Farewell my friends. It was fun blogging for almost 2 years in Boesein, but I have decided to shut down this project since Janauary for several reasons.Firstly, I don't have enough time to read and translate all those stuffs which I literally enjoy doing; and secondly, I have alot of personal issuies to be taken care of. Me and my partner, Seinmyoutmyout, couldn't have done 502 posts of nonesense without your very kind encouragments. Thanks zillions for visiting - intentionally or unintentionally, commenting, linking, clicking or..whatever you do here. I am going to delete everything when the domain registeration expires.
She co-starred in "The Purple Plain", world war II background film released in1954, with Gregory Peck and Bernard Lee. I tried to google her biography further,but nothing came out. I am convinced that Burmese actress from 50s and 60s were way hotter than today's generation as my dad once told me. I've found couple of video clips from Purple Plain on Youtube. Well,here comes the storyline.....
The young Gregory Peck plays Bill Forrester a Canadian pilot in the RAF serving in far off Burma in the closing months of WWII. He flies a Mosquito, two seat, fighter bomber. (The actual aircraft was provided through the cooperation of the RAF and repainted in accurate camouflage and markings, for once.) Forrester, it seems, has gone "round the bend" after losing his new wife in the Blitz. He's self destructive, wanting to end it all in combat. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." Anna is a small, slim, pretty teacher, played very well by Win Min Than, a Burmese actress (how refreshing). They, of course, fall in love (It's a MOVIE, folks) and his life really seems to be turning around. But, on a routine flight, he and two others go down in a very remote desert area of Burma's central plain (hence, the title). From there on we have a rather good, believable survival saga.(IMDB)
Blue corn is a three piece Mizo(chin) girlband from Mizoram, India.
As far as I understand, chin/mizo/zomi/kuki are the word variations for same enthic group, which populates in three countries - India, Bangledesh and Myanmar. They call themselfs Mizo(mi = human/people, zo = hill) as well as Zomi in some dialects.Burman named them Chin ,and Kuki is a Bangali word for mountain people.Unlike chins from Myanmar, mizos from India gained their federated state status,Mizoram, in 1987 where they use own language and elect their governor.
I've found a nice video about how chin people dress from 14th century to present day with a chin narrator. Location of the event is unknown ,but it is believed to be somewhere out of Myanmar. The 19th and 20th century costums poves that how much British and Burman culture effected on those north western highlanders.Technological developement over time can also be seen as the weapons - spear, simple bow to more sophisticated cross bow and the gun powder units- and the chins surely seem to love smoking.
"peacefully, quietly, unobtrusively.....avoiding all contact with the tribes they passed....preferring the hardship and obstacles of hills, jungles and uninhabited regions to the dangers of conflict with fellow beings" ဟုေရးသားထား..
"tribe after tribe of hungry yellow men with the dust of the world's end upon their feet, seeking food and warmth in tiny homesteads along the fertile river banks, seeking that place in the sun which has been the dream of the northern races in so many ages."