Singapore : Annual Gathering of Ex-GTI Students of PYAY

Though it was a bit late, I want to take this opportunity to be able to invite you to the Annual Gathering of Ex-GTI students from Pyay GTI in Singapore which will be held on 1st of May (May Day). It will be held at Labrador Park and there will be free shuttle bus at Labrador MRT Station between 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Don't miss the chance to be able to participate in the lucky draw game as well.

SINGAPORE : MRAUK U SAYADAW RETRTREAT

Dear friends in Singapore, 

I would like to share those who wants to attend Religious retreat: this is retreat by Mrauk U Sayadaw. It is for 7 days duration, for details are as follow: 

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Dear Devotees, The 7 days Meditation Retreat will be held at Changi Aloha Fairy Point Chalet 4 by Myauk Oo Sayadaw Ashin Wayaminda from 1 October 2012 to 7 October 2012. Due to limited accommodation, Full Time "Yogi" registration has been closed. However, you and your family are warmly invited to join as "Day Yogi" / Listening Sayadaw's Dhamma Talks. 

Time Table is enclosed for your information. 

WITH METTA SAYADAW U THUPIYA 

MAHAMUNI BUDDHIST SOCIETY 

Monks Residence Address: 

NO.8 Blair Road, (off Kampong Bahru Road) 

Near Outram Park MRT 

SINGAPORE 089908 

TEL: 6777 7018 / 9185 2924

COMEX 2011

Today, 1^st September 2011, one of the days that people in Singapore are waiting for so long. Yes it is. Second biggest IT fair of Singapore, COMEX 2011 will start today and will be there until 4^th of September. For those who like to grab this opportunity, I would like to share some links relating to this event. If you want to view pricing of the items that are going to sell on the event, click here. For those who want to look for floor plans of the two levels that exhibitions will took place are here and here.

Just for your info, I believed that it will be hottest deal in this event which is HP is selling their HP TouchPad with only S$ 126. For details, please read it here. Hurry up! It is only selling two days out of 4 days of COMEX 2011 and selling away 200 sets per day only.

2011 - Aug - 31

Today, 31st August 2011, I would like to put in a record of that I quit my job in Singapore. It has been over three years in this company from five years period in Singapore. This is the turning point in my life what I am trying to move head of my career from employee to small business owner.

It is not the first time that I was trying to go this way. It was in late of 2003 and early of 2004, there was one time I was trying to do same thing. It was in success in term of securing some projects from several companies; however it was failed in terms of management.

After reviewing the causes of those failures, I realized that I needed not only to study more in business but also needed to change my mindsets. I realized that my mindset was trained to be employee. I tried to secure project, and employed staffs and executed the projects. The major fault I encountered is that I was always trying to involve in actual execution processes. I was trying to do things myself other than deploying the responsibilities to my people.

As of I was being my own project engineer in my projects, I was trying to sort out daily project schedules rather than trying to seek new projects. This became major failure and causes my team lack of upcoming projects, became burden on me after completion the former projects. Eventually, the team could not proceed, led to failure.

Now, this is happening again in seven years later. Though I am not trying to say that I became an expert, more or less I got better knowledge how to execute projects than seven years ago.

This is starting point of the new career path in my life; a lot of challenging factors are waiting for me to get them over.

Heading towards more prosperous and flexible future!

:)

Fly with MAI @ S$ 196 Only

Dear all of friends in Singapore, I would like to share a piece of information that will great to those who wants to go back and visit Myanmar from today all the way up to 29^th of October. Today is 18^th Anniversary of MAI and they are selling tickets with promotional prices. As of I am buying for SIN-RGN-SIN, I got it with SGD 196.00. Your traveling time can be planned until 29^th October 2011; however you must buy it today only. Hurry up!!! I bought two tickets for myself, which is next weekend and one for first week of September. It costs me SGD 392.00 only which is less than usual price for single trip.

Hurry Up!!! And Book for tickets TODAY!!!

