MYANMAR MODELS,, TOO REVEALING?

Just a piece of my thought..

I was visiting some Myanmar websites and chanced upon the topic on Myanmar models.VisitTHIS PAGE where I stemmed off, the origin of this post.

Basically in everything dysfunctional Myanmar,from the governing mechanism to social systems everything seems out of order.

I remembered reading somewhere and I think I wrote about it once how the businessmen instructed Model Agency while picking the models,the brand ambassadors. "No male model"... it is not a subject whether it is relevant or no...What matter most is " must be model GIRLS.". I wonder one day we might see model girls fronting the billboards and parading the catwalks for male under gears.Here, I am not trying to demean the model girls but highlighting what rules this professions.

Hmm... I might go far off the tracks if we started talking everything disordered in our beloved country. So back to the post..



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Inevitable if I have to say!

Who the hell on earth would enjoy ogling their own kins stripping for public pleasure!

Surely not you.. Not me. Not anyone even from a more liberal country or cultured country, continent.

But if they choose to do it? So be it. We do not like our sisters to do so? By all means, by our social norms or so-called Myanmar culture, domestically tell our sisters or beat them (even so, we do not have the right to do so from human right point of view). But do we have the right to tell the strangers/ models off? Not so, I guess.

You have all the right not to see them if you don't like. On the same parameters, they have all the rights to reveal everything they possess.

So if we don't like such kind of acts why we even visit them, see them and felt helpless and bothered.

We are in the process of marching towards a full democracy, equal opportunities and human right Myanmar. Aren't we?

If so, why we are acting like moral guards to restrict people from doing what they are happy to do? It's kind of violating one's right and contradicting ourselves in demanding human rights from the Generals. By doing so, we are showing and approving the General's statements that we are not ready for the democracy! Probably, we are still enjoying Generals' treatments, " Burmese way of democracy".

From my humble opinion, no force , no exploitation involved in those shoots? Fine. They like it? They enjoy acting naked? Go ahead. If I think indecent or no taste, I will not see them. I will practise my full human rights not to see them. I like them? No one can stop me. I am again practising my rights to do what I like.

In every act, there is a price to pay for.. it's a matter of cheap or expensive. Light or heavy.

Leave it to individual choice. To each his own, we are responsible for our own acts.

Not meaning to offend any party who has a stake in this subject but trying to practise my very own right to voice what I feel. Not necessary to be right across..

TO POST OR NOT TO POST IN MYANMAR LANGUAGE..

Hmmmm... It's really a dilemma!

You know what! I have started this blog for quite a while and I have readers near and far. I have readers who are Myanmar and who are not.

I have Myanmar readers who like ro read in English and who encourage me to continue in English. And I have those readers who left messages telling me, they came and they left for not knowing what I scribbled. A matter of facts or a joke but it does keep me wonder whether to write in the language they understand.. no offence guys..

And I have those messages from my non-Myanmar readers that they appreciate what I have written. Flattering when I read the messages like... they never come across any Myanmar National who write a decent English in blog sphere. Of course there are thousands Myanmarese with better command of English but they don't blog. Or they are someone and doing big things rather than wastsing their time flaunting the polished English here.

Well! the point here is not to talk about my English proficiency but rather why I am in a dilemma!

Sometimes, I open to view and update my blog from my office desk during my lunch break and it was irritating to see nothing but the square blocks.You see I do not have the Myanmar fonts in my office PC and I don't think it is appropriate to install it either.

And that make me think about my non-Myanmar readers. If myself is so annoyed, how about them. Stumble upon a blog of mine and unfamiliar fonts or square blocks greeting them, what will they think? From my profile they might know I am a Myanmarese. Wanting to see what a Myanmarese writes about and with all those alienated fonts, sure! I need not to chase them away but they would never return!

Some might say, why bother! Yeah but I do. Since I started this post I meant for everyone. I want to share what I know to everyone. I want to share what is Myanmar like to foreigners and I want to share to my fellow Myanmarese what the whole world is happening out there! Again you might say!Share with them in Myanmar. No! I want to share with them in simple English! I want to encourage our fellow people to read and write well. May be not those people who never intend to come out of the country and for steadfast nationalists who vowed not to read, write nor speak any foreign languages.

