MyAnmar (2009)

“Please help us”, the Moustache Brothers – Why systems like “fortresses” can open (Myanmar – Part 2)

In Part 1 of my thougths around “Digital Mindshift” in organisations and systems like “states”, I was writing about the “passive opening” of states due to the internet.
Although governments can regulate internet-accesses and information, inhabitants are learning behaviours like how to interact and are noticing, that the are other and “new” opportunities and ways of communication for them [...]

Digital Mindshift – Why systems like "fortresses" can open (Myanmar – Part 1)

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From Bangkok – Updateing from now on only on twitter/facebook

Everything is fine in BKK. Tomorrow morning I am going to leave in direction of Yangoon/Myanmar by plane. Looking forward to it very much.
I decided to give updates around my trip from now no only via twitter (http://www.twitter.com/sugarmelon) and on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546331583).
Just register there for getting in contact with me or reading my latet messages.
Looknig [...]

Myanmar Visum - I'm having it.

Myanmar Visum – I’m having it.

Last Friday I received my visum for Myanmar by post. Everything went smoothly – perfect. The visa itself consits out of a entry and stamp in my passport and three Din-A4-pages with entry- and exit-data on it.
At the moment I am worried about the situation in Thailand and Bangkok. As I am arriving in BKK [...]

Myanmar and the Visa

As Vienna has no Myanmar ambassy in Austria, I have to get my Visa at the embassy in Berlin.
I had to send

my passport,
the Visa-documents,
three passport-pictures,
an envelope with my adress and german stamps

to the embassy in Berlin. Beyond this, I had to

transfer the amount of 25 EUR for the Visa to an account in Germany.

The interesting [...]

MyAnmar - my journey to Myanmar in April/May 2009.

MyAnmar – my journey to Myanmar in April/May 2009.

I have just fixed the next journey and I am looking very much forward in visiting Myanmar for three weeks in April and May 2009. I booked a flight for about 540 EUR from Vienna to Bangkok via Dubai at www.checkfelix.com. Good price.
After India, Nepal, Vietnam, Thaliand, Cambodia it will be my 6th destination in [...]