His very first blog, “The private life of a badminton maniac“, talks about all his passion on racquet sports, especially badminton and racquet breaking hobbies. I’ve posted some of his actions on the past Badminton games in this post and; photos and videos of his squash tournament here.

I’m sure he’s no stranger to mayvelous’s regular followers as he is mentioned many times in my posts. He has also written a few posts on mayvelous: KISS My Arse!, bugs and fixes posts.

Zatlite – “the guy in spotlight”

You can see some of his ramblings in these posts: A Corn Seed Story , Bulldozer, April Fools, Sister Hiring Hitman, and more under “Family“, “Brothers and Sisters“, “Conversation” categories.

Zatlite competes in Badminton games

Zatlite strips and plays Tennis too!

And he also plays Squash and broken 3 rackets.

So, Zatlite, the great “Genius Sama” (that’s what he calls himself), has started blogging about his antics on The private life of a badminton maniac“.
Do check it out and roll him along. You won’t get bored I assure you.

P.S. That’s it dude, I’ve introduced you quite well haven’t I? Now, go do my dishes!

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It was the very first squash tournament for my brother since he started playing squash a few months back. We use to play Badminton only and this year my bro started playing squash with some of his friends so he still has a lot to learn before he can compete in the tournament. Nevertheless, he signed himself up in B Grade thinking C Grade is for kids and he would do fine in B. Well the result was he got knocked down pretty badly; he wasn’t really in his best form also and the opponent was quite experienced player who knows how to make him run around in court. So he lost his game and went into Plate pool and will be playing again today at Victoria Park. I guess I’ll go watch again this evening.

Aung’s very first squash game

One of the Ministers, Mr. Kenneth Zinck (and a few other big faces I sometimes see on TV), came to play as well, I’m not sure he came just to play for fun or was in the competitions as I couldn’t stay long to watch his game. He was cheering his buddy’s game quite loudly/actively. I was taking a few videos of the game and itching to take him as well but that would be awkward to directly shoot at him so I was waiting for his game but I left early and missed the game. I think he wanted his picture taken as well cos’ he kept smiling at my way while cheering for his buddy (Ok may be just my thought) .

I know him as one of the most active sport lovers among Fiji Government Ministers especially on Rugby games. We are sure to see him cheering from the front row in almost every Rugby games, yelling and waving his things (the flag/the banners I mean) at the camera. LOL. So we normally search for him everytime there is a Rugby 7 game on TV. Quite a celebrity he is. I also remember him very well after seeing him wear Tweety Bird necktie on one of the interview sessions on TV. Quite a fashion for him. It was so funny to see a Minister wearing some childish necktie with big Tweety bird at the bottom. I guess it must have been a gift from his kids or something. But that was one of the unforgettable sights about him.

There were some players from Nadi and other towns participating in the tournament as well. I met 4 young guys from Nadi; their coach was pretty nice man who encouraging us to join their club and telling us about his 4 players. His son plays in A Grade and other 3 guys play in Bs. He was also coaching a Korean girl who lost in ladies game against a Fijian girl. He said he also will be playing in the competition but I missed his game.

Coaching a Korean Girl

The Game with a guy from Nadi

Well you see, I had some ulterior motives, it’s not just watching my brother’s game but I went there to check out some good looking players but turn out only the old men were there. The Nadi guys are quite cute but they’re just too young, under 19. hehe Oh but there is this handsome organizer, I heard he’s very good player and former Fiji representative or something. Aww but it’s a pity he got ring on his finger haha. Nah I’m kidding, I just went there to cheer for my brother’s first game and also getting some material for my blog (Ok there’s still a motive behind but good motive).

Here are some more short videos I took: Two Games Mix + Score Sheet | Another Mix Game | Practice Games | Game Sheets

I’m going to watch the games today also at Victoria Park. One of our colleagues is playing in C grade and I’m sure more games to see today. They are having this tournament in 3 different places, Victoria Park, Merchant Club and Defence Club due to limited availability of courts in each club. Anyways, I hope I can watch some nice games this evening and hope that my brother and our colleague play well in their game also.

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Parents in England are being reminded that they have the right to educate their children at home if they wish.

