Sunday, October 25, 2015

A good thing to read at Thadingyut--our Economics Mentors in Rangoon--

A good thing to read at Thadingyut, when we pay tribute to our elders--

Non-fiction:
Print. Edited by Kyi Kaung:
Co-authors: Daw Khin Khin Thein, Khin Pwint Oo, Ma Myo Nwe, U Hla Phyu Chit, Daw Sin Theingie, Daw Tin Htar Nu, Daw Yee May Kaung, Dr. Khin Saw Nyein.
Kindle edition below:

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Poetry post--Minor husband by Han Lyn





Minor Husband



The door bursts open with a BANG!

Lover is caught in shock.



Cops and civilians

Enter the room.



Lover is dazed.



Lover quickly slips back into his jeans.

Why the hell are you here? Lover asks.

Lover has no idea
 
He’s been a minor husband.



You slut!

An elderly man who came in with the cops slaps

Lover’s woman, who is draped in a white towel.



Lover is speechless.



Lover realizes the situation

at that very moment.



Lover is terrified.

Lover is frightened.



Lover didn’t know

His girlfriend was married.

She is another man’s wife.

Now Lover is being lectured.



The elderly man and the young man.

The major husband and the minor husband.

Two husbands for one woman?



No, no!

I …, I am not her minor husband.


Lover denies.



You’ve been caught on top of her.

You still want to plead innocent?


They harass Lover.



I … I … let me explain.

Lover stammers. Apologies in profusion.

Lover woefully insists he is guiltless.



Shut up!

You can talk as much as you want at the police station.

Lover is being handcuffed.



Ten minutes ago

Lover was a hero in bed. 

Now he is a wife thief,

A minor husband.







from Para by Han Lynn translated by 
Nyein Nyein Pyae, Kenneth Wong & ko ko thett 
Chant Chan Books [Yangon] October 2015 



လင္ငယ္

၀ုန္းခနဲ တံခါးပြင့္သြားလို႔
လင္ငယ္ လန္႔သြားတယ္

ရဲေတြ အရပ္၀တ္ေတြ
အခန္းထဲ၀င္လာတယ္

လင္ငယ္ ေၾကာင္သြားတယ္

ဂ်င္းေဘာင္းဘီကို အျမန္ယူ၀တ္
ေဒါသတၾကီး ေအာ္ဟစ္တယ္
ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ဒါဘာလုပ္တာလဲ
သူ႔ကိုယ္သူ လင္ငယ္မွန္းမသိတဲ့ လင္ငယ္

ကိုယ္မွာတဘက္အျဖဴပတ္ထားတဲ့မိန္းမကို
အသက္ၾကီးၾကီး အဘိုးၾကီးတစ္ေယာက္က
လင္ငယ္ေနတဲ့ဟာမ
ပါးစပ္ကေျပာျပီး ပါးပိတ္ရိုက္ပစ္တယ္

လင္ငယ္ အ သြားတယ္

ခ်က္ခ်င္းဆိုသလို အေျခအေနကို
လင္ငယ္ သေဘာေပါက္သြားတယ္

လင္ငယ္ တအား တုန္လႈပ္သြားတယ္
လင္ငယ္ တအား ေျခာက္ျခားသြားတယ္

လင္ရွိမယားကို လင္ရွိမယားမွန္း
မသိခဲ့တဲ့ လင္ငယ္
လင္ရွိမယားကို လင္ရွိမယားမွန္း
သိသြားတဲ့ လင္ငယ္

လူၾကီး နဲ႔ လူငယ္
လင္ၾကီး နဲ႔ လင္ငယ္
ႏွစ္လင္ တစ္မယား

မဟုတ္ဘူး မဟုတ္ဘူး
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ လင္ငယ္မဟုတ္ဘူး
အေၾကာက္အကန္
လင္ငယ္ ျငင္းဆန္တယ္

လက္ပူးလက္ၾကပ္မိေနတာေတာင္မွ
မင္းကျငင္းခ်င္ေသးလို႔လား
လင္ငယ္ကို ၀ိုင္းေဟာက္တယ္

က်...ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရွင္းျပပါရေစဦး
အထစ္ထစ္ အေငါ့ေငါ့
ညိွဳးညိွဳးငယ္ငယ္
လင္ငယ္ ေတာင္းပန္တယ္

