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Why you don’t want to be a doctor?

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On May 21, 2016

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Everybody thinks being a doctor is a miracle and he can make big money and assume as noble career.

But, for me although I finished my study in medicine, I don’t want to be a doc anymore in Myanmar.

Seriously? Why?

I have some reasons that I don’t wanna do. Check out the following to know life of a doc in Myanmar.

Low Salary.

The official salary of a doc is about 2.5 lakh per month which is equivalent to 250 USD . If you open GP clinic by your own, maximum amount you can charge per a person is 2.5USD .I am saying about ordinary medical doctor not specialist level. Sometimes patients think 2.5 USD is too much for them and they want treatment with cheaper prices. Because of very low treatment fees, most of doctors who are not descendent from wealthy family choose other high salary jobs such as product specialists in pharmaceutical companies, project officer in NGO, medical doctor in private hospitals and so on. Although they still want to study more and want to be a consultant , there are many bars limiting them to be so. Government salaries is the lowest but it can give you an opportunity to obtain a master degree. Therefore, young doctors always want to be government servants regardless of low payment and high workload. But, they can not survive with their salary alone , their families need to support them or find an alternative incomes by opening GP clinic and some other works. In some countries , though monthly salary is not very high, other social welfare services are still supporting to ease the life of government stuffs.

 

High Workload

Shortage of medical professionals are countrywide crisis in current Myanmar. Former government produced large amount of doctors and nurses in previous decades. But , the government can not hire all those produced medical professions to assign in their vacant positions. Therefore, unemployed doctors nurses and doctors are queuing to answer civil service exam while few number of doctors and nurses are running the hospitals with their uttermost efforts. In a recent years, government conducted  free healthcare services in hospitals . As a consequence, the more patients went to hospitals . Free services hospital can provide and quantity of patients needed to care always imbalance. As far as I know , hospitals should take responsibilities for every patients they are able to care. But now, primary and secondary centers are always referring patients to tertiary centers. Some of the patients are not even need to admit in tertiary hospitals. That’s why, hospitals in cities are always a crowded place. No matter what the government is developing more and more building , hospitals can not offer satisfactory care to that patients. So , in Myanmar to get a tender loving care from a doctor is like a miracle of a patient . That’s because of high workload of doctors ,they  can not give sufficient amount of time to look after patients.

 

Competitive

 

The world is a competitive place .Yes, I understand. Doctors also want to get promotion which can make them breathable in daily struggling . There is two way to choose for doctors if you have been graduated from college. First , will you join civil service or will you answer oversea medical exams and work independently in foreign countries ?

Yes, to answer civil service exam, you need to have generage knowledge about current governments .

In my own opinion, the exam held for doctors are not quite fair. Most of the questions asked in civil service entrance exam are nonsense and nothing related to the doctor career like which bridge in Myanmar is longest ? answer the speech delivered by president in which events ? list the name of leaders in which countries? And so on. So, doctors have to attend tutions to know all these kind of questions. In my personal experience, the smartest student in medical school can even fail in that exam while the dumbest one can pass easily.  That’s why I am saying the exam is not fair.

You have to pass through if you want to be a government doctor. Another step is 4 month training in central government servant training school. They have to do exercise , carry guns and practice to shoot and listen boring lectures which are just propaganda. It’s more like a soft military training.

If you successfully overcome these steps ,you officially became government doctor , that’s why you have to go to place you are being assigned.  You still have to wait another year to sit entrance test of master class. Most of the doctors failed in first time because few candidates are selected from many doctors . It also depends on the subjects you choose. Some peripheral subjects are less popular and you are easy to win while popular subjects like medicine and OG have less chance to pass.

Another way apart from government staff is answering oversea medical exams like MRCP, MRCS etc.

It is also not an easy way also. You need to have sufficient amount of money to have a chance to answer these exams. Tution and exam fees are very expensive of an ordinary doctor descendent from middle class family. Total cost might even reach 5000 USD for one attempt. If you failed in that exam, all the money lost. That’s why you need to be qualified before you answer that examinations. That’s why these oversea exams are like for doctors with rich family background . Meanwhile ordinary doctors who needed to support families are opening GP or work in high salary NGOs and pharmaceutical companies .