Again, I never claimed and will never do to suggest I am an expert in English. Just a decent user, I should say and of course a better one among the peers. I would admit shamelessly that I am where I am in my professional career for having a better language proficiency. Lip Service! you may want to say. Combining and bundling with your hard-working nature, willingness to learn and you are a step ahead before your very peers who lack the language skills.


Why I say I want to encourage our people to pick up English?

Every now and then I run into many fellow Myanmarese who complained they are being discriminated here in Singapore. And I always suggest I never encountered because I communicate well enough. Hey! I ensure you that I said it with a tone of encouragement to learn language not with the wired look.

I am a Myanmarese. I love Myanmar Language. I love our people and I feel good to see and talk in our language.

But we are here in Singapore. We are now living and working overseas. We face problems, misunderstanding in our work places. Can we use our very own language to solve them? We swallow the pain, the tears and grow our anger instead. Then we say we are being discriminated against. I don't rule out there is none. Discrimination does exist everywhere. But sometimes the language that create misunderstandings and we comfortably named it as discrimination.

As we can see what is going on around town now! In Singapore job market, we are not a preferred potential employees anymore! And the reason? Our Master Degree holders Degree holders flocked the interviews with our very own language. Some that I come across I wonder if they think that Singapore is just a state of Myanmar.

I understand very well that we are far away from home and feeling homesick. By all means, read myanmar journals, listen to Myanmar songs but shouldn't we put in some efforts to read English? For immdiate benefits in our work places, shouldn't we dedicate more times to work on our language instead of crying fouls that we are in this dire state because of military regime!

Ha ha back to my post topic, ya...I try to be bilingual. I tried to post in both languages. But if a non-myanmarese readers visit my page and those sqaure blocks would suggest they are posts meant for myanmarese and might run away for good. They might think the post is irrelevant and unwelcoming. I can't let this happen and I still want to air my view occasinally about Myanmar that I want our non-myanmar friends to know. We can't isolate ourselves and our beloved Myanmar for some reasons...

And we are here to work in Singapore and polishing up our English might bring us to a new level up there in our career. Singapore itself it having "Speak Good English Campaign" , all the more we Myanmar need to do so I guess..

So dear fellow brothers and sisters I am thinking about getting rid of the Myanmar fonts all together from this blog and I will write in THIS BLOG myanmar language. At this moment, I have not written anything but please do bookmark it and visit me in the future. And that does not say you are not welcomed in this blog alright!

Love and peace!

GIRLS OF THE TIME..

Hi buddies! I am really grateful for all your supports and visits throughout.

I felt extremely bad when you guys leave a note asking why there was no new post.

So many things I wanted to do and so little time.

I ask myself if I am having mid-life crisis! One moment, I am up and ambitious and next moment I feel it's all enough.

This moment I felt complete about my career and the next I am bizarre where I am in my career path, where I am heading!

I dreamt of becoming a successful chief executive officer (CEO) of an MNC and then again, a question hit my nerve why I need to do so and who would inherit my fortunes. Aha.. kind of funny..I am not sure anyone else of my age and same calibre, status, ever encountered the same.

Giving a sharp rise in rent here in Singapore and a thought of buying my own apartment fated away when my mind was so unsettled where do I live the rest of my life. Going back to Myanmar? Heading for Australia? Retire in Thailand? Stay put in Singapore?

When my youngest brother was still around I did not have much thought about this.And couching in my little room with a song and a magazine fill my weekends lately.










Well dear pals, readers and well wishers... don't you worry ok! I am fine and I am here sharing with you..I checked my mails and I find that it is relevant to this time of Information Technology Age.

This post is dedicated to my elder sisters and little sisters who come visiting my blog without fail whether I have new post or not.

And I try to find what the blogger girls are like but sorry I can't find any suitable..Guys! any suggestion? What and how to describe the Blogger Girls?

Sisters! to be fair to you! Send me mails or leave the comments how to put across or how you think of us guys in the same genre? I would love to read from you..

Love and Peace!