ေသခ်င္လို႔လား
စခန္းေရာက္မွရွင္း
လင္ငယ္ကို လက္ထိပ္ခတ္လိုက္တယ္

လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆယ္မိနစ္က
ကာမသူရဲေကာင္းၾကီး
အခု
လင္ငယ္                ။                       ။



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Your holiday reading--The Lovers

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

Your holiday reading this winter--



Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--
No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40
No Crib for a Bed, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

"Likes" for my book signing, from Facebook-

Statistics: 198 Likes for My Book Signing.
Thank you All.
Please excuse me that I could not thank you all individually.
Likes include one young lady from the Irrawaddy Delta who is one great cook/chef. I never saw so many regional dishes.
KMK
10-20-2015

Any change Burma? Wanna bet??

An excellent Burma Blog which you would do well to follow on a regular basis--

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/?zx=1cc2ad2638643222
years ago the webmaster gave me permission to post, but I have not done so for about 3 years, as his coverage is already so thorough.

Make sure you watch the Wall Street Journal video, http://www.wsj.com/video/aung-san-suu-kyis-quest/62E91BAD-2065-4EDF-86B2-20465D09F055.html

But it still has some inaccuracies and is rather slanted towards the regime in power (for business reasons I am sure) and so is slanted against Daw Suu.

KMKaung
10-20-2015

Monday, October 19, 2015

My short story My Potsdam and Others--

My short story--My Potsdam--"goes with" Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies as features the Glienicke Bridge--It's a very good movie too, and I am reading the book by the lawyer Donovan.

Your early Fall reading--read my story My Potsdam




or see Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies, or do both, in whichever order,


My Potsdam is based on a day I spent in Potsdam after a literary conference where I was invited as one of 5 SE Asian writers who dare to confront.


Click "in all formats" to buy a print or an e-edition.


I rather like Tom Hanks going into creative non-fiction, so to speak, and liked Captain Philips--the movie also.


KMKaung
10-11-2015
FB blog

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Warning--intellectual property theft--

Warning--

DO NOT buy my poetry chapbook from White Lotus--this is a bootleg copy and I was never notified nor paid any royalty.


You can buy them directly from me.

It seems copies were knocked off from a copy I gave to their editor in 2002 in Gottenberg as a query.

Do not promote or enable plagiarism and intellectual property theft.

I have talked to them about this before, when they denied it.

Unless they are selling the one copy I gave them as a used book, but it does not look like it.

KMKaung
10-18-2015


My Booklife shout out--(through Publishers Weekly)

http://booklife.com/profile/kyi-may-kaung-1155

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Reminder--my book signing--Oct 15, Thursday--

At Friendship Heights Village Center

4433 South Park Av.

MD 20814

confirm by signing up 301 656 2797

I will be there from about a qtr to 7.

cash and checks only, books are $5 or $10.

30% of stories concern Burma, rest are international.

I will read a bit from some short stories and novellas and then there will be a Q and A session, when you can ask me about the stories, the writing process, my writerly and artistic journey, Burma, or the editing and publication process.

Free event.

3 blocks from Friendship Heights Metro, off Red Line--

books are also available in print and Kindle e versions on line on Amazon, you can find them by Googling K.M.Kaung as well as other items I have published on line since about 2001.



Cover reveal for my novel Wolf

https://blueharvestcreative.wordpress.com/tag/myanmar/

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Your early Fall reading, My Potsdam, near the Bridge of Spies--

Your early Fall reading--read my story My Potsdam


or see Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies, or do both, in whichever order,

My Potsdam is based on a day I spent in Potsdam after a literary conference where I was invited as one of 5 SE Asian writers who dare to confront.

Click "in all formats" to buy a print or an e-edition.

I rather like Tom Hanks going into creative non-fiction, so to speak, and liked Captain Philips--the movie.

KMKaung
10-11-2015

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Recipes for diabetics--

Diabetic recipes from American Diabetic Association--

I shall look at this often.

Should be healthy for everyone.

