I'm a very honest person. I say what's in my mind, I do what's in my mind, I act out the things I want to do. I'm the action person - I don't like to do just talk. If I can't do any actions, I won't even bother talking like I'm going to do something about it.
I hate playing games... I hate beating around the bush. I like to say what's on my mind directly. If I cannot say so directly, I won't even say so.. Games, lies, they're tiring. I don't know how to play games.. I don't know how to flirt. If I like someone, I'll tell him directly I like him. I don't know how to ei-si-ka-li or pretend like I have no feelings for him. I thrive on open communications.
I don't like it when he keep secrets from me, cos I don't keep any secrets from him. I don't like it when he lies to me, cos I don't lie to him. Why can't he understand my feelings? Always impatient and treats me like I am a freebie. Yes, I was a freebie for him, cos he got me so easily.. I fell for him so easily.. He doesn't even have to try hard. So no wonder he does not value me.
When I tell my friends about this, they tell me, "Play up to his level. Don't be too "a shawt pay" and things like that. They say, "You're hopeless. You don't know about relationships." Yes. I don't know about relationships because I've never had one before. Yes, I don't know how to play things into my hand because I feel that it is like deceiving. I have pride. Yes I have pride. But I have no pride towards him, but sometimes, I feel like I'm putting down my pride too much for him. And that troubles my mind alot.
Well, I've arrived back to Yangon yesterday. I've been in Jakarta for almost a month, can't believe it... Even though I was staying in the hotel, with full luxury that I don't have in Yangon (room service!!), I was missing Yangon and my family, and was glad to be back home again.
The night before yesterday, I stayed up until 3:00 AM, using the internet, and I woke up late! I only woke up when my co-worker called me, and said, "Hey, are you ready to leave?" I had to prepare extra quick - I only had 15 minutes left! It's a good thing that I've packed my stuff that night! I didn't have time to take a shower, so I just washed my face, and brushed my teeth. I didn't even have time to eat breakfast. The plane was leaving only at 9:10am, but we were preparing to check out of the hotel and go there early (6:30am) just in case there's traffic. It turned out that the roads were really clear, and there was no traffic at all.
When we got to the airport, I repacked one of my duffel bag with plastic, since I recently bought that bag, and it didn't have any locks, so I didn't want to lose anything from there. I've bought a lot of stuff, and it didn't fit in my suitcase anymore, so I had to separate things into that bag. The plane we were going to take from Indonesia to Singapore is Singapore Airlines. We got the middle row.
When we got to Changi, we had 2 hours, so I spent time at the free internet computers, and chatted with a few people online. I also saw a friend of mine who were also going back to Yangon from Singapore. This time, finally, I got the window seat! So I spent most of the time, looking out the window, taking photos of the clouds. It's a bad thing that I got the side where the wing was, so the wing was in the view. I think I fell asleep for awhile too, hugging Leo, my stuffed lion that I bought at Taman Safari. (It didn't fit anywhere anymore, so I just carried in my hand, Chit Thu Wai style :P)
When we got back to Yangon, my mom, my father, and my sis, and my co-workers from the company were waiting for us. My family took my bags, and went home, while me and my co-workers went to YKKO to eat Kyay-oh.. Actually, I only ate "Phat Htote Soup" since I was not feeling that hungry. I just wanted to eat the soup!
My parents were happy with the stuff I bought. They didn't scold me for spending all the money I had there. :P Wheww! But they didn't like the batik I bought for my mom and my cousin.. Oh well, I've already told them that I am a lost cause at choosing batik... :P I don't like batik so I never bother to buy it for myself. I bought some make-up for my sister, and for myself too. And also t-shirts for me, my sis and my brother. I also bought some blouses for my friends Su Yin Mon and Khine Yu Wai, and also some stuff for my co-workers who were left in Yangon.
Today, I spent some time cleaning the house, (ok.. ok.. I only dusted a few places and went to take a nap :P). In the evening, I went to Su Yin Mon's house, and then went to eat Rakhine Moat-te at Min Lan. Wooh.. I've missed the taste of Rakhine Moat-te... :D
Tomorrow, I'll be going back to work again... Argh, will have to take a bus again.. Oh the humanity! When I was in Jakarta, I was picked up at the hotel every morning, and was sent home every evening by a driver. Oh well, back to normal routines.
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I feel like I'm missing someone.. :) Though it had only been recently that I've gotten to know him more, I feel like I've known him for a long time. I want to thank him for making me feel special again. I miss the late night chats...
