Essay
Mahatma Ghandi said:
- A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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culture,
Cyber attacks,
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photos,
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Rangoon University,
sex industry,
Shan,
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unicode
Reflections
To the Future
Dictionaries
August went past so fast for me working with four dictionaries. Sigh..... Finally, here they are:
Burmese dictionary
http://sealang.net/burmese/
Burmese dictionary is mainly based on the Myanmar-English dictionary published in 1993 by the Myanmar Language Commission and republished in 1996 by Dunwoody Press (ISBN 1-881265-47-1)
Mon dictionary
http://sealang.net/mon/
Mon dictionary is based on the Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon by H.L. Shorto (1962, Oxford University Press)
Shan dictionary
http://sealang.net/shan/
Shan dictionary is based on the Shan-English dictionary by Sao Tern Moeng (ISBN 0-931745-92-6)
Karen dictionary
http://sealang.net/karen/
Karen dictionary is based on the Drum Karen-English Student dictionary published by the Drum Publication Group in 2008.
If you do use them and find any errors or mistakes, please let me know.
A voter's experience in the Burma's constitution referendum
A funny account of
a voter's experience
in the police state of Singapore. [a first-hand account in Burmese]
Ludu Daw Amar's Funeral
Ko Hla has pictures of
Ludu Daw Amar's funeral.