Al Jazeera Podcast--Tony Chang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRT7aYu4-f8

More suffering--illegal entry to Thailand surges as junt--conscripts at gunpoint.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/illegal-entry-arrests-surge-in-thailand-amid-forced-military-conscription-in-myanmar.html

USD up-gold up--kyat down--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-currency-hits-all-time-low-gold-surges-to-fresh-peak.html

trump verdict--

https://www.aol.com/news/verdict-inside-courtroom-donald-trump-005714815.html

Chickpea flour cookie recipe "Pe Hmont"--diabetes and diet friendly.

https://wanderingchickpea.com/2021/05/21/vegan-chickpea-chocolate-chip-cookies/ garbanzo beans are all protein.

There are also recipes using only chick pea flour.

Google around.

I like to roast my chickpea flour in dry pan--keep stirring w non-stick spoon--burns fast.

kg

Myanmar Coastal Commander removed + annual shuttle.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-coastal-commander-transferred-to-naypyitaw-after-battle-losses.html

Bombshell--by Rothmiller and Johnson, 2021.

https://www.amazon.com/Bombshell-Kennedy-Killed-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/1913543625/ref=asc_df_1913543625/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693585343647&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1669434298863022610&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007767&hvtargid=pla-1224034727039&psc=1&mcid=22fbfba652053ca59ecfd8d3b4f055d3&gad_source=1

Bobby and Jackie--This confirms what I saw from one photo--when he went to her Georgetown house and they were photographed in front of the front door.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5730760-bobby-and-jackie

A novel and an article more than 20 years old--Marilyn and Jackie--

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/22/fiction.features

The Land of Cockaigne--

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

AFP--Queer couple weds in Chiangmai--(via Irrawaddy)

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-lgbtq-couple-tie-knot-at-thai-pride.html

Dominick Dunne--

Dominick Dunne--An Inconvenient Woman--High Society-- https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Woman-Dominick-Dunne/dp/0517577631/ref=asc_df_0517577631/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693438327271&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14723745982511750295&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007767&hvtargid=pla-662750142849&psc=1&mcid=d46828f5b3da3b34980b32786bf0e452&gad_source=1&asin=0345522206&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

David Scott Mathieson on useless UN--over-paid too--

David Scott Mathieson on UN --in Irrawaddy--maybe fiddling like Nero--

• The ongoing United Nations Protection of Civilians Week only underscores decades of failure and fiddling as the world’s conflict zones burn. Read more https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmar-and-the-international-protection-racket.html

I am sick and tired of the Burmese on Facebook--

Note: I am not endorsing China,India,America or anybody--except the underprivileged and the oppressed. If you can't look beyond the racist, extreme "nationalist" model--DO NOT visit this blog.

Mao Zedong--

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

How to remember a Chinese name--

Chu--clan name or family name

Teh-Chun first or given name--

so in Chinese I would be

Kong Qi Mei.

Look up the meanings of each name online.

Differentiate Wade-Giles spelling/transliteration fromnew Pinyin spelling--

e.g--Mao Zedong from old spelling-

5-25-2024

Chu Teh-Chun wiki--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Teh-Chun

Special post Chu Teh-Chun's abstract landscapes--

Chu Teh-Chun's Abstract Landscapes Dazzle in a Rare Retrospective

45,000 Rohingya flee--allegations of beheadings, burned villages since Arakan Army took over--

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25/some-45000-rohingya-flee-amid-allegations-of-beheading-burning-in-myanmar

Reposting--Mun Awng--Bloody Storm--

Subject: My favorite Revolutionary song out of 1988 Mun Awng--Blood Storm

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

The lyrics are very good. Informal translation: T

he blood storm is raging.

Destroy the old structures/systems create a new world.

Illustrated on stage with tableau vivant from famous photos.

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

R

est in Protest.

It never ends.

1-20-2023

Olaf Scholz on why Putin will fail--This applies equally to why Myanmar crisis shld not be ignored.

The most fundamental promise any government owes its citizens is to provide for their safety and security, in all of its dimensions. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/23/olaf-scholz-on-why-vladimir-putins-brutal-imperialism-will-fail

Excellent water color portrait.

Also read Timothy Snyder On Tyranny--it's a very slim but very impt book.

kmk

5-25-2025

Myanmar--female prisoners sexually abused.

