Obama Fever

FRESHLY look Yangon has seen world's most powerful man came in and gone back. Amazingly, its curious residents come out of streets to give warmly welcome to this special man. There are a lot saying about him since his news of Asian Tour was unveiled by white house. Visibly, our authority has been busy to make sure our old city get some form of treatment like face-bathing. The most noticeably area is the sleeping once famous Rangoon University where Mr. Obama gave speech to most civil societies from all walks of life. Everybody seem happy with the occasion. Everything seem went as per plan. Every moment of 6 hours time is motivated by media and its residents. No wonder Yangoners are excited with the scare moment since the whole world is following his news. Of course, my fellow citizen colleagues and I could not able to work properly, we follow the news stream via internet and facebook instead.

There were a lot optimistic by this trip. Just before the trip, US has announced that imported ban for Myanmar products to US has been lifted except arm-embargo. This news alone worth for Mr Obama trip to our land because it can draw foreign investor's interest to come invest in our land that will subsequently create much needed jobs for our people. During his speech, Mr Obama announced that he will re-establish USAID to help Myanmar's needs in any area. The initiated fund was placed for USD 160 millions for next two years project in Myanmar. On top of that, he encourages our civilian government's reforms and pledges to support every step of the way if we continue to change. To reflect US's action, Myanmar authority seem to please them by last minute release of political prisoners across the nation. I personally think that Mr Obama trip was successful for both sides and have proved that some civil right group's critics were wrong. Since Mr Obama will work for at least another 4 years, we are hopeful that US-Myanmar relationship will reach new high for the interest of our people. For that particular day, Obama has been on the mouths of our people and can easily label it Obama fever for at least 6 hours. Anyway, I am happy to see our people's delightful faces on the streets of once capacity city in Myanmar. Everybody will remember this special man for his outstanding speech and more importantly for making our long ignored famous university alive again.

Thank you Mr Obama for your unrivaled commitment to Burma. Wish to see you return our land again in near future.