Space travel possible for the wealthy (Virgin Boss rolls out private spacecraft)

This blogger is an aircraft enthusiastic guy. Until now, he can recite the some of the paragraphs from the short stories written by a Burmese aviator ” ေလသူရဲတဦး” by heart. Allow him to share the latest news about the future space travel for the wealthy tourist of this world!

Sit Mone

Virgin Galactic today unveiled the design of its new space launch system based on SpaceShipOne, which successfully flew into space for the third time in October 2004 and won the $10m Ansari X Prize.

The construction of the White Knight Two (WK2) mothership, or carrier aircraft, is now very close to completion at Scaled Composites in Mojave, CA and is expected to begin flight testing in the summer of 2008. White Knight Two will be the world’s largest, all carbon composite aircraft. It is designed to have the capability of launching SpaceShipTwo — carrying six passengers and two pilots — into sub-orbital space flight.

read full text athttp://www.planetary.org/news/2008/0123_Virgin_Galactic_Unveils_Spaceship.html

Food for thought..the road to success is not straight

The Road to Success is not straight:

There is a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends, caution lights called family, and you will have flats called jobs.

But, if you have a spare called determination, an engine called perseverance, insurance called faith, and a driver called God, you will make it to a place called success!

Live for something:

Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.

Judi… I have returned to my favourite template

Judi and all the readers of this blog,

Many thanks for keep on bumping to my blog for that long!

I have promised to all of you that one day I will go back to my favorite template ( Journalist Theme), when I was about to change the template, few months ago, due to some technical hitches in wordpress.

At that moment, I had problem with the current template (Journalist Theme).That made me temporarily switched to the Rubic theme . However I have decided to be back to the journalist theme as soon a s i can. It took about five months. Now, I have switched back to the old theme that I love.

My problems with the current theme at that time were

1.Unable to see all the columns in Fire Fox browser,

2. Problem with the Burmese fonts.

Now things seems to by OK, as wordpress has done quite a number of upgrading job in recent months. Hope to continue blogging with the current theme, and thanks to Judi and all the readers for your wonderful comments.

regards,

Sit Mone

Burma has potential to built its own buses by Robert Sechler ( Iron Turtles of Burma)

This blogger has received some  interesting comments from Robert Sechler  and U Myint Soe relating..

my previous post  “The last days of the Iron Turtles in Rangoon.” Thank you  all for your comments and allow me to share the comments to the blog readers who wish to know ” The Iron Turtles of Burma”.

Sit Mone

It is very annoying to note that Burma must still import buses to fill its most basic mass transit needs. I well remember the old wartime buses when I lived in Rangoon 1959-1962. Although they were uncomfortable, they were very cheap, used local materials and labor (except for the chassis and drive train), and most important, provided the Burmese with a means of acquiring mechanical intelligence. Several Hungarian and Japanese diesel powered buses were brought in, but these did not last long because the operators did not understand their needs. They did understand the “Iron Turtles.”

Burma could have been building its own buses since the late 1950’s. The Ford “crackerbox,” made in the USA from 1936 to 1947 would have been a dead ringer for starting a Burmese bus manufacturing industry. A country with 50 million people should never have to outsource this sort of vehicle. It is another damning commentary on the Tatmadaw goverment: how they have neglected to build up a useful industrial infrastructure.

Comment by Robert Sechler — July 25, 2008 @

U Myint Soe Said

These “iron turtles” are called “Bite Poo” by most Myanmar like me. It means “fat belly” because the middle portion is much wider than the head and tail. These buses are doing the main transportation in Yangon and all out of Myanmar. An “iron Turtle” is worth 80 lacks in Myanmar money called kyats,which is equall to 8000 US dollars.(belive it or not). All the buses are now running with CNG(Condense Natural Gas).It cost 2500 US dollars for the owners to change from gasoline to CNG. If they will be phase out the owners will lose a lot of money,and only Yangon has CNG gas pumps. But you can’t tell what will happen in Myanmar as there are very rediculous rules, for example motorcycles are not allowed in Yangon and handling US dollars is a felon in Myanmar.

Meet the Cyclone Nargis Orphans

This blogger has decided to stop the posts related to Cyclone Nargis of Burma as most of the mainstream media as well as the alternate media has successfully highlighted the plight of the cyclone victims from the different perspectives from political,socio-economical aspects, to  disaster management.

However when this blogger has accidentally bumped into the AP news photos of children, who became  orphans after cyclone Nargis, this blogger feels like sharing  the pain, sorrow and  suffering of these innocent children victims of Cyclone Nargis with blog readers.

Su Myat Swe Yu, 12, controls her tears as she tells that she misses her parents who were both killed during the cyclone that hit the country, Sunday, July 6, 2008 in a village in Myanmar. With thousands of casualties from the cyclone, a great number of children were orphaned and are now living with their relatives or neighbors who care for them.