Singapore: Waso Robe Offering By Ex-Pyay GTI Students

I would like to share about one of the event that will be held on 31st July 2011. Ex-GTI students of PYAY GTI has organized and arranged to celebrate Waso Robe Offering to Sangha at Toa Payoh Monastery.

Event Details are as follow:

Date : 31st July 2011 (Sunday)

6:30 am : Breakfast Swun (Mohingga) to San Gha

7:00 am : Sadu Ditha of Mohingga to all devotees

9:30 am : Waso Robe Offering to Sangha by Ex-Pyay GTI Students

Sadu Ditha event will be ended by 12:00 pm on the same day.

You all are warmly invited to participate in the event and there will be Satu Di Tha of Mohingga to all devotees. Please refer to http://pyaygti.net for your details. Contribution of volunteer services is welcomed.

Thank You.

Upcoming Religious Event In Singapore

It's quite a long time no new post come up in Mgluaye's pages. In this period of time, Mgluaye is passing through some of the challenging times and new and new challenges are waiting ahead for me in near future. I have to strive to overtake those challenges. Last five years ago also, I have been encountered this kind of challenges and taken it over and come up to next level of success in my life. This time round, challenge is bigger than previous round and reward also will be much bigger than ever before.

I need more strength and knowledge to collect to be able to ride on this round of challenges to get success.

OK. Now let's share about one religious event happening on Sunday, this week. It's Waso Robe Offering Ceremony organized by Buddha Gaya Thukar Rama Temple, Mahamuni Buddhist Society in Singapore. Below is the invitation sent out by Mahamuni Buddhist Society.

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Dear devotees,

The Buddhist Holy Retreat Period is coming soon. As our venerable monks are preparing for this period, we, devotees are also preparing to provide necessary requisites to them. Our "Buddha Gaya Thukar Rama Temple, Mahamuni Buddhist Society" will celebrate "Waso Robe Offering Ceremony" on 17th July 2011 at Guest House, Japanese Garden, No.1 Chinese Garden Road Singapore 619795. We would like to invite you and your family to participate this ceremony. The Invitation and Location Map are enclosed for your easy reference.

WITH METTA,
SAYADAW DR. U THUPIYA & MAHAMUNI BUDDHIST SOCIETY
Monks Residence Address:
NO.45, Corporation Rise,
SINGAPORE 618359.
TEL- 6777 7018
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I hope you can get a piece of info and able to participate in the event.

:)

Application Forms Of Myanmar Embassy Singapore

Every time, I go to Myanmar Embassy in Singapore to pay tax or other matters, I usually didn't have much information such as what documents will be needed to bring along for what I need to do. Basically, much of the information can be retrieved from ME Singapore website. However, I seldom browsed that pages and do not know that there got sample forms. Thus, last time I visited there, I took a set of copies of all the application forms for future usage in case I need it. Now, I digitized almost commonly used forms into PDF and kept it as a copy now here for you guys. Here are a set of the most commonly used forms for your easy reference.

Page sequence is as follow:

1 - Application Form for Tax payment and Passport Renewal
2 - Application of New Passport For Missing Old Passport
3 - Student Passport Renewal And Recommendation Letter Of Being A Student
4 - Recommendation Letter Of Temporary Stay Without Employment
5 - Changing of CDC to Passport
6 - Recommendation Letter Of Being Dependent

Complete set of sample forms can be browsed over this page.

Download Here!

Results of Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants

The result of the survey of customers' satisfaction on Myanmar Restaurants for month of April 2011 has been revealed. We'd received all together 13 entries. Within these thirteen entries, Inle, Irrawaddy, Oriental House and Zeyar got 1 each, holding 7.69 % of customers' choices. Mya Nandar can take 3 votes out of thirteen, 23.08 % of customers' choices. And finally, the continuous winner for all three rounds of survey is Yanant Thit. Yanant Thit got 6 out of 13 votes, firming 46.15 % of customers' choice.

  Congratulation Yanant Thit!

