by kpalana | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog
Reflections on my month in Berlin as a TAKT artist in residence. I recently arrived back in Yangon and am back in my studio working on my fine art, multimedia animation Lucky as well as teaching for Thalun International School (student work), University For...
by kpalana | May 26, 2017 | Blog
Some thoughts over a cup of courtesy tea after living almost a year in Myanmar. It has been nearly a year now since I first moved to Yangon, Myanmar with my family. Initially I wondered if I would hate, like, or even love my new home. It’s one of the few...
by kpalana | May 15, 2017 | Blog
This is an adapted excerpt from my new book with Jacqueline Seidel, Free At Last: Live, Love & Work Abroad. Find Jobs and Build Your Career Anywhere. —– “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” ―...
by kpalana | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
Chances are, if you are one of the billions of people with no access to the Internet you are not reading this article right now. I’m actually writing it offline (in my trusty Word program) with the hopes that one day, hopefully even today, my spotty Internet...
by kpalana | Jul 20, 2016 | Blog
Stories from our second day living in Myanmar It’s 12:41 AM in my new home in Yangon. On only my second night in the country I’m unable to sleep so I decide to write about the previous day instead, my computer glowing in the dark in my bed under the protection of a...