My school years were filled with memories and remembrances that would sink in for the rest of my life. I enjoyed everything about my school life. You can appreciate more once you finish school and getting away from school environment. People tend to say they hate schooling or studying and just want to get over with it but in reality every single one of us misses our school lives later in our life. My high school and Uni years are nothing extraordinary yet they are one of my treasured memories. I’ve never think of home schooling as any normal person’s choice and I only understand those who home-school are to be:

• people with redundant amount of cash (filthy rich who can afford private tutors/governors)
• popular/famous people, where their fame gets in the way of public study (such as high-classed families, celebrities)
• handicaps and disabled people who need special treatment and
• those with unfortunate circumstance that they cannot do regular schooling (eg. traveling families)

Apart from those people, the average normal family should send their children to school and make the schooling (study at school) compulsory. After reading the article, I got some thoughts of my owe. What would I do in this case? What if I am a parent and am given a choice to either home feed the kid or send them to school? My answers are quite obvious and simple. If it’s in any normal situations, I’ll send my kids to school and never let them stay at home. If they don’t want to go, I’ll make them go. For the age of 1 – 18 they are in my control and for that they must act as I say. So go to school or ELSE!!!
These are some of the reasons they gave for home schooling.

SOME REASONS FOR CHOOSING HOME EDUCATING

1. Distance or access to school
2. Religious, cultural or philosophical beliefs
3. Dissatisfaction with the system
4. Bullying
5. Short-term particular reason
6. Child’s unwillingness or inability to go to school
7. Special educational needs
8. Parents’ desire for closer relationship with children

The article mentioned the pros only. What about the cons? My response to the above given pros would be :

1. The first point is understandable and can be added to those exceptional cases.
2. The second point is unreasonable. I would think whichever religion or culture that would restrict a child from going to school and oppose social interaction to be a lame culture.
3. The third point itself is lame so no farther expression to add on it.
4. Dealing with Bullies, gang fights and normal peer pressures are necessary to thicken your skin. You will encounter numerous bullies and abuses in life. School is the best place to get your first experience of the first step to enter the real life.
5. Goes into those exceptional cases as well so it’s fine.
6. If you give yourself in to your child’s will, you child will be spoil little brat. It is a parent’s responsibility to guide them through inspite of their unwillingness. If you fail to do so, you are also a spoil little brat’s Mom and Pa – the bigger brats. Ok for the second part of “inability to go to sch” will go to special cases of disable and handicaps who need special cares so it’s alright for them to home school.
7. If your child is a genius or the other-way-round then he obviously needs to get special classes of his own. So I agree that home school in this case is the best for him.
8. I have nothing to say except that they are the biggest idiots of all.

Here are more of my thoughts on some quotes in the article.

It is the legal right of parents to educate their children at home if they so wish and the Department for Education and Skills supports the right of parents to make this choice for their children.

It’s unspoken yet always there as one of the parents’ rights. There is no need to emphasize that it is a legal right. But since it has been legalized, it is better for those who needs an acknowledgement.

It really is so heart-warming to families to have their choices recognized in this way.

Sometimes having too many choices make you go stray. You get confused what to choose. Sometimes I wonder why can’t we all be given one best choice and just follow that? I always have a great difficulty making decisions. What if the one you choose is the wrong choice for you? You’ll be regretted for the rest of your life. Too many choices make me go nuts!

But the authorities have no right to enter people’s homes or make routine checks on children’s progress.

Again, too much freedom can be very dangerous if it is being misused. In this case, how can one monitor the progress of a child?

“Children learn in different ways and at different times and speeds.”

That is true, but IMHO they learn more in the presence of competitions and social interactions. They speed up their abilities in the presence of friendship and team work, provided that they are with a good peer group. Competition is a catalyst for personal improvement. Depending on how a person handles it, competition can either boost your goals or put you in misery and self depression. But for me, every competition is a good competition whether you win or lose. If you have the ability and strength to stand up for the competition then you are already a winner.

Home-schooled kid is like a little bug in a cocoon where he thinks the cocoon is the only world he know of and he exists around his little world.
# It restricts the social and mental development of your child. For eg. They might not know how to communicate with their peer group, how to handle different mind-sets.
# They lack social experiences such as school trips, parties, sports events etc.
# They most probably become a mommy/daddy boy, who don’t know how to grow up and always sticking to the parents.
# Time management problems. No good concentration at home, you can never do something properly at home in one sitting cos’ there is always too much distractions around.

