Fear..........

Freedom from fear
Emerald cool we may be
As water in cupped hands
But oh that we might be
As splinters of glass
In cupped hands.........

What shall we tell our children?

What shall we tell our children
Now
the trees are gone
the skies blackened.....
what shall we tell our children?

What shall we tell our children
Now
they can no longer play in parks
build sandcastles on sludge-licked beaches
what shall we tell our children?

Shall we explain
we did it with
the best of intentions;
We did it to secure
a more affluent future of them;
and THIS is the price
one pays for development.
What , in God's name
can we tell our children?

What is life (ဘ၀ဆုိတာဘာလဲ)

Life is a challenge.Meet it.
Life is a struggle.Accept it.
Life is a sorrow.Overcome it.
Life is a mystery.Unfold it.
Life is a joy.Spread it.
Life is a duty.Perform it.
Life is a romance.Enjoy it.
Life is a gamble.Watch it.
Life is a tragedy.Face it.
Life is a song.Sing it.
Life is a bliss.Embrace it.
Life is a dream.Realize it.
Life is a promise.Fulfil it.
Life is a puzzle. Solve it.
Life is an advanture.Brave it.
Life is an apportunity.Group it .
Life is full of ups and downs.
Life is not a bed of roses.

IN OUR LIFE..WE CAN CONTROL AND CANNOT CONTROL

WE CAN CONTROL:

-OUR CHOICE
-OUR RESPONSES
-OURSELVES
-OUR ATTRIBUTES

WE CANNOT CONTROL

-COLORS OF SKIN
-WEATHER
-PAST MISTAKE
-COST OF SCHOOL TUTION FEES
-PARENTS
-RULES COMMENTS
-LOCATION OF BIRTH
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The Best Angel-အႏႈိင္းမဲ့ နတ္သမီး

Once upon a time, there was a child ready to born.The child asked God,”You are sending me to Earth soon , but how am I going to live there if I am so small and helpless?
God replied,”Among the many angels I chose one of you . Your angel will be waiting for you and take care of you”.
The child then asked, “Here in HeavenI don’t have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy”.
God said ,”Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day.And you will feel your angel is love and you will be very happy”.
Again the child asked,”And how will I understand when people talk to me if I don’t know the language?”
God said ,”Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweetest words.And with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak”.
“And what am I going to do when I want to talk to talk you?”
God said , “Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray”.
“I’ve heard that on Earth there are bad men.Who will protect me?”
God said,“ Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it’s life”.
“But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore”.
God said, “Your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you the way to come back to me, even through I will always be next to you.
At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked , “God , if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel’s name”.
“Her name is not important . You will simply call her “Mother”.

တစ္ခါတုန္းက ကေလးငယ္တစ္ဦးဟာ မိခင္၀မ္းက ကၽြတ္လုဆဲဆဲမွာ ဘရားသခင္ကုိ ေမးပါတယ္။ `အရွင္ဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးကုိ´ ကမၻာေျမႀကီးဆီ မၾကာခင္ေစလႊတ္ေတာ့မယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ႏုနယ္ၿပီး အကူအညီမဲ့ေနတဲ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးဟာ အဲဒီမွာ ဘယ္လုိရွင္သန္ ေနထုိင္ရမွာလဲ။
ဘရားရွင္က `နတ္သမီးမ်ားစြာထဲက တစ္ပါးကုိ သင့္အတြက္ ကုိယ္ေတာ္ေရြးခ်ယ္ထားတယ္။ သင့္နတ္သမီးက သင့္ကုိ ဂရုတစုိက္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ဖုိ႔ ေစာင့္ေနလိမ့္မယ္။
ကေလးငယ္က `ဒီေကာင္းကင္ဘုံမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးဟာ ေတးဆုိတာ၊ ၿပံဳးေပ်ာ္ရႊင္တာက လႊဲၿပီး ဘာမွလုပ္စရာ မလုိပါဘူး´။
သင့္နတ္သမီးက သင့္အတြက္ ေန႔တုိင္းေတးသီရင္း ၿပံဳးရယ္လိမ့္မယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ သင့္နတ္သမီးရဲ႕ ခ်စ္ျခင္းေမတၲာနဲ႔ သင္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္လိမ့္မယ္။
ကေလးငယ္က ေမးျမန္းပါတယ္ `လူေတြက ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးကုိ စကားေျပာတဲ့အခါ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးက ဘာသာစကားမတတ္ေတာ့ ဘယ္လုိ နားလည္ႏုိင္ပါ့မလဲ´
အလွပဆုံး၊ အခ်ဳိသာဆုံး စကားလုံးေတြကုိ သင့္နတ္သမီးက သင္ေပးပါလိမ့္မယ္။ သင့္နတ္သမီးက သင္စကားေျပာတတ္ေအာင္ စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္ ဂရုတစုိက္ သင္ေပးပါလိမ့္မယ္။
`ဒါဆုိ အရွင့္ကုိ စကားေျပာခ်င္တဲ့အခါ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ရမလဲ´
သင့္နတ္သမီးက သင့္လက္ေတြကုိ ယွက္ႏြယ္ေစၿပီး ဘယ္လုိဆုေတာင္းရမလဲဆုိတာကုိ သင္ေပးလိမ့္မယ္´။
ကၽြန္ေတာမ်ဳိး ၾကားဖူးတာကေတာ့ ကမၻာေျမက လူေတြဟာ လူဆုိးေတြတဲ့။ ဘယ္သူက ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကုိ ကာကြယ္ေပးမွာလဲ။
`သင့္နတ္သမီးက သူ႔အသက္ကုိေတာင္ မငဲ့ဘဲ သင့္အတြက္ ကာကြယ္ေပးလိမ့္မယ္။
`ဒါေပမယ့္ ကုိယ္ေတာ့္ကုိ ေနာက္ထပ္မေတြ႕ရေတာ့ရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိး အၿမဲ၀မ္းနည္းေနရမွာပဲ´။
`ကုိယ္ေတာ္ သင့္ေဘးမွာ အၿမဲရွိေနခဲ့ရင္ေတာင္ သင့္နတ္သမီးက ကုိယ္ေတာ့္အေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ကုိယ္ေတာ့္ဆီကုိ ျပန္ေရာက္ႏုိင္မယ့္ နည္းလမ္းေတြကုိ သင္ျပလိမ့္မယ္´။
အဲဒီခဏမွာ ေကာင္းကင္ဘုံဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေနတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကမၻာေျမျပင္ဆီက အသံေတြကုိ ၾကားႏုိင္ပါတယ္။
`အဖ ဘုရားသခင္ အခု ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ဳိးသြားရေတာ့မယ္ဆုိရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕ နတ္သမီ နာမည္ေလးကုိ တဆိတ္ေလာက္ေျပာျပပါ´ လုိ႔ ကေလးငယ္ က အလ်င္စလုိေမးလုိက္တယ္။
`သူ႔နာမည္က အေရးမႀကီးပါဘူးကြယ္။ သင္က သူ႔ကုိ `အေမ´ လုိ႔ ရုိးရုိးေလး ေခၚလုိက္ရုံပါပဲ´...

MANDALAY

Mandalay, the present day second Capital of Myanmar is located in the upper Myanmar about 688 Km due north of Yangon. Its' previous official name was Yadanabon, meaning the city of gems. It was the last Capital of Myanmar Kingdom and occupied by the British in 1885. This enchanting city is full of regal identity, famous pagodas, religious edifices. It can also said that Mandalay is the center of Myanmar Culture, and it will give all people of arts and crafts lovers such as wood carving, stone carvings, Bronze casting, gold beating, and gold embroidery or Kalakar making.


