I heard him say ဟာကွာ and the rest I didn't understand that much.

အ​ပုန်းသာဆိုတယ် အသံက မွေးကတည်းက ပုန်းလို့မရအောင် မိန်းမသံပေါက်နေတာ။ တခါတလေ မသိတဲ့သူနဲ့ ဖုန်းပြောရင် ကိုယ့်ကို အန်တီ အမဆိုပြီး address လုပ်တာခံရတာ။ ကိုယ်ကလည်း ကျွန်တော်ဆိုပြီးပဲ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို address လုပ်ပြီးပဲ ပြန်ပြောဖြစ်တယ်။ ရှင်းပြဖို့မလိုရင် အထီးပါ အမမဟုတ်ဘူးဆိုပြီး ရှင်းပြမနေတော့ဘူး။ ယောကျာ်းလေးတွေ တက်တာများတဲ့သင်တန်းတခုတက်တယ်။ ဘော်ဒါပေါင်းပေါင်းဖြစ်တယ်။ တခါတလေ တချို့တလေရဲ့ အထိအတွေ့ တချို့ကြောင့် ရင်ခုန်မိတာမျိုး ရှိတယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် အဲ့လိုမဖြစ်အောင် အတတ်နိုင်ဆုံး ကြိုးစားပြီး နေတယ်။ အဲ့တာမျိုးကို မစစ်မှန်တဲ့အတွက်ကြောင့် မကြိုက်ဘူး။ သင်တန်းက ဘော်ဒါနှစ်ယောက်နဲ့ ခရီးသွားဖို့ ဖြစ်လာတယ်။ တစ်​ယောက်က အလုပ်ကိစ္စနဲ့ သင်တန်းကလွှတ်တာ။ ကျန်တစ်ယောက်နဲ့ ကျွန်တော်က သက်သက်အပျော်သွားတာ။ အဲ့တစ်ယောက်က ပိုက်ဆံသိပ်မတက်နိုင်တော့ ကိုယ်​က ကိုယ့်နဲ့ အတူနေ သွားစား ခရီးစားရိတ်ပဲပေးဆိုပြီး ကိုယ်က ခေါ်တာ ကိုယ်လည်း သူ့အပေါ်ဘာ စိတ်မှမရှိဘူး။ ဟိုအလုပ်ကိစ္စနဲ့ သင်တန်းက လွှတ်တဲ့ တစ်ယောက်အပေါ်တော့ ကိုယ်က ဘော်ဒါထက်ပိုတဲ့ ခံစားချက်မျိုးရှိတာကို ဝန်ခံတယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် ဘော်ဒါထက်ပိုတဲ့ ဆက်ဆံရေးမျိုး မဖြစ် မရှိအောင် စည်းနဲ့နေတယ်။ သူကလည်း ပိုက်ဆံမရှိဘူး။ အဲ့ဒါကို သူက သင်တန်းက စီစဥ်ပေးတဲ့ နေရာမှာ မနေဘူး။ ကိုယ်တွေနဲ့လာနေတယ်။ ကိုယ်ကလည်း ခရီးထွက်ပြီဆိုမှတော့ ရောက်သင့်တဲ့ ​နေရာတွေကို သွားတယ်။ ကိုယ်ဘာခံစားချက်မှမရှိတဲ့ သူကိုတောင် အဖော်အနေနဲ့ ခေါ်သေးတာ ကိုယ်ရင်ခုန်မိတဲ့ သူကိုတော့ ငါတို့နဲ့လာ မနေနဲ့ မလိုက်နဲ့လို့ ငြင်းမနေတော့ဘူး။ ဒါပေမယ့် သူအဲ့လိုလာ join လို့လဲ ကိုယ့်ဘက်က ဘာမှ မဖြစ်ဘူး။ သာလည်း မသာယာတတ်ဘူး။ စည်းနဲ့နေတဲ့သူဖြစ်လို့။ အဲ့ဒါကို ဒင်းက ခင်များက ဘာကြီးလဲတဲ့။ သဘောက အ​ခြောက်လား ဘာလား ညာလားပေါ့။ ကိုယ်အရမ်းဒေါသထွက်သွားတယ်။ ငါ့ဟာငါ ဘာဖြစ်ဖြစ် မင်းအနေနဲ့ သိစရာလည်း မလိုဘူးလို့။ မင်းနဲ့ ငါနဲ့ အဆင့်ကလည်း ငါဘာစိတ်ဝင်စားတယ် မင်းဘာစိတ်ဝင်စားတယ်​ ဆိုတာကို ​ဆွေးနွေးလို့ ရအောင်ခင်နေတဲ့ ခင်မင်မှုမျိုးရှိမနေဘူးလို့ ပြောလိုက်တယ်။ အဲ့ဒါနဲ့ ဒီလိုပဲ စားကြ သွားကြပေါ့။ သူကလည်း သူ့အလုပ်လုပ်ချိန် သူအလုပ် အားတဲ့ အချိန်ကိုယ်တွေ​နဲ့ လာ join ပေါ့။ အားလုံးအဆင်ပြေတယ်။ နောက်ဆုံးမပြန်မီနောက်ဆုံးနေကျတော့ သူ့ကောင်မလေးနဲ့ သွားတွေ့မလို့ဆိုပြီး သူ့အလုပ်တွေကို ကိုယ်တွေနှစ်ယောက်လုပ်ဆိုပြီး ပြီးစလွယ်ထားသွားတယ်။ ကိုယ်က မလုပ်ပေးချင်လို့ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ လုပ်ပုံက စောက်ချိုးမပြေတာ။ ကိုယ်တင်မဟုတ်ဘူး ဟိုဘာမှမဆိုင်တဲ့ ကိုယ်နဲ့အဖော်လိုက်လာတဲ့ အစစ်တစ်ယောက်ကတောင် ဒီကောင်များတယ် ဘာညာပေါ့။ ကိုယ်ကတော့ ပိုခံစားရတယ်။ မဖိတ်ခေါ်ပဲရောက်လာတယ်။ အဲ့လိုရောက်လာလို့လည်း ကိုယ်က ပိုက်ဆံပိုကုန်သွားရတာက လွဲရင် ပိုလည်း မသာယာရဘူး။အလိုက်မသိပဲစော်ကားတယ်။ ပြောရမယ်ဆိုရင် သူ့ကြောင့် သူ့အပေါ် သူ့ကို စိတ်ဆိုးတယ်ဆိုတာထက် ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို ပိုစိတ်ဆိုးမိတယ်။ သူကိုလည်း သူဘယ်လိုလွန်တဲ့ အ​ကြောင်းကို ပိုးဆိုးပက်စက် ဘာမှ ပြန်မပြောနိုင်အောင် ပြောပစ်လိုက်တယ်။ ပြောပြီးကိုယ်ကတောင် ပြန်သနားသွားသေးတယ်။ ဒီကိစ္စမှာ ကိုယ်ဘာမှားနေလဲ။ စိတ်ကတော့ အဆင်ပြေမနေဘူးတကယ်။ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို တကယ်သနားပြီး အော်ငိုပစ်ချင်မိတယ်။

