Graduation 2013; celebration of all the hard works

 16 May 2013.

The day I graduated from Singapore Polytechnics, Dilpoma in Human Resource Management with Psychology.

Three years have passed. Time to graduate and move on to another phase of life. Well, army.

Diploma award presentation, my moment of glory. Sorry reader, you have to tilt your head to see the picture clearly.

With Le family

 

With the flower from Toby!

My awesome CCOM - Media Relations Team! 

With Le boss of Department of Corp Comm.

It was definitely a proud moment for me. All these was made possible thanks to my Laobu, Empress Dowager aka my dear loving mother for all her sacrifices and her selfless love. Her love for me knows no bound despite constant quarrel and conflict. Thank you for everything Mom. :)

Thanks for everything Mother. :) 

What make me even prouder is that I am the first one in my family (both father and mother sides) to obtain a diploma or a proper education certificate. How awesome can it get. :) I did it! 

Along with this graduation, let me dedicate this to my dear father who passed away just a month before my graduation. 

"Hi father, I did it. I hope you can see your dear son and hope you will be proud of my achievement. I am happy that you are always proud of me and thanks for not forgetting me. Of course I am remorseful and regretted my actions towards you, like calling you by your name, not being there for you when you needed me, wasn't able to take good care of you when you were sick. But in the deep within, you know that I love you dad. Just that I was unable to bring it out. I always struggled between two families. My mom and your family. As much as I love you, mother needs me more than you ever were father. I am all what mother has and she is my world too. But father, you were loved by me too. I am so sorry that I wasn't able to spend a proper father and son quality time with you. 

I hope that you will be in a better place father. At least, you are free from complication of material world. You are free from sufferings in this world. I hope you will find a better place father. Wherever you are, just remember that I will always love you, as much as I love mother. You will always be remembered, because you are my father, and no one else is going to replace you father. 

I believe that my thoughts will be able to reach you, I believe you will be able to see it too. You will always be in my heart. 

Please look after your beloved ones father. And just to let you know, no matter how wicked, despicable and deceitful you-know-is, no matter what they think of me (as some asshole after your assets and inheritance) or what they did to me, I won't hate them. Trust me, your son is not a greedy person after, I don't really need any of them. I truly pity those people. You gotta be proud of your son's compassion. I am not being weak or softhearted, this show how strong I have become. You have to be proud of me at this.

Thank you for your gift of life and your kindness and your tender love. I am proud to be your son. You will always be missed father."

 Rest in Peace father. I hope that my graduation and me adorning this robe will be able to make you proud. Though, you were not able to see it while you were alive, I believe you would be feeling proud of your son wearing this robe. This is the only way I could ever repay you. Hope you can see this from the other realm.

My graduation has come to an end. Life moves on. Hi Army, please be good to me. 

Signing off. 

If we don't unite, who else will?

There has been reports on new wave of sectarian unrest in Myanmar. This news is not unusual to the people living in Myanmar.

So what's going on in Myanmar?

Fight. Unrest. Violence. All started by difference in religious practices.

There fighting between the Muslims and Buddhists has been for quite a while. Just when you think it is over, another scene broke out.

Just what went wrong?

I wish I know what went wrong but there were many rumors circulating around. All I could say is the Intolerance and lack of Unity among devotees of two religions in Myanmar.

I wouldn't dare blame anyone or make judgement on who is right and who is wrong. Because, it wouldn't be fair for both sides.

Knowing my fellow countrymen's character and their "A hti ma kan Shwe Pa Gan" or untouchable gold plate (literally) attitude, it will be hard to bring the situation under control and settle the things in amicable manner. But Keep Trying U Thein Sein (President) and Government. I believe you can do it.

So let's get back to topic.

Our country seriously lacking in Unity. Religious intolerance is becoming a norm in the country. To stir up, people taking advantage (in a bad way) of Internet to spread false rumor, be it true or false.

As a results, things turn BLOODY! WAY BLOODY THAN ANYONE CAN IMAGINE.

My point here is hey, We may be Buddhists, we may be Muslims. We may be followers of any other religions. But, we are ONE people. We are one country. We are a part of Myanmar. We stay in Myanmar, we drink the water provided by her, we eat the food that grown here. We live in ONE MYANMAR! We speak the same language.

So why are we so divided? Is there a need to be divided because of difference faiths?

I really hope that everyone will learn to live in harmony, regardless of race or religion.

The road to harmony is long, but, I know that the day will come. One day... til then, stay strong Myanmar, stay united fellow countrymen, regardless of who you are.

Because if we don't stay united, who else will?

Signing Off.