Nyi Pu Lay - Grandson

Oil painting of Nyi Pu's painting with the golden rooster's tail

My brother Pu Lay asked me to write a letter to his “grandson.” I was both surprised and honored. A veteran pen like his entrusted a simple, weak writer like me. I loved him and wrote a letter, and I read his writing with interest and decided to write a letter. Although I loved him, I didn’t have much personal contact with him. Look at the question I asked him when I first met him. “Ko Nyo, are Ko Nyo, Nyi Pu Lay, and Nyaung the same person?” "How many people are there?" I asked. He was as calm and smiling as ever. "It's just me," he replied. That's how much I knew about him. Later, when his mother-in-law was sick, I went to see him. I became more close to him. He spoke softly and softly, and drove slowly and softly. His natural gentleness emanated from him. Even the smell of goat's milk could not destroy his gentleness. I read his writings carefully, starting with "Black as Coal." As one teacher pointed out, he was obsessed with the customs, traditional activities, and ways of life that were about to disappear and were about to disappear, and he composed them with great reverence and respect. He also wrote about things, and he could write about them. However, when he wrote about the past, his hand was trembling and trembling. What about now?

"Grandson".

Colonial era. Japanese era. Burma after independence. Civil war. Mandalay, which is struggling with economic, social, and political waves. About a person who has overcome them. There is not much decoration in the composition. It is simple and calm, as is his style. However, his work always shows the delicate painting. It looks like a thick and thick oil painting. It seems to have added a lot of references and evidence to make the times more vivid. He is very detailed in writing about the boat races that were held on a large scale during the reign of his father. The word "patay patin" in the boatman's language is noteworthy. I have heard that if you try to win a boat race, you will lose, but Nyi Pulay's writings make me understand better how you can lose if you only lose one of the rafts. It is also interesting to read about the colonial era auctions, the auctioneers, the Katha people and Hindus around Shwe Kyet Yat. In the return to the story of the 17 Mandalay martyrs, he not only praised the parents of the students and monks who gave up, but also the ordinary people who anxiously hid the students and children who escaped from the protest and gave them water to cool them down. (Page 92) In Black Bracelets (Page 97), I saw a glimpse of the bravery of a group of young people who were patriotic and enthusiastic. As a doctor, it was interesting to read about the epidemic (plague) that broke out around Mandalay. How could people of our time not know? Diseases that cannot be cured. The stories of Mandalay symbols such as Maung Ta Ye, Mara Tho, U Ya Jat, Thuriya U Than Maung, Bo Khin Maung Lay, Kyar Ba Nyein, Myo Ma Nyein, Dar Tan U Thant, Dr. Tun Shwe, Naga Daw Oo, U Kusala, U Kyaw Hla (abstaining from meat), U Tun Hla, and U Kyi Mya are also colorful and bright.

I would like to present some of the most intriguing and moving stories that are often found in good biographies. The confrontation between the rickshaw driver Ko Pe Tin and the chairman of the car dealership (Khap Khon Khon Khon Khon Khun The great-grandson who is always helpful and generous is often cited as an example. A beautiful image of compassion. The one who is straightforward and understands (Page 67), and the one who is full of shame (Page 88) are disgusting, and they are so good that they make you want to be a fool. The above groups are all the same.

The actions of those who do not know the difference between human society and monsters. The same goes for the grave sin (page 157). People are like Dr. Chet, Mr. Hyde. If they want to be high, they can rise to the sky, and if they want to fall, they can think that the abyss is not so deep.

Among the people who are worthy of the name of the great man, there are four groups of people. One is the great man's father and his son. In the lesson for the great man (letter 63), he reminds us of his father who taught us a moral principle by teaching us how to shoot birds. If we are strong, we should give equal opportunities to the weak and inferior before we compete. In the father's kindness (letter 238), he also says that he can be brave and live among people because of his father's teachings and training. Remembering the kindness of his father. He wrote a letter to his brother, Comrade Ko Aung Kha. With love, affection, and respect. Reading about Ko Tun Tin (b), who was the most influential person in politics and psychology, is like reading a love story. A love story for the motherland. Ko Tun Tin represents bravery. It represents self-sacrifice. Represents a visionary. A person worthy of writing a book of poems. Another is Boy Suk U Hla Gyi (page 84). A person who sacrifices like Doctor Myint Maung in "People Like You". A person who is academically complete as a teacher.

When we arrived at the medical school, I often remembered and missed the big blue cars that drove slowly along the 30th street in front of the school. We used to ride them when we went to the Ma Sung Cinema, the market, the Yerin Bookstore, the Win Lai Cinema, and the pagoda. The pagoda was the gate. If we ran out of the school and waved our hands, they would stop. We would go around Pyin Oo Lwin with these big blue cars and then turn around and drive back to Pyin Sa. The history of these big blue cars is only known from reading this book. We can see the role of the great grandson who was active in the big blue car club and shaped the club. We can see his cleverness and manipulation. We can see that a person with organizational experience, a person who has handled power and influence can forcefully push and pull people who are not as experienced as him on the path he wants. This also happens in every era. It is a strange but not uncommon phenomenon. The courage to fight with the blood of a great man and act bravely has paid off handsomely in my life as the chairman of the Blue Car Club.

Nyi Pu Lay is a good team player. Although he is writing in a biographical style, he does not have much to say, but he tries to say as much as he can. Some of the proverbs and expressions are beautiful and neat, even though they come from the mouths of ordinary people. Nyi Pu Lay carefully records these.

“Don’t eat at Maung Tha Mya’s restaurant. If you go to his restaurant, you won’t even have to eat pickled onions” (letter 32).

“The animals from Banaue have been destroyed. These animals have eaten onions like cows” (letter 32),

"The crocodile that bit the golden cock's-eye crocodile" (letter 37),

"For such matters, it is too much."