March 26, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi

I watched the movie 'The Lady' 2 weeks ago, with Emman.

Michelle Yeoh was beyond good. I thought she looks unbelievably like ASSK herself! She managed to portray ASSK's distress, hope and determination convincingly well. It's been a long time I haven't cried at the movies. But, watching 'The Lady', I teared 2 times and cried once. Really, not because it's a moving love story - I'm not easily moved by love stories - but because I felt the will of ASSK to fight for the people of Burma, her courage to pursue human rights and dignity and her upholding of the human spirit. These are strong emotions beyond romantic love, and they touched me greatly. Not only 'touched' me; I was inspired.

So, for about 4 days after watching the movie, I read up (though not in details) on the modern history of Myanmar, followed up some online trails of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner's fight for democracy and gushed a little on my new political idol with the only Burmese friend I have - Chaw Su. It got to the point that I was so interested and went to check out airfare to Yangon, Myanmar. If I travel in end-September, the airfare is less than 300 (!!!). Very, very tempting.

Budget aside, I doubt I would be able to take so many days of leave (considering I need to set aside for Jt's TW wedding celebration and my Trip-of-the-Year). But... if I do win a tidy sum (Dear God, you know I'm not greedy; winnings in the thousands will be 'tidy' enough for me) at the April Big Sweep Lottery, it will be 'Hello, Myanmar!' haha!

Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 15:33