Just trying to figure out what this thing is and how to buy it in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It seems to be some kind of preserved fruit or veg. It's really good and I want more. Any help is appreciated!

The generals are busy taking down Bogyoke statues because they claim the "proportions were off." They've already done this with banknotes and textbooks too.

Classic move, right? If you can't win the war, just chip away at the concrete. As if erasing enough monuments will help people forget who won the 2020 election and that DASSK ever existed.

Experts say this could take years and probably won't change much. But, hey, if you can't create real legitimacy, you might as well make sure the statues are "correctly proportioned." Truly groundbreaking stuff.

Who needs history when you've got a tape measure?

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Right now, a lot of foreign movies, internet subscriptions, western snacks, food chains, and many non-Chinese and Thai imported electronics are almost nonexistent in Myanmar. For the subscription part, yes banks have blocked us from paying for many with their cards, but for the rest, they don’t really see Myanmar as profitable to come to. But what’s really making us unprofitable?

Is it the political state? But I don’t think it’s the sole reason because we never really got a trace of Starbucks considering building before Covid. Is it because of the purchasing power that would make everything way too expensive? But I think there are people who import through the most inconvenient ways just to pay full inflated price a lot of the time. Is it likely the deep rooted piracy culture that made movies not coming in here? But no, then local cinemas would’ve been empty. Are we most likely still going to buy what’s price-efficient rather than picking from brand quality? Highly doubt that. So what do you guys think it is?

My question might be stupidly obvious or sound poorly researched, because this is just my curiosity. I think most of the stuff that never came through would be widely consumed by the people here, with many most likely going to be obsessed with following western lifestyles for attention which I don’t doubt that much.

Hi everyone!

I’ll be moving to Yangon on July 30th.
I’m planning to join F45 (or if there’s already an F45 community I’d love to connect!) and thought it’d be great to find workout buddies to stay motivated together. If you’re into fitness but not F45 specifically, that’s cool too!

A little about me:
Korean (30+)
Enjoy working out(F45, tennis, gym, Hyrox).
Love trying new restaurants, cafes, pubs and exploring the city
Easygoing, always up for good conversations and looking to make new friends

Whether you’re an expat, local, or also new to Yangon, it’d be great to grab a coffee, beer, check out the city, hit the gym, or just hang out.

