Quote of the day

“We stand by the people of Afghanistan today, and we will do so tomorrow!”

Ban Ki-moon
General Secretary of the United Nations

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329543.stm

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Today, I turn 5.

On October 26, 2004, my feet touched American soil that the greatnesses were existed; I breathed American air, which carried freedom and freshness; I drank American water, which had coldness and belief; I ate American food, which supplied power and energy; I read books in an American library those gave new light and new hopes; (in a little park), I laughed with American children who will make great contributions in the world’s community; for the first time. In other words, I was born in America on that day, and today, I have become a five year old boy in the United States. My life has meaningfully begun!

I am really happy here. There are many things I love and like in the United States. The top three things I like the most in the U.S. are:

(1) Freedom: The most valuable abstract noun to posses in a human’s life is FREEDOM. We can do everything whatever we want here as long as it is not an unlawful matter. We can create anything whatever we want. We have freedom to read; freedom to write; freedom to agree and disagree (with any person, any group, (president or government or any authority), any belief, any opinion, any mean); freedom to speech; freedom to travel; freedom to explore; and many others. (I will share with my readers later about freedom of the Buddha.)

(2) Democratic Government: From a school to a village, from a city to congress, from senate to white house, any level of it, we elect our own authority/s by ourselves, here. This means - WE OWN THEM. This is a country that the government is fully elected by the people.

(3) Sources: In the United States, what do you want to do? Just you exactly need to know what you want (to do). We have broadest sources in the world here. What language do you want to speak? Any nationality of any corner of the world is living here. This is the most colorful country in the world. What kind of religious building do you want to go or visit? There are many churches, temples, mosques and many others, here. What kind of books do you want to read? There are enormous libraries in any community of the country, with hundreds of thousands, or millions of books, tapes, videos, DVDs and many other learnable materials, here.

This is America! It is a free land! I am five year old, here now and I believe that as a human being, my life has truly, energetically and meaningfully begun!

God bless America!!!

Happy Birthday Your Honor!

Today is Mohandas K Gandhi's birthday. He was born on October 2, 1869. Died? Never. He will be alive all the time through out mankind's history.

He was one of the greatest human beings in 20th century who made his country and people independence with non-violent movements.

I will say he was also one of the luckiest persons because though he made non-violent movements in 20th century, he did not have to deal with non-violent (and some violent) games in 21st century's world history.

He will be smiling from the heaven.

Happy Birthday Your Honor!

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Chicago is not selected for 2016 Olympics Games: It does not mean we lose Everything!

We are still a Great City!

Congratulations!!

Every bid or every competition has only one of two choices: Win or Lose. We are not selected for 2016 Olympics Games but it does not mean we lost everything. Till we keep our good spirit, we can regain anything back.

As we expected too much from this as well as we are human beings, we may be disappointed from this defeat but not to give up; not to lose our whole future; not to lose our hope. Almost all the top and great winnings in the mankind’s history, based upon several lose.

We are still a beautiful and great city of a powerful country. Do not forget that we were in one of the last four cities for the bid.

Instead of we are feeling the ‘lose and shock,’ we should be satisfied for our standing as one of the biggest and greatest cities in the world; and we should take lessons from this event that Americans need to rethink all about by ourselves and our role Internationally. We cannot expect the other world is just like Americans. We need to rethink in both or inside and outside; reshape our image in the international stage and reconnect in appropriate way with the outside world.

Congratulations for Rio de Janeiro's great win and we will be back!!!

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Meanings of the Given Names (U-V)

Victor = Conqueror

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 (U-V)

Ulric: (Germanic) Wolf, rule
Ulysses: (Latin) The hater
Valentine: (Latin) Valorous, healthy
Vaughn: (Celtic) Little
Vernon: (Old French) Alder grove
Victor: (Latin) Conqueror
Vincent: (Latin) Conquering



Women’s Names (U-V)

Una: (Latin, Celtic) The one; famine
Ursula: (Latin) Little she-bear
Valerie: (Latin) Valorous
Vanessa: (Latin) Butterfly; grace of God
Vera: (Latin, Slavonic) True; faith
Veronica: (Latin) True image
Viola: (Latin) From the violet
Virginia: (Latin) Pertaining to spring
Vivian: (Latin) Animated; alive

Source: Smith, Elsdon C. “Vocabulary of Given Names.” The World Book Dictionary. 1968.
Picture: http://www.steyningmuseum.org.uk/conqueror.jpg

Goodbye Mr. Kennedy

When we lose a good man, a respectful leader or somebody who had been contributing the great things in one place of the world, it is the loss of not only for that place, but also for the whole world, since we all are directly or indirectly connected each other. The loss of Senator Edward Kennedy is that kind. It is not only for Kennedy family, but for all families of the world, not only for Democrats, but also for Republicans, not only for the Americans, but also for all world citizens.

During discussion in one of my classes at the College of DuPage, somebody asked a question that which American leaders are the most famous around the world (outside of the United States)? Most of my classmates thought it was George Washington in the first place. I willingly contributed my answer through out my experiences outside of the US, as – first – Abraham Lincoln, second - George Washihgton, third - John F. Kennedy, and fourth – Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Kennedys are among the heroes in leadership field of late history of the world.

