mmhan 3.0 – What’s new?

Firstly, this is not about the template change of this site. It’s been around for a while. There’s really no need to apologize if you didn’t notice. I myself was so consumed with other facets of my life that I almost forgot about extending the contract for the site’s hosting and domain.

I believe the relationship of me and my blog has been like the Myanmar government and the employees of the public sector. For long, the suffering of the public sector and the insufficient salary for a sustainable life is ignored by the goverment, with constants rumors of big pay raise every now and then. In this analogy, me being the government and the blog being the employee of public… Nevermind. Bad choice of example. Back to the topic.

Why mmhan 3.0?

For everyone, there have been significant changes in life that could be considered a new version and with the most recent change I have brought it to the version number to 3.0.

What are the earlier versions you ask? Well, 1.0 was when I have migrated here to Singapore to study at SP, it was tough, an unknown territory and full of surprises, both good and bad. 2.0 was when I started working, a better, more independent version and little more reckless, if I may say so myself.

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Freedom From Fear

Book Cover
Freedom from Fear

လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေလးငါးလခန္႔က ကၽြန္ေတာ္ႏွင့္အတူ သူငယ္ခ်င္း အခ်ိဳ႕တုိ႔ ဒီစာအုပ္ကေလးကို အတူတူဖတ္ၾကဖို႔ စဥ္းစားမိၾကတယ္။  ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည့္ရဲ႕  ရွားရွားပါးပါး ဒီစာအုပ္ကို အတူ တစ္လအတြင္း ဖတ္ၾကမယ္၊ ဖတ္လုိ႔ၿပီးခ်ိန္မွာ အတူတူ ထင္တာျမင္တာေလးေတြ notes ေလးေတြ စသျဖင့္ ဖလွယ္ၾကမယ္ တုိင္ပင္ၾကမယ္ေပါ့။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကိုယ္တုိင္ အေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ အဲ့ဒီ့ အျပင္ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ကိုယ္တုိင္ ေတြ႔ခြင္ဆံုခြင့္ သိရွိခြင့္မရွိတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ အန္တီစုရဲ႕ အာေဘာ္ကေနတစ္ဆင့္ စိတ္ေနစိတ္ထား၊ သေဘာသဘာဝေတြကို သိခ်င္တာက တစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ အန္တီစုရဲ႕ ႏုိင္ငံေရးမူဝါဒကို ေလ့လာခ်င္တာက တစ္ေၾကာင္းလဲပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စဖတ္ၿပီး နည္းနည္းအၾကာမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ပထမဆံုး အျမင္မွန္ရလာတာကေတာ့ တစ္လတည္းနဲ႔ အၿပီး မဖတ္ႏုိင္ဘူးဆုိတာပါပဲ။ Library ကငွားထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္ကို အခ်ိန္လည္းေကာင္းေကာင္း ေပးၿပီး မဖတ္ႏုိင္တာနဲ႔ တစ္လျပည့္လုိ႔ ရက္ေစ့ေတာ့ ရႈံ႕ မဲ့မဲ့နဲ႕ ျပန္အပ္လုိက္ၾကၿပီး ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အစီအစဥ္ေလးပ်က္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမယ့္ စာအုပ္အၿပီးထိ ဖတ္ခ်င္တဲ့ စိတ္က မေျပေသးေလေတာ့ ေနာက္သံုးပါတ္ေလာက္ အၾကာမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အဲ့ဒီ့ စာအုပ္ကို အပိုင္ဝယ္ၿပီး ျပန္ဆက္ဖတ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီ Post မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေရးမယ့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာကေတာ့ ဒီစာအုပ္ရဲ႕ Review ဆိုတဲ့ သေဘာမ်ိဳးရယ္၊ ကိုယ္တုိင္ေတြ႕ရွိခံစားရတဲ့ အျမင္ေလးေတြရယ္ကို ျပန္လည္တင္ဆက္ေပးသြားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္တုိင္စာဖတ္တမ္းမရင့္ေသးတာကတစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ဒီလုိ Review ေရးက်င့္ မရွိတာက တစ္ေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္ အဆင္မေျပတာမ်ားရွိခဲ့ရင္ ခြင့္လႊတ္ၾကပါလုိ႔…

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TCC မွ Education Loan ယူျခင္း

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ post မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေက်ာင္းတက္တုန္းက အျဖစ္အပ်က္ေလးေတြကို ေရးထားခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ယခု Post မွာေတာ့ ေက်ာင္းတက္ဖုိ႔ရာ လုိအပ္တဲ့ ေငြေၾကးအေထာက္အပံ့ကို TCC ဆိုတဲ့ co-operative မွေန loan အျဖစ္ယူျခင္းရဲ႕ အားသာခ်က္မ်ား လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို ေက်ာင္းတက္ဖုိ႔ရာ စဥ္းစားေနသူမ်ားအတြက္ တင္ျပေပးမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

TCC
www.tcc.org.sg

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My Degree Study

In this post I am going to take a look back into my venture of a part-time student pursuing my bachelor degree in Business Information Systems and Computer Science. The main reason I am writing this post is not only for me to be able to analyse how I have spent many months of the studying to attain the academic background and to achieve this status of a degree holder and also for the readers (if any) to be able to gain some knowledge into Murdoch, Kaplan and this degree course, if it’s of any interest to them.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you. I’m sure you have had yourself a good time yesterday and thinking of your resolutions and what not at the first day of the year.

