Happy New Year Resolution

This is January 9, 2012. I think it is still not that late to say my New Year resolution.

This year, I will read nine books in any language. Three of them must be in English.

I’ll also try to share in my blog about my opinion and accomplishments for these readings.

Writing? I’ll be keep publishing my monthly newsletters but arrangement in twelve pages per issue, not twenty pages as I have to write more pages for other reasons.

Thanks!

Happy New Year 2012!

Arakan ; Let's Go Forward!

This is December 31st of 2011. Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven years ago on this day, the great country of Arakan was brutally annexed by Burmese army.
Since then, we were oppressed, humiliated and systematically discriminated by Burmese authorities generation by generation.

According to news-reports, though we have great coasts, river-routes, off-shore gas products, which makes billions of dollars each year, and many other products, the Arakan is now the second poorest region of Burma. We are one of the poorest, the most illiterate and the most undeveloped societies in the world, under Burman-colonization.

Now, we, new Arakanese generation no longer can tolerate this worst condition of Arakan. We have to recreate our own destiny, our future and our fatherland.

The followings are great pictures of demonstration of our great brothers that located in front of the building of United Nation in New York. This is the second straight year of demonstration of our heroic and responsive Arakanese brothers as they truly love Arakanland.

We, Arakanese respect the rights of all other nationalities of our human families of the world. As members of world family, we also wish our rights, freedom, independence and self-determination to be recognized.
Great causes in humanity often occurred when one group of human beings are ruled and oppressed forcefully by the other group.

With great respect of the other nations of the world, Arakan once a great country in Asia also should be recognized its statehood sooner, rather than later!!!

Free Arakan!

Happy New Year 2012!

Rechecking New Year Resolution 2011

My Happy New Year resolution for the year of 2011 will be to read or write or do something about the Buddha’s teaching as my personal favorite subject; something about / for Arakan as my native land; and something about the United States / the World as a citizen, each week. The action will be one of reading something about those subjects, writing something about those matters, or commenting or sharing or posting something as web-page/s.

(The above is my new year resolution of 2011.)

As this is the final day of 2011, I am rechecking my happy New Year resolution that I made in January if the resolution has been being met or not. It did meet.
I have been publishing “The Arakan International” monthly in Arakanese. I did read the Buddha’s teachings as much as I could. I published “Questions and Answers of New U.S. Naturalization Test” in translated version from English to Burmese. It sold out at least 800 copies.

Since then, I have been doing something about Arakan, the United States, the World and the Buddha’s teaching.

Moreover, I did not absolutely drink six months (from July 1st to December 31st) as I made self-promise by June, 2011. So, it really makes me happy today.

Good-bye 2011!

Let’s move forward into happy new year 2012 with new energy, new experiences, new challenges and new achievements, of course!

Hopefully, this is not a PLOT!

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/271735/burma-to-take-its-refugees-back-from-bangladesh

The above is a piece of news in Bangkokpost.com by December 21, 2011.

Hopefully, this is not a systematic and strategic PLOT by Burmese military and ........$#&*!~@:

- to create conflict between Arakanese and Kulas

- to destroy the Buddhist temples in Arakan.

!!!!

Happy Birthday Your Majesty!

Cooperation is needed to quickly solve the problem!

(from the speech of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the king of Thailand)

Happy Birthday and Long Live Your Majesty!

Source: Bangkokpost

Picture: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/8935107/Thai-king-leaves-hospital-to-deliver-84th-birthday-speech.html

The Arakan International (Oct 2011)

In order to read, please click the following link;

http://rakhitta2010.books.officelive.com/Documents/AI%20101h.pdf

Thanks!

Top and Bottom

I am a sport fan. I really enjoy to watch most games of sports, especially soccer, American football, basketball, hokey, tennis etc..

As a fan, I also check the standing tables of teams and clubs of certain sports. For example, I look around the standings of clubs in premier league, UEFA and world cup, etc. I also notice by myself that I look at the top teams any time when I check out. Sometimes, I look at teams in bottom of the table/s too.

When my friends who interested in certain sports and I have conversation, most of them also know those teams of tops and bottoms in standing tables.

This shows that we usually look at or interested in the most successful tops. And for some reasons, we look at the poorest / s; may be because of interested in or curiosity; may be with sympathy and empathy; may be to laugh at.

In other words, I think that we often forget or less interested in the middles than the tops and bottoms.

Sleeping-Mines

Once, one of my friends who was in Cambodia during war-time said that there were many mines in the region where he lived in.

It was unbelievable that about a half of them were Sleeping-Mines. You may confuse about the name ‘Sleeping-Mines.’ How?

Any group of any armed-force used dozens of mines as guard surrounding any place they choose to sleep every night in order to be safe. And yet, in the morning when they moved to another place, they even not take a look to those Sleeping-Mines. They just simply left them. Since the war was on, and those armed-groups were running around and taking rest in several numerous locations, you can imagine how many mines could be around.

Through out this example, we can see there are many mines in economical, political and many other fields in the world nowadays since some are setting those Sleeping-Mines in order to take a soundly-sleep by themselves.

As a result, millions of people have been becoming victims of ignored-Sleeping-Mines.

Happy Seventh Aniversary!

My first day in the United States was October 26, 2004.

So, today is my Happy Seventh Aniversary in the United States - so called freeland!

After seven years later, I  -

become an American citizen.

finish an associate degree.

have three children.

publish monthly newsletters and a booklet.

can speak, read and write English a little bit better than when I came here.

sent a few hundred of US dollars to my poor parents.

own some books, especially stories and encyclopedias.

have a blog that I post whatever I want to and whenever I wish to.

have some friends in persons and many online friends as well.

am seven years older than before, which means seven years closer to die.

feel we have somewhat freedom here though it is not really free.

hope brighter and better future though there are many powerful and dirty hinders.

Happy Seventh Aniversary!

The Arakan International (Sep 2011)

Read:
http://rakhitta2010.books.officelive.com/Documents/AI%20Sep11.pdf