ဧရာ၀တီ ျမစ္ဆုံေဒသတြင္ ဆည္တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မ်က္ႏွာစာအုပ္ေပၚရွိ စစ္တမ္းေကာက္ခံမႈအား ယေန႔ ၁၂-၈-၁၁ ေန႔ ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ည ၁၀နာရီတိတိအခ်ိန္ထိ စစ္တမ္း ေကာက္ခံရရွိမႈအေျခအေန -
ပါ၀င္ေျဖဆုိသူ စုစုေပါင္း - ၃၁၆၄
ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါ -၂၉၄၈ (၉၃ %)
ဆက္လက္တည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါသည္ - ၉၆ (၃%)
မိမိတုိ႔ႏွင့္မသက္ဆုိင္ပါ - ၁၂၀ (၄%)
သေဘာထားတစ္ခုေပၚတြင္ မိမိ၏ခံယူခ်က္၊ အျမင္မ်ားေပၚမူတည္၍ မတူညီေသာတုန္႔ျပန္မႈမ်ားရရွိျခင္းသည္ ပုံမွန္ျဖစ္႐ုိးျဖစ္စဥ္တစ္ခုဟု ခံယူမိပါသည္။ ထုိ႔အတူ မိမိ၏ ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ ခံစားခ်က္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မ်ား ေပၚမူတည္၍ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္ဖ်ားေယာင္းမႈမရွိဟု ေတြးထင္ယူဆမိ၍ မိမိ၏ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ လြတ္လပ္ ပြင့္လင္းစြာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္၀ံ့ၾက သူမ်ား ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ေလးစားမိပါသည္။
မတူညီေသာ အေတြးအျမင္မ်ားစုစည္း၍ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေသာႏုိင္ငံအေဆာက္အဦးတစ္ခုကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းသည္ အဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္မား၍ အျမင္က်ယ္ေသာ လူမႈအဖြ႔ဲအစည္းတစ္ခုအတြင္းမွသာလ်င္ တည္ေဆာက္ႏုိင္၍ ရပါသည္။ အာဏာရွင္ဆန္ေသာ တစ္ေသြး တစ္သံ တစ္မိန္႔ျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္လ်က္ရွိေသာ ေစစားခံ လူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ခုတြင္မႈ အျမင္မတူလ်င္ ငါႏွင့္မတူ ငါ့ရန္သူဟု ယူဆၾကလ်က္ အျမင္မ်ားကြဲ ေသြးစည္းမႈမ်ားကြဲၿပီး ရည္မွန္းရာပန္းတုိင္သုိ႔ မေရာက္သုိ႔မေရာက္ႏုိင္ပဲ အစည္းေျပသည့္ လူအဖြဲ႔အစည္းပုံစံ ျဖစ္မွန္းမသိ ျဖစ္လာၾကရပါသည္။ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားေဖာ္ထုတ္မႈအရ အမ်ားဆႏၵသည္ အဓိျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆုိေသာ္လည္း ေရမ်ားေရႏုိင္၊ မီးမ်ားမီးႏိုင္ဟုသေဘာထားပါက အျမင္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ မတူသူမ်ားအၾကား အညဳိးအေတးမ်ားစြာျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစၿပီးတင္းမာသည့္သေဘာေဆာင္သည့္ လူအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္လာႏုိင္သျဖင့္ ေရရွည္တည္တံ့ခုိင္မာမႈကုိ ရႏုိင္ရန္ခဲယဥ္းလွပါသည္။
သုိ႔ျဖစ္၍ အျမင္မတူသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မတူသူမ်ား အၾကား ရင္ၾကားေစ့ႏုိင္သည့္ အဓိက အခ်က္မွာ မိမိသေဘာထား၏ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားကုိ ပြင့္လင္းစြာေဆြးေႏြး တုိင္ပင္ ညွိႏႈိင္း၍ မတူသူအုပ္စုကြဲမ်ား အတြင္း တစ္ဖက္ဖက္ကုိ ထိခုိက္နစ္နာမႈနည္းႏုိင္သမွ် အနည္းဆုံးရွိသည့္ အေျဖကုိ ပူးေပါင္း ရွာႏုိင္ျခင္းပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းသုိ႔ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားကုိ ဆန္းစစ္ရာတြင္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ မိမိက ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ရပါသည္ဟု အေၾကာင္းရင္းကုိ တိတိက်က် ပြင့္လင္းစြာေျပာဆုိႏုိင္မႈသည္ အဓိကက်ပါသည္။
