NOTE: I am not a dog lover nor dog hater! I do not eat dog either.
Someone mention the following in Bangkok Post today and it said..........
"As an animal lover, I am greatly disturbed by the stories of stray and pet dogs being captured or sold by their owner to trucks bound for the restaurants of Vietnam. If their fate were not horrible enough, the trip to get there in the heat and without food or water is sadistic. (It can take over a week)..
It sadden me to think that people will sell their pet for 8 baht (25 Cent), knowing these dogs will have to endure such suffering. What's more these drivers are filling two trucks a week." ...... continue on.
This is my way of thinking! (might not agree with you but OK for me though). Dogs eating is not just poop up!! Mountain people have been eating dogs for the day I was born which is mean 40 + years ago. China, Korean and Vietnam are the most dogs eater countries. Let me tell you....... Some mountain villages, they have very Little meat to survive and then there are so limiting of pigs and chickens. As mountain people they do not have money to buy a cow or a pigs or even a chicken but dogs are everywhere because dogs are husbanding alot and making babies a lot in uncontrollable. Economically dogs are easy to raise. So some families eats dogs and some not!! It depend on how they are desperating to get meat and how much money in their pockets. To my knowledge... I do not know what kind of dogs being eating by restaurants as above article mention?? For sure they are not eating Chippewa or Chuwawa...I hope so!!
I know that the mountain people even eat Monkeys! believe me that! Dogs eater only eat huge dog with meat. (I saw in a restaurant in China, there was a dog curry with dog' head decoration in the middle of the plate. The Chinese even can make the dog looked happy with smiling mouth! No joking I saw with my eye balls). Do you know, I know how mountain people prepare for the dog to eat?? They feed only sticky rice and coconut milk, they make sure nothing beside. Let the dogs fat and after one month they share between 2 or 3 families as a meal.
I agree with the article one point..cruel for cities people are eating the dogs!! We cities people should not eat dogs because we do have money, beside that we have plenty of choice. Well... may be different ways of thinking here. I used to upset by my father in law shooting the dove and eat them. To be fair now I love my mother in law cooking the doves!! My apology to bird loverS!!
The following are some questions that I am asking to myself..
1. Do people eat poodle or chuwawa?
2. I wanted to know what the different between dogs, chickens, cows, pigs ..etc?
(OK I know the different between human and animal! Do we ever think that pig, cow and chicken are suffering the same as dog when they got kill??)
3. Does animal has classes? Low class or high class? lovable or hatable?
4. What the different between chicken lover/chicken eater and dog lover/dog eater?
5. How come we are eating pork, beef and chicken happily and said dog eater
are horrible??
6. Who has authority to say you can eat all but DOG or BIRD?
7. Why Belizian people love to eat lizard while my son thought it is a pet?
So many questions that I want to know why, why and why? One sad thing is...today in the news, there are 52 Burmese people die on the way to Thailand for better life and income. For sure to feed their love one left way back home in Burma. Seen to me people talk about dog more than people nowadays!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Photo
Robins's trishaw was always behind as weight is talking for fueless vehicles!!
Gasoline
Shan on the global friendly vehicle!
There is a professor from University of Florida, he is my neighbour in USA. He goes to works by bicycle. First I thought, we do not have traffic like New Your or else but why?....... Then I realized that good for his health, save the gasoline, good for the global and make our global guy, Al Gore happy too.
There is a very good noodle shop in Sukunvit Soi 26, in Bangkok. The shop is not elegant but normal house noodle shop. I tell you the taste of the noodle soup from that shop is out of this world! Presentation is very poor but the taste is A ++ and much cleaner than street shops. I always told them no MSG and boil the meat abit longer. The other day I notice that a bowl of noodle is now 40 baht. In 3 years they increase from 25 baht to 40 baht. I asked the lady why? She said the gasoline prize makes them in order to get profit! I was thinking about all the normal working class people because noodle soups can be their breakfast, lunch and dinner ( OK diner might be with normal meal), economically good and the food is wonderful too. I would say if you visiting to Thailand do not go home without noodle soup and foot massage!!
I went to a very nice department store in Bangkok. I told the sale girl "you know I can get a nice dress for 2500 Baht before but now to get a good dress cost 4500 or 6000 Baht" ( I am talking about good looking dress and not top branded name!!). You know what the girl said "because of the gasoline prize"!!... Here my brain worked hard and talked to myself..."well may be the factory, the air com, the transportation are counts".... I think one day we all might be going back to Adam and Eve life's end up with banana leaves to cover our private parts!
