စိတ်ထဲရှိသမျှ

I have seen a whale only once. That was years ago in New Zealand. I had paid to see it, a sperm whale. I never saw its entire body, it was just the part that surfaced briefly before the dive. Despite feeling miserably seasick, I tried my best to capture the moment on my phone when our guide whispered that it was about to descend. I managed to record it: the tail lifting, arching gracefully, before disappearing into the vast ocean depths. When we finally returned to shore, I sat on the beach until the dizziness eased, and later sketched the whale’s tail in my journal. That remains

A LITTLE RUDENESS AND DISRESPECT CAN ELEVATE A MEANINGLESS INTERACTION TO A BATTLE OF WILLS AND ADD DRAMA TO AN OTHERWISE DULL DAY Even a small amount of rudeness or disrespect can change a simple, unimportant conversation into a conflict of egos (a “battle of wills”). This conflict can create tension and excitement, making an ordinary, boring day feel more dramatic. So, in short: It’s saying that

It was after six, late in the evening. I looked up at the sky and noticed a wisp of cloud drifting above. The sun had set, and the moon was already out, mingling with a ghostly wisp of cloud and slipping behind it. I walked wearily back home, feeling depressed, hopeless, and confused. As I walked, I couldn’t shake the weight of my thoughts. I had to make a change in my life. I had to leave this bloody country. There was no future here. This place could end up like Syria or any number of failed states. I was down, down to the bottom of the deepest ocean. I wanted a drink.

၂၀၀၉ ခုနှစ်ကစပြီး တောက်လျှောက် သုံးလာတဲ့ Facebook Account ဟာ “ဝေလငါးကြီးပဲ ဖြစ်ချင်တော့တယ်ဗျာ” လို့ လူတွေကို ပြောနေခဲ့တဲ့ နေ့မှာ locked ကျသွားတယ်။ အကြောင်းရင်းကလည်း ရှင်းပါတယ်။ Free VPN နဲ့ login တွေ ဝင်နေခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် location တွေဟာ မတူညီနိုင်ဘူးလေ။ Facebook Team က “due to unusual activities on your account and for security reasons” လို့ ပြောတယ်။ Account ကို unlock လုပ်ဖို့ သူတို့ပေးထားတဲ့ နည်းလမ်းက အရင်သုံးခဲ့တဲ့ phone သို့မဟုတ် computer နဲ့ ပြန်ဝင်ဖို့ပါ။ ကျွန်တော်လည်း the same computer နဲ့ browser ကို သုံးပြီး ပြန် login ဝင်တာပဲ။

I dreamt of Mikey last night. It seemed we were somewhere across the country, either in a liberated zone or on a battlefield. It was nighttime and we were in a building that appeared to be a massive warehouse with a thatched roof and some bamboo walls but it protected us from neither wind nor rain. There were many of us resting, each in our own mosquito net. I shared one with Mikey and lay next to him. I could feel the hardness of the ground and the dampness of the wet grass. Mikey was explaining to

By the time I found out that wearing red clothes today should be avoided, I was in a classroom, wearing a bright red football jersey both the inside and outside of which are red, so turning it inside out wasn’t an option either. Even the raincoat I have got is half red. The craziness did not stop with the red jersey and raincoat. The handle grips of my bicycle are red too. I was in a place where military personnel were swarmed and highly active. I thought I was doomed and couldn’t stop thinking about how to make it back home. The colour definition, or let's say symbolism,

For the first time in two weeks I felt like my prayer had finally been answered. I usually hate getting out of bed early in the morning, especially when it is raining. But today I had the pleasure of staying in bed for as long as I wanted. I took this rare opportunity with a cup of hot coffee, stayed under my blanket, and listened to the raindrops falling outside. It was a truly cozy feeling. And since the Buddhist Lent has started, I can only teach my nephew on Sundays, so today I had quite a bit of free time. I spent half of the day in bed, surfing the web, watching a few comedy clips on social media and YouTube. I also downloaded

ကုန်လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ 2009s နောက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကျနော်တို့ ဆယ်ကျော်သက်တွေအတွက် pen friends ထားတယ် ဆိုတာဟာ တစ်ခေတ်တစ်ခါရဲ့ trend တစ်ခုအဖြစ် ရှိခဲ့တယ်။ ကျနော်ရဲ့ pen friend ကတော့ Philippines ကပဲ။ သူက ကျနော်ထက် နှစ်နှစ်လောက် ငယ်မယ်။ ကျနော်တို့ email တွေအရှည်ကြီးရေးကြတယ်။ ပြောတဲ့အကြောင်းအရာတွေကတော့ အစုံပဲ — နေ့စဉ်ဘဝတွေအကြောင်း၊ သီချင်းနဲ့ပတ်သက်တဲ့အကြောင်း၊ ပွဲတော်ရက်တွေ၊ ကြည့်ဖြစ်တဲ့ရုပ်ရှင်တွေ၊ ဖတ်ဖြစ်တဲ့စာအုပ်တွေ စတဲ့ အကြောင်းအရာတွေပေါ့။ မိုးရာသီနေ့တစ်နေ့မှာ ကျနော် နာမည်လိပ်စာမူထားတဲ့ delivery တစ်ခုရောက်လာတယ် — DHL နဲ့ပို့

I woke up this morning with nostalgic feelings. I had a dream about my brother, whom I haven’t seen for almost 2 years. In the dream, I was visiting him in his room, but it looked completely different. It was more like a bamboo hut now and he was sharing it with a few people there. He looked fit and fine. I don’t even remember whether I was happy to see him or not, but we exchanged updates about our lives. Then I woke up. I missed him so much that I even texted him on Messenger, even though I knew I probably wouldn’t get a reply. In the morning, I did my laundry