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A Memory of My Grandparents - "Aye Yeik Tha'

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The Night She Rest In Peace; Longing for a Burmese Poet – Kyi Aye

(Kyi Aye (13th December 1929 – 2016)) (A photo of Kyi Aye (left), and the sketch of her (right), the artist – unknown) A very rare woman poet in Burma, Kyi Aye, an old friend of my grandparents, once lived together at Aye-Yeik-Tha in the year around 1950. She was at that time, a Rangoon University student attending a bachelor of arts. She later studied at University of Medicine, and became a doctor. My grandma and she were closed friends. Grandma admired her because of her strong ambition in the education, and her beautiful literary works and her own successful household life with 8 children (including a pair of twins.). Grandma and she discussed about literature for a long time until she left Burma (1970?). Kyi Aye had been already writing poems and romance since her high school. Her romantic poems were famous for not only her writings, but also for the artistic feelings themselves. While I was reading her poems in my younger days, I thought Omar Khayyam was reborn as our poet, Kyi

Thingyan festival (april)

2023 Updated Video Youtube Junior Win channel we have great fun during festivals. People go to the monasteries, pagodas and some interesting places during festivals. Many festivals are celebrated all over Burma. Picture Illustrated by Artist U Ba Kyi) We welcome our Burmese new year beginning with three days or sometimes 4 days of water festival. The Burmese new year falls on the second week of April as begins on 13 th april and will end on 16 th april. April 12, 2012 will be the welcomed day of our Burmese New Year. The true spirit of the water festival is to have nice clean fun with dear friends sprinkling water on the one another. Children especially enjoy throwing water on one another. Novitiation is the symbol of thingyan festival in a Buddhist family. It is one of the New Year activities. On these occasions, boys are sent to the monastery where they become ‘koyins’,or novices .They stay for a week or more at the monastery. Their heads are shav

DHAMMA - DANA – Sunlun Way of Vipassana Meditation

Related Link; 2023 June Updated Youtube Video https://juniorwin-english.blogspot.com/2023/06/dhamma-dana-by-junior-win.html (2023 June Related Video) (A Pagoda at Myingyan) I received letters from my readers who discussed with me the ‘ Sunlun Way of Vipassana Meditation ’ , and I heard their interest about the Sunlun Sayadaw; U Vinaya. I was familiar with the meditation since my childhood, because I was born in Burma, born as a Buddhist, and luckily I was born in the Buddhist family who are familiar with the Sunlun way of meditation. Here, I want to share you, this booklet that was written by my father, and he distributed to all the people around the world who are interested in Sunlun Way of Meditation. The book called ' THE SUNLUN WAY OF VIPASSANA MEDITATION. The Basics of the Method' in both English and Burmese language, is now freely for all the public to know the Sunlun way of meditation. Originally in Burmese was written by the Venerable monk fr

Book Review - A Buddhist Pilgrim’s Progress – by Khin Myo Chit

Book Review – A Buddhist Pilgrim’s Progress – by Khin Myo Chit My grandmother, Khin Myo Chit wrote such a booklet when she was in 1955, and she felt at that time that she had been a good Buddhist in her childhood; she did her devotional duties at the household shrine with daily offering of flowers and candles; she offered alms food to the monks, she did all the task that a good Buddhist should do; but now she stood in the wilderness of doubt and despair in her heart. Hoping to find an answer to her problem she read books on her own. But she could not find the answer which could comfort her despair. Whether she was a good Buddhist, she once was prejudiced against monasteries and their activities; ‘It’s just one of the publicity stunts to bring more visitors’, she thought. She was prejudiced against meditation centres too. But Bauktaw Sun Lun Kyaung (Sun Lun Monastery Meditation Centre) seemed to be different to her. Two of her good friends who were a well-kn

