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  • Do you guys piss with the toilet door open?



    Living in the overseas is expensive and thus we usually share our accommodation with other people (be it boys or girls )
    A flat shared by 4 close people is good enough to stay especially when we know each other.

    I've had a few flatmates before .... and noticed that guys normally piss with the toilet door open.
    It's okay when the toilet is in the bedroom or at least some hidden place where there're no passers-by.
    But I feel really uncomfortable if one guy is pissing in the toilet which is closely connected with kitchen.
    I mean of course the door is behind and he's just facing the toilet bowl. But still, the noise of urine dropping into the water the water really disturbs me.
    The noise is same thing like you pour a glass of water slowly into the pond ... But the knowledge and awareness that it's not water .. it's someone's urine really really makes me feel totally uncomfortable.

    If it was a friend, I would just shout and remind to close the door like "CLOSE THE DOOR!"
    I can't help if it's a natural habit ..... Sigh ... and I cannot shout every time.

    I was wondering how many of the guys feel normal piss with the toilet door open at the presence of flatmates (both girls and boys)

    Are guys comfortable enough to urinate with toilet door open .... just like that?

    I know the men toilet has got some urinal spots for those who don't care much about public.

    But what about urinating with toilet door wide open at shared residential flat.

    Girls, would the fact that your guy doesn't or never close the door (in your presence) when he's urinating annoy you?

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  • Your Parents on Facebook?

    I started using Facebook a couple of years back. That time I was using friendster and was not very familiar with Facebook features.
    I don't actually remember when I completely switched to Facebook. I think the transition period was smooth – it must have started when my logins to friendster became less and rare and my facebook logins became otherwise.

    A year back, my cousin opened up a cyber cafe in hometown which enabled my aunt to browse and surf the internet more frequently than ever.
    She started having a facebook account and added me. There, she conveyed my status messages to my mom and, I think, that might have made her want to have one as well.
    Then my mom asked me to teach her how to use facebook (She's not that familiar to computer and internet as much as my aunt is.)
    I created one account for my mother -- that was no problem because she doesn't know how to use well and doesn't have much interest in it.

    When my family came over to Singapore last month, I helped my nephew open one Facebook account for himself.
    Then when my nephew liked it, he asked his grandfather (who is my DAD) to open one account.
    and now ... both my parents are in my friend list.

    That makes me worried about my status msgs (about my feelings and relationship)s and some albums where me and my boyfriend were hugging and stuff (nothing nasty though, but Asian primitive culture you know). Even though they know and accept that I am officially in a relationship for years, they might not like my photos. Well .... in this case, I thank facebook for having custom privacy setting which is very customizable. I blocked access to some of my albums.

    Stupid me also suggested friends – dad with my SO on facebook.. LOL.

    But, I will not feel free enough  to post as much status msgs as I did before.

    Gosh... I can't even  'publish this entry to my facebook profile'.
    Urgh!

  • U . p . d . a . t . e

    It's been like ages that I haven't posted in Xanga.

    Sign-in locks have been on again because I do not want any unknown footprints anymore. I mean, it's okay to change my mind right? First, I started this blog just to keep a record of what I do and what I think from time to time. After some time, I envied those Burmese blogs and decided to change my blog into only Burmese which is, well, Okay. I suppose my writings were okay ... (Well ... some of them , of course) and I'm confident that visitors had enjoyed reading some of my posts. But the thing is – I can't keep up!  I mean , to maintain a good amount of regular readers I obviously need to update regularly – at least like one post in every three days which I failed to do so .

    Another thing is, I can't really post my very personal things to unknown readers (Well they could include my relatives and people I personally know) ... Ok ok ... let me get this straight .. I can't gossip anymore. LOL. Not necessarily gossiping, I mean I can't post my personal feelings, daily routine, what I do, what he does , so and so forth – I just don't feel comfortable enough to open that to public. I can always open another blog and start writing again – which I did and failed a coup;e of times already (I wrote another two blogs but I just couldn't  1. keep up with them either 2. fall in love with them as much as I did to Xanga (well not to xanga, but to my personal URL)

    Last but not least (sounds like an essay huh? ) there was a dramatic fall in my writing skills!!!!!! like I ever had a very good writing skills I understand we don't need to have a very good writing skills in order to keep up with a blog but presentable writing skills are necessary as long as you want it to be entertaining to your readers – be it friends or just visitors.