Also there are some points that the article didn’t explained on which I wonder over.

# What about the home-school course work compare to proper school curriculum?
# What would they do for the tests and exams?
# Who would decide whether those home-school kids are qualify for the level?
# Which grades or reports they show to enter universities? (what are the prove of their qualifications?)
# Who would design/decide on those grade reports ie. which grade to give them? (since the educators are the parents themselves and no interference from outside is allowed)
# Will the employers accept those home-feed kids as qualify people for the job?
and so on……….So, if you are given that kind of option to either send your kids to sch or home-sch, what would you do/choose? Now it’s your turn. Let’s think it through and share with me.

Link: Going to school ‘not compulsory’

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Me: tap tap tap….
Mom: what are to doing?
Me: Chatting with Missy.
Mom: Are they your friends? (Looking at my gtalk friend list icons)
Me: yah
Mom: who is the one called D-A-D?
Me: huh? Who?
Mom: D-A-D
Me: LOL it’s Dad!! Faygyi lay.
Mom: Oh, you chat with your father across the room too.
Me: You don’t know who the person is in the photo?
Mom: well I can’t see the photo properly.
Me: Yah yah that’s Dad.

For some reason, I chat with my dad and brother on gtalk at home instead of go talk to them in person. Last time, I was asking something to my brother over gtalk then he started yelling from his room, why am I chatting him on gtalk instead of just ask him outside. My mom is the only one who doesn’t use computer at home so I do the proper talking with her the most. At work too, all of us talk each other over gtalk even that person is sitting a few feet away from you. I guess I’ve been communicating with my laptop too much that I hardly ever need to do the real talking. These days I’m excessively using gtalk or emails for my communication purposes. Oh geez, what if I forget how to talk. haha that’ll be interesting.

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Me: “Phothar (his home name), we do some April fools. You got any idea?”
Bro: “You are the fool and it’s April. Good idea huh?”
Me: (…..)

Lesson: Never to ask for help from a smart arse or you’ll get yourself fooled.

Have fun fooling around.

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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*

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May: hey, fix this sentence for me
I want to say, it touches me
how to say that in proper sentence?

“There is only once in my life I have a personal contact with them; ie. when I tried to plant some vegetable plants and dug up a few earthworms.”

personal contact?? it sounded wrong.

Win: the 1st sentence-
“the one and only time I encoutered an earthworm was while digging soil for a vege plant.
It was my 1st and last association with an earthworm, as well as gardening”.

May: 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 an earthworm as well as helping mom garden.

there that’s good enough

Win: no!

May: thanks. no that’s good

Win: “the one and only time I encoutered an earthworm was while digging soil for a vege plant. I managed to mame them with my spade. Their cut pieces twisted and turned, and ewwwwwww, came in contact with my delicate foot which reflexively carried me far away, really fast.
It was my 1st and last association with an earthworm, as well as gardening.”

there.

May: full of shit!
delicate foot! my arse LOL

Win: hey, much better than urs
ur delicate foot

May: ppl will laugh n think i’m stupid
delicate foot!!! LOL

Win: fine, just write nonearth-loving foot

May: sound stupid

Win: foot

May: yah foot is enough

Win: nono- earthophobic foot

May: LOL

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Talk 1: The Source of The Story
Conversation between Jachin (my friend) and May (me). Alisi – Jachin’s mistress.

Jachin: Alisi sent me a couple of photographs this morning
I’ve forwarded them to you. Very big eels
May: Oh g8 thanks
May: Duna means eel?
Jachin: Yes, Fijian word
May: they r huge!

Talk 2: Information Gathering
Conversation between Win (my bossy sis) and May (me)

May: what do u know about eel?, i’m writin about eel, getting facts
Win: slippery slimy snakelike finned water creature i see on exotic menus. Write about squid
May: no, writing about eel. I got 2 great photos
Win: there is recent catch in ross sea, by NZ of the largest yet caught squid
10m, 450kg
imagine, 10m long
May: it can long up to 10cm – 3m says in wiki
urs is too long
r u sure that’s m or cm?
Win: sobo latest news
May: show me the source, url, proper link.
Win: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21269279-30417,00.html
May: 10m is…how many ft?
Win: colossal squid
30, duh
incredible
May: I said EEL! not Squid!!
Eel yar eel eeeeeeeel!!!
Win: n i said write about squid
May: anyway that too is a good story, may b i’ll link it up
Win: oh n also a dolphin dying of a broken heart
May: what!?
Win: coz trainer murdered, its refusing to eat n lost 50kg since
May: oie! he’s in love with the trainer?
Win: female trainer
May: yah I said he = dolphine
see i’m a good guess
Win: if u want to write about environment, flash news on reef destruction due to erosion of pesticides with proof
May: no no that’s enough about marine life. Not writin environment. may b later.