Last Christmas when we went to Thachileik, the town in Burma side. It is
located in Burma and Thai border town. They have like tourist vehicles call "Tok Tok". I was told the "tok tok" prize is almost 50% up.... So I went to ask the the global friendly vehicle, tricycle !!!.. and no need the gasoline. Curiously I told them "how much to tour the town??"..they said "100 baht (3.5 US$) each"... I feel so sorry for the Shan people to paddle us for like 4 to 5 hours. Me and my Shan are ok because we are like 120 lbs each but to paddle for Robins who is 6' 3" and BIG!! It was hard work. Robins's paddler (the unlucky one), he was sweat!!! They were so positive and not one complaint but with the smile and treated us good.... so at the end Robins gave them a good tips. We all happy and the global was happy on that day. No fuel, no smoke!! But to be honest...it was a very slow tour trip well positively, we see more than tour by tok tok! My son thought the tricycle is COOL!!
I want to end with saying... "Damn Gasoline Prize"!!! can't live without it too.
I wish someone can turn the Urine into gasoline ...... OK...OK I am not crazy!! jsut wishing....
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Burma
I found the following article from news group that we subscribed. I wish one day we all can read good news about Burma! The only question is when?
Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Rangoon Death Picture
By REUTERS
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, -->
A Reuters news agency photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Burmese soldier shooting dead a Japanese video cameraman during a last September’s demonstrations in Rangoon.
The news agency’s Adrees Latif won for "his dramatic photograph of the Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar [Burma]," the Pulitzer Prize board said.
The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music were announced at Columbia University in New York City. The Public Service winner receives a gold medal, while winners in the remaining 20 categories receive $10,000.
Reuters carried news of the award together with a firsthand account by its Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif of how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Burma during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.
“Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon [Rangoon] on 23 September, 2007, with some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop.
“For the next four days, I went to Shwedagon Pagoda, two-three kilometers from the center of town and waited for the monks who had been gathering there daily at noon.
“Since I was at the same pagoda every day, dozens of people, including monks, asked me who I was and what I was doing. As the ruling military regime is notoriously secretive, my replies were guarded.
“Barefoot in maroon robes, and ringed by civilians, the monks chanted and prayed before starting their two-kilometer march to the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon [Rangoon]. Each day their numbers grew, from hundreds to thousands.
“By 27 September, the city had become packed with troops. Soldiers and government agents stood at street corners.
“Finding the Shwedagon Pagoda sealed off, I went to the middle of town to find groups of young people taunting soldiers at Sule.
“Within minutes, the crowd swelled from hundreds to a few thousand. The soldiers threw barbed wire coils across the roads.
“Knowing that hundreds of people were gunned down in similar circumstances in a 1988 uprising, I climbed an old crosswalk directly overhead, to get to one of the few spots offering a clear view.
“Below me, protesters were singing and waving flags; to the side, young men were thrusting their pelvises at the soldiers.
“At about 1.30 p.m. local time, two dark green, open-top army trucks approached, followed by dozens more packed with riot police. They were hit by a barrage of water bottles, fruit and abuse from the crowd.
“I had already locked on my 135mm lens and set my camera shutter speed to 1000, aperture to F/7.1 and ISO at 800. With the camera on manual, I wanted to stop any movement while offering as much depth-of-field as possible.
“Two minutes later, the shooting started. My eye caught a person flying backwards through the air. Instinctively, I started photographing, capturing four frames of the man on his back.
“The entry point of the bullet is clear in the first frame, with a soldier in flip flops standing over the man and pointing a rifle. In the second frame, the man is reaching over to try and film.
“More shots rang out. I flinched before getting off two more frames—one of the man pointing the camera at the soldier, and one of his face contorted in pain.
“Beyond him, the crowd scattered before the advancing soldier. The whole incident, which went on to reverberate around the world, was over in two seconds.
“I kept low on the bridge, capturing some more images from among a crowd taking cover. However, with soldiers firing shots and smoke grenades below, I had to get off the bridge.
“With adrenaline pumping through my body, I put my camera in my bag and followed the protests for another hour and a half. Feeling the demonstration had lost its strength, I made my way back to my hotel via backstreets and along a railway line.