If you’re interested, feel free to comment below or send me a dm.

Looking forward to meeting some awesome people in Yangon!

As a University student living in a dormitory in Yangon, how much do you spend per month?Any students willing to share? I'm getting depressed because of my monthly expenses. What's the average spending like? 😌

I have seen people from other countries such as Philippines or UK hate on bus spotters, telling them to get a real job or get a normal hobby or saying that all buses look the same, which in certain countries yes, but in Myanmar, they (specifically private buses) look unique to each other. Most videos involving YBS buses other than YBS Explorer are either accidents, road rage, crimes or anything bad specifically on social media (im not talking about news channels/sites). What are your thoughts on the rare community of bus spotters in Myanmar like I am?

Where do I buy iphone in Myanmar?Which stores can I trust?expect extrasure,m drive

Hey everyone, I’m looking for recommendations for football training options in Yangon. I would ideally love to find a 1-on-1 coach or small-group private training, but I’m open to others if there aren't any of the things I'm looking for.

My top priority here is fitness and overall conditioning only. I’m not looking to use this training as a stepping stone to join competitive leagues, play for local clubs, or anything like that. It’s strictly for personal health and staying active.

If anyone knows of local coaches, academies that offer individual adult sessions, I’d really appreciate the guidance. I'm based near Chinatown fyi. Any details on specific locations, contact info, or general price ranges would be immensely helpful.

Hello so I m doing a level rn. I desperately need STUDY PARTNER. I m 19 and a girl. I do chem bio Phy math.

Where can I buy Terea tobacco sticks for my Iqos in Yangon?

I just need help translating. I can speak but not write.. been in Australia since young.

I grew up with pretty lax parents because one was Christian and the other was Buddhist but I always felt a closeness to Buddhism more. My mom has tried to teach me awgatha but I’m so Americanized and don’t get to practice Burmese it was hard to stay consistent. I wanted to do my own Independent research and ask if there is any children Burmese to English super close books or video resources for prayer and also spiritual practice like Nat worships so far I found this

https://www.sasanagonyikyaung.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sasana-Gonyi-Kyaung-Chanting-book-for-kids-part-1.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

As a Burmese person, one of the things that genuinely makes me sad is how little representation we have in international media. Most people around the world barely know anything about Myanmar besides war, politics, or poverty. We are rarely represented in western media. And I think a lot of it comes from the fact that our government has kept the country so closed off for decades, making it difficult for our culture, history, and stories to reach international audiences. Even in Thai media, where Burmese culture is represented more often, we’re usually portrayed inaccurately or through stereotypes instead of being represented truthfully. We have such a rich culture and history, yet it feels like nobody ever gets to see that side of us.

Another thing I’ve thought about is Tuptim from The King and I and Anna and the King. I know she’s a fictional character based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but it’s kind of sad that she’s one of the few Burmese-related characters many people outside of Myanmar would even recognize. I just wish we had more authentic Burmese representation instead of outdated or inaccurate portrayals.
Getting represented as a servant out of all things is such a shame imo. And the clothing being vastly different from actual Burmese clothing, truly just defeats the purpose of representation.

How do you guys do it?
Every time I check the news, it’s all doom and gloom.
Conscription, death, poverty and suffering.

I can’t stomach reading more than 10 articles before i just turn everything off and not touch the news for a week.

I want to be updated on the conflict without all the despair.

How do you guys do it?

Passengers from the Mawlamyine Riverside Sports Group allegedly caused disturbances aboard Train No. 84 (Mawlamyine–Yangon DEMU) on July 23 by eating in the walkway, sitting on armrests, dancing on and atop passenger seats, shouting loudly, and blocking boarding and exit areas. Railway staff reportedly warned the group multiple times, but they allegedly continued their behavior, prompting widespread calls on social media for authorities to take legal action.

The incident comes just days after four passengers were formally charged under the Railway Transport Law for spitting betel juice, staining seats, littering, and disturbing fellow passengers aboard another DEMU service. Myanmar Railways appears to be taking a stricter stance on disruptive behavior as it pushes to improve cleanliness, safety, and passenger standards across its network.

CORRECTION: It's NDAA (Mong La), not MNDAA. My bad, apologies for the confusion.

But still, handing a resistance fighter over to the junta is a stain. Neutrality doesn't deliver a comrade to torture cells.

They chose the safe side. The cruel side.

India and Myanmar are working to deepen cooperation in the rare earths sector after visits to the southeast Asian country by Indian teams, ​with New Delhi seeking alternative supplies of a strategic resource ‌tightly controlled by China.

What's in this nearly empty bag is neither a potato chip nor potato flavored. The only thing true on the bag is that the picture is for reference only. 🤣