mandalay &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://wordpress.com/tag/mandalay/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "mandalay" Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[Barret-Jackson 2008]]> http://65mustang.wordpress.com/?p=207 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:42:30 +0000 Kris Hoet http://iblogmustang.com/2008/10/10/barret-jackson-2008/ Want to drive the 1966 Mustang coupe owned by James Earl Ray (who assisinated Martin Luther King) or the 1980 Mustang owned by Bette Davis? Or are you looking for another georgous yet less famous (or infamous) classic Mustang then the 2008 Barret-Jackson collector car auction in Las Vegas is where you need to be. The auction is held in the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from October 15th to October 18th, as in 'next week' :)

The auction is about a lot more than just about Mustangs but there are some 30+ Mustangs on the list and Mustangblog.com looked them all up. The event will apparently be broadcasted live on the Speed channel in case you can't be there (and in case you know what the Speed channel is... because I don't).

]]> <![CDATA[Viaje a Birmania 2ª Parte - PYI’N U LWIN]]> http://vueltalmundo.wordpress.com/?p=13 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:03:48 +0000 vueltalmundo http://vueltalmundo.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/viaje-a-birmania-2parte/ Me alegra que alguien lo lea y le guste. Aquí va otra entrega: A las nueve de la mañana arranca el taxi entre sonoros petardeos. El conductor va a toda pastilla. En hora y media llegamos a PYI’N U LWIN. Este pueblo, a mil metros de altura, fue un lugar de descanso de los colonos ingleses. Es un lugar muy reposado. Aunque el sol pega fuerte el aire es más fresco.
Después de comer, preguntamos al dueño del restaurante por el transporte al río, a las cascadas Pwe Kauk y éste nos lleva a parlamentar con otro. Un poco de regateo y nos subimos en una furgoneta. Al instante se montan cuatro señoras muy sonrientes. Arrancamos.
Hoy es domingo y el río está muy concurrido. Vienen familias y grupos de amigos desde Mandalay, huyendo del calorazo. El río no cubre. Nadie lleva bañador. Todos se bañan vestidos, con camiseta y pantalón. Opto por colocarme el “pañuelo-para-todo” a modo de pareo, para no llamar la atención. Algunos se tiran por las rocas redondeadas, como si fuera un tobogán. Camila anda muy solicitada para fotografiarse con unos y otros. Un grupo de chicos se acercan para jugar con ella. La colocan en un flotador y se la van pasando. Me dicen, entre carcajadas que son “gays”, que trabajan en un “club” de Mandalay y han venido a pasar el día. Hasta la niña me preguntaba curiosa si eran chicos o chicas. Al día siguiente subimos en una pequeña diligencia de madera pintada de vivos colores y nos encaminamos al jardín botánico que construyeron los ingleses. Poco antes de llegar se hace añicos una de las ruedas. Salimos ilesos del accidente y ayudamos al conductor a recoger los pedazos. El buen señor no parece muy preocupado. Deja allí la diligencia y el caballo y se vuelve al pueblo. Más tarde le volvemos a ver en bicicleta con otra rueda a cuestas, muy sonriente, de vuelta por la carretera.
El jardín es muy grande. Nada más entrar vemos un restaurante, bares y una piscina. Hay un lago con varios puentes, muchos cisnes, y un aviario. Choca un poco encontrar un lugar así en Asia. Volvemos al pueblo dando un paseo, sólo son 3 km.A la hora convenida aparece nuestro taxi. Le pedimos que no corra tantoy así el trayecto resulta más relajado.
Llegamos a la bochornosa Mandalay. Alex se va con Camila a cambiar dinero. Sólo hay que dar unos pasos por la calle perpendicular a la del hotel ( la 83) para que alguien se ofrezca. Esta vez es un musulmán que va recogiendo dólares para poder viajar a la Meca. Se lamenta de ver menos turistas que el año pasado. Nos acostamos pronto. Mañana el barco a Bagan zarpa al amanecer, a las seis de la mañana.Datos prácticos:En Pyi’n U Lwin nos alojamos en el Grace hotel, a las afueras por 5$ cada adulto, en dos habitaciones, con baño y el desayuno. Tiene un jardín con tumbonas y bancos de madera donde al atardecer acuden mosquitos hambrientos. No funciona la electricidad hasta que anochece. Las almohadas son como ladrillos, hago un apaño con ropa y toallas. Antes miramos el Golden Dreams y el Grace II (en el centro del pueblo, casi pegados) , creo que un dólar más barato pero más básicos ( según me dijeron , yo no los vi).
En el restaurante chino Maymo nos traen sin pedirlo platitos con rodajas de tomate crudo que dejamos intocables, muy a nuestro pesar, pues se veían deliciosos. Es lo único que añoraremos de las comidas: no poder probar las ensaladas. Comemos por 3.000 y pico kyats los cuatro. Lo más caro es la cerveza, 700 k. ( marca Tigre ). En casi todos los restaurantes del país encuentras sobre las mesas rollos de papel de váter metidos en un cilindro de plástico. Son las servilletas. Cenamos en otro restaurante Chino, el Yoe Yar, al lado de un templo hindú. Los platos son más elaborados. Todo bien rico. Por 6.500k. Al día siguiente comemos en el restaurante La Yone, chino también. es el único que tiene los precios en la carta. Platos más variados. Comemos la mar de bien (7.600 k.) 

Precio en furgoneta del pueblo a las cascadas 3000 k.. Nos recogen tres horas después. La entrada a la zona es de 500 k. Cada uno. El accidentado trayecto en diligencia: 3000 k.Es muy útil llevar una linterna, pues al anochecer las calles carecen de luz. En Mandalay vamos a otro hotel, el Classic, a lado de nuestro restaurante preferido (Lashio). La doble sale a 15 fecs y la individual a 8. No ponen pegas por pagar en fecs. Estamos en un cuarto piso. No está mal, quitando los lamparones de las paredes. A ratos se va la electricidad. Hay nevera surtida de bebidas y vigilantes de planta.
Hasta la próxima.

]]> <![CDATA[မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕အႏွစ္ တစ္ရာ့ငါးဆယ္ျပည့္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ေဆာင္းပါးေပါင္းခ်ဳပ္ ထြက္ၿပီ]]> http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/?p=53 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:10:54 +0000 mandalarthar http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/%e1%80%99%e1%82%8f%e1%81%b1%e1%80%b1%e1%80%9c%e1%80%b8%e1%81%bf%e1%80%99%e1%80%ad%e1%80%b3%e1%82%95%e1%80%a1%e1%82%8f%e1%80%bd%e1%80%85%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%90%e1%80%85%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b7/ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕  မဟာေအာင္ေျမၿမိဳ႕နယ္  စာေပႏွင့္စာနယ္ဇင္းအဖြဲ႕မွ ထုတ္ေ၀ေသာ

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]]> <![CDATA[မၾကာခဏ မႏၲေလး၊ တစ္ခါတစ္ေခါက္ ေတာင္ျပဳန္း]]> http://friend4.wordpress.com/?p=276 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:42:09 +0000 kokoye http://friend4.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/%e1%80%99%e1%81%be%e1%80%80%e1%80%ac%e1%80%81%e1%80%8f-%e1%80%99%e1%82%8f%e1%81%b2%e1%80%b1%e1%80%9c%e1%80%b8%e1%81%8a-%e1%80%90%e1%80%85%e1%80%b9%e1%80%81%e1%80%ab%e1%80%90%e1%80%85%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b1/

