Friday, 22 October 2010

• This Post is Too Random

  The weather has been dreary these days. It's been raining for 3 or 4 days now. There's another tropical storm in the Bay of Bengal, and this one is much closer to Myanmar than the previous one. It's probably because of that storm that there has been a lot of raining in Myanmar.
  
  Update: The tropical storm has strengthened to become a cyclone, and its name is Giri. But it is a Category 1 storm. It will make landfall in Rakhine, and wind speed will be up to 80 mph. I was reading a Burmese weather caster's blog, and he warned the people not to go into the water, and to stay indoors. Tide can rise up to 8 feet, but it won't be as bad as in the delta region due to the steep coastline of Rakhine.
  
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  It will be Thadingyut soon, and normally, it was supposed to have stopped raining by this time. There's even an Burmese phrase, saying, "Moe Lay Kinn Lut Thadingyut" (Thadingyut: A Time Free from Rain and the Wind).
  
  For this Thadingyut, I am going to be celebrating with Myanmar Youths in Action. We will be holding a lighting festival at Ain Daw Yar Pagoda in San Chaung Township, and also have a discussion on "Inter-faith Dialogue and Youths". Would be fun and interesting. :)
  
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  Next Jan, 2011, I would have been writing in Xanga for 7 years. Wow, right? There have been times that I wasn't able to post very regularly within these 7 years, and there had also been times when I had thought about moving to other platforms too, and also blogged in several other places, like Blogspot, Wordpress, etc. But in the end, I kept coming back here, and this blog had become my home. During the first few years, I was an angsty blogger, writing rants about, well, just about everything. lol. I wrote very short posts too.
  
  These days, I feel that I have to keep out the drama of my life out of my blog. I tend to be a drama-queen. I'm not ashamed to be one either. That's the way I am. There's no lie when I say that I am also an attention-seeker, though the attention I seek is from my friends and loved ones, and not from total strangers. Not many of my friends read my blog though, let alone comment on my site. And I don't want to be forcing them to read my blog or anything like that either. So I just have to be content with what I have.
  
  I had a funny thought like, if I ever had a someone special, I would like it very much if he were to read my blog and comment on my site. No, not to write embarrassing things like, "I wuv you so much, you silly-billy goo-goo", (which would probably result in blocking him from my site! lol) Even if he didn't comment, I would have been pleased just by knowing that he was reading it.
  
  I noticed in my footprints that my ex still checks my blog from time to time. haha That footprint he left made me feel like I am still remembered. And that I was not a person whom he would ignore or would not want anything to do with. It means that even though we are no longer together, at least he still cared about me. maybe a little.
  
  Which isn't the case for the some of the people in my life, I'm afraid. So I started to feel like, maybe this is the way things are. Things change. No matter how much you try to hold on to the glorious days of the past, they still fade away as time goes by. Even though I want to hold on, I'm wondering if doing that just makes things worse. So I should just learn to let go. Because I don't want to make anyone suffer because of me, and make things worse.
  
  However, there are other happy things; like the renewal of old friendship and re-bonding. Though I've learned my lesson: not to get too attached to anyone and not to expect anything from them in return. Not to expect for them to be there the whole time either. After all, we are all travellers in life. We meet for a short while, we mingle, and grew attached to each other, but at the end of the day, we have to go our own separate ways to reach our destinations.
  
  Another happy thing is being a part of MYIA group activities. These are the things that make me feel happy and makes me feel like I still have a purpose for living. That I wasn't a san kone myay lay, meaning a useless person, which just creates a wastage of rice and just makes the earth heavier. Ok, I'm being too dramatic, lol.
  
  Plus photography... One of the reasons that I'm still blogging when I'm not feeling too good about myself is because I still have a lot of photos that I wanted to share. =D
  
  And that brings me to some good news! I will going on a few trips at the end of this month, and in November. At the end of October, I will be going to Mandalay on a business trip. I think I will also get to visit Pyin Oo Lwin too. So I will soon post up the photos that I've taken in Mandalay and Pyin Oo Lwin last year to clear up the debt. hehe
  
  In November, I will be going to Chaung Thar Beach and Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda. I'm very excited about the Chaung Thar trip because 1) I've never been to Chaung Thar before. 2) I NEED a vacation very badly. Want to go to a beach! 3) It will be part of a youth camp program of MYIA so it will be great fun 4) Photo Opportunities!
  
  I've been to Kyaikhtiyo 2 times already: once, when I was about 8 years old, and another time in 2003? During those times, I didn't have a digital camera, so I wasn't able to take photos as I wished. So I'm excited about the trip this time, since I'll be going with the MA (English) students from UFL, and they said they will be hiking through the mountains, instead of taking the bus to the top, so it should be fun. Can't wait!
  
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  Nga Yin Khwin Ko by Zaw Win Htut. A song on my YouTube playlist.
  

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