Almost every houses were built with bamboos, while a few of rich people built their houses with wood. I am the only child in my family. My parents were working in a farm and I helped them with household chores such as cutting the firewood, refilling drinking water and cooking small meals. When I got older, I helped my parents by working for other villages to earn some money or get some food. We did not usually earn money for working , but we received rice, watermelon or gourds after we finished working for them. The work they asked us sometimes to do were carried water and chopped firewood.

I learned how to cook while helping and watching my mother cooked. My mother usually cooked chicken and gourds. I started learning how to cook when I was fourteen years old. I first learned to cook chicken and gourd curry because it was a common food and easy to cook. We usually had chicken curry, fish sauce, and vegetables. We got vegetable from the farm. The traditional Shan foods are Shan-style noodles, pickled lettuce, and tofu salad. We shopped at the near market and usually right in front of the farm. Sometimes villagers from other villages came to our village and sold the meat and other vegetable. We would also go to the Min Hla city to buy other goods for our family.

I went to school at the temple. I studied Burmese language from the monks. There were not many Shan ethnicity in our village, therefore everyone spoke Burmese to communicate. As children we played different kinds of games or toys with friends as our ages. We would form mud into balls and we played with it. We played border crossing game, rolling bike wheels, and hide and seek (we would sometimes climb the mango trees and hide in the trees. We also picked mangos and enjoyed eating it with friends). In my life, the happiest moment was the time I got married. The most memorable moment was the day my mother bought me a new shirt for my birthday and I still have the shirt. I kept it with me until now.  The happiest moment as a child was when I played with my friends at the monastery. We sometimes went down the river and swam together. We also enjoyed fishing at the river.