သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လူသိနည္းတဲ့နည္းေလးခ်က္

အသက္ကယ္ ပစၥည္း သို႕မဟုတ္ ရွင္သန္ ရုန္းကန္ ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရာ အေရးေပၚ အေထာက္အကူ ပစၥည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါသတဲ့။
(၁) အေရးေပၚ အတြက္ keypad ကို locked လုပ္ထားရင္ေတာင္ သင့္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းမ်ားဟာ 112 ဆိုတဲ့ နံပါတ္ကို ႏွိပ္လို႕ ရတာ ေတြ႕ရ ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အဲဒီနံပါတ္ဟာ ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အေရးေပၚ ဖုန္းနံပါတ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သင္သာ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း ဆက္သြယ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ဧရိယာထဲမွာ ရွိေနပါေစ၊ ဒီနံပါတ္ကို ႏွိပ္လိုက္တာနဲ႕ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းဟာ အနီးဆံုး ဆက္သြယ္မႈ ကြန္ယက္ကို အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ရွာမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းက ခလုတ္မ်ားကို ပိတ္ထားရင္ေတာင္ ဒီနံပါတ္ကိုေတာ့ ႏွိပ္လို႕ ရေနမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ယံုဘူးလား .. စမ္းၾကည့္..
(၂) ကားထဲမွာ ေသာ့ေတြ က်န္ခဲ့လားသင့္ကားတံခါးမွာ အေ၀းထိန္းစနစ္ ရွိပါသလား။ တေန႕မွာ အေ၀းထိန္း မဟုတ္ဘဲ လက္နဲ႕ ဖြင့္ရမယ့္ အေန အထား ၾကံဳတတ္ပါတယ္။ ကားေသာ့ကို ကားထဲ ထည့္ခဲ့ၿပီး အပိုေသာ့က အိမ္မွာ က်န္ခဲ့ရင္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း တစ္လံုး ရွိရတာ ဒီလုိအခါ က်ေတာ့ ေကာင္းလုိက္တာ။ အိမ္မွာ က်န္ခဲ့တဲ့ လူရဲ႕ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကို သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုနး္ကေန ေခၚပါ။ တဖက္က ျပန္ထူးေနရင္ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကို ကားတံခါးကေန ေျခတလွမ္းအကြာမွာ ထားပါ။ ေနာက္ၿပီး အိမ္ကလူကို ကားေသာ့ဖြင့္တဲ့ ခလုတ္ကို လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းနားကပ္ၿပီး ႏွိပ္ခိုင္းပါ။ ဟဲဟဲ.. စမး္ၾကည့္ရတာ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားစရာ ေပ်ာ္စရာပဲ မဟုတ္လား။ ကၽြန္မတို႕ စမ္းၾကည့္တာ ေအာင္ျမင္တယ္ရွင့္။ အိမ္ကလူက လာေပးစာ မလိုေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့။ အကြာအေ၀းက အေရး မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ေသာ့အပိုက မိုင္တရာ အကြာမွာ ရွိေနပါေစ ခုနက နည္းနဲ႕ သင့္ကား တံခါးကို အလြယ္တကူ ဖြင့္ႏိုင္တာ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းေၾကာင့္ပါ။
