Kathryn's Escaping Memories

04/08/2025

This enormous unfinished pagoda is located in Mingun, Myanmar.
Have you ever been there?
Today, it stands partly destroyed by an earthquake — yet still majestic in its imperfection.

29/04/2025

💔Today marks exactly one month since you left us, dear Auntie…

We have tried our best to retrieve your body. Through social media engagement, we were able to raise awareness that you were among those trapped in the SkyVill Condo collapse. Your mother, younger sister, your son, your husband, and all your siblings reached out for help from rescue teams near the collapsed building. Chinese rescue teams came. Humanitarian rescue teams came. While there were sincere people who genuinely tried to save lives, there were also some unethical individuals who came just to loot jewelry because the building housed many wealthy people.

With over 800 aftershocks throughout this month, rescue efforts couldn’t be carried out effectively. Due to poor coordination and communication, in some apartments, they found new bodies believed to have survived for 4 to 5 days. But as for us, we couldn’t even retrieve our aunt’s body.

Still, it’s not just because you were our aunt—we feel this way because you were genuinely kind-hearted and always helpful to others. Though we’ve lost you, we heard that even in your final moments, you helped your friends. That makes us feel proud, Auntie.

Today, your son won silver in his school exam. He wanted to tell you about it—he wanted to say, ‘I did it, Mom.’

Missing you dearly and remembering you always….
😔

21/04/2025

Celebrating my 12th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

17/01/2025

Today, I visited a very fascinating Tookkatoon Thai Puppet Museum ,where I learned how puppets are made and participated in a workshop to design and decorate my own puppet.It’s been years since I last did any painting, so I was absolutely delighted with the experience. While I was working on painting my puppet in the activity room, they played Myanmar songs in the background, which made me feel a sense of homesickness for Myanmar and reminisce about peaceful times in the past.Even though it’s been a long time since I’ve done any creative work, participating in this kind of workshop made me feel so happy and refreshed. Today, I also learned about the puppetry traditions of both Myanmar and Thailand.As I explored the cultural differences and similarities between the two countries, I also discovered so much about the Thai market from this course . Now, I’ll share with you the beautiful puppet I decorated, along with a Thai puppet I found fascinating.In my upcoming videos, I’ll explain in detail about the places I visited, the activities I participated in, and how valuable these experiences were. Special thanks to the Thailand Foundation. If your're interested in learning about Thai culture and Thai language for free, visit thailandfoundation.or.th So, please stay tuned to my channel!Have a blessed night! #ဘဝခရီးသည်ခိုင်

03/01/2025

Dear Readers, 🌸

The New Year has arrived… Today marks the third day of the year, and I have something I’d like to share with you. Last night, during our cell group, the pastor reached on a topic that made me reflect:

“Renew My Mind”

It’s a practice that helps rebuild our mindset, supporting both mental and physical growth and well-being.

Here are some practices I follow every year: 🩵

🔺 Reflect on the Past Year:
Review your achievements, challenges, and lessons learned. Reflect on significant moments and the valuable lessons they’ve taught you.

🔺 Set Clear Goals:
Instead of vague resolutions, set specific and clear goals. Prioritize your personal growth, health, relationships, and career objectives.

🔺 Embrace a Growth Mindset:
View challenges as opportunities for growth. Focus on mental peace rather than perfection.

🔺 Declutter Your Mind and Space:
Remove unnecessary mental and physical clutter. Practice mindfulness or meditation regularly.

🔺 Take Personal Time:
Learn new skills, attend courses, or start a hobby. Prioritize your health through exercise, a balanced diet, and sufficient sleep.

🔺 Create a Positive Environment:
Surround yourself with supportive people who uplift you. Limit or avoid exposure to negative influences, including excessive social media use. Stay away from distractions and toxic individuals.

🔺 Practice Gratitude:
For me, gratitude is always essential. Every blessing, whether big or small, is not because of my own strength but because of God’s grace. The chance to wake up, eat, and live peacefully is a divine blessing. Acknowledge these blessings with your words and cherish each moment.

🔺 Take Care of Yourself:
During times of weakness or discouragement, speak encouraging words to yourself. Read uplifting books or scriptures. Celebrate small victories, drink plenty of water, and eat nutrient-rich fruits.

Renewing your mind isn’t a one-time task but an ongoing process. Let’s embrace the New Year with curiosity, openness, and a desire to grow as we welcome the days ahead.

