ခ်လိုက္သည္။ ကၽြန္မ၏ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးကို ခ်ည္ေပးနိုင္ဖို႔ လံုေလာက္စြာ နီးကပ္ေသာ အကြာအဝးျဖစ္သည္။ သူ႔ရင္ဘတ္သည္ ကၽြန္မမ်က္ႏွာႏွင့္ တစ္ေပေလာက္ပဲ ေဝးကြာသည္။ ထိုရင္ဘတ္ဆီမွ ေရေမႊးနံ႔ တစ္ခုႏွင့္ ေခၽြးနံ႔ ေပါင္းေနေသာ ကိုယ္နံ႔ ေျပေျပေလးတစ္ခုကို ရပါသည္။ အဲဒီအနံ႔သည္ တုန္လႉပ္ရွက္ရြံ႕စြာ အသက္ျပင္းျပင္း ရွိဳက္ရွဴေနရေသာ ကၽြန္မ၏ အဆုတ္ထဲမွ တဆင့္ ႏွလံုးသားထဲ၊ ထိုမွတဆင့္ ေသြးေၾကာေတြထဲသို႔ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔စီးဝင္သြားခဲ့ပါသည္။ သူ ကၽြန္မအသားကို မထိခဲ့ပါ။ ကၽြန္မ၏ ေဝါ့လ္ကင္းရွဴးႏွင့္ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးကိုသာ သူထိခဲ့ပါသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သူ႔လက္မွ ပူေႏြးမွႉသည္ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးထဲမွတဆင့္၊ ေျခအိတ္မွ တဆင့္ ကၽြန္မကိုယ္ခႏၶာထဲသို႔ ျဖည္းညင္းစြာ ဝင္ေရာက္သြားခဲ့သည္။ အဲသည္အခါက်မွ ျပာေဝမႉသက္သာသြားေသာ မ်က္လံုးမ်ားျဖင့္ သူ႔လက္ကို ကၽြန္မၾကည့္မိသည္။ ၾကီးမားေသာ၊ ရွည္သြယ္ေသာ လက္ ေတြ…။ ဖိနပ္ၾကိဳးကို ဖ်တ္လတ္သြက္လက္စြာ၊ ထို႔ျပင္ လွပစြာ ခ်ည္ျပီးသြားေသာ လက္ေတြ။

ဒီေနရာတြင္ေတာ့ auuuu la la lar ျဖစ္သြားရပါသည္။ ေရးခ်က္ကေလး ထိမိသြား၍ ျပံဳးစိစိ သေဘာက်စြာ တစ္ခ်က္ရယ္မိပါသည္။

၉။ “ကဲ…ရျပီ၊ နင္မူးေနေသးလား”
ကၽြန္မ ေခါင္းမညိတ္ရေသးမီ သူက စပို႔ရွပ္အိတ္ထဲမွ ခ်ိဳခ်ည္တစ္လံုး ထုပ္ေပးသည္။

ကိုယ္ေတာ္ေခ်ာသည္ အေျပးေလ့က်င့္ရာတြင္ေတာင္ ခ်ိဳခ်ည္ေဆာင္ တတ္လွ်င္၊ သူ႔သြားမ်ားသည္ ေကာင္းမည့္ပံုမေပၚေပ။ သို႔ေသာ္ လိုေသာအခ်ိန္တြင္ အဆင္သင့္ပါရွိ၍ impress ေတာ့ျဖစ္မိပါသည္။ အင္း…ေယာက်ၤားေလးမ်ား ခ်ိဳခ်ည္ေဆာင္ထားၾကပါ impression ပိုေကာင္းပါ၏ ဟားဟ။

