The 2010 report is now out, covering 221 of the world's capital and major cities. The firm's worldwide rankings are produced using 39 factors in ten categories, including:
1. Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement)
2. Economic environment (currency-exchange regulations, banking services)
3. Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom)
4. Health and sanitation (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution)
5. Schools and education (standard and availability of international schools)
6. Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion)
7. Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure)
8. Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars)
9. Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services)
10. Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)
Mercer produces individual reports for each country and then ranks them in order, using New York City as its baseline with a score of 100. Its latest report was compiled between September and November 2009.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/27052010/389/best-cities-world-live.html
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Remembering Baba Thaung
Hmmm…
It is difficult to write about Baba Thaung
He is the one that I care and who loves me dearly.
He has gone now from this world
There are very few people I can personally connect to
He is one of the most of my concerns
He was a Communist
He was a government servant
He was a lawyer
He got no home
His pension was not even enough for one day expenses
Poor like hell
When his wife Kyin Kyin, who also loved me so much alive
They lived in my grandmother’s house
After the wife died, Baba Thaung was kicked out by his own sister, my grandmother.
He had no place to go.
I didn’t have enough money
to support him for everything he required
like home and living expenditure
What could I do?
Myself didn’t have a job
I could only support him from time to time
with some money which he can spend for a few days.
I felt so sad about that.
I felt so sad about that.
I still feel so sad about that.
He is gone now
He may be happier now than ever
He was a very strong-will man
But he did not have the money to pay his bills
Government has done nothing for those old-pensioners,
who serves for the nation for their entire lives
the entire system of my country got many things to repair
Government should care for those old-pensioners
They deserve the decent living standard after their retirement
Contemporary country’s situation is bound to unfair
the gap between the rich and the poor is higher than ever
Increasing corruption is the day to day life style of the Burmese
How are we gonna solve this?
More questions to be raised than I can get the answers
It is difficult to write about Baba Thaung
He is the one that I care and who loves me dearly.
He has gone now from this world
There are very few people I can personally connect to
He is one of the most of my concerns
He was a Communist
He was a government servant
He was a lawyer
He got no home
His pension was not even enough for one day expenses
Poor like hell
When his wife Kyin Kyin, who also loved me so much alive
They lived in my grandmother’s house
After the wife died, Baba Thaung was kicked out by his own sister, my grandmother.
He had no place to go.
I didn’t have enough money
to support him for everything he required
like home and living expenditure
What could I do?
Myself didn’t have a job
I could only support him from time to time
with some money which he can spend for a few days.
I felt so sad about that.
I felt so sad about that.
I still feel so sad about that.
He is gone now
He may be happier now than ever
He was a very strong-will man
But he did not have the money to pay his bills
Government has done nothing for those old-pensioners,
who serves for the nation for their entire lives
the entire system of my country got many things to repair
Government should care for those old-pensioners
They deserve the decent living standard after their retirement
Contemporary country’s situation is bound to unfair
the gap between the rich and the poor is higher than ever
Increasing corruption is the day to day life style of the Burmese
How are we gonna solve this?
More questions to be raised than I can get the answers
Far Away from Everything
2009 September
Please realize that I am far away from
everything I dreamt of or I needed to have.
I am in a foreign country where most people are rude,
the policy is disgusting and
I know nothing of their language.
I am alone (entirely alone with the baby) without any help.
When you come home you come home like a visitor.
I am just now getting realize that where I am.
I am getting nervous, anxious and lost my concentration.
I don’t remember what I have done or what I was thinking just one second ago.
Do you think I can handle this more?
I tried to calm down but I can hardly succeed.
I can only be normal as soon as I am out of this city and
far away from this burden of loneliness without any help.
The best place for me is Thailand.
If I go home now to Myanmar,
it is still a lot of pressure there.
Please realize that I am far away from
everything I dreamt of or I needed to have.
I am in a foreign country where most people are rude,
the policy is disgusting and
I know nothing of their language.
I am alone (entirely alone with the baby) without any help.
When you come home you come home like a visitor.
I am just now getting realize that where I am.
I am getting nervous, anxious and lost my concentration.
I don’t remember what I have done or what I was thinking just one second ago.
