Kyi Aye - My Wisdom

My knowledge

Art is a knowledge that is both necessary and respected by society.

Drama is an art form. The ancient Burmese kings themselves encouraged traditional Burmese drama as a national culture.

However... as the saying goes, "You destroy what belongs to you," when the performers themselves began to deteriorate, the public began to lose respect for them.

People started to turn their noses up at them with the term "fake food".

In any case, in this novel “My Wisdom,” Kyi Aye describes the life of the theater world in detail, making it worth reading and studying.

Once upon a time, I closely observed someone's success, and I was filled with jealousy. However, the person who achieved it was my lover, so I was very proud. The combination of two opposites produces a strange feeling of pain. If I were to give an example of that pain, I would dream of flying in the sky and being in the clouds. Oh, how... oh, how... When I woke up, it was all for nothing...

It has been more than ten years since I was free from that pain. Let's say since my wife died. When my wife first met Ma Sein Aung, that pain was like a moon that had not yet grown, a moon that had been torn apart, a moon that had appeared in the middle of nowhere. However, when the whole of Myanmar began to mourn Ma Sein Aung and Ma Sein Aung, the unstable moon and sandar changed into a constant, unexplainable, and inexplicable, flower.

Ma Sein Aung's fame, which had been surpassed by many in the past, was only ended by death. Thus, Ko Khant was always proud of his wife. Ma Sein Aung was in the play Saya Saint, and was not even comparable to the great actress Nyunt Yi. The only thing that was inferior to Nyunt Yi was that Ma Sein Aung was a disciple of Yakut Maung Kalay, so she could sing very well. At midnight, when the two princesses and princes left, Ma Sein Aung shouted and shouted, and I still imagine that the voice, the singing, the rhythm and the music came out all at once. Just thinking about it made my hair stand on end.

I still remember how even my own wife, unable to control herself, would stare at Ma Sein Aung from behind the curtain. Ma Sein Aung had a large forehead and well-defined eyebrows, and her hair was in a messy bun.

The puppets are not dressed in a robe. When they dance, they dance with their feet on the floor like peacocks, and the sound of the drum and the bamboo claps is the same. Even if you are separated by a curtain, you can see how different they are. The wife is dancing in front of the curtain, her face is pale under the low-beamed lights, wearing a paper flower headband, a dollar chain, a bracelet, and a ring, while the husband is standing behind the curtain, under the dim stage lights, wearing a long-sleeved Seeing Ma Sein Aung and Khun Gyi Khun Yee being so rude, his wife had to step in. At that time, he neither hated Saya Saint nor was he angry, but if his wife had shown him any signs of anger, he would have already cut off the teacher's head.

The couple separated from the teacher's stage and sang a song. Ma Sein Aung also sang a song successfully. Ko Khant was surprised by the child's singing, the child's singing was so soft and gentle. My wife can do it too. Ko Khant sat behind the stage and arranged water for the exhausted princess to drink, betel nut to eat, and a side dish.

"My boyfriend is a high school student... He hasn't come to me for three nights now. I think he forgot about love because he met someone new. I miss him... Kopanakikel..."

When Ma Sein Aung... hit the man's head with a Chinese blue turban and said, "I've been waiting for you since midnight, why didn't you come?... Why didn't you come, my dear...", Ko Khant often felt like clapping his hands together with the audience.

"Oh... I'm not a diamond... I'm not a diamond, I'm not even worth it for a naive person like me," he would often lament.

He believed that his wife was a rare and wonderful actress. Ko Khant was naturally self-centered. Ma Sein Aung spoke and acted in a way that was not her own. He was always shy and shy, and if he did not get his wife's plan, he would not do anything. If people did not see him, he would even want to rub Thanaka on Ma Sein Aung's feet. He would be a very lucky man to have a special woman like Ma Sein Aung. Even if Ma Sein Aung said, "Hand me the pot of fish paste on the stove," she would already pour fish paste into the bowl, put a spoon in it, and add some chili powder.

In fact, Ma Sein Aung was like the "free child of alms, a child of alms, a child of alms." He took Ma Sein Aung without examining her and was happy. The child was in his hands before it was seven months old. However, the child died, so there was nothing to talk about, he was satisfied. That was all that mattered. .

And isn't a gift something that someone else throws away? The Buddha himself has said that this is a gift. If it weren't for a gift, Ma Sein Aung would have stuck close to him and grabbed his hand, but he couldn't see the way. Ma Sein Aung had just become famous when he was young. Ko Khant was the first to join the cast. At that time, he was still far away. After a long time, the cast found Ko Aung Ba and Sein Aung Amidala, who were looking for a wife. Then he met Ko Kyin Kha, who was playing the drums. After that, Ko Khant didn't listen to the news anymore and didn't know anything. Finally, he was greeted by a sweet smile and children he had never met before, and one day they became husband and wife.

No matter what happens, the famous actress and the ordinary person are still worth each other. They are still very much worth each other.

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Ko Khant stood up from his seat. A dark shadow of unhappiness crossed his face. Suddenly he remembered and lit a cigarette. There was no light. Oh.. The cigarette had already gone out. How long had he been sitting at the far end of the stove? I was so tired. Now I was old.. I had to spend my time thinking about the past. Oh... In fact, there is no such thing as a comedian.

Ko Khant, chewing on the tip of his cigarette with his index finger, came out to the front of the house. He glanced at his daughter Mya Kyaing. Her daughter didn't pay attention to him, she was embroidering the yellow baby's chest with gold embroidery. Mya Kyaing was also a seamstress. Sometimes, even a whole t-shirt is embroidered with gold stars, silver stars. Gold embroidery, silver embroidery. Thin is also Ma Ae's daughter, what should I call her?

"Hey, Mya Kyaing," he called out softly.

"What?" the daughter replied without looking up.

Ko Khant walked back and forth in front of his daughter without saying anything. His mind was very confused. When he called his daughter, he didn't want to talk, but now he stopped talking. The voice that answered him was so calm, it could be possessed. He dared to forget even what he was going to say.

The little girl who had grown up in his arms, and who was known as Sein Aung and the cast, who had been stubbornly holding her head high at the railway station when they were going to Mandalay, is now a grown-up and has become a mother, disrespecting her and saying, "What's up?" in her mother's style...

Not now.. Not now, since he was young, he did as his mother said. He did as his mother did. Ma Ae was disrespectful because he was a husband. The daughter was disrespectful because she was a father. No one respected Ko Khant... Life was miserable. He never saw a respectful look in anyone's eyes. The older he got, the worse it got.

If you really want to be a poplar, you must have been a stranger once. When the people of the village used to fight cocks with long ropes and long cloths.... When fighting cocks, you can win like others can. You can lose like others can. You have never fought a monkey. When playing cards, you can't just climb a palm tree and drink water and not drink at all. Even if you get drunk and fall unconscious, you don't dare to drink.