This article is also available in [Burmese] In a world of endless scrolling, loud algorithms, and fleeting social media posts, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to have a real conversation. The articles on this website are my finished thoughts. The photos and films are
This article is also available in [English] အဆုံးမရှိ scroll လုပ်နေရတဲ့၊ ကျယ်လောင်တဲ့ algorithm တွေနဲ့ ခဏတာပဲမြင်ရတဲ့ social media post တွေကြားက ကမ္ဘာကြီးမှာ၊ တကယ့်စစ်မှန်တဲ့စကားဝိုင်းတစ်ခုဆိုတာ ဘာ
8/8/2025. A day the red peacock flags flew in Parliament Square, central London. As a videographer/photographer, my job is simply to document, but what I see are the faces. The faces of the elders, the veterans, attending on behalf of the comrades who gave their lives in
၈/၈/၂၀၂၅။ လန်ဒန်မြို့လယ်က Parliament Square မှာ အနီရောင်ဒေါင်းအလံတွေလွင့်ပျံတဲ့နေ့။ ဗီဒီယို/ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာတစ်ဦးအနေနဲ့ ကျနော့်အလုပ်က မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရုံပါ၊ သို့သော်ကျနော် မျက်နှာတွ
This article is also available in [Burmese] "What is a scholarship? What does it include? What's required to be eligible? And under what conditions can it be taken away?" As the exchange rate climbs, every student faces increasing financial difficulty. Scholarships, which seem open to anyone,
"Scholarship ဆိုတာဘာလဲ၊ ဘာတွေပါဝင်တတ်လဲ၊ Eligible ဖြစ်ဖို့ ဘာတွေလိုအပ်လဲ၊ ဘယ်လိုအခြေအနေမျိုးမှာပြန်လည်ရုတ်သိမ်းနိုင်လဲ" ကျောင်းတက်မယ့်ဘယ်သူမဆို exchange rate တွေ တက်လာ
The article is also available in [Burmese] "What is a scholarship? What does it include? What's required to be eligible? And under what conditions can it be taken away?" As the exchange rate climbs, every student faces increasing financial difficulty. Scholarships, which seem open to anyone,
This article is also available in [English] ပြည်ပဆိုတာ သိပ်ကိုမလုံခြုံတဲ့နေရာ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုတွေပျက်စီးတဲ့နေရာလို့ အရင်ကအမြင်ရှိခဲ့ကြတယ်။ နောက်ပိုင်းကျတော့ အရာရာအဆင်ပြေမယ်လို့ယူ
This article is also available in [Burmese] In the past, "abroad" was seen through two extreme lenses. One was a place of moral decay and lost culture, a dangerous world for a young person. The other was a perfect, safe paradise where everyone is happy and free. As
This article is also available in [Burmese] Today, I have invited a friend to join us. He is a student who has successfully made the journey to the US. He's a bit older than me and grew up in the Myanmar school system, where he was forced to
ရန်ကုန်မှ နယူးယောက်သို့- OSSD ကျောင်းသားတစ်ဦး၏ US တွင် Nursing တက်ရောက်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လမ်းညွှန် (အင်တာဗျူး) This article is also available in [English] ဒီနေ့မှာတော့ ကျနော် သူငယ်ချင်
This article is also available in [English] "Diploma အကြောင်း၊ AP နဲ့ SAT အကြောင်း၊ ဘယ်အသက်ကစတက်လို့ရလဲ၊ ဘာ qualification လိုအပ်လဲ၊ အချိန်ဘယ်လောက်လိုလဲ၊ စာတွေသင်ရတာခက်လား၊ ဆရာဆရာမတွေအဆင်ပြေလား၊ ဘယ်နိုင်ငံတွ
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This article is also available in [Burmese] "What is the US Diploma? Who can join? How long does it take? Is it hard? And where can it take you?" The A-Level is widely known as a high school diploma that allows direct entry into the first year of
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This article is also available in [Burmese] For those who can afford it, most people going abroad to study go to countries like the US, Canada, and the UK. People do go to Europe, but it's a small number. Why don't people choose to go to
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This article is also available in [Burmese] ပြည်ပမှာ ကျောင်းတက်မယ့်သူတွေမှာ တတ်နိုင်တဲ့သူအများစုက US, Canada, UKစတဲ့နိုင်ငံတွေကိုသွားကြတယ်။ ဥရောပဘက်လည်းသွားတော့ သွားကြတယ်။ သို့ပေမယ့်နည်းတယ်။ ဘာ
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This atticle is also available in [Burmese] "For those who don't want to spend a lot of time, for those who want to save money, and for those who don't have the required qualifications—the path to studying abroad becomes difficult. It's mainly
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This article is also available in [English] "အချိန်အကုန်မခံချင်ကြတဲ့သူတွေ၊ ငွေကြေးချွေတာချင်တဲ့သူတွေ၊ နဂို qualification မပြည့်စုံတဲ့သူတွေအတွက် ကျောင်းတက်ဖို့ခက်ခဲလာတယ်။ အဓိကကတော့ငွေပေ
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This article is also available in [Burmese] The sky outside my window is beginning to turn from inky black to a soft, pre-dawn grey. The city is silent. It’s in these quiet moments that I often think about the sheer distance between this life and the one I left
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This article is also available in [English] ကျနော့်ပြတင်းပေါက်အပြင်ဘက်က ကောင်းကင်ဟာ မင်လိုမည်းနက်နေတဲ့အရောင်ကနေ နူးညံ့တဲ့ မိုးလင်းခါနီး မီးခိုးရောင်ဆီကို စတင်ပြောင်းလဲနေပါပြ
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This article is also available in [English] "ကြာချိန်၊ ကုန်ကျစရိတ်၊ ကျောင်း facility၊ major ရွေးချယ်မှု၊ ဆရာ၊ အလုပ်အကိုင်နဲ့ လစာကွာဟချက်တွေအကြောင်း" International School အများစု Grade 12 မှာပဲဆုံးသွားတဲ့အတွ
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This article is also available in [Burmese] "Examining the duration, costs, and critical differences in facilities, faculty, job prospects, and salary between the traditional pathway and local diploma routes." For students in Myanmar, the path after high school can be confusing. Most international schools only go up to
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This article is also available in [English] "ဘာမျှော်လင့်လို့ရမလဲ၊ Scholarship တွေနဲ့ ပြည်တွင်းက သင်တန်းကျောင်းတွေအကြောင်း၊ ကျောင်းသားတွေအတွက် ချင့်ချိန်စရာလေးတွေ၊ သတိထားစရာလေးတွေ" နိုင်ငံ
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This article is also available in [Burmese] "What can I expect? What's the truth about scholarships and local schools? And how do I handle consultants?" When you start thinking about studying abroad, the first things you see are educational webinars, seminars, and posts from consultants painting
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This article is also available in [Burmese] "The most important thing to bring? A photo, a keychain, any small object that carries the spirit of the people you love." The decision of what to pack is a strategic one, balancing three competing factors: your limited Baggage Allowance, your