Thursday, April 23, 2026

Bo Zin Yaw mention--2024.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-summons-lord-of-the-white-elephant-for-salvation.html

Sagaing Map--but it does not show villages.

http://www.asterism.info/states/12/map.html

Min Aung Hlaing says considering "good things" for DawAung San Suu Kyi--

But "kaung hmu" can also mean doing charity for someone already dead--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/politics/regime-considering-good-things-for-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-min-aung-hlaing-says.html

From 2024--Ogre battalion commander seized.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/notorious-ogre-column-commander-seized-resistance-group.html

From 2023--Orge Battalion--Sagaing.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/ogre-04192023150057.html

Survivor testimony--Pazigyi

vacuum bombs such as those used in Pazigyi, Sagaing, 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon

How to write a good non-fiction piece--like this. The Guardian, "Equadorian fishermen who survived US drone attack speak up."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivors

US Naval Secretary Phelan fired as blockade of Hormuz continues.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/politics/john-phelan-navy-secretary-leaving

Trump media replaces CEO Devin Nunes as its losses over 1 b.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-devin-nunes-leaving-kevin-mcgurn-crypto-djt-stock/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Oil is back up above $100 as Iran attacks 3 ships in Strait of Hormuz.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/oil-prices-today-iran-trump-aabad455?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjCf1skBMPfLFTD9t5IF&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AWEtsqds-RBN0ZkrCoKbSVb6ZYzOhj9sbP1K3Be-kThnPrAAfHI01PrCLngYgmWT5GxlH8FlW1Dw2Sfefn4%3D&gaa_ts=69e95879&gaa_sig=E_K3sDF9FIE_-HG8o4xRk9kYSzYqHLE-QsfTAJ1b6tIRpS5y5Z9QsJ3POkJ4YKtEf_9vHH89juT2Do1JE2i1kw%3D%3D

Spirit Airlines close to 500m bailout by Trump admin.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/business/spirit-airlines-federal-bailout

Judge tosses Kash Patel's defamation suit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-tosses-kash-patels-defamation-suit-former-msnbc-contributor-rcna341458?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Polygon-shaped rocks are not dragon scales--as dragons never existed anywhere--

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-a-surprising-number-of-giant-dragon-scales-littered-across-mars?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Another horrid Chinese story--cold and cruel prince--etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHjdmTHSWRs

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

John Irving's novels--best 5--

https://top5best.com/john-irving-books?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=6484&msclkid=766058ede519176ef7263105db36164a

Man who time travels--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew989_1L2zI

Best of Pavarotti and Friends--

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaOrMciSnv6-2l1D7OUwzA3ucBTTOHLl1

Memories of the Sword--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqbT04lDYA&t=252s

John Irving's The World according to Garp--I'm up to Vienna chapters now and am finding it interesting--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp

Whole lot of slapping going on--C--drama-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44SRyNWWMA

Nat Geo--volcanos of Hawaii--documentary--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfyx5bEZK80&list=PLXpRHw3z0O9KKPp1L2yDy38NF9PpiaZ1t&index=4

Obama and Mamdani sing with children in NY City.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0le5pdgdzwo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Friday, April 17, 2026

RFK Jr "health secretary"faces blistering criticism--

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kennedy-announces-policy-changes-faces-criticism-house-hearings-rcna332249?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Democrat wins House election--

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2026/04/16/analilia-mejia-special-house-election/

Acting ICE director to resign end of May--

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/todd-lyons-ice-director-resigns