 

I will continue to write this article…

Let me stop here.

 

Arthur Chan

 

In a dialysis center and a lone ranger.

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On May 20, 2016

In Blog, English, My Story

Hello.

This is Arthur.

I am writing this note in my bed via zenbook.

You know , today is May 20 and the rain was fallen around the city.

It can cooled down the city which has been heated for a month.

I was working temporarily in Sangh Hospital ,dialysis unit.

Actually I could not really work in dialysis center . Because , I have never been assigned in renal ward when I internship in hospitals and I am currently not practicing medicine either.

All I interested to do is working computer related work. But ,my father is also in board members of Sangha Hospital and they are needing doctor to start running dialysis unit. So, I involved as a medical doctor. Most of the dialysis work are done by senior nurses who are working in Singapore hospitals. And there is a nephrologist who has worked in UK for many years.

Therefore, their procedures and methods are really standardized and even hard to follow for local trained ones. I have seen patient relying on our dialysis unit for their daily living .

A patient even sold his house in mandalay and eventually moved to pyinmana and decided to stay here. So, it is really getting important to sustain the dialysis center for these patients.

We have a staff shortage . Well trained nurses are involved in major roles dialysis process. Because caring patient , operating dialysis machines, and sterilizing are processed by them. Doctors are not included in that process. Doctor role is only in case of giving emergency management to patient.

Sadly , I can not give that management.  Since after 2013, my brain was only trained for IT things.

I could not think about patient management and even forgot what I have learned.

According to the decision of board members, salaries for doctors and nurses are even increased.

We are recruiting staffs to sustain dialysis center. But , it is more difficult than we have imagined.

Most of the people don’t want to work in our town . I am afraid of failing this very startup dialysis unit .

It was the kind of the first non-profit dialysis center in Myanmar and we are offering dialysis with very affordable prices. I am seeing happy faces of patients. I don’t want to lose their hopes.

But , I don’t know how to help. Our dialysis center is like a pilot project and if the first step was successful , they have plan to spread out dialysis centers across the country.

I have nothing to give except my time .

I am not rich, I have no money , no job.

But, still thinking to help as I can.

Most of the people my age are working for money and so what they are richer than me.

Everybody says working for money is not good and meanwhile they are working for that money.

And for me , I am not fitted in anywhere. I always feel like I am lost or may be I haven’t found something I belongs.

But I don’t understand why people are thinking I have incomes and so I am not worried for anything.

Actually it was not .I practiced myself to live without money. I always wanted to do I love.

I have big dreams like other guyz who want to change this world. Still not impossible…

I want to live not worrying about money by doing works I love.

Sorry for the last paragraph. My fingers are obeying what my mind says and so they are typing to catch the words inside my head.

There is no filter between my head and my typing.

Thanks for reading this note. If this writing included grammar and spelling errors ,plz forgive me that I am not native English speaker nor very good at it.

I will keep writing on this blog every time I have thoughts to say.

And I bought a new notebook which is very good to write essays. Hopefully I will be using this to write more and more.

Thank you and Good Night.

It is 11:46Pm here.

Nyein Chan Ko Ko( Arthur Chan)

Naypyidaw

Myanmar.

A rookie web developer

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On May 3, 2016

In Blog, English, Tech

I am developing a website project for the first time. I only had experience in building blog and writing .Perhaps, I considered too shallow. The real work I am confronting is harder than I expected.

Starting from building local server and installed WordPress on wamp. Finding themes and plugins were all big challenges for me. I thought  if  I downloaded my favorite theme into word press , all the contents will automatically be appeared.

In reality, my imagination was totally wrong. It was not that easy to develop a pro like website without prior knowledge on web developing . Even though you can skip all coding steps with wizard tools  these days, we should have known the basic structure of widgets and page builder to construct webpages.

Actually, I didn’t even know that there were various page builders to make beautiful pages.

The sketch of webpage was already being seen in my mind but I could not find perfect tools to shape my imagination into graphic content.

I spent my whole day to work on website project. Not having complete data is also a head aching part of me. I think it is even more difficult than making mobile apps .

