Sunday, January 05, 2025
The Idea of You is at last free with membership on Amazon Prime-
but I read the book at least 6 months ago,and I didn't really like it. I didn't like the downer ending.
Now I only watched till they met--in his trailer--wh she went into by accident.
I don't really like Anne Hathawady--it's as if she is trying to be like a teenager when she's 40
and I don't really like the boy band guy--who was personally chosen by Hathawady--he's handsome enough and his British accent is nice--but I don't like the way the actors act--here--
so don't intend to watch it.
Colleen Hoover's books are much better.
kmk
1-5-2025
Just found--direct link between Myan opium production and 2021 coup--
In 2022, the area under opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar was estimated at 40,100 (29,000 to 62,900) hectares. This estimate is 33% greater, or about 10,000 more hectares than in 2021, reversing the downward trend that started in 2014.
Myanmar Opium Survey 2022
UN
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Bonnie Tyler--Total Eclipse of the Heart--Plus--excerpt from Coming to America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
When I first arrived in the USA--I was very homesick and found it hard to adapt to high street crime West Philadelphia + 4 graduate courses per semester.
The Hoagie truck smelled of raw onions.
None of the white American students paid any attention to colored folks like me--International students were forced to befriend each other, but we were all from different countries.
JC was one of 3 sisters, all single at the time, who were Sino-Burmese and from Campbell Park in Rangoon.
They were all JC.
The eldest worked at HUP--Hospital of the Univ of PA-- as a nurse.
Friday evenings after work, she'd pick me up at the Grad. dorm--
Then I'd spend the weekend with them. Their father was aphasic and had had a stroke, could not speak.
Once I took some sweet-smelling shampoo that my friend's daughter had given me, and gave it to the old man--he smiled impishly at me.
Eldest JC often played hip songs like this in the car.
Monday mornings she'd drop me off on campus again, and I'd start all over.
Even the water tasted different and needed getting used to.
A policeman came and briefed us on date rape--
"Comply. Don't fight back. Run yr hands along the man's body--don't look at his face. Don't put yr life at risk."
In the univ bathrooms there were rape wires to pull to sound alarms.
Ref muggings on the street: "If you see a gang, cross the street ASAP. Put traffic between you. Wear clothes and shoes you can run in. Walk confidently, your hands in your pockets, as if you have a gun--Don't look at their faces either.
"Arrive and leave events with the crowd"
It's amazing how I survived.
You who think life is easy in America don't know a thing.
"You know nothing John Snow." JRR Martin, Game of Thrones. But do I regret it--no I don't. This is not a Superman movie with Christopher Reeves who revolves the earth backwards. Kyi May Kaung 12-31-2024 New Year's Eve.
Monday, December 30, 2024
Wow--Mingrui--he was extremely good-looking--committed suicide near Maymyo--now renamed Pyinoolwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingrui
There should be a novel or movie about this.
Video mini-history lessons--Sino-Burmese War--1767 etc--
this time though, as one of my friends says, "Myanmar will lose without a shot fired."
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Chineseinvasions+fo+Burma#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:69f34463,vid:JzWPAs0KG3M,st:0
Amy Sherald--who painted Michelle Obama's official portrait--
Amy Sherald is one of our greatest living portraitists. What’s her secret?
www.washingtonpost.com /entertainment/art/2024/12/23/amy-sherald-american-sublime-retrospective/
Himal 2024 book list is out--incld 3 reviews on Myanmar
https://www.himalmag.com/reviews/what-southasia-read-in-2024
I am so very pleased and thankful to Himal for including my 3 selections together with so many other contributors' choices, most of which I hadn't heard of before.
I'm going to try to read as many of these books as possible.
Thank you,
Kyi May
Irrawaddy book review of Sean Turnell's Best Laid Plans--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/an-inside-look-at-the-nld-governments-economic-reform-efforts.html
Dr. Turnell was responsible for "The whole Burmese economy" (Lowy Inst. interview) during this so-called Transition period which ended with M A H's coup, and he said in this book--"China lent the most support" to the reforms.
My view is like Furnivall and Walinsky (advisors to U Nu) did before him, he did a good job--but the end of the Korean War and the crashing of rice export prices derailed Burma's Five Year (Pyidawrtha Plan)
and the Ne Win and subsequent coups and especially the latest sabotaged all liberal reforms.
Enough said for now.
My taxi driver from Syria told me c. 2015--
"It's all rubble now,"
and I used to ask him about his parents still in Damascus
but I stopped. Last I saw him was in 2019.
I lost touch during Covid crisis when his phone was disconnected.
In the 1990s I interviewed a taxi driver from Rwanda while going to a demonstration organized at the traffic circle where Pinochet had a car bomb detonated, asking him to drive once more around the Circle--
but shit hole jerk Burmese boss, didn't allow me to air my piece.
One Kidney later was fired for asking his "key question"
"If we ask you to speak ill of Daw ASSK, will you do so?"
I saw the USD 300,000 Radio Free Asia fine amount on DC Superior Court website--I don't know if it was actually paid to the complainant who said he was not hired (as a temp worker) and instead a woman was hired "due to her female voice."
You might have heard rumors of it, but it is all true.
An RFA employee in 2007 during the Saffron Revolution also told me how U Gambira was trapped--junta used his cell phone # when RFA called him to get his co-ordinates.
I tell you those "Air S H"s need to be thoroughly checked.
k
12-23-2024
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Former President Jimmy Carter will have a State Funeral--he was the most ethical of
American Presidents, way up there with Abraham Lincoln, and he stayed active to the end.
REST IN PEACE truly applies to him.
I am lookin forward to joining the mourners via TV on Jan 9.
What a contrast to the soon to come criminal pudding face.
kmk
12-29-2024
Hope for the New Year--Hockey player Matthew Gaudreau's widow gives birth to child, 4 months after
her husband and his brother were hit by drunk driver and killed.
https://pagesix.com/2024/12/29/parents/matthew-gaudreaus-widow-madeline-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-4-months-after-hockey-players-death/
Romeo and Juliet--Julian Fellowes version--2013--on Amazon Prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_%26_Juliet_(2013_film)
I like this better than the Olivia Hussey version which I saw in Burma--maybe in 1960s.
At last, a good movie, after all the duds--not worth my time, gory, odd, slow--etc,
Roxanne--with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Rather silly--from May, 2024--Met Gala--based on JG Ballard's story--The Garden of Time
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=MetGala+#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:56eecbd7,vid:JGVq7J5_sTk,st:0
I think the nude thing is getting to be too much.
I only watched about 1/10th
AFPFL split--wiki
Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Anti-Fascist_People's_...
AFPFL split Burma from en.wikipedia.org
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What is a corvette--not good news.
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