“My initial caption read: “An injured man tries to photograph after police and military officials fired upon and then charged a crowd of thousands protesting in Yangon’s city center September 27, 2007.” Initially, I thought he was merely trampled. I had no idea he was dead.
“Two of the frames showed the man’s face. A few hours later his colleagues in Japan had identified him as Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai.
“The images dominated front pages across the US and the world.
Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Rangoon Death Picture
By REUTERS
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, -->
A Reuters news agency photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Burmese soldier shooting dead a Japanese video cameraman during a last September’s demonstrations in Rangoon.
The news agency’s Adrees Latif won for "his dramatic photograph of the Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar [Burma]," the Pulitzer Prize board said.
The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music were announced at Columbia University in New York City. The Public Service winner receives a gold medal, while winners in the remaining 20 categories receive $10,000.
Reuters carried news of the award together with a firsthand account by its Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif of how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Burma during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.
“Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon [Rangoon] on 23 September, 2007, with some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop.
“For the next four days, I went to Shwedagon Pagoda, two-three kilometers from the center of town and waited for the monks who had been gathering there daily at noon.
“Since I was at the same pagoda every day, dozens of people, including monks, asked me who I was and what I was doing. As the ruling military regime is notoriously secretive, my replies were guarded.
“Barefoot in maroon robes, and ringed by civilians, the monks chanted and prayed before starting their two-kilometer march to the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon [Rangoon]. Each day their numbers grew, from hundreds to thousands.
“By 27 September, the city had become packed with troops. Soldiers and government agents stood at street corners.
“Finding the Shwedagon Pagoda sealed off, I went to the middle of town to find groups of young people taunting soldiers at Sule.
“Within minutes, the crowd swelled from hundreds to a few thousand. The soldiers threw barbed wire coils across the roads.
“Knowing that hundreds of people were gunned down in similar circumstances in a 1988 uprising, I climbed an old crosswalk directly overhead, to get to one of the few spots offering a clear view.
“Below me, protesters were singing and waving flags; to the side, young men were thrusting their pelvises at the soldiers.
“At about 1.30 p.m. local time, two dark green, open-top army trucks approached, followed by dozens more packed with riot police. They were hit by a barrage of water bottles, fruit and abuse from the crowd.
“I had already locked on my 135mm lens and set my camera shutter speed to 1000, aperture to F/7.1 and ISO at 800. With the camera on manual, I wanted to stop any movement while offering as much depth-of-field as possible.
“Two minutes later, the shooting started. My eye caught a person flying backwards through the air. Instinctively, I started photographing, capturing four frames of the man on his back.
“The entry point of the bullet is clear in the first frame, with a soldier in flip flops standing over the man and pointing a rifle. In the second frame, the man is reaching over to try and film.
“More shots rang out. I flinched before getting off two more frames—one of the man pointing the camera at the soldier, and one of his face contorted in pain.
“Beyond him, the crowd scattered before the advancing soldier. The whole incident, which went on to reverberate around the world, was over in two seconds.
“I kept low on the bridge, capturing some more images from among a crowd taking cover. However, with soldiers firing shots and smoke grenades below, I had to get off the bridge.
“With adrenaline pumping through my body, I put my camera in my bag and followed the protests for another hour and a half. Feeling the demonstration had lost its strength, I made my way back to my hotel via backstreets and along a railway line.
“My initial caption read: “An injured man tries to photograph after police and military officials fired upon and then charged a crowd of thousands protesting in Yangon’s city center September 27, 2007.” Initially, I thought he was merely trampled. I had no idea he was dead.
“Two of the frames showed the man’s face. A few hours later his colleagues in Japan had identified him as Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai.
“The images dominated front pages across the US and the world.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Jue Ju
Me and my sister (left), on Shan National day.In 1996 when the plane landed in Singapore, I was so tired that I almost fell at sleep in my bath tub at the Peninsula Hotel... I was crying all the way from Guatemala to Rangoon Via Singapore. I got calls and said .. "Your sister is very ill and will be hers last few months."... We decided that I should see her now than after she die. My sister was know as Jue Jue, official name is Nora Layshan. She was only 30 years old when she passed a way.
At that time, I did not know very well why, how and what's went wrong with her as she looked so normal and beautiful, her skin was so milky. When I was with her, part of her days she looked like normal but part of her days she just slept off. I was told her liver went bad, no one told me that she suffered liver cancer in Rangoon. I just did not pay any attendtions or may be so hurt for loosing my only sister.
