User talk:Kanbawsa

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Contents 1 Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar 2 Inya Kan spelling 3 Tofu 4 Shan and Karenni 5 Scouting in Burma 6 Image:WAGGGS-Burma Girl Guides badge.jpg 7 Burma Cyclone

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar

Hi! Please join us! Chris 22:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inya Kan spelling

I noticed this after I uploaded it, but I have recently had trouble using Burmese Unicode fonts on my computer (they show up as boxes now), and I can't currently fix it. I'll get to it when I am able to use Burmese fonts again. Sorry, but I'll add what you've said to the discussion page. --Hintha 09:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tofu

If you look up chickpea aka kala chana, chana dal, Bengal gram, you'll find a variety not a single type. Yes there are small and large, brown and yellow varieties. Zadaw bè is used to make pè byouk and tofu. To hpu gyauk is what it's called in Upper Burma. You may be right it's called to hpu gauk in the Shan states, like won ta hpo and hsan ta hpo but not to hpu or tohu over there. I haven't come across tofu made from peanuts. Why don't you add that to the article? Thanks for correcting the Inle Lake article re dugout. I could swear they were dugouts. Wagaung 08:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The question is not what Tofu is made from, but what "Kala-be" really is. Tofu article states that Chick pea is Kala-be in parenthesis. None of the pictures I have seen of chickpeas resemble what I know as "Kala-be" as typically sold in the markets of Burma. Not only the color, but the shape of the pea is different. This requires more research.

Dugout making is very labor intensive and notoriously wasteful. My thesis is that it is only used in places where sawing technology has not been developed and low population density (Pacific northwest, Polynesians). Flat-bottom boats handle very poor in anything but the calmest water. The boats of Inle lake are sealed with Thitsi, an important product imported into the lake area. You can see the planks and seal in one the pictures in the Wikimedia commons area for Inlelake by Blethrow (don't know how to link it here) Kanbawsa 12:09, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, pè hmont is made from kala bè and kala bè is chickpea. Your notion may differ from mine but that's what it's called in Mandalay. The same split pea, different from yellow split pea, is used for pè gyan gyaw fritters which incidentally started in Rangoon and only later came to Mandalay like ouno hkaukswè and sigyet hkaukswè. How you look up kala bè, I don't really know. I'm no expert in anything least of all boats but I did know thitsi is used to seal boats among other things. Wagaung 12:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shan and Karenni

I used a list of "Shan and Kareni states" and worldstatesmen.org,under Myanmar,so if anything is wrong,Im not guilty,I was only trying to improve the article. PS:And witch of those states are non-karenni/shan,id realy like to know (im not Burmeese,in fact,im a european from the Czech republic (between Poland and Germany) and just the other day have made an order at a Polish auction to buy a 90 Kyat banknote-interesting,isnt it?(Well,maybe not))

New Babylon 2 13:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your work. Unfortunately, worldstatesmen.org is not a correct source. Dates are wrong, names are wrong, places are wrong. Itself doesn't cite any references. See list of references at the end of the "List of Shan States" article, and they are generally acknowledged to be very authoritative. They are also confirmed by published Burmese works that are in my possession. Shan states and Karenni states should not be combined. They are a separated minority race in Burma. Different religion, different culture, different language. Many states added have nothing to do with Shan or Karen. You added too many to list. For the official list, see the cited works.

Thanks for your note on my talk page! Yes, I thought I would try to develop a useful list of states, and, as a start, I compared the table and the listings in List of Shan States and Their Rulers with other sources accessible to me. One of my aims is to make sure we have articles about the individual states -- it's very patchy at the moment.

I notice that there are fuller articles on the Catalan Wikipedia than anywhere else -- had you noticed that? See ca:Categoria:Estats Shan. But I haven't yet investigated how reliable they are. Some of them have lists of rulers, but they might be taken from worldstatesmen.org I guess.

The problem of "What is a Shan State?" which you touch on above, is difficult (not to say impossible!) I wonder whether the "List" might eventually become merely a list of states (with rulers listed in their separate articles); and in that case it could be allowed to be more inclusive, listing what were said to be Shan states at different periods. But I don't really know what's best. Andrew Dalby 11:40, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting in Burma

Can you please help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Burmese? Thanks! Chris 05:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:WAGGGS-Burma Girl Guides badge.jpg

Can you tell what the text says on this badge? I am going to have a clearer version made if I can get that. Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 09:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burma Cyclone

I hope that you and your family are not hurt and everything is fine. Support victims of the cyclone in Myanmar (Burma). Tyw7, formerly Troop350 (talk) 08:40, 10 May 2008 (UTC)