Happy Birthday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi!

Happy Birthday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi!

You are one of the greatest spiritual leaders, not just in Burma, but also in the world.

While many other Burmese leaders (who recognized by themselves) are forgotten and ignored, you will be remembered, respected and loved by Burmese people, even by the people of the world – decades, centuries. Even today, we should ask a question that how many birthdays of Burmese leaders are recognized, not only among Burmese, but internationally?

Whatever (whether good or evil) we think, do, act and wish today, will come back to us by ten times, tomorrow or sooner or later. Till you have true faith, love and respect for the people, you will be loved and respected by the people!

Like Daw Su, we all should stand for our belief (by Heart, not by Head)!

Happy Birthday Daw Aung San Suu Kyi!

Picture: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41692000/jpg/_41692740_child_ap.jpg
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/developing-world-stories/css/aung%20san%20suu%20kyi%20addressing%20supporters%20before%20her%20house%20arrest.jpg
http://burmalibrary.org/docs/ASSK+TS.jpg
http://www.phaseloop.com/foreignprisoners/img-prisoners/daw_aung_san_suu_kyi.gif
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/images/PAR113195.jpg

First + Third Generations

I took this video in February, 2009.

On that day, Grandpa Hill, Izana Hill and Mahla Hill built together this perfect train and track.

Pre-Happy Fathers' Day!

ထင္းစည္း

တခါက လူ တေယာက္မွာ အႃမဲတမ္း အခၽင္းခၽင္း ရန္ႁဖစ္နိန္တတ္ေတ သားတိ ဟိပါေရလွတ္။ တရက္နိခါ အဖ သည္ေရ သားတိကို ေခၚေခၚပနာ ထင္းေခၽာင္းတိကို ပူးခၽိဳင္ထားေရ ထင္းစည္း တ စည္း ကို ခၽိဳးဖို႔ ခိုင္းပါေရ လွတ္။ သားတိလည္း တေယာက္ႃပီးတေယာက္ ယင္းထင္းစည္းကို ခၽိဳးဖို႔ နည္းမၽိဳးစံုနန္႔ႄကိဳးစားကတ္ေကလည္း တေယာက္လည္း ယင္းထင္းစည္းကို မခၽိဳးႏိုင္ကတ္ပါလွတ္။ တခါ အဖသည္က ထင္းစည္းကို ႃဖီႃဖီပနာ ထင္းတေခၽာင္းခၽင္းစီကို သားတိကိုခၽိဳးခိုင္းပါေရလွတ္။ ေယခါ သားတိေရ ယင္းထင္းေခၽာင္းတိကို တေခၽာင္းႃပီးတေခၽာင္း အလြယ္ေခၽပင္ ခၽိဳးပလိုက္ကတ္ပါေရလွတ္။
ေယခါ အဖသည္က “ေအး ငါ့သားရို႔၊ ယင္းမွာႂကည့္ေယ။ မင္းရို႔တိအားလံုး စည္းစည္းလံုးလံုးနန္႔ နိန္ကတ္ေတခါ တေယာက္ကလည္း တခုပိုင္လည္း မင္းရို႔တိကို ဖၽက္ဆီးလို႔မရ၊ အခၽင္းခၽင္းမသင့္ပဲ တကြဲတႁပားစီ ႁဖစ္နိန္ေရခါ တႁခားလူတိက အလြယ္ေခၽပင္ ခၽိဳးပလိုက္လို႔၊ ဖၽက္ဆီးပလိုက္လို႔ ရေရ ဆိုစြာကို ယင္းထင္းေခၽာင္းတိ နန္႔ ယင္းထင္းစည္းကိုရာ ႂကည့္ဖိေယ” ဆိုႃပီးေက သားတိကို ေႁပာလိုက္ပါေရလွတ္။
ဇာပိုင္လူမၽိဳး၊ ဇာပိုင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတိ၊ ဇာပိုင္အေႁခအေနမွာမဆို ‘စည္းလံုးမႈေရ အႃမဲတမ္း ခြန္အား’ ကို ႁဖစ္စီေရ လို႔ ဆိုပါေရ။