I don't know if this is just over-friendliness, or something more, I'm not sure. But I've learned from my past mistakes to be realistic, so I'll try to be realistic about all of this.
ဘာမဆို ကိုယ္လုပ္ႏိုင္တယ္ လို႕ပဲ ကုိယ့္စိတ္ထဲမွာ ရွိတယ္။ ကိစၥတစ္ခုခု ျဖစ္ခ်င္ၿပီဆုိ ကၽြန္မေတာ့ ေရွ႕မၾကည့္၊ ေနာက္မၾကည့္ လုပ္လိုက္တာပဲ... ကၽြန္မရဲ႕ ခံယူခ်က္ တစ္ခုက Everything is possible.. It's just depends on whether you want to do it. ကိုယ္က အမွန္တစ္ကယ္ စိတ္ပါရင္ ဘယ္အရာမဆို ျဖစ္ႏိုင္တယ္လို႕ ယံုၾကည္မိပါတယ္။
Wheww! Finally managed to install Myanmar unicode in the laptop I'm currently using, which can view and write in Burmese in Multiply... Yeeha!
Note to self: Zawgyi Blogger Day Layout is the one that worked, uninstall other unicode softwares u've installed, download and run Zawgyi Myanmar uninstall program, go and remove Zawgyi-One font in font folder - end of memo.
Well, it turned out that I'll be staying in Jakarta until the beginning of March. I'll be missing Valentine's Day in Myanmar... oh no! Who'll accept all those flowers that will be send to me? Poor flowers - they'll be all dry by the time I've come back.... >_<
NOT!!!!! I've never received any flowers (not even a grass flower) on Valentine's Day... How sad... woe is me... Oh pity me... *whines* *whines* *whines* ^_*
I've visted some places. I've gone to Taman Mini, which is sorta like an Indonesian national village, with life-sized houses from all the islands and different culture of Indonesia. I've gone to Bandung, a city that is 180 km (112) miles from Jakarta, and 768 meters (2520 feet) above sea level. It's like the Kalaw hill station of Indonesia, and the weather is very very cool there. I went to visit a volcano there called Tangkuban Perahu, which is still active. It was so smelly (like rotten eggs - sulphur) there.
This Thursday and Friday are holidays due to Chinese New Year, and I'm planning to go to an amusement park in Jakarta.
I've been staying at an residence apartment, and I've been cooking my own dinners. Indonesian food is not too different from Burmese, and it's abit rich, and only after eating some, I feel full and don't want to eat anymore. Though I said I've been cooking, don't think too high of my cooking skills - I've just been cooking sardines and omelets. When I told "him" about it, he said, "Oh dear.." lolz... He told me some recipes to cook... Yeah, he's so good friend, huh? ;)
Currently I don't have internet at the hotel.. Can only use internet at work, but I've been busy so I've not had much time to update. I'll probably been updating just in Videos section. :P
Friendster Horoscope for January 24, 2008 Taurus (Apr 20 - May 20)
The Bottom Line One of the attachments in your life could be making you sick! Cut someone loose.
In Detail Just like email attachments often contain viruses that make your computer sick, some of the attachments in your life could be making you sick! So today, let go of one of the vices or people in your life that is keeping you in less than optimal health. Upon closer inspection, your diet isn't as great as it could be. And that person you have been avoiding (orrr.. that person who have been avoiding you) might need to be finally be cut loose once and for all. You don't need the extra strain on your mental hard drive.
I can't believe it! Heath Ledger is dead! I feel so distraught.... :(
Who's Heath Ledger? Well, he's that gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountains". He's that teenage high-school guy, who was rumored to eat livers, speaking with an accent in "Ten Things I Hate About You". He's the guy who plays as a knight in "A Knight's Tale".
It is said that he died of a possible drug overdose, involving sleeping pills. He was only 28 years old... Too young to die. :( He was one of my favorite actors, ever since I saw Ten Things I Hate About You... I watched it again and again.
(Note: Written half in Burmese, and you have to have Zawgyi-One font to be able to read. You can download the font here.)
Last December, an album called, "Top Ten" was released. The songs in there aren't exactly Top Ten, but they were pretty famous around. In the album was a song called, "Chit Thu" (Lover) sung by L Loon War, who is a male singer.
L Loon War's version of Chit Thu is quite good. He has a great vocal, and the song matches his voice. But while listening to that song, I wanted to listen to Phyu's version again, so I've been digging through my old albums, and has been listening to that album again.
