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Phoe Wa
Aug 2, 20214 min read
Hidden Treasures in Unexpected Places
Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia, has been, by all means poor, living under dictatorships and authoritarian strong men for well over...
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Phoe Wa
Jun 13, 20212 min read
We Salute You!
“For those about to rock, we saaaa-lute you! After experiencing the life of an irrigation engineer for more than 18 years, the Aussie...
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Phoe Wa
Jun 6, 20212 min read
DNA
Generally, the greatest regrets were in our failures in relationships. That one girl was quite strange. She came into my life, into my...
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Phoe Wa
Jun 4, 20212 min read
Friends Near and Far
I send all my loving kindness to you. I grew up in a country where there have been civil wars for over 60 years and still going on. Below...
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Phoe Wa
Jun 3, 20212 min read
It Takes Time
That is the process for everything in life. That is the truth of life as we know it and that can be a big clue for understanding what...
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Phoe Wa
May 29, 20214 min read
India, The Strong Man
India is so old. Counting from the time of the Vedas, its founding days were somewhere around 8 BCE. That was almost 10 millennia ago. It...
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Phoe Wa
May 25, 20213 min read
Books ...
Comic books and illustrated cartoon journals used to be my childhood friends, as it was always with the case of children of our...
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Phoe Wa
May 24, 20212 min read
Everybody Suffers ...
In history, when one society became an empire, some other societies would become their subjugated people. When one became mighty, that...
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Phoe Wa
May 23, 20213 min read
"Do not ask for whom the bell tolls .. "
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.' What goes around, comes around. That is the conventional wisdom that describes...
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Phoe Wa
May 15, 20212 min read
Greed, Passions, and Civilization
Dear God, I want to ask you something about 'Greed ' and 'Passion'. Every major religion teaches us about 'understandings',...
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Salim Yakubu Akko
May 13, 20215 min read
The Roles of Societies in Tackling Pandemics
[Editor's Note: Salim Yakubu Akko is a Nigerian essayist, poet, and writer, and our first guest contributor to this blog.] By Salim...
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Phoe Wa
May 11, 20212 min read
The Return of Poverty
The Return of Poverty [I first wrote and posted this in July of last year. Recently, the U.N released a statement that 3-4 million of our...
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Phoe Wa
May 7, 20212 min read
Art
“Burmese art is no great art, but it is so charming.” (This is a quote from a book on Burma.) Our country, Myanmar, was formerly known as...
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Phoe Wa
May 1, 20214 min read
Letting Things Go, Into the Belly of God
“If only,” 'What should have been,” and “I should not have done that,” are the three things that generally torture our mind the most. And...
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Phoe Wa
Apr 28, 20213 min read
The Good Points of Being ‘Not O.K’ in Life
Life is full of struggles they say. Looking back at our past events, life is all struggle, all chaos, all adventurous, all meaningless,...
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Phoe Wa
Apr 27, 20213 min read
"Why the Only Way Out is Through"
I am a man of 45. I have had a lot of things I have done right in my life, and naturally I have had a lot of things I did wrong, because...
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Phoe Wa
Apr 21, 20213 min read
English, Vinglish
Recorded human history began just from 4000 B.C and onward. That was 6,000 years ago, counting from now. According to historians and...
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Phoe Wa
Feb 6, 20212 min read
Winter Blues
My teenage dream was so simple. Regardless of any profession I would choose after my graduation, I wanted to be an owner of a small book...
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