This was just the phase of developing pages. Uploading on server is also a battlefield. Everything started from zero. I started from zero knowledge.

I had to buy domain name and hire server to host website. I haven’t seen my payment until now.

Actually, I am discouraged and upset. I was investing my time, learning, computer, internet fee in this project.

My computer is almost dead. She is running too slow and internet is even slower than snail.

These all are challenges while I am developing website as a rookie.

But,this is the work I accepted, so I have to finish it.

There is no reason to be weeping around. I just write it down how did I feel during work.

 

March notes

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On March 24, 2016

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As the end of March is closed, I have to finish up my tasks asap.
There are projects i need to wrap up during this month.
The one is mobile app and another one is website.
And then,there is another personal affair i need to do myself.
I have to release an android horoscope app for this year ,2016 but haven’t touched any work yet.
I have to retype all the hard copies to online publishable soft copies.
Since i was alone all the time, i have no spare person to do for me.
Although i hired some people for typing, it didn’t significantly reduce my workload.
They are so annoying and always complaint.
Only 35% of typing was finished.
And i am thinking and thinking how to redesign this year app.
Actually , i don’t want to use previous one though it was really beautiful.
I have some limitations in developing the design i really want.
This time I want to convert some of offline contents to available online only.
Because, the income i generated from app had reduced when i released with offline version.
They didn’t need to open internet to read contents,  no internet no ads and no ads no money.
But,switching from offline to online is not too easy to me.
Firstly, i need to find the concept ,then need to consider about font issue, screen number, file size, ans duration to develop it.
I am so messed up now.
Don’t get any fresh idea to do so.
Another website project i accepted to do was also need to finish .
I still don’t know how to upload to server. I need to ask my fri, web developer.I thought that he would be helping me during developent.
But, he was busy with his own affairs and I did it myself by researching on google.

My fris , my best mates near me can’t really help.
I am all alone doing these work.

Sometimes sad, sometimes lonely, sometimes i need a warm hug.
Sometimes i need somebody to tightly hug.

I am a leo who is stubborn,arrogant and agressive.

Sometimes, i am a weak cat lying on the floor hoping nothing but love.

Wake me up

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On March 9, 2016

In Blog, English

I have challenged to myself to write an essay a day to sustain and improve my English writing skill.

Since I left from high school, my formal English study was over. I didn’t have chance to learn as other students during my summer holidays.

So, all the capacity I belonged was far lower than ordinary well trained student.

When I was in school, my English teacher only emphasized me on teaching grammar and phonetics.

May be I was good in reading but listening, writing and speaking skills were horrible.

And then, I had an opportunity to study in one of institute of medicines. Most people assume the stereotype of medical students as they are good in English. But in reality, there are many students like me in school. If my assumption was wrong, maybe I was the only black sheep back there. 😀

Therefore, I had difficulty to learn medical subject when I met with all English based teaching. I could not even construct a sentence properly.

But fortunately for me, the school teacher didn’t focus on grammar and sentence construction. I could even write without a sentence just note.

If the meaning of procedure or mechanisms were able to explained correctly,still so far so good for a student.

So, I went drifting along like that in school. Because of continuous reading day by day and started researching on internet, that experience helped me to improve my English somehow. The main benefit I gained was started from listening English songs and watching English movie with English subtitles.

I could not catch up the subtitle as first, it was still too fast for me. But when there were no movies or series with Myanmar subtitle, I had no choice to watch my fav movies with English sub.

For the speaking and reading, practicing on facebook and blog also helped me to improve. When I saw my written post on facebook back in that time, I even embarrassed myself, terrible writing with many grammar mistakes. Anyway, I hoped my writing became better than old times.

I am still trying to improve my skill because I know myself I am not good in English and I want to be the one like Daw Aung San Su Kyi who is great in both English and Burmese. I have a dream to study in western countries, to reach that far I must find a way to get out of my shell which is too conservative and I don’t fit in here. Hope that dream will come true before I am older.

Adeus Amigo

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On March 9, 2016

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Some people said that first love is difficult to forget. Yes, it may be right. Let’s get into more details. In which age did you meet with your first love? For me, I don’t know exactly. Crush and first love are all the same? If so, can I count my crush girls on this list? If not, I must say that I found my first love in first year of university . I will never get that feeling again. It was a first day of chemistry class. I was a little anxious in strange environment , Unfamiliar students, teachers and a laboratory. Some students were talking each other. May be they were already friends before. Some were sitting alone and observing carefully on new environment. Some were looking up on books and I didn’t know what to do. After keeping my backpack in a case at the corner of lab room entrance, I walked to my seat . My role number was 411. There were 6seats facing one another in eache table where Bickers and test tubes were standing. My seat was in middle beteen two seats. When I found my number, a girl was sitting blocked on my way. She was on my next seat. I got a trouble. I was hesitated to start a conversation with girls. There was no other choice except to speak out her to get into my place. Actually, she was talking to her fris ,so she couldn’t pay attention me. I raised my voice and speak loudly to her. “Can you give me my way, I want to get inside.” She cuted her conversation and turned to me and moved her seat to make a way for me. When i sat on my seat, I was trying not to face with her. At a glance , I noticed that she was a cute girl . I didn’t have any friends to chat. May be I was not good in finding new friends. She was still speaking to her another friend. Soon after I was sitting on my seat, lecture begun. Lecture was about titration and chemistry equations. my first day was not very a tough day except having a little difficulty to note down the lectures. Two students were being have to cooperate for chemistry practical. Me and that girl next seat had to practice together. I had slow hand writing .So, I can not finish in time. She said me to start practical and she will finish writing. So I started practical alone. I was usually a weird boy among my friends in high school.It was the first time a stranger helped me and gave me a favour. My class year started with a fortunate day. She was my angel. She was the one who gave me light. She was the one who let me know the meaning of university life. She was my good friend and first love.

If I have a time machine, I really want to go back to the very first day to greet my very first love. But now, Adeus Amigo. Today is her BD.

Wish You have a happy life.

Pre Conference Works

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On March 4, 2016

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This essay is behind the scene stories while we are preparing for an international conference in Myanmar.

I have already written brief explanation about our conference.
This time I am going to write how’d we manage to celebrate it successfully.
In August 2015, when we handover-ed all the tasks related with youth from secretariat office, the first challenge we encountered was calling scholarships.
Until that time, scholarship applications we received was just two.
We had to offer 25 scholarships from Asia Pacific and 25 from Myanmar.
The deadline was on August 31st.
So, we were sure that we could not get enough scholarship applications in time before August 31st.
We decided to move the deadline one month behind.
During one month period, we hoped to receive more than 100 applications to screen out to 50 total.
And then, we promote scholarship news in every possible ways, by disseminating pamphlets, advertising on facebook, sharing to RH community, NGOs and universities. Our scholarship chair went to British council and American Center to share scholarship news.
He had to explain very hard to make students understand what the conference was about and what kind of scholarship we offered.
But, unfortunately ,non of students from BC and AC applied scholarship.
Anyway, the result was satisfactory.
We could see the progress of applications received day by day. Most of the applications came from oversea. Few applications from Myanmar were still received. So, we targeted to more Myanmar youths by advertising from facebook page .
Many of my friends from school also applied scholarships.
Although deadline we set was on 30th September, we had to extend again with the permission from convener.
Another one week was extended.
We got a lot of applications during extended period.
The total number of applications we received was more than 300 for 50 post .
That was a lot of workload to screen out .
from 2 to over 300 in 5 weeks, that was amazing. We already set marking criteria to screen scholars .
But due to the limitation of human resources to screen every essays, we had to move scholar announced date to one week behind.
We also selected scholars from pacific islands.
Actually, we didn’t consider much for their airfares and visa difficulties.Scholars from more remote islands might encounter more difficulties to reach Myanmar. Later the announcement, we faced so many difficulties to arrange trip for scholars.
Some of the scholars didn’t contact again after they have chosen, some of them could not attend , some of them had financial problem to buy tickets before we reimbursed them later.
One of our members even tried to buy tickets with her own personal credit cards to bring them in here. But, we could not overcome every challenges.
If the scholars could pay for themselves , that was ok to reimburse though we could not arrange from our side.
Another one we got shocked just one day ahead to conference was one of our scholars from pacific was stuck in Singapore airport to come to Myanmar.
He said he didn’t have any visa , coz he have to apply VOA in our airport, and Singapore airline didn’t allow him to be on board. Our organizers had to call for hep from Myanmar embassy in Singapore to meet with him at the airport. Finally, he arrived safely in our Naypyitaw international airport.
We were so happy .
Most of the scholars didn’t have direct flight to Naypyitaw because there were few flights landed and no regular schedule at all.
They had to wait for transit in yangon international airport.
Fortunately , there were liaison officers who could help them as soon as they arrived.
During that days, we youth organizers were also preparing at MMCWA HQ for conference.
They were arriving in Napyitaw one week a head before conference.
Some of us had to find items  around Naypyitaw to use in conference and youth garden . Some of us did logistic works.
Some of us did technical works especially to produce youth recommendation and to run smoothly youth marketplace and plenary session.
We worked together all days long till night .
Some of us got even sick and being hospitalized for having diarrhea.
The most memorable time for me, and i am sure it will also be the same for them.
I have yet to write more , but plz stop me in here.
It’s almost 12 :00 and i need to sleep now.
Thank you for reading my bad english.

