David Bowie's hit song Change - sound track for so-called change in Burmese capital Naypyitaw or King's Royal City -

quite brilliant, esp the stuttering :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif


Google map of Naypyitaw -

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Naypyidaw.htm

NPT on wiki-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naypyidaw

More photos of NPT while under construction

http://www.sequential-one.com/blog/?p=895&cpage=2#comment-141437


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--- On Thu, 9/15/11, wrote:


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Subject: To wet your appetite (if at all!) - from my next essay - Change, change, change, changes...
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Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 10:01 AM

For the Burma and Burmese sceptics, David Bowie’s “Changes”
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/davihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd bowie/changes.html


both the
lyrics and the music, may be more meaningful to ponder and pleasant to
our ears than the Brahminic verses about the supposedly fast-paced
changes in Naypyidaw .

Here is my favourite stanza:

“I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through”

The Wiki entry says, Bowies’ 40-year-old lyrics may be read as “a
manifesto for his chameleonic personality, sexual ambiguity, and
frequent reinventions of his musical style throughout the 1970s”.

The current Brahminic discourse of Naypyidaw’s changes with their
dizzying paces is neither as sexy nor as ambiguous.

Beneath the mirage of changes, the chameleonic seniors and juniors in
generals’ uniform are simply reinventing their grip on society,
economy and politics.

Notes by Zarni.