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MMDT PY102: More than a course!

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  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...

“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 r...

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 Tha...

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.                      ...