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I Have Moved

2007-11-07T17:18:00.000+06:30

I have decided to move to wordpress so pls read my new posts at http://madyjune.wordpress.com . It's still incomplete and I will try to edit them whenever I get the time. One thing for sure, I won't be adding cbox to my widget 'cuz I prefer to get comments on my posts instead.

As for my Myanmar blog, I will still post at blogger. I got a subdomain address from MyanmarBloggers.org so my blog can be browsed via that domain name but I still need to configure it at Blogger.

Thadingyut Weekend Part II

2007-10-29T17:16:00.001+06:30

We went to Yankin Center and chatted a bit at Seasons but I was keeping quiet most of the times as my mouth hurts whenever I tried to talk due to the blisters insdie my mouth. Since I swore to myself that I will never order coffee for that place again, I ordered chocolate milkshake. When we go out, she drove us to the library. I wasn’t thinking of borrowing another book again but I ended borrowing another Grisham novel. Then we went to Latha and she bought a blouse in a shop. Just as I had suspected in the first place, she wanted to introduce me to a guy and I had to go to Moon Bakery to meet him. She introduced us and started talking but I wasn’t interested in their conversation. The place was too noisy for me and I was feeling frustrated but when I cheered up after watching Sunflower music video by Antibiotic, He commented that I am just a quiet person like my sister so I just smiled at him in reply. But in my head, I was saying to myself, “That’s what you think.”. I was really just staying quiet ‘cuz no. 1, my mouth hurts when I talk, no. 2 I don’t like talking to strangers and no. 3 I hate it when I am expected to become friends with him just because my friend wants me to.

The meeting didn’t take long and we left the place around 4pm. My friend wanted to wait for the air-con bus so I waited for the bus with her for 30 mins. My feet were already tired and a lot of buses which reached directly to my home had already passed by so many times. When the air-con bus arrived, we got on but we couldn’t sit next to each other till Thein Phyu bus stop. The aircon wasn’t that cool at all and worst of all, the bus was playing I.C Acoustic album. I don’t hate I.C band but I dislike having to listen to them on the bus. Whenever I happened to ride that air-con bus, I always have to listen to I.C singers album. That air-con bus didn’t reach my home directly so I got off with her and went home. I was hoping to eat Shwe Yin Aye but it got spoiled as I arrived home around 5pm. It was really a lousy day for me and I really wasted my times going out. The only thing I’m happy about is that the new book I borrowed from the library.. After I’m through with this book, I will ask my friend to return it for me but I won’t go with her anymore. I will made a new member next month so I can go there on Sundays whenever I want. Plus, since I usually go there twice a month, I can check out the latest kdrama DVD arrivals in Latha DVD shops. She has no patient with me to go to the shop with me ‘cuz I usually take a long time analyzing the available dramas and picking out which I want to buy.

I wasn’t in the sulky mood for long as I started to continue reading Coffee Price and I finished it around 11:30 pm. I have to say this was the best Korean novel I have ever read. I have read some fanfics before including Temptation of Wolf but since this one is an actual novel and the translator did a wonderful job. Not sure if these words are really mentioned in English in the original novels but I just love these words the translator used, :”EnChanting”, “Hankyulistic” and “HanKyulious”. Although I love the novel, I am really glad that the plot isn’t quite the same. If you love the drama, I recommend you all to check out the novel also but if you just want to know the difference, you can either read the whole novel or read summaries written by javabeans.

Sunday was the usual, not much activities as I stayed home all day. I watched Time of Wolf & Dog dvd and Over the Rainbow movie aired on MWD. I would have prefer to watch the movie with English subs but I couldn’t find it anywhere. So I just had to be satisfied with watching Lee Jung Jae on TV. I was continuing watching the drama after the movie when my cousin and her family came over to bow to my parents. My parents have received a lot of food already from relatives and neighbors who also came to bow to them and pay respect. I still haven’t go to see my relatives yet ‘cuz I’m waiting for my father to get some free times. Most of the times, we just visit my grandmother and aunt & uncle from my father’s side and my uncle and aunt from my mother side. I always enjoy going over to my uncle’s place ever since I was a kid ‘cuz they always give out a lot of foods in return. My friend told me that she got a lot of pocket money from her relatives but I rarely get pocket money from my relatives but at least my uncles gives out our favorite cakes and cookies :).

After dinner, my family watched Time of Wolf & Dog while I buried myself in Grisham novel. I was pissed off at them for talking about the drama plot while watching the drama. Next time, I will hide the new drama dvds till I have finished watching them. I really hate spoilers but they couldn’t keep their mouth shut. At sometimes I actually have to put hands over my ears (yeah…I’m over reacting but…) ‘cuz their voices even reached downstairs and they were at the last episode.

Thadingyut Weekend Part I

2007-10-29T17:16:00.000+06:30

I had a 3 days weekend holiday as Thadingyut was on Friday and our admin closed off Saturday for us to have a nice rest during the holiday.

I spent the first day doing nothing much beside reading and watching dramas. I finished reading John Grisham's The Rain Maker as it was due on Saturday. It was a bit boring at first but the plot got interesting when the trial started. There's a movie based on the novel but I still haven't watched it yet.

The second novel I read is an English translation of the original Coffee Prince novel. I didn't know someone translated it and posted at xanga till last Thursday. Since I didn't have time to read at work, I copied all of the blog posts and started reading them. Although the drama was based on the novel, the plot is a bit different but I like both version. Whenever Han Kyul named is mentioned, I started picturing Gong Yoo so I like his character the most in the novel :). I have to stop myself several times to stop daydreaming about him while reading.

I also watched a few episodes of Harvard 'cuz I wanted to return the dvd back to my coworker soon. Although I like the actor and the actress a lot, the drama is a bit boring and I couldn't help fast forwarding some scenes as I was getting bored. This has to be the second drama that I ever fast forwarded while watching. The reason I didn't like this drama that much is because my taste in kdrama has changed a bit overtime. A few years, I might have been hooked on to this drama but now I prefer to watch comedy romance, mysteries and action dramas. I didn't finish watching the drama but I am returning the dvd back now 'cuz I'm just too lazy to watch till the end and rewatch ep 1-8 since I skipped them to avoid the bad English conversations.