The song "Chit Thu" was originally sung by the male singer, Myo Kyawt Myaing. He also composed that song. But I first heard the song when the female singer, Phyu, sang it back in her first album, which had no title: it was just "Phyu". That album was mostly own-tuned (I'm guessing that 2 sorta-techno songs in the album are not own-tuned). The whole album was quite good. Phyu's voice is not that great, but I can stand it. It's just that her voice is abit dead-toned, but I can completely relate to her problem of cos I am dead-toned like her too, but had wanted to be a singer so badly... hehe
There are 10 songs in the album, and out of all 10 songs, I like about 7 songs, and I just love love 4 songs in there. The track-list is: (& pls forgive my bad translations)
1. Kabar Myay A Sone Hti - ကမာၻေျမအဆံုးအထိ (Until The End of the World) **** 2. A Myat Noe Sone - အျမတ္ႏိုးဆံုး (Most Beloved) **** 3. Kyay Nat Tot - ေက်နပ္ေတာ့ (Be Satisfied) * 4. Nay Par Nee Nee Lay - ေနပါနီးနီးေလး(Please Be Near Me) ** 5. A Myint Gyi Pyan Tae A Khar - အျမင့္ႀကီး ပ်ံတဲ့အခါ (When Flying High) *** 6. A Chit Kyaunt - အခ်စ္ေၾကာင့္ (Because of Love) *** 7. A Yar Yar Htet Po - အရာရာထက္ပို (More Than Everything) *** 8. Min Nae Way Dot - မင္းနဲ႕ေ၀းေတာ့ (When [We're] Apart) **** 9. Khaing Myel Par Chit Thu Yel - ခိုင္ၿမဲပါ ခ်စ္သူရယ္(Please Be Faithful, My Love) (yeah.. bad translation :P) * 10. Chit Thu - ခ်စ္သူ (Lover) ****
When the album was first advertised on TV, it was with the clip of the first song, Kabar Myay A Sone Hti, with a model girl. Since I first heard that song, I loved it instantly, and I bought the album later. Actually, at that time, I bought the tape. I had put that in our car, and whenever my father drives us to work, or we go somewhere, that tape was played over and over again, and we hardly ever got tired of listening to it. (My father doesn't like rap & hip-hop, and had said that he'll throw the tape away if we put it in the car, so we can only bring non-rap & hip-hop albums on to the car.)
As I had indicated with 4 stars, Kabar Myay A Sone Hti, A Myat Noe Sone, Min Nae Way Dot and Chit Thu are my all-time favorite songs. 3 stars are the songs where her voice isn't really great, but loved the lyrics. 2 of the songs - "A Myint Gyi Pyan Tae A Khar " and "Achit Kyaut" are originally Myo Kyawt Myaing's songs.
Below are a few (well, not so few) snippets of the lyrics from the songs.
Kabar Myay A Sone Hti (Until The End of the World) Music by: Myo Kyawt Myaing Lyrics by: Saung Oo Hlaing
ဒီကမာၻေျမႀကီးထက္မွာ သူ တစ္ေယာက္တည္းခ်စ္တာ In this world, you were the only I loved
ေနာက္ဆံုးက်ေတာ့ မုန္းရက္ေလၿပီလား But in the end, (you) hate me
ယံုၾကည္ေနတယ္ ကေလးရယ္ တစ္ေန႕ေန႕ အခ်စ္စစ္တို႕ I still believe baby... that one day true love will
ဆံုမွာ ေသခ်ာသိေနတယ္ surely meet each other
ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္မထားသူ ကိုယ့္အသည္းေလး ခြဲသြားေတာ့ (I) had not prepared myself, but you had broken my heart
ေၾကကြဲမ်က္ရည္ ၀ဲေနရံုေလး I can do nothing but let the tears flow
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ခ်ည္ေႏွာင္တြယ္တာ တာေတြ ခိုင္ၿမဲလြန္းခဲ့စဥ္ When I have become so attached to you
ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ျခင္းေလး မင္း မရက္စက္နဲ႕ Please don't be cruel to me... You're my only hope...
အၿမဲတမ္း မင္းအတြက္ အသက္ရွင္ I'm always alive only for you
တို႕ႏွစ္ဦးဘ၀ေလး ေ၀းလို႕ မသြားေစခ်င္ I don't want our two lives to drift apart
မင္းနားလည္မွာပါ.. ခ်စ္ရင္ You would understand me.... if you love me
It's a new year! A completely new year! So I should be happy and be hopeful and looking forward to the following days, and not write gloomy, emo posts! That's why I'm writing another entry! Yes, I am!