သုိ႔ျဖစ္၍ အထက္ပါ စစ္တမ္းတြင္ေျဖၾကားသူမ်ားအနက္မွ ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါဟု သေဘာထား ခံယူသူမ်ား၏ အေၾကာင္းရင္းခံမ်ားမွာ ကမာၻ႔အရပ္ရပ္ရွိ ပစၥကၡ ဆည္မ်ား၏ ဆုိးက်ဳိးမ်ားေပၚအေျခခံလ်က္ ဆည္ဆက္လက္တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ကုိေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးကုိေသာ္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကုိေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ထိခုိက္နစ္နာႏုိင္ သည္ဟု ေတြးထင္ ယူဆမိပါသည္။
အဆုိပါအခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ လြတ္လပ္စြာ သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲ၍ ဆက္လက္မတည္ေဆာက္သင့္ပါ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ မိမိႏွင့္ မသက္ဆုိင္ပါဟု ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကုိ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ထားသူ ညီအစ္ကုိေမာင္ႏွမမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္/ကၽြန္ေတာ္မတုိ႔က ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ သေဘာထားရပါသည္ကုိ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆုိ၍ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ေျပာဆုိေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည္ ဆုိလ်င္ အျမင္မတူသူမ်ားၾကား ရွဥ္႔လည္းေလ်ာက္သာ ပ်ားလည္းစြဲသာ ဆုိသည့္ စကားႏွင့္အညီ ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္မတူညီေသာ္လည္း လုိရာပန္းတုိင္ကုိ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ရင္းႏွီးစြာျဖင့္ ေရရွည္လွမ္းႏုိင္မည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမ်ား ပြင့္လင္းလာႏုိင္သည္ဟု ယုံၾကည္မိပါသည္။
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီေပါ့ . . .
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီေပါ့ . . .
မေန႔က ၾကယ္ေတြ အစင္းလုိက္ အစင္းလုိက္ ညြတ္တြားရင္း
ေလေျပေသြးေသြးနဲ႔ မုိးေအးေအးေတြၾကား
မဟတၱမဂႏီၵက ေ၀ဖန္ခံေနရတဲ့ သူ႔သီအုိရီမွန္ေၾကာင္း ထပ္ေလာင္းေျပာသတဲ့။
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး မလုိအပ္ပဲေသြးေတြစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။
ပတၱျမားမွန္ရင္ႏြံမနစ္ဘူး
နန္းသစ္ေျမမွာ အပန္းေတာ္ေျဖခရီးမဟုတ္ေပမဲ့
ပန္းသစ္ေတြ မေၾကြလြင့္ေအာင္တားမဲ့
အေမ့ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္ေတြအတြက္ ဂုဏ္ယူတယ္အေမ။
ဆရာေမာင္စိန္၀င္းရဲ႕ ငွက္တုိ႔သမုိင္းကဗ်ာထဲမွာ
ငွက္ေတြဆုိတာ ပ်ံရင္းေသၾကသတဲ့ . . .
ေက်ာင္းနံရံတစ္၀ုိက္မွာ ေဒါင္းအလံစုိက္ခ်င္တဲ့
ေရႊဘုန္းလူရဲ႕ဆႏၵအိပ္မက္ ဆက္မက္ေနမိရင္း . . .
