Here is another blogger with the same interest as me :-) --- technology, Burma, amd freedom.
May 2005 Archives
I had a chance to visit Phuket to check out Burmese Tsunami victims. I wrote about my experiences in my Aloha.
Here is a picture of Burmese Tsunami victims:
Lwin Moe in front of Similana resort in Phuket
Fellowship with Mon families in Phuket
Having dinner with Mon families in Phuket
I left from Lao today. I finished my contract with Digital Divide Data (http://www.digitaldividedata.org). We had farewell on the 12th. Here are two students of mine from DDD. The girl is Metta and the guy is Somkhith.
Grace singing, Thongchangh and Lwin Moe
A restroom with food advertisement :-)
A close-up of Dimsum advertisement :-)
I know many university students in Burma don't want to wear uniforms :-) Here is what Bogyoke Aung San and U Thant debated about the dress code in school
http://khitpyaing.org/modules.html?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=38 from the New Era Journal.
At my old school, Yenangyaung, this system of uniform dress is not foisted upon us; the teachers first set the example and we follow it voluntarily. In my case, the idea of brotherhood is an ordered thing to me after I have adopted the uniform dress of Pinni, and I come to know only then that it is not a social stigma on anybody to wear Pinni. I remember how my friends and myself paraded together with our heads held up high wearing the newly adopted uniform clothes in going out for boating, to football matches, examination halls and on National day. We didn't then think that our personal freedom had tremendously impaired. And this brings me to say again that freedom of dress is not essential to the development of personal freedom in the school children.
Updates about the blasts in Burma
http://khitpyaing.org/modules.html?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=58 That news piece is in Burmese, though.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GE07Jp01.html
The article talked about Burma and China border and what's going on there.
I quoted some from the article
Ruili is the underside of China's boom, a gathering place for gamblers, prostitutes, drug addicts and smugglers. Here on the frontier, lawlessness rules.
One of them is Bo Saung, a petite young woman slouching against a tree. Her pale face has been made up carelessly, her cheeks covered in patches of thanaka, the yellowish powder worn as a cosmetic by Burmese women, and her eyebrows lie flat like two dead worms. She clutches bony hands over a pink jacket to cover her protruding sarong-wrapped belly.
Bo Saung is five months pregnant, so she's selling her body at rock-bottom prices: Five yuan per session. She needs money for heroin, food and rent. The 30-year-old Burmese has been here for 11 years.
