Monkeys who climb very high...
Interesting article I read today on the New Capital of Myanmar - called Nay Pyi Daw (Royal City):
My thoughts:
They will build grand new cities
with fierce armour,
and tall skyscrapers
just to keep us
at the bottom of the chambers.
But you have to agree
when you think about
Monkeys and those tall trees;
the higher they climb,
the harder their fall will be.
But who will do the pushing
of the monkeys off of the tree,
for the sake of humanity?
-Yangon Thu-
Ok Dude- so the poem is up. Its not that great but dammit its up- :)
Really cool!
I also feel very disappointed about that, with the same amount of $, can do many things for helping the poors. Besides, why should such a noble landmark like Shwedagon pagoda be replicated?! Simply making no sense. Here is a joke by Zagana I copied from http://tinyurl.com/rl95p
Myanmar's brand of humor would seem innocuous in most societies, like a joke now making the rounds that Maung Thura told about a chat by an Englishman, an American and a man from Myanmar, also known as Burma.
"Our man who had no legs could climb Mt. Everest," brags the Englishman, and the American shoots back, "Our man sailed across the Pacific with no hands." Then the Burmese chimes in: "That's nothing. Our country has been ruled for 18 years by a group of men who have no heads."
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I'm adding your site to mine, hope u don't mind.
Hey,
ya I heard that joke before. I know - we have a sense of humor in times like these. But honestly, that sense of humor is what has kept the Burmese ppl going all these years long.
And they are probably replicating the shwe da gon pagoda, just so they can have something shiny in gold to look at, it's not like they really care about Buddhism (if they did, how do they justify this treatment of ppl?)
Anyways, no, I don't mind you adding me. Thank you actually. I'm revamping my links too and I'l be adding you and more burmese bloggers as well!