Arthur

4.3.2016
(11:28 PM)

The end of vague road.

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On March 3, 2016

In Blog, English

I was being stuck in Naypyitaw for more than 3 years since 2013. Good thing is I learned a lot while i lived here with my family.

I met many people with different colors from different layers. The life is not as simple as back in the school.
This is the life I wanted to see. Though I can not be stable till now, the lessons and experience I learned from people are even previous more than my imagination.
I didn’t know where would I be before I finished my study. Get a bachelor degree, join to civil service and study hard for master and doctorate degrees.
Life is too mainstream and boring for me. I didn’t have any inspiration from the choices my friend tended to do.
So , unstable , even a jobless life is anyhow better than being stacked in one unsatisfied job. Money is essential . That’s right.  I can not always think about money  though I was broke, sometimes I didn’t have any income.
I even feel desperate ,depress when my fris got high salary and they can stand on their own feet.
Sometimes, I wonder what is more important for me? Its fine and not that hard (I hope so) to get a job for me.
I just didn’t want it. Because, I loved independent life. I didn’t want to restrict my abilities  with one specific task.
That’s a problem for me. I want to make my own money not dependent on any visible sources.
My belief and attitude is that  I will never make money from someone’s tears.
In Myanmar, making money is easy if you don’t care about business attitude and ethic. If you really care and consider for everything , your opponents will pass over you with no hesitation.
My country ,Myanmar needs a lot of reform. She needs technicians, scholars ,leaders and experts from different fields.
But, there is a problem here.
Not every technicians and scholars didn’t get their  right  such as facilities, money ,jobs and roles.
 I have seen smart technicians who could not show their talents. People, who only needed to care about development, research, and helping the human world to be a better place , are struggling not only for their respective field development but also for their own surviving.
They can not survive and concentrate on their tasks if they don’t get their right .
Like doctors.
Their salary is very low. Continuous working hours. And competition  is high.They don’t get enough money for their living.
Their degree is just like a JOKE.
Therefore, they forgot most of the ethics studied in school and only make money.
Some young doctors tend to keep ethic while practicing medicine.
But, what they gained was not respect , just patients run away from them.
Finally, they have to follow the patients’ desire even though they are opposite to the ethic they belief.
What’s the point here?
They have to care too much upon money instead of having strong ethic .
This problem is just my opinion while I tried to work as general practitioner after my studied.
I could not do it because I can not follow patient’s wishes if my procedure will harm to them.
I wished from the very beginning to have enough money for living to take care of social development,research and all other things I wanted to do as
a young man.
But, for now all I possess are not money ,but opportunity.
The road I have to walk is still vague. My god of fortunate is absent her duty to give me a light way out of this darkness.

The conference we organized

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On March 2, 2016

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It all started with unexpected trip to Manila in 2014 January.

