My supper nearly ruined

It happened this evening. I forgot to check my fav pepperoni pizza that I left in oven with full heat while I was visiting KOM's blog.


My supper nearly ruined because of KOM

A chat with Khin Oo May

11:06 PM khinoomay: hi (OMG)

11:07 PM me: hi

got up?

morning

khinoomay: yes

ဘာလုပ္ေနသလဲ (What do you think?)

me: reading something ( Reading FHM)

11:08 PM felt sleepy the whole day

now a bit alert ( I meant because of FHM, I got aleart)

khinoomay: ဘာကို read ေနလဲ

me: newspapers

and megazines

khinoomay: ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ေက်ာင္းစာဖတ္သလဲ (She very forgetful or a bit muddled. I am not a student!)

11:09 PM me: not regularly

maybe weekends

if i feel tired, cant read

khinoomay: ေကာင္းပါတယ္။

me: i suspect i have sleep apnoea

khinoomay: ခဏေနရင္သြားေတာ႕မယ္။ ေၿပာမယ္ဆုိရင္ ၿမန္ၿမန္ေၿပာပါ

me: day time somnolence

11:10 PM and sleepines

khinoomay: အင္း

me: snoring at night

khinoomay: ဆက္ေၿပာ

me: sometime i woke up

khinoomay: နားေထာင္ေနတယ္ (Do I have to talk in one way?)

me: i can hear my noise

i need to do ON Ox

oxymetry

khinoomay: လဴကဝလုိ႕လား နဲနဲဝလို႕ၿဖစ္မလားမသိ

me: not really

75 kg

11:11 PM khinoomay: မဆုိးပါဘူးေလ

me: 5 -7 or 5 -8

khinoomay: အရပ္လား

ဒါလဲ မဆုိးပါဘူး

me: but tired when ever i get up in the monring

khinoomay: မိန္းမ မရေသးတာဘဲဆုိးတယ္။ (Goshh,,,direct insult)

me: no

i got many girls (they are not girls , but ladies)

:0

11:12 PM :)

khinoomay: တုိ႕ဘေလာ႕ထဲမွာလာေရးသြားတဲ႕ my girl ဆုိတာဘယ္သဴ႕ကုိ ဆုိလိုတာလဲ

(censor )လား

me: no

Elaine

khinoomay: ဘယ္တစ္ေယာက္လဲ

ေအာ္

me: Gemma

A....

those are my girls

khinoomay: ေပါက္တတ္ကရ.

စိတ္ကုူးယဥ္ေနၿပန္ၿပီ

me: yes

11:13 PM Elaine someting like stable

relationship

she is divorcee

she said she did it because of me

not sure

but appreciated

11:14 PM her height also 5 -8

raised in London

khinoomay: သူမ်ားသားသမီး အိိမ္ေထာင္ကဲြတာကု ိသြားၿပီး appreciated လုပ္ေနၿပန္ၿပီ

me: working in yorkshire

khinoomay: ၿမန္မာစပ္သလား

နုိင္ငံၿခားသားလား

me: she is caucasian

not foreigner

she is british

11:15 PM she is an oncologist now

seeing cancer patients :)

khinoomay: ေကာငး္သားဘဲ

me: in fact she is younger than me

11:16 PM 2 years

khinoomay: ဒါလဲေကာငး္တာဘဲ။ သြားေတာ႕မယ္။

ေနာက္က်တယ္

me: Gemma is from Surrey

khinoomay: မေန႕က ဆယ္မိနစ္

me: she is a senior nurse

khinoomay: ေနာက္က်တယ္

me: single mum

why dont you get up early?

dont blame me

11:17 PM khinoomay: မဘလိမ္းပါဘူး။

ကိုယ္႕ဘာသာ ကုိယ္ေၿပာတာပါ

ကုိယ္႕အၿပစ္ပါ

me: (Censor ) is occupational therapist

i dont like her

too much

khinoomay: ၿကုိက္လုိက္ပါေလ

11:18 PM me: I saw recently

you know that

she is another girl

khinoomay: အမ်ားၿကီးၿဖစ္ေနၿပီ

ေတာ္ေတာ႕

me: not frequently

khinoomay: ဒါဘဲ

သြားေတာ႕မယ္

me: I told you lately

ok

have a nice day

11:19 PM i really want to tell you about my girls

khinoomay: ေက်းဇဴး.။ ့have a sweet dream

me: next time

khinoomay: တုိ႕လဲ နားေထာင္ခ်င္ပါတယ္ (sounds like nosy)

byeeee

me: bye

Burmese foods contaminated?