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးပြဲေတာ္ရက္အတြင္း မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ကို အလုပ္ကိစၥနဲ႔ ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခါမွ မဖူးဘူးတဲ့ ေစာေစာသြားမွ ဖူးခြင့္ရတဲ့ မႏၲေလး မဟာမုနိ ဘုရားႀကီး မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္ကိုလဲ ဘုရားေဂါပက အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ အဘေတြ ေကာင္းမႈနဲ႔ဖူးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ အခုတစ္ေလာ ဘာပုိ႔စ္မွလည္း တင္ခ်င္စိတ္ မရွိတာနဲ႔ ပုံေလးေတြ တင္ေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အရင္က ျပင္ဦးလြင္ ကားလမ္းကပုံေတြေတာင္ မတင္ရေသးဘူး။ တင္စရာ မရွိလုိ႔ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ Post တစ္ခုတင္မယ္ စဥ္းစားတုိင္း အမွားပါမွာ မျပည့္မစုံႀကီးနဲ႔ post တစ္ခုတက္သြားမွာကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ စုိးရိမ္မိတာေတြ မ်ားေနတာပါ။ အဲလုိျဖစ္တာမ်ားေတာ့ ကုိတြစ္တီရဲ႕ ေျခလွမ္း ကုိေတာ့ သြားသတိရပါတယ္။

ပုံေလးေတြကေတာ့ ခရီးမထြက္တာ ၾကာတဲ့လူေတြ ခရီးမထြက္ျဖစ္တဲ့ လူေတြအတြက္ေပါ့။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေပးခ်င္တာေတာ့ ဒီထက္မက ေပးခ်င္တာပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ဆီလာလည္ရင္ ဘာေတြမွန္း မသိဘူးဆုိတာမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္သြားမွာ စုိးမိပါတယ္။ 2009 ကစၿပီး ေနာက္ပုိင္း Linux နဲ႔ Electronic ကုိ တစ္ခုဆီေရးဖုိ႔ ကုိယ့္ဘာသာကုိ ျပန္သတိေပးေနရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ Electronic က အေျခခံကစေရးမယ္ဆုိရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္က ကုိယ္တုိင္ လုပ္ယူႏုိင္မယ့္ Circuits ေတြ PIC ( Programmable logic controller – IC ) ေတြအထိ ေရးသြားခ်င္တာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ အရမ္းၾကာတာ မျပည့္မစုံျဖစ္မွာကုိလည္း စိတ္ပူမိျပန္ပါတယ္။ အဲလုိ အလွ်င္လုိတာေတြေၾကာင့္လည္း မၿပီးမွာစုိးၿပီး ဘာမွမလုပ္ျဖစ္ပဲ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ Physics ေက်ာင္းဆင္းေတြ၊ Electronic စက္ျပင္ သင္တန္းသားေတြကုိ အကူအညီေတာင္းၿပီး wikimyanmar မွာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ phpMyanmar လုိ နည္းပညာတစ္ခုကုိ သီးသန္႔တင္ေေပးတဲ့ ဆုိက္အသစ္တစ္ခု Create လုပ္ၿပီးေတာ့ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ တင္ေပးသြားပါ့မယ္။ Resisters / Capacitors/ Diodes / Transistors / Coils / IC အစရွိတဲ့ Basic Electronic Unit ေတြကုိ အေျခခံကစၿပီး ေရးသားေပးခ်င္တယ္ မွ်ေဝခ်င္တယ္ ဆုိရင္ျဖင့္ ဖိတ္ေခၚပါရေစ။

(Circuit ေတြကုိ မတင္ေပးေသးေပမယ့္ လုိခ်င္တယ္ဆုိ လွမ္းမွာႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဘုရားေရာင္စုံမီးေျပး Circuitက စၿပီး အလိုအေလွ်ာက္ေရတင္စက္ေတြ၊ Fax ဝင္လာမွ ပါဝါဖြင့္ၿပီး Fax လက္ခံစက္ေတြ၊ အလင္းအာရုံခံစနစ္နဲ႔ မီးအလုိအေလွ်ာက္ ဖြင့္ပိတ္စနစ္ေတြ၊ အနီေအာက္ေရာင္ျခည္သုံး/လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္နံပတ္ေပး သခုိးဖမ္းစက္၊ ကားေတြမွာသုံးတဲ့ လက္နဲ႔ထိတာနဲ႔ Alert ေပးတဲ့ System ေတြ PLC သုံးၿပီး Remote/Sensor နဲ႔ တစ္အိမ္လုံးက Electronic ပစၥည္းေတြကုိ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏုိင္တဲ့ Circuit ေတြအထိ စုထားတာေတြရွိပါတယ္။ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကုိ 555 နဲ႔ 4017 IC ေတြပဲသုံးၿပီးလုပ္ခဲ့တာပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္က ကုိယ္တုိင္လုပ္ဖုိ႔ထက္ တစ္ကယ္လုပ္ႏုိင္မယ့္လူေတြကုိ စုစုစည္းစည္းလုပ္ႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ ႏႈိးေဆာ္ေပးတဲ့သေဘာပါ။)

အာလူးေတြ မ်ားသြားၿပီ။ ပုံေလးေတြ ၾကည့္လုိက္ၾကပါဦး။

မဟာမုနိဘုရား မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္ေရကုိ ေရေတာ္ဆရာေတာ္ကေနၿပီး ေန႔စဥ္ နံနက္ ၄း၃၀ ေလာက္မွာ ကပ္လွဴပူေဇာ္ပါတယ္။ မနက္ေစာေစာ ျမန္မာသံတူရိယာေတြနဲ႔ ပူေဇာ္ေနတာေတြ႕ရေတာ့ အုန္းေမာင္းေခါက္သံေတြ တုတ္တုတ္ျဗဳန္းနဲ႔ စည္ေတာ္သံေတြ ေရကင္းသံေတြ မၾကားရတာၾကာၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အတြက္ေတာ့ နားေထာင္လုိ႔မဝႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္မၿပီးမျခင္း တီးခတ္ပူေဇာ္တာပါ အနီးအနားကလူေတြက အဲဒီအသံနားေထာင္ၿပီး မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္ၿပီးမၿပီး သိၾကပါတယ္။ မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္ကုိ နံသာျဖဴ ကရမက္ေတြနဲ႔ ပူေဇာ္တာပါ၊ ေရေမြးေတြလဲ လာေရာက္ကပ္လွဴၾကတာေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ မ်က္ႏွာသုတ္ေတာ္ ပုဝါေတြ လာကပ္ထားတာ အစုံ ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္မယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္အၿပီးမွာ ယပ္ေတာ္ဆက္ၾကၿပီး အာရုဏ္ဆြမ္းပါ တစ္ခါတည္း ကပ္ၾကပါတယ္။

မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ေတာ္ေရ ကပ္လွဴအၿပီး မဟာမုနိ ဗုဒၶရုပ္ပြားေတာ္ျမတ္ႀကီး။

ဒီပုံကေတာ့မနက္ပုိင္းရုိက္ထားတာပါ ညပုိင္းရုိက္ထားတဲ့ပုံရွိပါေသးတယ္။ ျပန္ေတြ႔ရင္ဒီမွာပဲ ထပ္တင္ေပးပါ့မယ္။

