Happy New Year Resolution

In 2009, I made the following resolutions:
(1) Free Alcohol in January, February, March and April of 2009.

(2) I will try to be more a doer, rather than a sayer.

(3) I will post some Arakanese pages in this blog.

For the resolution 1, because of one of my mistakes, I had to be free alcohol from January to June (two months longer than original resolution plan).
For the 3rd, I did.
For the 2nd resolution, I do not feel I did enough.

Alright. For 2010, I will have only One Resolution, which is – I will fight Oo Thein Maung of 2009, till I win!

Thank you!

Meanings of the Given Names (X, Y, Z)

Yates = Gate

People often ask me about - what does my name mean. Sometimes, I also ask other peoples if his or her name means something. These are not important but it is good to know about each other in our cultures of mankind. For my friends who want to know, the meanings of (Western) given names:

Men’s Names (X,Y,Z)

Xavier: (Spanish-Arabic) New house; brilliant
Xerxes: (Greek-Persian) King
Yates: (Old English) Gate
Zaccheus: (Hebrew) The righteous one; pure
Zebulun: (Hebrew) Habitation
Zenas: (Greek) Gift of Zeus, the chief Greek god.

Women’s Names (X,Y,Z)

Xenia: (Greek) Hospitable
Yolande: (Latin-French) Violet
Yvette, Yvonne: (Hebrew-French) Gracious gift of God
Zena: (Persian) Woman
Zoe: (Greek) Life

Source: Smith, Elsdon C. “Vocabulary of Given Names.” The World Book Dictionary.1968.

Note: All these pages were copied. Nevertheless, at least, I finished the job from A to Z of meanings of the given (western) names today, exactly on the last day of the year of 2009. Whatever it is, I take personal appreciation from this. Thanks everybody!

After Fall, Spring will be coming!

Today, I finish my official studying for this semester as a college student. In this semester, I take three classes those are Tennis, Introduction to Education, and English Composition (two).

Tennis class was done earlier than the other two. It was great that at least, I could play tennis much better than before.

Introduction to education class was also finished on last Monday. I feel I did well in that class. Our instructor was also very kind and enthusiastic in teaching since she taught in high school and at college as well. I took that class because of my interest in teaching. I was a teacher in Burma. I taught English, Math and History to 6th, 7th and 8th graders. I had a successful history in teaching. Till I was in Thailand, I was receiving more than 50 letters from my students and almost all letters described that my students wanted to come back and teach them. I miss my students and I deeply and honestly wish them to be successful in their lives.

I took English composition class intently in order to improve my English writing. It was also a great class. Our instructor was a teacher and also a writer. Her explanations are always very good and her hand writing is among one of the most beautiful kinds. At least I learned in this class the strategies of writing and evaluating on the sources, and how to research systematically.

Well, life is full with struggling and learning itself, after this semester, there will be many other semesters are waiting for me to give more challenges, different touches and lessons. The most important thing is to be honest by myself and to try my best in any field, any time for any reason.

Special thanks to my instructors / teachers!

I also give my thanks to all my friends and foes. Thanks all!