Talk 3: Unresolved Argument
Cont- conversation between Win (my bossy sis) and May (me)

Win: oh, abit of eel related, almost, its snakes, do u know, they, like turtles n salmon return to site of their hatching place to lay eggs interesting or what?
May: that i know
what about snakes?
Win: what about them?
May: u said abit of eel related – snakes
what u talkin about
aww aww, gotcha.
Win: well, snake is almost eel related,
May: snakes return to lay eggs like turtles etc.
my bad.
Win: but snaes return to their hatching place to lay eggs
thats the story
May: hey! snakes doesn’t lay eggs
they go live snakes
Win: oh my god
May: no eggs
Win: u stupid
May: u stupid!
Win: so stupid
May: u r!
the big snakes, i seen them, never lay eggs
Win: look, only marsupils n mammals bear live babies
May: they give birth to live tiny snakes, plenty of them
Win: snakes are reptiles, like turtles, crocs, lay eggs
u remembering old indianajones movies
May: but some snakes exceptional
Win: stupid
May: yah i seen from there!!!
they cut open the big snake stomach on the meal table
Win: crazy
May: n all small snakes come out
n they pick up to eat those raw
Win: thats a bloody movie for heavens ssake
May: that’s true
Win: snakes=reptiles=lay eggs
May: i still don’t think so
Win: omg
May: where r the facts?? show me the proper facts
Win: google it
May: U google it!
Win: search in any science txt bks.
hey whatever
May: whatever! snakes birth small baby snakes
Win: u write that snakes give birth to baby snakes on ur blog n wait for a stream of comments of ur mistake to come ur way
then u’ll face the embarrassment
ur reputation on line
May: oh yah!! I’m still writing!
Win: good 4u
May: GOOD!!!

-:: Prologue Ends Here. ::-

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Preparing and making of Hta Ma Nhal is very significant and memorable to Burmese society. It requires a group effort to create a successful, delicious dish. It signifies unity, cooperation, team work, harmony and the ecstasy for everyone. Many teams compete against each other to make the best Hta Ma Nhal in Ta Po’ Twal month celebrations. There will be side-kick helpers, cheerers, judges and on lookers.

The celebration has always been one of the most energetic and joyful occasions. I won’t go farther into the competitions and celebration part as I’m not sure how to explain it. I couldn’t find any photo related to “Hta Ma Nhal Pwal” but lucky enough, one post has this photo. Just for my readers to get a brief understand on what it is about, I’ve linked it here.

A few weeks back my mom made Hta Ma Nhal and I took some photos of it; but due to lack of motivation, couldn’t type up the post to publish it. This week I’ve read two of similar posts from other Burmese blogs as I’m sure everyone’s enjoying the Hta Ma Nhal season. But both of them lack photos hence I get myself together to type up this post.

Hta Ma Nhal is a simple meal yet a lot of hard work and sweat involved. Different people have different ways of making Hta Ma Nhal and this one is my mom’s style. So here is how it’s done for family size Hta Ma Nhal.

Ingredients

• Glutinous Rice (1kg)
• Peanuts (185kg, small peanuts better)
• Seasame Seeds (50kg Black, 50kg White)
• Ginger
• Coconut (1, Medium size)
• Sugar (3 tbl spoons)
• Salt (a pinch/ 1 tbl spoon – depending on your taste bud)
• Oil (300ml)

Preparations

1. Dip glutinous rice in water for 1 – 2 hrs.
2. Slice up coconut into thin piceases.
3. Slice ginger into thin pieces and pound a few more ginger for better smell.
4. Roast black and white seaseme seeds. The black seaseme are added just for the beautification to have some mixture of colors.
5. Crack and quarter the peanuts. The smaller peanuts are better but we only got big ones here.
6. Raise the rice once it ready. Let the oil hot and ready to cook.

