Once upon a time all feelings and emotions went to a coastal island for a vacation. According to their nature, each was having a good time. Suddenly, a warning of an impending storm was announced and everyone was advised to evacuate the island.
The announcement caused sudden panic. All rushed to their boats. Even damaged boats were quickly repaired and commissioned for duty.
Yet, Love did not wish to flee quickly. There was so much to do. But as the clouds darkened, Love realised it was time to leave. Alas, there were no boats to spare. Love looked around with hope.
Just then Prosperity passed by in a luxurious boat. Love shouted, “Prosperity, could you please take me in your boat?”
“No,” replied Prosperity, “my boat is full of precious possessions, gold and silver. There is no place for you.”
A little later Vanity came by in a beautiful boat. Again Love shouted, “Could you help me, Vanity? I am stranded and need a lift. Please take me with you.”
Vanity responded haughtily, “No, I cannot take you with me. My boat will get soiled with your muddy feet.”
Sorrow passed by after some time. Again, Love asked for help. But it was to no avail. “No, I cannot take you with me. I am so sad. I want to be by myself.”
When Happiness passed by a few minutes later, Love again called for help. But Happiness was so happy that it did not look around, hardly concerned about anyone.
Love was growing restless and dejected. Just then somebody called out, “Come Love, I will take you with me.” Love did not know who was being so magnanimous, but jumped on to the boat, greatly relieved that she would reach a safe place.
On getting off the boat, Love met Knowledge. Puzzled, Love inquired, “Knowledge, do you know who so generously gave me a lift just when no one else wished to help?”
Knowledge smiled, “Oh, that was Time.”
“And why would Time stop to pick me and take me to safety?” Love wondered.
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and replied, “Because only Time knows your true greatness and what you are capable of. Only Love can bring peace and great happiness in this world.”
“The important message is that when we are prosperous, we overlook love. When we feel important, we forget love. Even in happiness and sorrow we forget love. Only with time do we realize the importance of love. Why wait that long? Why not make love a part of your life today?”
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The important things in life
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A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.
Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.
Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
Clever sheep
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Once there lived a sheep. He was very clever but a little careless.
One day a wolf cornered the sheep.
"You can't escape, " said the wolf.
"I know," said the sheep, softly.
" You are great! So please grant me a last wish, you please sing a song so that I may dance one last time.'
"Certainly, said the wolf proudly and throwing back his head began to howl.
Hearing him howl the farmer's dogs rushed to the spot and drove him away.
MORAL: Don't attempt anything that is beyond your ability.
One day a wolf cornered the sheep.
"You can't escape, " said the wolf.
"I know," said the sheep, softly.
" You are great! So please grant me a last wish, you please sing a song so that I may dance one last time.'
"Certainly, said the wolf proudly and throwing back his head began to howl.
Hearing him howl the farmer's dogs rushed to the spot and drove him away.
MORAL: Don't attempt anything that is beyond your ability.
Love or Friendship …………. Gary R. Hess
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What do you want from me?
Do you want my love?
Or do you want my friendship?
You confuse me through what you say
You say you love me
But don't seem to care
Why don't we just be friends?
Nothing more
Nothing less
Perhaps you still have feelings for me
But why don't you show them?
Why must you hurt me this way?
I still love you
But I just want to know
Do you feel the same?
Do you want my love?
Or do you want my friendship?
You confuse me through what you say
You say you love me
But don't seem to care
Why don't we just be friends?
Nothing more
Nothing less
Perhaps you still have feelings for me
But why don't you show them?
Why must you hurt me this way?
I still love you
But I just want to know
Do you feel the same?