၁၀။ “ငါ့ကို ေဘာနပ္စ္ေလး ေပးခဲ့ဦးဟာ” ဟု သူေတာင္းတတ္သည္။ သူေတာင္းသည့္ အပိုဆုေၾကးမွာ ေငြမဟုတ္ပါ။ ေထြျပားဆန္းၾကယ္သည့္ ႏွဳတ္ခမ္းတစ္ခုလည္း မဟုတ္ပါ။ ကၽြန္မ၏ လက္သန္းႏွင့္ သူ႔လက္သန္းခ်ိတ္ယူကာ လက္သီးေလးေတြဆုပ္လ်က္ ကၽြန္မသူ႔လက္ခံုကို လွစ္ခနဲနမ္းလိုက္သည့္ ေႏြးေထြးမွဳ႕တစ္ခုသာ ျဖစ္တတ္သည္။ အဲဒါကို သူသည္ မင္းသမီးေလး၏ ပန္းကံုးစြပ္ခံလိုက္ရေသာ လူဆင္းရဲကေလးတစ္ေယာက္လိုပင္ ေက်နပ္ၾကည္ႏွူးစြာ ခံယူတတ္ပါသည္။

သမီးရည္းစားမ်ား စတိုင္က်က် ရူးျခင္းတစ္မ်ိဳးျဖစ္မည္ဟု သေဘာေပါက္မိပါေၾကာင္း။

၁၁။ ကၽြန္မသိသည့္ ကၽြန္မ၏ အခ်စ္ကေတာ့ ႏူးညံ့ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းသည့္ ေခြလိပ္ဖြာလြင့္ေသာ အညိဳရင့္ရင့္ဆံပင္ေလးမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ ဟမ္ဘာကာ၏ သံုးပံုတစ္ပံုေလာက္ကို အလြယ္တကူ ငံုျပီးကိုက္ယူႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ ပါးလွပ္ေသာ ႏွဳတ္ခမ္းတစ္စံုျဖစ္သည္။ အဲဗား ေရေမႊးနံ႔ႏွင့္ ေခၽြးနံ႔ေပါင္းစပ္ျပီး ခ်ိဳျမစြာ ေမႊးသည့္ ရွပ္အကီ်အိတ္ကပ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။ ပူေႏြးစြာ ျမဲျမံသည့္ လက္ဖဝါးတစ္စံုျဖစ္သည္။ ဂစ္တာေဘ့စ္သံလို ခိုင္မာစြာ ဆြဲေဆာင္သည့္ ဝါဝါညက္ညက္အက္သည့္အသံတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။

ဟမ္ဘာကာ တြင္ size အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးရွိ၏။ BigMac, medium, small, happy meals… ဘယ္အရြယ္မွန္း မသိ၍ သံုးပံုတစ္ပံုဆိုေသာ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပီး ပါးလွပ္ေသာ ထိုႏွဳတ္ခမ္း အေၾကာင္းကို ေတာ္ေတာ္ၾကာၾကာေလး စဥ္းစားမိလိုက္၏။ ရည္ရည္ရာရာ အေျဖေတာ့ထြက္မလာေျခ။ ဒီေလာက္တင္စားထားသည္ ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ လွပေျပျပစ္ေသာ ႏွူတ္ခမ္းျဖစ္လိမ့္မည္ဟု မွတ္ခ်က္ခ်လိုက္ပါသည္။ ဝါဝါညက္ညက္အက္သည့္အသံ – အသံတြင္ အေရာင္အဆင္းရွိေၾကာင္း ခုမွကၽြန္မသိေတာ့၏။ အဝါေရာင္ ကို မႏွစ္သက္၊ ဝါညစ္ညစ္ဆိုလွ်င္ ပိုဆိုး၏။ ဝါဝါညက္ညက္ ကြဲအက္ေသာအသံ သည္မည္သို႔ျဖစ္သည္ဟုမေျပာတတ္ေပ။ ကၽြန္မေတာ့ သိပ္သေဘာမေတြ႔လွပါ။