ဘုရားႀကီးရဲ႕ ေဘးပတ္ပတ္လည္မွာ ျပဳျပင္မြမ္းမံမႈေတြ လုပ္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒီပုံကေတာ့ နံရံမွာေရႊေဆးျပန္ခ်ထားတဲ့ နံရံေတြပါ။

က်န္စစ္မင္းႀကီးရဲ႕မိဖုရား ပၪၥီမိဖုရားႀကီးတည္ထားတဲ့ ဗုဒၶရုပ္ပြားေတာ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မဟာမုနိဘုရားႀကီးရဲ႕ အေရွ႕ဘက္မုခ္ဦး ကေနေတာင္ဘက္ကုိ ေဇာင္းတန္း ရွည္ရွည္ေလး ရွိပါတယ္။ ေဇာင္းတန္းတစ္ခုလုံး သစ္သားပန္းပုေတြ ေရႊခ် ဗုဒၶရုပ္ပြားေတာ္ေတြ အေရာင္းဆုိင္ နိဗၺာန္ကုန္ဆုိင္ေတြရွိပါတယ္။

က်န္စစ္မင္းႀကီးအား ရဟႏၲာအရွင္သူျမတ္(၈)ပါးမွ တန္ခုိးျပေတာ္မူေသာ ဂႏၶမာဓနေတာင္ နႏၷမူလိုဏ္ဂူေတာ္ အေၾကာင္းေဟာၾကားရာမွ က်န္စစ္မင္းႀကီး သဒၵါေပါက္ၿပီး မူးမတ္မ်ားအား ေနရာေရြးေစ၍ တည္ထားကုိးကြယ္ရန္ဆုံးျဖတ္ၿပီး ပၪၥီမိဖုရားႀကီးမွ ၁၂၀၈ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ တည္ထား ကုိးကြယ္ေတာ္မူသည္။ ၁၂၇၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဝါဆုိလဆန္း ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ သာသနဟိတဓဇ နာယက ဦးခႏၶီမွ အု႒္ေဇာင္းတန္း ပ႒က္ခ်သည္။

ေရႊၿပဳံးေခၚ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးရွိ ဗုဒၶျမတ္စြာဘုရား ဂႏၶကုဋီတုိက္ေတာ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အေပၚတြင္ သမုိင္းေၾကာင္းပါ အုတ္ခ်ပ္ႏွစ္ခ်ပ္ လြတ္ေနသည့္ေနရာကုိ ေတြ႔ျမင္ႏုိင္ပါသည္။ ေရႊဖ်ဥ္းႀကီး ေရႊဖ်ဥ္းေလး (ကုိယ္ေတာ္ႀကီး၊ ကုိယ္ေတာ္ေလး) တုိ႔မွာ အေနာ္ရထာမင္းျမတ္၏ တုိက္ပြဲမ်ား ေအာင္ႏုိင္မႈအတြက္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ေျမွာက္စားမႈကုိ ခံစားရရွိေနသည့္အတြက္ မလုိသူမ်ားရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။ အေနာ္ရထာမင္း၏ ေမြးစားေျမးႏွစ္ဦးအျဖစ္ သတိမဲ့ ေပ်ာ္ပါးယစ္မူးေနေသာေၾကာင့္ တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ အုတ္တစ္ပြင့္ႏႈန္းျဖင့္ တည္ထားကုိးကြယ္ေစသည့္ ဤဘုရားတြင္ အုတ္ႏွစ္ခ်ပ္ လစ္လပ္ေနခဲ့ရသျဖင့္ ဌာပနာပိတ္ရန္ ၎တုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးခဲ့ရသည္။  အေနာ္ရထာမင္းသိေသာအခါ ေႏွာက္ေႏွာင္ သာသနာျပဳကိစၥမ်ားတြင္ မလစ္လပ္ မေမ့ေလွ်ာ့ေစျခင္းငွာ ေရႊေဖါ့ရုိးျဖင့္ ရုိက္၍ဆုံးမေစပါသည္။ မလုိသူမ်ားမွ ႀကိဳးတုပ္ၿပီး ဝါးရင္းတုတ္ႏွင့္ ရုိက္သတ္သျဖင့္ ေသဆုံးခဲ့ရပါသည္။ အေနာ္ရထာမင္း စစ္ထြက္ခ်ိန္၌ လမ္းခရီးတြင္ အေႏွာက္အယွက္ ေပၚေသာေၾကာင့္ ေခၚယူစစ္ေမးရာ (ေရႊဖွဥ္းႀကီး၊ ေရႊဖ်ဥ္းေလး) ႏွစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး အသတ္ခံရကာ တမလြန္ဘဝ၌ ေနရာထုိင္ခင္းခက္ခဲေနေၾကာင္း တုိင္တန္းၾကသျဖင့္ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးအား အပုိင္စားေပးသနားေတာ္မူသည္။ ထိုမွတဖန္ လယ္ယာလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား မေအာင္ျမင္ျဖစ္ေနၾကေသာ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားအား စိတ္ညိဳးငယ္ျခင္း ေျပေပ်ာက္၍ စိတ္ရႊင္လန္းၾကေစရန္ ေတာင္ၿပံဳးတြင္ မင္းႏွစ္ပါးအားပူေဇာ္ပြဲအျဖစ္ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲရႊင္ပြဲမ်ားက်င္းေစခဲ့ျခင္းမွ စတင္ခဲ့သည္ဟုသိရပါသည္။ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးပြဲေတာ္သည္ လြန္စြာစည္ကား၍ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအရပ္ရပ္မွ မင္းႀကီး၊ မင္းေလးကုိးကြယ္သူမ်ား၊ ကႏၷားစီးမ်ား၊ အလွဖန္တီးရွင္မ်ားစြာ လာေရာက္ၾကေသာ္လည္း အနီးအနားရွိ ဝါးရင္းတုတ္ရြာႏွင့္ ႀကိဳးေပးရြာ (မင္းႀကီး၊မင္းေလးကုိျပစ္ဒဏ္ခတ္ရန္ ႀကိဳးေခြေပးေသာရြာႏွင့္ ဝါးရင္းတုတ္ေပးေသာရြာ) တုိ႔မွ လာေရာက္ျခင္းမရွိ(လာေရာက္ခြင့္မရွိ) ဟုၾကားသိရပါသည္။

ေရႊတုိက္ေတာ္ဟု ေခၚဆုိေသာ နတ္နန္း

နတ္ပြဲမ်ားထဲတြင္ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားေသာ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးပြဲေတာ္၏ နတ္နန္းပုံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ နတ္ထိမ္းမ်ား၊ နတ္ကေတာ္မ်ားက ေရႊတုိက္ဟုေခၚေဝၚေလ့ရွိၾကၿပီး ဝင္ေရာက္ ပူေဇာ္ပသခြင့္ရရွိပါက ေရႊတုိက္စာရင္းဝင္ဟူ၍ သုံးႏႈန္းၿပီး ကႏၷားစီးအျဖစ္လက္ခံၾကသည္။ ဝင္ေရာက္ရန္ခက္ခဲၿပီး (၁၇ သိန္း) ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ကုန္က်ပါမည္။  သာမာန္ဝင္ေရာက္လုိပါက ၾကာရွည္စြာ မိမိအလွည့္သုိ႔  တန္းစီေစာင့္ဆုိင္းရမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အထဲတြင္ အေရးပါအရာေရာက္သူ ကႏၷားစီးမ်ားႏွင့္ သိကၽြမ္းျခင္း ပူေဇာ္ျခင္းမ်ားလုပ္ပါမွ အျမန္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ခ်က္ျခင္း ဝင္ေရာက္ခြင့္ရရွိမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ (ရုံးဝန္ထမ္းေတြ ဘာမွ အားမငယ္နဲ႔ အေမရွိတယ္။ နတ္နန္းေတာင္မွ ဒီလုိမွရတာ။)