Just a little disclaimer, this is not a post coming from just another new year resolution.

Firstly, I’m glad to be back. I have been away due to many commitments. It was also partly because of the feeling that nothing I ever wrote about had any real value for those who read it.

I’m back now. It is mostly because I have been finding myself taking notes on things that are worth repeating.

Besides I want to improve my writings in both English and Burmese. What other way someone like me has to pursue such a wish than blogging.

You might notice I have updated the theme. It’s my own mix of Brunelleschi. It’s a pretty good theme with good typography, clean and responsive design. Check it out if you like it.

In a very very brief manner, below is a non-exhaustive list of the things that I had been doing while I was away, in nonsensical order.

  • Recently decided to move to VIM from notepad++ and Aptana IDE (still in transition stage)
  • Finished my Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Business Information System from Murdoch University
  • Found how awesome Git is and have been using a lot of github and bitbucket.
  • Still a proud employee of Comwerks Interactive, now a part of WPP.
  • Launched an experimental site called MuzicDB, for Burmese music.
  • Voluntarily or involuntarily, meddled with C, C++, Qt, Objective-C, Python, CoffeeScript and sass. I still am meddling with some of them and many more to come.
  • Wasting computing cycles on EC2 under the free-tier plan.
  • Organized three talk events inviting Burmese authors back from the country for the fellow Burmese at Singapore.

Well, that’s all I could think of as of this moment. There may or may not be follow-up posts about these things. But I can assure you all that, there shall be posts.

So do look forward.

# Image credits to wonggawei

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mmhan’s gone

For about half a year to a year, the title of the blog was somehow like “mmhan’s gone comical“. You see, my dear reader, as the comic above would suggest, mmhan has been suffering the pitiful disease of ADD. (just jokin… Oh look! there’s a squirrel..)

Anyway, this blog has undergone an unannounced hiatus and it has been covered with dust, spider webs and what nots. However, he just received a wake up call. A wake up call that calls him and say, “To Hell with your laziness and excueses, get back to do what you can do a little good. Serve your readers and serve ‘em better!”.

He thought, “Oh, hell… what’s there to lose?”, and the another voice answered, “Freaking lots of hours!!”.

And then he fell back asleep. Zzzzz….

(I’m just thinking about bringing this blog back to life, and weighting my options. Motivation and time is nowhere to be found when it’s much needed.)

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Jason Mraz – Absolutely Zero

What’s the meaning of this sad song, I wondered. Then I looked up and there I found it.

“It’s about two childhood friends. The type of childhood friend that is the opposite sex, but are so close to. But the complications of love and lust have not yet developed. Their friendship was simple. They’d spend the night at each other’s houses and it wasn’t a big deal. They grow up and fall in love with each other. But somewhere, things began to get complicated as they grew up and they lost touch without even realizing it….I’m too hard at work, have you ever heard of anything so absurd? He’s saying that it’s not an excuse to lose something so precious over something so ridiculous. Now, their friendship is nothing…they let it slip away.”

The lyrics goes like this: Continue reading

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Love is a Verb

I’ve been reading a book called “The Seven Habits of Higly Effective People” by Steven R. Covey and it’s a coincidence that I’ve crossed over this example he mentioned in the book just around the Valentine Day.

In this chapter of book, describing the first habit – “Be Proactive“, it’s said that a person, who’s proactive will take a stimulus of a situation, and he’ll choose a response based on the principles that lies deep within the core of every human like: integrity, honesty, human dignity, service, quality, excellence among other things. As for the reactive people, he’ll take a stimulus and respond based on: the choices that he made, instinct, and most importantly by not taking the responsibility of a situation that has happened. Continue reading

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ဓါတ္ပံုေလးတစ္ခ်ိဳ႕

ေပ်ာက္ေကာင္းေကာင္းနဲ႕ ေပ်ာက္သြားလိုက္တာ တစ္လေတာင္ ေက်ာ္ျပီး ကုိယ့္ဖာသာ blog ရွိမွန္းေတာင္ ေမ့သြားတယ္။

အခုရက္ပိုင္း အလုပ္ေတြနဲ႕ အခ်ိန္မရလုိ႕ ဘာမွ မတင္ခဲ့ဘူးဗ်ာ။ ဖတ္ခ်င္တဲ့သူေတြ လာလာေမးရင္လည္း မအားပါဘူးကလြဲလုိ႕ ဘာမွ မေျပာႏုိင္။

ကိုယ့္ကုိကုိယ္ သနားလာျပီး ရွိစုမဲ့စုေလး တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ညွစ္ တင္လုိက္ပါဦးမယ္။ စိတ္၀င္စားစရာ ဓါတ္ပံုေလးေတြ တခ်ိဳ႕ေပါ့။

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Year in Review: Best of mmhan.net for 2008

best-of-mmhannet

First of all, Happy New Year to you all. It’s been 5 months that I’ve been posting at this blog and I’ve posted a total of 40 posts (including some posts that I’ve immigrated from my old blog) over that period. I must admit 40 is considerably low number of posts over 5 months yet, I’m quite grateful and glad that I’ve gathered over 6K hits from everywhere. And I’d like to take this chance to thank every reader, commenter, rss subscriber and referrer for their generous support, ever since my first post here, of motivation for me to keep writing.

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