ICG--on Funding the Resistance--

https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/328-crowdfunding-war-money-behind-myanmars-resistance

PBS, BBC videos--Burma/Myanmar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_R_jzs6sPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZtrdS_nxY

Blog hits--#1 Zhen Fanzhi at Venice Biennale --followed by Sex Ed wiki--

Singapore Airlines serious injuries, happened over Myanmar too.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/hospital-reports-brain-skull-and-spine-injuries-from-turbulent-singapore-flight.html

Jefferson and Sally Hemmings' descendant--so handsome--so tall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7SUDX3jVU

Lafayette who came at his own expense to fight for America--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette

Alexis de Tocqueville--who wrote Democracy in America--

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

US Government Checks and Balances

Redoute's painting of a rose--

Helen Frankenthaler's art studio

Neither sex nor religion should be carried to extremes--

Sex education wiki--

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

Burma is the pits.

With the civil war,really theun-civil violent war, 3m displaced,increase in rapes --you nameit--

Burma oops myanmar will be a hellhole--Talking about things ahead is better than hush hush--

esp if you are a father,mother,uncle, aunt,or for yourself.

my muslim friend had never had a gynecological exam in her life--the last I spoke toher when she was 40+

died of breast cancer--

never married,had no children,prepared for death--got her wish. 5-23-2024

Male menopause--educate yourself.

https://www.webmd.com/men/male-menopause

Female and Males--post menopausal symptoms and problems--Mayo Clinic.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vaginal-atrophy/symptoms-causes/syc-20352288

Flower helmet

We did not come into this world to be judged by our skin color, our race, our so-called nationalism, our gender, our height, our weight.

Kudos to all who have put their lives on the line.

THANK YOU.

First Black Woman--US Air Force Pilot--so proud.

https://www.aol.com/news/she-first-black-woman-fly-172536362.html

UK, USA travel advisories don't go to Burma out again.

"situation in Myanmar increasingly volatile.

5-23-2024

Katherine Anne Porter--Old Mortality--

I just read Katherine Porter's Old Mortality--from her 3 novella collection--Pale Horse, Pale Rider

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

I was almost about to put it aside for my yard sale book table in July.

It's great--the Southern family is so real, Uncle Gabriel obsessed with Aunt Amy,

the botched duel, Miranda, Miranda's father.

The aunt "with the weak chin" fighting for the women's vote--it's all so real.

One feels like Miranda sitting in the train carriage working out her life--she's clearly KAP's alter ego.

The sister Maria is just a foil.

The restrictions of genteel families and the judgemental, gossipy attitudes.

Too bad KAP was nominated for the Nobel Prize 5 times but never won it.

I've put my copy back on my Keep pile.

Kyi May Kaung

5-23-2024

CNN--on Rohingya--whole town is burning + music video--

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/asia/myanmar-rohingya-arson-buthidaung-intl-hnk/index.html

Dylan Thomas: It's all a matter of touch and go, whether I wake up or no--Good night.

OK--let's go back and read The Good Earth--which I read in Burma when Iwas 10-12 years old--and The Thorn Birds which I read in America in the 1980s,while working on an Ivy LeaguePh.D.--

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Earth-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0743272935/ref=asc_df_0743272935/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693409812949&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2663830802451019462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-435415167115&psc=1&mcid=e3d80a4040723842bd290f439a6cb892&gad_source=1

Chosen by Harper's Bazaar--doesn't look readable to me--again--you decide. I really can't relate to rich Asians or rich whites--

https://www.amazon.com/Divorcees-Rowan-Beaird/dp/1250896584/ref=asc_df_1250896584/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693418505646&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13916940045977829512&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-2241887602727&psc=1&mcid=65718850c4df3668841af395ef89956e&gad_source=1&asin=1250896584&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

I think The Idea of You is better than this--you decide--

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Story-Novel-Karen-Kingsbury/dp/1451687591/ref=asc_df_1451687591/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693590480367&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9573968392280199269&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-434735578223&psc=1&mcid=c854fd08b3343f11a66deacdf00d0ed9&gad_source=1

Love Story--By Eric Segal--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(novel)

To Kern--By Alexander Pushkin--

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To***_Kern

Anton Chekhov--

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

A friend just gave me this book--Isabel Wilkerson--Caste--

https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins-Discontents-Isabel-Wilkerson/dp/0593230256