The Road Not Taken …………..Robert Frost
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
SUCCESS Quotes and Sayings
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Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
~Author Unknown
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
~Author Unknown
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
~Laurence Shames
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
~George Smith Patton
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
~Tennessee Williams
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
~Author Unknown
~Author Unknown
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
~Author Unknown
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
~Laurence Shames
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
~George Smith Patton
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
~Tennessee Williams
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
~Author Unknown
Saturday, July 10, 2010
ေန႔စဥ္ေလ့လာစရာလက္ေတြ႕အသံုးခ် အဂၤလိပ္စာ (အပိုင္း-၁)
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အဂၤလိပ္စာကို နည္းမ်ိဳးစံု ၊ ေထာင့္မ်ိဳးစံုကေန ေလ့လာေနၾကသူေတြအတြက္ ေန႔စဥ္ ေျပာဆို ေရးသားရာမွာ အေထာက္အကူျဖစ္နိဳင္ေစဖို႔ ၊ ေကာင္းနိဳးရာရာ ေလးေတြကို မွတ္စု အေနနဲ႔ ေျပာျပတာပါ။ မသိေသးတဲ့ ေ၀ါဟာရ အသစ္ေတြသာ မကဘဲ ျဖတ္သန္းေနရတဲ့ ေန႔စဥ္ဘ၀ မွာ လက္ေတြ႕ အသံုးျပဳနိဳင္ရေအာင္ အတတ္နိဳင္ဆံုး ၾကိဳးစားျပီး ရွင္းျပေပးပါမယ္။ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ ဘာသာစကားတစ္ခု ကို ေလ့လာမယ္ဆိုရင္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ေ၀ါဟာရ (Vocabulary) ေတြကို အထိုက္အေလ်ာက္ အဆင့္ဆင့္ သိသင့္ သလို အဲဒီ ဘာသာစကားရဲ႕ ၀ါက် တည္ေဆာက္ပံုေတြ အျပင္ အသံုးအႏႈန္း (Usage) ေလးေတြကိုပါ သိထားသင့္ပါတယ္။
ပထမဆံုးအေနနဲ႔ Fussy ဆိုတဲ့ အသံုးေလးကို စတင္ မိတ္ဆက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။
(၁) Fussy = Difficult to please, not easily satisfied
ျမန္မာလို တိုက္ရိုက္ ဘာသာျပန္ရင္ေတာ့ ဇီဇာေၾကာင္ေသာ၊ ေၾကးမ်ားေသာ ေပါ့။
ဒီေနရာမွာ အဂၤလိပ္စာ ေလ့လာသူေတြ အေနနဲ႔ အက်ိဳး ပိုျပီး ရွိေစမယ့္ နည္းေလးတစ္ခုကို ေျပာခ်င္ပါေသးတယ္။ ေ၀ါဟာရ တစ္ခုကို ေလ့လာရာမွာ အဲဒီ ေ၀ါဟာရ တစ္ခုထဲသာမကဘဲ တျခား အဓိပၸါယ္ တူတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြကို တတ္နိဳင္သမွ် တြဲမွတ္ေစခ်င္တယ္။ အဲဒီ အေလ့အက်င့္ဟာ ဘာကို အေထာက္အကူ ျပဳေစသလဲဆိုေတာ့ စာပိုဒ္ေတြ ေရးတဲ့အခါမွာ စကားလံုး တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကို ထပ္ခါ ထပ္ခါ သံုးရတဲ့ ဒုကၡ ကေန လြတ္သြားေစတာပဲ။ မိမိ စာကို ဖတ္ေနတဲ့ သူကလည္း စကားလံုး တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကို ဖတ္ရတဲ့အခါ ရသ အေနနဲ႔လည္း ေပါ့ေလွ်ာ့ခံစားရသလို ၊ မိမိကို ေ၀ါဟာရ ေခါင္းပါးသူလို႔ ျပစ္တင္ခံရတာ မ်ိဳးလည္း မျဖစ္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။
အဲဒီထက္မက ပါဘူး။ ေနာက္ပိုင္း အဂၤလိပ္စာကို အဆင့္ျမင့္ ပိုင္းေလ့လာတဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳး ၊ TOEFL – IELTS – GMAT – SAT – GRE စတဲ့ စာေမးပြဲေတြ ေျဖဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္တဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳးမွာလည္း ဒါေတြဟာ အသံုး၀င္လာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ( အေသးစိပ္ကိုေတာ့ အဲဒီ စာေမးပြဲေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေတြ ေရးတဲ့အခါမွာ ရွင္းျပပါမယ္။ )
အခု Fussy ဆိုတဲ့ ေ၀ါဟာရ ကို ေနာက္ထပ္ ေျပာလို႔ ရတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြ ကေတာ့ choosy ၊ finicky ၊ picky ၊ selective ၊ fastidious ၊ particular တို႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေျခာက္မ်ိဳးထဲလားဆိုေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ရွ္ိပါေသးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီေျခာက္မ်ိဳးေလာက္ဆိုရင္ဘဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး လံုေလာက္မယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
အသံုးအႏႈန္းေလးၾကည့္ရေအာင္။
• Tell me what you want to eat before I make dinner because I know you’re a fussy eater.
