Mar 22, 2010

20100209 : Road to Rathedaung

It was early in the morning, and the weather was too cold. It has never been felt such cool weather more than a decade already. We woke up around 6:00 am and went out for breakfast. There was one of the tea shop nearby the telecoms: office of Akyab. It was so nice to have spicy Mont Ti in such cold weather. It made me sweat and warm up my body , and good for health also.

Tele Tower


We took three-wheeled vehicle, similar to Toke Toke of Thailand, to Akyab jetty. Akyab was just woke up.

Lan Ma Gri


We were entering the boundary of Akyab Jetty area.

Akyab Jetty


The three-wheeled motor-biked vehicle was becoming the main transport for the capital of Arakan state. Everywhere is still same conditions like a few decades ago. Who will believed that there was such kind of place unchanged for several decades? Can we say that we were preserving the Post World War II Akyab until to-date?

Akyab Jetty1


Akyab Jetty2


Here are another main transport vehicles of Arakan, known as Sampan. As of Arakan and Tanintharyi were occupied by British in First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824-24 February 1826) earliest in Burma, there were so many adopted words from English language to Arakan. For example, hospital was called sick line, half cut barrel was still called drum in Arakanese also. You can study a lot of words adopted from English language in A Guide to Arakanese Language.

Sat Roe Gya


Behind there, you can see the traditional dockyard for big Sampan.

Sat Roe Gya1


Sat Roe Gya2


There were so many seagulls flying around our ship, you can buy and feed them from the ship also. If you throw the food to them, they will fly around and catch that food skillfully.

Sat Roe Gya3

Sat Roe Gya4


We have left Set Roe Gya Creek already. Now we were on Kaladan River.

Kaladan River

Stay tuned!

Mar 14, 2010

20100208 : Road to Akyab

Akyab

It is old name of capital of Arakan state (now Rakhine State), now known as Sittwe. It was more than a decade that I haven't been there. On February 2010, I reached back to there. Akyab is still same conditions like a decade ago. Here are a few photos I have taken in Akyab.

Let start from Mingalardon airport, here we have one of MAI planes used for international airway travel, I thought it should be Airbus A310.

A310


But, the plane I took from Rangoon to Akyab was not that one, it was just a Fokker F27 with engines with propellers. I was lucky on that day because I could take Myanmar Airways Domestic, and ticket fare was 50K from Rangoon to Akyab. The below one was meal provided on Myanmar Airways on plane.

Meal on F27


Here we go, I have touched down crescent land.

Akyab Airport


This is Fokker F27 that took me from Rangoon toAkyab.

Akyab Airport2


Akyab was still same appearance like a decade ago as I mentioned before, I could feel sea breeze that came from nearby Bay of Bengal. The roof of the airport building was undergoing renovation, so that you could see that some of the roofing plate were not there.

Akyab Airport1


Moat (entrance) to Lawkananda Pagoda, it was taken from the vehicle that I took from airport to downtown. Sorry for that I couldn't take photo of pagoda itself.

Lawka Nandar


After reaching to Mya Guest House, I hired a motorbike and went down to Akyab Jetty to fetch one of my relatives. After that, we went back to Mya and went to Point. Unfortunately, the time we reached there, the sun went down to the sea already. But, I still took some photos. This is one of the photos I took there.

Point

20100207 : Shwe Dagon Pagoda

First day of Yangon trip, I have visited to Shwe Dagon Pagoda, and taken some photograph. Whenever I visit Shwe Dagon, I can feel peace of mind and peace of body also.

Shwe Dagon

North Entrance

Mar 9, 2010

2010 February Currency Review

For the month of February 2010, the average exchange rate between SGD and Myanmar Kyat was 710.9285714 Ks/SGD, reach highest up to 716 Ks/SGD on 1st and 2nd of February and fell lowest until 703 Ks/ SGD on 9th and 11th of February.

For USD vs SGD, the average rate for the month of February was 1.412638929 SGD/USD, highest 1.42431 on 8th of February and lowest 1.40412 on 16th of February.

The rate of SGD Vs Myanmar Kyat was taken from daily record on MGLUAYE'S PAGE sidebar and rate of USD Vs SGD was taken from http://www.exchange-rates.org . The exchange rate shown on the chart are for informational purpose only. The data shown on these charts especially on SGD Vs Myanmar Kyat are taken from various sources so that we will not take any responsibilities for referring these data to use as official purposes.

Thank you.

MMK-SGD FEB 2010

USD-SGD FEB 2010

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Mar 4, 2010

2010 January Currency Review

For the month of January 2010, the average exchange rate between SGD and Myanmar Kyat was 720.87097ks/SGD, reach highest up to 725ks/SGD on 14th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th of January and fell lowest until 715ks/ SGD on 2nd and 6th of January.

For USD vs SGD, the average rate for the month of December was 1.398258065 SGD/USD, highest 1.40928 on 31st of January and lowest 1.38741 on 14th of December.

The rate of SGD Vs Myanmar Kyat was taken from daily record on MGLUAYE'S PAGE sidebar and rate of USD Vs SGD was taken from http://www.exchange-rates.org . The exchange rate shown on the chart are for informational purpose only. The data shown on these charts especially on SGD Vs Myanmar Kyat are taken from various sources so that we will not take any responsibilities for referring these data to use as official purposes.

Thank you.

MMK-SGD JAN 10


SGD-USD JAN10

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Mar 2, 2010

Photo Of The Trip

Last month, February, Mgluaye went back to Burma and visited home town. With one portable Samsung digital camera, a lot of photos had been taken all the way long. This is one of the photos I took. The place was at Shwe Dagon Pagoda. I'd like to choose this one as a photo of the trip.

Photo of The Trip

:P

Feb 2, 2010

Universal Studio Singapore

Here we have some more new photos of Universal Studios Singapore. Theme Park is going to open soon, but exact date has not firmed up yet. But, RWS has restricted most of the construction activities. They do not allow to work at day time. We can work in night time only. Here are a few new photos for you.

Shrek 4D Characters

Shrek Team

Friar FatBoy

Friar FatBoy

Enchanted Airway

Enchanted AirWay

Journey to Madagascar

JTM

Canopy Flyer @ Lost World

CFlyer

BAY OF HUNTERS