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Meet a Smile in Myanmar's diaspora Ati Nurbaiti NAI NAI : JP/Ati Nurbaiti Nai Nai, her friend said, "is worried sick again." The young woman is busy collecting donations to send to family and friends in Yangon, the old capital stuck in the middle of the area hardest hid by the cyclone, the Irrawaddy Delta. With her friends at the Bangkok office where she works at a media organization, Nai Nai had just heard the news that barely two weeks after the Cyclone Nargis hit her homeland, further rain storms had been predicted, while survivors still had no proper shelter. The other day she sounded gay on the phone, saying she had heard good news from home -- only the roof had flown off in the disaster. On a daily basis, Nai Nai, 32, is indeed a cheerful woman. But behind the friendly eyes and smiles on the faces of Myanmarese living overseas, is a sense of their resignation to being unable to help. When the cyclone hit, a few million exiles, migrants, refugees and oth