Lessons and liquids: buried alive in Myanmar's earthquake
The primary school headmaster was on a training course in Sagaing, the closest place to the epicentre, when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck.
The 47-year-old remembered a decades-old school lesson to shelter under a bed if the world starts to shake.
"As soon as I went under the bed, the whole hotel fell down and was blocked. All I could afford was to say 'save me'," he said.
"I was shouting 'save me, save me'."
The Swal Taw Nann guesthouse where he was staying was reduced to a pile of bricks and twisted metal strips...