မင္းႀကီး ၊ မင္းေလး ႏွစ္ပါးပုံေတာ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ဒုတိယ ေခတ္လက္ရာဟု ခန္႔မွန္းရသည္။(မသိရင္အဲလုိပဲေျပာလႊတ္တာ ဘယ္ဒုတိယလဲေတာ့ မေမးနဲ႔ေတာ့ေနာ္။)

ေအာက္ပုံမွာ အေမရိကန္သမၼတ၏ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္တြင္ ေခတၱတည္းခုိေနၾကသူမ်ား။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းေျပာရရင္ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးကုိ ေရာက္လဲေရာက္ဘူးခ်င္တယ္။ သြားလဲမသြားရဲပါဘူး။ အေျခာက္ေတြပဲရွိတာတုိ႔ ေယာက်ၤားေလးဆုိလဲ အကုန္လုံးက မူးေနတာမ်ားတယ္တုိ႔ ေျပာသံၾကားဘူးထားတာကုိး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အကုိတစ္ေယာက္က မင္းပဲေနရာစုံေလွ်ာက္သြားခ်င္တယ္ေျပာၿပီး ဘာလုိ႔ ေတာင္ၿပဳံးကုိ မသြားခ်င္ရတာလဲ၊ ႏုိင္ငံရပ္ျခားကေတာင္ Tour ေတြနဲ႔ ဒီအခ်ိန္ ဒီေနရာကို ဦးစားေပးလာတာ သီးသန္႔ရွိတယ္ ကုိယ္ေတြက ခရီးသြားဟန္လြဲပဲ ဆုိင္ကယ္နဲ႔ သြားရင္ခဏပဲ ဆီဖုိးမင္းစုိက္ ဆုိၿပီး အတင္းေခၚလုိ႔ လုိက္သြားျဖစ္သြားပါတယ္။ သြားတဲ့အခ်ိန္က ည ၁၀း၃၀ ေလာက္ပါ။ ဟုိမွာလွည့္ပတ္ၾကည့္ မုန္႔စားၿပီး ျပန္လာေတာ့ တည္းခုိခန္းေရာက္ေတာ့ မနက္ ၂ နာရီ ေက်ာ္ေနပါၿပီ။ ဟုိမွာ အကုန္လုံးနီးပါက အေျခာက္ေတြမွ အေရာင္စုံအေသြးစုံ အေျခာက္ေတြဗ်ဳိ႕။ ေနာက္ နတ္ယုံတဲ့ သက္ႀကီးပုိင္း အဘြားႀကီးေတြ အေဒၚႀကီးေတြ။ ေယာက်ၤားေလးေတြကေတာ့ မူးေနတာပါပဲ။ ျပႆနာေတာ့ မတက္ၾကပါဘူး။ ဒီပြဲရဲ႕ အယူအဆအရ စတာေနာက္တာေတြကုိ စိတ္ဆုိးလုိ႔မရဘူး သည္းခံ့ရမယ္ ဆုိတာမ်ိဳးေလး ေတြးထားတာေၾကာင့္လဲပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ေန႔ မႏၲေလးကလူေတြေျပာေတာ့ နတ္ကနားေရာက္ရင္ ေတာ္ရုံစိတ္မႏုိင္ရင္ ဝင္ကၾကတာပဲတဲ့ မင္းေကာ ဘယ္လုိေနလဲတဲ့။ နတ္တီးလုံးကုိက ျမဴးေနတာကုိး ကခ်င္တဲ့လူေတာ့ ဝင္ကၾကမွာေပါ့။ ဘာမွ လိပ္ျပာလွတာေတြ မလွတာေတြ ေတြးေနစရာလုိလဲ။ (သားစုိးနဲ႔တင္အလုပ္ျဖစ္တယ္ နတ္ဝင္စရာမလုိဘူး) ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ဗဟုသုတအေနနဲ႔ သြားေလ့လာတာပဲ အေျခာက္ေတြၾကား ဝင္ကစရာလား။ အဲကအေျခာက္ေတြကလည္း နတ္ဝင္တဲ့လူေတာ့မသိဘူး နတ္ကနားအျပင္မွာေတာ့ နတ္သေရက်ေအာင္ ရွိတ္ဆြဲေနတာတစ္ပုံႀကီးပဲဗ်ဳိ႕။ မႏၲေလးက တစ္ေယာက္က လွမ္းေနာက္တယ္ ေတာင္ျပဳံးက ျပန္လာေတာ့ အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာ အသံထြက္တစ္ခုနဲ႔ လွမ္းေျပာတယ္။ ဘာႀကီးလဲဆုိေတာ့ အေျခာက္ေတြကုိေခၚတာတဲ့။ ကဲဘယ္လုိေခၚလဲ စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ပါဦး။ Gay လုိေျပာတာေတာ့ မဟုတ္တာေသခ်ာတယ္ဗ်ာ။

]]> <![CDATA[Dünyaca Ünlü Modacıların Abiye Koleksiyonları BEYMEN ‘lerde]]> http://abiyeciniz.wordpress.com/?p=5 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:09:58 +0000 xkalo http://abiyeciniz.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/dunyaca-unlu-modacilarin-abiye-koleksiyonlari-beymen-%e2%80%98lerde/

YAZ GECELERİNİN ÖZEL DAVETLERİ İÇİN DÜNYACA ÜNLÜ MODACILARIN ABİYE KOLEKSİYONLARI BEYMEN’LERDE…

Yaz gecelerinin özel davetleri yaklaşırken dünyaca ünlü modacıların imzasını taşıyan abiye kıyafetler de BEYMEN’lerde yerini aldı.

Dior, Elie Saab, Alberta Ferretti, Prada, Fendi, Etro, Moschino, Luca Luca, Lanvin, Blumarine, Bottega Veneta, Celine, Missoni, Givency, Atıl Kutoğlu gibi moda devlerinin imzasını taşıyan abiye koleksiyonlar, her sezon olduğu gibi 2007 ilkbahar/yaz sezonunda da göz kamaştırıyor.

Ayrıca BEYMEN’ler de bu sezon ilk kez J-Mendel, Mandalay, Zuhair Murad, Derek Lam, Vera Vang, Balmain gibi markaların da abiye tasarımları yer alıyor.

BEYMEN’lerde yer alan dünyaca ünlü markalara ait 2007 ilkbahar/ yaz abiye koleksiyonları, duru renkleri ve akıcı hatları ile sadelik ve seksilik arasındaki dengeyi korurken, romantik bir yazı müjdeliyor. Derin dekoltelerin ön plana çıkarıldığı koleksiyonlarda, feminen çizgiler nostaljik aksesuarlarla desteklenerek hareketlendiriliyor. Minimalist bir görünüm sunan tasarımlarda şıklık detaylarda gizleniyor.

Lübnanlı modacı Elie Saab’ın güzel kadınlardan ilham alarak yarattığı 2007 ilkbahar/yaz koleksiyonundaki modellerin kesimlerinde sadelik ön planda iken; ipek, tafta, krep ve şifon kumaş üzerine işlenen taşlar kıyafetlere büyüleyici bir görüntü veriyor. Koleksiyonda pastel renkler ön planda.

