Mystery of Mra

  MMDT PY102: More than a course! A few days ago, I received certificate of achievement for the Data Structure course. This is my second course with MMDT. When I registered for the course, it is not because I know about Data Structure nor I really wanted to learn it. I just want to try new things since I almost felt like I lost the way to my career path. I got admitted to the course and in the first day of the class, I already knew this is too much for me since I am not from the engineering background, computer science background or natural science background, I only picked up programming language which is Python in 2025 and I am just slowly digesting the basics. Therefore, I made a goal in the first day of the class, which was to be able to finish the course which is already a lot to me since I knew how much it was going to be difficult for me to follow along the class week after week. The weekly quizzes are not the easy ones. But to actually follow along and studying alone was no...

    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 r...

  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 Tha...

  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 workin...

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...

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.                      ...

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...

                                                           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 ...

 Message to Myself Dear Chan Mra, You are growing day by day and I am glad  seeing that. However, There is one thing I would like to remind you. Please do not forget to take care of yourself. Please do not forget to invest in yourself. Please do not forget to give time for your happiness. Please do not forget to not trust in everyone. Lastly, Please do not forget to love yourself. Best, Your Dearest Self.

My First Impressions of Chiang Mai and the EarthRights School (ERS) EarthRights School taken at the second day of arriving Chiang Mai Everybody might have their first impressions when they reach new places or meet new people. The trip to Chiang Mai and the EarthRights school was the first ever flight and international trip throughout my life. Therefore, it made me experience new things and new people for my life especially, the Mitharsuu Centre Building, the staffs in the Centre and classmates of EarthRights School program 2019, and the environment of the Chiang Mai. When I first stepped my feet into the Mitharsuu Centre, I felt a very peaceful environment. A beautiful place which is full of various types of plants and trees made me breathe fresh and clean air. Moreover, the whole building is evocative when it is built eco-friendly because seeing this building took me back to an experience in the past where I had a training on environment in a mud bui...

Disruptions to Fishers' and Farmers' Livelihoods by Shwe Gas Project The Onshore Gas Terminal located in Prine Sate Kay village, Kyauk Phyu Township “We don’t want projects that will make our future disappear,” said a villager in Made Island. People in Kyauk Phyu township have long been suffering the impacts of Shwe Gas pipeline project since it was started in 2009. The livelihoods of fishers and farmers have been disrupted by Shwe Gas Project since farmers have faced land confiscation for the construction of pipelines and fishers have lost their fishing grounds and fishing nets resulting in decreased income leading to others social impacts such as children drooping out of the school and migration to others places to find for jobs. Farmers faced land grabbing from the government when the pipelines were constructed and some farmlands were destroyed by chemical and others kinds of waste from the pipeline construction. In consequence, people lost their farmlands which ...

 Who Creates Climate Change and Who Suffers?   When I was 19 in 2015, I experienced the most serious flood of my life in Mrauk U which is my hometown. The water level was increasing immediately and the flow of water was too strong, if you passed it, you can be floated with the water flow even if you can swim. Me and my sister were sent to neighbor's house from the highland area. My mom and dad were being busy with keeping the household accessories in the place where they thought the flood could not reach. There were a few boats in the flooded main road in front of our house. Here was the question that came up in my mind after flooding. What made this flood happened? At the age of 19 who was in the second year of University, I could not really figure out the answers for the question. However, I come to know gradually that flooding is that the problem that me, my family and my community has been facing. It is obviously a worldwide problem. There are some ...