The next day was a really tiring day for me. I made plans with my friend to go to the library to return the books. I wanted to go there earlier but she only wanted to go after 2pm. I suspected that she was planning to meet someone afterward but I didn't want to complain as I was asking her to borrow the books for me. My card expired after June and I haven't made a new one yet. Another friend which we have lost contact due to personal reasons wanted to meet all of us so she made plans to pick us up and go to a coffee shop. I know my friend didn't want to go and I didn't want to go either but I didn't want to sound rude so I agree to meet her. I had planned to finish my house works first before going out so I can rest on Sunday without works to do but I didn't get much done as she was coming around 12. She and my friend arrived a bit early so they waited while me and my sis finished our lunch. Lunch was papaya salad and fried water sprout but I had to eat fast and didn't have time to enjoy my lunch. I wanted to eat Shwe Yin Aye for dessert but I didn't have enough time to do so.

The Meaning of "Retard"

2007-10-22T12:46:00.000+06:30

retard : offensive term: an offensive term that deliberately insults somebody with a learning disability or somebody regarded as unintelligent (slang insult)

I am sure most of you already know what retard is supposed to mean but one certain person had made a mistake of calling disable people retards in an interview. I am surprised to read that he who acted as a disable person affected with polio (poliomyelitis) used the harsh word 'retard'. He said that among his fans, there is a retard girl and I took after her. I observed the Retards. I have to say he's my least favorite actor and singer and I never have any respect for this person. But my mother who happened to be at one of the shooting of the film said even she who disliked him was amazed with his acting. Maybe he doesn't really understand the full meaning of the word. I have to admit that I have used that word quite often in the past and still used it sometimes at present but I have never offended any disable person. I don't think his fan will like being called a retard. If he was in another country, he will surely be attacked back the media and the netizens. Such similar case has happened to a popular boy band members before although they didn't mean to offend them at all but a lot of people got offended by it. I was quite mad at their previous management company for releasing the video, probably on purpose, at that time.

Delicious Meals on the Weekends

2007-10-22T12:44:00.001+06:30

This weekend, things just passed by smoothly. I was done with my work by 2 pm on Saturday but I have to wait for a friend till 5pm so I spent most of the times surfing entertainment blogs. I was quite bored to death and I wanted to go home but I had to wait for her as I promised her to come with me to meet our friend. We went to her house first and then we went to a nearby Rakhine Moat Tee shop. The food wasn't that great anymore. I rarely go there but there wasn't any other place to eat for a small snack. There was still some times left so we have some cool drinks at another shop nearby and chatted for awhile. We parted around 7pm. I asked my friend to come to my place on Sunday if she's free and she said that she will come.

The next day, I was still doing my chores when she arrived. She and I watched 200 Pounds of Beauty and ate lunch with a really tasty lemon salad (shauk tee toke). Since my sister wasn't around, I asked my cousin to add chili peppers to the salad and that was why the food was delicious. My cousin cooked Rakhine Moat Tee for a short snack so we drank the soup while having our lunch. My friend was midway through watching the film so she continued watching while I lost interest in. By that time, my sister and my mother had come back home and my sister was a bit occupied with taking out old photos to share with a friend. She met her online after seeing her profile on Facebook. That girl was my friend's sister. My friend isn't the kind of person to take interest in social networking sites but maybe I can invite her after I join the site.

My friend had to leave early at 3 pm and I had nothing much to do. So in order to kill some time, I checked out some old Myanmar movies my friend downloaded for me from BurmeseClassics. The first film starred Win Oo and as I am a big fan of him, I checked it out first. But I got disappointed 'cuz he only guest starred in the movie and the lead actor is surely not my idea of an actor. I guess he only became an actor 'cuz he was an adoptive son of Win Oo. I lost intrest immediately as the film was quite crappy so I checked out another movie. My mother had been wanting to watch it so I asked my friend to download for her but I never got the chance to check it out. It's a really old black & white movie with bad quality and I only understood half of it but it was a movie worth watching 'cuz I get to learn a lot about the Lisu and their lifestyle. It was the first Myanmar film to shoot in Putao area and I think it was filmed back in the 70s.

For Dinner, my cousin cooked Chicken Kar La Thar Chet. It's a mixture between normal chicken dish and chicken soup but it's spicy. It became one of my favorite dish after eating it in Kalaw but sadly it didn't taste quite the same. I complained about it and my father told me that the reason it was tasty and different from usual was because marijuana was probably added in the food. I nearly lost my appetite after hearing that.

Lee Junki's New Drama

2007-10-18T17:13:00.001+06:30

Lee Jun Ki who rose to stardom with his feminine clown role in "The King and the Clown" is returning to a historical drama series in an opposite persona.

Lee Jun Ki has been cast as the leading role in "Iljimae" a 20 episode historical drama series to be aired on SBS. He will display his strong charisma through 'Iljimae' who is considered a chivalrous robber of the time.

Lee Jun Ki's manager Kim Woo Jin commented, "He has selected characters that emphasized his manliness since 'The King and the Clown' and this character seems to be at the peak of his efforts."

In the drama series "Iljimae," Lee Jun Ki will play a character who acts as a usless gangster in the marketplace by day and a chivalrous robber by night.

The series will start filming in November with a location shoot in China as well.

source: BroAsia

Lee Jung Jae

2007-10-16T17:02:00.000+06:30

I have always liked him ever since I watched II Mare but he wasn't added to my favorite actor till I finished watching Air City. I do admit that my favorite actor list is pretty long. I can't get enough of Air City. I want to see him in a drama again but I think he's more into acting for films rather than dramas. He looks the best when he smiles. My favorite scenes in Air City are when Choi Ji Woo is mad at him about something and he just smiles directly in her face and later on she ended up smiling as well.

