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A Letter to My Grandmother by Junior Win

Posted by Junior Win on April 30, 2025

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Burmese Days and Flowers (I)

(Illustration - Maung Yit) Each year during the water festival which welcomes the Burmese New Year which falls on the 2 nd week of April every year, we make the Thingyan Pot or we called it ‘A Tar Pot’. (Thingyan Pot also known as 'A Tar Pot.) It is a pot of flowers representing the seven-day born to welcome Tha- Gyar-Min, king of the celestials who comes and visits the human abode during Thingyan festival. Thingyan Pot is culturally Burmese and Buddhist in nature. (Tha-Gyar-Min King of the celestials. - drawing by Maung Yit.) Burmese Buddhists show their loving kindness to all the human being by offering the ‘Seven-Day-Born’ flowers or leaves at the foot of the pagodas. (We believe there is no enemy among the ‘what-day-born’. All is given equally our loving kindness.) At the foot of the Buddha image, we recite: ‘I take refuge in Buddha; I take refuge in His Teachings, I take refuge in t...

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.

Burmese Days and Flowers (4)

Make a Wish The reader may think that those A Tar Pots or Thingyan Pots only exist for Thingyan festival and Burmese New Year. But a set of flowers or leaves for Seven-Day-Born are always meaningful in the Buddhist way of life. When Burmese Buddhists go to pray at the pagoda, before praying, they buy a set of flowers and leaves from the pagodas stalls. Such a set of flowers and leaves are made to represent the Seven-day-born. On the pagoda platform, offerings of flowers and candles in honour of the stupa where the relics of Buddha are enshrined, is the act of Burmese Buddhists, giving loving kindness and compassion for all fellow beings. We believe that such good deeds that give the one strength in facing life’s problems. The pilgrim, on his way up the steps of the pagoda, buys flowers, candles, coloured flags and streamers. Such things are very colourful and is full of meaning to Burmese Buddhists. (The pilgrim buys flowers, coloured flags and streamers w...

Seasonal Flowers, and Bonus Flowers in the Summer 2015

This summer is so hot and there was a hardful warning to everyone from the daily weather report. It said ultraviolet rays have now high radiation. It was dangerous if we were going outside between 11am and 3pm. But wait! There were beautiful nature beauties await us. The seasonal flowers called Kankaw (Mesua Ferrea) blooming in this month. Kankaw flowers are everywhere in the market place, and women love to buy and wear on their head. I also love to buy some Kankaw flowers, and put at our household shrine. (Kankaw flowers in the garden.) Luckily, we met another bonus flowers blooming in this hard weather. This summer might be a lucky month. We met rain and thunder in this hottest month. The wind blew dangerously last few days, and people were afraid of the to-be-cyclone. But luckily the rain suddenly dropping, and the weather became cool. We were happy at the moment, looking forward the Thingyan flowers called ‘Padauk’ would be seen in the market. ‘Padauk’ was...

A Visit To The Shwedagon Pagoda

(Still crowded, and crowded at the pagoda platform whether it rained heavily or under the bad weather.) People visited to the Shwedagon Pagoda frequently. Paying respect at the foot of the pagoda is one of the ways of Buddhist life. People crowded at the Pagoda platform every time we visited. Practice meditation, offering flowers, candles, incenses or colorful things, or walking on the pagoda platform mostly as keeping the Shwedagon Pagoda at the right side, or praying, etc that Buddhists usually do. (Watering stupa, and mythical symbol, at the birthday corner.) When I was young, I went to the Shwedagon pagoda with my friends the time final examination finished. We prayed, and wished for what we wanted at the foot of the pagoda. Surely we were wishing to pass the examination with distinction, or with credit. (We wish everything we want at the foot of the pagoda.) Today, I was going to ...

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

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Seasonal Flower in Rainy Season

(Wa-zou-ban flowers in rainy season. Very rare to see Purple colored Wahso in Rangoon.) Especially flowering in the rainy season, Wa-zou-ban (herbaceous plants) are sold every corner of the market. People love to buy them, and offered at their household shrines. Its color was mixed with white and orange. It looks like a bell, and hung beautifully by its pattern. Bearing purple blossoms was a rare to see in Rangoon, we can call it ‘country Wa-zou-ban’. (Wa-zou-bans are popular and have best attraction in the market place.) Wa-zou-bans are easy to plant in the garden. Its stem can be grown naturally in the soil. We can plant again and again their stems, and it will grow, and increase in the next rainy season, or sometimes it quickly blossoms if it gets water enough. (Easy to grow in the garden.)

Book-Buffet and I

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Alice in Wonderland in Burmese for Third Edition with Burmese Illustrations

Here Amazon ebook, https://www.amazon.com/Junior-Win-Wonderland-translation-Illustration-ebook/dp/B07TLDNDVN/ref=sr_1_41?keywords=moemaka&qid=1563099057&s=gateway&sr=8-41 (Illustrated by Maung Yit, Translated by Junior Win.) Here my translation in Burmese of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for the third edition now appeared. Thanks to my brother, Maung Yit - my twin brother for his illustrations of Alice and, it’s fantastic things in the wonderland. (Cute rabbit!) (Illustrated by Maung Yit.) I got the idea to publish ‘Alice’ with Burmese illustrations from a Japanese Professor Mr. Kazumi Goto - a member of Lewis Carroll Society of Japan - who introduced me with his support of ‘ Alice in Wonderland’ (videos and essays) from around the world including Japan. His videos inspired me so much. It enlightened me to produce ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with Burmese illustrations! I discussed with my father and, my brother to publish ‘Alice’ with my brother’s draw...

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