I have been listened to and remember a piece of Teddy Kennedy’s speech that he gave when his brother, Robert Kennedy was assassinated; he said that “Love is not such a facility of popular magazine!” It came from deepest part of heart!

If we borrow a few words from Ronald Reagan, those he said when we lost Challenger crew, that – “Now, Mr. Kennedy is waving goodbye to the people of the United States and people of the world, to touch the face of God!”

Goodbye Mr. Kennedy! We all shall miss you!

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Let Me be Myself

Today, I am listening to the song of "Let me be myself," and the following is my favorite lyrics.

Would you Let Me Be Myself

Coz I'll never find my heart

Behind someone else

I'll never see the light of day

Living in this cell

It's time to make my way

Into the world i knew

And take back all of these times

That I gave in to you

Lately I'm so tired of waiting for you

To say that it's OK, tell me please

Would you one time,

Let Me Be Myself So i can shine,

with my own light Let Me Be Myself,

For a while If you don't mind,

Let Me Be Myself

So i can shine, with my own light

Let Me Be Myself

That's all i ever wanted from this world Was to let me be me..


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ခဲဝါ နန္႔ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္

တခါက ခဲဝါတေကာင္ေရ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္တေကာင္ကို သူ႔အိမ္မွာ ညစာစားဖို႔ ဖိတ္ပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါေရ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ကို ညစာစား ဖိတ္ပင္ ဖိတ္ေကလည္း သူ႔မွာ မရိုးသားေရ အႄကံအစည္တခုဟိပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါေရ စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ကို ကေကာင္းရွည္ႃပီးေက ကၽၪ္းလြန္းေရ ေလာင္းေခၽထဲမွာ ထည့္ပနာ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ကို ေကြၽးပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါကေတာ့ေက ယင္းေလာင္းေခၽထဲကို လွ်ာထိုးလို႔ ဝင္ေရခါ စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ကို ကေကာင္းေသာက္လို႔ ရပါေရလွတ္။ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္မွာေတာ့ေက စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ကို သူ႔ နသြီး အဖၽားေခၽမွာ ရာ မြီႃပီးေက ေသာက္လို႔လည္းမရ၊ ဝမ္းက ဆာဆာနန္႔ တခုလည္းမစားရ၊ မေသာက္ရပဲ အိမ္ႁပန္ဖို႔ ကၽပါေရလွတ္။
ေယခါ ခဲဝါက ကလိမ္ကကၽစ္အႃပံဳးေခၽနန္႔ ကေကာင္းအားနာလားဟန္ကို လုပ္ဗၽာယ္ “အိုး အကို ငွက္ႄကီး၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ ကေကာင္းအားနာလားခပါယာေထာ၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ေရ အကို႔အႄကိဳက္နန္႔ တတည့္မကၽ ထင္ေရ၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ခၽက္စြာႁပဳတ္စြာ ၫံ့လို႔ထင္ပါယင့္” ဆို ဆို ပနာေႁပာပါေရလွတ္။ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ကလည္း “အိုး၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို ညစာစားဖိတ္စြာကိုပင္ ကေကာင္း ေကၽးဇူးတင္ပါယင့္၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို ေတာင္းပန္ဖို႔မလိုပါ၊ အကိုခဲဝါအခၽိန္ပီးႏိုင္ဖို႔ဆိုေက လာဖို႔အပါတ္ထဲမွာ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အိမ္မွာ ညစာ လာစားဖို႔ အကိုခဲဝါကို ႁပန္လို႔ ဖိတ္ပါရစီ” ဆို ဆိုပနာ ေႁပာပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါလည္း ခရုစုတ္ငွက္၏ ဖိတ္ေခၚမႈကို ဝမ္းပမ္းတသာပင္ လက္ခံလိုက္ပါေရလွတ္။
ေနာက္တပါတ္ႂကာေရခါ ခဲဝါေရ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္အိမ္သို႔ ညစာစားဖို႔ ေရာက္လားပါေရလွတ္။ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္မွာ လည္း ခဲဝါထက္မၫံ့ေရ စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္အေကာင္းစားကို ခၽက္ႁပဳတ္ပၽင္ဆင္ထားပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါလည္း စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ ကို အားရပါးရ ေသာက္ဖို႔ပၽင္ေရခါ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ေရ သူ႔စြတ္ႁပဳတ္ရည္ကို အဝကၽၪ္းႃပီးေက လိုင္ဖင္းရွည္ေရ ကေတာင္းထဲမွာ ထည့္ ထည့္ ပနာ ထားပါေရလွတ္။ ေယခါ ခဲဝါေရ ကေတာင္းအဝကို သူ႔ နသြီးသြင္းဖို႔ ႄကိဳးစားလိုက္၊ အဝမွာ ဆို႔နိန္လိုက္ ႁဖစ္ ႁဖစ္ ပနာ အနံ႔ကို ရာ ရ ရ ပနာ တခုလည္းမစားရပဲနန္႔ အိမ္ႁပန္ဖို႔ ကၽပါေရလွတ္။ ခဲဝါေရ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ ကလိမ္ကကၽစ္နန္႔ တသိတမါန္ပၽင္စြာကို သိေကလည္း တခုလည္းမေႁပာႏိုင္ပါလွတ္။ ဇာႁဖစ္လို႔လည္းဆိုေက သူက အယင္ ခရုစုတ္ငွက္ကို ကလိမ္ကၽထားစြာပါကို။
သူမၽားကို လိမ္တတ္၊ ဝါတတ္၊ ကလိမ္ကကၽစ္ ကၽတတ္ေတလူတိေရ သူရို႔ကိုယ္တိုင္ အလိမ္ခံရဖို႔၊ အဝါခံရဖို႔၊ ကလိမ္ကကၽစ္ အကၽခံရဖို႔စြာလည္း ဓမၼတာသေဖါတရားတရပ္ လို႔ ေဒပံုႁပင္ေခၽက ဆိုပါေရ။ သက္ေရာက္မႈ အားလံုးမွာ ယင္းနန္႔ညီမွ်ေရ တန္ႁပန္သက္ေရာက္မႈတိ အႃမဲတမ္းဟိနိန္ကတ္စြာရာမဟုတ္ပါလား။
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Special Link: Salute to 70th Anniversary of the Founding of The People's Republic of China!