I've finished Air City last week but I feel like repeating it again. Maybe after I buy the dvd, then I will watch it back. I have many pending dramas to finish at the moment.

credit pics to wiki.d-addicts & popseoul

Korean Movies & Dramas DVDs

2007-10-16T12:45:00.001+06:30

My biggest weakness is buying DVD dramas. I just can't resist buying one when I see my favorite dramas on DVD. Most of my money are spent on DVDs every month. Just yesterday, I promised my mother that I won't buy any more kdrama (for this month which I said to myself) but when I saw Coffee Prince and Time of Wolf and Dog, I can't resist buying them. I've already watched Coffee Prince but I want to watch it again. Both of the drama subtitles are good so these are really worth buying but in Coffee Prince, the last episode was cut off in the middle for around 8 mins including my favorite scene of Han Kyul singing Naw Ruu Sarang Hae. Wahhh....not fair. I really really love that part so much and they had to cut it off. This is the disadvantage of buying those dvds imported from China. All 17 episodes were placed in one disc. I rather buy a 2 disc DVD just to see that part. I wish I can buy the original version but as long as I'm staying in Myanmar, I can't afford to buy it :(.

I never have any problems with other dvds 'cuz the only other dvd that was cut off at the end is Goong. (and it was my favorite drama at that time) I was pissed off at that time but now I have the original version thanks to Ko SomeoneNull and Ma Yee Mon with better quality. I wonder if I should give this to someone else and wait for another version to come out but how am I supposed to know if that dvd has complete episodes?

My brother said I buy too much Korean DVDs but I hardly buy English movies. I told him to buy them by himself but he doesn't want to spend his money on DVDs so instead he complains every time he see a Korean DVD at home. The last English dvd I bought was a collection of movies targeted towards kids but I still haven't watch all of them yet. I rarely watch back an English movie after I seen it. The only movies I enjoy watching over and over again are the first Star War trilogy, not the new ones from episode 1 to 3. I love them so much and I am beginning to memorize some of the lines by now.

I spent most of my money on Korean dramas 'cuz it's hard to download from the internet and not many buy them so I can't rent from them. Some of them rather buy dramas with Myanmar subs but I hate watching them so I start my own collection, buying 2 or 3 dramas every month but I haven't manage to finish them all. I don't buy Korean movies DVDs that much 'cuz most of the collections contains movies I don't want to watch or are already in my possession. I miss those 8 in 1 DVDs 'cuz the quality is better than the later 12 in 1, 16 in 1, 18 in 1 and now 24 in 1. I bought one 24 in 1 DVD at the start of this month but I haven't watch them all 'cuz I wasn't interested in them. The movies that I want to watch are in other collection dvd along with soft porn movies so I didn't want to buy them even though I want to watch them. My mother complains a lot the last time I borrowed a dvd from a friend 'cuz she didn't like those kind of movies. It wasn't my fault anyway. She was the one who wanted to see that Lee Byun Hyun movie. Compared to other movies, that LBH movie wasn't that bad and it was funny. She just didn't like to see her fav celebs having sex on screen :). I chose to remain silent and not bother with arguing. My director at work also bought a Korean movie DVDs 'cuz she like some of the movies but she was shocked to see those x rated movies and said she wouldn't have buy the dvd if she knew that they will be included. The one of the guy listening to her said "Really, let me borrow your DVD then". LOL he he

Next time I buy a Korean Movie DVD, I'll look for the ones including Love Me Not, My Boss My Hero, II Mare and Typhoon but so far all four movies are in different DVDs and I don't buy want to buy them all.

Right now I don't have much money left to spend since I bought too much dvds :(. I will have to watch what I spent from now on.

Back from Long Silence

2007-10-15T16:15:00.000+06:30

Sorry for not updating my blog. I got cut off from the internet a few weeks ago and now that I got it back at work but I don't have much time to use it for personal affairs. Even though internet was down, I still was quite busy with my work and now that it's up again, I'm more busier.

Not much have go on in my life. I leave work early now 'cuz I want to get home early and rest. I used to stayed at work till it's nearly 7 pm but now I leave work after 5 pm. After I get home, I get the chance to use the computer before my brother comes back home. I rarely watch dramas now as I have become more absorbed in reading e-books. I'm reading Philip Pullman and so far I read The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife. I went to the library to search for the last book but instead I only saw The Ruby in the Smoke so I borrowed that instead. It's funny that they couldn't find the author's name in the computer system while I was holding the book in my hand.

Beside reading e-books, I finished watching A Prince's First Love with Myanmar subtitles. I don't really dig having to watch with Myanmar subs but since it was at home, I ended up watching the drama but only after fast forwarding it and skipping forward so I got bored watching. These kind of love stories don't take my intrest that much anymore. Probably it's because of watching dramas like The Devil and Air City. I finished Air City a few days ago and I love it. I like the lead actor a lot. I've always liked him since II Mare. Now I want to watch it back again along with Typhoon.

Blogger & Decision

2007-09-26T09:09:00.000+06:30

My sister just told me that blogspot has been banned. I knew it would come to this at the end but I was hoping that they won't do that. Oh, well I still have my way around blogging but now I'm thinking of moving my English blog to somewhere else. I already made a decision to blog mainly in English a few days ago to improve my English and it wasn't that necessary for me to blog in both versions. There are a lot of Myanmar bloggers who blog in Myanmar so they won't miss me if I don't blog in Myanmar.

I Hate Half Warm Coffee

2007-09-24T12:42:00.000+06:30

I went to Seasons Bakery & Cafe at Yankin Center with my friend to meet an online friend from forum. My sister arrived a few minutest later. Ever since I watched Coffee Prince, I had been wanting to try other tastes of coffee and the one I really wanted to check out was cafe latte 'cuz I've seen many pictures of coffee art decorated on cafe latte on the internet. I remember seeing a coffee decoration on a cappuccino from a restaurant at Excel Tower. I wanted to know whether my coffee would be decorated also at Seasons.

