Zaw Zaw Aung - Peter Zaw Myint understands.

Peter Zaw Myint went crazy after opening a tea shop.

Open a shop and call it a tea shop, open a house and call it a tea house, open a garden and call it a tea garden, open a tea platform on a roadside platform. Maung Peter Tea Shop is open. A place on the waterfront, not far from big office buildings and big banks. Pay the taxes and get the relevant authorities to give you permission, and Peter Zaw Myint Tea Shop is open there. Near the six-story office on the waterfront. Please come and support us.

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The name of the shop is something to think about before opening. Peter Zaw Myint did not study logic in college, but thinking is his passion. Famous tea shops often have human hair. For example, beards, mustaches, etc., among human hair, he thought of a name that was both the highest and most noble. “Shaung Thup” is the best dance hall in Southeast Asia. As the name suggests, Moe Kok hires his friend Ba Than Tin as a comedian. Ba Than Tin is a real Shaung Thup. The two have been friends since childhood and are a good pair. Maung Peter is always busy, always busy. He is always busy. He is always busy. Both of them are similar. Maung Peter is always busy and busy. Ba Than Tin is always busy and busy. Two very good friends. The stage is open. Come and support us.

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Maung Peter had to find all the necessary equipment and furniture for a tea shop. He had a hobby from an old man named U Than Lwin and he had to do it for free. He had to borrow a wardrobe trolley, a small table, and a small stool from a neighboring carpenter from North Okkalapa where he lived. He had to borrow the crockery from the hotel manager Mr. Brown for a while and not return it. He also had to borrow other stoves, pots, etc. from there. He had given a fortune-telling to a high-ranking official, U Kyaw Maung, and he had to ask for the shells of milk and raw milk from his house. The equipment was quite complete. Only one spoon was left to make tea.

Maung Peter bought the spoon with money. He asked Ba Than Tin for a five-kyat piece. Ba Than Tin only had one five-kyat piece. When he lived in Mogok, a wealthy man had given him a five-kyat piece of silverware to make his business prosper. Maung Peter bought the spoon for four kyats. He used the remaining one kyat to buy a drink. The two of them have opened a shop. Please come and support us.

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The “Shaungtho” platform. On a painted wardrobe cart, there are rows of milk cartons and raw milk cartons that U Kyaw Maung’s house had requested.

In fact, the cans are already opened on one side, the opened side is the top. The metal plate is completely opened and then turned upside down. Therefore, if you look carefully at the labels and writings of all the cans of milk and raw milk displayed in Maung Peter's shop, you will see that they are upside down.

So far, none of the tea drinkers have looked carefully at the label and the text on the box. In fact, there are not many reasons to come to the tea shop. To drink tea, to sit and talk for a long time after drinking hot water, and then to wait for someone to come and accompany them, and finally to drink, to kick the wind, and to wait for the person who comes to call.

Mainly because of these three things, Maung Peter's platform was bustling with people. People of all walks of life, all walks of life, all walks of life. It was very crowded. It was very prosperous. He hired three young shop assistants. It became so bad that he had to pay a monthly fee of "thaw zint tu" to hire a tea specialist. Every evening, Ba Than Tin would go to the hotel on the waterfront to have whiskey and fried chicken, or beer and cheese. Maung Peter did not drink alcohol.

 

He is a musician. He is often said to have studied with Tin Win Hlaing, a pianist. I don't know for sure. He is said to have learned forty songs from Tin Win Hlaing on the organ. He has not bought an organ yet, but he has bought a bhaja that is easy to store and carry around and can be carried in his pocket. He says that one day, he will have a world-class Peter Zaw Myint, bhaja orchestra with about ninety people, and he plays the bhaja every evening.

The two men have become very rich. They have become very wealthy, with jackets worth over two thousand tons, sunglasses worth over four thousand tons, and lighters worth over five hundred. Even the smallest debt is written with a ballpoint pen worth over five hundred. However, Brother Peter will never forget his life.