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း ကုိေတာ့ လူနီ႐ုိင္းေတြရဲ႕ သမိုင္းထဲက
ဖီးနစ္ငွက္လုိ မီးထုံကူးၿပီး အျမဲ၀ံ့ၾကြားေစခ်င္တယ္ အေမ။.
ဖ႐ုိင္းမန္းရဲ႕ ျပားလာတဲ့ကမာၻၾကီးမွာ
ေက်ာင္းသားသူပုန္ေဟာင္းၾကီးေတြေတာင္
နန္းေတာ္ရာကုိတက္ အေကာင္းျမင္ျပဳျပင္ဖုိ႔ ေျပာဆုိခြင့္ရခဲ့ၿပီပဲ။
မေ၀းေတာ့မဲ့တေန႔မွာ ခြပ္ေဒါင္းမ်ဳိးႏြယ္မွန္
အက်ဥ္းစံ အကုိေတာ္ အမေတာ္အားလုံး
အေမရဲ႕ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေအာက္ ညီညာျဖျဖနဲ႔
ျပည္သူ႔အက်ဳိး သယ္ပုိးေနတာကုိ ျမင္ခ်င္ေနမိတယ္ ။
ပန္း႐ုိင္းတုိ႔ လန္းလာဖုိ႔ အိပ္မက္ မေ၀းေတာ့ဘူး ထင္ရဲ႕ အေမ။
အားက်တယ္ အေမရယ္။
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း အစစ္ရဲ႕အေတာင္ေတြ ႏြမ္းေနေပမဲ့. .
ေရာက္ရာေနရာမွာ က်ရာတာ၀န္ကုိထမ္းရင္း
မ၀့ံမရဲမ်ဳိးခ်စ္စိတ္နဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္ေကာင္းက်ဳိးကုိေတာ့ သယ္ပုိးတုန္းပါအေမ။
တခါ တခါ ယုိင္းယိမ္လာတဲ့စိတ္ေတြနဲ႔ နဖူးနဲ႔ဒူးတုိးေတာ့မယ္
ခပ္ေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္အိပ္မက္ေတြကုိ
အိပ္ေထာင္ထဲကေန အျမဲသတိေပးေပးေနတဲ့အတြက္
ေက်းဇူးပါ အေမ။
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီဆုိေပမဲ့ . . .
ေနာင္လာမယ့္တစ္ေန႔
ဧရာ၀တီကုိေတာ့ သူရဲ႕ငန္းနက္တစ္ေကာင္မျဖစ္ေစခ်င္ဘူး ။
ဘာပဲေျပာေျပာ …….
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး ေသြးစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။
ပဥၥမေျမာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္
၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၂၀)ရက္။
မေန႔က ၾကယ္ေတြ အစင္းလုိက္ အစင္းလုိက္ ညြတ္တြားရင္း
ေလေျပေသြးေသြးနဲ႔ မုိးေအးေအးေတြၾကား
မဟတၱမဂႏီၵက ေ၀ဖန္ခံေနရတဲ့ သူ႔သီအုိရီမွန္ေၾကာင္း ထပ္ေလာင္းေျပာသတဲ့။
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး မလုိအပ္ပဲေသြးေတြစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။
ပတၱျမားမွန္ရင္ႏြံမနစ္ဘူး
နန္းသစ္ေျမမွာ အပန္းေတာ္ေျဖခရီးမဟုတ္ေပမဲ့
ပန္းသစ္ေတြ မေၾကြလြင့္ေအာင္တားမဲ့
အေမ့ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္ေတြအတြက္ ဂုဏ္ယူတယ္အေမ။
ဆရာေမာင္စိန္၀င္းရဲ႕ ငွက္တုိ႔သမုိင္းကဗ်ာထဲမွာ
ငွက္ေတြဆုိတာ ပ်ံရင္းေသၾကသတဲ့ . . .
