Khin Yadanar Win

Before I write this article, I was trying to figure out what kind of content that I would put down in this article. As I was longing to write how women should behave like the way they are and live the life like the way the want and put their own destiny in their own hands, I thought I should write about getting out of the cage which was made of the norms by the society.   It might be easy to say “You can do everything you want in your life” to a man but it is not easy to say the same things to the girls and women. As growing up in developing country where women are being still locked in the norms and customs which were made before we were born, it is needless to say that women don’t have the freedom to do the things that they think right.   We don’t have to look outside of our circle, we could see how the people in our circle judge women’s behavior in inappropriate way. The society will judge us if we are single-minded persons, they will judge us if we ar...

He sat down in his cozy bed and closed his eyes for a moment to recall some memories that his brain had deleted a few years ago. His eyes were opened slowly and his finger unlocked his phone screen again. A couple of second later, his eyes were glued to his phone screen and he forgot to breathe a while. “You look so beautiful. Amazingly beautiful.” That’s what he said to himself. He was happy to see she was smiling and seemed so happy in the photo but his heart felt so much pain because she looked so beautiful in the white dress. The day that he was so afraid to face has finally arrived without giving him any clue. He didn’t hear that she was going to get married. He didn’t even see her photo with her boyfriend on Facebook and Instagram. He didn’t even know she was dating nor she was engaged to someone else. He only saw her photos with her friends, her vacation photos and her funny photos on social network. He didn’t prepare to see her in her wedding gown.   H...

2017 is the most amazing year of my life so far. There were several ups and downs but I believed that I handled like a grown up woman as I felt like I was more matured than before. The reason I handled those things is none other than reading the good books and learning from those which I am going to write about. Here are the favorite picks from the books that I read in 2017.  1.       Lean In This is the first book that I read in 2017. It made me nothing but to take bigger challenge and believe in myself by wearing the high confidence as the daily makeup. I admit that Sheryl’s masterpiece gave me empowerment and huge encouragement. After reading that book, I tried to push myself harder and harder and focus on raising the bars. I reminded myself to stay real, say what I thought and do what I believed. This book changed my perception on women completely. I used to be so ashamed of crying at work when I was under huge pressure and lar...

Recently I felt like I wanted to run away and hide in the forest or the place where no-work related issues chasing after me. I looked back my five years of career life and I found that I didn’t have any long break even in the transition between jobs. The longest time that I took off was only four days when I quit from Samsung before I joined Huawei back this year. Of cos, I got break during the long holidays but I didn’t have chance to relax fully as I had to work and reply something by using my mobile and laptop.  I asked myself several questions lately. Why I didn’t take long break? The reason was too simple. I wanted to grow a lot and run faster than anybody else. I set up the goals to achieve before I started my career. I always wanted to take big responsibility and hold the bigger role. I pushed myself so hard. I seek the inspiration from within my circle and out of my circle too. Some saw me that I was really doing great, holding the good role, getti...

2017 is a year full of dramatic changes in my life. When I was 23 when I sat down the job interview with one FMCG company, the interviewer asked me how long I could work in their company. My answer was five years because I would like to do something different when I was 28 and I considered 28 would be my turning point. I answered without having any clue and I didn’t expect 28 would be a real turning point for me.  Well, this is how the story goes. I didn’t get a job in that company because when I sat down the interviewed with their managing director, he asked me how many jobs that I applied. I answered him the truth and he asked how much I knew about his company. I couldn’t say much cos I didn’t study very well about his company. Then he asked me the other company that I applied for. The interview with big telecom company happened before I sat down the interview with him. So, I studied a lot about that telco company and I told him what I knew. When ...