food is great in Myanmar, at least that what we experienced, [ i read from other blogs, they said food is terrible in this place] may be ours were specially prepared for this program. But again, i'm not comlaining, they are really nice, especially those fresh prawns, fresh fish, veges [many kinds of them], all those sambals, even 'belacan' they have! I ate more than i should have.. caused cholestrol rise and.. and resulted in uncomfortable itchiness to my skin.. the whole stay i suffered from it, but hey, its worth all the troubles!! More prawns please.. loabsters??

Arrrrgh!!!

what on earth is this???? an alien?? an invincible forces? No, no.. none of them.. it's just my camera! okay, how it happened.. we just arrived at the seameo chat centre in Yangon, when were were told to take group picture in front of the centre, so this guy who work there offered his service to take our picture using our cameras.. and while i passed my camera to his hand, he dropped it to the solid ground!! O. O no..i just bought this camera just few days ago, it couldn't go this way.. I thought to myself nothing will go wrong with it, it should be okay. the next moment i tried to click it, guess what .. this is the outcome!! o no, this was just our first day in Myanmar, and i damaged my camera?? what am i going to do after this then? frustrated and I didnt blame him either. he was really honest to help out .. so i calmed down take very very very long breath...and i'm okay. The rest of the stay i'll just enjoy the beauty of the country with my naked eyes, okay with my glassed eyes... !!

Yangon in brief

YANGON
Yangon is the capital of Myanmar. It also goes by the name of "the Garden City of the East." Yangon has still many old colonial style buildings. Yangon boasts a great pagoda called Shwe Dagon, which is one of the wonder of the world and also the heart of the Buddhism. Shwe Dagon towering almost 100 m above the green city-shape of Yangon, the pagoda is the prominent landmark visible from miles around. The pagoda is covered with about 60 tons of pure gold and Its Umbrella or Tip is set with diamond, rubies and others precious stones.

myanmar visit

Downtown Yangon, very erly in the morning.. just finished my breakfast at the hotel, and we took a morning walk around the area.. very quite and most shops still closed.. first day in Myanmar.

Myanmar visit

Mingalar bar!!

Myanmar visit - I never dream of going to Myanmar, but here I'm now in the country staying for 2 weeks!! I'm one of the delegates for the SEAMEO CHAT program on History of Myanmar from the Myanmar perspective- the program runs from 18 t0 27 Feb 2009. what can i say about the visit.. loads and loads of things of course..