    By they way, I didn't go out in the past weekends but he did!!! with another chic!
    They went dating at my back! and this was the trace I got from him.



    I know this is very typical picture of Singapore which brings same ole thing but I applauded him and forgave him for going out at my back.
    He's in love with that chic more than he is with me. what a weird name she has – EOS 500D?

    and this!








  • TGIF

    By Friday, I see most of my friends Facebook status are "TGIF!"  –  Thank God It's Friday.
    Well, I don't really feel any thankful because:
    1. I don't have God to thank
    2. I have class after work – which means Friday is always longer for me, in fact starts at 8 and ends at 12 midnight.
    3. The assignment is already due this evening and I haven't even started a scratch seriously! Lazybone huh?

    Last night, I reached home only around like 1:30 AM ... alone. Mom asked me not to come back alone next time.
    I was like "Hello Mom ... this is Singapore where walking alone on the street at 3 am after the movie is a lot safer than taking a cab in Yangon around 6pm. and what? You worry when I come back alone more than when I come back with my boyfriend? " No ... I was just thinking. I didn't say that to her though.
    Anyway, I'm not a very good daughter. I'm not even a very good person.




  • Technology

    It's raining ....

    A perfect weather to tuck yourself in the blanket with your favourite book and a cup of coffee on the bedside table.
    Well ... I could say my wish is almost fulfilled ... because I'm reading my favorite book and a coffee is ready beside me.
    Except
    I'm reading an e-book with my computer – not a hard copy.
    And I'm not lying on my bed, but sitting at my desk.
    Yes, I'm at work.

    How I wish I were at home. ... but no where else ... just underneath a heap of blankets with the Air con on.
    Does it sound crazy?

    I was going to talk about the convenience of today's technology. 
    Steven and Ken are going up to China next week and Steven needs China visa, which obviously I have to apply for him.
    Last week, he asked me to remind him to bring his passport this week and I did remind him but I forgot to remind him to bring two passport-sized photos for visa application.
    He didn't have any extra passport-sized photos in hand. (who would have?)
    But everything goes smoothly without Steven having to leave office an inch.
    How could I get his photo? Well, it's easy .. I asked him to take with his webcam! (smart huh? )
    Macbook's webcam is nice – a lot nicer to any other laptops I've seen/used.
    And the quality , I think, is not bad either.
    Within a few seconds I got Steven's photo which he sent via bluetooth on to my machine, without me having to go to his desk.

    But I need another thing: The background needs to be pure white ?
    So, I sent the file over to kyal (who's very good at photoshop) and asked her if she could help with it.
    She got it done within a couple of minutes  and sent it back to me – all via e-mail!!!!
    The photo came out quite well: not worse than the self-help photo kiosks! photo ID machines.
    Thanks to her!

    I was all ready to go. But I need to print the photos out. At least two.
    I just went over to one shop which has self-help photo printers, inserted the USB drive, chose the photo, chose the size, adjusted a little and within 8 minutes I got 8 copies of his photos!!!

    Technology and friends do play an important role.

    Agree much?

  • Sometimes I asked myself, why am I the lucky one?





  • Pain

    မေတာ္တဆ လွ်ာကိုု သြားနဲ႕ ကိုုက္မိတဲ့အခါ နာက်င္မႈကိုု အေကာင္းျမင္စိတ္နဲ႕ ၾကည္႕ဖိုု႕ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးခက္ခဲပါတယ္။
    ဖိနပ္ေပါက္လိုု႕ ေျခေထာက္မွာ အေရၾကည္ဖုုေတြ ပြထလာတဲ့အခါလည္း အတူတူပါပဲ။
    ဘယ္သူကေတာ့ တဆစ္ဆစ္နာက်င္ ကိုုက္ခဲေနတဲ့ ေျခေထာက္တစ္စံုုကိုု လုုိခ်င္မွာလဲ။

    ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီ့နာက်င္မႈကိုု မခံစားရဘူးဆိုုရင္ဘယ္လိုုလုုပ္မလဲ ...
    မေတာ္တဆ လွ်ာကိုုက္မိတဲ့အခါ လွ်ာအသားစ ေသးေသးေလးကိုု ကိုုက္ျဖတ္မိသြားတာမ်ိဳး
    ေရေႏြးနဲ႕ ေရခ်ိဳးကန္ထဲမွာ စိမ္ေနရင္း အပူခ်ိန္ကိုု မသိလိုု႕ ေနာက္ေက်ာေလာင္သြားတာမ်ိဳး
    ဘယ္ေလာက္ မၾကာမၾကာ ျဖစ္လိုုက္ေလမလဲ ...။

    ကိုုယ္မွာ နာက်င္မႈဆိုုတာ ခႏၶာကိုုယ္ကိုု ေနာက္ထပ္ ပ်က္စီးမႈကေန ကာကြယ္ဖိုု႕ အေကာင္းဆံုုးသတိေပးတဲ့စနစ္တစ္ခုုျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
    “သင္လုုပ္ေနတာေတြ ရပ္ဖိုု႕ေကာင္းျပီ ” လိုု႕ သူကေျပာခ်င္တာပါ။

    စိတ္ထဲက နာက်င္မႈေတြကလည္း အလားတူပါပဲ။
    “ သင္ စဥ္းစားေတြးေတာမႈပံုုစံေတြ ေျပာင္းလဲေကာင္း ေျပာင္းလဲသင့္ျပီ” ဆိုုတဲ့ သတင္းစကားကိုုေပးပါတယ္။

    စိတ္ဆိုုးတာ၊ မနာလိုုျဖစ္တာ၊ ခါးသီးတာေတြကိုု ခဏတျဖဳတ္ ခံစားရတာ ပံုုမွန္ပါပဲ။
    ဒါေပမယ့္ စိတ္ထဲမွာ အၾကာၾကီးခံစားေနရမယ္ဆိုုရင္ သင့္စိတ္က ေျပာေနတာေတြကေတာ့ ...

    “ တစ္ျခားသူေတြကိုု ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ဖိုု႕ ၊ ကိုုယ့္အလိုုအတိုုင္းျဖစ္ဖိုု႕ စိတ္မကူးနဲ႕ ...”

    “ တစ္ျခားသူေတြကိုု ကိုုယ့္အတိုုင္း ျပဳမူေဆာင္ရြက္ဖိုု႕ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္နဲ႕ ”

    “ ကိုုယ့္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈအတြက္ သူမ်ားေတြအေပၚမွာ မမွီခိုုနဲ႕ ”

    သာယာနာေပ်ာ္ဖြယ္မေကာင္းတဲ့အေတြးတစ္ခုုတည္းကိုုပဲ ထပ္ခါထပ္ခါေတြးမိေနျခင္းဟာ ဒဏ္ယာတစ္ခုုအတြက္ ထပ္ခါထပ္ခါနာက်င္ရျခင္းပါပဲ ...
    ဒါေပမယ့္ “ငါမမွားဘူး” လိုု႕ ပဲေတြးျဖစ္ေနတယ္။  မွားတယ္၊ မွန္တယ္ဆိုုတာေတြက နာက်င္ရျခင္းအတြက္ေတာ့ အေထာက္အကူမျပဳဘူး။

    ေျခေထာက္က အေရၾကည္ဖုုတစ္ခုုဟာ “တစ္ျခားဖိနပ္တစ္ရံကိုု ေျပာင္းလဲ စီးသင့္ေၾကာင္း” ေျပာပါတယ္ ...။

    ဦးေဏွာက္က အေရၾကည္ဖုု (သိုု႕မဟုုတ္) စိတ္ထဲက နာက်င္မႈေတြကေတာ့ “ ေတြးေတာပံုု” ေျပာင္းလဲသင့္ေၾကာင္း အသိေပးတယ္။


    ကိုုယ္ခႏၶာ နာက်င္မႈကိုုျဖစ္ေစတဲ့အရာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ စိတ္နာက်င္မႈကိုု ျဖစ္ေစတဲ့အရာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ...
    ထပ္ခါ ထပ္ခါ လုုပ္ေန၊ ေတြးေနရင္ေတာ့ ... အထပ္ထပ္အခါခါ .. ဒဏ္ရာ ၊အနာ ပရပြ ရျမဲရေနမွာပါပဲ ...။

    Ref: Andrew Matthews: Happiness Now
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