Islands in the Stream--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Dolly+PartonIslands+in+the+Stream#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e3fe2a21,vid:FjyPQ0c42Ss,st:0

K.Kaung--short story--FGM.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_vote_lft?ie=UTF8&csrfT=hNKmxrGXqe2ud97V8Vq626eO6AijpiChSVIFuM%2BYvFwnAAAAAGZOzYwAAAAB&reviewId=RXLPPPYQHB7SY#RXLPPPYQHB7SY

K.Kaung--No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories--

https://www.amazon.com/Crib-Other-Stories-Novellas-Book-ebook/dp/B00JW2ZD40

KM.Kaung--The Lovers--A Novella--

https://www.amazon.com/Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-Book-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU

Largest number of blog hits--Zheng Fanzhi--followed by Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma--This gives me great hope.

Zheng Fanzhi at Venice Biennale--

Special post--Zheng Fanxi at Venice Biennale--line vs surface--analogous w Chuck Close Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/zeng-fanzhi-near-and-farnow-and-then Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Zhneg+Fanzhi+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:502174e0,vid:_NRKfCL53Fo,st:0

Arsenal Military Academy--C-Drama--

https://www.soompi.com/article/1369437wpp/strong-friendships-and-slow-burn-romance-4-reasons-to-watch-c-drama-arsenal-military-academy

Volcanos--Mount St Helens--Mt Ibu

https://www.aol.com/news/photos-show-mount-st-helens-105801524.html

I could not post the links--check out MSNBC site and wikipedia--on Richard Engel.

Better link--Richard Engel on Raisi's death--

Richard Engel on Raisi's death--

blockquote> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel

Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War.[3] He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel received the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary". Engel wrote A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His most recent book, And Then All Hell Broke Loose, published in 2016, is about his two-decade career in the Middle East as a freelance reporter.

qu

ote fr wiki

5-20-2024

Asian American Lit.--Chanel Miller--

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/books/chanel-miller-magnolia-wu-know-my-name.html

ICC calls for Netanyahu & Hamas leader, Raisi dead, Burma-Chin, Kachin victories +

Burma hyperinflation, UN warns more atrocities and Irrawaddy book reviews. https://www.irrawaddy.com/category/culture/books <

I am very busy--use Google daily news-- kg. 5-20-2024

Miscarriage--medical info--

https://www.webmd.com/baby/pregnancy-miscarriage

USA--roasting the whole hog

https://www.aol.com/memphis-bbq-contest-pitmasters-sweat-050246801.html

Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers "hard landing."

https://www.aol.com/news/rescuers-iran-trying-reach-helicopter-124226971.html

Arakan Army claims taken all of Buthidaung, KIA claims shot down junta helicopter.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/aa-claims-seizure-of-buthidaung-near-bangladesh-border.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/kia-claims-myanmar-junta-helicopter-shot-down.html

New theories--Fall of Roman Empire--

https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/a-plague-comes-before-the-fall-lessons-from-roman-history/

demi moore red carpet fashons--

https://www.aol.com/demi-moore-became-fashion-darling-090000083.html

NYT--6 new paperbacks

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/17/books/review/new-paperbacks-berest.html

NYT first person story--wild night left young man almost paralyzed--read it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/style/modern-love-my-twisted-path-to-a-meaningful-life.html

Foreign volunteers joining Burma Resistance--

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/western-volunteers-join-the-battle-against-myanmars-military-regime

Burma--more conscripts at gunpoint,Rohingya --photos fr Himal, Rohingya food aid

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/conscription-crisis-myanmars-military-is-recruiting-young-men-at-gunpoint.html

https://www.himalmag.com/politics/rohingya-photographer-dispatch-on-food-aid-cuts-in-the-refugee-camps-coxs-bazar?utm_source=NewsletterSubscribers&utm_campaign=5b2c646555-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_23_2023_13_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_949b3d6c7a-5b2c646555-521020180

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/346520/us-norwary-announces-over-8.2m-to-support? utm_source=NewsletterSubscribers&utm_campaign=5b2c646555-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_23_2023_13_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_949b3d6c7a-5b2c646555-521020180&__cf_chl_tk=qs_z.4EE5aiRUKiflj9so75WFQKc1qYPgadbecZ6SDQ-1715988694-0.0.1.1-1898

During an emergency--floods--(MD)

During an Emergency

Listen to the radio or local news for information.