Making It

1. Fry coconut pieces in deep oil until it golden brown. Raise it from oil.
2. Fry ginger pieces till it brown. Raise it from oil.
3. Fry peanuts, raise it from oil – fried peanuts has a better chance of preserving the food.
4. Fry raisen rice till it brown.
5. Once the rice is brownish in color, put water till rice submerges. Cover and cook it for a few minute.
6. Start stirring the rice just before all water dry out.
7. Stir well till the rice gets mashed up and let water dries up.
8. Once the rice been mashed enough put all fried ingredients, sugar, salt and mix it all well.
9. Save some seaseme seeds for later decorations.

You will need a strong arm to mix it as the rice become stickier once it’s been mashed and once all ingredients been placed into it. There is a tendency of burning the bottom parts as you mix the top layers. So you must have a strong fast hand to turn the mixture in many different directions and lower the heat to save some time from burning.
When you are satisfied with your mixing, tasting, sweating and weary yourself out, Hta Ma Nhal is ready.

You can preserve Hta Ma Nhal up to 2-3 weeks (may be more). Keep it in a fridge and heat up in microwave whenever you want to serve it.

Hta Ma Nhal is 0% cholesterol, 100% calories, a bit of protein and very good to fatten/cure anorexia. Definitely not the choice for obese ofcos.

So there you have it. Enjoy trying out.

Note:

Hta Ma Nhal is it also known as “Nhan Ma Nhal”. “Nhan” means sesame seeds cos’ it uses lots of sesame seeds.
Hta Ma Nhal is a food,
Hta Ma Nhal Pwal is a celebration/competition,
Ta Po’ Twal La is a Burmese month. La = month

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Well this is not about how I hate raining day, but it’s about how I love to eat “Yakhine Mont-Te” during cold weather so the weather still counts. So this evening my mom made “Yakhine Mont-Te” and I have two bowls full as soon as I got back from work. There is nothing like the taste of hot-chili-pepper soup to drink in a cold, bad weather like today.

Back in Burma, “Yakhine Mont-Te” is most popular in winter days. You got to eat with lots of pepper and chili and while it’s very hot. If you’re Burmese I bet you know what Yakhine Mont-Te is. But for the sake of my non-Burmese friends, let me do a bit of explaining.

Yakhine : a tribe/group out of hundreds of tribes in Myanmar.
Mont-Te : it has different meanings depending on how u use it. Some cases it means “salad”, in this case it mean mix soup.
So “Yakhine-Mont-Te” means Yakhine soup…or whatever it means. You got the idea. “Yakhine Mont-Te” is a food soup (obviously! ). It’s a specialty of Yakhine people. Well Burmese(Burman) people can make that very well too.

It’s very easy to make and takes only a few minutes if you have all the ingredients. The main ingredients here are some good fish and a good piece of “Nga Pi” (Burmese Chocolate/Fish Paste).

In Burma we use “Ngar Khu”, “Ngar Gyin” (Fish Types) for this. I think my mom use “Wah Lu” fish today, but it’s better with those colored fishes, they’re softer and sweeter. Then you need a good “Yakhine Nga Pi” and lots of grinded dry prawns.

All those gonna make it sweet but it’s not support to be sweet. It’s support to be hot. For that you need lots of black peppers and white pepper afterward. Well the idea is you mix all up in water and let it boil. Put some salt too ofcos. I’m not quite sure whether the fish needs to be cooked first or can use raw one…(will check with mom and update soon).

So that’s done the soup part. But you can’t drink the soup alone. You need vermicelli(Mont-Fat) to mix with. You have to boil vermicelli separately and drain the water out. Put little oil to it so that it’s good to handle.
When the soup ready, put soup and vermicelli in a bowl and done.
Ah…not quite.

To make it better, you need three more things.

• Crushed green chili and garlic in water to make green chili sauce which makes the pepper hot soup – chili-pepper hot.
• Fried Onion with curry power in lots of oil. (Se-Chat) Put a few to color up the soup.
• And ofcos coriander (Nan Nan Pin) for a good smell.

That’s it! You have a perfect “Yakhine Mont-Te”.

I take some shots of it to share with you but I forgot to put coriander in there. Yummy!
If you want proper recipe, go ask my mom.