Do you think I can handle this more?
I tried to calm down but I can hardly succeed.
I can only be normal as soon as I am out of this city and
far away from this burden of loneliness without any help.
The best place for me is Thailand.
If I go home now to Myanmar,
it is still a lot of pressure there.
To my grandmothers
Christmas 2007, Vienna, Austria
Exactly 2007 25 December,
For some reasons I was looking back all the pictures in search of my two grandmothers pictures. They passed away this year. One is 69 and another is 72 and one day. This is an awful experience for me to settle my mind. I just tempt to forget it but obviously never succeed, I am thinking of them and I don’t know how I can think of myself regards of my behavior towards them. I don’t know how I should make any remarks to their death. It is pretty sad. I don’t want them to die even though I have little connection with them. They are still in a livable ages. They should have live longer or at least they should wait until I come back. I feel guilty. I feel sad. I feel sorry for them and myself.
I now understand how fast we live in this world. I am loosing the people that I related with. They were just gone and never come back to this human world or do they? That’s beyond my reach. I am now practically understanding nothing I can take it for granted. Things can happen any moment of the day. I have not prepared the death of my grandmothers in this way, in this time.
Today, I found myself as a lost person. I never feel such an emptiness and useless person. I feel like I am definitely in the wrong setting.
Exactly 2007 25 December,
For some reasons I was looking back all the pictures in search of my two grandmothers pictures. They passed away this year. One is 69 and another is 72 and one day. This is an awful experience for me to settle my mind. I just tempt to forget it but obviously never succeed, I am thinking of them and I don’t know how I can think of myself regards of my behavior towards them. I don’t know how I should make any remarks to their death. It is pretty sad. I don’t want them to die even though I have little connection with them. They are still in a livable ages. They should have live longer or at least they should wait until I come back. I feel guilty. I feel sad. I feel sorry for them and myself.
I now understand how fast we live in this world. I am loosing the people that I related with. They were just gone and never come back to this human world or do they? That’s beyond my reach. I am now practically understanding nothing I can take it for granted. Things can happen any moment of the day. I have not prepared the death of my grandmothers in this way, in this time.
Today, I found myself as a lost person. I never feel such an emptiness and useless person. I feel like I am definitely in the wrong setting.
How the world has changed
How the world has changed
From the colonial period where the strongs colonized the weaks and
Suck everything out
Made them the lower class citizen of the world
People despite them
Revolted against them
Fought them to kick them out
Political weather map has changed now
Those monster colonizers are now labeled themselves as
The humanitarians,
Donors for the poor,
Fight for the right causes
Human rights watcher
Care-taker of the disadvantage people
Legitimacy and control…
Keep on going with the different phases and labels
Somehow, you wonder
When and how did these magical facial changes happened?
Political Oppositions
take over the role of nationalists and
Place themselves in high-moral ground
Fight against the evil doer governments (military dictators or civilian dictators)
And the story continues
Oppositions put the ex-colonizers as the saviors for their causes
And brand them as their rescuers
And thanks them for their actions against sanctioning their own nations’ economies
hmmm…
There must be a trick how we got there...
How these evil governments got into power?
Who supported them or which circumstances push them up onto power?
There we go the Buddhist life circle
One can only see the truth when he/she wishes to see it.
Who is ruling this world?
Who is controlling your country and deepening down into the poverty?
If you can’t remove this illusion and
Blaming each other instead of cooperating
Killing each other instead of loving and try to find ways to improve your country
Then, I would say
You get what you deserve
From the colonial period where the strongs colonized the weaks and
Suck everything out
Made them the lower class citizen of the world
People despite them
Revolted against them
Fought them to kick them out
Political weather map has changed now
Those monster colonizers are now labeled themselves as
The humanitarians,
Donors for the poor,
Fight for the right causes
Human rights watcher
Care-taker of the disadvantage people
Legitimacy and control…
Keep on going with the different phases and labels
Somehow, you wonder
When and how did these magical facial changes happened?
Political Oppositions
take over the role of nationalists and
Place themselves in high-moral ground
Fight against the evil doer governments (military dictators or civilian dictators)
And the story continues
Oppositions put the ex-colonizers as the saviors for their causes
And brand them as their rescuers
And thanks them for their actions against sanctioning their own nations’ economies
hmmm…
There must be a trick how we got there...
