Tea Articles: Stand Up For Your Rights!

Interesting featured article by Eric Meyer at ThinkVitamin.

“So you want to be a farmer, eh? Farming ain’t easy, boy, but it’s honest work and it puts food on the table. How much do you know about it?”

“Not much, but I’d like to get started right away.”

“I like your attitude, boy! Ever had a garden?”

“No. Never really wanted one.”

“Hm. Well, maybe I could start you plantin’ some corn. That ain’t too hard, and it’s good for learnin’ how to put the seeds in right, plus I could take the time to cover some of the basics about weather signs.”

“What are you talking about? I don’t want to plant seeds or hear about the weather, of all things. I want to be a farmer.”

“You all there in the head, boy? How else do you plan to grow food, if you don’t plant seeds and keep the fields watered and fertilized? How do you expect to have your crops make it without knowin’ about the weather?”

“Why would I want to dig in the dirt or listen to boring lectures about meteorology, when all I want is to be a farmer?”

Tea Thoughts: Moth + Flame = Flying Sparkler (Via: Jachin Gtalk Status)
I’m thinking what exactly that mean…

Tea Translator: Bable Fish Translation (Via: Jachin to translate all those German, Spanish, Latin, French Gtalk Status craziness going on with the office gang)

Tea Star: “Think with your head not your heart, and refuse to be drawn in to the negativity of others. There is idealistic energy around today and you will be easily lured situations that do not concern you.” via: Fijitimes Horoscope

Tea Special News: Diwali sweets and early half day break for Diwali weekend.

Tea Disappointment: I didn’t win anything from Diwali special draw. hehehe.

Tea Download: Internet Explorer 7 for window XP.

Tea-pingVoid: hehehe

Via: GapingVoid

OK! Back to work!

Updated: My sincere request to all mmbloggers

Hey why don’t we just take these as a merry debate and let’s just not be too serious about it? I know some of you are really pissed at me but don’t you think you enjoyed reading all those comments on how pissed you are about my post? I’m sure in your unconscious mind, you are enjoying the talks.

As for me, I’m loving it! I have never seen this much numbers of comments and posts on one issue yet and I have never seen varieties of you-bloggers feelings before. I must say, I have achieved my purpose in placing the “voices” to where it belongs. (smile)

This is the whole point you see; bring up something to discuss on, debate on, talk about, think about, feel about, express about, swear about, be sad about, be happy about, be piss about. After all we human beings are very emotional creatures and sometimes it’s very good to show your true emotion as it sets you free.

Don’t you think KoNLS and I are doing the splendid job of making you think, making you speak up, making you comment on the issue that you have very different view on? I must say this is kind of interesting to see many people who have never commented/visited your site suddenly take interest in what you are saying and dropping their 2cents. After all that’s what the whole blogging is about (for me at least), to share ideas and viewpoints through effective commenting. Your comments (bad or good) are helping me see things in different perspectives, which in turns will help me a lot in my future purposes.

Boy, believe it or not, I seriously thank you all for this. First I thought of ignoring you, but that would be disrespect for all of you and it shows that I do not care about others, which is wrong. I made up my mind that, I will never be “don’t care” kind of person and I started this post because I actually care about mmBlogging community.

You are angry now but you won’t be angry for long. Once your anger fades away, you’ll be amazed that you actually voice up on what you believe in and stood up bravely to say so. I’m so proud of you and you know you are too. (smile)

I am told that in many culture, when a gal/lady is requesting sincerely, the gentlemen would consider. (smile)

Sweet arse kicking Excellent comments and posts I shook up.(wink*)

• Ko Nyi Lynn Seck’s Post
• Kick Arse Comments Ever
• Wai Pyo’s Post
• MyoChauHtun’s Post”
• MMHan’s Post
• ThantZin’s Post
• CMS’s Post
• 99 Sanay’s Post
• Linlatkyalsin’s Post
• 100% Life’s Post
• Sinsain’s Post
• and I lost track…

Post starts here:

I came across this Fiji site “Vakaivosavosa” the other day via incoming links in my admin. I didn’t know there are much of Fiji bloggers out there, but it seems like quite a lot actually exist and the number is growing. This site has a good list of Fiji blogs and he added my site as one too. How cool is that.

