Some of your points are right. But, I don’t have time to argue with you right now. later. ok?

In the “DONT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS” part, you’ll be sorry to say that to us.

anyway.. you are a good talker.. like all the others (who do politic from foreign, :P ) be proud of it man!

god bless and god speak.
Zeyar
(buzy doing walking)

I thought of not debating in this site for two reasons.

The First and foremost reason is my thought of “The Code of Ethics” set by the moderator of this site seems weird to me by assuming me as having personal attack by using foul language etc. whereas I have no reason of whatsoever to do such funny thing of doing personal attack in words in the internet, which would produce no merit to me or to the other party. And, I have never known that the word “stupid” is foul language. The moderator may not like my this post too.

The second reason is because I thought it is not worth for me to debate with such people who are conceited that they are patriotic. Not daring to criticise the repressive military regime who has been doing every bad things against the interest of Burma and its people does not mean you are patriotic. It just means that you guys just believe in the saying of “DONT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS”. You guys are just some of very few people who enjoy some favour of certain type given by the regime. There are less than 1 % of such lucky people in Burma. The rest 99% of Burmese suffer in their daily life for the MISMANAGEMENT of almost everything including ECONOMY being exercised by the military regime.

Now that what I would like to debate is …. What would be your comment on the regime’s latest action of raising the fuel prices from 100% upto 500% without even officially announcing such hike whilst their such action hits real hard on already very poor Burmese people’s lives.

Regards,
Nanda

I totally agreed with you all and thanks for your posts. I feel the same way as Ma Nila. We only have to try to improve our country, not talking bad to the country that makes only bad image to our country.

BLOOD DIAMOND = MYANMAR?

Haha.. Funny! I just can’t stop laughing. Those people are always makes me funny. All the news they produced are very funny. I can’t believe it.

I am from Myanmar. Living Peacefully, Traveling Peacefully. And I have many friends from the Gems Mines all across Myanmar. If you really wish to see the real situation of Mines, I’d glad to show you around.

And I am just a normal citizen. Having no trust in both Gov and the Politicians like all other citizen does. We just don’t care.

zeyar

P.S.
“My English is not so good”. I like to attend the English class with U Toe Sein :P
(ျမန္မာအခ်င္းခ်င္းဆို အထင္မၾကီးၾကတာ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာပဲ)

I’m not dealing with the military regime. My job is finding IT projects from S’pore and developing with myanmar programmers.

I want to do the best for my country with all of my effort. But I don’t want to always talk about our gov is bad or good. I wrote some comments in this site, because someone said BLOOD DIAMOND = MYANMAR. I can’t accept that.

Thanks

Sayar U Toe Sein;

Thanks for your encouraging.

How can I contact you?

I think I did NOT say Burma’s situation is same as the situation in Blood Diamond. What I stated was how bad things are in Burma due to the mismanagement, ruthless selfishness, and stupidity of the military regime and how majority of people in Burma are suffering.

After your study and going back to Burma and when you serve in related field, am sure you will start complaining that the government is not paying you the salary you worth. That happens to all the Professors, Director Generals, Managing Directors and below ranked civil servants of Burma.
And, that is the excuse all of them give for taking bribe. Sadly, their excuse is true fact though.

No Deal is needed. And, I do not want you to kill self.
I was attending my Masters degree when 1988 uprising occured and seems you and me are of same generation. All those Burmese scholars that I see abroad adore Burma and are proud of being Burmese. Yet, they are not blind not to see the REALITY of Burma.

Best regards,
Nanda

PS. Another SHAMEFUL and SAD thing about Burma caused by the regime is….. many of those scholars have to work part time to make money. They INTENTIONALLY do not finish their studies in a given time because the longer they stay abroad, they can make more money.
And,……. in worst cases (there are many such cases), they obtain citizenship of the country they came to further their studies and serve that FOREIGN country!

I’m glad to know that there are few and dedicated Myanmar scholars like you who would like to see growth and development in the country.
I understand that you are pursuing a post graduate study on Develoment Economics in Japan.
I was involved in some major infra: projects in Myanmar with Japanese partners and if needed I am willing to share my knowledge to anyone who is doing something for the good of Myanmar.
It is time for all of us who are outside to consider what is the best path of growth and development for
Myanmar.
Wishing a Happy Myanmar New Year .

Very interesting comments,from two sides of the coin.One saying from her true hearts while other as usual would say what she heard of what others would like to hearie negative developments.

There were some spelling mistakes from my last comment and I appologise for the inconveniences in reading.I’m also a strong believer in life long learning and if I can afford to pay for a private tuition in learning English I’ll take Daw Nanda advice.Please do not make any judgement based on supposition.

Thanks for your post.
And, congratulations to learn that you are doing research about the effectiveness of infracture. (Now that am guessing you are one of those scholars sent abroad to further your study. That is not my concern though).

For your guidance, I visit Burma about once in a year and I notice what have changed and what have not yet, and what will never change.
I doubt certain things like the regime’s severe corruption and style of never giving thought of doing things for the betterment of majority of people inside Burma will never change. (What makes me feel sad most is seeing people turning to be opportunists. Many people are there to change sides and even their belief if certain incentive such as money is there).
If you read again what those people like “middle path” etc. wrote, you will note that they are all writing for and on behalf of the regime.