Mandalay (Yadanabon)

Mandalay (Yadanabon), the last capital of the Myanmar Kingdom, is in Central Myanmar, 688km due north of Yangon. It is the largest city after Yangon and is the place where one will come closest to real Myanmar. The Royal City came into being only in 1859 when " King Mindon" established it as new center for the teaching of Buddhism. The King also made Mandalay his capital, moving it from nearby Amarapura to the newly built Royal Palace at the foot of the Mandalay Hill.Being rich in monasteries and pagodas, it is still accepted as the arts and cultural heart-land of Myanmar. For lovers of arts and crafts, Mandalay offers the largest repository of Myanmar arts and crafts. Skilled crafts men make world famous genie tapestry called Shwe Chi Htoe (Gold thread Weaving), beautiful articles of ivory, wood, and stone, silver-ware and bronze statues according to the time-honored traditions of their fore-fathers.

How to get there

It takes about one hour and thirty minutes by air from Yangon. There are daily flights during the tourist season from October to May. The new International Airport project of Mandalay is completed at present and under operation in the early of late 2000. Express trains are running which take about 16 hours. Yangon- Mandalay highway is over 700 km and overland travelers are advised to break journey at Taungoo (280 km) or at Meiktila (540 km) where there are hotels for overnight stay. The government and private express buses are also running everyday. Visitors are advised to check with tourist Information Services for flight train schedules.

Mandalay Hill

According to the legend, the Lord Buddhist visited to the top of the Hill and directed his hand to a spot prophesying his disciple that the famous pious king would found the Royal City and the King Mindon had to built the present day remain Place on the said spot. Mandalay Hill, 230 meters in elevation, commands a magnificent view of the city and surrounding countryside.

Mandalay Palace

The fire destroyed the whole magnificent palace complex during the World War ll. However, the finely built palace walls, the city gays with their crowning wooden pavilions and the surrounding moat still present an impressive scene of the Mandalay Palace. Mya-nan-san-kyaw Golden Palace, the model of the Mandalay Palace, Nanmyint-saung, Cultural Museum and Pyi-gyi-mon Floating Restaurant in the moat is located inside the Palace grounds.

Shwe-nandaw Monastery

The only remaining apartment of Mandalay Palace in which the royal founder of Palace died after a prolonged illness. Famous for its intricate wood-carvings, this monastery is a fragile reminder of the old Mandalay Palace. Actually, it was built inside Mandalay Palace but King Thibaw moved it and turned into monastery in 1880.

Maha- muni Pagoda

Revered as the holiest pagoda in Mandalay, it was built by King Bodawpaya in 1784. This pagoda enshrines the famous Maha-muni Buddha Image brought from Rakhing State. The early morning ritual ceremony of washing the Face of Buddha Image draws a large crowed of devotees everyday.

Kuthodaw Pagoda

It is known as Mahaatula Marrazein, meaning the royal bounty built by King Mindon in 1857. This pagoda is surrounded by 792 upright stone slabs on which are inscribed the entire Buddhist Scriptures known as Buddhist Canon. It is popularly known as " the Worlds Biggest Book" for its stone scriptures.

Amarapura

Situated about 11 km south of Mandalay, Amarapura (the city of immortal) is an ancient capital of the Konbaung Dynasty. Patodawgyi Pagoda, U Pein Bridge ( 1208 meter ) built by Mayor U Pein with teak planks two centuries ago and silk weaving industries are places of interest to visit.

In-wa (Ava)

A historical capital founded by King Thado Minbya in 1364. There is Maha Aungmye Bonzan monastery built by the wife of king Mindon, is a fine example of Myanmar masonry and arts and architecture.

Mingun

Mingon, the small village is situated about 11 km upriver from Mandalay on the western bank of the Ayeyarwady river. Mingun is noted for its huge unfinished pagoda and 90-ton bell, the largest ringing bell in the world. A 45 minute boat trip to Mingun is very pleasant with plenty of life on the river to see.