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Myanmar Trip - Day 1 Part 2

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Date: 19 October 2008 Time: 5pm (Myanmar Time) Venue: Shwedagon Temple Pictures in this post are not taken by my camera. I remembered I taken few shoots from my camera before the battery died but I cant find those pictures =_=" Headed to Shwedagon Temple after an hour rest in the hotel. It is one of the most beautiful temple in Yangon. It was built 2500 years ago. Sky turns dark at 6pm. 6pm in Myanmar is like 8pm or 9pm in Malaysia =/ Burmese do not have surname. Their "surname" will be their birth day. They have certain name for each of the birth day so once they see someone's name, they know which day they are born. There are 8 birth day corners. Why 8 days not 7? Because Wednesday is separated into morning and afternoon. Reason being Buddha's son was born in the afternoon, Buddha wants his son to be special so he divided wednesday into morning and afternoon. Each birth day has an animal to represent it. I was born on Thursday which represent by Rat, Brother o...

Myanmar Trip - Day 1

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HELLO!!! Im back! Came back on last saturday but I dont have time or chance to use the computer hence the reason of late updating blog hehe! This trip was quite fun, the only thing that I wasn't happy about it is the weather. Damn hot =( I wrote down what happened everyday in my notebook because I know I don't have 4gb memory capacity in my brain hahaha! I will break into few parts for each day as I need some time to edit and arrange the photos. Date: 19 October 2008 Venue: Still in Malaysia haha! We woke up at 5am @_@ checked our luggage and make sure we brought everything and off we go. We walked to South City Plaza to wait for bus but the bus didnt come T_T This means we have to walk to the KTM station with our luggage bags T_T We almost miss the train but the train driver was nice enough to wait for us. Guess is our lucky day because I haven't met such nice train driver before haha! Reached Bandar Tasik Selatan and waited for the KLIA transit. sleepy sleepy sleepy... Fa...