Friday, September 28, 2007

Haiz.. Wad a long day for me, went for my hospital medical review wif my dad.. Then visited my mum in her ward.. Met my new baby sis.. She looks adorable.. Dad say she has my eyes and she resembles me when i was a baby.. Dad gave me the honour of naming her.. Wow! Somethin i neva do before sia.. So u prepared for it? Okae, i named my new baby sis Sheila Adella.. Nice isnt it? =) Welcome to the family dear..

Well, after dat long day i was very tired and shagged to the max.. Kinda depressed too, dunno why.. Missed my hubby lots too but there's nothing much i can do except to wait for everythin to be over.. But i can look forward to spendin time with him since he's gettin 3 more weeks of medical or hospitilisation leave..

While he was breakin his fast, i was out at the balcony.. Kinda haf my own personal time, reviewin on wads been happenin to me, some sort of lookin back on my life all this while.. Lotsa stuffs runnin thru my mind.. There's lotsa wad ifs n wad nots... I hope everythin goes well for me.. Insyallah..

Well, i tried to keep myself busy n distract myself from thinkin too much.. Did a bit of readin on wads happenin in the news.. N god, there's lotsa stuffs happenin in e world.. Allow me to indulge more on my readings if u dun mind..

One news dat caught my attention is the current situation whereby the monks are staging n organising demostrations and protests.. Firstly, before we jump to conclusions, lets disect and study the histroy of Myanmar..

Myanmar which is also known as Burma and is officially known as the Union of Myanmar.. By its geographical area itself, Myanmar is one of the largest country in SouthEastAsia.. Myanmar has an extensive porous border shared by China on the north, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Andaman Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest..

Myanmar was colonised as a colony of United Kingdom during the British colonial era.. It got its independence from the United Kingdom on 4 January 1948 as the “Union of Burma”.. On 18 June 1989, the military-led "State Law and Order Restoration Council' adopted the name “Union of Myanmar”. Which was recognised by the United Nations but ironically not recognised by the United States and the United Kingdom..

Sao Shwe Thaik was its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.. Like the United Kingdom, although albeit distinct a bicameral parliament was formed, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Nationalities.. In 1962, General Ne Win led a coup that toppled the civilian government of U Nu.. He roughly ruled for 26 years and pursued socialist policies under of the "Burmese Way to Socialism".. Over the years of military rule, there was a mass exodus of citizen unrest over the dwindling economy and brutal political oppression by the military government.. This led to massive pro-democracy protests and demonstrations better known as the 8888 Uprising, famously organised by students.. In this event, hundreds of such demonstrators were massacred by the security forces..

Till now, Myanmar remains under the military control of the "State Peace and Development Council.". Currently Myanmar is headed by Senior General Than Shwe.. There were sporadic calls for the return of civilian rule and democracy to Myanmar.. As of 22 September 2007, the Buddhist monks in Myanmar have withdrawn spiritual services from all military personnel in a symbolic move that is seen as very powerful in such a deeply religious country as Myanmar. The military rulers seem at a loss as to how to deal with the demonstrations by the monks as using violence against monks would incense and enrage the people of Myanmar even further, almost certainly prompting massive civil unrest and perhaps violence. However, the longer the Junta allows the protests to continue, the weaker the regime looks. The danger is that eventually the military government will be forced to act rashly and doing so will provoke the citizenry even more. Some international news agencies are referring to the uprising as a Saffron Revolution.. Let the revolution begins...

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