My coffee arrived a few minutes later after my order. It was placed in a large glass with a large spoon on top. At first I thought they had mistaken my drink for a cold drink but I expected to be served in a coffee cup, not in a glass. I added a bag of sugar and tasted the coffee. It was terrible. The taste was too strong and worst of all, it was half warm. I hate drinking coffee which are half warm. If I want hot coffee, I want to drink it while it's still hot with streams coming out from the cup. If I want it cold, I would have order a cold drink. Now that I think about it, this isn't' the first I get half warm drinks at Seasons. A long time ago, I ordered hot chocolate and it was nearly cold when it arrived. As for the coffee, next time I will just stick with drinking ready made coffee mixes and home made coffee 'cuz I am not used to strong tastes.

It was nice to meet him but most of the conversation we had was about Singapore 'cuz my friend was pretty interested in Sg and Polytechni. So she bombed him with questions after questions. Since she doesn't know much about forum so she was pretty bored having to listen to us talk about forum related things. I didn't intend to invite her to come with me that day but there was supposed to be a birthday party in the afternoon at my house which got canceled but she didn't know about so she arrived 2 hours before my meeting. I couldn't ask her to just home after she cancel her classes to spend time with her friends.

Heroes

2007-09-19T12:37:00.000+06:30

Last night I watched Heroes Season 1 on dvd and I was immediately hooked on the series. I have watched the first episode a long time ago but I didn't continue watching till my sister bought the dvd. Actually I wanted to watch The Prince's First Love drama but my brother and I had an argument 'cuz the drama is subbed in Myanmar and it was pirated so he accused me of supporting piracy from his company. I didn't even buy it in the first place. Why would I even want to waste my money to buy dramas or movies subbed in Myanmar subtitles? I only watched this drama 'cuz my pc is broken and if I buy the dvd with english sub, my mother would scold me for wasting money as there was a dvd at home already. It was my father who borrowed the dvd from his friend but of course my brother didn't dare voice out his anger to him so he turned to me instead.

I didn't want the same arugment to continue again last night so I thought I will just watch the first episode and wait till he's asleep so I can continue my drama. But he was also hooked on to the series so we ended up watching it for four episodes straight. I had to tell my brother to go to sleep as the hour was nearly midnight and he have to get up way early in the morning. My mother wasn't pleased to see her son staying up the night watching tv 'cuz she wanted all of us to sleep early as possible.

I might continue watching the series tonight but if my brother isn't around, I'll just finish watching the kdrama first.

New Fashion Journal Released

2007-09-18T12:51:00.000+06:30

A few years ago, I used to read most of all the fashion magazines available from the book rental shop. The main intention of reading those magazines was to read about Myanmar celebrities but the prices have went up and I was sick of flipping through glossy advertisement papers and then reading articles which are indirectly advertising the products.Some magazines only featured articles about people I dislike so now it'sbeen a long time since I read a magazine.

But now, a journal dedicated to fashion and entertainment has been released since yesterday. The name of the journal is "NOW" and what set it different from regular magazines and journals is that all pages arefull color. This week's front cover is Nicole Kidman and usually Myanmar fashion magazines and journals used Myanmar celebrities and models as their front cover. Reading this journal reminds me of those teen magazines I read when I was younger. I think this is the first journal
which criticize Myanmar celebrities publicly. It's nothing serious, just a small criticism about bad choice of fashion and acne-control in Sai Sai's case. It's funny to read them anyway. I'll summarize some of the interviews and features about Myanmar celebrities.

In the interview with Kaung Myat, he said that his new album contains only r&b and pop songs as he wanted a change of music style. I used to thought he can't sing solo but after hearing him in Sai Sai's 'bone kyoe pyat tae nat tha mee' song, I am looking forward to this album release.

My sister said that the girls sounded a bit rude in the interview with NO but I think they are just sick of answering questions related to Thazin. I also have seen several of their interviews and most of them asked about Thazin. They must have broken up for like a year already. Interviewers, give these girls a break. It's not like there aren't any other questions to ask. I am neither a fan of NO nor Thazin but they want to move on so let them move on instead of talking about the past all the times. I am more of a fan of Yee Mon whose music sounds better when she sings solo.

Since I have mention gossips and criticism, some of you might be wondering what those are about. Just as I have said in the above paragraph, it's nothing too serious. They wrote that Sai Sai can dress in fashion but he should take care of his acne on his face. That's kinda true. Those pimples are huge. On the photo of Moe Hay Ko, it was written, "Who is this...ahh..that's the girl some journal named the popular person of the year...but those color contacts doesn't match well with her". My favorite one is about Aye Wit Yee Thaung. She was wearing a red polka dot dress which looks really cute and nice but there was some black straps around her ankle and they wrote "Perhaps she's too busy to buy a stocking so she drew a fake stocking on her legs.". As I have said, those aren't too serious and they are funny. I hope they would continue to write like this in the next journals.

Edit: Those criticism were written after gaining permisson from the Myanmar celebrities.

So if you are in Myanmar, you might want to check this out if you are into fashion and entertainment. The sale price is 500 kyats but I don't know how much the journal stand might sell them for.

Shopping at Yuzana Plaza

2007-09-17T12:59:00.000+06:30

Yesterday I woke up a bit early than usual Sundays after hearing Ye' Lay's song playing. It was my sister who was listening to his album and I joined her without even washing up first till she stopped listening. I asked my brother to buy pauk si for breakfast and drank coffee while eating pauk si. I watched some kpop videos I burned on a vcd. It has been a long time since the last time I burned them. After I get my computer fixed (again), I'll burn them on dvd as it's a waste of cds when I don't have time to watch them. I must have about 20 or 30 cds all burned with my downloads. I want to share them on divx but my connection is too slow to upload.

Anyway, after I had breakfast, I started cleaning the family room as my father was saying the desk is too messy. I tried my best to tidy up the desk but I couldn't put away my brother's things as he'll be using them again later on. Afterward, I started watching "Take the Lead" movie which I rented from the shop on Saturday. It's a nice movie but I only got to watch a few chapters as my mother called out for me and asked me whether I'm interested in going to Yuzana Plaza or not. I told her I will go so I took a bath quickly, dressed and came down to eat lunch.