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31/12/2024

Reflection 🩵 A chance to understand yesterday, embrace today, and prepare for tomorrow. 🌟

Happy New Year



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28/12/2024

🏔️တလွင့်လွင့် တိမ်ခိုးတွေကို အမြဲထိုးဖောက်နေတဲ့ Thailand 🇹🇭 မြောက်ပိုင်းက Chiang Dao တောင်ရှိရာ မြို့လေးဆီသို့

၂၀၂၄ ကို ခရီးသွားခြင်းနဲ့စပြီး ခရီးသွားခြင်းနဲ့ အဆုံးသတ်ခဲ့ပါပြီ …

Chiang Mai ကိုသွားရင် Sakura 🌸 ပန်းလေးတွေသွားကြည့်မယ်၊ တောင်တွေ တတ်မယ်၊ ဆိုင်လေးပိတ်ပြီးလျှောက်သွားရတုန်း တဝကြီး ဒီနှစ်ကိုပျော်ပျော်ကြီးကုန်ဆုံးမယ် ၊ငါချစ်ရတဲ့သူအားလုံးနဲ့ အတူမရှိနိုင်ရင်တောင် ရှိတဲ့သူတွေနဲ့ အကောင်းဆုံးဖြတ်သန်းမယ် စတဲ့ အတွေးပေါင်းများစွာနဲ့ ခြစ်ကုတ်ပြီးထွက်လာတဲ့ ခရီးစဉ်လေး ဒီလိုနဲ့ Chiang Mai မလာခင် စီစဉ်လာတဲ့ အရာတွေ တော်တော်များများက High End Season ဖြစ်တာရယ် Budget ချွေတာရတာနဲ့ဆိုတော့ လုပ်လို့မရတာတွေများသွားတယ် လုပ်လ်ို့ရသေးတဲ့ အရာတွေထဲကမှ တန်ဖိုးရှိတာလေးတွေရွေးလုပ်ဖြစ်ခဲ့တယ် …

ချင်းမိုင်ကို သွားရင် blogger တွေရေးနေကြ

“Things To Do in Chiang Mai “တွေအမျိုးမျိုးရှိကြတယ်

ခိုင်ကတော့ မတူညီတဲ့ Presentation လေးနဲ့ ဒီနေ့ပြောပြမယ် … ဘယ်လိုသွားရမယ် ဘာတွေရှိလို့ သွားဖို့သင့်လဲဆိုတာလေးတွေ Honest Review ရေးပေးမယ်

ချင်းမိုင်ကိုသွားပြီးသဘာဝ အလှကိုခံစားရတာကြိုက်ရင် မဖြစ်မနေသွားသင့်တဲ့တောင်တွေထဲမှာ ချင်းဒေါင်းပါပါတယ်
ချင်းမိုင်မှ ချင်းဒေါင်း ကိုသွားချင်ရင် အရမ်းလွယ်ပြီးစျေးသက်သာပါတယ် သာသွန်/ ဖန်း ကား လေးတွေကို Chang Phuak bus station - north မှာ မနက် ၆ နာရီကနေ ည ၇ နာရီခွဲအထိ နေ့စဉ် နာရီဝက်တစ်ခါ ထွက်ပါတယ် ။ တစ်ယောက်ကို ဘတ် ၅၀ ပါ ။ မယ့်ရင် နဲ့ မယ့် ထရန် ကိုဖြတ်သန်းပြေးဆွဲပါတယ် ။ ခိုင်တို့ကတော့ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကားလေးနဲ့ပဲ သွားဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဝတုတ်ဆိုတဲ့ ခွေးလေးလဲ ပါတာမလို့ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ကားနဲ့ pet allow ဖြစ်တဲ့နေရာလေးတွေကိုရွေးချယ်သွားဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

ဘာတွေလုပ်သင့်လဲ ❓❔❓

-2 Days and 1 Night trekking and Visiting Villages.
-Full or Half Day Visit to the elephant training Center.
- A visit to the Hot Water Springs
- A visit to the Chiang Dao Cave
-A visit to Wat Tham Pha Phlong
-A visit to the Blue Lagoon Water Spot
-A visit to the Chiang Dao Mountain View Cafe
-A visit to the Isbjorn Cafe

ခုကတော့ A Visit to the Chiang Dao Mountains View Cafe and Resort မှာ ရိုက်ခဲ့တဲ့ ပုံလေးတွေပေါ့

📍Location : https://maps.app.goo.gl/QS7itMnpJiPafhWW7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

🥙အစားအသောက်စျေးလေးတွေလဲမဆိုးဘူး

လက်ရှိ ၂၀၂၄ ရဲ့စျေးနှုန်းလေးတွေကိုတော့ နောက်ဆုံးပုံလေးတွေမှာထည့်ပေးထားတယ် …

ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှူရန် page လေးကို follow လုပ်ပေးနော် …

To the serene town of Chiang Dao in southern Thailand 🇹🇭, where clouds are always pierced by the mountain peaks.

2024 began and ended with travel.
When visiting Chiang Mai, I planned to see the Sakura blossoms, hike mountains, and leisurely wander through small streets with closed shops. This year, I aimed to make it joyful, spending it with those who were present, even if I couldn’t be with everyone I love.

Before coming to Chiang Mai, many plans revolved around the high-end season and budget limitations. So, I carefully selected meaningful experiences from the list of unfulfilled plans.

There are many blog posts about “Things to Do in Chiang Mai.” Today, I’ll share mine with a unique presentation.

