A variety of Burmese snacks, picture taken at Bogyoke Aung San Market, Yangon, Myanmar.
So, I have not been writing about Burma news lately. Well, it was because after one time of writing too many sad news, I realized that I was writing alot of sad news on my blog and I kinda felt pressurised to have a happy blog like, well, everyone else. (You see there's that tendency for me to assimilate kicking in, again, somebody help me.) But you cannot have a happy blog all the time, if you are going to write about Burmese news and politics, (well, like, duh!) and also if you are going to be a crack head like me (hahaha!).
So here is a link o rama to update you on what has been happening in the Golden Land, where I was born and partly raised:
They are killing ethnic minorities but telling everyone else that they are only killing them because they are terrorists (hmm, sound familiar?)
The Burmese military government is reshuffling the Cabinet (they are not rearranging their bowls and plates, guys, they are firing people!). And "lets" some staff "retire" - meaning they realized that some of them are taking too much liberty than some of them would like and hence, their ass is gone.
The typhoon hit Burma (and it wasn't even monsoon season yet!) and caused some damage.
Senior U.N. official Ibrahim Gambari reports that my heroine Aung San Suu Kyi is "doing well". Well, I suspect that she is doing as well as she could be for being under house arrest, on and off for around 16 years and this was her first visitor in 3 years.
United States renews Sanctions against Myanmar - but meanwhile, countries like Russia, Singapore, China, India and others continue to support the Burmese military government. But then, I wonder, if they don't give Burma business, how will the people there survive? I don't know, do I?
My aunt keeps continually being sent to live and work in the new capital called Naypyidaw ( means - capital where the king resides - *laughs*) and she reports - "there are sheets and sheets of mosquitos and we are made to live in "dormitoritories", and the food, thamee (daughter), it's so horrible - that I won't touch it. And everytime I go there, it seems as though I'm made to stay longer. But I have to keep going as long as I continue to need this job. Every week, they keep threatening to fire us.
So there, you have it. My dose of depressing Burmese News. But here is a link to pictures of loads of smiling Burmese people, who go on smiling, even though the government keeps being shitty to them. But hey, life goes on, right? What are you gonna do? (These are not pictures by me - because I'm too shy to approach Burmese people to ask if they will let me take pictures of them- like tourists do.)