We left our home around 2 pm. My mother suggest that I should buy some new shoes just in case I need to go to some ceremonies or occasions like wedding, birthday, etc. I wasn't quite interested in the idea and maybe that's why I couldn't find a single shoe I like. My sister tired of me for being so picky. I was just more interested in buying a present for my friend. I bought a green long waist blouse and I wanted to buy my friend one also but it's short sleeve so she might not want to wear it as she's skinny. I'm skinny too but I don't' mind wearing short sleeves.

It was really tiring walking around the place and I was getting really thirsty. My sister suggested we eat and rest at some place but she went to the 3rd floor in hope of finding Mr. Brown. I told her it's not on the 3rd floor anymore but she didn't listen. We bought the present from the first shop we saw on the 3rd floor. There was a large food court at the center of the place and I wanted to go back downstairs as I couldn't stand the loud music being played but my sister said she's hungry so we sat down. I ordered a cup of ice coffee while she ordered Shan Noodle. I wouldn't recommend eating Shan Noodle at this place as it's just too little for a price of 800 kyats and the ice coffee is also 800 kyats but at least it's not filled with water like at some fast food places. Although I didn't like the food, I like the shop we visited and next time I go shopping, I would go to the 3rd floor first 'cuz the prices aren't that expensive there.

We went home after 5pm and most of the shops were already closed down by then. I finished watching "Take the Lead" after the tv drama has ended airing and it was really a nice movie. I wished we had similar programs like ball room dancing back at our junior high school.

Usual Sunday

2007-09-10T17:24:00.000+06:30

This Sunday, I woke up a bit early than usual but still I didn't start doing anything till past 10 am. The weather was nice, bright and clear, so I did my laundry and I didn't finish washing them all till after 2pm. I'm a slow worker who takes rest pretty often so I'm slow at finishing my tasks. I had my lunch at 1 pm and continue my work while pausing pretty often to talk to my sister or listen to music. After I finish doing laundry, my sister told me to give her my scrunches and other hair accessories as my hair is pretty short to use them now. She was a bit surprised to see my large collection. She even told me to take some photos of them. She said I should her give them to her sooner as she was thinking of buying some of them, mentioning to my flower shaped hair clips. I have been meaning to give them to her for years but I kept forgetting.

After I gave her my stuffs, I cleaned my room and took a bath. I was planning to go to the hair salon by 4pm but my friend arrived so I decided to wait for my sister to finish typing her cv and go to the salon together. When my sister was finished, it started raining so we had to wait for the rain to stop. It didn't look like it'll stop so we decided to go out at 5:30. My sister wanted to eat Rakhine Moat Tee so we went to the shop first. On the way, as I was crossing the street, a blue jeep came out of nowhere and almost run me over. I was a bit shocked at first but I reacted quickly by running back to the street side. Gosh, I always looked both ways before crossing the street but that jeep was driving at full speed and didn't even bother to slow down or stop. I am sick and tired of always watching out for cars who will always drive close to my feet. It should be them who should look out for the passengers. Even when I am walking by the street side, as there are no platforms, I still get honks and yelled by the drivers. Now that I'm going back to UFL, I have to face having to cross Inya Road before reaching the university. I don't know when I will get hit by a car.

Anyway, back to the subject, after we reached the shop, we all had Rakhine Moat Tee and Tofu A Sar Tot which is vegetables, tamarind juice, soy sauce and chili stuffed in the tofu. This shop is the only shop around my area which sells them and it's my sister's favorite. I don't really fancy that shop 'cuz the moat tee doesn't taste that good and the rest of the food are pretty expensive, 300 kyats for a plate of a thote while other places sells them for 150 kyats or 200 kyats. But this is the only shop around the area which opens on Sundays so I have nowhere else to go when I want to eat Rakhine Moat Tee.

Afterward, I went to the salon while my friend and my sisters went to make copies of the cv and certificates. I visited that salon just a week ago but at that time I was in a hurry and I didn't have any pictures with me to show the hairstyle I want. I have the pictures with me this time and I think my hairstyle is now nearly like Eun Chan. Yeah, call me a copycat but I always like seeing Asian actresses with short hairstyles. I was starting to hate my last hairstyle as it was getting out of shape.

I tried to take some photos of myself but I even scare myself 'cuz I look like a skeleton in the photos. I look like I haven't had any sleep for days. My mother has been saying that to me for awhile now but I didn't think I look that bad when I look in the mirror. Maybe the camera is bewitched so I look ugly every time I took a photo :D. Like my sister said, it's just me and I am just not photogenic at all. Which is why I avoid taking photos of myself with digital cameras. They reveal the truth to much :(

My sister is taking some traditional medicines to gain weight. Maybe I should take some also just to get my face look healthy.

Peekaboo Posts Vs Haloscan Comments

2007-09-08T17:45:00.000+06:30

I had been using Haloscan for comments at my Myanmar blog for a long time now but after I changed my template, I forgot to add it back. Since my posts are too long, I decided to use peekaboo script and it's working fine. But the problem is I can't use haloscan anymore. I have tried several times uploading and reuploading at haloscan site but I gave up now. If I used the edited template from haloscan, all of my posts disappear. It only works when I don't have peekaboo script in the template. Since I like the script, I have decided to keep using it. I'm sad that all of my comments on haloscan can't be seen by viewers anymore but there's nothing I can do about it.

UFL Music Show

2007-09-08T12:15:00.000+06:30

Yesterday I went to UFL in the morning to get my certificate and apply for Intermediate 1 but I didn't get my certificate as there was a music show at the university. The professor who was keeping the certificates was watching the show so I would have to wait till the show was over to get my certificate. My classmates came to meet me at the UFL and she said she'll ask her sister to get the certificate for me instead and she'll apply for me instead on Monday. I really wanted to stay and finish watching the concert or at least watch till the Korean major students performed on stage but she insisted that we should leave. I saw a bunch of guys wearing white collar shirts and one of them was holding a sheet of paper. He was standing beside me so I looked at the page and I think I saw the lyrics by 015B. I only got to see the performance by a French major student and watch a bunch of German major students singing in Myanmar which lyrics sounded so crappy. My friend told me that they always held music shows like that at UFL. They sure are pretty lucky to be able to perform the show as it didn't rain yesterday.

