Random Jottings(Part-2)

Random Jottings(Part-2)
Ah-yee Tsoe's Boiled Beans
အရီးစိုး ပဲျပဳတ္
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I was born in a small village in Myittha township of Kyaukse district in Mandalay Division, Upper Myanmar. Our village lies on the right of the old Rangoon-Mandalay trunk road, built by the British. Beside our village there is a cart track which comes from Tha-bye-daung village. It means the trunk road bisecting our village into two villages with the same name but belonging to different village tracts. Our half became Ywatha-Anauk-ywa and the other parts, Ywatha-Ashe-ywa meaning, Ywatha East and Ywatha West.
ကြၽန္ေတာ္က အညာေဒသ မႏၲေလးတိုင္း ေက်ာက္ဆည္ခ႐ိုင္၊ ျမစ္သားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ထဲက ရြာငယ္ကေလးမွာ ေမြးဖြားခဲ့သူျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၿဗိတိသ်ွအစိုးရက ေဖာက္လုပ္ေပးတဲ့ ရန္ကုန္-မႏၲေလး ကားလမ္းမႀကီးရဲ႕ ညာဖက္ေဘးမွာ လာဆံုတဲ့ သေျပေတာင္းရြာကလာတဲ့ လွည္းလမ္း႐ွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီလမ္းက ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ရြာကေလးကို ႏွစ္ျခမ္း ျခမ္းထားပါတယ္။ ရြာႏွစ္ရြာျဖစ္သြားေပမယ့္ နာမည္ကေတာ့ တစ္နာမည္ထဲပါ။ ေက်းရြာအုပ္စုလည္း တစ္ျခားစီပါပဲ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ နာမည္ကေတာ့ ရြာသာေ႐ွ႕ရြာနဲ႔ ရြာသာအေနာက္ရြာလို႔ ေခၚပါတယ္။

My recollections go back a long way - long before the Second World War (WWII). Ah-yee-Tsoe was the oldest person alive. She sold boiled beans. She never hawked her delicacy. It was special. People had to wait along her beat from very early morning, may be 5 a.m, 5:30, depending on the season - but certainly before sunrise, because she had to be in front of Kume Police Station before the first rays of the sun lit the sky blue. Policemen's wives wait silently by the road for her. All 26 of them were her regular customers. After serving them, she moves on into the village of In-byaa and on to Kume proper along her beat. By the time she reaches a ration store, it was about sun-toddy-palm-top as our locals used to say.
ဒုတိယကမာၻစစ္ႀကီးမတိုင္မီကာလအထိ ကြၽန္ေတာ္မွတ္မိသတိရေနပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ရြာမွာ အသက္အႀကီးဆံုးက အရီးစိုးပါ။ သူက ပဲျပဳတ္ေရာင္းတယ္။ သူ႔ပဲျပဳတ္ကို သူက ဘယ္ေတာ့မွေအာ္မေရာင္းဘူး။ စားခ်င္တဲ့သူေတြက သူေလ်ွာက္ၿပီးေရာင္းတဲ့လမ္းက ေစာင့္ၿပီးဝယ္ၾကရတယ္။ အေစာႀကီးေစာင့္ၿပီး ဝယ္ၾကရတယ္။ ငါးနာရီ၊ ငါးနာရီခြဲေလာက္ျဖစ္မွာေပါ့။ ရာသီလိုက္လို႔ပါပဲ။ ေနထြက္ခ်ိန္ေစာရင္ ေစာသလိုပဲေပါ့။ သူက ကူမဲဂတ္တဲေ႐ွ႕ကို ေနေရာင္ျခည္သမ္းလို႔ ေကာင္းကင္ျပာခ်ိန္အေရာက္သြားမွာကိုး။ ေစာမွျဖစ္မွာပါ။ အဲဒီမွာ ဂတ္တဲေ႐ွ႕လမ္းေပၚမွာ စီတန္းၿပီးေစာင့္ေနၾကတဲ့ ပုလိပ္သားဇနီးေတြ (၂၆)ေယာက္စလံုး တစ္ေယာက္မက်န္ပါပဲ။ သူတို႔ေလးေတြကိုေရာင္းၿပီးရင္ အင္းဖ်ားရြာထဲကေန တဆင့္ ကူမဲရြာႀကီးထဲ ဝင္ၿပီးေရာင္းတယ္။ ေနထန္းတစ္ဖ်ားမေရာက္ခင္ ကုန္စံုဆိုင္ေလးကို ေရာက္သြားပါတယ္။

To be continued...
ဆက္ရန္...

(Special thanks to U Than Pe - Tour Guide)
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