Sit Mone’s Mosiac Thought with New Address

Last week, I was in a difficult situation that forced me to change the blog address from http://burmasitmone .wordpress.com to the new address http://theroadtomandalay.wordpress.com.

It would be a rude shock for the regular blog readers to see “the blog has been deleted message” in the previous address, which recorded over 166,000 readers during the last one and a half year.

However, I did the back up of my blog posts up to November 2008.

During the month of December 2008, and January 2009, I have posted very few . The lost of the posts, I would say is minimum, but I have to redo it again from the scratch.

Anyway, this weblog with the same name with the different address would continue as usual and all of you can dig my all previous posts in the Archives or Category button on the left sidebar of the main page.

Regards,

Sit Mone

Tom Cruise Dances in Movie Tropic Thunder

During this weekend, this blogger went to the cinema to watch   Tropic Thunder, a Hollywood comedy movie. The best part of the movie is not Ben Stiller the main actor, but Tom Cruise’s ( cast as a greedy Movie Producer) hilarious hip hop dance.

Look at the following video clip. You will hardly recognize this guy as Tom Cruise. His dance is really wonderful and funny .

This blogger thinks that is the best part of the movie Tropic Thunder.

Sit Mone

The more you know the more you don’t know

The Blogger’s Thought

Knowledge and Ignorance grows together.

This blogger was shocked to hear this philosophy from a retiring Indian Professor who was about to leave to Hyderabad very soon.

So he has decided to dig further about the philosophy and found the following article “Circles of knowledge and boundary of Ignorance” by Jim Mc Gee, a Harvard Graduate Consultant.

This blogger has noticed that some of the very intelligent and knowledgeable people ended up their life doing silly things. Because the more they know the more they don’t know!

Sounds funny? Try to read Mc Gee’s postulation.

Sit Mone

Excerpt;

I started thinking about “boundaries of ignorance” and “circles of knowledge” while putting together a presentation on learning and knowledge management. I began with the simple notion of learning as expanding your circle of knowledge and quickly hit on the notion that expanding my circle of knowledge was simultaneously expanding the boundaries of my ignorance. The more things I learned, the more things I became aware of that I didn’t know.

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Photos of the next President of US, Obama

In a vote of historic proportions yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States of America with a 52% majority in the popular vote, and more than 349 electoral votes. Over two years of campaigning was resolved with a record voter turnout, as the Republican candidate John McCain conceded graciously at 11:20 pm eastern last night. With such a high level of interest and attention, there have been millions of words written and photographs taken of the candidates over the past year. Here is a collection of some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months. (35 photos total)

See All Photos at the Big Picture Photoblog

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Top 30 blogs of 2008 in blogosphere

According to survey of eBizMBA, an ebuisness knowledge base web site, Gizmodo Gadget blog ranks number one for the year 2008 with  8,501,344 – Inbound Links | 1,501,526 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 4,469,847 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors .

Other top 29 top blogs listed in the survey are as follows,

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The purpose of posting  this post and link, is for the thousands of aspiring Burmese youth with IT knowledge to see the great potential of blogosphere for them to develop the successful carrier . Sky will be the limit for them.

Sit Mone

စိတ္ေလျခင္း

စိတ္ေလေနသည္မွာ အခ်ိန္အေတာ္ၾကာခဲ့ျပီ။

ငယ္ စဥ္ကေတာ့ ဒူးယားစီးကရက္ ေကာက္ဖြာ လိုက္ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ လက္စြဲေတာ္ ေဟာ္လိုဂစ္တာေလး နဲ႕ ကိုထီးသီခ်င္း ခတ္တိုးတိုး ဆိုရင္း စိတ္ေျဖ ခဲ့ဖူးသည္။

ဂစ္တာ တလုံးေတာ့အခုအထိ ရွိပါသည္ သို႕ေသာ္အခန္းရဲ့ ေဒါင့္တေနရာမွာ ဖုန္ေတြ တက္ လို႕။

စီးကရက္ လက္နဲ႕မတို႕တာ အႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ ရွိခဲ့ ျပီ ဂစ္တာ ေတာ့စိတ္လိုလက္ရ ရွိ ရင္ ေကာက္ကိုင္မိ ပါရဲ့။

