Its hard to believe but Burma’s fleet of vehicles appear to hail from WWII. Its like travelling in a time machine!
I snapped this photo in Mandalay.
Posts Tagged ‘burma’
Burmese Buses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, mandalay on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thai Ladyboy Phenomenon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, culture, ladyboys, mandalay, thailand on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting article I read in TIME about the Thai ladyboy phenomenon. If you haven’t been to Thailand, let me tell you that it needs to be seen to be believed. The article might be right that the acceptance of transgender stems from their earliest mythology. Even when I was in the backblocks of Burma [...]
Bruce on Burma
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bruce flegg, burma, human rights on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thought I might publish Dad’s comments in the House recently about the human rights issue in Burma. Go Dad!
Dr FLEGG (Moggill—LNP) (10.01 pm): Today I was thrilled to chair a forum to look at the issue of human rights abuse in Burma, our neighbour within our region. These human rights abuses were highlighted by the recent cyclone [...]
Burma or Myanmar?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, chiang mai, democracy, human rights, politics, rangoon on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed I have stuck pretty rigidly to using the terms Burma and Rangoon when writing. My usage of them are in direct contrast to the terms the Burmese junta would have the world use: Myanmar and Yangon. No, I’m not some sort of neo-colonialist agitator nor am I singing Hale Britannia and waiting for the [...]
Preaching Human Rights Inside Burma
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, english, human rights, mandalay on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Travelling throughout the night across the dark pancake-flat plain from Rangoon to Mandalay I started talking to the girl who sat behind me called Mie Mie*. She had been to Rangoon to try to compete for one of the few scholarships the Burmese Government give to study in Singapore.
Around 2am she offered me her MP3 [...]
Liberty Sweets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1984, burma, george orwell, rangoon on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How 1984 is this shop front I snapped on the streets of Rangoon?
Move over Victory Gin, here’s Liberty Sweets!
Back in Rangoon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aung san suu kyi, burma, human rights, myanmar, rangoon, yangon on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, my time in Burma is almost at an end. I have made the bus trek back to Rangoon ahead of my flight out to Bangkok tomorrow.
I was thinking of popping around to Aung San Suu Kyi’s place this afternoon, but some friends advised that I wont even get close.
Its been an amazing time in this [...]
The Road to Mandalay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burma, mandalay, rangoon on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Seeing as the Government stooges here had banned my blog it been a little while since I posted my last update. I’m currently reporting from Mandalay of Kipling and Orwell fame, and with the help of some friendly tech-heads have got easily around the Government filters.
I have got so so much to tell you all [...]
26, and Sleeping in Bangkok Airport
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bangkok, birthday, burma on August 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Its 10 minutes until my birthday and I’m sitting alone in Bangkok Airport, and thinking about whether to write on my bloggie or catch a few kips before a 7am flight into Rangoon, Burma.
I will be 26 years old. Here’s a photograph right now to my aging face for prosperity.
For some reason in recent years [...]
To Go or Not to Go to Burma
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aung san suu kyi, burma on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well its all academic now because I now have my flight booking from Bangkok to Rangoon, but in going to Burma one has to make an ethical assessment about whether you should go there at all.
Temples of Bagan
Here are the pros and cons as summarised by Lonely Planet:
Reasons Not to Go:
Aung San Suu Kyi has [...]
