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February 11, 2007
burma burma
i'm super duper excited about myanmar! tagging along with parents for a trip (i haven't travelled with them for ages) - a real quick and short one (myanmar deserves more time really). at first they said phnom penh, then a change of mind to....yangon!
i'm so psyched about going there - suu kyi's beloved burma. the land of white stupas and golden temples and busy tea houses and tribes with a taste of the exotic (think neck rings), that inspired george orwell, william somerset maugham, rudyard kipling. their lovely squiggly writings. i've heard about how honest and intellectual their people are, read about the military regime, kept myself abreast with suu kyi's house arrest.
i can't believe i'm going.
mandalay, bagan, yangon/rangoon, irrawaddy river - how can the names of those places not send a shiver down one's spine? (we probably have time for only one place tho :D)
between now to the days when i'll touch her soil - i'm gonna be stuffing my brains silly with literature on myanmar - i've already got all the books written by aung san suu kyi, a lonely planet and several other burma literature. oh me be sponge for facts of your land!
posted by nyx at February 11, 2007 11:42 AM
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Have a safe trip...and Happy CNY in advance! :-P
Posted by: Gallivanter at February 11, 2007 5:47 PM
Wow, Burma. It's such a mysterious place. I rarely read about it. Have a fun trip :)
Posted by: BawangMerah at February 11, 2007 8:42 PM
More books to read ah?
Can Finish ah?
Got more warehouse sale u can buy Myanmar books n not finish reading them at all ah?
More blogs on warehouse sales ah?
More price tags n names ah?
Posted by: -?- at February 12, 2007 3:17 PM
i already have those books bahhhhhhh
i will finishhhhhh
no more warehouse salesssss (so far la...)
n i dont go buy just to blog la haiyohhhhhhhhhhh
BESIDES
its ur name there most of the time wot
Posted by: nyx at February 12, 2007 3:23 PM
Hi, enjoy your trip & remember to take lots of pics
Posted by: al at February 13, 2007 12:42 PM
how was it?
I make regular trips to Myanmar, to places where tourist are offlimits.
it can be a very depressing place.
Posted by: fake at February 26, 2007 10:23 PM
fake - i'd only be there late april. what brings you regularly to myanmar?
Posted by: nyx at February 27, 2007 8:06 PM
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