If you love experiencing nature, Chiang Dao is a must-visit mountain destination near Chiang Mai. Traveling from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao is easy and affordable.

How to Get There:

• You can take a Songthaew or Van from Chang Phuak Bus Station (North Station).
• Available daily from 6:00 AM to 7:30 PM, departing every 30 minutes.
• The fare is just 50 Baht per person.
• The route passes through scenic villages and fields.

We, however, chose to drive our own car because we had our dog, Watoat, with us. Having a pet-friendly trip allowed us to select accommodations and stops that welcomed pets.

Things to Do in Chiang Dao:

• 2 Days and 1 Night Trekking and Visiting Villages
• Full or Half-Day Visit to the Elephant Training Center
• A Visit to the Hot Water Springs
• A Visit to the Chiang Dao Cave
• A Visit to Wat Tham Pha Phlong
• A Visit to the Blue Lagoon Water Spot
• A Visit to Chiang Dao Mountain View Cafe
• A Visit to Isbjorn Cafe

Here are some photos from our visit to Chiang Dao Mountain View Cafe and Resort:
Location: Google Maps Link

The food prices were also reasonable, and I’ve included the updated 2024 prices in the final photos.

For more travel tips and stories, don’t forget to follow my page!

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28/11/2024

Navigating Cultural Differences: My Experience with Thai Communication Styles

Hello! As everyone knows, I am a solo backpacker from Myanmar, originally from Dawei. I have visited Thailand multiple times for various reasons and have had the opportunity to explore many of its provinces and regions on a tourist visa.

Currently, I’ve been in Thailand for six months, pursuing a course in Media and Communication for Transnational Citizens at Chulalongkorn University. During this time, I’ve gained a lot of valuable experiences that I would like to share through a blog post, not just for my fellow Myanmar people but also for international travelers.

When I travel, I usually focus on culture sharing, building friendships, and learning about the traditions and ways of life of local communities.

On this journey, I was able to achieve some important milestones in my life and also make many meaningful connections. In today’s blog content, I want to write about my reflections on cultural exchanges between the two countries and share the insights I’ve gained from my experiences.

To see more, check out my posts and join the conversation!

https://medium.com//navigating-cultural-differences-my-experience-with-thai-communication-styles-8cc1cede177d

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Hello! As everyone knows, I am a solo backpacker from Myanmar, originally from Dawei. I have visited Thailand multiple times for various…

26/09/2024

This place is located between zone 6 and 7 Near Harmony Resort and Muchroom Cafe in Chiang Mai. But for now there is no way out to main road with your motorcycle 🏍️ and car 🚙. Stay Safe Everyone . May God bless you. According to the Nawarat Bridge water mark is the water level (at 11:00 am on 26.9.2024)is 4.78 m. Sou Muban Ban Uea Athon Building, Chiang Mai Mueang Chiang Mai. The video recorded at 9:50 am.

12/08/2024

It’s heartbreaking to realize how much we’ve lost, to the point where we could say our history and nation have been lost.

20/07/2024

🌤️နေ့ရက်တိုင်းကို ပျော်ရွှင်စွာကုန်ဆုံးပါ 🌤️

ဟုတ်ပါတယ် … လူတိုင်းပျော်မနေကြပါဘူး …ဒါမဲ့လေ တိုတောင်းလှတဲနေ့ရက်တွေမှာတော့ ခိုင်တို့ဘဝကြီးကို အေးဆေးငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာနဲ့ ပျော်ပျော်ဖြတ်သန်းဖို့လိုတယ်… မနက်ဖြန်နေ့တွေဘာဖြစ်မယ်မှန်း ဘယ်သူမှမသိပါဘူး …ဒီလိုနေ့ရက်တွေကိုရှင်သန်းဖြတ်သန်းနေကြရတာပါ.. ဒီပုံလေးတွေမြင်တော့ သတိရမိတယ် လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်နှစ်က သွားလိုက်တာမှန်သွားတယ်… ခုနေ မြောက်ဦးကို ပိုက်ဆံရှိ အချိန်ရှိ တယ်ဆိုရင်တောင် ရောက်ဖို့ မလွယ်တော့ဘူးလေ … အချိန်တွေ နေ့ရက်တွေက ငွေနဲ့ဝယ်ယူလို့မရလို့ သေချာတာတစ်ခုက ခိုင်ခရီးတွေသွားနေဦးမယ် ခုလဲ သွားနေဦးမယ် နောက်လဲသွားနေဦးမယ် … escaping memories တွေအတွက် ခိုင့်ကိုပျော်စေတဲ့ ခရီးတွေထွက်နေဦးမယ် …တိုင်းပြည်ကြီး အေးချမ်းပါစေ… အားလုံး နေ့ရက်ဆိုးတွေက လွတ်မြောက်ပြီး ပျော်ရွှင်ကြပါစေ 🌟🥰

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