Thursday, August 27, 2009

Once upon a time in a university in Burma

A friend recommended me this YouTube clip of Prof. Kyaw Thet's excerpt from CBS Edward Murrow's "See It Now" program on "Burma, Buddhism, and Neutrality" and I would like to share it with you again. This short clip tells us so much.

The first line began as follows:

"... Burma was the third nation in the history of the British empire to win its independence. The first two being the American colonies and the Republic of Iraq ... "

Thanks to lynaung who posted it on YouTube.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Early Worm and Early Bird

၂၀၊ ၈၊ ၂၀၀၉

“The early bird catches the worm.”

စကားပံုရွိတယ္ “ေစာေစာထတဲ့ငွက္ဟာ အစာ (ပိုးေကာင္ေလးမ်ား) ရလြယ္ပါတယ္” တဲ့။ ဒါဆိုရင္ ေစာေစာထတဲ့ ပိုးေကာင္ေလးေတြက်ေတာ့ေရာ။ စဥ္းစားစရာပါပဲ။

ဒီေန႔ ေစာေစာထမိတဲ့ ပိုးေကာင္ေလး တစ္ေကာင္အေၾကာင္း ေျပာမလို႔ပါ။

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