၁၂။ အခ်စ္တစ္ခု၏ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္သည္ လက္ထပ္ျခင္းဟုေျပာလွ်င္ အဲဒီစကားကို ကၽြန္မလက္မခံပါ။ လက္ထပ္ျခင္းသည္ အခ်စ္၏သခ်ိဳငိးျဖစ္ခ်င္ျဖစ္မည္။ သို႔မဟုတ္ အခ်စ္၏ အဆံုးသတ္ဇာတ္သိမ္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္ခ်င္ ျဖစ္မည္။ အခ်စ္၏ခရီးဆံုးပန္းတိုင္ ျဖစ္ခ်င္ျဖစ္မည္။ လက္ထပ္ျခင္းသည္ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ကၽြန္မအတြက္ေတာ့မွုန္ဝါးဝါး ေဝးကြာလွသည့္ ရုပ္ပံုကားတစ္ခ်ပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ကၽြန္မ စိတ္မဝင္စားပါ။ ကၽြန္မ စိတ္ဝင္စားေအာင္ မဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါ။
အခ်စ္တြင္ တာဝန္ယူမွု၊ ကတိျပဳမွုပါသလား။ မပါ ပါ။
အခ်စ္တြင္ အခ်စ္ပဲ ပါ ပါသည္။ လိုက္ေလ်ာမွုပါဝင္ေသာ္လည္း အဲဒါဟာ တာဝန္ေၾကာင့္လိုက္ေလ်ာတာ မဟုတ္၊ အခ်စ္စိတ္သက္သက္ျဖင့္ လိုက္ေလ်ာတာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမတ္နိုးျခင္းသက္သက္ျဖင့္ လိုက္ေလ်ာတာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မွုပါဝင္ေသာ္လည္း အဲဒါဟာ တာဝန္ေၾကာင့္ ဂတိေၾကာင့္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္တာ မဟုတ္။ အခ်စ္စိတ္ သက္သက္ေၾကာင့္ ယုယစိတ္သက္သက္ေၾကာင့္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္တာပဲျဖစ္သည္။
အခ်စ္သည္ ႏြားႏို႔တစ္ခြက္မဟုတ္၍ သိုးသြားမွာ ခ်ဥ္သြားမွာ မစိုးရိမ္ရပါ။ အခ်စ္ေယာင္ေဆာင္ထားသည့္ မက္ေမာတြယ္တာမွုေတြကေတာ့ အခ်ိန္လြန္လွ်င္ သိုးကုန္ႏိုင္ပါလိမ့္မည္။

ဤစာပိုဒ္ေလး ႏွင့္ ဝတၳဳ၏ အဆံုးသတ္ကေလးကို ႏွစ္သက္မိပါသည္။ ရင္ထဲတြင္ ခ်ိဳျမိန္ေအးေဆးစြာ က်န္ခ့ဲ၍ ေနာက္တစ္ေခါက္ ျပန္ဖတ္မိပါေတာ့သည္။
ဒီဝတၳဳတိုေလးကို ပို႔ေပးေသာ သူငယ္ခ်င္း NWP အားေက်းဇူးတင္လွ်က္…မိတ္သဟာအေပါင္းကို ထပ္ဆင့္ေဝမွ်လိုက္ပါသည္။

I have a great dislike, rather a phobia, for long eerie looking creatures namely, earth worm, leaches, snails, snakes, caterpillars etc. I remember back in high school (Form 6 Bio Lab), we have to do experiment on earth worms. We have to search for earthworms and found heaps of them near the creek at the back of our school. I almost vomit looking at the size of those earthworms. They were so healthy, huge, twisted and piles of it once you unearth moist rubbish dump.

My classmates (mainly guys and some daring gals) were picking them up with their hands and throwing around. That was so gross yet we have to endure it and took the best looking big, fat, long worms back to the lab. We then boil them up in hot water. Gosh the smell was indescribable. It stinks the whole lab and near by classrooms too. Once you boil them up, they changed in color and their size too. Before they were reddish brown and changed into dirty pale pink.