Friday, October 09, 2015

How Ne Win regime impoverished one of many families--

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=866676793453884&id=268229929965243&substory_index=0

My father U Kaung's signature on the old currency notes--copied and pasted from my FB page--

Note:  If you know nothing about economics, pl do not depend on hearsay.  Pl take ecos. 101 or read or educate yourself.  There are lots of Burmese walking around spouting opinions which can only be called half baked, and that incld the great NW--

anyway here is the copy and paste.

I am shutting down this thread--

kmk
10-9-2015

Note:  If your economics knowledge is sketchy, pl educate yourself by reading or taking Economics 101.

Pl don't rely on hearsay.  Especially is the hearsay is from people who don't know what they are talking about.

There are lots of Burmese airing opinions, but some don't make as much sense as the man/woman in the bazaar.

kmk
10-9-2015

My father when he was about age 50--
Momolay's photo.
Momolay's photo.
Momolay's photo.
Momolay's photo.
Momolay added 4 new photos — with Nik Nayman and 34 others.
September 4 ·

ေမာင္ေကာင္းဆုိတာ ဘယ္သူလဲ ..
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ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရက္က ျမန္မာ့ေငြေၾကး (ပုိက္ဆံ စကၠဴ) ေတြရဲ႕ ဓါတ္ပုံေတြကုိ စုစည္းထားမိသေလာက္ တင္ျပေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ … (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ သမုိင္းအျမင္က ရွာေဖြေရးသားတဲ့ မုိ႔လုိ႔ ဒီေနရာမွာ ေငြေၾကးတန္ဖုိး၊ ေဘာဂေဗဒ ခ်ိန္ခြင္လွ်ာ၊ စီးပြားေရး အယုတ္အေလ်ာ့ ..ဒါေတြကုိ ေရးသားမွာ မဟုတ္ဘဲ တိမ္ျမိဳပ္ေနတဲ့ သမုိင္းကုိသာ ေဖြရွာေရးထုတ္သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။)
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ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တုိ႔ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းကေန အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ေျပာဖူးတဲ့ စကားတစ္ခြန္းရွိပါတယ္။.
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အဲဒါက တျခားစကားေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး ..။
“ ေငြ က တန္ဖုိး မရွိေတာ့ဘူး” ..
စသျဖင့္ ေျပာဖူးပါတယ္။
ျပန္လည္း ေျပာခဲ့ၾကဖူးပါတယ္။
“ စံလင္း၊ ေမာင္ေကာင္း ေခတ္ကလုိ မဟုတ္ မွ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ဘယ္လုိ တန္ဖုိးရွိမွာလဲ ..”
ဆုိျပီး … စသျဖင့္ ေပါ့ ..။
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အမွန္တကယ္ က သမုိင္းမွာဆုိတာထက္ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္ေျခာက္ဆယ္ ၁၉၅၀ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ေခတ္က ျမန္မာ့ေငြေၾကး ဟာ ေတာ္ေတာ္တန္ဖုိးရွိခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။..။
ျမန္မာ့ေငြေၾကး ကုိ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ က ဘဏ္ေတြ လက္ခံခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
အဲဒီလုိလက္ခံခဲ့တဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ျမန္မာ့ပုိက္ဆံ စကၠဴေပၚမွာ “ႏုိင္ငံျခားသား တစ္ဦး နဲ႔ ေမာင္ေကာင္း” လက္မွတ္ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ပုိင္းက်ေတာ့ “စံလင္း + ေမာင္ေကာင္း” ဆုိတဲ့ လက္မွတ္ေတြ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ..
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေျပာခ်င္တာ က အဲဒါပါ…
အဲဒီမွာ လက္မွတ္ထုိးခဲ့တဲ့ …
စံလင္းဆုိတာ ဘယ္သူလဲ ..။???
ေမာင္ေကာင္းဆုိတာ ဘယ္သူလဲ ..။???
(စံလင္း ၊ ႏုိင္ငံျခားသားတစ္ဦး … ၂ ေယာက္ အေၾကာင္းကိုေတာ့ ထပ္ျပီး ေဖြရွာတင္ဆက္ေပးပါမယ္။)
အခုက … ေမာင္ေကာင္း ဆုိသူအေၾကာင္း ပါ..။