Cartoon Festival in U Ba Gyan Street

U Ba Gyan, Burmese Cartoonist (1902 – 1953) U Ba Gyan was a famous Burmese cartoonist of all time. If he were still alive, he might be now a hundred and eleven years old. He was wise and learned and above all was gifted with irrespressible wit and humour. He dared to point out the way of sanity and better judgment. He always declared that he drew cartoons for the country, not for money. He never worked as government servant, because if he accepted, he believed he could not have better judgment for the country. Here, I proudly add that he and my grandparents were very friendly to each other. I was told that he always visited my grandparents’ house ‘Aye Yeik Tha’, and he often drew cartoons for my father. My father said U Ba Gyan taught him how to draw cartoons by drawing left or right hand side of the face and remaining of it was for my father to draw. That is the way U Ba Gyan taught my father to become a great cartoonist that my father did not become. Bu

Any fool can do it, even I can do it!

Here is the biography of my grandfather – U Khin Maung Latt English teacher and Writer (1915 – 1996) There was already mentioned about him in the biography of my grandmother in the previous post. So I want to add as he always loved to teach and he had been an English teacher for the rest of his life. He was very patient with his students. On his life time, there were three books published. Two of them were about English language as 'Current Essays' and 'Everyday Expressions in English'. On the third one , my grandparents wrote together on the subject of 'English language' and 'Reading Books' in Burmese. He also wrote many articles about his experience of teaching. He and my grandmother worked as an editor of the Family' magazine called 'Pyaw Taw Zat' in 1965 for one year. I heard that although the magazine was very popular among public, it was ended tragically stopped by the financial problem. As a grand daughter, I think that

2020 Silent Burmese Thingyan Festival

We welcome our Burmese New Year beginning with three days or 4 days of water festival begins on 13th April and will end on 15th or 16th of April. This year, 2020 Thingyan festival was now under the order of ‘stay-at-home’ from an authority by ordering residents to stay home except for family health care or going to the market to control Covid-19. People were not allowed to have nice clean fun with dear friends sprinkling water on one another in the Thingyan or Watering Festival. However there is no welcoming water festival for Myanmar New Year, we all have a chance to welcome Tha-Gyar-Min, king of the celestial. (Tha-Gyar-Min, King of the celestial) (Illustrated by Maung Yit) Tha-Gyar-Min, king of the Celestial comes and visits the human abode during Thingyan Festival. We welcome Thingyan Pot (Atar Owe) prepared by seven-day-born flowers or leaves, the symbol of Burmese New Year. We can buy Thingyan Pot including flowers and leaves at the market easily. (Thingyan pots

My Life Will Go On (11)

(University of Rangoon (Hlaing Campus) I had studied for 2 years.) The road to Honors Degree was not smooth. There happened student riots because of withdrawing kyats 25, 35, and 75 notes from circulation on September 1987. To avoid them bigger, Universities were closed for a while. At that time we had not finished the final examination. There were six or seven including two major subjects remained to sit. I remembered it was a difficult time for us. A few months later, we were back to sit the remaining subjects at the Hlaing Campus. As I told before, I was allowed to attend the Honors because of having distinctions in two major subjects. I was now eligible to attend the honors class. My friend applauded, ‘Wow! Your father’s training finally paid off after all!’ No, no, on the contrary. It’s by doing just the opposite of that my father trained me to do that I got what I wanted. I replied alone, ‘By

Our True Burmese Singer – Khin Maung Toe

(Photo – Khin Maung Toe – our true Burmese singer – His sunglasses and his hair style were his always fashion of singing on stage with his songs together.) I was told, you were dead, my dear singer, I heard this bitter news and so to say how sorry I am. I remembered, how often I listened to your songs as the Burmese rhythms and beats, Calm and gentle as a mountain, you speak. Among the hiphop, rap and rock and roll, Your songs were always best and wonderful. ‘MaharSuanThu’(To the Unsympathetic and Insensitive Lass) and ‘MyatThwe’(Pearls) Were your famous lovely songs that I love still and listen in. And now that thou art lying at rest, But still thy pleasant voices alive to eternity, Sad mortality cannot oversway your lovely songs away.

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