Friday, December 19, 2008

Saki (H.H. Munro) was born today, Dec 18, in Akyab, Burma --

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/happy-birthday/2008/Dec/Saki.html

Very interesting. I did not know this, nor his "Burma connection" in colonial military police force in Burma, so like George Orwell's.

I also did not know he died of a sniper's bullet while an enlisted soldier.

I wish more native Burmese wrote/write in English then and now.

Kyi May Kaung

On Youtube--hard to find this movie, and hard to find a free one--this one starts very strange--

but ends sweetly. It's called On the Rebound. "Older woman" by 5 years ???!!! That's nothing. My male cousin married s...