(၃) ဖြက္ထားတဲ့ အပို ဘကၴရီသင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း ဓာတ္အား သိပ္နည္းလာၿပီဆုိပါစို႕။ *3370# ကို ႏွိပ္လိုက္ပါ။ သင့္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းက အေရးေပၚသံုး ခ်န္ထားတဲ့ ဓာတ္အား ကို ျပန္ဖြင့္ေပးၿပီးေနာက္ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းက ဓာတ္အား ထက္၀က္ က်န္ေသးေၾကာင္း ျပပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ေနာက္တစ္ၾကိမ္ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကို ဓာတ္အား ျပန္ျဖည့္တဲ့အခါမွာ သာမန္နဲ႕ အေရးေပၚသံုး ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးလံုး အတြက္ ဓာတ္အားကို ျပန္ျဖည့္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ Safety first !!! ပါတဲ့။
(၄) အခိုးခံရတဲ့ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကို သူတပါး သံုးလို႕ မရေတာ့ေအာင္ ဘယ္လို ဖ်က္ဆီး ပစ္မလဲ။သင့္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းရဲ႕ နံပါတ္စဥ္ကို သိဖို႕ *#06#ကို ႏွိပ္လိုက္ပါ။ ဂဏန္း ၁၅လံုး (ဆယ့္ငါးလံုး) ေပၚလာပါ လိမ့္မယ္။ အဲဒီ ဂဏန္း ဆယ့္ငါးလံုးဟာ သင့္လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း (handset) အတြက္ သီးသန္႕ပါ။ ဒီ ဂဏန္းေတြကို ခ်ေရးၿပီး လံုျခံဳ စိတ္ခ်ရတဲ့ တေနရာမွာ သိမ္းထားပါ။ သင့္ဖုနး္ အခိုးခံရတဲ့ အခါမွာ သင္ဟာ ဖုန္း ကုမၸဏီကို ဖုန္းဆက္ၿပီး ဂဏန္း ဆယ့္ငါးလံုးပါ ကုဒ္ကို ေျပာျပ တိုင္တန္းလုိက္ၿပီး သင့္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကို ပိတ္ခိုင္း ႏိုင္ပါ တယ္။ တကယ္လို႕ သူခိုးဟာ Sim Card ကို မထုတ္ရေသးမီ သင္သာ တုိင္တန္းႏိုင္မယ္ ဆုိရင္ Sim card ကိုေရာ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကိုပါ disable လုပ္ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္လို႕ သင့္ဖုန္းထဲက သင့္ဆက္သြယ္မႈ ကြန္ယက္ ထဲက သူေတြ စာရင္းနဲ႕ ဖုန္းနံပါတ္ မ်ားကိုလဲ သူတပါး သိျခင္းမွ ကာကြယ္ ႏိုင္သလို သင့္အေယာင္ ေဆာင္ၿပီး သူတပါးကို သင့္ဖုန္း နံပါတ္နဲ႕ ဆက္သြယ္ျခင္း ကိုပါ ကာကြယ္ ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္လို႕ သင္ တိုင္တန္း တာ ေနာက္က်လို႕ သူခိုးက ပိုလ်င္သူ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရင္ေတာ့ သင့္ Simcard ကိုသာ disable လုပ္ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး သင္ ဟာ ဖုန္းနံပါတ္မ်ားကို လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း ထဲမွာ မွတ္သား တတ္သူ ျဖစ္ပါက သင့္ ဆက္သြယ္မႈ ကြန္ယက္ ကိုေတာ့ သူခိုးက ေကာင္းေကာင္း သိႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သင့္နံပါတ္နဲ႕ သူတပါးကို ဖုန္းဆက္ျခင္းေတာ့ မျပဳႏိုင္ေတာ့ ပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အေရးၾကီး ဖုန္းနံပါတ္မ်ားကို Sim Card ထဲမွာသာ မွတ္သား ထားသင့္ ပါတယ္။ ဒီလို ကာကြယ္ ထားႏိုင္ရင္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း ခိုးယူျခင္း ေၾကာင့္ အက်ိဳး မျဖစ္ထြန္းတဲ့ အတြက္ လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္း ခိုးယူမႈမ်ား ေလ်ာ့ပါး လာမယ္လို႕ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ရပါတယ္။
လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းတစ္လံုးကို ၀ယ္ထားရၿပီး တန္ေအာင္ အသံုးခ်ႏိုင္ၾကပါေစ။