The regime and its mouthpieces are placing blame on the Sanctions. (I wonder if they ever give thought to WHY the sanctions are put on Burma. The sanctions are there as an attempt to correct the regime).

It in fact is not the Sanctions that made and is making Burmese poor, it is the regime’s STUPID mismanagement. We don’t have to care about sanctions if ever we were self-efficient!

Whenever I see the weary faces of people on the roads under the heat of sunshine & dust or under heavy rain, I feel sad and mad at the regime.

Under the Proper Management of a government that has the “ABILITY” and “INTENTION” TO MAKE THINGS GOOD FOR ITS PEOPLE, a country whether it has natural resources or not can become rich. (Yes, most of the politicians are corrupt in one way or the other. But, if compared to the corruption of Burma’s military regime, it is 1 to 1,000,000!).

As you maybe aware of, as per The World Factbook, Singapore has almost nothing (it has only fish and deepwater ports). Japan has almost nothing (it has only “negligible mineral resources and fish). Yet, look at today’s Singapore and Japan which is world’s no.2 economic power after the USA. It is interesting to see that Afghanistan and Nigeria are also very rich in natural resources!

Burma is a natural resources rich, beautiful and peaceful where peace-loving and innocent (and poor, Yeah!) people live.

But, there are certain UGLY things inside and about Burma which has been being done mainly by military regime and by a few others such as drug dealers alike.

People inside Burma are just innocent, their minds are beautiful….. This we Burmese (and also foreigners) know.

Am sure you are proud being a Burmese and you want Burma seen as a nice country in everyone’s eyes. That is my wish too. I am proud being a Burmese. Am still holding my Burmese passport and citizenship however it is just easy for me to change to another citizenship though. (Changing to another citizenship would make me released from paying tax to Burmese embassy who does nothing for us, but taxing). I was born as a Burmese and will take my last breath as a Burmese citizen.
Yet, I am ashamed that we have and accept such stupid military regime for such long time.

As adults, we have to have the courage to see things as they are.

Best regards,
Nanda

PS. English is necessary for condition but not sufficent condition to learn knowledges. If the people can communicate and he has high knowledge in his area or profession, it will be ok.

1. The writer named “normanwu” apparently is one of few somehow-successful businessmen that gets benefit by dealing with the military regime.

2. “Toe Sein” and “Middlepath” appears to be two out of those thousands of stupid people hired by the military regime to do propaganda and counter-propaganda in the net. (By the way, Mr. Toe Sein, I would suggest you to learn some English).

3. “Nilar” must be sayint the truth i.e. she does not stand at the side of the military regime, NOR those Burmese in exile. She seems to be honestly saying not to make bad image of Burma by comparing it to the situation in Blood Diamond.

But, her very defensive TONE is making the readers feel like she is hiding the true situation of Burma today i.e. child soldiers/child labour/working conditions like a slave/young girls becoming prostitutes/increase in theft & robberies in daylight/CORRUPTION elsewhere inside Burma/lack of elericity even in Rangoon, however the country has been finding huge GAS! (about 4 hours inside 3 days)/lack of infractures (the extended roads and newly built bridges and dams will of NO USE unless other infractures are there in Burma. In some serious cases, those dams damage nearby villages and farms)/the regime’srepression to minority races and also the Burmese etc. etc.

Burmese people are peaceful by nature. And, due to the teaching of Buddhism, they try to be content. Those two factors when combined with FEAR to the regime who is ruthless PLUS the fact that the opposition (be it the opposition inside Burma or outside Burma) cannot give effective leadership just make the military regime stay in power this long.

- Burma is rich in natural resources even before it found natural gas.

- Burma USED TO produce graduates that one can somehow say is International level. But, the regime has destroyed the education system (schools opening for a short period, then closing for long periods, then opening again for short period where they have to sit exams and due to the order of the regime almost all those sit in the exam passing it. In some cases, the student named so-and-so is in a foreign country. Someone sit the exam on behalf of that person in Burma and that student pass the exam!)

- Instead of bringing up the country’s economy and making people live better life, the regime is all too busy making money for themselves. They are busy also killing ethnic minority in border areas. Right now, KNU is under serious offense by the regime led splinter group.

3. No comment to “Klone”.

4. Thank you Richard who to me seemingly has interest in FAIR AFFAIRS and spends time for a country’s affair, not of your own.

Nanda

You were wrong again second time.

You mentioned of a Professoe from the famed University of John Hopkins refusal to buy gemas from Myanmar.

You may not know the reason of that refusal ,ie. if he buy gems from Myanmar,his hand might be tainted with Myanmar Trade Mark and probably he may not get the “fundings or financial supports” for his so called Aids Internatinal Research Program.

We know quite well how the Universities in the West have to strugle how to sustain the expenses and stay alive.

Mines may creates HIV/AIDS because labor can earn money easily and entertain themself by using drugs and CSW.But it is not because of Militarary as shown in Blood daimond. If you don’t want to buy our gem, we have no problem and it is unrenewable natural resources. It’s value will increase more in future.
Here We want to say that there is no such things as in Blood daimond in Myanmar. If you want to prove what your said, not reference other sources. Come and see in Myanmar. So you can verify proudly.
If you didn’t know clearly, please silent.