If you have time, bring in outdoor furniture. Move essential items to an upper floor.

Do not walk through moving water. Six inches of moving water can make you fall. ...

Do not drive into flooded areas.

Floods - Maryland Department of Emergency Management

Flood and heat warnings (Houston)--but applicable everywhere except for 911

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rare-high-risk-warning-flash-flooding-issued-texas/story?id=110298719

Kachin victories, amber hub, vow to carry on despite death of chief of staff--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/kia-hails-victory-over-myanmar-junta-despite-death-of-chief-of-staff.html

Cowboy in Manhatten--

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

Va Pensiero--Met at Home Gala--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7D9BZ-sAVs

Terrible--Asean and Indian air force--supporting the m junta--read all of Irrawaddy daily--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/myanmar-junta-indian-air-force-brass-meet-amid-regimes-aerial-campaign-of-terror.html

K.M.Kaung--The Rider of Crocdiles

https://www.amazon.com/Rider-Crocodiles-Based-Stories-Novellas/dp/1497498368

Freida McFadden--best-selling author--

https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/freida-mcfadden-on-writing-a-long-first-draft

Mizzima.com--puppets satire etc.

https://eng.mizzima.com/

"Say he's overseas for a hemoroid operation."

Myanmar Nationals now need unique ID number to leave.

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-now-need-unique-identifier-numbers-to-leave-the-country/

Celebrity gossip--strange bedfellows---

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-headed-for-a-divorce/

Can't get on Irrawaddy today--what's up???

Steve Jobs wiki

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

Bob Dylan--Blowing in the Wind

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

This Land is MyLand--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

Christmas in the Trenches

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=X%27mas+in+the+treches+original#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c3f1b8b0,vid:5JwXfdz2C7Q,st:0

Trapped--3 coastal villages Tenasserim

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/as-war-rages-in-myanmars-south-coastal-villages-are-caught-in-the-crossfire.html

Htamin Ma Sar--don't eat rice.

Leik Thaung--Turtle Dune.

Lel Phet? La Hpet? pickled tea (salad) kmk

The obsessions of some rich white women--

https://www.aol.com/entertainment/nikki-glaser-brutally-honest-why-010713309.html

VP Kamala Harris' Night Market Party--

https://dc.eater.com/2024/5/15/24155616/vice-president-kamala-harris-mangoes-residence-white-house-aapi-month-may

Slovak PM shot and critically wounded --

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/15/world/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shooting

USA--Vasectomies of men under age 30 increase after Roe reversal--

https://www.aol.com/news/vasectomies-among-men-under-30-181040070.html

Conscription timeline--myanmar

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/politics/timeline-myanmar-junta-fast-tracks-conscription-law-implementation.html

Nikkei Asia--

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-resistance-leaders-present-united-front-in-Tokyo

Conscription/abduction--increase in Mandalay--local admin not told

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/a-conscription-crackdown-is-rolling-through-myanmars-second-largest-city.html

Harry Belafonte--Oh Island in the Sun--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JW4aHHm5Q

Resistance wins--maps--State by State--Burma

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/myanmar-ethnic-armed-groups-advances-against-junta-state-by-state-breakdown.html

From French Revolution wikipedia--quote

some French Protestants actively supported an anti-Catholic regime, a resentment fuelled by Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire.[67] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, considered a philosophical founder of the revolution,[68][69][70] wrote it was "manifestly contrary to the law of nature... that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities, while the hungry multitude goes in want of necessities."[71]

Video--Zaw Win Pe in his studio.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ZawWin+Pw#fpstate=ive&ip=1&vld=cid:6db02bac,vid:KF7GjqkN4TQ,st:0

ZawWin Pe, artist and his landscape abstracts.

Popmpeii, Herculanium, Mount Vesuvius

Myanmar peace accord brokered by former Thai PMThaksin unlikely to succeed.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/ex-thai-pm-thaksins-half-baked-peace-plan-for-myanmar-unlikely-to-take-off-expert.html

More Myanmar news--

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-massacre-of-civilians-by-army-c4b65ef8a61b327d77950e237a5b80b1

more Myanmar--Tabayin (Depayin) killings--etc

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/sagaing-monastery-killings-05132024074121.html --South China Morning Post

US-China proxy war worries fuel nations’ reluctance to get involved in Myanmar

Reports of army killing of villagers in Myanmar supported by photos and harrowing tale of a survivor