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ဆရာႀကီးဦးေကာင္း
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- “ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သမိုင္းေကာ္မရွင္” ၏ ဥကၠဌႀကီးမွာ ဆရာႀကီး ဦးေကာင္း ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

- ဆရာႀကီး ဟာ ျမန္မာသကၠရာဇ္ ၁၂၆၆ ခု၊ သီတင္းကၽြတ္လဆုတ္ ၇ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ျမင္းၿခံၿမိဳ႕ေန အဖ ယစ္မ်ဳိး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးဘေသာ္ႏွင့္ အမိ ေဒၚၾကင္ၿမိဳင္တို႔မွ ေမြးဖြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

- ဦးေကာင္း ဟာ ၁၉၂၆ ခုႏွစ္မွာ အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာအထူးဂုဏ္ထူး ျဖင့္ ဘီေအ ေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

- အဂၤလိပ္အစိုးရက ဆရာႀကီးကို ႏိုင္ငံျခားပညာေတာ္သင္ အျဖစ္ အဂၤလိပ္ျပည္၊ လန္ဒန္ ယူနီဗာစီတီရွိ ကင္း ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္း(King’s College) သို႔ ေစလႊတ္ျပန္ရာ ထိုတကၠသိုလ္တြင္ ၁၉၂၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ့ကာ ဒီပလိုမာဘြဲ႕ထူးကို ဆြတ္ခူးခဲ့႐ံုသာမက ၁၉၂၉ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ မဟာ၀ဇၨာဘြဲ႕ထူးေအာင္ပန္းကို ပထမတန္းမွေန၍ ဆြတ္လွမ္းႏိုင္ခဲ့ျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာႀကီး ေရးသားျပဳစုေသာ “ေရွးအက်ဆံုးေခတ္မွ ၁၉၂၉ ခုႏွစ္အထိ၊ ျမန္မာျပည္၏ ပညာေရးသမိုင္းေၾကာင္း ေလ့လာခ်က္” က်မ္းေစာင္ က ဆရာၾကီး ဦးေကာင္း ကုိ အဲဒီဘဲြ႔ထူး ကုိ ဆြတ္ခူးေစခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

- ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ - လက္ေထာက္ ပညာ၀န္ေထာက္ - ပညာ၀န္ေထာက္ - (ပထမတန္း) ပညာေရး၀န္ထမ္း - အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းႀကီး ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ႀကီး - ပထမဆံုး ပညာေရး အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ - ခ႐ိုင္ပညာေရး အရာရွိ - လက္ေထာက္ ပညာမင္းႀကီး - အထက္တန္း ပညာေရးရာ အႀကံေပးအရာရွိ စသျဖင့္ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

- ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ေငြးေၾကးဘုတ္အဖြဲ႕၀င္ တစ္ဦး လည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ခန္႔အပ္ျခင္းခံရပါတယ္။.

- ၁၉၅၃ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ဆရာႀကီး ဦးေကာင္းအား ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရ က “စည္သူ” ဘြဲ႕ထူးျဖင့္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
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== အစုိးရသစ္ သမၼတ (ဦး) သိန္းစိန္လက္ထက္ မွာ စည္သူဘဲြ႔ခ်ီးျမင့္ခံထားရျပီး အခုလက္ရွိမွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ စာၾကည့္တုိက္အသင္း နာယက အျဖစ္ တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာ (ဦး) ေသာ္ေကာင္း ဟာ ဦးေကာင္း ရဲ႕ သား ျဖစ္သူျဖစ္ျပီး (ဦး) သန္႔ေသာ္ေကာင္း ကေတာ့ ဦးေကာင္း ရဲဲ႕႔ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေျမးျဖစ္သူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
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special Thanks to : Dr.Myo Thaik
Credit : ျမ၀တီ
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        Edwin John Tut