I was one of the youth volunteers from MMCWA(Myanmar Maternal and Child  Welfare Association). Before that time,I have decided myself that I won’t be volunteered again in MMCWA . Because, I was really frustrated with the terms and works I have no passion. It’s all about SRHR.
But the office called me in one fine morning of January and asked whether can I go to Manila or not. I agreed that I will.
Because , that time was with other youths .Therefore, that would be very enjoyable.
I didn’t know that the one I had to go was a conference and MMCWA will organize for next conference. So, I didn’t prepare anything.
Other youths are scholars from MMCWA. They had to submit assignments ,essays and  attend online training courses to go that conference.
I heard that IPPF organization will sponsor for me .They will reimburse all my airfares and accommodation fees at the conference.
So, the trip was begun.
When I reached to Manila, as I was not a scholar, I didn’t have to join scholar night and not getting any things scholars had.
I spent most of my time in the MMCWA booth. Anyway, I had learn a little bit about international conference and got many Filipino friends.
They are all expecting for 8th APCRSHR.
We were back in Myanmar and the meetings for conference began. Secretariat office was not well formed. I was part of youth committee but didn’t really know what my role was.
In August 2014, secretariat office was opened with programme manager and one programme officer. I was the first programme officer who worked in 8th APCRSHR secretariat office. My tasks were really hard to explain .
It all started from typing ,sending and replying emails, preparing power points, arranging flights, collecting data to build website,etc.
I was like coordinator in every tasks.
4 months working in secretariat office was the most difficult time for me.
I couldn’t even eat my lunch .  I could not relax myself on weekends. Salary i got was not that high and the most importantly, It was not happy environment for me.
I was afraid to make mistake. All the people I communicate were technical experts and senior consultant from respective fields.
Therefore, I had to be extremely careful on every single word I wrote .
That stress was enormous and I could not come over it. Actually, I didn’t have anyone to teach me how to handle that kind of office tasks. The reason I accepted the job was to gain experience and knowledge. Not for being scolded for mistaking spelling.
I could not show my real capability and talent. So , finally I resigned from that work and rested for many months. Didn’t even involve in any of youth activities .
After a couple of weeks had passed, the office sent me an invitation letter to attend an anniversary.
I didn’t have any idea to go there again.
But, one of my friends  who is also a youth rep for 8th APCRSHR asked me to attend the meeting.
I think that time was during MMCWA 25th Anniversary. I was so pleased that they were still using my designs to print out tshirt, and bags.
At the anniversary of MMCWA, they also called up youths from states and regions for capacity building . I knew that they could not be useful for conference but I didn’t express my opinion anyhow ( lesson learned from past experience).
They told me to facilitate in their youth capacity building trainings. Facilitating ? I didn’t know even know what it is. It was just terminology.
I was not real facilitator. But, as a good point,  I saw that MMCWA wanted  youths to lead youth conference . They were finding an able,smart person to do it. Youth steering committee was formed with other member before I involved again in YSC . But, they could not give their time and interest for many reasons. So ,there was nothing youth did for conference.
In July 2015, another capacity building training was held in Yangon. I saw many strange faces from many organizations.
It was more colorful than before. Some youths possessed talents to organize a conference. The one thing  I wanted from them was their commitment.
Though they all came here to attend training, they didn’t really see their responsibility.
On the final day of training, they partially knew what they were called for there and gave training.
In August 2015, youth international steering committee meeting was going to hold in Naypyitaw. My former programme manager called me to come office and asked me to choose appropriate candidates to form YSC. How could I choose it? What if my choice was biased?
I and my fri, Ko Phone (chair of YSC) nominated candidates with their CVs to secretariat office to be able to send invitation.
Some of them were not able to attend .
I won’t never forget the day before that meeting .
3 members from Philippines and Indonesia visited to office that day and inquired our finished tasks. I was very embrassed that I didn’t have anything to explain.I told them , we need to reform YSC.
All the invited youths were already arriving in hotel , I and my friend called up a causal meeting with 3 international youths and local youths in that evening.
The next day was a great shining day for us.
After the morning session which was influencing with arguments , blaming and tensions, youth steering committee was formed with 6 subcommittee.
The chair and co-chair had to be chosen from the meeting.
Mario and another one asked me whether can I take chair place or not.
I refused to do .
I said I only want to do what I can . Therefore, I nominated myself as chair  for communication and media committee.
So, the chair and co-chair of YSC had to decided with poll.
Ko phone won and took the chair place again with many votes.
I didn’t know who voted for me but I also got one vote.
Vivian also won co-chair place.
But, there was still limitation of chair and co-chair seats in subcommittees.
Some people had to take more than one place like Vivian.
She was co-chair of YSC and also co-chair of communication and media s/c.
Ko phone also took 2 places, chair of YSC and chair of capacity building s/c.
At that night, Ko phone and vivian sat a meeting for tomorrow presentation in ISC.
Meanwhile, I was helping as tour guide for 3 international youths to hang around Naypyitaw.
When I reached back to hotel, 2 of my chair and co-chair were still working.
The feeling I had that time was totally different from yesterday. I knew that I had a team.
The team we had to walk together.
Coming together is a beginning.
Although , we had formed ysc with youths from different organizations, we still needed to filter out to be more efficient and strong.
Many youths came in and went out during 4 months of our working time.
I was amazed that most of them were really impressive and responsible as teammates.
The more youth members joined to YSC in next meetings. Preparation time was very short. We only had 6 months before conference.
We did all the tasks with priority.
Calling scholarship ,screening and announcement, all was done by youths.
The more we finished our tasks, the more trust we gained from adults.
Though , we faced many challenges ,uncertainty and members instability during our preparation time, we finally found the way out together .
Each challenges and progress made us stronger and more confident .
I would never be worried for conference day.
More efficient people joined to our team, that was a remarkable improvement.
We fought each other, disagreement and misunderstanding were unavoidable while we really worked for something.
Sometimes, the value we kept upon this conference is different.
After each  meeting and battles, the bound we were tied together became stronger.
We successfully led a conference finally after sleepless nights,work,money and time.
The most satisfied feeling for me is “We can do it from nothing to the best after all.”
People from Asia Pacific and adults witnessed the power of local youths at the conference.
As I’ve always believed, we only needed understanding each other. We can do everything if we trust one another.
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Arthur ( 2 march 2016)