Kürke getirdiği farklı bakış açısıyla J.MENDEL, 2007 ilkbahar yaz sezonunda straplez beyaz organza, drape işlemeli vücuda oturan büstiyer kesimli gece elbiseleri ile oldukça iddalı. Elbiselerde kullanılan renkler; açık gri, beyaz ve kemik.

Lüks ve sofistike bir tarzı ile beğeni toplayan Derek Lam’ın koleksiyonunda ise, yere kadar uzanan straples kesimli elbiseler geniş yer kaplıyor. Şifon kumaşların kullanıldığı uzun elbiseler, çok sade ve romantik. Diz üstü modellerde ise ince askılar ve vücuda oturan seksi tasarımlar göze çarpıyor.

Vera Wang’ın abiye koleksiyonu ise siyah şifon, uçuk pembe, bej elbiseler gümüş işlemelerle zenginleşiyor. Kumaş ve renk oyunlarıyla yaratılan transparanlığın ön planda olduğu elbiselerde büyük çiçek desenleri, bej ve siyah birlikteliği göze çarpıyor.

Helenistik dokunuşun yoğun olarak hissedildiği BEYMEN Kadın koleksiyonundaki abiye elbiselerde ise pembe, bej, sarı ve gri tonları hakim. Platin rengi, elbiselere ışıltı katarken, ipek şifon doğal kumaşların kullanıldığı kıyafetler saflığı ve romatizmi yansıtıyor. Degrade sarı ve gri renklerin birlikteliğinin görüldüğü yere kadar uzanan roba kesimli straples elbiseler, drapaj dikiş detayları ve metalik aksesuarlar ile BEYMEN kadını yaz gecelerinin tanrıçası olacak.

]]> <![CDATA[Live Vault - Mandalay]]> http://highermusic.wordpress.com/?p=210 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:46:01 +0000 Higher Plain Music http://highermusic.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/live-vault-mandalay/ Mandalay are this weeks Live vault guests. Insensible is a superb song taken from their first album. Nicola Hitchcock performs it here after the duo split but the song is identical to the original. Excellent vocals and a lovely dreamy song. Enjoy

]]> <![CDATA[ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ရုပ္ရွင္သရုပ္ေဆာင္၊ အဆိုေတာ္ ၀ဏၰေက်ာ္ထင္ ေဒၚေမရွင္ ကြယ္လြန္]]> http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/?p=47 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:16 +0000 mandalarthar http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/%e1%82%8f%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%84%e1%80%b6%e1%80%b1%e1%80%80%e1%80%ba%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%9b%e1%80%af%e1%80%95%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9b%e1%80%bd%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9e%e1%80%9b/ ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ရုပ္ရွင္သရုပ္ေဆာင္၊ အဆိုေတာ္ ၀ဏၰေက်ာ္ထင္ ေဒၚေမရွင္သည္ မႏၱေလး အေထြေထြေရာဂါကု ေဆးရံုႀကီးတြင္ ေဆးကုသမႈခံယူရင္း ၃-၉-၂၀၀၈ ည ၁၁နာရီ မိနစ္၂၀က ကြယ္လြန္သြားေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

အေမရွင္ ကြယ္လြန္ ခ်ိန္မွာ အသက္ ၉၃ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး ေမာင္ႏွမ ငါးဦးအနက္ အငယ္ဆံုးျဖစ္ကာ

တူ၊တူမ ၆ေယာက္တို႕ရဲ႕ အေဒၚ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

၅-၉-၂၀၀၈ ေသာၾကာေန ညေန ၃နာရီမွာ ၾကာနီကန္သုသာန္မွာ ဂူသြင္းသၿဂိဳဟ္မယ္လို႕

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သိရွိရပါတယ္။

မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္ေဆာင္အႏုပညာရွင္တစ္ဦး မႏၱေလး ႏွစ္၁၅၀ျပည့္ပြဲေတာ္ မဆင္ႏႊဲလိုက္ရမီ

ကြယ္လြန္သြားတဲ့အတြက္ အထူးပင္၀မ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲမိပါတယ္

]]> <![CDATA[Preaching Human Rights Inside Burma]]> http://caravanserais.wordpress.com/?p=333 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:39:05 +0000 jonathonflegg http://caravanserais.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/preaching-human-rights-inside-burma/ Travelling throughout the night across the dark pancake-flat plain from Rangoon to Mandalay I started talking to the girl who sat behind me called Mie Mie*. She had been to Rangoon to try to compete for one of the few scholarships the Burmese Government give to study in Singapore.

Around 2am she offered me her MP3 player to block out the Burmese music blaring throughout the bus. After talking with her and another fellow across the aisle for around an hour, she asked me to come and visit her English class in Mandalay.

I went along the following day to speak to the students. There was four classes of around sixty students each. The Shan head monk teacher asked me to field questions from the students for the duration of the class.

They wanted to know about absolutely everything. They had an insatiable desire to know about the rest of the world, such was their deprivation. They asked about my country, my family, my religion, what and where I studied, how much I loved my girlfriend and how do sunsets make me feel!

But what I really wanted to talk about at some stage was the Burmese Government. In Burma my moral compass was so troubled I often could not sleep. Without incriminating anyone other than myself I had to say something to these students and monks who had such a thirst to know and understand. It was such a golden opportunity - one that I would regret if I gave up.

It is amazing how when someone tells a Westerner they can't criticise the government, how the impulse to do just that grows by the day. Over my time in Burma I felt myself daily becoming a zealot for human rights. It was as if they were attempting to cut my tongue out. Speaking out under such a regime for me became an imperative.

The other thought that descended on me was how could I expect the Burmese people to say things against their government if I couldn't. The consequences for me were infinitesimally less. I would just be deported - a free ticket home. They would be locked up for who knows how long.

Anyhow, here is a transcript of what I said to the students and monks.

I had my bags backed that night in case the military police raided me.

Since I arrived here I have developed a heart for your wonderful people. I love you culture. I love your country. I love your people. And it hurts me to see your people suffering. I see all of you very talented young people who are going to be the future for Myanmar, your country. I can see you are going to be the thinkers, writers, scientists, doctors, engineers, and leaders of your wonderful country in the future. You are the talented future for your country.

It hurts me to see how hard you work at your studies, how well you have developed your english skills, but not be able to reach your potential. While I love the people and the culture of Myanmar, I do not love the government. The government is hurting the people and is stopping you from reaching your potential.

I could get in a lot of trouble saying this in your country, but I don't care. I honestly don't care. I can say what I like. I can say what I think and think what I say. I am going home where there is no punishment for me. I am lucky in that regard but long after I have gone home you will still be here. You are going to continue to have to live with the government and suffer as long as remain in power.

I had to say this because often I can't sleep at night here in Myanmar. It hurts me to see how the people suffer. How you suffer. I want to do whatever I can to help your country reach its potential.

I want to share with you my dream for your country. You are free to share my dream, or not share my dream. It is your choice because you do have a choice. I also want to inspire those who share my dream that it is still possible, even though it will not happen tomorrow.

First my dream begins with more human rights for your people [yes, smiles]. Many of you have probably heard about human rights. Foreign people often speak about human rights because we have been very lucky to enjoy the benefits of them. I believe human rights belong to all people, including each one of you and all the people in Myanmar.

