TAKE ME HOME...COUNTRY ROADS

Dear Pals! click "play" on youtube and let's travel together the journey home..
Almost heaven..Northern Shan State..Blue-ridged mountains..Dote-hta-Waddy River..haha..pals.. look at the pictures and hope it could ease you from feeling homesick..After calling Singapore my second home, living and leading a robotic life style for fews year, a short trip back home was so refreshing and rejuvenating..I tell you..
No mobile phone..no email access. no internet and no worries.. do make me rounder aha.. as you can see..

And it was quite an expansive trip back home though after clearing taxes to my beloved embassy close to SingDollar 7,000. Why should I be clearing the tax before I went home? you may ask.. Well.. I have to...

I may be granted a return passage to Singapore only upon presenting the tax receipts duly endorsed from the Myanmar Embassy here in Singapore and with a self-written leave application. You won't understand why the hell we need to show the leave applications to immigration officers at the Grand Yangon International Airport. Neither do I..A myanmar national returning home from a foreign country is required to produce a leave form subitted to his/her company if he wanted to go out of the country again. This always puzzles me if there are requests to Myanmar Immigration Department by our companies in foreign countries to check on us whether we are AWOL(absent without leave).. Well..I don't know if we went without leave from our companies, we would be denied entries to our mother country. I dare not to try..So rather save than sorry.. I just have to follow the norn..Writing my own leave application approval. signing and addressing myself. Presenting it to the officers at Yangon Airport every trip going to own country..aha.. we are well-displined and law-abiding citizens..and proud of it..anytime.. haha
You think I am complaining? You are wrong. You may go to the embassy and check it. Not only me but all of us are willingly paying our due to our beloved mother country and so much so that we write in to the embassy requesting the ambassador to accept our taxed-dollars in a standard format. I think that the least we could do to support our hardworking leaders in their nation-building efforts towards a developed and mordernized country ( the slogan that we have seen for the past 2 decades and still going strong).
I think our contributions is well-spent if I have to say. If not how could we take care of the medical bills for our down-to-earth hardlined leaders who scarifice their well-beings for the countries whenever they have to come for medical check-up. Only if they are well off and healthy so that they could look after our nation's wealths Right?

Generally my beloved mother country is still standing still and retained her sleeping beauty. I am grateful to the leaders who put in so much efforts to retain the old charm and selectively permit the traders to import only decade-old motor vehicles to supplement the greying cities. I think it is "differentiation". Right! I fully support it. We have to differentiate ourselves from neighbouring countries. If we are just another like any other countires with skyscrapers with multi-layers express ways with full of state-of-the-art cars on the roads, who would want to visit our country. Aha..We will just be another Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Beijing and Shanghai right. Guys.. Appalause to our leaders..it is a tough and hard work you know.


You see! we have the best eco-friendly roads and cities in the worlds. Our express ways are so narrow that everytime our bus coming head on with the vehicles from the opposite direction, I closed my eyes, I hold my breath. But I was just too coward I guess! Our skillful highway drivers.. I tell you.. fantastic! If we bring them to up and coming Singapore F1 racing, the current famous racers would have to run for their money.
I went a bit out of topic aha.. ya seriously I got an idea to set up a talent management company to represent Myanmar racers to grace the world racing circuits.

Monaco Racing Tracks? narrow and winding tiny roads going up and down the hills? It would be sure a laughing stock if our highways drivers heard about how risky and adventurous to drive and win millions there!
Or if our drivers can't leave to race the Monaco, the Malaysia's Sepang (may be wrong spelling) or Singapore's world first night racing..we could bring the racing event to Shan State in Myanmar. It would be the world most exciting racing event and guess? who will win? Who else. Our myanmar drivers. Calling ! Calling Investors! If you want to take a look at the said potential race tracks..take a look at the photos here first and if you are interested to see the real roads.. Let me know..I will find some contacts for you guys.

Why you need me? You should know you need a good and powerful contact to do any money making business in Yangon! This is a good and lucrative deal and once in a life time opportunity and for sure you can't have 100% foreign-own company to make such money. Aha..You gotta share with someone big...yes I say someone BIG..if no! simple.. no deal..

The term "NEPOTISM" is so commmon that if you are not part of it then you are out of business..aha..
Anyway ! anyway... business aside.. I hope you do enjoy the sceneries that is so refreshing right..
And I have no grudges against China though I have seen how all things china flooding Myanmar. If not for China, who else would have supplied sub-standard merchandises so cheaply that our general public could afford and survive without...aha..

Who else would buy our superior quality teak wood in thousands that stimulate our fledging economy and that create border-trade inequalities, making our loaded one poorer and China trader richer? aha.. You know right..China is making the world standup with its ever-increasing trade surpluses.. So we Myanmar is not being left alone. We are one of the trend setters with many trade deficits while dealing with them. Thanks God China is willing to trade with us.Stay think and thin with us throughout aha.. [THOUSAND OF TEAK LOGS READY TO CROSS THE CHINA BORDER]
Guys..like it or not..but I really enjoy my trip..