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 was looking for my particular phobia in this phobialist.com and didn’t find my phobia but found these.

Logizomechanophobia – Fear of computers. (I’m starting to)
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – Fear of the number 666. (Just can’t pronounce it)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – Fear of long words. (Ironic! LOL)

Now I’m starting to become Phobilistphobia.

The Blogger is out and about.
No, actually, the neighbors cut the trees and cut the phone line in the process.
As usual the service is slow, took one whole week for the technicians to come down and fix the line. So no net at home last week till this afternoon.
Blogger is fully occupied at work too, so no blogging and no feed reading for sometimes.
Blogger got a report from the host service that she is over-using twice the allocated disk space.
Blogger found out that some nice people crack up the account and put some big files which she cleaned up quickly.
Blogger is planning to ask someone about this quote she read:

“A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.” by: Henry Fielding

Blogger is happy that Gravatar site is back on and accepting new registrations.
Blogger is sad that flickr will combine with yahoo account and won’t allow old logins next month, which might affect the gallery plugin.
Blogger worries the rate of chew up bandwidth on her song files at fileden.
Blogger is sleepy at the moment, so good night and see you later.

I’m feeling really down these days. I got a lot of posts to write about and a few photos been prepared but just not in the mood to sit and type it up. I’m also reading some books and watching movies a lot these days that I couldn’t come back to my blog. I’ve been extremely lazy these days that I don’t even want to visit my own blog. This evening I feel a bit refreshed after a long shower and sat down to do some posting. So here I am, out of the blue, reanalysing what to write and where my blog stands as Mayvelous ages into her third year. It’s been a great three years journey together with Mayvelous.

I learn many things about blog, bloggers, blogging, blogosphere and a whole lot of blogging aspects. I’m also gradually improving in terms of habitual writing. I don’t mean writing as in proper literature with perfect grammar and smooth reading. I just mean as a regular habit of putting your thoughts down in your blog. Mayvelous keeps me awake, she lends me ears, she shares my joy, sorrow and laughters. She’s very lame with keeping secrets but she’s very good listener. She’s been a great friend anyone would ask for.

As time pass, I’m thinking what kind of path I’m driving Mayvelous into. I’ve read an old ebook by Seth Godin a few year back about types of blogs and I remembered I noted down some quotes from there. I’m sorry it’s been too long that I noted down these points and I’ve lost the direct link to the ebook so couldn’t provide you with proper reference link.

From the book, I got to know that there are 3 kinds of blogs namely :

1. Cat Blogs
2. Boss Blogs
3. Viral Blogs

CAT BLOGS are blogs for and by and about the person blogging. A cat blog is about your cat and your dating travails and your boss and whatever you feel like sharing in your public diary. The vast majority of people with a cat blog don’t need or want strangers to read it. If you’ve got a cat blog, you should embrace that fact and stop wondering where all your traffic is.

BOSS BLOGS are blogs used to communicate to a defined circle of people. A boss blog is a fantastic communications tool.

Mainly used for projects and activities to share latest news with team members or activity partners

VIRAL BLOGS: They’re viral blogs because the goal of the blog is to spread ideas. The blogger is investing time and energy in order to get her ideas out there. Why? Lots of reasons—to get consulting work, to change the outcome of an election, to find new customers for a business or to make it easier for existing customers to feel good about staying.

Some of these blogs are for individuals (call them citizen journalists or op-ed pages) and others are for organizations trying to share their ideas and agendas. These are the blogs that are changing the face of marketing, journalism and the spread of ideas.

If you’re writing for strangers, that means you’re building a viral blog. The first principle is to make your entries shorter. Use images and tone and design and interface to make your point. Teach people gradually.

On the other hand, if you’re writing for colleagues, you’ve got a boss blog. That means you can make your entries more robust.

Reading through these and thinking what kind of blog do I own makes me confused. Mayvelous is personal diary-like blog though I don’t write too personal matters, yet I do write about my daily issues and occasional outburst of personal feelings. So it goes into the category of CAT-Blogs.

Mayvelous also talks about work matters and project/technology related news which mainly concentrate on programmers, web developers and IT professionals. So it’s kind of gets under BOSS-Blogs category as well.

Blog by nature is very public, hence you’re writing for various types of strangers. Some may find your post informative and some might not. It’s all depends on which type of “strangers” your blog attracts more.

You’re not interested/attracting anyone then the blog is obviously a CAT-Blog. When it attracts more of your friends and family attention, it becomes the BOSS-Blog. Ofcos, once it catches the attention from general public then you become the VIRAL-Blogger. In my opinion, all blogs aim to be Viral some day. The three blog types are very much inter-related; many blogs start as CAT-Blogs then move their way up to Boss-Blogs and finally be the Viral-Blog.

So, where is Mayvelous? Mayvelous is still in the state of the BOSS petting her CAT. Sometimes the cat runs away and a few times the boss wants to quit. I’m hoping to move mayvelous towards a wider circle of audience with informative content to become the VIRAL-Blog in near future.

So this is what I’ve discovered about types of blogs. Which type does your blog fall under and is it in the correct path that you want it to be? Just something to think about anyways.

I watched 6 o’clock news about yet another new PM swearing-in. This time it’s the big guy himself. I thought last time Bainimarama was accepting some applications for PM post. I guess no one cares to apply for it so he fills himself in.
Moreover, he is now taking two positions?? – PM as well as Military Commodore. I wonder how he will manage that.

Army commander and coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama has been sworn in as Fiji’s interim prime minister.
Via: FijiTimes

At a press conference, Cdre Bainimarama said he will hold on to the RFMF Commander’sposition while he discharges his duty as the Interim PM.
Via Daily Post.

I’m wondering how are they going to address him – “The Honorable Commondore Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, Sir”. Whoa, what a long title. I need some water.

Mean while, military checkpoints are still in action and it’s kinda fun watching those soldiers standing in the rain. I think they got pay hourly rate or something. I think people around the country feel more secure with soldiers on the road as it reduces crime rate and more good night sleep.

It’s a mix feeling among people. Some approve of military take over (quite alot actually) and some don’t (more like international media and relations). What about my feelings? Hey who cares what I feel or think right? I’m ok as long as there is no shooting or bloodshed. But it’s not so cool if this affects country economy and reputation. Come to think of…ditch reputation, cos’ every country has the goods and the bads so yes only economy to consider. So I still disapprove of the pay cut policy! Humph!

So it is Burma’s 59th Independence Day since Burma achieved its independence from the British colonial rule on 4th January 1948.

I thought of writing something about our Independence Day but nothing came out from my head.
Are we celebrating?
Are we happy?
Are we independent?

I don’t feel a thing about it, I don’t even remember sometimes.
I thought of putting up our flag on this post. Then I got confused which flag to put.
I thought of writing as “Myanmar” then I messed up with “Burma”.
I tried to remember how we celebrate Independence Day back in Yangon, the capital city then I remembered it has changed.
I tried hard to remember something about Independence Day…nothing…nothing at all.

Oh well, what a shameful state of mind I’m having. Anyway at least I got the date right.

So Salute!