ဂစ္တာ ဆိုလို႕ မွတ္မွတ္ရရ စ တီးျဖစ္ေတာ့ အသက္ကဆဲ့သုံးႏွစ္.. သင္ေပးတဲ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္း ကအခု မရွိရွာ ေတာ၊့ ဒီအက္ေအ ဆင္းျပီးမၾကာခင္ဘဲ က်ဆုံးသြားရွာ တယ္။ ကံေကာင္း တယ္လို႕ ၾကံဖန္ေျဖ ရတယ္။ ဒီေကာင္ အခုရွိ ရင္ျပဳတ္ရင္ျပဳတ္

မျပဳတ္ရင္လဲ ငရဲၾကီး ရမွာ သူရဲေကာင္းလိုေသရတာ ကံေကာင္းတယ္ ေခၚရမွာေပါ့ေလ။

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ကိုယ္တို႕ဂစ္တာစ ကိုင္ေတာ့ လား႐ိႈး သိန္းေအာင္ ရဲ့ လယ္သူမေလးခ်စ္သူ သီခ်င္းနဲ႕ .. သိတ္မၾကာခင္ပဲ သူနဲ႕မိသားစု ဗ်ဳံး ဒိုင္းဆိုအလည္ေရာက္လာ ၾကတာမွတ္မိတယ္။ သိတ္မၾကာခင္ပဲ သူျမန္မာျပည္ကေန အျပီးအပိုင္ တြက္ ခြါခဲ့တာ ဒီေန႕အထိပါဘဲ။

ဂစ္တာ အ ေၾကာင္းပဲ ဆက္အံုးမယ္။

ကိုယ္တို႕ ေခတ္က ဂစ္တာ ဆို က်င္စု ပဲရွိတယ္။ ကရင္ သူငယ္ခ်င္း ေတြ ထြင္းအိုး ကိုယ္တိုင္ လုပ္တီးတာ ေတြ႕ဖူးတယ္။ က်င္စု ဂစ္တာက ထြင္းအိုးကို မမွီေပမဲ့ ဆီေဆန္ က် သြားျပီဆိုရင္ အေတာ္ေလးနားေထာင္ ေပ်ာ္တယ္။ ကိုယ့္ရဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားဘဝ ကဂစ္တာေလးဆို ေပါက္ ေနတာေတာင္ အသံကလြင္ ေန တုန္း။တခု ဘဲ က်င္စုဂစ္တာ ေတြရဲ့ ကီးေတြက မေကာင္းေတာ့ အျမဲတန္းလိုလို ေဒါင္ဒင္ ေဒါင္ဒင္ နဲ႕ ကီးျပန္ခ်ိန္ရတယ္။ ဒို ေရ မီ ေလးသိလာ ေတာ့ တမ်ိဳးေပါ့ေလ။

လမ္းေဘးမွာထိုင္ ညေမွာင္တာ နဲ႕ ဒံုခ်မ္းခ်မ္း တီးရင္းလူပ်ိဳေပါက္ေတြရဲ့ ကီးမဝင္တဲ့အသံေၾကာင္ ေတြနဲ႕ ေအာ္ၾကဟစ္က် နဲ႕ ကိုယ့္ ကိုယ္ ေတာ့ တကဲ့အေကာင္ လို႕ထင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အခ်ိန္ေတြပါ။

‘A Leader of Men’ U Razak by Yeni

by Yeni

The Muslim schoolteacher who joined Burma’s martyrs

Being a Muslim in a country where 87 percent of the population is Buddhist, and where the military government regularly practices ultra-nationalism and uses religion as a political tool, means joining the underprivileged at the bottom of the pile.

Muslims in Burma regularly suffer social and religious discrimination. Burmese Buddhists commonly call them, Kala, a derogatory term for South Asians and also used insultingly to describe westerners.

While some consider the term abusive and degrading, there’s general acceptance that it takes on a sense of honor, respect and lovingkindness when it’s used in the form Kalagyi (Big Kala), to describe independence hero Abdul Razak.

U Razak rose from the position of headmaster of Mandalay Central National High School to become minister of education and national planning in Burma’s pre-independence government. His career was brought to a brutal end at the age of 49, when he was gunned down by assassins on July 19, 1947, together with independence leader Gen Aung San and seven other cabinet members and colleagues. The nine murdered leaders are commemorated annually on the country’s Martyr’s Day.