We then dissect them from head to tail. I didn’t touch a single thing. I just watched and examined from the sideline. It was quite an experience to study my greatest fear – the worms. Though they seem to be very harmless and have many worthy means for the environment, they are the most annoying, ugliest, yuckiest, good-for-nothing, useless creatures for me.

The once and only time I encountered an earthworm was while I was digging soil for a vegetable plant. I cut them half in the process. The cut parts got twisted and jumped up on my foot; I run like hell and never dig the moist soil again. It was my 1st and last association with earthworms as well as helping mom garden.

Ok, enough about my earth worm adventures and back to the main story. I want to talk about another long eerie looking creature called “Duna”, the eels. A few days back, my friend forwarded two great photos of Duna caught at Monasavu Dam. The eels were enormous. I was surprised by the way locals caught them. They seemed to be using some bamboo and a few spears which I find it quite small to catch that big eels.

Check out the way they handle the eels. Slice up the head and poke a bamboo in to carry around.

I never seen an eel in real life but only seen some small ones on books and TV. I don’t know much about eels but I’ve decided that they are surely not in my desirable animal list. I wasn’t sure of whether there are lots of eels in Fiji so I did a bit of research for my own satisfaction. Turn out that, Fiji is a good place for eels culture since they like tropical climates with temperature around 23-28C.

Here are some facts about eels.

True eels (Anguilliformes) are an order of fish, which consists of 4 suborders, 19 families, 110 genera and 400 species. Most eels are predators.

The flat and transparent larva of the eel is called a leptocephalus. A young eel is called an elver.

Most eels prefer to dwell in shallow waters or hide at the bottom layer of the ocean, sometimes in holes.

Depending on their species, eels can reach from 10 cm to 3 m, and weigh up to 65 kg.

In Micronesia, eels are believed to hold the souls of one’s departed relatives. As such, killing eels is a grave offence and was once punishable by death.

Wiki information on Eels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel

Don’t you think it’s just so big and ugly? (I meant the eel) Those Fijians seem happy, may be a good meal for them.

This is an abstract from SPC article:
Catching Eels in Pacific Island Countries and Territories [ pdf ]

Pacific Island countries offer a good environment in which to culture eels, as they grow rapidly in tropical climates, preferring a temperature range of 23-28C, and a pH rane of 7.0 – 8.0. In Fiji, when the word “duna” or “bham” is used, it is certain that the fish referred to is the so-called common eel, Anguilla, which occurs in most of the islands.

For pond-based aquaculture, the best site is one with a constant water supply. Eels are consumed in PICTs and particularly in Fiji, where it is an important source of protein for the rural indigenous population. In some localities, high demand has led to the collection of young eels from the wold for culture in tilapia ponds.

In Fiji, elvers and juvenile eels are caught from estuaries, mountain tributaries, swapms and ditches using various types of local gear. These eels are grown to marketable size in ponds designed for tilapia culture and solic live at Fj$ 10.00 per kg at Suva and Nausori markets.

In PICTs, eels are caught with hand lines, spears, cane knives and push nets. This gear is designed to capture a wide range of fish and crustaceans and is not specific to capturing eels.

Eels feed on a variety of feeds such as fish, molluscs, crustaceans, and terrestrial and aquatic insects.

Fishing methods and gear
The catching of eels in Fiji and other Pacific Islands normally involves inexpensive and very simple gear, which includes: baited hook and line, spears, push nets, hollow bamboo piece or PVC pipes, baited trap and seine nets. There are 3 commonly used methods, depending on materials available in villages, to catch eel.

• Baited line
• Eel spears
• Push net

And here are the famous Japanese Eel (Unagi) Recipes.

# Unagi – Japanese Eel Dishes
# Unagi (eel) Salad Recipe
# Unagi (eel) Stir-fry Recipe

I guess, that’s enough facts about eels. Interesting isn’t it? Well, at least it is interesting for me. Thanks Jachin and Alisi for the photos, my bossy sis for some fixes and you can read the prologue too.