Category: Experience

Contemporary Experience of current situation in Burma and Burmese

Diary in the Abyss (36) By Uncle Tu-me

Diary in the Abyss (36) By Uncle Tu-me Sunset in Troubled Times Dear Diary, Yesterday, a glimmer of hope arrived in the form of my friend’s family, who managed to escape the horrors of war in Lashio. They safely reached…

Diary in the Abyss (34) By Uncle Tu-me

Diary in the Abyss (34) By Uncle Tu-me Dear Diary, Last night, Yangon experienced an intense downpour, causing widespread flooding across the city. The steps of Shwedagon Pagoda turned into a makeshift waterfall, and many office workers who attempted to…

The Songs for Spring

(MoeMaKa) April, 24th, 2021In MoeMaKa’s first online forum on April 22, editor Khin Lun urged the audience to present photos and voices of generation-Z on Myanmar Spring Revolution. It is hoped that seeing and hearing the supportive voices of expatriate…

Time Does Not Fly (Junior Win)

Days passed so slowly. Passing days are the longest days for me. Longest second, longest minute, longest hour, longest day, and longest night I could never suffered more. Suffering is a very long moment. For me, time itself does not…

Junior Win – The Medicine Night

(The silver super moon we saw last night on the full moon day of Tahsaungtaing.) Families in Burma gathered in front of their door, all together looked at the full moon in the dark sky, waiting the time as the…

Junior Win – A Letter To My Grandmother; You Will Never Know What We Have Lost

(Grandma titled, ‘Will you ever know what you have lost?’ at the Working People’s Daily newspaper in the July of 1975 about the earthquake that destroyed the old pagodas of Pagan.) My grandma, Khin Myo Chit – writer of Colourful…

Kan Kaw Story by Junior Win

(Kan Kaw Story by Junior Win) I fell in love with Kankaw (Mesua Ferra) flowers when I saw them at the Sunlun Meditation monastery. They bloomed beautifully. There were three Thai Kankaw trees planted near Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya’s residence.…

Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries

(At Arts Assembly) Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries The conference has held at the Arts Assembly Hall of Yangon University, from December 4 th to 6 th .…

Goodbye book-buffet by Junior Win

In the first week of the December of this year 2015, I saw the advertisement of book-Buffet. It would held at Myanmar Book Centre for 3 days. In my experience, book-buffet was quite interesting for book lover. I remembered when…

Junior Win – Goodbye Logos Hope

(A Logos Hope at Alone Port)           From 3rd to 14th October of 2015, Logos Hope Books Ship (Good books for all) – a ship that was full of books – arrived Rangoon, Burma, at Alone International Port Terminal. It was a big…

Junior Win – A Day at the Monastery or Sayadaw U Vinaya’s 102th Birthday

  (Sayadaw U Vinaya’s venerable statue looks like a real Sayadaw looking at us.)         Today was the 30th of August 2015, the full moon day of Wah-khaung in Burmese calendar. It was the day Sayaday U Vinaya’s 102th birthday. The ceremony…