Lar Phar Dee
Lar Phar Dee | |
|---|---|
လာဖာဒီး | |
 Dee Dee presenting at a forum | |
| Born | Lar Phar Dee 9 May 1995 |
| Nationality | Myanmar |
| Other names | Dee Dee |
| Alma mater | BCA Academy University of Wollongong |
| Occupation(s) | Blogger, motivational speaker, actor |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Awards | Myanmar Influencer Award for Fan's Favourite (2017) |
Lar Phar Dee (Burmese: လာဖာဒီး; born 9 May 1995), also known as Dee Dee (ဒီးဒီး), is a Burmese blogger, motivational speaker and actor.[1][2] He is best known for his speeches on motivation, mental health and the environment.[3][4] He won the 2017 "Myanmar Influencer Award" for Influencer of the Year (Fan's Favourite). He was also in nomination for Myanmar's Pride Awards 2019 in the category of Best in Trend.[5]
Early life and education[edit]
Dee Dee was born on 9 May 1995 in Tanai in the Kachin State of northernmost part of Myanmar.[6] He is an ethnic Lisu. He graduated with a diploma in construction engineering from BCA Academy in Singapore in 2014 and continued his studies in engineering, completing a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia in 2016.[7]
Career[edit]
Dee Dee started blogging in 2016 with the Facebook Page Dee Dee Burmese Vlog. He was one of Myanmar's first bloggers and crowned favourite influencer in the country in 2017. He was featured in an article by UOW Outlook Magazine, portrayed as a young content creator from Myanmar.[8] His works won him the 2017 Myanmar Influencer Award for Influencer of the Year (Fan's Favourite) category. Rising to fame in 2019, he became an actor.[9] He made his acting debut with a leading role in mystery film Mya Mya which was based on the ture story of Mya Mya, a girl who was raped and murdered, alongside Min Taw Win, Thinzar Wint Kyaw and Khin Htwe Su Hlaing.[10][11] The film was premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 6 February 2020[12] and became one of highest-grossing films in Myanmar.[13][14] In 2019, Dee was invited to participate in TechCamp Mongolia: "Countering Disinformation with Collective Innovation". In March 2019, he took part in an open forum organised by the United States Embassy in Myanmar on the drug use epidemic affecting communities across Myanmar.[15] He was nominated for the Myanmar Pride Awards 2019 for Best in Trend, making his audience think and inspire positivity among the youth. In 2021, he currently working with a nonprofit organization in Bangkok to promote Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).[16]
References[edit]
- ^ ""မြမြ ရုပ်ရှင်က ထင်ထားသလို မုဒိမ်းကား မဟုတ်ပါဘူး"လို့ ဒီးဒီး ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 February 2020.
- ^ ""ဒီးဒီးရဲ့အင်တာဗျူးမှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွက်အကြံပြုချက်တွေပြောသွားတဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားသားများ"". Cele Gabar (in Burmese). 26 January 2020.
- ^ "Dee Dee (Dee Dee Burmese Vlog)". Myanmar's Pride Awards.
- ^ "Dee Dee the young leader". The Myanmar Times. 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Myanmar's Pride Awards 2019 ရဲ့ လူမှုဦးဆောင်ကဏ္ဍအတွက် ဆန်ကာတင်စာရင်းဝင်များအကြောင်း သိကောင်းစရာများ". We Media (in Burmese). 25 December 2019.
- ^ "မြစ်ကြီးနား မျက်မမြင်ကျောင်းနဲ့ မိဘမဲ့ကျောင်းမှာ အခြေခံစားသောက်ကုန်တွေ လှူဒါန်းပေးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီးဒီး". Cele Gabar (in Burmese). 14 May 2020.
- ^ "မြစ်ကြီးနားက ဆယ်လီမမ ကားတွေ၊အိမ်တွေပိုင်နေပြီဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတင်းကောင်းလေးပါးလိုက်တဲ့ ဒီးဒီး". Cele Gabar (in Burmese). 13 March 2020.
- ^ "The Ones to Follow". UOW Outlook Magazine.
- ^ Ko, Aye (26 September 2019). "မြမြဇာတ်ကားမှာ ဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်မယ့် blogger ဒီးဒီး". Fashion Magazine Myanmar (in Burmese).
- ^ ""မြမြ" ရုပ်ရှင်မှာ သူငယ်ချင်းတွေအဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင်မယ့် ဖြိုးမြတ်အောင်နဲ့ ဒီးဒီး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 27 September 2019.
- ^ Zin, Hein Thant (6 February 2020). "MYA MYA". Myanmore Magazine.
- ^ "သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်ပါဝင်သည့် 'မြမြ'ရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၆ ရက်ရုံတင်မည်(ရုပ်ရှင်နမူနာ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 29 January 2020.
- ^ "မြှုပ်ကွက်တွေနဲ့"မြမြ"". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 12 February 2020.
- ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from February 20 to 26". The Myanmar Times. 20 February 2020.
- ^ "U.S. Embassy Announces its "Mandalay Road Show"". U.S. Embassy in Burma. 11 March 2019.
- ^ "From TechCamp to Thailand: A Burmese Blogger's Story". International Exchange Alumni. 29 June 2021.