ဒီ၀ါက် ကို ေသခ်ာမွတ္ထားမယ္ဆိုရင္ တစ္ေန႔တာ ေျပာစရာထဲက တစ္ခုမွာ သံုးလို႔ ရလာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ before I make dinner ဆိုတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ကိုယ္က ဆိုင္တစ္ဆိုင္မွာ ၀ယ္ဖို႔ အစားအစာ မွာဖို႔ ဆိုရင္ before I order the food လို႔ ေျပာင္းသံုးရံုပါပဲ။ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက .. I know you’re a fussy eater ေနရာမွာ ေနာက္တစ္မ်ိဳးေရးလို႔ ေျပာလို႔ ရေသးတာက I know how fussy you are. ဆိုျပီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မင္းဘယ္ေလာက္ ေၾကးမ်ာလဲ ငါသိတယ္။ ဆိုျပီး ေျပာတာပါ။ အဲဒီမွာ a fussy eater ကိုလည္း ေျပာစရာေလးရွိပါေသးတယ္။ ခုနက ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ တျခား စကားလံုးေတြကိုသံုးတာပါ။
A fussy eater အစား picky eater , choosy eater, finicky eater စသည္မ်ိဳးေတြလည္းေရးလို႔ရပါတယ္။ အဘိဓာန္ (Dictionary) ေတြမွာလည္း ဥပမာေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ရမွာပါ။
(a) The children are such picky eaters.
(b) She is very choosy about what she eats and drinks.
(c) I am very selective about the books I read.
(d) He is terribly finicky about his food. Or He is a finicky eater.
(e) He is very fastidious about how a suitcase should be packed.
(f) All my children were fussy eaters.
(g) He’s so fussy about the house – everything has to be absolutely perfect.
(h) She’s very particular about what she wears.
(i) She’s a very particular person.
စသျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ေရးနိဳင္ေျပာနိဳင္ပါတယ္။
• She’s not very fussy about whom she goes out with, providing he’s well-off.
အခု ၀ါက် ထဲမွာလည္း ေလ့လာသင့္တာေတြ ပါပါတယ္။ ပံုမွန္ဘာသာျပန္ရင္ေတာ့ ခ်မ္းသာတဲ့သူသာျဖစ္ပါေစ သူမကေတာ့ ဘယ္သူနဲ႔ဘဲ အျပင္သြားရပါေစ သိပ္ေရြးမေနဘူး။ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ပဲ ေျပာရမွာေပါ့။ well-off ဆိုတာ rich နဲ႔ အတူတူပါပဲ။
အခုေလာက္ဆို Fussy နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးေတာ့ သံုးတတ္သြားမယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ေျပာျပခဲ့ျပီးတဲ့ ၀ါက်ေတြထဲမွာ အေသးစိပ္ရွင္းျပခ်င္တာေလးေတြေတာ့ ရွိေသးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ လိုရင္းမေရာက္မွာစိုးလို႔ သီးျခားေဖာ္ျပရွင္းျပေပးပါမယ္။ ဒီ က႑ ေလးကေတာ့ Usage အပိုင္းေလးကို အဓိက ထားတာမို႔ အသံုးအႏႈန္းနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တာေလးေတြကို ပဲ ဦးစားေပးေဖာ္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
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၀ိုင္ (Y)
ပထမဆံုးအေနနဲ႔ Fussy ဆိုတဲ့ အသံုးေလးကို စတင္ မိတ္ဆက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။
(၁) Fussy = Difficult to please, not easily satisfied
ျမန္မာလို တိုက္ရိုက္ ဘာသာျပန္ရင္ေတာ့ ဇီဇာေၾကာင္ေသာ၊ ေၾကးမ်ားေသာ ေပါ့။
ဒီေနရာမွာ အဂၤလိပ္စာ ေလ့လာသူေတြ အေနနဲ႔ အက်ိဳး ပိုျပီး ရွိေစမယ့္ နည္းေလးတစ္ခုကို ေျပာခ်င္ပါေသးတယ္။ ေ၀ါဟာရ တစ္ခုကို ေလ့လာရာမွာ အဲဒီ ေ၀ါဟာရ တစ္ခုထဲသာမကဘဲ တျခား အဓိပၸါယ္ တူတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြကို တတ္နိဳင္သမွ် တြဲမွတ္ေစခ်င္တယ္။ အဲဒီ အေလ့အက်င့္ဟာ ဘာကို အေထာက္အကူ ျပဳေစသလဲဆိုေတာ့ စာပိုဒ္ေတြ ေရးတဲ့အခါမွာ စကားလံုး တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကို ထပ္ခါ ထပ္ခါ သံုးရတဲ့ ဒုကၡ ကေန လြတ္သြားေစတာပဲ။ မိမိ စာကို ဖတ္ေနတဲ့ သူကလည္း စကားလံုး တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကို ဖတ္ရတဲ့အခါ ရသ အေနနဲ႔လည္း ေပါ့ေလွ်ာ့ခံစားရသလို ၊ မိမိကို ေ၀ါဟာရ ေခါင္းပါးသူလို႔ ျပစ္တင္ခံရတာ မ်ိဳးလည္း မျဖစ္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။