One of the most important human rights is freedom of speech. Your country like all countries have problems that need fixing. The difference between your country and my country is that in mine I am free to say there is problem. How can a country fix its problems if people are not free to talk about the problems, not free to even admit there is a problem? Here if you publicly say there is problem, or write in the newspaper there is a problem you will be thrown into jail [nods of agreement]. Therefore it becomes impossible for your country to ever address its problems and the suffering gets worse and worse.

Secondly, there needs to be free elections in Myanmar. The last free election in Myanmar was in 1990 when I was seven years old. Without regular elections and the right to freely campaign and talk about the problems in the country nothing will ever get any better.

The vast majority of people in Myanmar don't support the government and would never vote for them, but they are too afraid of going to jail to say anything. Free elections is a peaceful way you can change the government so that positive change can begin for Myanmar. Until free elections occur the military government will cling to power and continue to hurt the people.

Thirdly, after human rights and free elections come to your country you will begin the road to a prosperous Myanmar. It hurts me to see you with so much talent, completing so much hard work, but with no opportunities for the future [nods of agreement]. The only opportunities are for you to get one of the few scholarships to go to Singapore or Australia or somewhere else overseas. You should be able to reach your potential right here [yes, agreement].

It also hurts me to see the poverty of the people who work in the rice paddies, or the weavers, or the market sellers who all have no money, or the people who have no work at all, or the families who can't afford to buy rice. The economy in Myanmar is grinding average people into the ground. And the only people profiting is the military people who run the government and their families.

My dream is for a prosperous Myanmar where all of you thinkers can reach your potential and where people have jobs that feed their families. This will not happen over night, but will begin once you have human rights and you have changed your government in free elections.

I am not sure how this dream will be realised. That is the difficult part. But it is possible. There are many countries around you that are developing into prosperous nations like Thailand and Malaysia. There are other countries like Singapore that are already there.

The other thing that should give you hope is knowing that the world is talking about you. Foreigners, like me, are concerned about your government and want to help create change from the outside. Many foreign governments and the United Nations are pushing the military government to have free elections. We are talking about you and want to help in any way we can, but ultimately change will also have to come from you guys right here inside Myanmar.

As I said, I hope you can share my dream for your country, but you are also free not to share my dream. In a democracy you are free to choose what you think it best.

On this topic don't feel like you need to ask me any questions. I understand why you wouldn't ask questions publicly. Just share with me the same dream and maintain hope that a wonderful future for your country is possible.

* For the purposes of concealing the identity of Burmese nationals who I spoke with, I have changed their names.

]]> <![CDATA[O alta obsesie]]> http://little1one.wordpress.com/?p=61 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:17:03 +0000 Micutza http://little1one.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/o-alta-obsesie/ Am nimerit peste reclama de la Kandia(necenzurata), si urmatorul lucru bun dupa acel barbat cu piele de abanos era melodia. Se numeste Beautiful si este cantata de Mandalay. Enjoy!

Reclama Kandia:

Mandalay - Beautiful:

]]> <![CDATA[The Road to Mandalay]]> http://caravanserais.wordpress.com/?p=305 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:40:07 +0000 jonathonflegg http://caravanserais.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/the-road-to-mandalay/ Seeing as the Government stooges here had banned my blog it been a little while since I posted my last update. I'm currently reporting from Mandalay of Kipling and Orwell fame, and with the help of some friendly tech-heads have got easily around the Government filters.

I have got so so much to tell you all about this closed-off, military state. I spend only a short time in Rangoon because I basically couldn't stand the place so made my way promptly up here to Mandalay on the overnight bus and I've been here ever since.

Throughout the night the surprising clean bus to Mandalay stopped at a host of Nazi-like checkpoints where soliders come aboard all throughout the night to check ID cards, and in my case, my passport. I was the only white person on the bus, and at the moment I'm one of the only white people in the whole country. I would estimate there can't be much more than one hundred non-Chinese foreigners in the whole country right now.

Mandalay has been extremely rewarding. I will tell you more about my activities here when I leave the country, which hopefully will be this weekend. I am hoping to take an overland route back but my passage through to Thailand is less than certain, so I might end up having to to go back via Rangoon and Bangkok.

We'll see. This is where Odysseus Jono needs to rely on every ounce of his resourcefulness.

I can also say that the Burmese people and a very friendly and interesting mob. Many of the country's intellectuals, monkhood and student body crave information about what is happening outside their country (and unbiased information about what is happening inside their country). It is amazing how much you take access to information for granted when you have it. Burmese people are the ultimate information 'have-nots'!

Anyhow, more to come.

]]> <![CDATA[Mandalay (Burmese) - Review - London, England (7.5/10)]]> http://worldfoodieguide.wordpress.com/?p=2089 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:00:35 +0000 Helen Yuet Ling Pang http://worldfoodieguide.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/mandalay-burmese-review-london-england/ Mandalay sign

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Burmese restaurant Mandalay has been at the top of my restaurant wishlist for a while now. It's always sounded intriguing to me. Not only are the owners Burmese-Norwegian, they also run a little hotel nearby. And I've never had Burmese food before. As Time Out included it in its Top 50 London Restaurants list earlier this year, I thought I'd go and investigate with a friend.

Helen Yuet Ling Pang @ World Foodie Guide

]]> <![CDATA[Seguindo o caminho sozinho]]> http://zeoffline.wordpress.com/?p=264 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:28:12 +0000 Zé http://zeoffline.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/seguindo-o-caminho-sozinho/ Ouvi o trabalho solo da Andrea Palmer essa semana. Álbum de estréia que, por incrível que pareça não foi coincidência, me lembrou muito o Dresden Dolls. Andrea Palmer é a vocalista do Dresden Dolls, por isso que lembrou tanto (duh!). Não posso estipular uma regra de que todo artista que deixa a banda por um momento - ou até para sempre, dependendo de alguns casos - faz um trabalho solo diferente. Vejo isso pelo Thom Yorke, que para muitos foi considerado o "Kid B" do Radiohead - também sou da mesma opinião.

Outros, por exemplo, preferem seguir caminhos totalmente distintos. Veja os integrantes do Cardigans: Magnus criou o Righteous Boy, Peter criou o Paus e Nina criou o A Camp. Esse último foi o que mais impressionou, pois percebi um processo inverso: o projeto solo de Persson influenciou a banda inteira (ouça os dois últimos álbums deles e você vai perceber a diferença). Por falar na sueca loirinha-morena, ela está fazendo um suspense desnecessário e insuportável para seus fãs. Reza a lenda que o segundo álbum solo vai sair esse ano - quem quiser saber o que ela andou aprontando ao vivo, vai no YouTube (estou no escritório, não tenho como acessar os vídeos).

Quem também está prestes a lançar um trabalho solo é a minha diva ruiva e escocesa Shirley Manson. Pelo que eu soube, ela teve alguns probleminhas para se acertar com alguma gravadora que aceitasse o lançamento de seu primeiro disco. Se ela conseguiu entrar em um acordo, não sei. Se alguém souber de alguma novidade, por favor volte e aqui e deixe um comentário - vou agradecer imensamente.

Para finalizar, aqui ficam registradas outras meninas que seguiram seu caminho sozinhas e deram certo, apesar de terem deixado um trabalho muito bom para trás - e que a maioria não têm mais retorno, por mais que tenhamos um fio de cabelo de esperança: Lou Rhodes (ex-Lamb), Maria Taylor (ex-Azure Ray), Nicola Hitchcock (ex-Mandalay), Hope Sandoval (ex-Mazzy Star), Roisin Murphy (ex-Moloko), Skye (ex-Morcheeba) e... Tracey Thorn (será que o Everything But The Girl acabou mesmo?).

