Seeing the situation that the people of Burma are going through makes me feel sad...this is the country where my father was born. I am sure he feels worse than me. Remember our trip there in October 2006, it was sorta to see how my father lived when he was younger....he said that the place looked like Malaysia or Singapore 20 years ago.
The way that most people dress here are quite interesting. The men dress in checked shirts and sarong. The women? They smear their faces with some yellow powder which is said to be cooling and also has whitening effect.
We didn't have a chance to travel around much since it was a short 4 days 3 nights and we could not venture far from Yangon since mum fell sick.
Burma is a land rich with natural resources, but alas, they cannot seem to make full use of their precious resources...and somehow, I seem to have deleted most of the pictures I took when I was there. I actually took alot of photos on the plane when we left Burnma of a meandering river which I think is the Mekong River, but somehow, I think I accidentally deleted them and I really do not have any more scenery shots of that place. Except for this that I took at the airport. Everything at this airport is manual. The porters moved everything themselves, without machinery. And there is only one conveyor belt for luggage, and I think only 1 computer.
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