I have no idea how he come to know my site or who exactly the blogger is. I guess from the search hits people can reach each other. There are lots of new fiji blogs and links on his site that I never know of; very interesting. The blog is well established and focus on current affairs and politics in Fiji. The discussions are great with most of the posts receiving comments, impressive!

I guess blogs, blogging and bloggers are in massive blooming each day. Already there are 100+ known blogspot sites by myanmar bloggers compare to less than 5 Myanmar blogs when I started a few year back.

I tried to roll most of the blogs but after a while I lost track as the number increase with a great speed. I must say though, some blogs are not worth rolling along as 80% of them are inactive … I mean test blogs kind of thing but the other 20% doing very well.

Another thing I notice about Myanmar blogs are 90% copy cats. I mean, give me a break, every single blogs have to use the same old black skin? 99% of them have a shout box in it. And do you have to use the same shout box application/code also? Some new blogs just copy the whole thing including shout box code so you can see the other blogger’s conversation on their blog as well. Also, must every single blog have to publish background music or Odoe or downloads just becos this senior/model blogger is doing so?

Please be genuine, why do you have to continue copying what others do?
Where is your originality? Where is your creativity? Where is your imagination? Where is your uniqueness? It’s very depressing to see clone blogs one after another.
Myanmar blogs gene pool getting narrow. No wonder we are slow adapters. We can’t adjust ourselves fast enough with new medium but we tend to dwell on the same old habitual routine. Gosh I’m stunned.

My 2cents: Be creative, let your imaginations go wild for once in a while, show off your artistic side, do change that black background and be colorful for god sake. Instead of yelling 80% nonsense in the shout boxes and utilize comment feature on particular topic/post to give your constructive feedback once in a while. Let your voice be heard in a proper way, in a great manner, with legitimate reasoning. And let your comment be resourceful and supportive for each other.

I’m not degrading Myanmar blogs nor I intending any displeasure. I have a great respect for Myanmar blogging community and am very fond of some blogs as I visit them regularly. I guess I’m just doing a merry observation on Myanmar blogging community as they are blooming intensively. And now I’m starting to check out Fiji blogging progress as well. I’m glad no black background yet and no clone blogs yet.

I hate raining days and dull weather. The whole day, it’s been raining, cold, wet and just sucks. The worse thing is to wake up in the raining morning for work while we’re still half asleep.

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.

Technorati Tags: Yakhine Mont-Te, Hot-Chili-Pepper, Vermicelli Soup, Burmese Recipes

There is this thing call “Design is…” wallpapers going on around the blogosphere. I’m just following up a few and was inspired by some of their catchy phrases, so tryin to add a few of my own.

Lets’ see, Design is…

Design Is The Typeface Of The Web.

Design Is The Intercourse Between The “_ers”.
(Designer + customer, Creator + Consumer, ya da, ya dar etc.)

Design Is The Practical Abstract Of The Imagination.

Design Is The Developer’s Nightmare.

There you go, my very own “Design is…”.
Now all I need is some cool wallpaper to write on.
Since my case applies to the last phrase, I’ll just satisfy with the phrases and ditch the wallpaper part.

You can download/check out this excellent collection of “Design is…” wallpapers on flickr “Designer Wallpaper” pool.
Or if you like add your own “Design is…” wallpapers and phrases.
Technorati Tags: Wallpapers, Download, Design is, Designers

It’s all because of Ma Moe and her ideas.
I’ll try my best to follow along. I’ll write Burmese and English or mix verses every week.
I’m no poet nor I a writer, so bear with me.

Dying Inspirations

Other day Ma Moe said,
For me to write a poem every night,
I said, “Oh ma, how can I!”,
“For I, not know a poem”.
She said “May you Do or Die”,
“Cos’ I can glare from a thousand miles”.