ေက်ာင္းနံရံတစ္၀ုိက္မွာ ေဒါင္းအလံစုိက္ခ်င္တဲ့
ေရႊဘုန္းလူရဲ႕ဆႏၵအိပ္မက္ ဆက္မက္ေနမိရင္း . . .
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း ကုိေတာ့ လူနီ႐ုိင္းေတြရဲ႕ သမိုင္းထဲက
ဖီးနစ္ငွက္လုိ မီးထုံကူးၿပီး အျမဲ၀ံ့ၾကြားေစခ်င္တယ္ အေမ။.
ဖ႐ုိင္းမန္းရဲ႕ ျပားလာတဲ့ကမာၻၾကီးမွာ
ေက်ာင္းသားသူပုန္ေဟာင္းၾကီးေတြေတာင္
နန္းေတာ္ရာကုိတက္ အေကာင္းျမင္ျပဳျပင္ဖုိ႔ ေျပာဆုိခြင့္ရခဲ့ၿပီပဲ။
မေ၀းေတာ့မဲ့တေန႔မွာ ခြပ္ေဒါင္းမ်ဳိးႏြယ္မွန္
အက်ဥ္းစံ အကုိေတာ္ အမေတာ္အားလုံး
အေမရဲ႕ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေအာက္ ညီညာျဖျဖနဲ႔
ျပည္သူ႔အက်ဳိး သယ္ပုိးေနတာကုိ ျမင္ခ်င္ေနမိတယ္ ။
ပန္း႐ုိင္းတုိ႔ လန္းလာဖုိ႔ အိပ္မက္ မေ၀းေတာ့ဘူး ထင္ရဲ႕ အေမ။
အားက်တယ္ အေမရယ္။
ခြပ္ေဒါင္း အစစ္ရဲ႕အေတာင္ေတြ ႏြမ္းေနေပမဲ့. .
ေရာက္ရာေနရာမွာ က်ရာတာ၀န္ကုိထမ္းရင္း
မ၀့ံမရဲမ်ဳိးခ်စ္စိတ္နဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္ေကာင္းက်ဳိးကုိေတာ့ သယ္ပုိးတုန္းပါအေမ။
တခါ တခါ ယုိင္းယိမ္လာတဲ့စိတ္ေတြနဲ႔ နဖူးနဲ႔ဒူးတုိးေတာ့မယ္
ခပ္ေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္အိပ္မက္ေတြကုိ
အိပ္ေထာင္ထဲကေန အျမဲသတိေပးေပးေနတဲ့အတြက္
ေက်းဇူးပါ အေမ။
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမဴးေနၿပီဆုိေပမဲ့ . . .
ေနာင္လာမယ့္တစ္ေန႔
ဧရာ၀တီကုိေတာ့ သူရဲ႕ငန္းနက္တစ္ေကာင္မျဖစ္ေစခ်င္ဘူး ။
ဘာပဲေျပာေျပာ …….
ေသြးစည္းဖုိ႔လုိၿပီး ေသြးစီးေနရတဲ့ေျမမွာ
မေန႔က ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ၿပီး လသာသာေအာက္မွာ
တာလစ္ရဲ႕ ငန္းနက္ေတြ ပ်ံျမဴးေနၾကသတဲ့ အေမ။
ပဥၥမေျမာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္
၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၂၀)ရက္။
Friday, July 29, 2011
ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ - It's Better to Die than to Live
ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ …
သိဃၤတန္ေဆာင္၊ ဘုန္းေတာ္ေမွာင္၍၊
ကုန္းေဘာင္ေနမီး၊ မထိန္ညီးက၊
တိုင္းၾကီးျပည္ၾကီး၊ အခ်ည္းႏွီးလွ်င္ (တည့္)၊
ထီးသုဥ္း နန္းသုဥ္း၊ ၿမိဳ႕သုဥ္းသုည၊
သုဥ္းသံုးဝျဖင့္၊ သုဥ္းရျပန္လစ္ (သုညရလစ္)၊
ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ ... ။
သုညေခတ္ဝယ္၊ ျဖစ္လာရေလ၊
ဒို႔တေတြသည္ ..
