Lao

On March 29, we went to the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. I was surprised to learn that my boss couldn't get into the office. She was told that she couldn't because she was wearing pants. She was supposed to wear traditional skirts.

Burma

I have been thinking a lot lately. If we have another Internet Service Provider (better than BaganNet, of course) or if BaganNet gives us the real Internet service (with ssh, ftp and no blocking), then I will dedicate my best efforts to make computer science program at BARS (MIT) the best CS program in Asia. Right now, I am really not happy with the Internet Service in Burma. Even here in Lao, the Internet is the real one (no blocking and ssh, telnet, ftp ports are open). The only problem is cost. The dialup service costs $120 a month. It's shockingly expensive. But at least, it's the real thing.

In Burma, dialup costs $28 a month. So it's a reasonalbe price. Why are they so afraid to give the real Internet to Burmese people? It doesn't make sense. Security is of course a problem but we have to go through that stage anyways. So why not now?

10 years from now, we will look back these security experiences and we will laugh at these. Even now, the kids are going to banned sites through proxy services.

I am repeating my cliche: Burma needs a change and it's now or we will live in stone age in the future.