Saturday, September 12, 2026
Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate
Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s.
And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fiennes--
A beautiful, understated, granular movie.
Other stellar cast members include Lynn Redgrave.
It would please my late professor and his wife--who named their daughter Vanessa.
The movie starts with the blind man's hand in a bar, and ends with 2 hands on a junk sailing to Macao from Shanghai.
KM Kaung
9-12-2026
A Merchant Ivory movie--The White Countess--Russian exiles in Shanghai, 1936, a blind man played by LiamNeeson--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQo1NoNwwtc
I think this movie isjust exquisite--like their When the Rains Came.
Friday, September 11, 2026
Thursday, September 10, 2026
What it's like to lose a pet--at least I don't have a pet. Imagine if it were a human being.
https://granta.com/hawaiian-fauna/
Today I could not find a book I needed. This happens now and then.
I had to order it again. The price had gone up considerably.
But what to do, I need it.
It's happened to me before with one other book.
It was Paul Kahn's Secret History of the Mongols. I like it because it's memorable. It's poetic. It describes how Hoelan was abducted from her first husband by Genghis/Temujin's father. How she gave her husband her shirt sohe could remember her.How she cried so much the rivers filled up.
To balance that expensive purchase,I bought a used copy of R. K. Narayan's abridged Ramayana at $6.47
R.K. Narayan was a President of India. His wife Usha Narayan was born in Mandalay, Burma and also a famous writer.
The rest on my shopping list were cashew nuts and a new monitor I needed because the old one may be defective--but the cheapest is 19.99 and I had to buy a whole kit.
So there you have it.
Lot of bills to pay this month. And not all peanuts.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
9-10-2026
A Prayer for Peace--defining images of 9/11 attacks--
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/defining-images-911-attacks-2025-09-11-2/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
I was out of work then,pushed out byjunta-inclining nga xoe dinh.
My son was helping me refocus --he went on the rooftop and saw the Pentagon on fire.
My cousin at the UN saw the 2nd tower fall.
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