4 links

5-13-2024

Herculaneum--

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

Bodmer Papyri--

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

Melinda French Gates resigns

https://www.aol.com/melinda-french-gates-resigns-gates-173200242.html

ThayminTaman--Death Squads--at Bago checkpoints etc.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/grim-reaper-or-myanmar-army-bago-checkpoints-exact-heavy-toll.html

US Government--Temporary Protected Status--

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/secretary-mayorkas-announces-extension-and-redesignation-of-burma-myanmar-for-temporary-protected

Burmese scholars in Australia--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5eT52-3zEc

All the variations of feather and fan--the skies and the depth of your pocket book are the limit.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Feather+and+Fan+Scarf&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=839bd3d9177a184d&sca_upv=1&cs=0&biw=1024&bih=518&sxsrf=ADLYWII4S3UzZ7y_HLvYdozebrGuc41yOQ%3A1715458120805&ei=SNA_ZvHUMK6i5NoP_-qJkAg&ved=0ahUKEwjxmKu_s4aGAxUuEVkFHX91AoIQ4dUDCA8&oq=Feather+and+Fan+Scarf&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFUZlYXRoZXIgYW5kIEZhbiBTY2FyZkgAUABYAHAAeAGQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQzIAQCYAgCgAgCYAwCSBwCgBwA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Northern Lights last night.

https://www.aol.com/farmingdale-photographer-captures-northern-lights-173847895.html

Elegant Pitta et al--more but I got tired--read Wikipedia

PyinooLwin--closer we draw to thee

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/war-inches-closer-to-pyin-oo-lwin-a-military-haven/

Junta bombs Magwe Monastery--at least 15 killed--see also Myanmar Now

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-bombs-magwe-monastery.html

Jascha Heifetz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFaq9kTlcaY

Quote of the Day--from Carl Sandburg--

There are freedom shouters and

there are freedom whisperers, both may serve. Have you, have I,

been too silent?

Pressure of celebrity marriages--Shaquille O'Neal--

https://www.aol.com/shaquille-oneal-ex-wife-saying-131840717.html

Myan.rebuffs Hun Sen request, threatens fishingvillage etc--TNLA--says--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/myanmar-junta-rebuffs-hun-sens-request-to-meet-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi.html

Mozart's Alla Turca--half of Brooklyn Duo--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=alla+turca+brooklyn+duo#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:641cd21b,vid:A_THdzBnHy0,st:0 Her husband plays the cello.

Heat stroke symptoms--

Symptoms: Throbbing headache, confusion, nausea, dizziness, body temperature above 103°F, hot, red, dry or damp skin, rapid and strong pulse, fainting, loss of consciousness. First Aid: Call 911 or get the victim to a hospital immediately. Heat stroke is a severe medical emergency.

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A Forgotten War--Hannah Beech--New YorkTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/briefing/myanmar-civil-war.html

Wow--David Eubank--Do this for Love--Free Burma Rangers in Battle for Mosul--

https://www.amazon.com/Do-This-Love-Rangers-Battle/dp/1637586949/ref=asc_df_1637586949/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693611442412&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=929452147232804646&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-1665880238089&psc=1&mcid=d1f6440e553637fdbb13138f9116aa4f&gad_source=1&asin=B088MM57Z8&revisionId=e24e4961&format=1&depth=1

And where does the Wow come from?

From the first lines and the front lines, that war is loud. It's different from the movies in that you can die, not just get wounded. -

-Eubank has the same quote from Elie Wiesel that I have on the top of my blog.

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo.

https://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com/

5-8-2024

Burmese Massacres List--Myanmar Massacres--

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

Myanmar Civil War wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%93present)

Irrawaddy--today 5-8-2024-- Airstrike on hospital, inside Shwekoko scam center, Hun Sen asks--etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/apocalypse-myanmar-doctor-describes-deadly-junta-airstrike-on-mindat-hospital.html

Al Jazeera + Myanmar Now--warning --graphic--

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-a-rapidly-changing-civil-war-means-for-the-future-of-myanmar

Fighting intensifies as Myanmar military clashes with ethnic armed groups across the country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXxjF4HPAoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-m6iYsuPLk

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/war-inches-closer-to-pyin-oo-lwin-a-military-haven/

5 links

5-7-2024

War against thejunta--PBS interview --

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-a-rapidly-changing-civil-war-means-for-the-future-of-myanmar

John Donne--part of small house he lived in, portraits and hand-written sonnet.