(See how I'm trying to be cheerful with the exclamations?!?)
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How was your new year? Mine was just like any other day... I went to bed early on New Year's eve... The electricity was out anyways so I couldn't listen to the count-down on the radio. It was the same last year too, so last year, I didn't wait until 12am either, and just went to bed early. I had a nice sleep though... didn't wake up once in the middle of the night...
I had been having sleeping problems lately.. waking up in the middle of the night, and not being able to go to sleep. I already wrote about it... Maybe it was because I had been sleeping too much...
Yesterday, on Jan. 1st, I went to Yankin Center with my mom to buy some make-up. I bought a liquid foundation... I'm not that much of a make-up user, but I wanted to have something to wear when I have to... It was Revlon - New Complexion foundation. I also wanted to buy a lipstick, but my mom said no. Oh well, I'll buy it later myself.. hehe ... I also wanted the shimmering powder or something... That too I'll buy later.
In the evening, I went to a wedding. I tested out my make-up... Not bad.. At least, I didn't look hideous.. hehe It's been so long that I put on make-up... I only use lip-stick so that my lips doesn't look white. Anyways, it's my father's ex-co-worker's daughter's wedding. She's 3 years younger than me. The wedding was abit western style... She wore a white gown and they walked down the aisle to the Wedding March. The bride was really beautiful - looked abit like this model whose name I don't remember. The groom was cute too... They looked great together.
My father's friend kidded me when we met.. He said, "Hey.. The cars behind you are already passing you.. What do you plan to do about it?" (It's a Burmese joke saying that others who are younger than you are already getting married).. I replied, "Well, this car is not moving anywhere anytime soon." :P
When I was a teenager, I thought that I'll be married by 25. Now, I'm approaching 25, and I'm still single. It is sometimes lonely, but I'm starting to like being single. I don't want to get married ... not yet anyways... I still have a lot to do in life, and I don't want my marriage to be a hindrance. But that doesn't mean I don't want to be in a relationship. I want someone to share my life with... and someone who I can love and receive his love... But I'm not looking too hard for it either... It is just something I feel sometimes - like I'm missing something in my life... But I'm not really over someone... I do not hope for him anymore, nor am I still waiting for him, but I am not over him yet. Right now, I'm trying to accept what I have, and be there for him as a good friend... cos I don't want to lose him as a friend too.
Yeah.. now that I got that out of my system, I feel abit better.
Just wanted to boast around a little.. hehe.. This is the only Christmas gift I have received this year from my student, Grace. Last year's Valentine's Day, she gave me a present too... Moved me to tears because it had been a long time since I ever got a present on Valentine's Day. hehe
She gave me two scrunchies, and a mirror with a comb, and a Christmas card.
She still doesn't know how to write &. I'll have to teach her how. hehe
I gave her Junie B First Grader - Cheater Pants book and a hair band. She really liked that Junie B series and has been collecting, so I decided to contribute to her collection. The character's name is "Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all." haha.. I even remember the first paragraphs that starts at the book.
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Though I said I'll write about Ye Lay's concert, I have been quite lazy. I have already edited the photos, but I've been quite busy lately. Busy with work, and with other stuff. My mind is going in circles lately... Too much to think about... but I've found a resolution, and I find myself in peace.
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Here's another photo I took yesterday. I saw this vendor on the streets that sells cute little stuff dolls, and keychains. I had my eyes on the brown dog in the middle, and asked for the price - it was 5000 Ks. I decided that I'll buy it later. And I bought one stuffed keychain. Actually, I bought it for myself, but I later decided to give it to another student because I haven't give him anything yet. I was thinking of buying him something else at the end of the month - maybe the reprint of Harry Potter & The Deadly Hallows or a TOEFL preparation book - , but this will be just like a pre-gift or something.. hehe
Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Prospero año y Felicidad
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas I want to wish you a Merry Christmas I want to wish you a Merry Christmas From the bottom of my heart!
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Our office is having a lunch party for Christmas. We're listening to Boney M Christmas album, while preparing for the lunch. We got a Christmas cake from one of the bosses - chocolate! My favorite! I ordered steamed rice for lunch. There will also be refreshments - fruits, potato chips, and Sprite. I helped to peel the oranges.