Edwin John Tut When a currency note is signed, it has value and guaranteed for legal transactions in a foreign land.until the late sixties, I can change easily the Burmese Kyats in Singapore and Hong Kong money changer kiosks.Thanks to U Kaung and U San Lin
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Kyi May Kaung
Kyi May Kaung They signed on behalf of the Burma Currency Board and in the early years the notes were printed in UK by Delarue and Co. There was an exact count on the numbers, as I remember his correspondence to replace 5 notes that got burned, slightly. That is w...See More
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Edwin John Tut I learned vaguely that, Burma's gold billions were marked,which is thr usual practice to maintain world value and against the currency notes and coins printed .But our Dear Uncle,removed these marks on the gold bars.
They became devalued.
There is no more Board.He just give out which Ministry needs by himself.
Socialism in Burma...was the culprit U Ba Nyein ?
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Kyi May Kaung Never heard that story. My father's Burma Currency Board correspondence was given to U Soe Saing. U Soe Saing described going into the vault (where? at IMF?) to see Burma's gold. They all went in looking up, but found the gold was almost flush with the floor. It has nothing to do with signing--paper money has value if the quantity printed (money supply) is limited. My former prof Dr Aye Hlaing was director of the Union Bank and said on the even of his appt that the money supply gave him nightmares--and of course Ba Nyein created rather sent Burma back to socialist economy and so there were too few goods and services being chased by too much paper money. I am closing this thread now.



KMKaung
10-9-2015




Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Flash fiction--Dream Nightmare of Christmas Eve, by Kyi May Kaung

Had to get up early so went to bed early.  Kept waking up every hour.  No matter, finally fell asleep and found bedside clock one hour fast.  Will have to fix that, cannot wait for fall back to correct itself.

--Dream nightmare.

With 2 other Ph.D.s, one a cultural anthropologist, I am on someone, Daryls committee.

He is making quite a good presentation, but as the others are his real committee members and I am only a guest, I watch to see what they think.

Finally, the congratulate him and sign off on a paper napkin, only their first names.

So I sign too.

They hand me a bad pen, so I had to resign my name twice over the same words, with my own better pen.

I said, I hope that will be OK.  If not let me know.

I go to the rest room, but it is a real mess.

Someone is cleaning it, and the door does not close.

Someone has laid nice men's longyis with special weaves on the floor, and I feel bad to step on them.

Finally, I get my business done and step out.
--

In the meantime Dot and His have arrived, Dot all gussied up, for the second part of the event.

She stares at me as she probably thinks I did not get my Ph.D., but she is mixing me up with the other woman who died.

LB is singing in the choir.

Father says, The singing is quite good, but raise your voice a little, OK?

So, LB sings louder, Wheel on the bus goes round and round.

I join in People on the bus go round and round.

Mom, Terryl says, It's People on the bus go up and down.

No Matter, I say, same thing.

Singing much louder, LB works his way to the top of the line, where the professionals are all singing with hand puppets in their hands.

I tell him, That was pretty good.

He says, But while we were singing, 5 more of my group have been Culled?

Culled??

Didn't you know? he asks, They are culling the First Born on Christmas Eve.

Copyight KMKaung
10-7-2015

















Sunday, October 04, 2015

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini--

Reading Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner--

true, I am a bit late.

Saw the movie, I think in 2004.

But the book is always better--and it is a masterpiece.


Now I can't determine why that woman in the book group (not born in America) called A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini's second book, "not literature."

To my mind those foreign born know better what literature is.

Oh well--

The Kite Runner is dark and disturbing, but real, and the book delves much deeper than the movie, as is often the case.

KMKaung
10-4-2015

Friday, October 02, 2015

Triumphal March from Verdi's Aida--

Triumphal March from Verdi's Aida.

Just look at the SCALE of this thing.


Real horses, not real slaves, costumes, sets, dancers/choreography, stage direction--the singers, the orchestra, the conductor, the director, the lighting--and so on. Each performer and extra must also have at least one extra costume.

Only a great and wealthy city like New York can have a great opera house like this.

Just imagine the prep areas backstage.

And this segment is only about 5-6 minutes long.

No wonder the Exec. Manager of the Met is so powerful.

It is a virtual city.

KMKaung
10-2-2015


Man shot in Butler, PA during Trump assassination attempt dies--

https://apnews.com/article/james-copenhaver-trump-rally-butler-dies-00866b37ad8db967b4ebf6582c756bcd?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us