For the participation for the survey, we'd invited all the participants to fill in their contact email to be able to choose and award iPhone soft pouches. Unfortunately, five out of thirteen participants fill in their email. Therefore, everybody will be receiving iPhone soft pouches as a gift.

The five participants are as follow:
1) myoaxxxx[at]gmail.com
2) donalxxxx[at]gmail.com
3) naunxxxx[at]gmail.com
4) swam.powerxxxx[at]gmail.com
5) captainkxxxx[at]gmail.com

These five person will be receiving email from mgluayepages[at]gmail.com and will need to provide us address to deliver iPhone pouches via post. We will be sending out these pouches by coming weekend. So, you all will be receiving somewhere early next week.

For those who are not be able to participate this round of survey, please get it ready for Fourth Round of Survey on June 2011.

Thank you.

Singapore: Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants

This is belated survey that is scheduled to be happened on last week of March. But, it still OK to do that. For those who doesn't have experienced this survey before, you can refer back first and second survey which had done before. This is third time. This time round, the most significant changes on the market is Inle had expended her business and opened one more outlet in the basement of Peninsula Plaza.

Free Gift of iPhone Pouches!!

Here is the survey below.

This time round, we would like to pay back something to the friends who fill in their opinion. That is, we are going to give you back Soft iPhone pouches as a gift. To be able to get this free gift, first thing first, you must be residing in Singapore, and you have to fill in your opinion,at the end of survey, you will need to fill in your contact email address.

After survey was closed for entry, we will be selecting ten winner randomly. We will be giving away 10 numbers of iPhone soft pouches. If you are a winner for free gift, we will be contacting you with . Then, we will give you out iphone soft pouches.

Survey will be opened for participating till 30^th April 2011, and result will be revealed of on first week of May. Have fun and win free gifts by filling in your opinions.

No Water Throwing In Peninsula Plaza

As I had posted on here last year, this year also, splashing water on one another in Peninsula Plaza of Singapore, which is sometime referred as a little Myanmar in Singapore, is prohibited for Myanmar New Year celebration.

Gathering of 8th Anniversary of Arakanese Association Singapore

AA Singapore

Dear Fellow Arakanese in Singapore!

Like every years, the Arakanese Association in Singapore will be celebrating 8^th year Anniversary gathering on coming Chinese New Year holidays. The date of the event will be on 3^rd of February, and the timing will be starting from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. The venue will be at East Coast Park Area E between car park E2 and E3.

The ticket of participating gathering was started selling and you can buy it easily and conveniently at Dhanya Waddy @ Paninsula Plaza Level 5. And, you can buy tickets by contacting the following numbers too.

9645 9621 | 9052 4350 | 9135 5874 | 9185 0687 | 9354 2452
9179 2338 | 8109 1347 | 9105 2936 | 9355 3452 | 9481 1101

The ticket will be sold at SGD 15.00 and the ticket will allow you to participate in lucky draw program. The prizes for the lucky draw are as follow:

First Prize              : 32” LCD TV (JVC) x 1 Unit
Second Prize        : Mini DVD Home Theatre System (Samsung) x 1 Set
Third Prize             : Mini DVD Player (LG) x 1 Unit
Fourth Prize           : DVD Player (Samsung) x 5 Sets
Fifth Prize              : Steam Iron x 10 Sets

Hurry Up!!! Tickets will be selling until 2011 Jan 31^st only.

Results of Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants

Results of Customers’ Satisfactions Survey of Myanmar Restaurants has revealed off. This is second time of survey, however as of the time was holiday season, so it may be a reason of lesser entries for this time survey. Don’t worry. We are going to run this survey by quarterly, means that in end of March, there will be one more time of survey. So, all of our friends who are not be able to participate in previous two surveys will be able to do so in next, next surveys.

OK. Here we go!

We have all together of 13 numbers of entries for this time survey.

The results are as follow:

Yanant Thit is the winner of both rounds, leading with 6 votes out of 13, achieved 46.15 % vote.

Congratulations to Yanant Thit!

