This C-drama clip is very good, well-written, acted---dialog well-dubbed and poetric.

It's the Legend of Han Mulan.

I read Maxine HongKingston's Woman Warrior a long time ago, but I did not understand it that well.

Also on a very long flight to Bangkok the Disney version was playing on neighboring consoles with no sound.

I seldom read or watch TV on long flights--It makes me dizzy.

The next time I saw it was on the chemo nurse's iPad while getting a lot of chemo pumped into me intravenously and then kept on for about 48 hours.

Naturally, I did not remember anything.

Must read up a bit about it.

The chemo was really grueling though I asked for the lowest possible dose.

I could not open the frig without wearing gloves.

My jaw bone stung when I tried to drink some orange juice.

I gave up after 2 intravenous sessions and went back to oral chemo.

Now I am still alive, of course with lots of tests, all the time.

Last year 2 young men aged about 55-65, brilliant, well-educated, with the whole world before them died of 2 different kinds of cancer.

If you think I write too much and share too much and maybe don't meditate enough, well, that is the reason why.

I feel I have to do something for those who died too soon, not completing their normal life cycle.

The cancers were different from mine, at least one was stage 4, the other had a very rare kind of cancer I had never heard of before.

My advice is always get regular checkups, go to qualified doctors and specialists, buy the best insurance you can and do what they tell you.

It's better to have doctors and specialists looking after you, than to rely on some el cheapo person.

If in doubt seek out 2nd or 3rd opinions.

Read up and educate yourself.

Read Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Remedies.

When I saw friend J.(changed initial) the last time summer of 2024, he was very cheerful,though maybe in pain.

His mind was very clear. He knew about the blood-brain barrier. He said his oncologist--one of 13! just for cancer! --had already put him on that.

Unfortunately, both men went through a lot.

Kyi May Kaung

3-3-2026

The Buddha and Nanda.

The male and the female Nanda were siblings who fell in love with each other and were to be married.

The female Nanda was said to be very vain about her looks.

The Buddha made her see Impermanence by showing her a vision of a palace attendant growing old and dying before her eyes.

Like a time lapse photo.

Tamara Lempiska painted the man who posed for Rodin's The Kiss when he was old. Rheumy face with crud at the corners of his eyes.

There's also a Rodin with the title "I was once the blacksmith's beautiful daughter," --A seated woman, very thin, about age 70, her shanks sunken and stuck to her bones.

Google and look for things.

kmk