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“Trust the Process, Enjoy the Process”: Reflections from Three Months of Internship as a Mekong Development Intern at EarthRights International – Southeast Asia Office

    Let’s say it is the last week of the internship as a Mekong Development Intern under the Development Team. Since I decided to come back to Thailand, the whole period until now was a roller coaster ride. The first two months after coming back in Thailand, it was the most tiring days ever. There was not even a day that I went to bed without crying. The luck brought me in June. I decided to join the Project Cycle Management (PCM) and Training of Trainers (ToT) training for the alumni in Chiang Mai. Just two days before my departure to Chiang Mai, I had received an interview for the position of Mekong Development Intern. In the same day, I received an offer email for the position that made me relieved since I can at least have a reason to continue staying in Thailand. I decided to accept the offer with the condition I can join the PCM but not the ToT. After the three weeks of PCM in June, I started to officially work as a Mekong Development Intern in July, 2024. The two main responsibi
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Thank you for staying resilient

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  It has been 17 days I arrived Thailand. This is not the first time I look for jobs in Thailand. It has been one year and four months that I was looking for jobs in Thailand. Throughout the process, I learnt a lot. I learnt a lot about myself and I learnt a lot about other people. During this period, it is not that I did not get any jobs. I used to receive a job offer even before my thesis was done. However, I rejected the offer because I was only given 20000 Baht per month. When I finished my Master, it is really difficult to find a good job. I received some replies from the employers, however, got rejected in the first place for the reason that the company cannot employ foreigner according to Thai law and another reason is that I am not proficient in Thai language. After my Master in July, 2023, I went back to Myanmar. I had a plan to come back to Thailand at the end of December. However, I got a job offer to work at RWIO and worked there for six months. Then I moved back to Thailan
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Tragedy of Life

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  May be this is the time that I should stop getting back something in return from my job applications. Looking back at the story, it was since December 2022 that I had been looking for jobs. At first, I had been looking for jobs with good salaries so that I can build the house in Mrauk U. I keep looking for that without losing a piece of hope. I came back to Myanmar at the end of July, 2023 after finishing my thesis. My plan was to take a rest for a while, until the end of December, at home since I was too tired from my thesis writing and all the related stuffs. However, I got an offer from a local organization after one month at home to work at Sittwe for an emergency response project. I decided to accept the offer to stay with my sister and support her education since she would have to attend her second-year distance education in law in Sittwe and I also had to work there. Seems like a good choice! I enjoyed my work. I stepped into the very first management job. I enjoyed working th
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Personal Transformative Story with Jeff Satur

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It was June 23, 2022 that I first met the person, who transforms my life into a miracle. A miracle for my life, a miracle throughout my two years journey in Thailand. I met him for five times in one year outside. Every time I met him, I felt lucky. I auspiciously got the chance to meet him from quite a closed distance. Here is the story. One of my friends in AIT used to introduced me with the BL series named Kinn Porche the series. I started to watch it. Jeff played the role Kim in the series and he is not the main character there and his screen time is very few. His first appear in the series was in Ep 4 if I was not wrong and he did not even show his face at the time. Just seeing his back made me so interested about him. However, I was not into him that much at first but gradually and slowly I thought he was unconsciously in my mind all the time. One day, he appeared in my dream and I realized that omg, I became too much into him. You know what, the next
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An Unspoken Truth

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Once in lifetime, we have encounter at least one unexpected bittering moment. So do I. This is one of the most heartbreaking experiences of my life that I never wished to happen. I used to be a person who is very easy to trust people. I used to be the person who always try to give the best as possible as I can. I used to be the person who don't know much about a man. I used to be a person who don't know how to handle a relationship. I used to be a person who is not interested in others' people's affairs even in a relationship. All those things led me encounter a worst nightmare in my life. In February 2021, I met a person (will refer the person later) in Yangon who told he was studying Public Policy at Chiang Mai University. It has been three months I was coming back from Chiang Mai at that time. So, one of my collages introduced him to me at that time. I was not so interested about him at that time.                                                   photo - google  One
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A small piece of Hope

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Day "13" of Quarantine photo- internet Well........, it has been almost 13 days I arrived Thailand for the third time and the first time to Asian Institute of Technology. Of course, the Pandemic did not post an easy entrance to Thailand. Starting from the closure of Royal Thai Embassy and waiting for almost a month for the reopening of Embassy in Yangon to the process of doing quarantine for 14 days at the University was already proven my tough journey into Thailand. On the other side, nothing can stop my enthusiasm to come to Thailand to fulfill my long awaited dream of studying Master degree in the area which I really do want to explore. It is a long story to write about my enthusiasm here, so let me just leave that part. I will be coming to that part at some time. Do you think staying in an almost 18 sq meter room for two weeks is easy? I don't think so, but I do have much big problems. Sometimes I am just gazing at the big greeny trees from my balcony and wish to walk
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So Called "HOME"

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                                                           Photo: Asian Institue of Technology located in Pathum Thani From Sittwe to Pathum Thani   The journey was not as easy as it used to be when I was flying back and forth from Myanmar to Thailand in 2019. Everything was so easy at that time since the ERI helped us with everything starting from visa process including show money at the bank till buying air ticket for us. Everything was so smooth and sophisticated at that that. We did not need to worry anything about the travel process as well as how we were going to live in Chiang Mai. Of course, most importantly, there was not Covid 19 affecting around the world at that time.   On the other hand, the most recent arrival to Thailand for me was one of the hardest experiences in my entire life. The Covid was affecting all of the globe including Myanmar and Thiland which are being severely affected by the Covid increasing hundreds and thousands of deaths per day in sometime in both of
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