Daw Mi Mi Khaing, Sao Sai Mong and family--

The Diplomat--Expert Opinions on present Myanmar--"new phase" ofwar against junta.

https://thediplomat.com/2024/05/myanmars-revolution-has-entered-a-new-more-complicated-phase/

Death be Not Proud--by John Donne--

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44107/holy-sonnets-death-be-not-proud

Asian-American Literature + Oldest living Japanese-American--

Oldest living Japanese American, 110, shares her longevity tips and the 1 food she eats every day

https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Shandong-Eve-J-Chung/dp/0593640535

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Americans-novel-Rachel-Khong/dp/0593537254?asin=0593537254&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

3 links.

5-7-2024

Junta blows up Arakan bridge, border gate re-opens,BGF orders--etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-linked-armed-group-orders-foreign-scammers-out-of-myawaddy.html

From Myanmar Now--junta helicopter shot down, Sunprabum, Magwe oil rig--

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/karenni-resistance-forces-shoot-down-junta-helicopter/

In 1960s family friend of ours, son of very famous medical couple, sent to Sunprabum.

In photo here it is even smaller than I thought.

He's now in Brunei.

kmk

5-6-2024

Vogels who amassed world class art collection.

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

Easy cable crochet--but yarn hog and my tension uneven--pulled it apart--another time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBi3RgBbV2A

Resources for amputees--special magazine--Amplitude.

https://livingwithamplitude.com/article/putting-love-to-the-test-amputations-effect-on-marriage-and-relationships/

Evolution of dolphins and whales--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYuwJTY6_4

I'm not a fan of armies, but here is Sandhurst--where Saw Kya Doe went.

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

Pavarotti--Torna a Surriento --

https://www.google.com/search?q=Retourna+a+Solento+youtube&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=57708bdfdc131420&sca_upv=1&ei=gsU2ZobXONbk5NoP9fOs-A8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4c736777,vid:HbUfpQ9Nmbw,st:0

Blog post hits--Highest--NUG. Bravo! Images--Burmese Man and Woman--19th century.

Major paradigm shift in demographics--US-Mexico Border--migration--

https://www.aol.com/news/world-changed-wechat-snakeheads-era-100000051.html

I believe, like Nial Ferguson, it will become Chimerica.

I should have learned Mandarin when my late prof. Hebert Levine, a Russia and China expert suggested it.

kmk

5-4-2024

Hulegu Khan--grandson of Genghis

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

Alamut--original home of Hashishim (Assassins)--conquered by Mongol Hulegu

Gospel of Matthew --

Dawna Hills--

Rare--Aung San Suu Kyi and family with Dora (Daw Than E-Fend)+in Bhutan-DO NOT FORGET THE LADY.

Maybe trivia--is Cangjie related to Kanji--I have no opinion on this--know neither Japanese nor Mandarin--

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/mtyxvm/is_the_chinese_name_cangjie_related_to_the/?rdt=54645

My novella Black Rice--

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520

It was originally part of a much longer autobiographical novel starting with my parents waiting out World War II in Yawngwe,under the protection of the Yawngwe (Nyaungshwe)sawbwa.

I happened to show it to an African-American friend of mine--who suggested I send it out.

It's inspired by my cousin's story--but all the rest is fictional, a conflation of many stories plus my imagination.

To the writer/reader who wanted to know "what happened to him," of course I know.

He also appears as Uncle Ah Par in Wolf.

As to how he ends up, you'll have to wait.

In my autobiographical novel, Black Rice is not a major character.

He's one of the confused, involved with Bright Sun.

That's all I can say.

My writing is deisgned for you to think.

I don't think he's a cruel man--just mixed up.

There are tons ofpeople like that--too bad. In the end they stand by and do nothing.

But the piper eventually needs tobe paid.

Kyi May Kaung

5-1-2024

Maggie Haberman talks to Kaitlin Collins about Trump in courtroom--

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/video/trump-court-trump-demeanor-haberman-src-digvid

Columbia Univ--UCLA--demonstrations--police raids

https://www.aol.com/news/showdown-columbia-university-between-protesters-234804099.html

DW interviews 3 notable women--Can the opposition win ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfrSYWUdY0

Judson--First Christian Missionary in Burma--

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