Khin Hnin Yu - Rain in the Kya Forest

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Meeting with the doctor today has raised a new issue for me to consider.

This time, I'm not going to see you about the illness I'm suffering from. I'm going with another matter.

Last month, I went to visit my friend Ma Mya Phe. Ma Mya Phe and I were childhood friends, but we had nothing in common.

She was a woman like me. When we were young, when we reached the tenth grade, the teacher gave us one or two hundred problems to solve in numbers, arithmetic, mathematics, and geometry. Every week, when we checked how many students had solved, Ma Mya Phe was always satisfied with the teacher. When Ma Mya Phe had solved about a hundred problems, my friend and I had not yet solved twenty problems, and even though we were still young and had long hair, we had to stand on the bench. Just by watching her solve those problems, you could tell that Ma Mya Phe was not a woman who was lazy in her work. .

He and I were different in our math skills, but we lived together and ended up getting married.

Before we got married, every time I cooked a dish, he would pat my chest and say, “My dear… when will you be rich if you do this?” He would never waste a drop of oil where it shouldn’t be. He would often teach me how much oil to add to the oil and how much to add to the pickled vegetables. I would follow my custom…

'May God never let me have to think about how many pounds of oil, how many baskets of chili, how many chickens, how many years,' I prayed.

She is a woman of the right path, and I listen quietly as she teaches me.

At the end of the month, his account book had a detailed and neat record of his income, expenses, and savings. No extra expenses.

The dead are not in the book of the dead.

"Mother Yu...how do you want to spend it? Please keep a detailed list of your expenses." I often say.

"Because if I can show my husband that I am doing everything with a list and a check, he has nothing to blame. I can also manage my own marriage with ease..." .

“His method is correct. I listened to him. But I was too lazy to do the work for two and a half years. I had no passion for it. When I got a salary, I gave it to my mother or sister. Then I asked them for money. . . .

When Ma Mya Phe advised me to keep accurate records, I prayed again, as is my custom.

"May God never give you the same benefits as people who sit around and think about how much they will get in three or five years, knowing that they will get it."

I want to do my work within the time allotted to me | No matter what I do, in the rest of my personal time, I want to read the book I want to read as I please. I want to study the subject I want to study thoroughly. I want to sit and think about the ideas I want to think. .

I have innate habits, and I don't want to lose them even if I am punished before they become old. Lists, numbers, and numbers

I think of the time we spend together as a waste of time. However, sometimes I worry that if the man I meet is a man who is just a number, it will be a problem.

When we were young, we didn't have nylons yet, and the Padumma Mae Nyo was the most popular. After washing the Mae Nyo Padumma and putting it on the glue, Ma Mya would apply a little cassava powder glue and spread it on the skin and dry it.

I can still see the image of him, his hands shaking and shaking, while he was ironing. When he put on the padumma shirt, his skin was white and the thin padumma was flowing and flowing beautifully.

Before long... I can also count.

He is also very good at cooking. He is also very good at dressing himself.

Therefore, I mean a woman who is feminine and like a woman.

Before my mother passed away

"My daughter...she can't even reach the tip of her toes. She should imitate her a little bit."

Since I couldn't have a cook or maid at home, I tried my best to cook and wash clothes. But I was too lazy to do the math and the details.

And so my mother died. Ma Mya Phe and I got married and separated. I rarely visited Ma Mya Phe. I only listened to her news from afar. I didn't know what kind of husband she had, she chose her husband of her own free will. Ma Mya Phe also had no flaws to worry about. She was a woman with the qualities to lead a family. The man who married her would be very lucky.

I was the one who got married and prayed to the gods and goddesses. I still pray to the gods and goddesses. This is because I am afraid that my husband will force me to think about the ideas I want to have, and that he will be angry when I forget him while reading books because I am so interested.

The man who gets me must be unlucky. How can a man who gets a woman who has to eat rice cooked in a pot that is not good for the count and is not beautiful be called lucky? That is why I am still living in the presence of God.

"If my husband leaves me one day, he'll be so miserable..." I had to console myself.

When I met Ma Mya Phe three years ago, he said, "I'm so happy to see you..."

"Now that I've passed the exam, and the books have come out, people like your books too... I have

"I can't take the exam because only one child is born every year."

He even said he was worried about my life.

"It's okay... my friend... I can't have one child a year like you, but I have to produce one book a year..." I replied. Whenever I visited their house, Busukru and her daughters, who were named after flowers such as Kandaw Thant, Jasmee, Kyar Roan, and Katta, would come to me in droves.

"I've brought you a big one...Mom..." they called their mother who was in the kitchen. Then she said, "I'm not a woman who can raise even one child to be a woman." She felt sorry for herself. So when she met him, she was filled with joy and sorrow, and before long she had ten children. I had written ten books in total.

Ma Mya Phe was still working when she gave birth to her last child, and the other nine. She had a very easy pregnancy, and she worked, took time off, and gave birth to her tenth child. But when she had no one to look after her at home, she quit her job.

"I thought that in a family with nine children in Yangon... both father and mother had to work to make ends meet."

It's been two years since I last saw Ma Bei, but one day, when I met a friend on the bus, I found out that Ma Bei wanted to see me. I haven't been out of the house for a while now...it's been a while, and I only go to the city market once a month when I go shopping.

One day, I deliberately went to meet Ma Mya Phe.

Got it.

"I'm so sorry, Mother Yu...don't you remember that you still have one...he blamed me before we met."

"Don't worry... I remember. I don't even know how to go home, I'm happy to be alone, I'm miserable with my illness."

"Hey... I'll tell you again because you're upset. You're hot, but I also have a big stomachache."

"What..."

I didn't understand what he was saying. He pointed to his stomach.