Inle and Zeyar restaurants stands same at second place with 2 votes each over 13, ranking of 15.38 %.

Mya Nandar, Win Myanmar and Oriental House took third places together with 1 vote each out of 13, having 7.69 % each.

Comparing with previous survey, Shwe War Myay dropped out from the list, but hopefully it will come up and take a place in next survey scheduled on last week of March, 2011.

Thank you all of the participants and appreciate for your opinions.

Singapore: Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants (2010 Dec)

Here is one more time of customers’ satisfaction survey of Myanmar Restaurants in Peninsula plaza, and this is the second time of survey. First time, it was held in previous August 2010 and visitors of Mgluaye’s pages pick up and set the ranking as follow:

Yanant Thit got 7 out of 22 votes,
Mya Nandar got 6 out of 22 votes,
Inle got 3 out of 22 votes,
Oriental House and Win Myanmar got 2 out of 22 votes each, and
Shwe War Myay and Zeyar got 1 out of 22 votes each.

This time around, there is a minor change; Nann San of previous contest was changed into 149 BBQ.

I would like to brief the purpose of this survey which already mentioned in previous survey, however for those who are not be able to participate in previous survey, I would like to do this survey for two reasons as follow:

One:
We can pick up one of the restaurants that meet much of our customers’ requirements.

Two:
In our culture, if we feel something bad, we felt that this is our individual problem and we do not have place to let the other people knows that we do not like this thing and that thing. Actually, if a stall have low level of customer satisfaction standard makes feel bad to other people too.

By doing this survey, the restaurant got the highest rank in survey will be ideal for the rest, and the rest who do not win the highest rank also will try to improve their service standards in future. You don’t need to enter any personal data on this survey and this survey is running anonymously.

I hope all of friends of Mgluaye’s Pages will be able to contribute this survey.

As of this survey started on 28th Dec 2010, it will be opened for contributing of your opinions and ideas until 15th January 2011. The result will be published in second half of January.

I would like to say thank you to all of friends who contribute in previous survey and special thanks to usual visitor, Hnin for remembering and reminding this survey for this month.

Here we go! Let's start giving votes to your choice of restaurant!

Results of Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants

I'd like to say sorry about that survey on the customers' satisfication of Myanmar Restaurant results was coming out quite late. We had received all together 22 entries of our visitors' views on this survey.

The ranking on the customers' sanctification was as follow:

Yanant Thit got 7 votes and win the first place in the listing.
Mya Nandar got 6 votes and win the second place in the listing.
Inle got 3 votes and the third place in the listing.
Oriental House and Win Myanmar got 2 votes and stood fourth place in the listing.
Shwe War Myay and Zeyar got 1 vote each and stood fifth place in the listing.

As of this is first time survey, we cannot said that the results are 100% accurate. We will be running one more time survey by coming December 2010. We hope that the upcoming survey will come out more accurate figure for the Myanmar food stalls.

Anyway, we appreciated all of our friends' opinions and contribution.

Thank you.

Singapore: Customers' Satisfaction Survey of Myanmar Restaurants

This time, I would like to run a survey among my friends who are living in Singapore and experienced with food stalls those selling Myanmar Foods especially in Peninsula Plaza. Normally, most of our Myanmar people used to go to Peninsula plaza for certain reasons, some people go there for transferring money to home, some people go there for having food of our own tastes.

Before two years in the past, there had not so many Myanmar food stalls in Peninsula plaza, we have a few of them, like Mya Nandar, Ye Yint, and etc., Now today we have a handful of food stalls opened since about one year ago and currently running their business and serving people.

Most of the time, we used to go to same food stalls which we think quite OK for us for some reasons. I found out that some of the food stalls are full with customers most of the time, and some don’t. Then, I got an idea of what our Myanmar people likes in their food stalls and what we don’t like. I would like to run a survey. I would like to run survey for two reasons.

One: 

We can pick up one of the restaurants that meet much of our customers’ requirements.