I always envy students who get to attend UFL. The university to which I only attended a few days each year for distant education didn't feel like a university at all. I thought about whether I should be taking a diploma course for Korean as I wanted to learn properly but I don't have enough time to do that. My work started at 9 am and I can only be late till 9:15 am. I will have to pay 600 kyats every time I'm late so that means I will have to pay over 10000 kyats just for my lateness. I'm not also a morning person so evening classes work better for me. I used to leave work early around 4:15 pm on Mon, Wed and Fri when I attended UFL but I will be leaving 15 mins later when I started my classes again. One of my classmate won't be joining us for the new class as he's going to Korean to work. He was the only student in class who knew a lot more in Korean than us and he annoyed me at first 'cuz the teachers then assumed that we all should know them well like him but he's nice and friendly. I guess we all got close in Basic 2 as there were lesser students in the class.

The Last Cup of Coffee Prince

2007-09-08T12:05:00.000+06:30

I've finished watching Coffee Prince last night. I downloaded the raw versions cuts from youtube as I couldn't get it anywhere else. Then I had to resync the subtitle every time after watching each videos which were separated when uploaded to youtube.

I felt like there can be no dramas that will replace Coffee Prince even though I know there will be replacements in the future 'cuz I felt the same way after finishing Goong. There are only four dramas which I became obsessed with and wrote about frequently in forums and blogs and those are Full House, Goong, My Girl and Coffee Prince. Coffee Prince is the only drama in which I like each and every characters in the drama. I will miss seeing Han Kyul, Gong Chan, the coffee princes, Han Seung, Yoo Joo, Eun Sae, etc.

In my opinion, the character Han Kyul is too good to be true. When I first watched him, I wasn't that quite attracted to him as he acted like a wang ssagaji (king of jerk) but he grew on me as I continue watching the drama. He almost always look good and stylish except when he was wearing an orange polka dot shirt. I don't think polka dots suit him. The way he loves Eun Chan makes me wonder whether actual people like him exist in the real world. If you know one, let me know then :D

One of my favorite scene is in the last episode when Han Kyul woke up Eun Chan by singing her a song via his phone. Now why can't I have a boyfriend like him? See, I told you. Han Kyul is just too good to be true.

In the last episode, Eun Chan probably put on a wig to express that 2 years have passed now but I am not used to seeing her with longer hair as I was used to seeing her with her boyish hairstyle. She still looks good but her appearance doesn't make me feel that she's Eun Chan anymore. I was seeing her more as Yoon Eun Hye the actress rather than Eun Chan, the tomboy.

This last episode is dedicated mostly to the sweet couple so the rest of the casts appeared less on the episode. Yoo Joo couldn't get any child but the couple is still happy together. Min Yeop is starting to become a model and still dating Eun Sae, Ha Rim is still seeing Byul (I don't think they match each other 'cuz I don't like her attitude) but he's still a playboy also and maybe Sun Ki might start a new relationship with the newcomer at the shop.

All right, I am really feeling like Coffee Prince hasn't ended at all and there are many episodes to look forward. This episode doesn't make feel like the drama ended at all and that's just worse than the other dramas 'cuz I can feel that they have ended. I read that MBC might make a sequel to Coffee Prince but Gong Yoo won't be in it as he's enlisted to join the army this year. I don't know if I should look forward to this or not. Long ago, I also thought that Goong will have a sequel but all I saw was Goong S and there is no sequal at all. Plus, Coffee Prince without Gong Yoo won't be the same at all.

Now I am downloading the Coffee Prince special show from youtube. There wont' be any subs but I can watch the NGs meanwhile waiting for the subs release from WithS2.

Northern Bay of Bengal faces tsunami risk

2007-09-07T12:09:00.000+06:30

PARIS (AFP) — The northern tip of the Bay of Bengal, home to tens of millions of people, faces a potential double whammy from an earthquake and tsunami, a scientist warned on Wednesday.

He says the peril does not appear to be immediate but says there are many unknowns and further work is needed to quantify the risk.

Quake experts today fret about a stress point just east of where the December 26, 2004 temblor occurred near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing some 220,000 people. The risk of another giant event at this spot is high, they fear.

But Phil Cummins of Geoscience Australia says another danger lurks to the north along the coast of Myanmar and Bangladesh, in a so-called subduction zone -- where one part of the Earth's crust is slowly diving under another.

A vicious "locked-thrust" fault, of the kind that unleashes tsunamis, runs parallel to the shore in similar fashion to the Sumatra fault, he believes.

It has been overlooked because the last big quake there was nearly two and a half centuries ago, and the fault lies hidden under seabed sediment up to 20 kilometres (12 miles thick), he contends.

"This is the type of earthquake that could generate a large tsunami which could impact the densely-populated Ganges delta," he said in a phone-in conference with reporters.

"The earthquake itself could cause much damage in Chittagong and perhaps significant damage even in Dhaka and Calcutta [Kolkata]... very large populations are potentially at risk."

On April 2, 1762, a large earthquake hit the Arakan coast of Myanmar, wrenching up parts of the coast and several offshore islands by between three and seven metres (10 and 23 feet).

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this also caused a tsunami.

A family history, recounted to the commander of a British ship that visited the remote area in 1841, described how "the sea washed to and fro several times with great fury, and then retired from ground."

At Dhaka, now the bustling Bangladesh capital, the river rose suddenly and "hundreds of large country boats were driven ashore or lost, and great numbers of lives lost with them."

Cummins, whose paper is published in Thursday's issue of Nature, believes the fault ruptured along 500 kilometers (310 miles), an exploit consistent with an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude.

His computer simulation of the event says the tsunami would have reached a maximum height offshore of 2.5 metres (8.1 feet). Further work, harnessing precise knowledge of the ocean bed topography, is needed to estimate its height once it hit the shore.

In addition, GPS sensors on the ground suggest that the fault is still tectonically active, with movement of around 23mm (0.9 inches) per year, says Cummins.

"It would take an additional 200 years from now for the stress to build up to its pre-1762 levels, but on the other hand, the rupture could occur in smaller earthquakes" whose timing is unknown, he said.

Around 60 million people at the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta live within 10 metres (32.5 feet) of sea level, many in quake-vulnerable homes, says Cummins.

More than a million lives may be at risk from a repeat of a 1762-level event, he says, but admits that this is little more than a guess.

"We need further geodetic measurements to measure possible stress buildup along the coast of Myanmar and Bangladesh and further geological studies in this area to detect traces of the 1762 and earlier earthquakes and tsunamis," he adds.

The study is the second scientific paper in a month to identify high-population zones that have been overlooked as tsunami risks.

Hong Kong and the neighbouring territory of Macau face a roughly 10 percent risk of being hit by a devastating tsunami in the next hundred years, researchers report in the latest issue of a specialist journal, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

The risk comes from a fault on the notorious Manila Trench, according to computer simulations by scientists in China, the United States and Japan.

source: AFP

I heard about this last night from my father and I was a little shock. I think Myanmar journalist will be rushing to see U Htun Lwin from the Meteorological Department for a clearer explanation.

Ladies First

2007-09-06T12:47:00.000+06:30

Whenever I hear the word 'propose', I always imagined a guy proposing to a girl, maybe holding a bunch of flowers in his hand or at a nice restaurant or any place that's romantic. This is the first time I've watched a girl proposing to a guy. That is really sweet and romantic. So who says guys have to do the job all the time huh? :D

I got the idea for this post after reading Ma Red Rose's comments on the drama. I've been meaning to blog more about Coffee Prince but I've been too busy with work. I still have some jobs left to do but I'm taking a break now.

Sunday Window Shopping

2007-09-03T17:39:00.000+06:30

Yesterday I went shopping with my mother and my sister. I was planning to watch Sai Sai's movie at Nawaday but my sister wanted to go shopping and I didn't want to go alone so I went along with them. We went to Ocean Super Market at 9 Mile and it was really a bad choice. I couldn't find any clothing which suited me at all. I wanted to check out some jeans but all I saw those badly dyed denim jeans. It was my sister who wanted to do some shopping and she didn't like anything also.

She wanted to buy a new shoes but she didn't see anything she likes. So we went downstairs and looked around but still didn't find anything we like. The prices there seem more expensive than our local store nearby. So I just bought a can of tuna to eat with crackers and a bag of Super cereal. Then we went to Seasons bakery and bought a cake and some breads. I haven't been to Seasons for a long time now. I wanted to sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee but I didn't like the seating place there. Yankin Center has better seating. I wasn't hungry so I didn't eat anything there but the foods smell so good. That's what I love about Seasons. Whenever I walk into the shop, I love the smell of fresh baked bread.

We went to Hledan afterward and my sister bought a pair of shoes there. It was my mother who found the shoes for her. I couldn't find anything that suited my taste. Maybe it's just me. People look nice wearing those foreign shoes but I don't think they look nice when I see them at the stores. Usually I just wear Myanmar sandals which are easier to wear and matched with my htamian but I will have to buy some shoes to wear sometimes. I will go to Yuzana Plaza with my mother later since I can't pick anything on my own.

As we were about to leave, my sister who was checking out the dvd stall, saw Hereos Season 1 dvd and I asked her to buy for me. I saw other American series like Lost Season 3 (which I have 'lost' interest in long time ago), CSI, 24 Hour, Desperate Housewives and Prison Break Season 2. I already have Prison Break dvds to watch with the computer so I didn't want to buy any. I already bought 2 kdrama dvds (all starring Lee Da Hae) on Friday so I didn't want to buy any new dvds at the moment.

Why Do We Blog Seminar

2007-09-03T12:10:00.001+06:30

"Why Do We Blog" seminar was held on Saturday at Myamar Info-Tech and it was a success. I think more than 500 people attended the seminar (I don't know the exact figure). It rained since morning so we didn't expect so many people would come. I was supposed to arrived at 9am in the morning but I was late since I made a trip to a beauty salon to get my hair straighten out with the iron flattener. I didn't eat breakfast as I thought I could catch a few bites at the canteen before the seminar stars. Boy, was I wrong. I shouldn't have skip breakfast at all. As soon as I arrived at the front desk, I was busy handing out flyers to people. They were surely early to arrive one hour before the seminar stars. The seminar started off at 11am and I went in a few minutes afterward as there weren't many people arriving from the outside. Some other people from Service Plus arrived so they stayed at the desk while we were in the seminar. I had to show people to empty seats and it wasn't an easy task 'cuz people don't sit next to each other, leave one or two seats between each other and the guests wanted to sit next to each other. I guess that is just the habit of Myanmar people.

One of our sponsors was Inforithm Maze who introduced a new social networking website similar to Friendster called "My Suboo". When I first heard the name, I thought it was a Japanese name and I was pronouncing it like "tsu boo". "Suboo" is a Myanmar name which means piggy bank. I will register for an account soon also.

The first part of the seminar ended at noon and I was one of the people who were clapping loudly as I was so glad to finally get a chance to eat. We served coffee and snacks for the guests. I also drank coffee and ate one croissant but I wasn't satisfied at all so I ate some potato chips afterward but I still was hungry. Lunch time passed by so quickly 'cuz I was spending the rest of the times at the front desk, folding up the survey sheets for the lucky draw program.

The second part of the seminar started at 1pm. This time I found myself a seat at the back and started sitting down as my back was starting to hurt for standing so long. When the speakers came up the stage to start speaking, a group of photographers surround the stage (including the bloggers) but I never seen so many people surrounded other speakers as when Ma Melody Maung came up to stage. She sure caught the attention so all the male photographers :). One of the unique feature of this seminar was there was an interview between some of the guests and Ko Soe Zaya. Most of the guests who were interviewed don't know much about blogging at all. There was only blogger among the interviewers.

Before the lucky draw program, there was a session where the bloggers answered the questions asked along with the survey questions. I took a look at some of the questions during lunch and some were funny and some were hard to decide. First Ko Nay Phone Latt answered some of the questions and Ko Nyi Lynn Seck answered some more questions. One of the question he answered was "Does posting at blogs require permission by the press scrutiny board (sar pay sit say yay)?". I never thought we need to do that and the audience laughed with me also. The last questions related to blogging was answered by Ko Saturn God and questions related to MySuboo was answered by Inforithm.

The lucky draw program seemed to took such a long time for me as I was starving and my stomach even started to make noises. I hoped nobody notice me. The prizes included t-shirts, blogging training programs, internet cards at Service Plus and memory sticks. When a person's name was called to come up on stage for winning a t-shirt, two guys with the same name appeared and the other guy is blue shirt looked embarrassed as he wasn't the winner but later he won a 512mb memory stick and there was no mistakes this time. I was glad for him and the audience agreed as they clap loudly for him. A guy sitting next to him won the 1gb memory stick (maybe he's the blue shirt guy's friend?). And finally after the lucky draw program ended, Ma PinkGold announced the end of the seminar and it was over. We took photos and they were posted immediately to why-do-we-blog.blogspot.com. I'm glad that Ko Kyaw Zeya remembered to bring some snacks to eat 'cuz all of the bloggers were hungry. Some of them didn't even eat breakfast so I was in the spot with them. We went to Golden Duck near the Pansodan Jetty for dinner and I arrived at home around 8:45 pm.

When I got home, I discussed a bit about the seminar with my sister and she wasn't happy that her main blogging site xanga was classified as social networking. I told her to just blog about it and she said she'll do that. Then we talked a bit about the advantages of blogging in English and she said only those bloggers who write in English will be notice by the rest of the world who can read in English. That's true. I was too tired so I went to bed afterward.

Coffee Prince

2007-08-30T17:55:00.000+06:30

I've just finished watching Coffee Prince up to episode 15 now. Since they are dating now, there isn't much in the plot but still I can't help smiling and laughing. They are just so cute together. I even started to feel a bit of jealousy in episode 15. It is too much to ask for someone like Han Kyul to exit in the real world? J/K. He's just too perfect and these kind of guys only appear in movies, dramas and books. I have been pretty much spamming my other blog with Coffee Prince related posts. I have been collecting the lyrics for some of the songs from the drama. I will share them pretty soon after I upload the songs on fileden. I want to share songs with Myanmar web surfers and I think fileden will work for them as it's pretty simple to download from.

Aside from Coffee Prince, I haven't really watch any other dramas except 2 episodes of Liar Game but I have stopped watching now to wait for the episode 11 subtitle release. I don't really feel like watching anything else beside Coffee Prince. At work, my winamp playlist is only Coffee Prince Ost and songs featured in the drama. When I get free time to surf the net, I have been surfing sites related to Coffee Prince. This craziness is similar to what I felt when I was obsessed with Goong and I know my Goong obsession didn't die out so soon. The drama has finished airing now but I too felt like other fans who didn't want it to them. When Goong finished airing, I also felt the same depression. I thought no other drama can replace Goong but actually I moved on to other dramas of course. But then it's still my favorite drama after Full House. So I wonder what place is Coffee Prince in my top 10 Kdrama list now. I can't decide whether I like this better than My Girl or not which is my 3rd fav drama.

I will stop with my spamming about Coffee Prince for now but I'll be back with posts related to Coffee Prince later :)

100% (English Version)

2007-08-30T17:48:00.000+06:30

Hook (100% What 100% What all my real Me's ya keep it 100% What I keep it tight on the mic 100%)²

I keep it simple, I keep it fresh, this ain't no game or competition It's a test like examination for me's the fight for the crown. Who like to spit on the mic before they writing it down. I keep it 100% J-me has done it again my hardcore sounds Rock tours cause I got more than 110 people on my back And I'm give you a smack for messing around with Rap, matter of fact I probably kill you on stage with words that's hurt and if it's not enough than I'm slam you in dirt Punk.

(100% What 100% What all my real Mc's ya keep it 100% What I keep it tight on the mic 100%)²

Pay respect to du real MC I'm kept it Hip Hop, so I'm keeping it me and.

So many Emcee's want to mess with us, they will be like Ashes and dust in the garbage truck. CAUSE I bust like the police spit at you in the your street click Clack you with your heat, bitchslap you cause you phony. My lyrical battle hit your stereo faster thant Burgers

I'm keeping it tight splitting rhymes you never heard of I'm not I call shots I on top of

Hop with Rappers gathering like crops and I'm gone get props Forget Popularity I hold the little to pick up the mic in front of ya'll and Battle all my rivals It's the M.H.A

This is really the first I read this lyrics throughly as I was typing them out and they don't make sense at all. Plus there are so some typos that I don't even if they were typed on purpose or not. I like the song but I don't dig the lyric at all. I tried to correct as much as I could but I am not even sure if it's supposed to be 'da real MC' or 'du real MC'. Sometimes the word MC is both in capital letters but sometimes they are not. Whatever, this is still a whole lot better than Sai Sai's English song. There's a Myanmar version of this on the lyric book but the lyrics aren't all the same. The Myanmar lyrics look more catchy.

If anyone wants to share this somewhere else (just in case), pls credit me and my blog as I have to buy the lyric book and typed it myself to post here.

Moe Hay Ko & Search Engine Ranking

2007-08-30T17:35:00.000+06:30

When you search for 'moe hay ko' in Google, my blog ranks no 2. No wonder my blog has been getting many viewers lately. When I browse my account at sitemeter, the only keywords they are using is 'moe hay ko' and 'moe hay ko video' and someone searched for 'nandar hlaing photo' also. I don't know if I should be happy or not lol. My other blog doesn't rank on Google search engine 'cuz I didn't add proper keywords to the meta tag. I'm switching from sitemeter to statcounter for Myanmar blog now. I'll change for this blog later. Now I have to update another blog after finding a lots of hangul lyrics on the net.