Cat Stevens --My Lady D'Arbanville --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZjw-lVpYY

David Letterman in Kiev talks to Volodymyr Zelensky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liooTXAF5Xo 

 

Amazing man,  a True Hero

Kaung--Zelensky--sketch--

Kaung--Zelensky--sketch 2

Kaung--needlepoint, top Zelensky    R--Cat Stevens

Brazil on Fire--Amy Goodman, Democracy Now --Jan 6-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwp10jjGtrg

Rene Pape--Within our sacred temple --from Mozart's The Magic Flute

https://www.google.com/search?q=rene+pape+in+diesen+heil%27gen+hallen&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AJOqlzV561IoXynfUHQ3l_vnz35v9iDfsA%3A1673334880786&ei=YBC9Y6HFL_Ky5NoP9f6GqAk&oq=Rene+Pape+within+&gs_lcp=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-SAQQyNC4ymAEAoAEBsAECyAEIwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e63e45d0,vid:E8IbYFJAb8Y

Maybe more lyrical Thomas Hampson and Cecilia Bartoli--La ci darem la mano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJRZxSclj70

La ci darem la mano

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

A LOT older than Buddhism in Burma, yet we know nothing abt it.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Anuradhapura-Sri-Lanka

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/200/

It's ironic that present-day generals go/went to Sri Lanka just to study how Tamil genocide was conducted.  i e their criminals in orange robes went.

Only 3 of my 40+ to 100?? extended family members have gone to the Bodhi Tree in Sri Lanka but they are all "Buddhist Saints"  meditating or gossiping all day.

I was looking for origins of name Anawrahta/Anirudhha

so--

there was Anurudha, another cousin of Prince Siddhartha--like Ananda,Yosadhara and Devadatta--(I am just using the international transliterations)

BEFORE that--there was the Hindu god, one of avatars of Vishnu

Anirudha see Dream of Usha and Anirudha.

Now, I don't know which Anirudha/Anurudha the Burmese king Anawrahta was named after--

probably the Hindu one bc he brought the Sacred Tooth from Sri Lanka and before that--he might have been  a worshiper of Vishnu

Shin Arahan was from Thaton on the sea coast.

There is a Nat Hlaung Kyaung  "temple/monastery to cage/imprison nats/spirits" in Bagan wh was built by Anawrahta?

so there certainly were Vishnu-worshipers in Bagan during Anawrahta's lifetime in addition to the dreaded/hated Ayee Gyi--a corrupt sect of Buddhism?

and there must have been a lot of sea-traffic, and trade--

Most Burmese and most Americans too, don't have a distinct timeline in their heads.

One asked me when Alexander the Great lived--when you can just Google it.

The past is very long and the future is infinite.

To think any race/religion fell from the sky is downright stupid and so is it to think you and yr beliefs are the best.

Time shld tell but sometimes it doesn't.

For instance, why would cockroaches/roaches survive?

k

1-9-2023

 Usha dreaming of Anirudha--Hindu myth --wikipedia--in public domain

Widening roads does not fix traffic--video of Katy Freeway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html

I always think of U Aye Hlaing when I go further out that way. 

Rice fields w not a single cow/buffalo ,nor even a tractor, nor a human being.  Rice mills, silos, chutes.

2 crops a year, never seen harvest time bc always go in winter, in between farmers raise crawfish in fields, kind of shrimp or prawn.  Red color.   Large scale operations using irrigation.

Very large plots, privately-owned.  Hunting land w deer/wild pigs beyond.   Total TX area=Burma, no mountains, only hills in Austin area. Still see small drilling rigs.

Read James Michener, Texas--novel.

Amazon fulfillment centers (warehouses) where lots of Burmese said to work.

Way off main road--world's?? largest gas station.

Gasoline state.

But freeways better than widened road like Wisconsin Av  where my friend's son got hit by car and died.

Very sad.

 

1-9-2023

 

Naional Museum of Asian Art--online exhibtions

https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/a-closer-look-at-conservation/

Quality stuff.  Interesting--how to conserve, old damaged/folded paintings.

You shld roll them up with painted surface outside and place in a cylinder.

1-9-2023

 

Thanking my loyal blog readers--

who stayed consistently even though I was unable to blog.

All Time1279525

Today34

Yesterday7

This Month106

last month over 3000

Big thank you.  That's more than my email list.