ကၽီးကန္းနန္႔ ရီကေတာင္း

တခါက ကေကာင္းရီေသာက္ငတ္နိန္ေရ ကၽီးကန္းတေကာင္ေရ ရီကေတာင္းတခုကို တြိပါေရလွတ္။ ရီကေတာင္းထဲမွာ ရီ အလတ္ေလာက္လာဟိႃပီးေက ကၽီးကန္းေရ ရီကို လွမ္းမမွီႏိုင္ႁဖစ္နိန္ပါေရလွတ္။ ကေတာင္းကို ေမာ့ေသာက္ဖို႔ႄကိဳးစားေရခါလည္း ကေတာင္းက သူ႔ထက္ႄကီးနိန္ေရခါ ႁမွင့္လို႔ေတာင္မႁမင့္ႁဖစ္နိန္ပါေရလွတ္။
ကၽီးကန္းလည္း ဇာလုပ္လို႔ဇာကိုင္ရေမမွန္းမသိပဲႁဖစ္နိန္တုန္းမွာ သူ႔ရွိနားက ေကၽာက္စရစ္ခဲေခၽတိကို လားလို႔ ႁမင္ပါေရလွတ္။ ကၽီးကန္းလည္း အႄကံရစြာနန္႔ ေကၽာက္စရစ္ခဲေခၽတခဲကို ကေတာင္းထဲသို႔ ထည့္လိုက္ ပါေရလွတ္။ ေယခါ ကေတာင္းထဲက ရီလည္း တဖဲ့ေခၽ ႁမင့္တက္ပါလတ္ပါေရလွတ္။ ကၽီးကန္းလည္း ေကၽာက္ခဲ ေနာက္တခဲ ထည့္လိုက္ပါေရလွတ္။ ကေတာင္းထဲက ရီလည္း ေနာက္ထပ္တဖဲ့ေခၽႁမင့္တက္ပါလတ္ပါေရ လွတ္။ ယင္းပိုင္နန္႔ပင္ ယင္းအနားမွာဟိေရ ေကၽာက္စရစ္ခဲတိကို ရာ နန္႔ခၽီပနာ ကေတာင္းထဲသို႔ထည့္ပလိုက္ႃပီးေရ အခၽိန္မွာ ကေတာင္းထဲကရီစြာလည္း ကေတာင္းဝ သို႔ ေရာက္ေအာင္ႁမင့္တက္ပါလတ္ပါေရလွတ္။ ကၽီးကန္းလည္း ေယခါမွရာ အရသာဟိေရ ရီအီးအီးကို အားရဗရ တဝႄကီး ေသာက္ခၽ ပလိုက္ပါေရလွတ္။
‘ကိုယ့္ဖက္က အင္အားခၽိနဲ႔ေရအေႁခအေနတရပ္ထဲမွာ စိတ္ရွည္သီးခံမႈ၊ ရည္မွန္းခၽက္ကို အေပၽာက္မခံပဲ ဇြဲ နပဲ သန္သန္ တတိတိႄကိဳးစားမႈ နန္႔ ၪာဏ္ရည္လႊာသံုးတတ္မႈတိက ေအာင္ပြဲကို ရရွိစီေႂကာင္း’ ေဒကၽီးကန္းေခၽက သင္ခန္းစာ ပီးနိန္ပါယင့္။

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Meanings of the Given Names (T)

Theodoric: (Germanic) People, rule

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 (T)Terrence: (Latin) Soft or tender
Theodore: (Greek) Gift of God
Theodoric: (Germanic) People, rule
Thomas: (Aramaic) A twin
Timothy: (Greek) Honoring God
Titus: (Latin) Safe

Women’s Names (T)Teresa, Theresa: (Greek) The harvester
Thelma: (Greek) Nursing

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