I decided to write it down about her because last night she was in my dream. I think doing that it will make me feel better. I miss her so bad but sometime I talk to myself that life move on. As always she won't talk to me a ward except gustures in dreams. She was a very simple, reserve and quiret girl but like to study.... Spent most of her time alot in the Lab. That's why she got her Master in Biology and I end up in simple BSc. (remember??? I do not like hard studying )!!
Jue Ju is very different from me. I am very talkative but she was a listener, I like friends but she had not so much friends, I can count her good friends!! I like going out but she likes to stay at home or in the Lab, I like dancing but she's not, I hate cooking but she cooks wonderfully. She married into a man whos from a very comfortable family in Rangoon. I do not know very well about her husband as I am always around the world and do not close with them. She left two children, a boy and a girl. Last news I heard was the girl is on the way to Australia for studying.
If Ican say a gain... I hate cancer! I really do. The cancer took my mother, and my sister lifes..and other lifes too in such an ugly way. What I mean by saying that is............. if my grand ma ma die now, surely I will be very little sad and will say "Thank you Lord for 90 years of my grand ma ma life with us" but it is very painful for taking so many young lifes. FRom my own experience, cancer taught me some positives though.. such as who is in controll in your life, how life is so value, how each day is count and miracle is there if you have faith!!
Say " I love you " to your family as much as you can!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Liver News
I got the following article today! My thought and prayer are with all the Transplant Patients and DonorFamilies. One day, one night if you have nothing to do, please pray for all of us. Including the Doctors, Transplant Team......
For earthly work without them it is hard to believe that I am still talking and walking. I thanks the Lord for creating smart Doctors !!
"Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" Ruth 2:20
For earthly work without them it is hard to believe that I am still talking and walking. I thanks the Lord for creating smart Doctors !!
"Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" Ruth 2:20
Donated Liver, Pancreas From Cancer Patient Kills Recipients
April 2, 2008 2:03 a.m. EST
Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer
Sag Harbor, NY (AHN) -
Two of four patients who received donated organs from a boy whose death was belatedly diagnosed as caused by lymphoma cancer have died while two others survived after the timely removal of the diseased organs.
The rare incident in 2007 was reported in the January issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. According to the report, the parents of 15-year-old Alex Koehne decided to donate the liver, pancreas and kidneys of their son immediately after his death in March 2007 from what doctors at the Stony Brook University Medical Center believed was bacterial meningitis.
The parents sought an autopsy of their dead son's brain before the organs were extracted . The autopsy results, which came one month after the boy's death, indicated that the victim died from a rare lymphoma cancer.
Koehne's mother, Lisa, later learned from the network that distributed her son's organs that the 36-year-old woman who received her son's pancreas died in May after the organ was removed from her.
Mrs. Koehne also learned that the two men who received her son's kidneys underwent chemotherapy and are now recuperating. The 52-year-old man who received the donated liver died in July last year.
CBSnews.com quoted Dr. Lewis Teperman, director of transplantation at New York University Medical Center and co-author of the report , as saying that organ donor networks and transplant doctors should reconsider using donated organs from victims of alleged bacterial meningitis.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The Shan Sopranos
As most of you all know I was born in Shan State. The place which is full of..... if you allow me to say.... a place with Shan's mountains, Shan's flowers, Shan's food, with Shan's trees and Shan people!!! of course full of guns, but not Shan's guns at all. Also by that time, full of wars fighting between Shan Army and the Burmese Army and the Drug Dealers. 25 years before things that I saw I have a different point of views ...now years after, I have changed. I should say now I can see thing like, how could I say???....OK kind of if you are in Rome, act as Roman!!
I remember the day that the Drug Dealer came to shoot at my friend's father (this is one of the many things happened in my home town), His name is "Pi Leik"...mean "Brother Small"!! OK this was happened 30 years ago. He is a middle class as my father. Pi Leik has this.... a car I think a jeep car running between the airport and Thachileik town. He had that habit, every evening he was sitting on the easy lay back bamboo chair and smoking a cigar with a glass of "Mae Kong Run".
