Thursday, May 16, 2024
Mizzima.com--puppets satire etc.
https://eng.mizzima.com/
"Say he's overseas for a hemoroid operation."
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
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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]
Monday, May 13, 2024
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
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Thursday, May 09, 2024
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?
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
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.
Heat Cramps, Exhaustion, Stroke - National Weather Service
National Weather Service (.gov)
https://www.weather.gov › safety › heat-illness
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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
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
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
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
Monday, May 06, 2024
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
Sunday, May 05, 2024
Saturday, May 04, 2024
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
Friday, May 03, 2024
Thursday, May 02, 2024
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
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
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