Yamar and Khant Thu's Story

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Once there is a girl, named Yamar who is not so pretty and not so much attractive in guys’ eyes. She always wants to be with a guy who can really love her and whom she can rely on. She had liked some guys who are handsome or bright and she had interested in guys who like her and never proposed that they love her, face to face. But she never loved a guy before because she doesn’t know what love is and she doesn’t know what it feels like. She never thinks she will have a guy who can love her really and who will intend to marry her because she has some kind of depressing feelings that she is not pretty enough and bright enough to have a guy who will truly love her and marry her.

Everybody has their own Mr. or Mrs. Right. So, Yamar waited for her Mr. Right since she was 15 years old. But she became a bit like tomboy because of one of her friends who is also a tomboy. That friend loves her so much and cares her a lot. It is just like she got a boyfriend but only different is that that boyfriend is a girl. But they became lost contact after Yamar leave that school. And from that time, she became a tomboy and she had a girlfriend in her last year in middle school. But the same ending goes to them, Yamar and that girl also lost contact after Yamar goes to different high school from her.

In that high school, she is just an unnoticed girl in that high school without knowing that her Mr. Right and she are in the same school. When she was in the last year in her high school, the coincidence had come. She is in the same class and same tuition with her Mr. Right and she still doesn’t know that guy is meant for her. But it is not only her fault because her Mr. Right also doesn’t know that she is meant for him. In that year, Yamar has some interest in a guy who is from different high school but same tuition while Mr. Right is straight in his way on the education and trying so hard to get passed high school with high marks. But according to Mr. Right’s saying, he had tried to talk to Yamar while they are in the same class in high school and unsuccessfully Yamar is not in the good mood to talk at that time. And he also said that at that time, he though Yamar is a cute girl to be friends with but he just forget about her when their friendship had unsuccessful to build.

When they passed the high school, they have to go on with their own ways to their futures and they lost contacts. Yamar planned to further her study in Singapore, so she goes to tuition, RV, which trained students to be able to enter the Polytechnic entrance exams. And another coincidence came again; she met with her Mr. Right at the tuition seminar and turns out to be that she and her Mr. Right are same in their ways to further their study only different is that their classes at that tuition not the same. But they used to come across each other, in the corridors or at bus stops or somewhere, once in a week or two.

The time had come for Yamar to go to Singapore because she has passed the entrance exam of Republic Polytechnics. And still at that time, they both didn’t know that they are meant for each other. She went to Singapore with her two friends from her tuition, RV. On the plane she and her friend, Swe, asked fortune that they will faced when they reach Singapore from a fortune telling book. And for Yamar, she found out that, she will meet her Mr. Right after 3 months she got landed in Singapore and so she was exciting who would be her Mr. Right.

She arrive Singapore in December because RP is having a bridging course which other polytechnics don’t have before the real school semester starts. After she finish that bridging course, she doesn’t so much afraid of the real school semester because RP had trained her to be more active and outspoken. Myanmar Festival Thingyan is in the month of April which is the month the school semester starts and it had been more than 3 months after she arrived Singapore.

Yamar miss Thingyan so much and that’s why she went to Myanmar Monastery in Singapore to celebrate the festival with her father and friends. Yamar’s father had already been in Singapore since she was in the last year of high school. At the monastery there are lots of Myanmar people, more than Yamar thought there would be, playing water and celebrating the festival. Suddenly, she had a thought to have a bet with her own about searching for Mr. Right. It is like, if she met with 7 people who she knows in that place; her Mr. Right is also inside this monastery.

And there, of course, she met with 7 people who are her friends and little did she know that the 7^th person she met as her friend in that monastery is her Mr. Right. He is the one who has been her Mr. Right since high school. His name is Khant Thu. The miracle has occurred, because he wouldn’t ask for her phone number if only he knows that her father just standing behind her. But he didn’t see, so he had finally asked her phone number that day. After he got her phone number, he constantly chats with her via SMS day and night. And he slowly shows her how he feels about someone who he thinks he is in love with. At first, she didn’t understand what he was trying to say but she gradually figured out that the one he is in love with is she, Yamar. Khant Thu also admitted that he said “I love you” to a girl who was her friend in Myanmar. So, she feels sorry that she is not the one who he said "I love you" for his first time in his life. But she is okay with that because she also liked a guy before Khant Thu.

The day of big surprise had come. He invited her to dinner at KFC and suddenly he told her that he loves her and she chokes when she heard about that. She finally calmed down and said that she will give answer to him in a month time. That day he proposed to her is on 14^th May 2008. She thinks about him and she watched whether he really loves her or not then she realized that he is the perfect one for her and who she knows now is that he is her Mr. Right.

On 13^th June 2008, Friday, she gave the answer “Yes” to him under her block. Although that day is Friday the 13^th, they were very happy and never regret of having each other. Start from that day, they love each other , care each other and spend time with each other almost every hours. But the black shadow of Friday the 13^th is still on them and that’s why most of the time they fight with each other even on small matters although they love each other so much and cannot really break up.

One of the weaknesses that Yamar has is saying “break up”, which word that Khant Thu really hate between them, whenever she angry or sad or shock. She can’t handle big emotional cases as she had a minor heart attack. And there is one weakness of Khant Thu that Yamar really hate which is not knowing when to say the right words and when not. But except from those they are very happy couple. They celebrate their anniversary every month. They exchange presents and they have dinner together on those days. Their parents also know that they were couple, so, they are free from hiding away from parents unlike most couples.

Khant Thu intended to marry Yamar one day and she also trying to be with him for her rest of the life. They swore that they will be still together for the rest of their life although other people don’t agree or accept their marriage. And now, today, they had celebrated their 20^th month anniversary happily.

People in this article;

Yamar = Yamin Ohmar

Mr. Right (or) Khant Thu = Khant Thu Linn

Swe = Swe Mon Aung

The tomboy friend of Yamar = KTDA

Yamar’s girlfriend while she was a tomboy = Su Myant San Di Oo

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