Congratulation Young Lion

WITH One day left to finish SEA Games competition, Myanmar stands no.7 in the overall medal tally. It's disappointing to see the result compare to 626 strong contingent. However, Myanmar's young lion grabbed a bronze medal from football competition. Last night, my wife and I was so much enjoying the atmosphere to witness our boys defeated regional football power Vietnam heavily. It's unbelievable to see our young boys lead by 4:0 till very last minute. Our people dearly hope to see them progress final match on last Saturday while they are playing with defending Champion Malaysia. They narrowly lost to Malaysia by 85min goal. They have reached beyond our expectation in this tournament and they deserve people's praise. I'm happy to learn that our tycoons have awarded them USD 150000 immediately after they won bronze medal match. They already collected USD 100000 from the group match winners. It's desperately need in our sport to encourage our talented young people if we are to dominate in 2013 SEA games. There is nothing to be granted without taking necessary efforts.

I hope our people would have been satisfied by our football bronze medal despite we are being down in other sport arena. At least we stand third in the football within ASEAN at the moment. This alone can make us happy I am sure. Congratulation our national football team for your tirelessly effort to make our nation proud. Wish you grab the gold in the next SEA games when we host the region's best talented athletes in 2013 at our brand new capital city, Napyidaw. Keep your composure as high as possible before that time.

Make our nation proud, please

THE 26th sea games is currently holding in Indonesia from Nov 11 to 22. Since the opening ceremony in Nov-11, I watch the daily highlight on the local TV channel with the prospect of seeing my fellow citizen winning some games. My wife and I was so happy to see strong Myanmar contingent on the opening ceremony of the game. In total, there are 626 athletes being sent by my country for this game. It's obvious my country wanted to get medal as much as possible in order to raise our nation's profile. In addition, we are the nation that will host next edition of sea games in 2013 and probably this time is the biggest Myanmar contingent ever in away sea games. Myanmar won overall games when she hosted the sea games in earlier 70 and late 60. But the time has changed things to reflect the will of its people.

Now the sea games is already in 5 days time and Myanmar yet to grab even a single gold. As at yesterday which is 4 days on, Myanmar is standing third from the bottom. Even Cambodia and Laos stand above us. Against the total athlete (626) sent, the medal we acquired is really disappointing. I know we are no longer sport nation in the region at the moment. However, being citizen, I would love to see my nation flat being placed in the flag pole of ceremony stage. In real, I even struggling to see my compotrait in the final matches. Because most of final matches are being transmitted on local TV and I couldn't see my national players on the finalist. How do they get medal if they even fail to reach final? So I glance at medal tally on the official website and found that Myanmar is closed to bottom. Only Brunei and Timor Leste is below us.

However, I have to credit our young national football team for reaching semi-final. Nobody would have predicted Myanmar is going to escape group stage. May be it's surprise for the sport analysts. Anyway, it's good news to all Burmese. Our people may easily forget other sport division's failure by this winning stake. As football gold is the most valuable one to all competing nations, I hope our authority would be pleased by getting one football medal. I was amazed to know that some people who are working in Singapore plan to go Indonesia for Myanmar's semi final match. We are such a football crazy nation. Our people never fail to support national team regardless of their performance. Of course, the go wild once the team do well. This year term, region's super football power, Thailand and Singapore are about to go back home from group stage. I simply hope my national team would go final to upset host nation.

Good luck boys. The nation is behind you and can't wait to welcome you all back home. Keep our dream alive since our people's golden days has been gone away so long. You all can turn our new chapter at least in the football. You make us happy that is disappearing among our society. Take something special from this game. You are only savior to alive our dream. It's going to be easier for you next term as we're going to host the game. Anyway let me have my word for your achievement. Congratulation.

Killer Rain

RAIN,,,the essential thing in their life as the whole region rely on this for their daily needs as well as their traditional agricultural works. The collection of rain from upstream hilly regions birth a wild steam that travel all the way across the region and combine in the river of Irrawaddy. One of so many villages on the bank of the beautiful steam is my wife's native land. I only reached there about 3 years ago for our wedding celebration. The village is located by the steam and surrounded by mountain ranges. The village is generating the hydro-electricity from the steam. The steam water was quite clear as I reach there on winter season. There are so many farm plots on the bank of the steam. It was so colorful and make the curvy steam even more attractive and beautiful. It was unforgotten memory to go down in the steam for bathing. The water is knee-high and crystal clear.

However those beautiful places has been eroded by an angry rain. It took only over night. Everything gone in the next morning. We all know that these day adverse weather news are no longer strange to us. There are continuous disaster news regardless of places on this planet. Some are bearable while other are tragic. Some claims lives while other claim properties. Some get help from authorities while other have to survive by themselves. Fortunately, I have never experienced such disaster to date.