I begged and dragged and made a bribe,
To write a poem every forth-night.
We settled with our scores,
To have it on weekly chores,

So I scratch and scrub and start to track,
To see how my smart arse progress.
Then my bro came and said,
Are you crazy, what a crap,
That doesn’t make a single sense.

I said, “What you! Don’t be a slime,”
“Give yourself a simple try, to make it a better rhyme.”
But I know he doesn’t care,
He thinks poems are dull as squares.

So here on Mayvelous I shall scream,
To regain my dying inspirations.
And I stare, glare, flair and share the rhythm,
With a little tag for Sarnil and Jason.

Tagging You: Criers, 99Sanay, CMS, N3, Sarnil, Jason

No nah nah not me! Ma Moe started it!!!

Yep, it’s my 23rd birthday today.

Apart from getting a year older, stupider, thinner, busier, lazier and crazier,…
I’m still the same old May and Mayvelous still stands.

B’day Thought : “…..”

ေခါင္းထဲတြင္ ေနာက္က်ီ႕ေန၏၊
ေဘးတဖက္တခ်ပ္္ နားထင္စပ္က တစစ္စစ္၊
တေနကုန္ အလုပ္မ်ားခဲ့ရေသာ မ်က္လံုးမ်ားက၊ မ်က္ေၾကာအစံုကို၊ ေျခစုန္ကန္ ဆႏၵျပေနျပီ။
စူးရွမႉကင္းမဲ့တဲ့ မွိန္တိန္တိန္မ်က္လံုးမ်ား၊ ညိဳနက္နက္ၾကီးထြားလာတဲ့ မ်က္ကြင္းေဟာက္ေတာက္မ်ား၊
အထိုင္မ်ားျပီး လႉပ္ရွားမႉ႔ကင္းမဲ့လွတဲ့၊ အရိုးအဆစ္မ်ားရဲ့ ေအာ္ညီးသံေတြကလဲ မနဲေတာ့။

လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္မ်ား တသြင္သြင္စီးစင္းၿပီး၊ အေရာင္တျဖတ္္ျဖတ္ေတာက္ေနတဲ့ မွန္သားျပင္တခ်ပ္္ကို၊ စက္စုပ္ မုန္တီးစြာ တခ်က္ၾကည့္ရင္း၊ ေတာက္တခ်က္ေခါက္ကာ၊ ေအာ္ဟစ္ၾကိမ္ေမာင္းလိုက္၏။