အဲဒီထက္မက ပါဘူး။ ေနာက္ပိုင္း အဂၤလိပ္စာကို အဆင့္ျမင့္ ပိုင္းေလ့လာတဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳး ၊ TOEFL – IELTS – GMAT – SAT – GRE စတဲ့ စာေမးပြဲေတြ ေျဖဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္တဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳးမွာလည္း ဒါေတြဟာ အသံုး၀င္လာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ( အေသးစိပ္ကိုေတာ့ အဲဒီ စာေမးပြဲေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေတြ ေရးတဲ့အခါမွာ ရွင္းျပပါမယ္။ )
အခု Fussy ဆိုတဲ့ ေ၀ါဟာရ ကို ေနာက္ထပ္ ေျပာလို႔ ရတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြ ကေတာ့ choosy ၊ finicky ၊ picky ၊ selective ၊ fastidious ၊ particular တို႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေျခာက္မ်ိဳးထဲလားဆိုေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ရွ္ိပါေသးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီေျခာက္မ်ိဳးေလာက္ဆိုရင္ဘဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး လံုေလာက္မယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
အသံုးအႏႈန္းေလးၾကည့္ရေအာင္။
• Tell me what you want to eat before I make dinner because I know you’re a fussy eater.
ဒီ၀ါက် ကို ေသခ်ာမွတ္ထားမယ္ဆိုရင္ တစ္ေန႔တာ ေျပာစရာထဲက တစ္ခုမွာ သံုးလို႔ ရလာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ before I make dinner ဆိုတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ကိုယ္က ဆိုင္တစ္ဆိုင္မွာ ၀ယ္ဖို႔ အစားအစာ မွာဖို႔ ဆိုရင္ before I order the food လို႔ ေျပာင္းသံုးရံုပါပဲ။ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက .. I know you’re a fussy eater ေနရာမွာ ေနာက္တစ္မ်ိဳးေရးလို႔ ေျပာလို႔ ရေသးတာက I know how fussy you are. ဆိုျပီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မင္းဘယ္ေလာက္ ေၾကးမ်ာလဲ ငါသိတယ္။ ဆိုျပီး ေျပာတာပါ။ အဲဒီမွာ a fussy eater ကိုလည္း ေျပာစရာေလးရွိပါေသးတယ္။ ခုနက ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ တျခား စကားလံုးေတြကိုသံုးတာပါ။
A fussy eater အစား picky eater , choosy eater, finicky eater စသည္မ်ိဳးေတြလည္းေရးလို႔ရပါတယ္။ အဘိဓာန္ (Dictionary) ေတြမွာလည္း ဥပမာေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ရမွာပါ။
(a) The children are such picky eaters.
(b) She is very choosy about what she eats and drinks.
(c) I am very selective about the books I read.
(d) He is terribly finicky about his food. Or He is a finicky eater.
(e) He is very fastidious about how a suitcase should be packed.
(f) All my children were fussy eaters.
(g) He’s so fussy about the house – everything has to be absolutely perfect.
(h) She’s very particular about what she wears.
(i) She’s a very particular person.
စသျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ေရးနိဳင္ေျပာနိဳင္ပါတယ္။
• She’s not very fussy about whom she goes out with, providing he’s well-off.
အခု ၀ါက် ထဲမွာလည္း ေလ့လာသင့္တာေတြ ပါပါတယ္။ ပံုမွန္ဘာသာျပန္ရင္ေတာ့ ခ်မ္းသာတဲ့သူသာျဖစ္ပါေစ သူမကေတာ့ ဘယ္သူနဲ႔ဘဲ အျပင္သြားရပါေစ သိပ္ေရြးမေနဘူး။ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ပဲ ေျပာရမွာေပါ့။ well-off ဆိုတာ rich နဲ႔ အတူတူပါပဲ။
အခုေလာက္ဆို Fussy နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးေတာ့ သံုးတတ္သြားမယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ေျပာျပခဲ့ျပီးတဲ့ ၀ါက်ေတြထဲမွာ အေသးစိပ္ရွင္းျပခ်င္တာေလးေတြေတာ့ ရွိေသးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ လိုရင္းမေရာက္မွာစိုးလို႔ သီးျခားေဖာ္ျပရွင္းျပေပးပါမယ္။ ဒီ က႑ ေလးကေတာ့ Usage အပိုင္းေလးကို အဓိက ထားတာမို႔ အသံုးအႏႈန္းနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တာေလးေတြကို ပဲ ဦးစားေပးေဖာ္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
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