Su Myat Swe Yu, 12, bites her fingers as she controls her tears narrating how she survived the last cyclone that killed her parents, Sunday, July 6, 2008 in a village in Myanmar. With thousands of casualties from the cyclone, a great number of children were orphaned and are now living with their relatives or neighbors who care for them.

Burmese Cartoonists’ views of Cyclone Nargis

Click to see the enlarged view

See more cartoons at Mizzima

Sit Mone

Heaven or Hell ?

Imagine who would have such taste and live in such opulence?
An American Billionaire?
A Saudi Prince?
Louis XIV of  France?

Savour the pictures then scroll to the bottom of the page to see who owns this Work of Art.

General Aung San of Burma, Matyrs’ Day Memorial

” I went to Japan to save my people who were struggling like bullocks under the British. But now we are treated like dogs. We are far from our hope of reaching the human stage, even to get back the bullock stage we need to struggle more.”

General Aung San’s Speech in May Myo, 1942, relating the life of Burmese under Facist Japanese Rule

General Aung San on Unity

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းသည္ စကားေျပာရန္ ရယ္ေမာကာ ထ၍လာသည္။ သူ႔လက္ထဲတြင္ ဒုိင္ယာရီ စာအုပ္ငယ္ေလးအား ကိုင္ထားသည္။ သူ႔ေရွ႔ရွိ ဆိုရွယ္လစ္ ပါတီ၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔ရဲေဘာ္မ်ားအား ၾကည့္ၿပီး တံုးတိစကားအား ဆုိေလ၏။

“ —- မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဘာစကားမ်ားေနဖို့ ရွိလဲ။ မင္းတုိ႔ အလကား စကားမ်ားေနတာပဲ။ ဒီေလာက္ မိုက္တြင္းမနက္ၾကနဲ႔။ ငါသာ အာဏာရွင္လုပ္ခ်င္ရင္ မင္းတုိ႔ကို ခြစီးထားရုံပဲ။ ရဲေဘာ္ေတြထဲကလည္း ေသာက္သံုးမက်ေကာင္ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးပဲ။ ဆုိရွယ္လစ္ထဲကလည္း ဘ၀င္ျမင့္ၿပီး အလကား အထင္ႀကီးေနတာေတြ တပံုႀကီးပဲ။ ေျပာခ်င္ေသးတာက ငါဟာ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ေနာက္လုိက္ မရွာဘူး။ ကိုယ္ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္အတုိင္း လုပ္သြားမွာပဲ။ တခ်ဳိ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ရာထူးေပး အာဏာေပးၿပီး ေနာက္လုိက္ စုေနၾကတယ္။ ငါဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ဒီလုိမလုပ္ဘူး။ ကိုယ့္ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္အတုိင္း လုပ္သြားမွာပဲ။ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ေနာက္လုိက္မေမြးလုိ႔ အခုလည္း တေယာက္တည္း၊ ထီးထီးပဲ”

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းသည္ စကားဆံုးသည္ႏွင့္ ျပန္၍ ထုိင္လိုက္သည္။ ၿပီးလွ်င္ သခင္ႏုႏွင့္ ရယ္ေမာ၍ စကားေျပာေန၏။ ေမွာင္ရိပ္က သန္း၍ လာေလၿပီ။ စိန္ေ၀လ်ံ တူရိယာအဖြဲ႔မွ `ညီၫႊတ္ေရး ေသြးဗိမာန္` သီခ်င္းသံသည္ ျပည္သူ႔ရဲေဘာ္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္၀င္းအတြင္း ပ်ံႏွံ႔၍ ေနသည္။   Copied from Mizzma

Following is the excerpt of Sayagyi Min Thu Wun’s diary which was written on 20th July 1947. ( The day after General Aung San and Cabinet members were assassinated.)