Source: Aesop’s Fables (retold by Ann McGovern)
Picture: http://www.homeeducationday.org/Aesop%20Fable_files/image002.jpg

စပၽစ္သီးတိ ခၽၪ္ေရဗင္

တရက္နိခါ ဝမ္းဆာနီေရ ခဲဝါတေကာင္ေရ စပၽစ္ႃခံ တႃခံထဲသို႔ ဝင္ပါလတ္ေတ လွတ္။ ေယခါ အပင္အႁမင့္တေနရာမွာ စပၽစ္သီးမွည့္တိကို ယင္းခဲဝါတြိရပါေရလွတ္။ ယင္းစပၽစ္သီးတိေရ အေရာင္က လည္းလွ၊ အရည္ရရြမ္းနန္႔ ကေကာင္းစားေကာင္းဖို႔ ပံုလည္း ေပၚနိန္ပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါလည္း ဝမ္းဆာဆာနန္႔ သူနန္႔အပါးဆံုး စပၽစ္သီးခိုင္ကို ခုန္ပနာ လွမ္းပါေရလွတ္။ ေယေကလည္း စပၽစ္သီးတိက အင္တန္အႁမင့္မွာေရာက္နိန္ေရခါ ခဲဝါ ခုန္လွမ္းလို႔မမွီႏိုင္ႁဖစ္နိန္ပါေရလွတ္။
တေခါက္ႃပီးတေခါက္၊ အႄကိမ္ႄကိမ္သူခုန္ေကလည္း စပၽစ္သီးခိုင္ကို မမွီႏိုင္ႁဖစ္နိန္ေရ လွတ္။ ေနာက္ဆံုးမွာ ယင္းစပၽစ္သီးတိကို လွ်ာရည္တကၽကၽနန္႔ႂကည့္ ႂကည့္ပနာ ဝမ္းက ဆာဆာ၊ စိတ္ပၽက္လက္ပၽက္နန္႔ စပၽစ္ႃခံထဲကနိန္ ခဲဝါႁပန္ထြက္လားခပါေရလွတ္။ အထြက္မွာ ခဲဝါပါးစပ္က ဇာတိေႁပာလားခ ေရထင္ေရာင္။ “ေဒစပၽစ္သီးတိ ခၽၪ္လိုက္ေတ ဗင္က” လို႔ ေႁပာလားခ ပါေရလွတ္။
ေဒ ပံုႁပင္ေခၽက ဇာကိုေႁပာလားေရလဲဆိုေက “လူတခၽိဳ႔ေရ ကိုယ္ မရ ႏိုင္မွန္း၊ ကိုယ္နန္႔မႁဖစ္ႏိုင္မွန္း ေသခၽာစြာနန္႔ ယင္းခၽင့္ကို မေကာင္းေႁပာပလိုက္ဖို႔၊ မေကာင္းလုပ္ပ လိုက္ဖို႔ အဆင္သင့္ႁဖစ္နိန္တတ္ပါေရလွတ္”။

Source: Aesop’s Fables (retold by Ann McGovern)
Picture: http://www.litscape.com/images/Aesop/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes.jpg

Note: In the begining of this year, I had a few 'happy new year resolutions' and one of them was - I will post some Arakanese pages in this blog.

To fulfill that resolution, I post these pages. Thanks!

Mom’s first lesson and Happy Mother’s Day

First of all, I love you very much, Mom.

Mom was my first teacher, first mentor and first visionary.

In this world, the very first thing that I learned from mom was “A Smile,” mom’s smile, which was the sweetest and the most beautiful.

Lately, I had chance to know that ‘smile’ was a behavior, which can be made only by human beings among all creations in this world. This means – Mom was teaching me to become a human being, since I was born as her first, the most artful and the most meaningful lesson to her little child.

