myanmar awakes

i have obviously been out of the loop on the asia news front because one day i was reading an article on daw aung san suu kyi's 2 decade long house arrest, the next i was seeing her on a live video interview at the clinton initiative and the next i'm reading in the nytimes that hillary clinton is going to be going to myanmar (the first secretary of state in 50 years) and that san suu kyi was being allowed to rejoin the political system. 
myanmar has gone from dictatorship to fledgling democracy in less than a year, an extraordinary pace of change that no one would have predicted last year. all eyes watch while all fingers are crossed.