Chain-smoking whisky drinker marks 100th birthday

ႀကီးမုိက္ေတေပ၊ သက္ဆုိးရွည္....

ဘုိးဘုိး အာသာလန္ဂရန္ ကေတာ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့အသက္ ၁၀၀ ၿပည္ ့ေမြးေန ့ကုိ အရက္အၿပင္းစားနဲ ့
ေဆးၿပင္းလိပ္ခဲၿပီးဆင္ႏႊဲခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

Arthur Langran celebrated his 100th birthday drinking pints of ale with his family and friends

တစ္သက္လံုး မနားတမ္းေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္သံုးခဲ ့သည္ ့အဘုိးတစ္ဦးကေတာ ့တစ္သက္တာ ေဆးလိပ္ေပါင္း
၃ သိန္းနီးပါး ဖြာရွဳိက္ခဲ ့ၿပီးေနာက္ အသက္ ၁၀၀ ၿပည္ ့ေၿမာက္ခဲ ့ၿပီၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ဘ၀မွာႀကမ္းႀကမ္းတမ္းတမ္းေနထုိင္ခဲ ့သည္ ့အဘုိး အာသာလန္ဂရန္ ဟာ အသက္ ၂၀ အရြယ္ကတည္းက
စလုိ ့တစ္ေန ့လွ်င္ စီးကရက္ ၁၀ လိပ္ အနည္းဆံုးေသာက္သံုးခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သားသမီးႏွစ္ေယာက္ ဖခင္အဘုိးဟာ စေကာ ့၀ီစကီအရက္ ကိုလည္း အိပ္ယာမ၀င္မွီ ညတုိင္းမပ်က္မကြက္
ေသာက္ပါေသးတယ္တဲ ့...
အဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံ၊ ဆပ္ဖုိ ့နယ္၊ ဘာရီစိန္ ့အက္မြန္ ့စ္ အရပ္က အဘုိးအာသာဟာ ၎ရဲ ့အသက္ ၁၀၀ ၿပည္ ့
ေမြးေန ့ကုိ ထုိေဒသက ဟင္တဲလ္စ္ရွန္ မွာ သားအငယ္ဆံုးၿဖစ္သူ အသက္ ၅၇ ႏွစ္ရွိ မစၥတာဂြ်န္ ဖြင္ ့လွစ္
ထားတဲ ့ The George အမည္ရွိ အရက္ဘားတစ္ခုမွာ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၈ ရက္ေန ့က မိသားစု
၀င္ေတြ၊ မိတ္ေဆြေတြနဲ ့အတူ ဘီယာအၿပင္းစားေသာက္ၿပီး က်င္းပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

" အဘုိးရဲ ့( အသက္ရွည္ရၿခင္း ) လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ခ်က္ကေတာ ့မလုပ္နဲ ့လို ့ဆုိတဲ ့အရာေတြ ( မေကာင္းတာမွန္
သမွ် ) ကုိ လုပ္တာပါပဲ..."  လို ့သူကဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
" အဘုိးက အသက္ ၂၀ ကတည္းကေဆးလိပ္စေသာက္ခဲ ့ၿပီး အခုအထိလည္းႀကဳိက္တုံးပါပဲ...ေဆးတံလည္း
ေသာက္တယ္...၀ီစကီလည္း ညတုိင္းအားေပးပါတယ္...
သတင္းစာဖတ္တာလည္းႏွစ္သက္ၿပီး စကားလံုးပေဟဠိ ေၿဖရတာလည္း၀ါသနာပါတယ္...ၿပီးေတာ ့သားအ
ငယ္ဆံုး ဂြ်န္ကုိလည္း ကူညီပါတယ္....( သူကအရက္ဆုိင္ပုိင္ရွင္ကုိး...) " လို ့အဘုိးကဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ဘ၀ဟာ သာယာခ်မ္းေၿမ ့ပါတယ္...ဘုရင္မႀကီးေက်းဇူးေတာ္ေႀကာင္ ့ထင္ပါရဲ ့...

Arthur puffing away while holding a portrait of the Queen

အဘုိးရဲ ့သားအႀကီးဆံုးၿဖစ္သူ အသက္ ၆၂ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိ ပီတာကေတာ ့ဆရာ၀န္ေတြက သူ ့ရဲ ့ဖခင္ကုိေဆး
လိပ္ဆက္ေသာက္ဖုိ ့ေၿပာခဲ ့တယ္လို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...
" အေဖက သူအသက္ ၂၀ ကတည္းကေဆးလိပ္ ေသာက္လားခဲ ့ၿပီး အခုေတာ ့ေဆးတံေသာက္တာသိပ္မ
ႀကာေသးဘူး..." လုိ  ့ထပ္ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
" အေဖဟာ သူကိုယ္တုိင္ေဆးလိပ္ေတြကိုတစ္ေန ့ငါးလိပ္ေၿခာက္လိပ္ေလာက္လိပ္ၿပီးေသာက္ေလ ့ရွိပါ
တယ္...ေနာက္ေတာ ့အေရအတြက္ပုိမ်ားလာလို ့နံနက္တစ္ခါ၊ ေန ့လည္တစ္ခါ ေဆးတံေသာက္ပါေသး
တယ္...ညတုိင္းလည္း ၀ီစကီေလးႀကိတ္ပါေသးတယ္...အခုလိုလုပ္ေနခဲ ့တာ အသက္ႀကီးလာမွပဲၿဖစ္ပါ
တယ္...
အေဖ ့ရဲ ့ဘ၀က ႀကမ္းတမ္းခဲ့ပါတယ္...သူဟာမိဘမဲ ့ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရၿပီး ကေနဒါမွာ အေတာ ့ကုိဆင္းဆင္းရဲရဲပင္
ပင္ပန္းပန္းေနထုိင္လုပ္ကုိင္ခဲ ့ရၿပီး စစ္အတြင္းတံုးကလည္း ဗံုးေပါက္ကဲြခံခဲ့ရပါေသးတယ္...

ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကေတာ ့ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္တာကုိ ၇ပ္ပစ္လည္းအက်ဴိးမထူးေတာ့ပါဘူးလို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...
ဒီေလာက္ေဆးလိပ္ေတြေသာက္ခဲ ့တာေတာင္မွ သူဟာက်န္းမာေနဆဲ၊ သြားသြားလာလာေနနုိင္ဆဲၿဖစ္ၿပီး
သူဆႏၵရွိတုိင္း အေပၚထပ္ကုိေတာင္ သူ ့ဘာသာတက္သြားေလ ့ရွိပါတယ္..." လို ့ဆက္ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အဘုိးအာသာကုိ မိဖမဲ ့၊ ၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္မဲ ့သူအၿဖစ္ေမြးခဲ ့ၿပီးကေနဒါ ကုိ အမ်ဴိးသားကေလးသူငယ္မ်ား
ေဂ ဟာမွပုိ ့လြႊတ္ခဲ ့လိုက္ၿပီး သူ ့အသက္ ၁၄ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကစၿပီး လယ္ထဲမွာလုပ္သားအၿဖစ္ စတင္အလုပ္
လုပ္ခဲ ့၇ပါတယ္...


သူ ့အသက္ ၃၀ အရြယ္ ၁၉၄၀ မွာ ၿဗိတိန္ၻကုိၿပန္လာခဲ ့ၿပီး စစ္ထဲ၀င္ကာ ဒုတိယကမာၻစစ္ပဲြအတြင္း ဟစ္တ
လာနဲ ့နာဇီေတြကုိ တုိက္ခုိက္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ထုိကာလမွာပဲ ဆပ္ဖုိ ့တပ္၇င္းကုိ ၀င္ေ၇ာက္ဖုိ ့စာ၇င္းေပးသြင္းခဲ ့ၿပီး သူ ့ဘ၀ရဲ ့ပထမဦးဆံုး စီးကရက္ ကုိ
စတင္ေသာက္သံုးခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
အဘုိးဟာ ဇနီးၿဖစ္သူ အုိင္ဗီ ႏွင့္လက္ထပ္ခဲ ့ၿပီး အဘြားကေတာ ့၂၀၀၀ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ဆုံးပါးသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အဲဒီအဘုိးကုိအတုယူၿပီးေတာ ့လိုုက္မေသာက္ေလနဲ ့ေနာ္...
သူကေတာ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့ခႏၶာကုိယ္ဖဲြ ့စည္းပံုက သန္မာလို ့အသက္ ၁၀၀အထိေနနုိင္ေပမယ္ ့ကိုယ္ ့အလွည္ ့က်
မွ ငယ္ငယ္ရြယ္ရြယ္နဲ ့ေသသြားနုိင္ပါတယ္...

A lifelong chain-smoker has celebrated reaching his 100th birthday - despite puffing his way through nearly 300,000 fags.
Hard-living Arthur Langran has smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day since the age of 20.The father-of-two also religiously drinks a dram of Macallan single malt Scotch whiskey every evening before getting into bed.
Arthur, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in Britain celebrated his 100th birthday drinking pints of ale with his family and friends at his local pub - The George - in Hintlesham, Suffolk, which is run by his youngest son John, 57 on Sept 8.
He said: "I always say the secret is doing things you’re not told to do."
"I have been smoking since I was 20 and I still enjoy it, and a pipe. I have a whiskey every night."
"I also like reading the papers and doing crosswords with the help of my son John."
Arthur’s eldest son Peter, 62, revealed that doctors have told his father to keep smoking.
He added: "Dad has smoked roll-ups since he was 20-years-old and more recently used a pipe."
"These days he rolls himself five or six a day but used to smoke more and has his pipe once in the morning and once in the afternoon."
"He has a small single malt whiskey every night. He’s been doing that ever since he was elderly."
"He’s had a tough old life. He was an orphan, had a terrible time living and working in Canada and was blown up by a grenade in the war."
"The doctor has said its not worth getting him to give up the cigarettes. He’s still in good health despite the smoking and still mobile and gets up stairs whenever he wants."Arthur was born an orphan and sent to Canada by National Children Homes when he was just 14 years old to work as a farmhand.He returned to Britain in 1940 when he was 30-years-old so he could join the Army and fight Hitler and the Nazis in the Second World War.It was also the same year that he smoked his first cigarette, shortly after signing up with the Suffolk Regiment.
He was married to Ivy who sadly died in 2000.

Source:swns.com