Read full text at Irrawaddy online

Read more about U Razak at Wikipedia

The Outsiders

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By Harry Priestley/Rangoon

JANUARY, 2006 – VOLUME 14 NO.1

In a country where discrimination against minority groups is a fact of life, Muslims are bottom of the heap.

There is a saying that if you lose control of your bicycle in Burma’s western Arakan State, you shouldn’t worry as it will stop when it hits a kala.

Kala is Burmese slang for outsider, or alien, and although Caucasians are sometimes referred to as white kala, the term is more commonly used for anyone dark skinned, usually of Indian origin. While some shrug the term off, others consider it abusive and degrading: an insult to people whose ancestors may have fought for the country and who consider themselves wholly Burmese.

read more…at Irrawaddy online

ဂ်မားတို႔အဖိုး Grandpa of Jamal by Zaw Min

Following  post was copied from Ywet Mon Fine leaves weblog.

Grandpa of Jamal by Zaw Min is a short story about a Burmese Muslim Grandpa who fought for Independence, hand in hand with other Burmese freedom fighters. Later he was honored for his heroic act by the Government. The old man settled down in a village in upper Burma which was home for his parents for last three hundred years.

The problem started when he took a train to visit Rangoon recently. Police checked his documents and when they found out that he is a Muslim, he was scolded and shouted with abusive words. Moreover they have checked whether he could speak Burmese or not. He was told that there are no such a race and religion as Burmese Muslims. Then, only he  realized that he is only a  Kalar ( derogatory name for Burmese Muslims-all are assumed as  Indians)and not a Burmese citizen. Finally the problem was settled after paying bribe to the police.

However the freedom fighter, Burmese Muslim Grandpa, who ancestors were royal servant of the Burmese Kings was deeply hurt by the incidence. He has decided not to travel to any part of Burma until his death.

Simple translation for the non Burmese readers

by Sit Mone

သူ႔ မွာ ဗမာနာမည္ ရိွေပမဲ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္း အားလံုးက ငယ္ငယ္တည္းက “ဂ်မား” ဆိုေသာ အိမ္နာမည္ကိုသာ ေခၚၾကေသာ ေၾကာင့္ ဗမာနာမည္ကို ဘယ္သူမွ မမွတ္မိေတာ့။ ဂ်မား၊ နီတြတ္ႏွင့္ ကံသိန္းတို႔သည္ ႏွစ္တန္းေလာက္ ကတည္းက လည္ပင္းဖက္၍ ေက်ာင္းေနခဲ့သူမ်ားလည္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ဂ်မားမိဘေတြရဲ့ အသက္ေမြးဝမ္းေက်ာင္း လုပ္ငန္းက ဘဲေမြးျမဴျခင္း။ သူတို႔မိသားစုက အစၥလမ္ဘာသာ ကိုးကြယ္၍ အိႏိၵယႏြယ္ဖြား ေသြးေႏွာထားေသာ ရုပ္ေရ သြင္ျပင္ကို ပုိင္ဆုိင္ၾကသည္။ သူတို႔ရြာက လူအမ်ားစု သည္ မြတ္စလင္မ်ား ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုရြာသားတို႔သည္ ေရွးဗမာ ဘုရင္မ်ား အဆက္ဆက္ လက္ေအာက္တြင္ အမႈထမ္းခဲ့ၾကေသာ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္ စစ္သည္ေတာ္ အႏြယ္မ်ားမွ ဆင္းဆက္လာ သူမ်ားလည္း ျဖစ္သည္။

ရြာသားအမ်ားစုသည္ ငါးဖမ္းျခင္း၊ ကုိင္းကၽြန္းလုပ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ အသက္ေမြးၾကသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ဂ်မား၏ မိဘမ်ားႏွင့္ ရြာသား အနည္းစုကေတာ့ ေတာင္သမန္အင္းႀကီးကို အေျချပဳ၍ ဘဲေမြးၾကသည္။ အဲသည့္ အခ်ိန္တံုးက နီတြတ္ မွတ္မိသေလာက္ ဂ်မား မိဘေတြမွာ ေမြးထားေသာ ဘဲမ်ားက အေကာင္ရွစ္ရာ တေထာင္ေလာက္ ရိွမည္။