]]> <![CDATA[Shan Gyi]]> http://terrispath.wordpress.com/?p=6 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:40:18 +0000 terrispath http://terrispath.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/shan-gyi/

Shan Gyi means tall man from Shan state.  Wearing traditional longyi and carrying a Shan woven bag, Shan Gyi finds us in front of the Sedona Hotel.  A deeply devout student of Buddhism, Shan Gyi becomes our driver, guide and closest friend in Burma.

 

Buddhism in Burma comes with a heavy dose of ‘bmahsan chinn’ or Burmeseness - a Buddhism influenced complex word describing the gentle personality of many, which includes undying respect for elders, modesty in dress, and a preference for subtlety rather than loudness.

 

 

Shan Gyi has bmahsan chinn.

 

For a slide show of our travels in this fascinating country, check out my slideshow at:

http://terrispath.com/Burma/

 

]]> <![CDATA[အိုင္တီ ေနရာတစ္ခု]]> http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/?p=45 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:15:57 +0000 mandalarthar http://ourmandalay.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/%e1%80%a1%e1%80%ad%e1%80%af%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9%e1%80%90%e1%80%ae-%e1%80%b1%e1%80%94%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ac%e1%80%90%e1%80%85%e1%80%b9%e1%80%81%e1%80%af/ အိုင္တီ သမားမ်ားအတြက္ ေနရာတစ္ခုအျဖစ္

ေစ်းခ်ဳိ အိုင္တီဇုန္ အျဖစ္

ေစ်းခ်ဳိမွာ တည္ေထာင္ၿပီး

ဖြင့္ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားအျဖစ္ ျပပြဲကိုပါ က်င္းပမယ္လို႕ သိရပါတယ္။

ၾသဂုတ္ ၁ရက္၊ ၂ရက္မ်ားမွာ ေစ်းခ်ဳိေတာ္ၾကီးအနီးက အိုင္တီဇုန္ မွာ က်င္းပ သြားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ျပခန္း ၄၀ ျပသမယ္လို႕ သိရပါတယ္။

]]> <![CDATA[Viaje a Myanmar - Birmania - ]]> http://vueltalmundo.wordpress.com/?p=11 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:40:32 +0000 vueltalmundo http://vueltalmundo.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/viaje-a-myanmar-birmania/ Vaje a Myanmar - Birmania

Animar a los que no se atreven a viajar con niños. Nos presentamos: Alex,  Montse, Xavi y la pequeña Camila, de 4 años. Después de aterrizar en Yango y pasar allí un par de días tomamos un autobús nocturno a Mandalay. Sale puntual, a las 17,30 h. Y una hora más tarde ya se detiene para cenar. Va lleno. Hay botellas de agua en cada asiento y amenizan el

trayecto con un par de películas americanas con muchos tiros. Los asientos son bastante cómodos ( pedimos los cuatro de delante) y dormimos algunas horas.

Llegamos a Mandalay antes de lo que suponíamos, a las 7,30 h. La estación de autobuses está algo alejada del centro, a unos 20m m. de taxi. Nos alojamos en el hotel Royal. En el

mismo hotel reservamos los billetes del barco a Bagan y nos proponen un taxi para recorrer los alrededores. Aceptamos. El conductor se llama Ten Ten y pasa a recogernos a las 10

h. Para entonces ya estamos duchados, desayunados y despejados. Camila se entusiasma saludando desde el taxi a todo el tráfico rodante de la ciudad. En Sagaing subimos a

la pagoda Soon U Ponya. Está nublado pero el bochorno es tremendo. Contemplamos, sudorosos, un tapiz verde, salpicado de stupas, el río y las tierras inundadas por el monzón. Muchas casas han quedado inundadas y la gente ha trasladado sus pocas pertenencias a los arcenes de la carretera, incluidas las vacas.

Tras la comida Ten Ten nos deja en un embarcadero para acceder a Ava. Al bajar del barco ya nos esperan los coches de caballos para recorrer el lugar, dando tumbos por un camino trufado de baches. Parecemos los pioneros de la conquista del Oeste. En uno de los templos Camila y yo nos remojamos los pies en el lago observando los juegos de los monjes más jóvenes que chapotean a placer. Al día siguiente tomamos un barco a Mingún. El muelle es un hervidero de gente y animales. De un barco desembarcan unas 30 cabras a lo bestia: tirándolas al agua sin miramiento alguno. Intentaban escapar pero las agarraban por el rabo y

las orejas y ...al agua. En el barco somos 7, todos extranjeros. Las vigas del techo son peligrosas. Tres de los pasajeros se machacaron la cabeza al entrar (entre ellos Alex, como no). En una hora llegamos. La famosa pagoda es una gran estructura en ruinas. Solo queda la base, de 50 m. de altura. Hay que subir descalzo. Las escaleras arden a juzgar por los saltitos que da el personal. Alex es el más valiente de los cuatro. Nos cuenta que en la cima hay niños que ofrecen ramitas para posar los abrasados pies. Los demás nos quedamos bajo la espléndida sombra de un árbol, amorrados a una botella de agua fría.

En otra pagoda una monja vestida con una túnica rosa, la cabeza rapada y una ancha sonrisa nos muestra la huella de Buda. Se trata de un bajorrelieve dorado con dibujos de animales. Camila le hace cosquillas a los dedos, que son como caracolas. Encendemos una varita de incienso y pedimos un deseo: tener un buen viaje. Buda fue clemente y nos lo concedió. Algunos datos prácticos: 1€ nos salía a 100 kiats. Luego estaban los fecs, la moneda esa que te hacen cambiar en el aeropuerto y con el que puedes pagar los hoteles y las

entradas.

El billete de autobús Yangon Mandalay : 4.600 k.

Hotel Royal: Habitación triple 15 fecs,con desayuno incluido, aire acondicionado y cuarto de baño. A la hora de pagar tuvimos problemas pues no querían fecs sino k. Pero

no bajamos del burro.

Barco a Bagan: 18 fecs el billete más 300 k de comisión.

Taxi para visitar los alrededores de Mandalay , de diez de

la mañana a seis de la tarde: 8.000 k.

Entrada a Sagaing y Mingún 3 fecs. Entrada a Ava 10 fecs

pero sin tiquet te lo dejan por 3 fecs.

Coche de caballos para recorrer Ava : 2.500 k.

Camila no paga en ningún sitio, sólo el asiento del bus nocturno.

Para cenar en Mandalay está bien el restaurante Lashio, muy concurrido y con los platos a la vista. Eliges los que  quieres y te añaden un plato de arroz blanco para mezclar.

Comemos todos por 3.700 k. La bebida es lo más caro pues una coca-cola sale por 500 k. Y una cerveza de litro por 800 k.

Por la noche los cortes de luz son generales. Los hoteles y restaurantes tienen generadores propios. Meten un ruido ensordecedor.

Bueno, la próxima entrega, un día de estos. Saludos.

]]> <![CDATA[Rhododaktulos Ēōs]]> http://tkevathe.wordpress.com/?p=292 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:25:30 +0000 Atherton Kevin http://tkevathe.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/rhododaktulos-eos/ Saw Rosy-fingered Dawn do her stuff this morning. Was up earlier than usual to take la wife to O'Hare for her 6 AM flight and so I was able to enjoy all those pink clouds I'd normally snooze through.

