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by Kenichi Kimura
I take a walk with my pet dog everyday. I usually walk a long the Yangon harbor beside Strand Road. For this is our daily routine, people who live near here know not only me but also my dog. Talkative Myanmar young men are coming chatting this and that. Some people know that the man accompanies the fat dog is a Japanese. I go for a long distance to make lovely "Yuu" be on a diet. Wi kept on going towards west of the river one day. When we got to the end of the harbor, I noticed that the Central Floating Hotel was no longer where it was. What a magnificent vessel her was! the vessel had been used as a hotel in the river after making some changes. I heard the hotel was closed on a day which I couldn't remember the date exactly. Near this hotel, there are very few cars. And so are those who take a walk. I can hardly see Chinese people who play Wushu near the hotel. Therefore, the road near the hotel is very quiet. I can still remember that there was such a hotel in Phanonpen in Cambodia when I went there four or five years ago. I used to go and see the vessel, floating hotel, where there was no one with my dog everyday. But, she has disappeared suddenly. Where she has gone ? The 100 meter long concrete band of the entrance road to the hotel from Strand Road has slidden in to the river. May be, it is because continuous heavy rain these days. Now environs of the floating hotel which was very busy in the past has become very quiet. Looking at that changing situation, I went back to my apartment with my pet dog under the ugly sky. © Kenichi Kimura |
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