ေသေသာ္မွတည့္ ေၾသာ္ ေကာင္း၏ ... ။
~ ဆီးဘန္နီ (ဆီးပန္းနီ) ဆရာေတာ္ ~
အာဇာနည္ စာဆုိအေက်ာ္ ဆီးဘန္နီ (ဆီးပန္းနီ) ဆရာေတာ္ ၏
ပါေတာ္မူတမ္းခ်င္း။
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When magnificent influence and
Majestic authority
Of the Konbaung Dynasty diminished,
The country was thus in peril.
Ruler deported.
Authority departed.
Sovereignty deceased!
In the Age of Chaos & Anarchy,
So-called in the Zeor Era
It's better to die with honour
Than to live with shame.
Si Ban Ni Sayardaw
(A poem on deportation of the King Thibaw, who was the Last King of Konbaung Dynasty in Burma)
Trans: Max | 30 July 2011
source:
Thursday, July 28, 2011
THE KISS
DUR KUSS
I remember a gentle and warm kiss on my cheek. And eyes with a very loving look too. I believe I was enjoying the affectionate kiss on my cheek and I longed for more. Without a doubt, it was one of the grateful and memorable moments of my life. It was the first time I remembered my mom kissed me on my cheek. It was so pleasant and a wonderful experience. That’s how I learned about a kiss. A very affectionate kiss from a mother to her lovely son. Every time I think of it, I feel good and nice. It gives me energy and motivation. So sweet!
In fact, there are many types of kiss – cheek kiss, French kiss, kiss of peace, kiss of respect, platonic kiss, romantic kiss, etc. Wiki states that the word “a kiss” is a descendent of the old English word “cyssan" meaning “to kiss". Many literatures and scientific research on human’s kissing are readily available online. They all indicate only one thing in common – a kiss is an act of expression of affection and love of human beings. Did Adam kiss Eve in the Garden of Eden? Who teach Homo sapiens about kissing? An origin of human’s kissing remains unknown. Some scholars highlight that kissing is associated with the level of civilization. Does it really matter? No one cares and we kiss nevertheless to express affection and love to one another. Kissing is in fact beneficial to our health as it involves movement of the lower jaw (the sole movable bone in the head) and contraction of 34 muscles in the face, neck and head -- principally the orbicularis orbis, which surrounds the mouth and allows the lips to pucker. There are top ten health benefits from kissing. Another research indicates that 10% of human population does not know well about kissing. May be they are also in need of expressing their loves to others too.
Is a kiss considered a sin? If so, love wouldn’t be preached to us in the first place. A kiss is an act of love and a sign of affection. No doubt, kiss is not a sin in any way. Viktor Frankl said, love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. To live and survive, love is essential. And love and kiss is inseparable. Kiss is thus also necessary for all human being. It could be a kiss from a mother as well as from loved ones. Life is tough and a long journey! With love and sweet kisses along the way, I believe, life becomes a pleasant journey.
Max
26 July 2011
References:
A Kiss is more than just a kiss - http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/04/health/he-esoterica4
Health benefits of kissing - http://www.bestkisses.com/kisses-for-health.html
Affairs of the kiss: Why we kiss - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=affairs-of-the-lips-why-we-kiss&page=4
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss
Picture: http://www.weddingcometrue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lip-kissing.jpg
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Irrawaddy: the sole reason for existence of Myanmar
Though I wasn’t born in the caveman era, I can say for sure that today’s Myanmar (Burma) exist because of Irrawaddy. It’s just a simple but plausible guess. In those old days, cavemen look only for very basic things: food, shelter, water. Irrawaddy attracts many cavemen’s along the way to gradually start our civilization. As early as back in the 6th Century, Irrawaddy has been serving uncountable ancestors of Myanmar in many ways. If Irrawaddy were a person, she actually gives breastfeeding our ancestors and all of us. Rice we have as a staple food is usually coming from the Irrawaddy’s delta aka the rice bowl of Myanmar. Without making any complaint, she carries us on her back transport from lower to upper parts of the country. In short, Irrawaddy helps Myanmar to grow and glow for centuries. She is indeed our mother and Myanmar lifelong guardian angel. She is so many things for so many people we owes her so very much in so many lives. Now she is being threatened and in danger. Some wants to take her away from you forever.