Two: 

In our culture, if we feel something bad, we felt that this is our individual problem and we do not have place to let the other people knows that we do not like this thing and that thing. Actually, if a stall have low level of customer satisfaction standard makes feel bad to other people too.

By doing this survey, the restaurant got the highest rank in survey will be ideal for the rest, and the rest who do not win the highest rank also will try to improve their service standards in future. You don’t need to enter any personal data on this survey and this survey is running anonymously.

I would like to run this survey quarterly for a year. I hope that visitors who visit Mgluaye’s pages will help and contribute with their opinion in this survey. It can help yourself and others by let food stalls knows that they are at the highest rank in customers’ satisfactions or they need to improve their service standards. Survey will be opened a week period of time for your opinions to fill in, and closed on 15th August 2010. Then the results will be announced on mgluaye's pages.

I would like to say Big “Thank you” in advance.

Update : Survey was ended on 15th August 2010. Thank you.

Promotion @ MAI : SIN-RGN-SIN @ S$ 309 Only

Just a quick update to all of my friends who are in Singapore and preparing to go back to Myanmar in near future. Now Myanma Airway International (MAI) is selling their tickets with promotional offer from SIN-RGN-SIN at S$ 309 only.

This promotion start from today, 19^th July 2010 and will end on 30^th October 2010. The ticket will have two weeks in validity and you have to return back to Singapore by 30^th October 2010, not allow to change dates at all. You all can buy tickets through ticketing agents in Peninsula Plaza. The only one thing you will need to consider is luggage allowance. It allows you to carry 20 Kg only.

The other thing (assume most of people will knows this) I wanted you all to know is the coupon that allows you to carry extra baggage of 10Kg for your trip from Singapore to Yangon. I just found this MAI's Facebook Page. Hopefully, it can help anybody who already procured ticket with normal price. You can get this coupon on this page too. MAI says that you may need to fill up the form at any travel agents or at airport check in counter and please present the form at check in counter to enjoy FREE EXTRA 10KG.

Unfortunately, it is applicable for normal priced tickets only and not applicable for promotional tickets.

Hurry up if you are planning to go back Myanmar in between August and October.

P.S : Just sharing info only, please seek advice from MAI or ticketing agent for your more precise details. :)

Universal Studios Singapore: Far Far Away

Here is one of the views of Far Far Away Land in Universal Studios Singapore that is not possible to see by visitors to the park, because it was taken from the roof level of the building and was taken at dawn.

Photo of same location taken in different time, it was taken before construction activities completed in the park, one of the cranes still can be seen on picture.

Same location again, but it was taken from the top of the roller coaster. It will not be possible to take photo of that scene unless you are a maintenance staff of Universal Studios Singapore. It was taken while we were carrying out some installation works on top of that roller coaster.

Ducati Singapore

Yesterday, I went out from office to one of our main contractor offices which is situated on Jalan Besah. I took cab and on the way cab was stopping for traffic light somewhere on Bukit Timah road. I saw one company signboard. Company name is DUCATI SINGAPORE. I do not know what company is it. But, while I saw that signboard, I suddently pronounces it, DUCATI SINGAPORE, if you pronounce it in other way, It is ဒုကၡတိ စကၤာပူ. While I reached back office, I search its name on internet, it is a company trading motorbikes. It's sure I will remember this company name whenever I feel stress for working in Singapore. Oh.... ဒုကၡတိ စကၤာပူ.

Just for fun.

:)

No Water Throwing In Peninsula Plaza!!!

It is regretted to inform you all that Peninsula Plaza of Singapore will restrict throwing (splashing) of water inside its premise in Myanmar New Year time (4th April 2010). I saw these two sheets of A4 sized paper ads on several locations in Peninsula Plaza this morning. But don’t worry. There will have festive ground in Padang in front of City Hall, will be entertainment stage with famous singers from Myanmar and there will have one more water festival in Bukit Batok organized by Bukit Batok GRC.

From Peninsula Plaza, SG

From Peninsula Plaza, SG