Writer/survivor U Win Tin's portrait from last March

Photos sent by mutual friends -

Some images from Burma - Nicholas Asfouri, Getty Images

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2009/10/daily-life-in-myanmar.html

New peaks on this my KyiMayKaung Blog

12-29-2012 total page views in one day - 538 - previous highs in 300-400 range. Hits on New Dehli gang rape victim dies - 101 Previous high (new Rangoon Silk Shop) - 92 Blog hits in USA - 1288 yesterday. What these blog stats have told me is that my primary audience is outside Burma and mostly in N. America and that the number of blog hits from Burma is very low - 36 last week. So much for the much asked Q in writing groups: Who is your primary audience? BTW - being read by women is no mean joke - as any politician knows. Kyi May Kaung

Life and marriage among highest of high class Brahmins - where a woman is "it"

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/5137-bridesourcing.html

My comment ref. Matt Damon and fracking movie - on Kanlaon's blog

What a coincidence - I am still mulling over whether I want to see movie Les Miz - quite obvious even in trailer that AH cannot really sing up to Broadway standards - and what would be the point of a musical if the music fails? Paul Simon talking about something else: "Beyond a certain point it isn't even musical." BTW - there's an excellent interview of Matt Damon and the movie about fracking on NPR by Terry Gross. ref. the point about how natural he is on screen, this interview included a quote from the movie and his accent and intonation were just the same as in the interview, only way you knew it was a movie clip was in the different quality of the overall sound. No fancy theatrics for Matt Damon. Kyi May Kaung

Burma - 2 literary novels by Generation 88 leaders

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/22611

Scarsdale diet doctor's convicted killer dies

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/29/us/connecticut-jean-harris-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The True Subject - poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, translated by Naomi Lazard

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/faiz-1988-true-subject-selected.html

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316219363#reader_0316219363

From 2009, Aaron Brown interview of Maureen Aung-Thwin

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/eyes-of-the-storm/aaron-brown-interview-maureen-aung-thwin/5439/#comments

Chinese poet Fang Xianghai - "aiming his cock"

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/15379/Fang-Xianhai I aim myself at the urinal/ holding my breath/ but my prostate suddenly refuses to function/ they stand there behind me sizing things up/ leaning against a dirty white wall puffing away/ and in the buzz of the nicotine/ they're probably getting to grips with all the ins and outs of a teacher's cock/ that done, they signal their common knowledge with furtive laughter/

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Conference in Rangoon -

http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/Myanmarconfwebpage.htm

New Dehli gang rape victim dies - Indian gov. files murder charges

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/29/world/asia/india-rape-victim/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Burma extreme risk for business and rights abuses -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/21531 Ain't it loverly??

Burma - 90 secs. to escape plane which burned in 3 mins.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/22352

Poet Louise Gluck over 50 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-louise-glucks-poems-1962-2012/2012/12/27/c54fa088-4a02-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html?hpid=z26

New Dehli rape victim battling for her life in Singapore Hospital

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/world/asia/india-rape-victim/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Her vital signs are shutting down and there may be severe organ failure. Rape is not a jeering or leering crime.

From poet to painter -

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/design/peter-sackss-new-paintings-at-paul-rodgers-9w.html?ref=design&_r=0

All male ballet company Trocks tackles Russian ballet Laurencia

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/arts/dance/ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo-take-on-laurencia.html?ref=arts It makes sense that men would dance ballet well because of their physical strength.

Amazon deletes fake book reviews on site

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/technology/amazon-book-reviews-deleted-in-a-purge-aimed-at-manipulation.html?ref=technology&_r=1&