Slower Pay Raises in 2009

The pay raises will be lower next year in Singapore, that’s the sort of news that is in the newspaper this morning.
So who’s complaining, after all the weeks of the headlines saying that most of the global economy is in a recession, people should be happy that there is still some sort of pay raise coming anyhow. They Strait Times quote “on average, base-salary increments will drop from 5.1 per cent this year to 4.2 per cent next year”. Ok now, that might now cause a major disruption in the 25 year financial plans of most people. For those that have such plans! (One, perhaps in a few thousand?).

And recovery will only start in the first and second quarters of next year! That doesn’t sound so bad for me.
The fact is that it always depends on the market characteristics of the sort of job that you have at the moment. If it is the sort of industry that can be put off for a while, say like IT ("let’s change the computers next year, instead of December!" as planned) then things are going to be slow, but certain jobs will never be hurt (to a certain degree), or hurt last, that is the jobs that actually bring in the revenue, like marketing or sales. There are companies that are willing to pay top dollar for people with such caliber.
So pay raise slowing down? Come on! and get us some other news?

The Celestial Frown, another indication of the times ahead?

The celestial frown, is this a sign from the heavens for the times ahead? Could this be that things are going to be tough in 2009? Hey! we really don’t need this sort of interpretation right now, do we?
The planets, Jupiter and Venus are supposed to be a width of a finger held at arm's length
The same thing in 2 BC when most of the middle east population must have been slightly far sighted, as they must have the same astronomical situation as a single bright light.

This event might have caused the fanatically superstitious amongst them to follow the “star” resulting in the turn of events as we know so when now. Just when Joseph with Mary on a donkey was having such a hard time looking for a place to stay. Different age same problem, it’s always tough to find a nice place to stay! Get back to the title!

Anyway the best time to see them was yesterday Monday night. They won't be this close together and well-placed for evening viewing again until May 2013.

The Singapore Cough

So its been like 2 months since I arrived upon to Singapore soil. Yes the place is nice, and well-organized, with all the street signs up and the sort, haven’t been lost a bit since I have been here, at all, not a bit, well a little bit.
But then there is the universal and very aggressive air-conditioning that they have everywhere in Singapore. And in the places where there is no air-conditioning there are huge powerful fans that blast a gale force wind in your direction. Some of these fans have these little water dispersion taps on them so that the air is cooler and wetter. Actually rather nice, when you are perfectly healthy, that is. And then there are the un-timely showers that rain down for short periods, I have only seen a very few of these showers lasting from more than 2 hours.
Don’t get caught in them if you’re new around here, and if you do, dry off as quickly as you can. Before the annoying sniff and the dreadful cough work up. Woe to that person that catches the cough and refuses to go to the doctor over such minor little thing. It’s minor isn’t it, no temperature, no elevated blood pressure, no any other symptoms that are obvious at all. Only this terrible, annoying, persistent, embarrassing dry hacking cough.
Those who have been here a while say that, all go through it. And then it magically disappears, I am trying to drown mine in Vicks vapor- drops right now and staying away from a direct air-con or fan air flow.
I feel better already.
Otherwise it feels like a case of mild acute bronchitis.

Blog Header Change- Pro Look

Here is a video of how you can change your blog header.
Its a really useful video.
Maybe everyone out there knows this, but its new to me and here it is;

What would happen if the Thai Tourist Industry received in 2009, only 50% of the visitors of the previous year?

What repercussions would that have on Myanmar?
A certain number of free independent travelers (FIT) as the industry calls them, which come to Myanmar, are usually off-shoots from the usual beaten track of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the sort. If these sorts of travelers do not include Thailand on their usual tour, and Thailand is a favored spot for a lot of them, the few numbers from that population that ventured into Myanmar will further be decimated. A certain number of Myanmar’s working in Thailand will the first to be given the boot and shown the door if it comes to it I suppose. And that would probably mean thousands and thousands of them. Imagine them streaming back across the border back to their little towns and villages. Putting increased stress on the community systems that always have been at their limits. Many of them would feel it strange to fit back into previous lives, having grown clean out of them. Would crime and the associated abuses increase along with them?
Would anyone care to join into the prophecy of the year to come?
What say YOU!

Looking for a Shotokan Karate Club in Singapore!

I know a little karate. I got a chance to practice it bit at the Japan Karate Association, when my father was posted at the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo. I started at the Nippon Karate Kyokai Ebitsu Hombu Dojo (that's the Japan Karate Association) around 1994 until 1997. Got as high as Shodan (that’s black belt for all you movie buff’s). And from there I never stopped until 1994 when I was on the Ministry of Education Team (university students were allowed to participate and compete at that level). Trained hard for 5 hours a day, for 4 months until one day before the event and managed to get a bronze medal that joined the other little parade of medals and trophies on mom and dad’s shelf of the accomplishments of the kids. As I am now in Singapore and really thinking of taking up some karate practice again, seriously. Just for the heck of it. Some sports would be great for me, I believe, I’m at an age where no one in the club would encourage me to enter any kumite tournaments (remember the kumite - Blood Sport), except for kata (the formalized exercise of techniques), and that would be something that I would love to do. And it would be a chance to make some friends. So if any of you who are reading this, happen to know anything about Shotokan Karate Clubs in Singapore.
Please send me some information.
Hajime!
Thanks.

Urban Fairways, Indoor Golf

I was surfing around and came upon this.
They call them selves aisa'a first indoor golf lounge.
Well for the first thing, the website is done quite ok. Runs out of material rather quick, I suppose you are meant to go to the place, than read about it!
http://www.urbanfairways.com/
check out the youtube video about it too!