How these evil governments got into power?
Who supported them or which circumstances push them up onto power?
There we go the Buddhist life circle
One can only see the truth when he/she wishes to see it.
Who is ruling this world?
Who is controlling your country and deepening down into the poverty?
If you can’t remove this illusion and
Blaming each other instead of cooperating
Killing each other instead of loving and try to find ways to improve your country
Then, I would say
You get what you deserve
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Satisfaction
What shall i do to be satisfied with myself
what shall i do to accept today
what shall i do not to think about tomorrow
what shall i do to soothe my brain
what shall i do to adjust with a new me
what shall i do to adjust with the old me
what shall i do to feel
the aroma of peace in my blood, brains and vains
what shall i do to accept today
what shall i do not to think about tomorrow
what shall i do to soothe my brain
what shall i do to adjust with a new me
what shall i do to adjust with the old me
what shall i do to feel
the aroma of peace in my blood, brains and vains
Eccentricism
I am being passive in many ways nowadays
I feel like or i act like a brain-damaged person
or is my brain empty?
people treate me like a silly
Like a mad dog sometimes
like a loser sometimes
like a ...
hmmm.
i don't know anymore
i am somehow lost in my thinking and being myself
no no no no no
this is not the way i am
or this is not the way i was
or this is not me anymore
I feel like or i act like a brain-damaged person
or is my brain empty?
people treate me like a silly
Like a mad dog sometimes
like a loser sometimes
like a ...
hmmm.
i don't know anymore
i am somehow lost in my thinking and being myself
no no no no no
this is not the way i am
or this is not the way i was
or this is not me anymore
Political questions
Seeing the chaos, shooting, and deaths
on the streets of Bangkok
what is this for I wonder
human blood on the streets
civil unrest and democracy
elites and the commons
government and control
where are the limits?
who is taking what limit and boundary?
so confusing for me
many questions arouse
and you?
give me some lectures?
on the streets of Bangkok
what is this for I wonder
human blood on the streets
civil unrest and democracy
elites and the commons
government and control
where are the limits?
who is taking what limit and boundary?
so confusing for me
many questions arouse
and you?
give me some lectures?
at the age of 1 year 6 month and 29 days
Oliver
such a little charater
i can't believe how he get this character
explosive
demanding
persistence in a course of action
bloody hell this little demon of mine
I am glad i have him
but i don't know why
a little baby like Ollie
can be so and so...
such a little charater
i can't believe how he get this character
explosive
demanding
persistence in a course of action
bloody hell this little demon of mine
I am glad i have him
but i don't know why
a little baby like Ollie
can be so and so...
contemporary life!
Strange life
Stange world
I don't follow anymore
the only meaning i have now is
my little son
Without him
what do i care?
Stange world
I don't follow anymore
the only meaning i have now is
my little son
Without him
what do i care?
what am i?
hey I have so much fun
with my little one Ollie and
with all the assignments with the deadlines...
Someone told me that i am a glutton for punishment
No Panic
That's life
Who am i to judge what am i?
(2010 May 18)
with my little one Ollie and
with all the assignments with the deadlines...
Someone told me that i am a glutton for punishment
No Panic
That's life
Who am i to judge what am i?
(2010 May 18)
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Nyeinchan means peaceful in my own language
you know
My live is peaceful
the moment i see my little one Ollie
his name is Pyi Aye in Bumrese Country of Peace
I wish to end all our mess in my home country-Myanmar
that is why i call my son a country of peace
what else do we want
live with dignity
live with prosperity
live with respect
what else do we want more?
my son is called pyi aye
i wish him to be
peaceful, prosper and being respected
together with my country!
you know
My live is peaceful
the moment i see my little one Ollie
his name is Pyi Aye in Bumrese Country of Peace
I wish to end all our mess in my home country-Myanmar
that is why i call my son a country of peace
what else do we want
live with dignity
live with prosperity
live with respect
what else do we want more?
my son is called pyi aye
i wish him to be
peaceful, prosper and being respected
together with my country!
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