Today, millions of people talk about capricious climate changes in every corner of the world. Most of these changes are resulted from, I believe, though I can’t quote statistically here, from many reckless actions by imprudent and irresponsible states’ actors i.e. governments. Many of their actions tamper with nature and as a result millions of people suffer from the consequences arose.
Most of the environmental problems we are facing today would have been avoided if many of states’ actors in old days take time to think long-term consequences prior to carrying out certain policies and particular actions which may have negative impact on nature and ecology. Instead, in the race of development, nations take actions and formulate polices solely based on economic interest rather than the interests of the public or mother-nature.
“The Great Chinese Famine” aka “three bitter years” during Mao era in China in which both draught/bad weather & bad policies claimed more than 20 millions of people can be seen as an example of state’s actions based on economic interest. Not only China, but also US which now have spending great deal of tax payers’ money on fixing the problems created by the dams they have built in an half-century. With very little understanding of dams and their impacts on river, fifty years ago, the United States rushed into a water development program.
China, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, takes seriously of its environmental issues at home. Many environmental related policies are laid down and formulated to limit various actions which have negative impacts to environment. For instance, logging is widely banned in China. However, China is a growing giant which craves for natural resources including energy. Since it doesn’t want to hurt itself, based solely on economic interest, it engages with neighboring nations who are willing to fulfill its need. Social responsibility of Chinese Government towards citizenries from neighboring countries is very obvious to notice. Chinese Government is notoriously famous that it will engage in any arbitrary actions towards people in other nations as long as its national interests are served.
China knows well about dams and its negative impact on rivers. Recently, Chinese government admitted and acknowledged the problems of Three Gorges Dam – the world’s largest hydropower plant in China. Since, it doesn’t want to hurt itself more, its energy resources for nation’s growth are outsourced. Many teak forests from Myanmar have been disappeared during the short period of time. So are jades and rubies.
With agreement of Myanmar government, a Chinese company whose is backed up by the Chinese government is building the largest hydroelectricity project with seven large Dams in the area where two rivers meet making Irrawaddy to flow downstream. The electricity from this project is mainly for the use in China. The size of the project is as big as New York City. I have no idea how these so-called patriotic and nationalistic Generals make this kind of agreement at the expense of Irrawaddy River. We owe her so much. In the end, we just sell her out. It has invaluable historical and cultural values to Myanmar civilization. With every patriotic blood cell in my vein, I urge all Myanmar people to join hand in hand to help and protect Irrawaddy from being harmed. She is the sole reason we exist as Myanmar today. Save Irrawaddy, please. 
Max
20 July 2011
Reference:
Image Source:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Sagaing3.jpg
http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/06/02/1226067/727997-escape-irrawaddy.jpg
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
အာဇာနည္မ်ဳိး ေသ႐ုိးမရွိ။
လႊတ္ေတာ္အေဆာက္အအုံသစ္ထဲက
အစုိးရအသစ္ခ်ပ္ခၽြတ္ရဲ႕
ဦးေႏွာက္အေဟာင္းေတြထဲမွာ
ႏွလုံးသားအတုေတြထဲမွာ
အေယာင္ေဆာင္အျပဳံးေတြထဲမွာ
ႏုိင္ငံ့ေက်းဇူးရွင္
ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ပုံလႊာဟာ ေမွးမိွန္ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ေနေပမဲ့ . . .