One late afternoon, a speeding jeep car (at that time mostly people used jeep car because the road condition was Stone age Road and so bad that no one FAT in Shan State because the roads not allowed to fat so!! we all were like ridding horses), passed by and here a bag full of rocks, throw into Pi Leik's yard right next to him where he was smoking! After that event, within one year Pi Leik built huge good looking house which is make my daddy's house look so small and so ugly! He bought another 6 jeep cars to expend his transportation, his daughter got diamonds, gold and the expensive clothes...so did Pi Leik's wife who was starting vacation all over the places. He even bought a house in Bangkok!!Sudeenly town people like to make friends with Pi Leik and his family...Money starting to Talks!!! Oh I also remember that he opened up a huge car workshop! etc......
After 2 years...One evening we heard that bang..bang..bang..bang. (you have to smart to live in Shan State. If you heard that kind of noise, you better stay at home and pray!).. Next early morning, the town news was "Pi Leik" DEAD!!! Yes..he die such a ugly way but normal for my home town.....as "You cheat, You dead!" Here I have to tell you..we did not have good law, good lawyer, by the way what is Lawyer?? but we did have a good judgement!! Do you see the point that to kill Pi Leik, it's take 2 years??? why 2 years which is can be done in 3 days?? We might have kind drug dealers???
A group of drug dealer bought raw Jades from Kachin State, Burma. The car that delivered the Jade bag was caught in check point but did not stop. The Burmese soldier chased later we heard no arresting as the bag was gone. What happened was.....someone came back to Pi Leik asking to give back the Jade. Pi Leik blindly lied and said "me no have"...He got shot at "blindly" and he die as "blindly"!! Greedy and Lie got him good. He would be alive if he gave back the bag and also he would be wealthier a little bit but not as his life was gone and got much wealthier. He cut the raw jade and was as a big lottery winner. It was a huge imperial Jade!!
"The Sopranos" of Hollywood's is nothing...I was living in a town as "The Shan Sopranos" for many years with many dead!
NOTE: This events was happened 30 years ago!
I remember the day that the Drug Dealer came to shoot at my friend's father (this is one of the many things happened in my home town), His name is "Pi Leik"...mean "Brother Small"!! OK this was happened 30 years ago. He is a middle class as my father. Pi Leik has this.... a car I think a jeep car running between the airport and Thachileik town. He had that habit, every evening he was sitting on the easy lay back bamboo chair and smoking a cigar with a glass of "Mae Kong Run".
One late afternoon, a speeding jeep car (at that time mostly people used jeep car because the road condition was Stone age Road and so bad that no one FAT in Shan State because the roads not allowed to fat so!! we all were like ridding horses), passed by and here a bag full of rocks, throw into Pi Leik's yard right next to him where he was smoking! After that event, within one year Pi Leik built huge good looking house which is make my daddy's house look so small and so ugly! He bought another 6 jeep cars to expend his transportation, his daughter got diamonds, gold and the expensive clothes...so did Pi Leik's wife who was starting vacation all over the places. He even bought a house in Bangkok!!Sudeenly town people like to make friends with Pi Leik and his family...Money starting to Talks!!! Oh I also remember that he opened up a huge car workshop! etc......
After 2 years...One evening we heard that bang..bang..bang..bang. (you have to smart to live in Shan State. If you heard that kind of noise, you better stay at home and pray!).. Next early morning, the town news was "Pi Leik" DEAD!!! Yes..he die such a ugly way but normal for my home town.....as "You cheat, You dead!" Here I have to tell you..we did not have good law, good lawyer, by the way what is Lawyer?? but we did have a good judgement!! Do you see the point that to kill Pi Leik, it's take 2 years??? why 2 years which is can be done in 3 days?? We might have kind drug dealers???
A group of drug dealer bought raw Jades from Kachin State, Burma. The car that delivered the Jade bag was caught in check point but did not stop. The Burmese soldier chased later we heard no arresting as the bag was gone. What happened was.....someone came back to Pi Leik asking to give back the Jade. Pi Leik blindly lied and said "me no have"...He got shot at "blindly" and he die as "blindly"!! Greedy and Lie got him good. He would be alive if he gave back the bag and also he would be wealthier a little bit but not as his life was gone and got much wealthier. He cut the raw jade and was as a big lottery winner. It was a huge imperial Jade!!
"The Sopranos" of Hollywood's is nothing...I was living in a town as "The Shan Sopranos" for many years with many dead!
NOTE: This events was happened 30 years ago!
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