Well, Someone might say I am fussy. But I am not really a fan of Burmese preserved food while here in Britain I can get a variety of fresh foods easily. You may say I was raised with those Burmese foods when I was young. Yes, exactly I was. But, people may change from time to time according to their experience, education and environment. I don't think Burmese foods are much superior than others after trying several world foods. No , I am not saying Burmese foods are not good. These are really fine foods according to Indian friends.

A few years ago, a lady lived in my home who just arrived from Burma. A few weeks later, she looked depressed , saying that she had been missing proper Burmese foods. We tried to cook for her a couple of times. I think rice and chicken curry . But her response was what I did not expect. She said it did not look like Burmese curry. Since then I could not help her any more. That lady went back to Burma in next a few weeks. Of course, her family was running a Burmese restaurant down town Yangon, later I learnt that. I still don't get it why she was expecting to stay and eat exactly as she was in Burma even after deciding to come to the western Europe. Basically, strong but flexible and adaptable people survive in the UK according to my knowledge.

The following is an interesting news about Burmese tea leave prickles.

Photo: Channel News Asia

Tea leaves from Myanmar recalled
Singapore: A range of pickled tea leaves imported from Myanmar have been found to be unsafe for consumption. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) which has issued a product recall says it has detected the presence of Auramine O which is a yellow dye used as an industrial colouring agent for coloring silk, otton, paper and leather.

Details of the recalled products:

• 1: Ah Yee Taung Pickled Tea Leaves


• 2: Ah Yee Taung Pickled Tea Leaves (Normal)


• 3: Ah Yee Taung Pickled Tea Leaves (Red)


• 4: Ah Yee Taung Pickled Tea Leaves (Sour & Spicy)


• 5: M&N Pickled Tea Leaves (Extra Spicy)


• 6: M&N Pickled Tea Leaves (Spicy)


• 7: M&N Than Lwin Fwn Food Products Lon May Pickled Tea Leaves


• 8: M&N Than Lwin Fwn Food Products Pickled Tea Leaves
  
• 9: Shwe Toak Pickled Tea Leaves with Mixed Nut
  
• 10: Soe Win Gold Label Tea Leaves, 70 g (Best before date Jul-09)
  
• 11: U Ka Kar Green Tea Leaves


• 12: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves (Blue) - "Girl"


• 13: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves (Red) - "Boy"


• 14: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves (White) - "Girl"


• 15: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves with Mixed Peas


• 16: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves


• 17: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves (Sour & Spicy)


• 18: Yuzana Pickled Tea Leaves with Peas


• 19: Yuzana Plantation Pickled Tea Leaves


• 20: Zayan Pickled Tea Leaves (Hot & Spicy)

Full story on Channel New Asia

My Sunday Lunch

Recognising that Mcdonald burger is a sort of junk food especially for under graduate students and manual workers in my area and being unable to forget the last event when I found out that sandwich maker did not change his gloves when he started holding the mob and what I did not know if he would make sandwich again with those gloved hands after cleaning business, most occasions I prepare foods myself at home.

Pubs in Britain traditionally serve with special lunch on Sundays, what they called Sunday lunch. Really nice if having it with a pint of lager. But today, I don't want to go out as preparing for my U.S exams.






Yes..these were nothing special. All were from my fridge. Sweet roast pork with mush room, fried eggs, tomato, Romaine lettuce, toasts and yogurts.

Burmese way of Buddhism

I am a medical doctor. That does not mean my care is limited only on my patients. But I would consider the welfare of my patients as well as all other living creatures. Whenever I have a chance, I help. I have been ready to help old people on the street whenever they require to do so. I assist the disabled people. I feed starved foxes. I donate some money on a regular basis for rescued pets. I have been a regular donor in RSPCA, Oxfam, Cancer research and many local charities. With the help of DEC, I was able to contribute some to 2001 Bhuj (Indian) earthquake, 2004 Tsunami, 2005 Kashmir Earthquake and 2007 Nargis. I love my profession. I love my hobby.