Passion

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On April 21, 2015

In Blog, English

Passion is defined as : a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something.

Passion is an important factor to possess a successful and happy life.
Do you know why?
There are multiple works and careers on this world.
How people built this world from the beginning of history?
They were driven by passion.
You can study at a school and university to know about various subjects.
But it doesn’t really help at all to reach your dreams.
If a person has passion, he can find the solutions and work until he die.
The work he doing will be a meaning of life for him.
The people who are working with passion.
Nobody  doesn’t need to push them hard to achieve.
They have ability to endure failures because of his passion.
Most of the people nowadays work without passion, only for money.
They think their goal is to find more money and to live in better life.This is partly true..
For me, finding money is not my only goal.

My profession is curing patients.
But, the process to become a doctor is not much simple.
unfairness,injustice are unavoidable if you want to be part of the crowd.
I hate the pressures.
I know if i can resist the pressures, i can easily pass through and will reach the higher place.
When I imagined the life after this troubles, i realized that I will not be happy and this is not what i wanted.
I don’t want to be doctor worked for money.
Although I want to cure patients and enjoy to treat them, i don’t want to charge from my work.
I have seen the lives for poor patients losing in vain because of failed health care system.
Sometimes, even if the treatment is known, the cost is extremely high for poor patients.
What can a doctor do..
There are many sad stories in the hospital that normal people can see.
I only worked for a year in hospital and saw these stories.
I suspected on my abilities..
I felt like i am a failed man.
I don’t want to face over workload.
I don’t want to face continuous sleepless nights.
I don’t want my ph always ringing while  am sleeping..
Then, decided not to join civil service.
May be i don’t have passion on this.
But, what is the purpose of risking everything you possess.

I would help rather from the place I enjoy..
This will be more effective for both of us.

I was a doctor.
I can not be anymore.
Because, life of a doctor in hospitals are so robotic.
i don’t want to be a robot..

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