ငါရဲ႕ ရင္ထဲမွာ ငါရဲ႕
အေသြးထဲမွာ ငါရဲ႕ ႏွလုံးသားထဲမွာ
ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေသြးနဲ႔ရင္းခဲ့တဲ့
လြတ္လပ္ျခင္းဟာ
တစ္သက္တာစီးေမ်ာရွင္သန္ေနသေရြ႕
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕
လြတ္လပ္ေရးဗိသုကာ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းနဲ႔ သူ႔ေက်းဇူးကုိ
ငါဘယ္ေတာ့မွ
မေမ့ဘူးလုိ႔ သစၥာျပဳတယ္။
၁၉၄၇ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလုိင္လ
၁၉ ရက္ေန႔မွာ က်ဆုံးခဲ့ၾကတဲ့
ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းနဲ႔တကြ
အာဇာနည္၉ဦးနဲ႔အတူ
ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္အတြက္
လြတ္လပ္ျခင္းအတြက္ အသက္ေပးသြားၾကတဲ့
ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္က အညၾတ
အာဇာနည္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကုိ
ငါ ဒီေနရာကေန
ဦးညႊတ္အေလးျပဳတယ္။
အာဇာနည္ေတြအားလုံး
ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔ေတြရဲ႕ ရင္ဘတ္ေတြထဲမွာ ထာ၀စဥ္ရွင္သန္ေနၾကမွာပါ။
ေမာင္ပုကီ | ၁၉ရက္
ဇူလုိင္လ ၂၀၁၁ ခု။
Monday, July 11, 2011
The Forgotten
The Forgotten
As far as I remember, Van Gogh was not the one who introduced to one of his world renowned paintings called, “Potatoes Eaters”. It was Htoo Ein Thin, a late famous singer from Burma (Myanmar). A song of his was dedicated to Van Gogh. A line of lyrics described about facial expression of Van Gogh’s Potatoes Eaters somewhere in the song. I was in my teen hood when I first noticed the phrase, “The Potatoes Eaters”. I wondered what’s wrong with their facial expressions and how they looked like?
The people in the painting are eating only potatoes. Why not bread and butter? Why not rice and some red meat? Have you ever eaten potatoes only as a meal? If we were to eat only potatoes as meals in our daily life, I’m sure our facial expressions will be the same way Van Gogh’s illustrated faces in this painting.
Destitute people in a society make scarcity and paucity their friends forever. Except very few, these impoverished people are forced to lead a struggling and detrimental hardship life by circumstances and socio-eco conditions they are in. Survival is the only priority in their daily life. Nothing else. Whatever they can earn usually goes for daily consumption of low-priced food. Potatoes!!!
A small dining room with a very dim light from an old oil lamp in the painting reflects the way poor people stay. It vividly highlights the space – freedom & liberty. Since survival scores “A” in the life of poor, a place to stay becomes “B”. Not a priority. As long as they have a shelter, they will be pleased to stay in for a rainy night and a sunny day. With no saving and no time to think of other priorities such as education to improve their life, theirs vicious cycle continues. For countless many unfortunates, generation to generation.
Van Gogh is trying to describe the life of urban-poor in 1800s in Europe. My thoughts go beyond boundaries of cities, urbanized communities and normal circumstances. It forces me to think of survivors of manmade and natural disasters around the world. How are they copying their daily uncomfortable moments? Are their faces are disproportionately drawn up by situations they are in. How is their tomorrow going to be? Will there be any tomorrow for them? How about those refugees in the camps along the nations’ borders or in between states? Series of questions come to me as my train-thoughts moves on.
These destitute families are usually forgotten in our society. We don’t usually think of how they live and what they have for meals. With candor, Van Gogh’s Potatoes Eaters remind me of my unfinished little works in my capacity for those forgotten people in life. I must not forget them.
Max
11 July 2011
[Children from an isolated Irrawaddy Delta village, which is accessible only by boat, waiting on Friday to receive donated food.]
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