The sunrise display caused me, as always, to wonder how Homer got it so wrong. Granted, he was blind, but couldn't someone have told him the clouds at dawn look more like ribs than fingers? If Dawn is said to look like rosy fingers, doesn't that evoke a picture of clouds radiating from from a central palm? (See figure 1.)

Rosy-fingered Dawn.

Figure 1

That seems all wrong. Homer nods indeed. If one fine morning we saw a giant pink hand looming over the horizon, we'd be sure the end of the world had come.

No, not fingers. I think Homer would have done far better to call her "Pink-pancake Dawn." (See Figure 2.)

Pink-pancake Dawn.

Figure 2

There. Now that's more like it. Pink-pancake Dawn: a better metaphor visually, and as a bonus it carries a suggestion of a delicious breakfast treat.

While we 're on the subject: Don't you think Rudyard Kipling is way off base when he says, "An' the dawn come up like thunder?" Well, I do. Maybe the dawn thunders "outer china 'crost the Bay on the Road to Mandalay" but it barely squeaks around here. Oh, man. I'm going back to bed.

I'm with the Cowardly Lion on this one.

]]> <![CDATA[One more detention in Burma]]> http://rfaunplugged.wordpress.com/?p=453 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:49:41 +0000 somefiercething http://rfaunplugged.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/one-more-detention-in-burma/ You read it here less than two weeks ago: Burma's military government detained a noted comedian, Zargana, after he went on a private mission to aid millions of victims of Cyclone Nargis. Now they have detained a prominent journalist who was working with Zargana, Zaw Thet Htwe.Zaw Thet Htwe's wife, Ma Khine Cho, said authorities took Zaw Thet Htwe into custody late June 15 while he visited his sick mother in the central town of Minbu. They also searched his home and confiscated his computer, some CDs, and various documents.

Zaw Thet Htwe formerly worked as editor in chief of a popular sports newspaper, First Eleven Journal. He was previously detained in 2003 on charges of subversion, for which he was convicted with eight other people on Nov. 28, 2003, by a special tribunal inside the notorious In Sein Prison. But on May 12, 2004, the Supreme Court of Burma reduced the sentences of all nine defendants, and Zaw Thet Htwe was freed in 2005.

The May 2-3 cyclone killed at least 78,000 people while another 56,000 are listed as missing. The junta, which goes by the Orwellian name of State Peace and Development Council, has drawn sharp international criticism for moving too slowly and doing too little to aid victims of the storm.

In a statement, Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association on Monday condemned the arrest "for assisting in the distribution of food and clothes in areas hit by Cyclone Nargis. While editor of the sports magazine First Eleven Journal in 2003, he was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death, and then pardoned by the supreme court. "

"Zaw Thet Htwe is a respected journalist who was moved by the woes of his compatriots after the cyclone," the two organizations said. "Banned by the military government's censorship from writing openly about the tragedy in his magazine, he decided to act. We urge U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to intercede with the Burmese authorities so that civilians distributing aid should no longer be treated as criminals, and so that the Burmese and international media should be allowed to operate freely in the cyclone-hit areas."

]]> <![CDATA[Mandalay - Beautiful]]> http://magicseby.wordpress.com/?p=101 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:17:54 +0000 magicsebi http://magicseby.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/mandalay-beautiful/ Melodia zilei - 14 iunie 2008 - Mandalay - Beautiful

]]> <![CDATA[Mandalay - beautiful]]> http://thejackofdiamonds.wordpress.com/?p=140 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:48:56 +0000 thejackofdiamonds http://thejackofdiamonds.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/mandalay-beautiful/

You can depend
On certainty
Count it out and weigh it up again
You can be sure
You’ve reached the end
And still you don’t feel

Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful

You are, yes you are

You can ignore
What you’ve become
Take it out and see it die again
You can be here
For who’s a friend
And still you don’t feel

Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful
You are, yes you are

Innermost thoughts
Will be understood and
You can have all you need

Do you know
You know about anything
Do you know
You know about anyone

Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful
Do you know you’re beautiful
You are, yes you are

Mandalay - beautiful.

pe curand.

]]> <![CDATA[What the hell...? #4]]> http://therangelife.wordpress.com/?p=30 Thu, 22 May 2008 03:23:41 +0000 therangelife http://therangelife.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/what-the-hell-4/ I'm going to run through the rest of Myanmar quickly, or else I'll never catch up. 

We spent 3 days in Nyaungshwe, mostly resting and recovering from the trek. We did hire a longboat for one day, to tour the villages and handicraft shops scattered around Lake Inle. In town we met a local man who worked at one of the monasteries. He invited us for tea at his house, where we also met his wife, children and a few of his sisters-in-law. His wife insisted that we come back for dinner the next day. "No pay! Real Myanmar food!" We accepted. We feared that they'd want something - to hire the man for a tour, to buy some nice local stuff, etc - but instead we had a nice chat in broken English, with their two-year-old jumping around and being very cute. After dinner the eldest sister-in-law came over with a huge bag of clothes and cloth bags. She promptly dumped everything on the floor next to me and started sorting through it, saying she was going to a market to sell them tomorrow. "See this bag? Very nice! I sell one today nice woman just 2000 kyat!" Etc. It was clear who the entrepreneur in the family was. 

Overall, our time at Inle was a nice. We were relaxing while you guys were frantically calling the US embassy, etc. Oops!

On the 7th we took the bus to Mandalay. And from then on, I can honestly say that the aftermath of the typhoon kinda took over our trip - not because of infrastructure, etc., but because a good portion of our attention ws diverted to the question of staying or going, and making alternative plans, etc. We did manage to tour a few pagodas and see the Moustache Brothers show. We also took a day trip to see the nearby ancient cities of Sagaing, Innwa and Amarapura including U Bein's Bridge, at 1.2 km the longest teak bridge in the world.

On the 11th we got up at 4:30 am to take the 15-hour slow boat down the Ayerwaddy River to Bagan.

Ahh, Bagan. After days upon days of pagoda-hopping in Thailand and Myanmar, I was secretly dreading this vast area of ancient temples. But boy, was that stupid. Whereas most temples I had seen had been "renovated" within an inch of their lives with whitewash and ugly gold leaf, Bagan was different. First, the temples weren't these dinky, tacky things. Many were the size of cathdrals and featured thousand-year-old murals. Some were crowded with children trying to sell us postcards, laquerware, sand paintings and various trinkets, but most were empty except for the odd keymaster/guide. In some temples you could climb up to higher platforms, where we were treated to lovely views of the stupa-studded plains and the river in the distance. The Lonely Planet says to picture Bagan like this: Take all the churches in Europe and place them on the island of Manhattan. And it's not too far from the truth!

Unfortunately, we were treated to more unseasonably rainy weather in Bagan, so only 1-1/2 of our 3 days there were good for sightseeing. And as there was no internet...I read all of George Orwell's Burmese Days, whose descriptions of Burma (and government corruption) are still remarkably accurate.

Finally, we took the overnight bus back down to Yangon, and then flew out the next day.

There's more, of course - plenty of odd and/or annoying characters and situtions, but there are just too many. For instance: Myanmar-language covers of western pop songs; the tag line for the thuggish and corrupt Myanmar police force is "How may I help you?"; some vehicles have the steering wheel on the left, and others on the right, but at least everyone drives on the same side of the road; being charged 700 kyat (about $0.70) for "air conditioning" at a local restaurant....

 

 

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