Today is half-day, but I'll be staying in the office until 2:00pm. :)
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Last Saturday night, I went to Ye Lay's One Man Show. It was quite fun and Ye Lay is so damn adorable! *swoons* ;) This is the 2nd concert I've been to. I don't go to a lot of concerts - I only go to one concert each year... hehe
I'll write more about it later, with photos and video clips.. because I forgot to bring along the data.
I watched the movie "Music & Lyrics" with Huge Grants and Drew Barrymore a long time ago. I really liked the songs from that movie... that 80ish song, "Pop Goes My Heart", and even that crazy song, "Buddha's Delight". Huge Grant's voice is good, and Drew Barrymore sang one song in there, and her voice is quite good too. That Haley Bennett's voice is really great too, sounds as sweet as Mandy Moore.
There are two versions of the song "Way Back Into Love" in the soundtrack - one from the movie, sung by Drew Barrymore, and another sung by Haley Bennett. Both versions are quite good. Umm.. I am not quite sure if Drew Barrymore really sang that song - both of their voices seem similar. Oh well.. don't care.. still love this song! <3
I don't understand people sometimes. Why can't everyone says things straight-forwardly? Why do people pretend and act?
At work, there was this girl from another department. We are working at different departments, but one day, she and I had to work together temporarily. She seemed friendly and talked to me, asking me a lot of things about me: where I live, how old I was, whether I have a boyfriend or not (:P). She looked pretty nice, and friendly so I thought I got a new friend. But later, when I see her in the halls, and I smile at her, and she doesn't even smile back at me, and pretended not to see me. I couldn't understand this behavior.
I don't like to pretend, and believe me, I am quite bad at it. If I don't like someone, I will plainly avoid him or her altogether, rather than having to pretend to be nice and friendly. which is more like a living hell for me. I know that I have to be all understanding and stuff, and I want to be. But there are some people that I just don't simply like, and I don't even want to see their faces.
I guess I am presumptuous when it comes to making friends and *ahumm*.. some love matters. :p I become friendly with someone instantly if I feel that we share a common interest or share the same ideas on some things, even though we might have meet each other not too long ago. Heck.. there are even times that I feel friendly towards someone I've never met! I'll read his or her blog online, and by reading thru it, I'll feel that he or she is a friendly person, and I will instantly call him/her friend. I don't know if this is a good thing or not.
There are some people I've met online but not outside, but feel friendly towards. There's Mr. Onigiriman, Shi, and Su Anne. There's Pete, awoolham and some other people. I don't even know some of their real name, but I don't care. I don't need to know a person's name, or know where they live to be able to feel friendly to them. But I'm not very much of a talkative person nor an ice-breaker type of person, so we might not talk to each other alot, like old buddies or something.
When it comes to expressing my feelings, I am quite bold and daring. I am not afraid to say I care or that I love. I might not say these out loud, but I will certainly show a gesture - even if it was through a single *huggle*, or sending a song that made me think of him. Sometimes, I want to say something really badly, but I will be afraid that it might be taken the wrong way, or it might be inappropriate, or just plain scared of what their reactions will be, so I'll plan carefully what to say, and say it anyway, like I'm joking about it. Yeah.. that's me... :P << there, I did it again.... ;) I don't know if this is a good thing to do or not either, having to consider a girl's supposed to be all concealing-their-feelings and all that stuff, you know, uphold tradition and stuff.
Even though I might be joking around alot, when it comes to the matters of the heart, I am quite serious about it. I am not a flirt. I don't cheat, and I hate cheaters. I am someone who believes in one love for the whole lifetime, but unfortunately, I have been disappointed in the past, thinking each time I had finally found that one, my other half. But they didn't find me. They didn't see me standing there next to them. They just go and liked another girl. Oh well... I can't do anything about it... I go searching for another again.
But now, I'm tired of this searching. I'll just stop looking and let it come to me. I want to love and be loved without having to worry about not receiving the same affection back. I want to say "I love you", and know that I'll always hear back from him, "I love you too." I am so tired of one-sided love, and if I have to love like that again, I'll rather not love anyone at all.
မီးကလည္း မေန႕က တစ္မနက္လံုး ပ်က္ေနတာ... လူလည္း ပိန္လိန္ေနတာပဲ... ဘာစာအုပ္မွလည္း ဖတ္စရာ မရွိဘူး။ ေန႕လည္ ၁၁း၀၀ နာရီ ေလာက္ မီးလာေတာ့ 