But my blog is set so I can't interact with readers.

I had a terrible time with Facebook and "followers" zooming in with "Aunty how are you."

My Facebook was deleted in Fall of 2016.

ALL OTHERs you may see there with my legal name are FAKES.

I despise FB.

Period.

km

1-8-2023

Ahmand Shah Massod--killed by fake journalist  a few days before 9/11.

Known as The Lion of Pansjir.

Rest in Protest.

This male tenor aria is rated the most popular male aria composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--

 one can see or rather hear why.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nannerl--his sister who was equally brilliant but was not allowed to perform on stage after she reached puberty.

Stage set for The Magic Flute.

A more recent version--Un aura amorosa--Juan Deigo Florez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZXK9smflc

Un aura amorosa from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte sung by Juan Deigo Florez 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKA99dO7-W4

Covid booster shot reminders already coming from my state gov.

They say you need a booster shot if

you last shot was at least 2 months ago.

Already new variant of Omnicron--China is in major crisis.

Keep track of your booster shots.

Keep yr card in yr wallet.

It's not annual (every Fall) like yr flu shots.

For children check w yr pediatrician.

Also beware of strep infection--you can lose all 4 limbs--the symptoms are very like flu.

I met a survivor.

Stay well and alive.

kmk

1-7-2023

Below Faiz Ahmad Faiz, major poet who wrote in Urdu.

He read poetry in sports stadiums.

 

Welcoming myself back to my own blog. Happy New Year 2023

 After a long hiatus due to cancer, operation, 2 kinds of chemo,  I am now back

as The Terminator said.

I hope to publish more here.

Thanks for visiting.

KMK

Mizzima.com Independent Burma news coverage

https://mizzima.com/

combined with Irrawaddy

and Myanmar Now

that shld give you enough perpetually bad Burma news to blight yr days.

Do something, as Gunter Grass says.

Myanmar Now and Mizzima have "donate here" --buttons.

1-7-2023

 

Burma news wrap--MAH in Kachin State--

Burma news wrap--MAH in Kachin State--

40 SAC killed, hostages kept etc, AAPP wins McBride Peace Award, Rangoon,Dawbon Dalan

 

MAH. Myitkyina, Pado Mahn Nyein Maung.

 

 

 

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/scores-of-myanmar-regime-troops-killed-in-clashes-with-civilian-ethnic-groups.html

 

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en

 

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/aapp-won-macbride-award-09212021080535.html

 

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/accuse-military-spy-killed-in-dawbon-09212021010920.html

 

Shot near Rich Woman's Beer Shop while seeing off his wife.

 

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/09/21/246137.html

 

Launglon, Tennessarim--bomb blast one killed one injured.

 

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/article/2021/09/21/246131.html

 

MAH told to leave Myitikyina now, *Pado Mahn Nyein Maung among those accompanying MAH.

 

 

 

 

 

Crochet tutorial in Burmese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gml-PJGQAZg

Only problem, very fine thread and needle--

Pl post on yr FB etc--

Burmese crochet is very refined.

9-18-2021

 

မြင်သားရွာကို အကျည်းတန်ရုပ်ဆိုးစေခဲ့တဲ့ စက်တင်ဘာ မနက်ခင်း

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/article/2021/09/18/246084.html

ဦးအောင်ငွေဆိုသူဟာ သွက်ချာပါဒလိုက်နေသူဖြစ်ပြီး ?? လမ်းကောင်းကောင်း မလျှောက်နိုင်သူ ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ တချို့လည်း မပြေးဘဲ အိမ်မှာပုန်းကျန်နေခဲ့ချိန် ပစ်သတ်ခံရခြင်း ဖြစ်နိုင်ကြောင်း၊ တွေ့သမျှ ယောက်ျားမှန်သမျှကို ပစ်သတ်သွားတဲ့ ပုံစံဖြစ်နေပြီး ရွာထဲတင် ပစ်သတ်ခံရသူ ၅ ဦးလောက် ရှိတယ်လို့လည်း ဒေသခံတဦးက ပြောပါတယ်။

Term I don't understand--

"They shot every male they saw."

9-18-2021

 

Isreal staged robot killer strike on Isreal nuclear scientist--meanwhile, US made a mjor mistake.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/how-israel-assassinated-top-iranian-nuclear-scientist-with-killer-robot-1.10217456

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