Man wins Picasso painting for 2 raffle tickets--

https://newsforkids.net/articles/2026/04/16/1-2-million-picasso-painting-goes-for-118/
စီးပါြးေရးတကၠသိုလ္၏ ဖခင္ ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာကြီး ဒေါက်တာ ဦးအေးလှိုင်အား ဂါရ၀ထား ဦးထိပ်ပန်ဆင်လျှက်
ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ရုံးခန်းမှ (စာကူးစက်လှည့် ဦးကျော်စိန် - အငြိမ်းစား) ၏ အလုပ် နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဂုဏ်ရည်ကို တညီတညွှတ် လေးနက်စွာ ကျေးဇူးတင်သည့်မှတ်တမ်း
မှတ်တမ်းတင်ပြုစုအဖွဲ့(ဘောဂဗေဒ) ၁၁.၀၄-၂၀၂၆
စီးပါြးေရးတကၠသိုလ္ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ရုံးခန်းမှ (စာကူးစက်လှည့် ဦးကျော်စိန် - အငြိမ်းစား) ၈.၂.၂၀၂၆ နေ့တွင် မရမ်းကုန်း ၇ ရပ်ကွက် ရတနာလမ်း စီးပါြးေရးတကၠသိုလ္ ပါမောက္ခချုပ် ဦးအေးလှိုင်၏နေအိမ်တွင်ကွယ်လွန်သည် ‘စီးပါြးေရးတကၠသိုလ္ကြီးနဲ့အတူမွေးဖွားလာသူ’ ကိုကျော်စိန်အတွက် ရင်းနှီးသောဆရာဆရာမများရဲ့အမှတ်တရစကားလက်ဆောင်များ
၁။ မည်သူပဲ ဆုံးဆုံး အလုပ် သစ္စာရှိရှိ အထူးသဖြင့်တာရှည် အလုပ်လုပ်ကိုင်လာသူ မည်သူမဆိုရာထူး ကြီး ငယ်မရွေးကို အများသိစေ ၊သံဝေဂရ ဂုဏ်ပြုချီးမြှင့်ထိုက်ပါတယ်။ “In death, all human beings are equal”. စိတ်မကောင်းပါဘူး ဦးကျော်စိန် ကိုကျော်စိန် - မမတို့ဆရာမငယ်ဖြစ်ကတည်း က ဆရာကြီး ဦးအေးလှိုင် ရုံးခန်းမှာ အလုပ်ကောင်းကောင်း လုပ်ခဲ့တာကောင်းကောင်းသိတာပေါ့။ စိတ်မကောင်းပါဘူး။ ကိုကျော်စိန်လည်း ကောင်းရာမွန်ရာ ရောက် ပါစေ၊ ရောက်မှာပါ။ MEA မှတစုံတခုအလှူအဖြစ်မိသားစုကို ပေးဘို့မမအကြံပြုပါတယ် (ဆရာမကြီးဒေါ်ခင်ခင်သိန်း)
၂။ ဟုတ်တယ်မမ။သူ့ကိုသတိရပါတယ်၊ကျောင်းမှာ‌ကျောင်းသားဘဝ၊အလုပ်လုပ်တဲ့ကာလရင်းနှီးလာခဲ့ရတာ။ စိတ်ထားကောင်းမငြီးညူတဲ့ကိုကျော်စိန်တယောက်အေးချမ်းဘဝမှာနားနှိုင်ပါစေ နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ Economics Institute စီးပါြးေရးတကၠသိုလ္နဲ့ အတူ‌ပေါက်ဖွားလာတယ်လို့တောင်ပြောလို့ရသူပါ။ တကယ် စေတနာအပြည့် အလုပ်လုပ်ခဲ့သူပါ။‌မော်ကွန်းထိန်းအဆက်ဆက်မသိသူမရှိပါ။ ဆရာဦးရဲမြင့်သိမှာပါ။ ဆရာ ဆရာမများ‌တော်တော်များများလည်းသိကြပါတယ်။Eco-Alumniမှတင်ပြလာ၍သူဆုံးတာသိရပါတယ်‌ (ဆရာမခင်ပွင့်ဦး)
၃။ ကိုကျော်စိန်အတွက်အထူးဝမ်းနည်းရပါသည်။စာမေးပွဲများအတွက်အတူတူ(လျှို့ဝှက်) နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ အတူလုပ်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ကိုယ်လည်းတစ်နေ့သူ့လိုသေရအုန်းမည်ကိုသံဝေဂပွားမိပါသည်။ (ဆရာဦးရဲမြင့်)
၄။ I'm sorry Ko Kyaw Sein suffered Parkinsons and dementia in his old age, but glad he stayed with Saya's family all these years. Also, Ko Kyaw Sein, like his boss, never carried tales around, never gossiped, and was extremely discreet, never said more than a few words.
“Rest in Peace, dear Ko Kyaw Sein” (ဆရာမကြီးDr.KyiMayKaung,USA).
၅။ လူရိုးလူဧ လူကောင်းလေး ဦးကျော်စိန် ကောင်းရာဘုံဘဝရပါစေ။ ရမှာပါ ။ (ဆရာကြီးဦးကျော်မြင့်)
၆။ Ko Kyaw Sein was such a hardworking man, he never complained whenever I took down documents to be photocopied into several copies, always dignified (ဆရာမဒေါ်ခင်မျိုးမြင့်၊ Australia)
၇။ A “Symbol of sincerity” and “loyalty”, I have known him well since I was an undergraduate student. RIP (Saya U Kyaw Min Htun)
၈။ သစ္စာရှိ မှု ရိုးသားမှု အလုပ်တာဝန်ကျေမှုတွေနဲ့ပြည့်စုံတဲ့ ဦးကျော်စိန် ကောင်းရာသုဂတိလားပါစေ (ဦးကြည်ထွန်း၊ MEA, Chairman)
၉။ The final day will come for every one of us. What matters is the sharing of love and compassion among ourselves while we still breathe. (Saya U Yupa)
၁၀။ ကိုကျော်စိန်မိသားစုနဲ့ထပ်တူဝမ်းနည်းရပါတယ်။ မြင့်မြတ်တဲ့ဘုံဘဝမှာ အေးချမ်းပါစေ။ (ဆရာဦးသန်းရွှေ)
၁၁။ ကိုကျော်စိန်မိသားစုနှင့်အတူထပ်တူဝမ်းနည်းရပါတယ်။ (ဆရာဦးသိန်းနိုင်)
A record of unanimous deep appreciation of Ko Kyaw Sein’s workwise and personal attributes in the Institute of Economics, Yangon
“a man who was said to be born with the Institute of Economics” U Kyaw Sein (Retired) from the Rector's Office passed away on the 8.2.2026 at the residence of the Rector of the University of Economics, U Aye Hlaing, Ward 7, Yadana Road, Mayangone, Yangon
