Ko Agga @ Aung Myo Lwin

"You'll only understand when you become parents." I don't know if you've ever heard adults say this, but I have heard it many times. Even from my teachers. The teachers would use this phrase when scolding the entire student body because they couldn't definitively identify who was responsible for pasting propaganda posters in the school toilets to incite high school students to join the '88 Uprising. As you know, a high school is full of eyes, so the school entrance, the notice board, and the snack stalls were not viable spots. The staircase landings were a possibility, but the teachers went up and down them more often than the students. In the end, with the culprit remaining unknown, it was decided that the inside surface of a toilet stall door was the best and most effective place to post the provocative flyers. Even though this one issue was solved, another problem remained: the bag checks at the school entrance every morning. I don't kno...

(A story based on true events) A young man in his early twenties was typing a resignation letter on his personal laptop. He was overwhelmed by frustration and anxiety, and filled with nothing but immense regret for his actions, which he could no longer undo. Chapter 1 A Path Paved with Flowers One could say that the young man named Thura was lucky. Right after finishing high school, he immediately got a job as a Protocol Officer at the Thailand-based Italian-Thai Company. Although he was happy to get the job, he didn't even know what a Protocol Officer did; he had never even heard of the position. A Thai woman, whom he had known since childhood as a friend of his father when his father was a government official in Myanmar, was now a director at that company. She was fond of him like a nephew and had hired him out of respect for his parents.The next day, he rode his black Kawasaki Ninja 2 motorcycle to a spacious compound on Inya Road in Yangon. At the front of the large...