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A friendly game between various badminton clubs from Suva and Lautoka organised by Lautoka Chinese Business Group.

Yet Sen Courts are where we held most of our Badminton Games and is a place where everyone loves to hang out either to play Badminton, Table Tennis or Basket Ball.

Ladies Doubles

Mom and Sally gave a hard time to all ladies double pairs and they won the final against Lautoka. My mom having a bad kneel and Sally with sore wrists, their games were so fun to watch.

Lunch time break

Peace from Jessy and Mom. Aung taking a rest for his next mix-doubles and single games.

Mens Doubles : Aung + Jack

Aung and Jack played final Men Single with 3 sets. Aung had a very hard time with Jack and in the last game he tried so hard to get 21 all. Then 22 twice, 23 twice and the last point is scored by Jack to be a Men Single Winner. Aung was satisfied with Men Single Runner up. That was the best and longest game of all. Everyone enjoyed it and applauded so loud in the end. They team up to play Mens Doubles and they won the final, no doubt about that.

Mix Doubles : Aung + Mom

Aung and Mom played Mix and won Mix Doubles against the gangs from Lautoka – Wong + Nail. Sisters team by Beryl and Jessy lost to Lautoka gals in semi-final.

Beryl and the kids helped out the score keeping and empiring the games.

And ofcos the best shot of the day goes to:

Hal hal hal hal hal
I got so tired watching and fell sick afterward. I think too much taking photos and didn’t had my lunch well. Was so hungry the whole day and came back home so late. It’s not easy being a photographer haha.

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ေအးစက္ မာေၾကာၿပီး၊ အေရာင္ကင္းမဲ့လွတဲ့၊ က်မရဲ့ လက္ေခ်ာင္းမ်ားဟာ…

• ကီးဘုတ္တစ္ခုေပၚမွာ သြက္လက္လ်င္ျမန္စြာ
  ေျပးလႊား ေဆာ့ကစား တတ္တယ္
• စာရြက္သားျဖဴ တစ္ခုေပၚမွာ၊ ညီညာဝိုင္းစက္တဲ့
  အကၡရာမ်ားကို ခဲသားမ်ားနဲ႔၊ ေရးျခစ္တတ္တယ္
• စုတ္တံတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို က်င္လည္စြာ ေဝႊ႔ရမ္းၿပီး
  ရုပ္လံုးေပၚေအာင္ ေဆးသားမ်ားနဲ႔ ျခယ္မႉန္းအသက္သြင္းတတ္တယ္
• သိုးေမႊးခ်ည္ခင္ကို အပ္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းႏွင့္
  ဒီဇိုင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ေဖာ္တတ္တယ္
• ဆယ္ေခ်ာင္းေသာ လက္အဆံုကို၊ စည္းခ်က္ညီစြာ
  အကြက္က်က် ယိမ္းႏြဲ႔ၿပီး ကကြက္တစ္ခု ဖန္တီးတတ္တယ္
• ဘတ္တံတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို အနိမ့္အျမင့္၊ အတိုးအခ် လိုအပ္သလို အားသံုးၿပီး
  ၾကက္ေတာင္တစ္လံုး တဖတ္ကြင္းထဲ က်ေအာင္ ရိုက္တတ္တယ္
• လက္စစ္မ်ားကိုေကြးၿပီး ဂ်စ္ကန္ကန္လုပ္တတ္ေသာ ညီမရဲ့ေခါင္းကို
  ေဒါက္ကနဲ ျမည္ေအာင္ေခါက္တတ္တယ္
• အလြန္အစသန္ေသာ ေမာင္ကို၊ က်စ္က်စ္ဆုပ္ထားတဲ့
  လက္ေခ်ာင္းမ်ားနဲ႔ ထိုးႏွက္ကုတ္ျခစ္တတ္တယ္
• က်မအျမင္ကပ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေသာသူမ်ားကို၊ က်မရဲ့လက္မ်ားက
  ေတြ႔ရာတုတ္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းကို ေကာက္၍ေသာ္၄င္း
  လက္ခ်ီးသက္သက္ ေသာ္၄င္း
  လွည့္ရိုက္ရန္ ဝန္ေလးေလ့ မရွိခဲ့

ဤမွ် အသံုးဝင္လွေသာ က်မ၏ လက္မ်ားသည္
ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္း၊ အာလူးတစ္လံုးႏွင့္ ေတြ႔မိေသာ အခါ…

ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္း ႏွင့္ အာလူး

ဓါးတစ္ေခ်ာင္းကိုင္ ဆရာမနိုင္
ပြက္ပြက္ညံေအာင္ဆိုးလွ၏။

အာလူးတစ္လံုးသြင္ ရပ္ကြက္တြင္
ျပဲျပဲစင္ေအာင္ ၾကားရ၏။

အရပ္ကူပါ လူဝိုင္းပါ
အေမလာ လွည္ပါ တဆာဆာ။
အျဖစ္ၾကီးက ၾကီးသေနာ္၊
ေမာင္သာမိရဲ႔ ၾကီးေတာ္။
(Ok I don’t know where that come from.)

တစ္လံုးႏႊာ တစ္နာရီ၊ လုပ္ပါအံုး ကုန္ၿပီ
အသားထြင္သလား၊ အခြံႏႊာတာလား

လက္ကတုန္ရင္၊ ဓါးစုတ္က မလႉပ္ခ်င္
အခြံနာက မထြက္၊ ျပတ္တာက ငါ့လက္။

ဖြတ္မရ၊ ဓါးဆံုး၊ ငါ့အာလူးတစ္လံုး
ျပဳတ္လို႔ ထုေထာင္းၿပီး၊
ငပိေထာင္း လုပ္ခဲ့၏ ။ ။

French Fries လုပ္ဖို ၾကိဳးစားေနဆဲ က်မဘဝေလးပါ။

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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

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Early morning..
The birds are yet to stir.
The chirping of crickets and other insects of the night have stopped.
All is quiet in the neighborhood but for an occational dog bark.
….. *Woof*…… *Woof Woof* … … . .

» 0315 hr.

*RING!!! RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
*RING!!! RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
….
** unlock bed room doors **
*RING!! RINGGNN!!!”
** patter patter patter patter patter patter **
….
*RING!! RINGGNN!!!”

(sleepy voice) Hello?
~~*~~!
&=~< +^:`~!
(awake voice) Is that so?
*~-_!
Ok,
*~-_+^:`~…
Ok,
~*~~!
Right, thank you very much.

Hey! Hey! Every one wake up!!
Get up everybody.

May, wake up, we got Tsunami alert, get dress up, we have to go higher ground.
(mumbling)…don’t touch me…no..bull shit..
What!? You little! “SLAP!”
“Arrgghhh!!” What did I do!, let me sleep!!
Go dress up now and get important things ready. We’re going to Toorak or hospital, it’s the only higher place I know.

Important things?…Ok. I got my identification card in my jeans. That’s all I need.
In any case something happen to me and people can identify my filthy body, they should atleast get to know who I was.
So yes, I’m ready.

Listen to the radio
Message from BBC in regard to tsunami alert.
Early morning 3 o’clock there was big earth quake at scale 8 in North side of Tonga.
So tsunami alert come up for Fiji, NZ and other small islands.

Well luckly we didn’t have to go anywhere and nothing serious did happened.
While we were preparing things and calling up friends to warn about tsunami alert, we got another radio news saying the alert has been lifted.

Thank god for that. You never know what will happen to this tiny island like Fiji.
So about 2hours this morning we were worried sick and around 6:30am after radio announcement, we got relaxed.
My dad canceled his trip to the west and he told us not to go to work today.
But then we got some stuffs up at work and everything back to normal so here were are at work.
What a hard working freaks we are!

I really don’t want to think about tsunami as I’m never been prepared for those kind of catastrophic disasters. I guess if something happen, I’ll be the very first gonner.

Oh well, nobody can tell the faith. So if I must die then I will die no matter how prepared I am or not.
So I don’t really worry about it.

Anyway just blogging about my morning here at Fiji islands.

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Zatlite:
Win: go hit masu
Aung: ok
wait where?
where should i hit her?
Win: anywhere
Aung: ok
Win: oh oh
Aung: ok i hit her head
Win: no u don’t have to
Aung: too late
Win: well
too bad

May: PIGSSSSSS!!!

P.S: I’ve added a new category “Brothers and Sisters”, which will consists of conversations, mishaps and all stupid sorts between me and my siblings. It’s gonna be very personal so you may skip or ignore as you wish.
Ta tar.

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