Memorial Words to U Kyaw Sein from Faculty Members 1. Whoever the person dying, any person having worked hard and loyally especially for a long time, deserves to be widely recognized, exemplified and honored, besides being held as an example for need to repent the uncertainty of life. “In death, all human beings are equal”. I am sorry, U Kyaw Sein. Ko Kyaw Sein - I know very well that you have done a good job in the office of U Aye Hlaing since I was a young teacher. I am sorry. May Ko Kyaw Sein receive a better future existence, and believing “you will get it”, I suggest MEA to give something to the family as a donation. (Daw Khin Khin Thein)
2. Yes, I remember him. We became close during our student and working days at the Institute of Economics. May Ko Kyaw Sein, who was a good-tempered person, rest in peace! He was a person who worked with the Economics Institute for many years. He was a person who worked with great dedication. He was a person known by all registrars (U Ye Myint knows). Many faculty members know him too. We only came to know of his death when Eco-Alumni shared the news. (Khin Pwint Oo)
3. I am very sorry for Ko Kyaw Sein. We worked together (confidentially) for exams for many years. It’s repentance that one day, like him, I will follow his path. (U Ye Myint)
4. I'm sorry Ko Kyaw Sein suffered Parkinsons and dementia in his old age, but glad he stayed with Saya's family all these years. Also, Ko Kyaw Sein, like his boss, never carried tales around, never gossiped, and was extremely discreet, never said more than a few words. “Rest in Peace, dear Ko Kyaw Sein” . (Dr. Kyi May Kaung, USA).
5. May the simple, kind person U Kyaw Sein have a good destination! Undoubtedly, he will. (Sayagyi U Kyaw Myint)
6. Ko Kyaw Sein was such a hardworking man, he never complained whenever I took down documents to be photocopied into several copies, always dignified (Daw Khin Myo Myint, Australia) 7. A “symbol of sincerity and loyalty”. I have known him well since I was an undergraduate student. RIP (U Kyaw Min Tun) 8. May U Kyaw Sein, who was full of sincerity, honesty, and dedication to his duties, achieved a happy rebirth (U Kyi Tun, Chairman: Myanmar Economics Association) 9. The final day will come for every one of us. What matters is the sharing of love and compassion among ourselves while we still breathe (U Yupa) 10. My condolences to the Ko Kyaw Sein family. May he rest in peace in a noble life (U Than Shwe) 11. My condolences go out to Ko Kyaw Sein family (U Thein Naing) A donation to honor the deceased (names removed) TOTAL: 1,000,000/- (Ten Hundred Thousand Kyats Only) Photo: Handing over a donation to a bereaved family L to R: Photo: Institute of Economics where Ko Kyaw Sein worked for until he retired

Trying to get photo of Ko Kyaw Sein--bear with me--

memorial for U Kyaw Sein who worked in Saya Aye Hlaing's office--Inst of Ecos, Rangoon--

[Image 111.jpg] of Sayagyi Dr Aye Hlaing 2. Underneath the photo of Sayagyi to mention - စီးပွားရေး တကသိုလ် (spelling to correct) ၏ဖခင် ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာကြီး ဒေါက်တာ ဦးအေးလှိုင်အား ဂါရ၀ထား ဦးထိပ်ပန်ဆင်လျှက်
3. ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ရုံးခန်းမှ (စာကူးစက်လှည့် ဦးကျော်စိန် - အငြိမ်းစား) ၏
အလုပ် နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဂုဏ်ရည်ကို တညီတညွှတ် လေးနက်စွာ ကျေးဇူးတင်သည့်မှတ်တမ်း

This is very good--Story of a brief marriage--highly recommended--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_a_Brief_Marriage