Yway Seed (red-bead)

Thses seeds are known as Yway seeds in my country, Myanmar.

The seeds are used as jeweller's weights (used in weighing gold and jewellery).

weight of the seed equivalent to 272.15 milligram approximately.

Myanmar name : Yway seed

Botanical name : Adenanthera pavonina

Common name: red-bead tree, red sandalwood, and Circassian-bean in English; raktakambal (India); saga (Malaysia); lopa (Samoa and Tonga); coralitos, peronias, and jumble-bead (Caribbean).

Native to India.

flower arrangement (pink roses)

flower arrangement (orchids)

In my living room.

The Art of Marriage

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created. In the art of marriage the little things are the big things…

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say. “I love you”, at least once each day.

It is never going to sleep angry.

It is at no time with the honeymoon, it should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives: it is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other. It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is finding the room for the things of the sprit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is establishing a relationship a counseled by Louis K. Anspacher, in which “the independence is equal, the dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal.”

It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

It is discovering what marriage can be, at its best, as expressed in the words Mark Twain used in a tribute to his wife; “Wherever she was, there was Eden.”


Written by Wilfred Peterson in 1960.

flower arrangement (roses)

While my mommy was doing flower arrangement for our living room, I took the photographs.

:)

Lablab bean

I love this fried lablab bean which has been mixed together with onion slices, a little bit of salt and pea nut oil.
Yummy!
We, Myanmar people call it "Pe` Chan Kyaw Thoat" (lablab bean salad).
It matches with Chinese Tea (Yay Nway Kyan).

Tha Na Kha

Myanmar Name : Tha Na Kha
Botanical Name : Limonia crenulata
family : Rutaceae
Common Name: Chinese Box tree

Tha Na Kha is a kind of tree , the bark and the root of which are used in frangant paste for cosmetic purpose in Myanmar.

It is well known as Myanmar traditional make up.

It is also medicinal plant commonly found in middle part of Myanmar.

A stem with the bark intact with a flat "grind stone" used to make paste which is directly applied to the skin as skin care.

Thanakha agrees with Myanmar natural environs, especially with the weather. It is recognized to be of great help to bear the heat of the sun and thus an ideal cosmetic for those who have to work under direct sunshine. It is not only make up base , but also oil controller.

It protects our skin from damaging.

Me, wearing Tha Na Kha on my cheek .:P

The Art of Renewal

Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year.

Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is
a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life…

It is time to consider the wisdom of Socrates:
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” It is a time to reevaluate
your past as a guide to your future.

It is a time to toss old hatreds, resentments, grudges and fears into
the wastebasket of life: a time to forgive and forget.

It is a time to list the things you have left undone and to do something
about them; the visits you have failed to make, the words unspoken,
the letters unwritten, the task unfinished.

It is a time to dust off your dreams and shine up your ideas.

It is a time to browse through the precious old books that have meant
the most to you that you may discover illumination phrases and sentences
to light your pathway into the future.

It is a time to rededicate your life to those things which are enduring,
recognizing with William James that “ the great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlasts it.”

It is a time to resolve to add life to your years, for as Phillip James Bailey points out.
“he most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”


Written by Wilfred Peterson in 1960.

jade from my country

Jade from my country is famous among chinese people in the world.

When I went back to Myanmar, I bought some jades for my chinese friends here as souvenir from Myanmar.

When they got jade, they were very happy and wear it all the time.

They like green coloured, but for me, I like colourful jade.

When I was in Myamar, I did not wear jade.

But now in Miri, my friends like to wear and I wear it so often.

The pictures above are the jade left with me after giving away others to my friends.

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so busy these days.
I have to submit the candidacy proposal at the end of this month.
But I haven't decided the research method .
still confused :(
TI or PIC
microcontroller .
If I choose Texas Instrument, I must use TinyOS open source.
I need to use ubuntu OS.
If I choose PIC, I must use Assmebly which is easier.
huu...
I can't make up my mind yet.
OK...whatever

paintings?

Mommy's orchids.

some of my friends ask if those orchids are paintings because of the petal's colour mixture.

amazing!

Conference Dinner (27th November)

Conference Dinner and Stage Performance (Traditional Dance of Sarawak State).

beach in Miri

My friends came from Myanmar and so I show off the beach.

We went there last Sunday.

After walking along the beach ,we had chicken Satay and coconut juice.

busy days

I have been busy these days.

Some of my friends from Myanmar submitted papers and came to attend the CUTSE2008.

Curtin University of Technology Science and Engineering International Conference.

So I have been busy with them showing off my Uni and the city I stay in.

The first day, there was Icebreaker dinner .

Particpants from different contries got to know each other.

It was raining last night.

In the morning, raindrops on the banana leaf in the sunshine.