A few days ago, I requested a senior Burmese blogger to sign a petition. That is about to stop brutal killing seals in Canada. Unfortunately it was declined to do so. I never expected such a disappointing response. I know our action will be a little effective or zero effective. But I strongly believe that we need to fight against brutality in this civilized world as much as we can.

I still remember about Burma where approximately 75% of people are Buddhists. Buddha explained that if someone does a bad thing, he or she has to pay back in the future. Someone has to suffer in this life. Because that one did a wrong thing in the past life. It is logical, I think, if we are really travelling from one life to another after death. But interestingly, many followers of Buddha have a different concept. For example, if someone had to have his leg amputated after an accident, they might blame him by saying he might cut other's leg in the past life, as a result he has to return similar thing this time. Of course, there are some sympathy and empathy. But these are diluted by their concepts. Again, Buddhist people see animals as living creatures with sins. Because of their sins in the past, this time they have to become animals to suffer. It is not uncommon to see women in Burma donating monks with delicious foods while stoning starved stray dogs. In many Burmese households, it is traditional that their pet dogs are fed with food remains and bones instead of preparing a proper dog food.

According to the concept based on Buddha's guide , can we say Nay Phone Latt has to go such a long term jail because he did a similar thing on someone else in his past life? How would you explain in Buddha's way why U Than Shwe is untouchable so far?

Internet Explorer 8 released... For what?

It is surprising that IE team keeps releasing new version. It has been over 2 years I do not use IE any longer after experiencing some problems with this poor browser. In medical term, it can be said that it is an autoimmune reaction which is a condition in human body, in which part of own tissue is rejected by body's defence mechanism, leading to an illness. In some cases, it has been severe enough to die.

Similar thing happened with IE. What I understand is that Microsoft's operation system is Windows. Microsoft's browser is IE. Many occasions, IE crashed on it's operation system, with error message which forcing the opening windows to close, while Fire fox has been running smoothly. Really annoying. More annoying thing is the message box to send the error info to Microsoft. I normally decline to do it. Since then, I don't trust IE any more. But I still keep updating it to learn new change despite the fact that Fire fox is my default browser all the time.

I suspect IE team is less efficient compared with Fire fox counterpart for some reason. Sometime I think IE team would have been trying to set its current status deliberately. Microsoft bosses should check. It could be beneficial for MS if they can get Firefox's ex-employees.

I buy, I cook and I eat

Sympathising a senior blogger who still has to buy meal by meal from a nearby low cost take-away shop in Singapore, I have been cooking my own food in England with ease, finishing in 30 min. Healthy, tasty really.

Steve's way of cooking

A portion of pork, 2 big onions ( after making 4 quarters), 4-5 tomatoes (as a whole), 5 large flat mushrooms (dont slide), one handful of chopped carrots, some salt, some soya sauce, a spoon of sugar, seasoning powers (pepper, ginger and onion powder, some herbs) and olive oil are ingredients. I put together into pressure cooker for half an hour. That's it.

While I am working 58hours per week at least, cooking is still a manageable business. Who said "no time to cook" " busy life", "need to buy food", "I am very important person in our firm" ...... "no cook, no cook, no cook. "



Hospital accommodation. Everything cheap. I never use this kind of small toaster before. £10 worth kettle takes ages to get boiling water, up to 3 min. At home my own one is only 40 seconds. But I like the grill on the top of cooker. Very good for grilling pork chops and chicken wings.


After 30 minutes


Start eating.

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Money matter and freedom

A friend of mine from Pakistan said human right in Saudi is zero, but so long as staying and working according their law mean it is financially secured in a short time. He is a surgeon with UK degree. His passport was taken by Saudi authority on arrival. He was provided by translator at work. His salary is twice as much as he earned in Britain. Saudi government also provide school fees for his children being educating in Pakistan.

According to him, there are loads of workers from west, where people keep talking about human right and freedom. In Saudi, all women, including westerners, need to wear veil. Why do they choose Saudi? You know what.

The US government keeps criticising against Burma for lack of democracy. Interesting thing is that they imposed economic sanction against Burma nearly a decade ago. Obviously, it is not working at all when Burma's clever generals are playing with China, Russia and South East Asian fellows. Why the US never tried to put economic sanction against Saudi on the ground of lack of democracy.