So how are you suppose to play betting games?
Enjoy!

Mom's trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, & Thailand, Suvarnabhumi Airport and Thaksin the Satan - Continued

Yes, just a short update of what has transpired to ol' mom trip.

It has been postponed to February next year. By that time the Thais might have their act in order.

So mom, together with good ol' older bro have gone to Myauk Oo, in Rakhine State, another place in her considerable list.

Actually, a place that I am dying to visit too. A place steeped in ancient history.

Off they went yesterday, with my bro irking to use his camera.

Here's some pictures of Myauk Oo. I found on the web.

Useful Myanmar WebSites

Take a look at these websites that are trying to make life a little easier for Myanmar overseas, as i am in Singapore, of course there is a little more about Singapore.

http://www.topsitesasia.com/autorank/myanmar.html for all Myanmar sites listed in all countries

Here's a blog that I found from a Shwe guy in England: http://blog.mandalar.net/ nice to know that there are other's like me. Sounds like a doctor or something.

Then here's one for rooms search in Singapore: http://www.shwerooms.com/ make sure you call and view the room and get to evaluate the Thu Gyi's before you commit to rent, some of them can be very nasty. Yes that's the truth.

And another http://pinoy.com.sg/ given to me by my Filipino friends a rather outstanding bunch I must say, (I had I Filipino friend in Bangladesh something like 30 years ago, Mark Anthony B Martepakay- I am not sure of his last name, attended Greenherald School same class as me)

More to come, no point in listing the models and actresses and MP4 sites, anyone with half a brain can find them

Some of the websites that I found really useful

Check out, oh people of the shwe Myanmar for some sites that are useful for you guys and gals hanging out over here;



To find a room to stay : http://www.shwerooms.com/sg just call them and ask

This another site too: http://www.ninoy.com/ the same too just call them





This one is about everything about Myanmar: http://www.topsitesasia.com/autorank/myanmar.html

A Look of the Peninsular Plaza

This is the Peninsular Plaza of Singapore, located at 111 North Bridge Road. The place where all the "Shwe" gather for matters of all sorts. Ya know what I mean? No not that! Yes you got that right!

Great Book Sales at Bra Basah Complex

There was a great book sales today at the Bra Basah Complex, which is right beside the National Libary. Great deals on many books there. I got some books there for a dollar a piece.
Follow this link to see where Bra Basah Complex is: http://wikimapia.org/21117/Bras-Basah-Complex
And I forgot to ask when the last day this sales is!
Anybody know?

Hello World!

Yeah, I know,
Tiger Woods said it before me. And I admit, those were mighty appropriate words for the occasion of the time.
I am Moe Lwin and I am in Singapore. And I will be authoring this chronicle of my experiences, and stuff that appeals to me. I surely hope that you find it a bit interesting. Something to brighten up a boring bit of your day I hope.

Many of the items that I will post will normally be real life stories. So if they tend to become a bit boring then you would know that it would be a particular boring part of my life. I am a very family oriented person. And that will be a source a much material too.

I have considerable experience with doing business in Myanmar and still have a lot of contacts there so if you need to know anything pop me an email and I will try too get a answer that you will hopefully find interesting.
I spent a four and half year stint with a FAO project and 576 days with World Vision, both in the dry zone part of central Myanmar.

So hi and nice to meet you and enjoy the ride.

Moe
Nov 28, 08

My Respected Reverend Monk

My Respected Reverend Monk
I come from a family of deep devout Buddhists. Even though that me and my brother are not at all the religious and pious members we demonstrate enormous respect for the Sangha, the order of monks. The monk in the picture is monk that I usually go for my religious support and to fulfill the need of belief in the sense of the word. Buddhist chants are what he has taught me and the calm my mind and prepare me for the day ahead.
Please visit him if you can, just ask my brother when you are in Mandalay and he will probably drive you there himself.
Please try reciting the following chant for a boost in your daily life. I can’t explain it, well not yet.
1) Su – Thaw Ma Na Ka Ri Hta Dha
2) Khway – Ba Tha Tha Wi Tha Day Ba
3) Ngwe- Ga Bap A Du Dha Wah Ga
4) Min - Ah Wi Thu Nu Thar Nu Ti
May all have peace of mind and heart.

Moe Lwin
For the short time that we are here.