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He collected baht from the shop. Maung Peter walked around the tables, chatting with people. His mouth was always busy. He greeted everyone he passed on the platform. He would even greet passengers on the street by saying, "Are you okay?" "I hope you're okay," "If you're not okay, I'm so sorry." Ninety-nine percent of the people walking on the Yangon street platform seemed to be his acquaintances. People who came to the shop joined in. He spoke in a low voice. He also listened to what others said with interest. If you look at Peter Zaw Myint, you will always see him talking enthusiastically to someone at a table or listening with great interest to someone talking enthusiastically, making various facial expressions. He didn't have the chance to speak for a long time. He became a "listener" who listened to everything the people sitting in the shop said with a nod. Ba Than Tin anointed his robe with oil, smoked a big cigarette, and collected money with a face that looked like it had served the entire Southeast Asian continent. Peter Zaw Myint listened to everything the people said.

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Parentheses.. There is a saying in the literature that the title of a novel plays a very important role. Peter Zaw Myint is not crazy yet. He opened a tea shop, his business flourished, and his material circumstances became very prosperous, but Peter Zaw Myint's mental state deteriorated and he went crazy. Why? How? When did he go crazy?

Teachers say that short stories are not long stories, but short ones. They also say that short stories should be short and concise, like a "water-filled car" that rushes in from behind and reaches its destination. Teachers say that they are not lazy, so short story writers often end their stories with a sense of wisdom and a sense of sadness.

Now, how will Peter Zaw Myint go crazy, how will he turn it around? How will he bury the hatchet and where will he hide it? How will he skillfully capture it so that it remains in the reader's mind until the end of the novel? How will he keep the story flowing without losing all its charm? No matter what, Peter Zaw Myint will go crazy. The novel will continue. Let Peter Zaw Myint go crazy.]

Peter Zaw Myint has gone mad. His best friend, Ba Than Tin, is very sad and has to admit Maung Peter to the Tada Lay Psychiatric Hospital. After the necessary procedures are completed, Maung Peter, who is left in the room, is taken to the hospital.

The last time I saw him. Tears welled up in Ba Than Tin's eyes. He had been with his best friend since the Buddhist school in Monywa. He had to part ways with his friend Maung Pitar, who had been with him for almost half of his life, a friend who was always busy and busy, who was always there for him,

Ye Wei looked at Peter Zaw Myint, who was nodding his head and smiling and laughing, whispering, and handed him a plastic bag of sweet tea and a slightly crumpled cigarette. Peter Zaw Myint looked at him suspiciously and suddenly smiled and took it. "Thank you, Uncle," he said politely. Then he turned to the other side and continued whispering. .

Ba Than Tin turned around and left. He didn't know where to go. He was relieved for his friend. He had fulfilled his duty. Stay, my friend. A tear rolled down Ba Than Tin's cheek. He didn't wipe it away, didn't look back, and kept walking.

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Peter Zaw Myint has gone mad. The goal of the novel has been reached. It also matches the title. However, the words he said about opening a tea shop are still relevant. What is the point? There is something to think about. The wise have become scornful that the forty-four-word story is meaningless and unrelated to the purpose. Therefore, I will continue without finishing the story. I will continue with two character dialogues. One is the dialogue that Ba Than Tin answers when the doctor on duty asks what happened to Peter Zaw Myint at the hospital. The other is the dialogue that Peter Zaw Myint repeats after going mad and whispering to himself. The feature of the short story is the plot.

As teachers have said, dialogue is also important when composing a story, so I will continue to write the two dialogues, numbered sequentially for the reader to understand.

1. “This is what happened after listening to the people who came to the tea shop and talked about it every day, Doctor.”

2. “Oh, I’m so sorry. I can’t do anything either. Now, let’s do it… Drink tea, drink a cup of coffee. Hehehe… That’s all I can do. Now, let’s do it, drink tea, drink a cup of coffee. Oh, I’m so sorry… I’m so sorry. I can’t do anything either. Now, let’s do it… Drink tea, drink a cup of coffee, Hehehe. That’s all I can do. Oh, I’m so sorry.”

Zaw Zaw Aung (January, 1987)

Cherry Magazine, No. 34, May, 1987.