Copied from MoeMaKha Multimedia

ထုိ႔ေနာက္ ဆရာက “ဆရာလည္း ႏုိင္ငံေရးကထြက္ၿပီး ပညာေရးတုိ႔ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈတုိ႔ကုိ လုိက္စား ျပဳစုခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာတုိ႔ ကုိ၀န္တုိ႔ (ဤေနရာတြင္ ကြ်ႏု္ပ္အား စီးကရက္ ထုတ္ေပးသည္) အာရွအေရွ႔ေတာင္ပုိင္းကုိ သြားၿပီး ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ ေလ့လာခ်င္ပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာရာ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္က လက္ကာ၍ “ေနပါဦး၊ ေနပါဦး”ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈကုိ မႏွစ္သက္၍ လက္ကာသလားဟု ကြ်ႏု္ပ္စိတ္တြင္ ထင္မိခိုက္၊ ကြ်န္ေတာ္လည္း ႏုိင္ငံေရးက ထြက္မွာပဲ၊ ထြက္ၿပီးေတာ့ စာေရးမယ္ ႀကံတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ေက်ာင္းမွာေနတုန္းက ပါဠိေရာ ျမန္မာစာပါ ယူခ့ဲတယ္။ ျမန္မာစာမွာ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္ အမွတ္ေကာင္းေကာင္းရတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ႀကိဳးစားရင္ ဒစ္စတင္းရွင္းေတာင္ ရမွာပဲ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဟုိတုန္္းကေတာ့ အုိင္စီအက္စ္တုိ႔ ဘာတုိ႔ကုိ မွန္းေတာ့ အဂၤလိပ္စာကုိပဲ ဖတ္တာပဲ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္လည္း စာေပကုိ ၀ါသနာ ပါပါတယ္။ အ႐ုိင္းသက္သက္ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး” ဟု ဆုိကာ သခင္ဘေသာင္း၏ ပန္းသာမစာဥ၊ ေမာင္ထင္၏ငဘ၊ ေရႊဥေဒါင္း၏ရတနာဒီပ (Treasure Island)စသည္တုိ႔ကုိ ခ်ီးမြမ္းသည္။ “ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ဆီမွာ ဘာသာျပန္ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးလုိတယ္။ Biographyေတြလည္း လုိတာပဲ။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ မေရးၾကသလဲ မသိဘူး”ဟု ေျပာရာ ဆရာဦးဘခ်ဳိက ၀င္၍ “ျမန္မာမွာ ခက္တာက ဘုန္းႀကီးမ်ား ပ်ံေတာ္မူရင္ ေထ႐ုပၸတၱိေတြ ေရးရတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ Biography ဆုိရင္ ေသမွေရးရတယ္။ ထုိအခါ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္က “ကြ်န္ေတာ့အေၾကာင္းေတြကုိ ေရးၾကတာျဖင့္ တလဲြခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ Emile Ludwig တုိ႔လုိ ေရးတတ္တ့ဲလူမ်ား ရိွရင္ သိပ္ေကာင္းမယ္” ဟုဆုိကာ Ludwig အေၾကာင္းေတြကုိ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကေသးသည္။

A Burmese writer who wanted to sell old collection of books for survival (Eie Kyar Kwe)

ဆရာၾကီးအီၾကာေကြး, Eie Kyar Kwe, 71 years, a famous humor and satire writer of Burma,according to Moe ma Kha news,has been bed ridden for two years due to Hypertension and Heart Disease.

His home which was in suburb of Rangoon was badly damaged during the Cyclone. Seventy One Years old writer, who’s pen name is  known as Eie Kyar Kwe, is most famous in Burma  for writing several articles, short stories and novels in Burmese Journals and magazines. His earlier pen name was Danubyu Kyaw Htun.

Moe Ma Kha News has also posted the following photos and news about his plight, as he has finally decided to sell the precious collection of old books, which  seems to be the last remaining asset of the old writer.

News and Photos from Moe Ma Kha

Burmese Muslims need help too,ျမန္မာမူစလင္မ်ားဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျခင္း

ျမန္မာမူစလင္မ်ားဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျခင္း

ရန္ကုန္
ဇူလိုင္-၉

၂၀၀၇ခုနစ္စက္တင္ဘာသံဃာလႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးမွာမူစလင္ဘာသာ၀င္မ်ားကတက္ၾကြစြာပါ၀င္ကူညီခဲ့ၾကေသာ္ျငားလည္း နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနတဲ ့မူစလင္ေတြကို ျမန္မာဗုဒဘာသာ အလ်ဴရွင္ေတြက သိပ္ျပီးမလႈတန္းလိုၾကဘူးလို ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မူစလင္ေတြ က ကြမ္းျခံကုန္း ၊ခရမ္းေလးနဲ ့အျခားရြာေတြျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။ သူတို ့ကားလမ္းေဘးကိုထြက္ျပီး ေတာင္းေနေပမဲ ့ အလူရွင္ေတြက သူတို ့ေနရာေတြကိုေက်ာ္သြားတယ္လို ့သိရပါတယ္။ ကိုဇာဂနာကိုအဖမ္းခံရျပီးေနာက္ မွာဒီလို အေျခအေနေတြကို စတင္ၾကားလာရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာ လူမႈေရးအသင္းေတြအေနနဲ ့ ဘာသာမခြဲျခားပဲ ကူညီၾကပါလို ့တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။

က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းလွတဲ့ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသားေရးနဲ ့ျမန္မာ့ဘာသာေရးအယူအဆမ်ားေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို ့ဒုကၡပင္လယ္ေ၀ခဲ့ျပီးပါျပီ။ ဒါေတြကိုသင္ခန္းစာယူသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဗုဒျမတ္စြာဘုရားရဲ စစ္မွန္တဲ့တရားအတိုင္းက်င့္သံုးၾကပါ။ ဒီလိုက်င့္သံုးရင္ေဘးဒုကၡျဖစ္စရာအေၾကာင္းမရိွဘူး။ ဒုကၡေရာက္သူတိုင္းကိုလူမိ်ဳး၊ဘာသာမခြဲျခားပဲကူညီၾကပါလို ့တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။

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