At the same time, I doubt about Aung San Suu Kyi's role in Burma. As she failed to topple the regimen in initial phase, but just gave a pieces of political stimuli, the generals have got a good time to make a powerful medicine to fight back. Anyway, I am a lazy watcher while sitting in my living room in London Docklands. It's boring, isn't it?

Foods from Burma

Source:

I came across this BBC news about a Burmese traditional food, Green Tea Leaf which has been contaminated with industrial chemical.

It is not new. As far as I remember food processing and storage in Burma is unhealthy in many circumstances. Contamination with harmful bacteria and chemicals is very common. Peanut oil and sunflower oil contaminated. Fish sauce contaminated. Dried chillies contaminated. Vermicelli contaminated. Seasoning powders contaminated. Dried shrimps contaminated. Many more.

In England, loose motion is treated as a serious condition, regardless of frequency. But in Burma, it is inevitable for everybody. Main cause is eating unhealthy food. Lately, a friend of mine has been enjoying ready-made fish soup which is produce of Burma and offering me to try it while saying that it is a sought-after food in England. I had to decline in polite way while saying "it's disgusting" in my mind. That is the one reason I never go to occasions held in Buddhist monastery where people are traditionally served with foods, most of them are imported from Burma. Moreover, a group of people might share a bowl of soup with a common spoon. Who knows who has oral herpes in the group?

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Ups and downs

Looking back in Burmese history, that part of South-East Asian peninsula has been changing from time to time. It did not exist as a long standing stable nation. Of course, even great Roman empire collapsed when time came. Again British empire had to finish after 2nd world war. In a movie, I think in Notting Hill, Britain was described as a small, shy and retiring nation. On the other hand, China has built up its power, reaching enough world's top level, already overtaking British economy in a few years ago, under one party lead without wasting too much time by debating at the parliament. Likewise, a Malay fishing village was transformed into the Republic of Singapore in 1960s and it was successfully upgraded to an affluent country, mainly under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew. Now it also serves as second home for many second and third class Burmese people as their government failed to provide an acceptable level of education, living and economic situation while claiming that Burmese economy has been growing strong. A very irregular power supply 6-8 hours a day even in Burma's big city like Yangon clearly contradicts the statement. In fact, Burma was top country in south-east Asia and Yangon University established in 1878, was popular in that region until 1962. Regrettably, these days the university is shut down at irregular intervals by the government for political reason and the courses available are only for limited number of graduates, not for undergraduates.

History of Burma (Source: wiki)

Pyu city-states (c. 100 BC–c. 840 AD)

Mon kingdoms (9th–11th, 13th–16th, 18th c.)

Bagan dynasty (849–1287, 1st Empire)

Ava (1364–1555)

Pegu (1287–1539, 1747–1757)

Mrauk U (1434–1784)

Toungoo dynasty (1486–1752, 2nd Empire)

Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885, 3rd Empire)

Wars with Britain (1824–1826, 1852, 1885)

British Arakan (1824–1852)

British Tenasserim (1824–1852)

British Lower Burma (1852–1886)

British Upper Burma (1885–1886)

British rule in Burma (1824–1942, 1945–1948)

Nationalist movement in Burma (after 1886)

Ba Maw
Aung San
Japanese occupation of Burma (1942–1945)

Democratic period (1948–1962)

U Nu and U Thant
1st military rule (1962–1989)

Ne Win
8888 Uprising (1988)

Aung San Suu Kyi
2nd military rule (1989–present)

Saffron Revolution (2007)

Cyclone Nargis (2008)

This is in the carriage for ordinary people in Burma where military government rules

The is today's Burmese way of transportation. Estate cars for both passengers and goods.Locally that kind of car is known as van. (Photo: naing naing sanay)

Thanks Usher

2004. It was a glorious time. A big change in my life. The year Usher's album Confessions came out. So whenever I heard Usher's songs, that made me feel better in these stressful days.

London Moon at Docklands night

I don't know today's full moon day or not. I just saw a big moon struggling to show itself in the hazy sky. I noticed it after coming back from motor show in Gallion Reach. I was nearly midnight. Just sharing.

Red Nose Day for Africa

Donations and charity works are nice and good things. I support it. Today, BBC has been trying to get more red nose day donations through BBC1 Friday program while showing starved and disease-stricken African children. Are there any children who need such kind of help in Asia? Will there be a ?yelllow nose day or ?brown nose days for Asian kids?