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About Me

I was born in Rangoon, the old capital city of a Southeast Asian country named Burma. I believe that female literacy will solve a lot of the problems we are facing such as over population, poor health conditions and poverty. I hope to one day become a part of the solution to such global issues.i get tired of predictable people. I am inspired by intellect and passion. i write poems on my good days. I have a lot to say, but i am learning to listen more. I am still working on a better version of me.I think my paradise would be a library. I am a classy lady.
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My Interests

radical feminism, typewriters, tea, live music and poetry, literature, human rights, sushi, making to-do lists, conversations, political issues not prevalent in the media, vintage clothes, traveling and interesting characters.

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet the ordinary human beings who dare to believe in extraordinary things.Mostly, my role model: Aung San Suu Kyi The unplayed piano who is still fighting for freedom in Burma and believes that one day it will be a free nation.

Music:

Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Wilco, Rocky Votolato, Ani Difranco, Missy Higgins, and did I say, Rocky Votolato? ... (my choice is music is very similar to my choice in poetry, i only listen to pieces that speak to me)And of course my rock star: Dylan Botham - my gentle and beautiful stranger.

Movies:

Chelsea Walls, Boondock Saints, Dead Poets Society, Garden State, I am trying to Break your Heart, Turtles Can Fly

Television:

My so-called Life

Books:

Potrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce, This Side of Paradise - Fitzgerald, Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky,Cat's Eye- Margaret Atwood, Freedom from Fear- Aung San Suu Kyi, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig

Heroes:

My mother, Ohmar Winn, and my father Myo Myint for their courage.Aung Sun Suu Kyi: the first burmese women to win a noble peace prize for her fight for democracy

My Blog

Disconnected Ramblings

I have to stand and shoutbecause you don't hear meI am overlooked and under respectedand it is this constant lack of attentionthat has me screaming on the top of my lungsso I can exhale and breathewhi...
Posted by firecrackers on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:58:00 PST

Firecrackers - What's in a name

I am a woman with firecracker temperI am a woman with firecracker hairI am flickering, shining, bright lights and big smilesI'll snap at you for playing with fire- you should know bett...
Posted by firecrackers on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

Identity: Skin Deep

It's this skinThat stands between myself and youIt is the sin between my legsThat makes me cling on youThis is the reason that you need to walk me homeThis is the sex that I was born intoAnd this is t...
Posted by firecrackers on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:55:00 PST

Hallow spaces can't be filled-

The seat is empty where you once sat and now it is utter blacknessso dark that I can't even begin to find the tips of my fingernails to scrape throught...
Posted by firecrackers on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:50:00 PST

Poetry or something like it : Jasmine Blues & Fireflies Dreams

Grandmother died on a Sunday afternoonGripping into the grapping eyes of a manWho had loved her through time and time againDespite the scars on her face that still burnFrom the time his anger escapedG...
Posted by firecrackers on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:46:00 PST

only a fool...

only a fool would speculate the life of a woman.
Posted by firecrackers on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST