The daughter of Daw Aye Kyi, a partly paralyzed 94-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in the village of Thabyu Chaing. By THOMAS FULLER November 9, 2013
THABYU CHAING, Myanmar — Paralyzed from the waist down, Daw Aye Kyi was too heavy for her daughter and granddaughter to carry into the surrounding jungle when a Buddhist mob stormed through this rice-farming village hunting for Muslims.
Leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example, leaders can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question. Many people wonder how leaders know how to make the best decisions, often under immense pressure. The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiences and encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures.
The latest bout of violence in western Burma, where the death toll currently stands at six, all of whom are Muslim, hasn’t taken many by surprise. Leaders on both sides of the political divide have mostly responded with empty phrases that appear to be aimed more at placating their critics, rather than cutting to the core problems of intolerance and exploitation of a crisis. As a result, houses belonging to Muslim families in Arakan state have once again turned to ash, and the body count slowly climbs.
“Buddhist monasteries associated with the fundamentalist movement, which calls itself 969, have opened community centers and a Sunday school program for children nationwide.” (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists
By Thomas Fuller
The New York Times, June 20, 2013
“After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of devotees and launched into a rant against what he called ‘the enemy’ — the country’s Muslim minority.
A new study outlines 12 exercises — include the side plank shown here — that can get you into scientifically proven good shape. — AFP picNEW YORK, May 16 — One of the biggest buzzwords in fitness right now is HIIT, or high-intensity interval training — and now a new study outlines 12 HIIT exercises that can get you into scientifically proven good shape in as little as seven minutes.The principle of HIIT is short, intense workouts that can give you maximum benefits but in less time.
The phrase ‘useful idiots‘, supposedly Lenin’s, refers to Westerners duped into saying good things about bad regimes. (like the present Myanmar Government)
In political jargon it was used to describe Soviet sympathisers in Western countries and the attitude of the Soviet government towards them.
Useful idiots, in a broader sense, refers to Western journalists, travellers and intellectuals who gave their blessing – often with evangelistic fervour – to tyrannies and tyrants, thereby convincing politicians and public that utopias rather than Belsens thrived.
This online outburst by Buddhists inside the country and in the diaspora, “openly asserting that action tantamount to genocide is acceptable”, has surprised even long-time human rights champions in Myanmar.
My friend Dr Zuraidi Ishak wrote in Malay on his FB wall_Ayat misti mau power … Bibir misti mau senyum … Wajah misti mau ceria … Hidup mesti mau selamba …
My Malay language is not very good but I understand what he meant. But as the saying goes, “No man is an island” to get an all-round successful life, we could not ignore others: our partners, relatives, in-laws, friends (personal, business, political and virtual), neighbours and our business associates including customers and clients.
To achieve what we want, we could not directly change others but we need to change ourselves so that we became Charismatic and got power and influence on others. I hope that all of us need the following virtues_
NOTICE: The following song is NOT related to any one including ME.
I put it for the comming Myanmar Election (a day after tomorrow on 07.11.2010), Malaysia’s opposition party election (DSAI’s PKR) and the recently finished USA election.
Now it’s history, I’ve played all my cards, And that’s what you’ve done too
Nothing more to say, No more ace to play…..
The winner takes it all, The loser standing small Beside the victory (1990), That’s her (DASSK) destiny
A new study outlines 12 exercises — include the side plank shown here — that can get you into scientifically proven good shape. — 
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