Now, I am almost 40 years old, mom. What I found by myself, is – I am still struggling to fully understand your first lesson, but I will still be trying to finish that first lesson.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!

I love you!

Picture: http://interfacematters.com/images/mother.gif

These Beautiful Pictures Were Taken by Pa Pa.

I VOTED!!!

Kai Salute You.

Peek-a-boo!!!

Hi, I'm KaiSein.

You get my attention, and....

I salute you.

Thanks!!!

My Grandpa’s Crabs

When I was young, my father was a General Secretary of village-track of four villages. My grandpa was a member of Board of Trustees of our village.

My father had meetings very often and my grandpa had meeting usually once per month or sometimes, twice per month. Though my grandpa had less meetings than my father, grandpa often had problem with people in the meetings because of his short-tempered and intolerant speaking outs, if he believed in something was true / right.

Any way, I remember that once, my grandpa came back home from a meeting and he was very angry and told me that “There were Crabs in the meeting.”
I asked my grandpa, “What did you mean by that?”
He said that there were two kinds of people like crabs:

The first kind; Siders
He said that crabs naturally could not go forward or backward, but side to side, which meant they were not leaders, at the same time, not followers. So what? They are just - Crabs!

The second kind; Dropping Down each other
My grandpa explained that you put the crabs into a little tall pot. You did not need to cover the pot, not because of the crabs could not climb up to the top of the pot, but because of (whoever was going to the high place,) they pulled down each other. They could not go outside. They could be pulling down each other enough. So what? They are just - Crabs!


Picture: http://martinscrabs.com/martinscrabs/Images/Live%20Blue%20Crabs.jpg

Meanings of the Given Names (R)

Roosevelt = Rose Field

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 (R)

Radford: (Old English) Red ford
Ralph: (Germanic) Counsel, wolf
Ramsey: (Old English) Ram’s isle
Randal, Randolph: (Germanic) shield, wolf
Raphael: (Hebrew) Healed by God
Raymond: (Germanic) Counsel, protection
Reginald: (Germanic) Might, power
Reuben: (Hebrew) Behold a son; substitute
Rex: (Latin) King
Richard: (Germanic) Rule, hard
Robert, Robin: (Germanic) Fame, bright
Roderick: (Germanic) Rule, rule
Rodney: (Old English) Road, servant
Roger: (Germanic) Fame, wolf
Roland: (Germanic – Scottish) Might, power
Roosevelt: (Dutch) Rose field
Roscoe: (Old English) Rose, wood
Ross: (Germanic) Horse; promontory
Roy: (Celtic-Old French) Red; king
Rudolph: (Germanic) Fame, wolf
Rufus: (Latin) Red-haired
Russell: (Old French) Little red; red head

Women’s Names (R)

Rachel: (Hebrew) Ewe
Rebecca: (Hebrew) Cow; snare
Regina: (Latin) Queen
Rhea: (Greek) From Rhea, the goddess of fertility
Rhoda: (Greek) Rose
Rita, Reta: (Greek) Pearl
Roberta: (Germanic) Fame, bright
Rosa, Rose, Rosalie: (Latin) A rose
Rosamond: (Germanic) Horse, protection
Rosemary: (Latin) From the shrub rosemary; dew of the sea
Ruby: (Latin) From the gem ruby; red
Ruth: (Hebrew-Germanic) Friend, beauty; fame

Picture: http://image59.webshots.com/59/1/30/47/2627130470071661067NYYRpD_ph.jpg

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

Meanings of the Given Names (Q)

Quentin = Fifth

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 (Q)

Quentin: (Latin) The fifth
Quincy: (Old French-Latin) Quintus’ estate

Women’s Names (Q)

Queenie: (Old English) Wife of a king
Quintina: (Latin) The fifth born


Picture: https://www.lapuliabookofshadows.com/merchantmanager/images/uploads/Fifth%20Element.jpg

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