My Beloved Wee Little Daughter Muchi Moo

This is a nice picture of my beloved little daughter.
Soon she will be seven years old. And then going on 30 I suppose. People say that kids grow up so fast, I fully agree with them. 7 years have gone by too fast, way too fast.
I am surprised at my self when I find myself wishing that she becomes not a doctor, or a particular profession like that but rather I hope that she will be able to do what ever that she wants living a life of high quality and to travel the world.

She loves everything about her life and all her family, way extended family too.

Mom's trip (26th November 2008) to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, & Thailand, Suvarnabhumi Airport and Thaksin the Satan

We are Myanmar’s, and the happiness of our parents is one of the paramount tasks that we the kids, most willingly undertake. And this is a story of an attempt to fulfill that objective and the events that are happening even as I write this, that made it even more memorable. Really, really memorable!
A classic case of “if things will go wrong, then they will go wrong!” despite anything you can do.
My mother has spent the last five years dreaming about going on an overseas trip to a destination of her desire. It is not a simple thing for a 65 year old who depends on the financial support of her grown children to think about. The situation is even more difficult when she is from Myanmar (Burma). But we have all promised her that she would definitely be going, and mere lack of money would not stand in her way. She should just pick the places or places that she would like to go and the time of the year and one of us would accompany her in this trip of her life. It would be the first trip abroad in twenty something years and the first trip without her husband, our father who had passed away eight years ago losing a battle against liver cancer.
The destination selected was Angkor Wat, Cambodia, as she is a devout Buddhist, this destination came as no surprised. Thirty years ago in a similar situation like this the destination selected then was Buddhagaya in India. A trip enshrined in our family memory.
Originally I was the one who was supposed to take, dear mom, on her pilgrimage to tour Angkor Wat. But events transpired to prevent me from embarking on the trip. I got a job in Singapore which is from where this story is being penned. So it was up to my older brother to take up the responsibilities of ensuring that the trip took place.
Now my mother is a former nurse, an operating room nurse, a veteran of staring down all sorts of people, and also the mother of three boys and one boyish girl, and the spouse of a Myanmar diplomat, and the oldest of member of her generation on her side of the relatives. Although she has mellowed down quite a bit, there are times when the old fire and temper comes out, a lot less frequent then before but it still comes out when the occasion demands it. A few years ago when our district was collecting money for a community activity and funds had to be raised, people were wondering who would be the one to approach our mom for the required contribution, a thought that brought grown men of the district into a most sorry trembling state. In the end they made her the treasurer and a board member and got her to collect all the contribution of the community which she did so well that she still is the treasurer, Hillary Clinton would have been proud. And my sister has to top up the amount when it sometimes is short because she miscounted or something.
The first hurdle was getting a passport, even with the system currently in place that works at light speed compared to the nightmare of a system of old; it took her 3 months, mainly because she forgot to put in her old passport number, which was something 25 years ago before the common use of copier machines in Myanmar. The fire and temper settled that, so things fell into place.
Then she started saving money not only for the particular trip but also for the subsequent trips around Myanmar to tell everyone in the clan about it. And this was done in a cool 6 months.
Then on the 25 of November, yesterday, my brother came down from Mandalay to embark on the trip scheduled for the 26th of November 2008. Bear in mind that all and every tiny detailed had been ironed out, with my brother with extra cash, stashed secretly away to buy extra convenience and a little luxury, if it came to it.
Then,
Thaksin, the former prime minster of Thailand just got himself a new title – the Satan, as christened by dear mom.
Actually the airline staff of the airport got it first, even if they wore metal jackets and had the skin of old wild rhinoceros would not have soften the piece of mind my dear mom gave them when they told her the flight to Bangkok, and for her transit to Siam Reap, was canceled.
The hordes of antigovernment demonstrators had taken over the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok bringing all flights and my mothers’ tour to a standstill. She was hopping mad, and literally jumped into a taxi and fumed the way home.
My brother also enraged because his shopping plan had been ruined.
He simply could not speak kindly of the Thai’s all afternoon and probably for the coming months too. But he was also quite amused as he observed that dear ol’ mom, still has every single bit of the energy and fire that we saw in her growing up. He said was refreshing to see the energy. The same could not be said for the airport and airline staff. He also felt sorry for all the family members who were going to have to hear this story over and over again for the years to come at family reunions.
And they are calling the airline every hour for updates of the situation in Thailand. For this will be a trip that will be taken.
Let’s see where this goes. Stay tuned for updates on this topic.
Now I finally understand why Burmese used to go over to Thailand to beat them up in the old days of old history.