နင္ဟာ ငါ့မ်က္လံုးေတြကို မညႇာမတာ အနိုင္က်င့္တယ္၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့လက္ေခ်ာင္းေတြကို အနားမေပးပဲ၊ နာက်င္ေအာင္လုပ္တယ္၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ေရွ႕မွာ အခ်ိန္ျပည့္ ေနရာယူျပီး၊ နင့္ကိုပဲ ဦးစားေပး အေရးထားခိုင္းတယ္၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ေခါင္းထဲကို အပိုင္စီးဝင္ျပီး အျမဲတေစရွိေနေစခဲ့တယ္၊
နင္ဟာ
ငါ့ရဲ့ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အခ်ိန္ေတြ၊
ငါ့ရဲ့ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေတြ၊
ငါ့ရဲ့ အသိဥာဏ္ေတြ၊
ငါ့ရဲ့ စြမ္ေဆာင္နိုင္အားေတြ၊
ငါ့ရဲ့ ခံစားခ်က္ေတြ၊
ငါ့ရဲ့ ရပိုင္ခြင့္ေတြ၊
အားလံုး၊ အားလံုးကို နင္အပိုင္သိမ္းသြားတယ္။ နင့္ေရွ႕မွာေပးစပ္လိုက္ရတယ္။
နင္ဟာ ငါအရြံဆံုး၊ ငါအေၾကာက္ဆံုး ေမွ်ာ့တစ္ေကာင္ ထက္အဆေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ပိုဆိုးတယ္။
သူမ်ားေသြးေသာက္ အသက္ရွင္ေနတဲ့ ေမွ်ာ့လိုပဲ၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ဦးေနာက္ေတြ၊ ငါ့အေသြးအသားေတြ၊ ငါ့အာရံုေတြ၊ ငါ့အကုန္လံုး ေဖာက္စားျပီး၊
အသက္ရွင္ေနတဲ့ ျပိတၱာတစ္ေကာင္ပဲ။
ငါဟာ တေန႔တေန႔ နင္နဲ႔ပဲ အခ်ိန္ကုန္ေနရတယ္။
နင္ကိုအၾကိမ္ၾကိမ္ ငါသတ္ျပစ္ဖို႔ ၾကိဳးစားခဲ့တယ္။
နင့္ရဲ့ ၾသဇာအာဏာေတြကို ငါေတာ္လွန္လို႔ လံုးဝမရခဲ့ဘူး၊
မရေအာင္လဲ နင္ငါ့ကို ၾကိမ္းဝါးထားေသးတယ္။
နင္ဟာ ငါ့အသက္ပဲ၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ဝိဥာည္ပဲ၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ရ့ဲဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ပဲ၊
နင္ဟာ ငါ့ရဲ့အနာဂတ္ပဲ တဲ့။
နင္ေသဆံုးတဲ့ေန႔ဟာ ငါကံကုန္မယ့္ေန႔ပဲ တဲ့။
မတရားဘူး၊ နင္လံုးဝ မတရားဘူး။
နင့္ကို ေကာ္ဆဲထားတဲ့ ဒီစာကိုေတာင္၊ နင့္ေရွ႕မွာ ခခယယ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ရယူျပီး ရိုက္ေနရပါလား။
ငါဘယ္လိုေျပးေျပး နင္နဲ႔ မလြတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ဘဝပါလား။
နင့္လို ႏွလံုးသားမဲ့၊ အသိဥာဏ္မဲ့၊ ခံစားခ်က္ကင္းမဲ့ျပီး အတၱၾကီးတဲ့ မိစၦာေကာင္က၊ ငါ့အေပၚမွာ လက္ဝါးၾကီးအုပ္ အႏိုင္ယူထားတာ၊ ငါရင္နာလို႔ မဆံုးဘူး။

ငါဒီေလာက္ ေအာ္ဟစ္ေနတာကို နင္ကမထံုတတ္ေတး၊ အသိအမွတ္မျပဳ၊ ခပ္တည္တည္နဲ႔ ငုတ္တုတ္ထိုင္ေနတယ္။
ငါမခံနိုင္ေတာ့တဲ့ အဆံုး၊ နင့္ကို အဖံုးဆြဲပိတ္ျပီး၊ အိတ္ထဲ ခပ္ၾကမ္းၾကမ္းဆြဲထည့္လိုက္တယ္။
ကဲကြာ၊ နင္ဘာလုပ္ႏိုင္ေသးလဲ၊ ဒီေလာက္ေတာ့ ငါမွာလုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ရွိတယ္၊ ဟင္း။

ရွဳတ္ေထြးပူေလာင္ေနတဲ့ စိတ္အစဥ္ကို၊ ခပ္တိုးတိုး ေဆြးေဆြးေျမ့ေျမ့သီဆိုထားတဲ့၊ အလြမ္းသီခ်င္းတစ္ပုဒ္နဲ အရည္ေဖ်ာ္ျပစ္လိုက္၏။ နင့္ရဲ့ ႏွိပ္စက္မႉဒဏ္ကို မနက္ဖန္မ်ားမွာ ဆက္ခံဖို႔၊ ခံႏိုင္ရည္ရွိဖို႔အတြက္ ငါဒီည အိပ္စက္အနားယူု၊ အားေမြးရဦးမယ္။
ဒါသည္လည္း နင့္ရဲ႕ အမိ္န္႔ခ်မွတ္ခ်က္ တစ္ခုကို ငါနာခံလိုက္ျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါလား။