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  • I Have Voted

    Damn.. I'm abit embarrassed. I said something wrong in my last post.There IS a voting booth afterall. I went to vote today. It was set up in a school near our house (I attended Kindergarten in that school). Wish I could …

  • No Title

    Well, tomorrow is the voting day for referendum: To check or Not to check (Well, you have to make a cross if you don't agree) for accepting the constitution. The rest of the country had already voted, and got 92.4% perce…

  • My Experience with Nargis

    There had already been warnings of the cyclone Nargis lurking around the coast since the end of April, but I had thought that it won't come our way because in my life time, a cyclone had never reached us in Yangon. Previ…

  • Suicide Bomber?

    Well, I just got back from outside, and a friend of mine over G-Talk sent me a link.. a link to a news site, saying "There was a bomb blast in Naypyidaw." I was quite shocked, and hurriedly read the news on the news site…

  • Happy Tazaungdine!

    This Saturday, November 22, is the Full Moon Day of Tazaungmone. Another Light Year Festival again, and this light festival is called "Ta-zaung-dine". Like I said in my previous post about Thadingyut, many of our holiday…

  • Are you coming or going? I Can Barely Decide

    Electricity has been once again going on and off again. But it's not as bad as last year. Last year, about this time, we were receiving electricity by ration. Now, it'll go off in the morning, or in the afternoon, but it…

  • 12 Months of Myanmar and Tha-din-gyut

    Myanmar has 12 different monthly cycle, signified by waxing and waning of the moon. A calendar in Myanmar displays both the English months, and Myanmar months. Each month has 29 days and 30 days alternatively. A month en…

  • The Dark Hours

    I didn't get a chance to blog yesterday, since the internet connection was so slow and I was paranoid enough not to keep trying with all of the stuff happening.-+-+-+-Yesterday morning, I came to work as usual. There was…

  • An Update

    Sorry, but I've been abit busy at work lately. Though I wanted to go out yesterday and look around, I couldn't because I had a meeting. When I finally went to look around, there was nothing anymore.A lot of rumors are fl…

  • Marching Monks

    20th Sep.I just saw with my own two eyes that more than 500 monks (I estimate them to be about 700) have just marched on Bo Gyoke Aung Sand Road, in front of Scott (or Bo Gyoke Aung San) Market. There were other people f…

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