ငယ္ငယ္ထဲကနင္းတာ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္တစ္သက္ပဲ။ ေနေတာ့ ေတာင္ဥကၠလာမွာ။ အလုပ္ဆင္းေတာ့ ဂုတ္တလိပ္။ မနက္ ၅နာရီေလာက္ထ နင္းတယ္။ နာရီ၀က္ေလာက္ေတာ့ နင္းရတယ္။ ျမန္ရင္ျမန္သလုိေပါ့။ ပုံမွန္က ေတာ့ အမ်ားဆုံးနင္းရ နာရီ၀က္ ေလးဆယ့္ငါးမနစ္ေပါ့။

စက္ဘီးစီးတာအာ႐ုံမေနာက္ဘူး။ ကိုယ္သြားခ်င္တဲ့ေနရာကုိေရာက္ ျပီး ဦးတည္ရာမ႐ိွသြားလို႕ရတယ္။ ကုိယ္ဘယ္ေနရာသြားသြား သြားလုိ႕ရတယ္။ ကားစီးတာၾကေတာ့ သူတုိ႕ကို တစ္နာရီ၊ ႏွစ္နာရီေလာက္ အခ်ိန္ေပေနရတယ္။ အာ႐ံုလည္းေနာက္တယ္။ ကားနဲ႕ဆုိ မီးပိြဳင့္မွာ ဟုိးေနာက္ကတန္းစီရတယ္။ စက္ဘီးနဲ႕ၾကေတာ့ ဟိုးေ႐ွ႕ေရာက္ေအာင္ေက်ာ္သြားလုိက္ျပီး ကိုကအရင္ဦးဆံုး အေ႐ွ႕က အရင္ေရာက္တယ္။

အရင္တုန္းကဆို ဒီသု၀ဏၰ ကြင္းေတာက္ေ႐ွာက္က ျပိဳင္ပြဲေတြၾကီးပဲ။ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႕ မစခင္ တစ္ရက္ေလာက္အလုိမွာ စျပိဳင္တယ္။ စက္ဘီးျပိဳင္ ပြဲေတြ၊ မာရသြန္ တာေ၀းျပိဳင္ပြဲေတြ႐ွိတယ္။ ျပိဳင္ပြဲေတြမွာေတာ့ တစ္ခါမွမျပိဳင္ ဘူးပါဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အေဖကသာ ျပိဳင္ဖူးတာ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အေဖက ငယ္ငယ္ ေလးထဲက ပဲခူးမုိင္ ၃၀ကုိ သူ႕သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႕ သူနင္းဖူးတယ္။ (စီးလာတဲ့ ေမာင္ျမန္မာဘီးကိုညႊန္းလ်က္) ဒီစက္ဘီးေတြကသူတို႕ အရင္တုန္းက ျပိဳင္ဘီး ေတြမ႐ွိတုန္းက သံုတာ။ ဒီေကာင္ေတြကိုေခါက္ျပီးေတာ့ ျပန္ခ်ိဳးျပီး ျပိဳင္ဘီးအ ျဖစ္သံုးတာ။ ကၽြဲေခါင္းတုိ႕၊ ႏြားေခါင္းတို႕ အဲ့လုိပုံစံၾကီးေတြ။ သူတုိ႕က ကိုယ္တိုင္ လုပ္တာ။ ဆိုင္ကေနသြားမမွာဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕က အခုမွသာ ဒီ handle ေတြကုိ ျပန္ေျပာင္းလုိက္တာ။ သူတို႕ဘီးေတြျပန္နင္း ပစၥည္းေတြျပန္ထည့္ေပး တာ ဒါေလာက္ပဲ။ သူတုိ႕တုန္းကဆုိ ဒီဟာေတြက အေကာက္ၾကီးေတြ။

စက္ဘီးကေတာ့ အခုေဆာင္းတြင္းပုိင္းက သက္ေတာင့္သက္သာ ေတာ့႐ိွတယ္။ ေျပာမယ့္သာေျပာတာ စက္ဘီးစီးရတာၾကေတာ့ ေလေကာင္း ေလသန္႕လည္းရ က်န္းမာေရးလည္းေကာင္းတယ္။ ခုလုိ အလုပ္လုပ္ျပီးသား အခ်ိန္္ ေသြးေတြကစုေနရာက စက္ဘီးျပန္္နင္းလိုက္ေတာ့ လည္ပတ္မႈ႐ိွသြား တယ္။ ေသြးလည္ပတ္မႈ႐ွိေတာ့ ေတာ္ယုံတန္ယုံခ်မ္းလားလို႕သြားေမးၾက

ည့္ အဲ့စက္ဘီးစီးတဲ့သူက ခ်မ္းမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းဆင္းေနတာေလ။ ေျခေထာက္က နားေနတာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ လက္ဆုိလည္း ဒီတိုင္းဘဲ handle ကိုဟုိ ယိမ္းလိုက္ဒီယိမ္းလိုက္နဲ႕ ဆုိေတာ့ လက္ေတြဘာေတြလည္း လႈပ္ေနရတယ္။ အဲ့ဒါေလးေတြက ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္တယ္။

၉၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၀၁၆

I bike since I was young. Actually my biking experience has been my age. I live at South Oakkalar township and work at Gote-Tha-Laik. I wake up at 5 o’ clock and bike. It usually takes half an hour. It depends on how fast I am. But usually it takes around thirty minutes average or forty- five minutes at maximum.

Biking does not need to be nervous. It can lead to your destiny while you can choose different paths. You can go wherever you want. On contrast, taking buses has to be spent one or two hour. It is also head-aching. You have to be in a long queue at the traffic light. Meanwhile, bikes can pass such a long queue and be ahead of cars.

In the former, there was a series of races at Thuwunna Stadium. The racing used to start the day before Independence Day. There are biking races and Marathon long distance running races. I haven’t ever joined a race although my father has joined. My father biked for thirty miles from Bago together with his friends. (dedicating Maung-Myanmar bike) This kind of bikes was used when there were no racing bikes. These bikes are folded and re-assembled as racing bike. The handle seems like head of bull. They made them by themselves without ordering from the shop. But these days we change the appearance of handle. At my father’s days, the handle used to be curve.

Biking is more comfortable at winter time. Well biking is healthy as well as making to get us some fresh air. After working for a long time, the stationary blood circuit turns circulate in a healthy way due to biking. Due to blood circulating, the biker gets warm and does not get cold easily. It is like an exercise, both the hands and legs are operating. It makes us to exercise.

9^th January 2016

Translated by Thu Zar Aung

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