Month after failing to make successful call to said beautiful village, my wife managed to make a call last night. She was visibly happy to hear her parent's voice. However those happy couldn't be able to long as she was greeted by the sad news. As usual, she started her conversation by asking the status of cultivation as this time is to collect all the crop to home. She was surprised when she is told by his father that they have no longer farmland to cultivate now. Her father continued that the serious rain swept their farmland away for ever. Every year in the rainy season, they got experience of losing some friction part of their lands. The villagers would busy with the refurbishment of their lands once the water level downs to prepare next cultivation. However, this year disaster make them retire from their traditional jobs. They are helpless but to see the lost land. Their fertile lands had been transformed to complete sandy bed of the steam. It's really nightmare for all villagers. They don't know what to do next because they only know how to do those agricultural jobs.

They have done the same job since they born. There is no way to get further land as the village is rightly located amidst mountains. I initial thought that they only lost their current crops and able to replant later after the water level goes down. I am distraught when my wife explains me the real case. She said those lands are their heritage and invaluable. She is very much grateful to land as those farmland sent her school as well as university. Without those land, she couldn't have been educated woman. She is the proud of her family as she managed to escape from the rural village and now able to work at the one developed country. She was saddened by the news and I tried to console her all the night.

She always wanted her parent to retire from those tiresome agricultural works. So I take this opportunity to highlight her will to fulfill. However, they seem not happy to retire as this is part of their daily life. Without this, they may feel lonely or feel time goes very slow. Of course unless they found a good substitute such as meditation or any form of religious way. For the time being, I could able to sympathize their feeling with regard to this recent tragedy. In past, every morning they can be happy by seeing the blossoming field from the bank of the steam. Instead, they can see now empty sandy dry steam in their eye sight. It might take some time to cure their wounds. I hope they can find a happy life again sooner than later despite it's easy said than done.

626

626 is the number of member who represent Myanmar contingent. Yesterday I was surfing the website of 26th SEA games 2011 in Indonesia and surprised to know my native land has huge number of athletes this time. I remember opening ceremony of latest Asian game held in China, my wife and I wait for Myanmar contingent turn. We were disappointed to see very small group once they come out eventually. It was only about 10 athletes. That's why I am surprising this time to see more than 600 numbers athletes in SEA game. Later I understood why a bit. It might be because we are next edition host in 2013. Thus our delegates will have to take sport flag and bring back home in upcoming close ceremony. Probably, Myanmar might have a secrete plan to greet all visiting athletes by some form of entertaining.

I was upsetting yesternight for unable to see opening football match between Laos and my country. Watching soccer match is one of my favourite entertainment and of course I would like to watch my country playing. I tried to access all official TV website from all ASEAN countries but failed. Local TV also not active as their national team were not playing yesterday. I am happy to learn the result of yesternight matches this morning. 10 men Myanmar defeated 11 Laos by 3:2 is a good news to all my fellow citizens. We're likely to upset when we watch our national team playing. We'ld blame them from TV screen when they play badly. However we all cannot stay away from TV when the SEA game match come in. This is a good way to unite among people and the government should encourage this sport, I think. Anyway, taking full points from opening match is a good move by our U-23 team which is under supervised by foreign coach. Tomorrow, our team will meet Group-B favourite Vietnam and it's going to be uphill task for our boys. But our coach is confident in beating hotshot Vietnam. Time will tell us truth and lets hope our coach is a man of his word.

PCC

PCC....? Pure Cars Carrier, a giant ship which can carry a lot of motorcars. Just now I read on local EMG website and never seen this word before. The news said today first PCC will arrive our port with mostly used cars. There would be another 2 PCC within this month. Anyway we have to welcome such news as the ship will bring some prosperity to our society. These days, there have been some noisy with regard to cars importing. The authority keep busying to create a good industrial practice to block unfair trade. The official car show-rooms are in the pipeline and people are already walking on the moon. Some middle class people might have kept their dream of owning a car sooner or later. The prospect of owning a car become more realistic now compare to our past time. In past, it's considered luxury and look like a product for super rich only. The ordinary people can't imagine to own a car in our country. Now our beloved president changed those dirty minded business to a well orientated policies.

I am surprising to learn that Myanmar's demand on used cars has affected to Japan's used car market. At the same time, I am worried to read recently news that Japanese authority has detected some car with radioactive infection that can harm human beings. They found those radio active affected cars are beyond allowable limit. So they are trying not to export such cars to prevent Japanese reputation. Anyway there would be some escaping from the inspection due to dirty minded business people. Hope those escape radioactive cars won't go to Myanmar which is already in the mode of car-hungry land. Like Japanese authority does, our authority should have aware to block such car from importing. May our authority able to detect such unwanted cars without bribing to protect our people's interest.