I’ll bring you back to year 2005. We were on holiday in Holland to visit my in laws. My father in law loves fish and eel. Not like me that just like eating fish, he also likes to fish and to catch eels. Close to his house there is a small creek.
Sometimes he put a fish net there. He put it in the evening and the next morning he went to see whether he got one. One day he got home with an eel and a small fish.
Anugerah, at that time 4 years old, was very interested in everything living in water.
Knowing this grand Pa called him and put the eel and fish in a bucket. Anugerah was so exciting that he could see an eel so close. He just sat and stared at them. But the poor small fish didn’t survived. Then Grand Pa took it and threw it away over the hedge. At that time Anugerah was inside the house. He needed to go to the toilet. 
He came back again to the bucket. He enjoyed watching the harvest of his Grand Pa. But then he noticed that the eel was alone in the bucket. Where is the fish? he asked me. I said, the fish is already dead so Grand Pa threw it away.
He started to cry and said that he wanted the fish back. Grand Pa came and said that he would catch another fish, bigger fish for him but to no luck. Anugerah kept crying.
Grumbling Grand Pa went outside to bush behind the hedge. It’s not an easy job to find a small fish between the leaves and branches. But finally and luckily he found it. He came back and threw the dead fish back in the bucket.
Anugerah was happy and continued staring at the bucket, although the fish lay upside down in the water. At least they were together.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Anugerah, the Eel and the Fish
Myanmar
Take The Myanmar Challenge!
Maybe you wonder why I just write this now. Yes, I know that the Nargis cyclone has already happened in May and now it’s July. But what has happened some time ago does not mean that it has already finished. Yes, the cyclone is not there anymore but a lot of the victims and survivors still suffer.
Many countries offered help to Myanmar as soon as the cyclone hit that country. We know that they got a lot of difficulties entering the country. The government is afraid that foreigners will find out their secrets. So their own interest is much more important that the safety of the people.
Nowadays we don’t hear a lot of this country again on the news even on the internet. Since my husband goes there for his work regularly I feel connected with Myanmar, although I have never been there. Maybe someday. I have read articles about the nature, their political life as well as the people. It has a beautiful nature, still green but pity no peace.
The cyclone in May is also a voice of nature. The nature is not dead. It’s too bad that the Myanmar’s government did not listen to this nature voice well. It is good that there are still people who did.
I spoke once to a worker of a big and famous bank in Holland. There was a problem with my husband’s credit card while he was in Myanmar. She did not know where Myanmar is. She asked me, is it near to Bali? I said, no. It’s a border of Thailand. Oh, is it Thailand? I’d cry if she still wouldn’t know where it is.
This is a challenge for all of us. You can’t say that you have nothing to do with it because you live miles away from Myanmar. As long as you live on this earth, you always have to do with everything happening in every place on this world. Let’s listen to this voice and take the challenge of Myanmar.
You can help them not just with money. You can let more and more people hear the Myanmar voice by spreading this link. Thank you for doing that. I am sure you got a good feeling after doing that. I did.
