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SPHS — Kyaw Win
by Hla Min

Updated : Sept 2025

Birthday

He offered birthday soon kyway to Uzin Okkantha (Victor, Aung Chaw) and treated his former classmates (some of whom have not seen each other for a long time). The attendees include :
- Aye Ngwe (Edwin)
- Kyaw Win (“Birthday Boy”)
- Khin Maung Bo (Alan, EP69)
- Hla Min (EC69)
- Uzin Okkantha (Aung Chaw, Victor, C69)
- Than Win (M69)
- Aung Kyi (Arthur)
- Tin Tun (M69)
- Khin Maung Zaw (Frank Gale, IM1 70, UK)
SPHS Novice Crew at RUBC
- Maung Maung Kyi (Bow, GBNF)
- Hla Min (No. 2)
- Kyaw Win (No. 3, EE)
- Willie Soe Mg (Stroke, GBNF)
- Myint Thein (Cox, SPHS 62, B.Com 66, GBNF)
We were all awarded Full Green.

When the schools were closed following the first Anniversary of 7th July, Kyaw Win and Maung Maung Kyi applied for scholarships to study in Germany.

Maung Maung Kyi received Dip Ing in ChE. He worked at Sittaung Paper Mill and PPIC before moving to Wales, UK.

Kyaw Win had a higher calling. He and his friends protested in front of the Burmese Embassy. The higher authorities were alarmed at their movement and recalled back to Burma. Fortunately, he was able to complete his EE in Rangoon.

GBNF

The list include
- Allan Saw Mg (Khin Mg Ni, EP69)
- Aung Khin
- Aung Kyi (Arthur)
- Dr. Aung Thwin (Alfred)
- Uzin Aung Chaw (Victor, C69)
- Aung Thu Yein (Brownie, EC69, 13th in Burma)
- Dr. Freddie Ba San (Myo San, 3rd in Burma)
- Dr. Freddie Sein
- Gilbert Thaw (Min Thaw, EP)
- Uzin Patrick Ba Maung
- Dr. Maung Maung Aye
- Maung Maung Kyi (11th in Burma)
- Shwe Zan Aung
- Sydney Khant
- Tin Tun (M69)
- Willie Soe Maung (Myint Soe, BDS 1st Batch)
September 4, 2025
Sad Story related to Mohinga

by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Daw Khin Khin Kyu ခင်ခင်ကြူ (Ann, A67) related the sad story of her younger brother.

He had two invitations.

One was to attend his niece’s wedding in Australia. His older brother U Thein Han ဦးသိန်းဟန် played Basketball for Burma မြန်မာ့လက်ရွေးစင် and taught Mathematics at RIT ရန်ကုန်စက်မှုတက္ကသိုလ်သင်္ချာဆရာ

Another one was to join a group to visit Burma.

Since he had not been back to Burma for a very long time, he decided to join the group.

They stayed at a hotel on Pyay / Prome Road ပြည်လမ်း

In the late evening, he had an urge to look for a Mohinga မုန့်ဟင်းခါး shop. The group leader told him that they would have Mohinga the next morning.

He left the hotel. After a couple of hours, someone informed that there had been an accident on Pyay Road, and that Ann’s brother had passed away unexpectedly.

February 26, 2026
Burmese in Cambodia

U Soe Aung (M/Auto 70) visited Kampuchea (Cambodia) for a conference.

He was surprised and delighted to see a Burmese Inscription at a temple in Ankor Wat.

February 26, 2026
Five
by Hla Min

Updated : Mar 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 5
- Roman numeral : V
- ငါး (Five)
- ပဥ္စမ (Fifth)
First group of disciples

ပဥ္စဝဂ္ဂီ
- Kondanna ကောဏ္ဍည
- Baddhiya ဘဒ္ဒိယ
- Vappa ဝပ္ပ
- Mahanama မဟာနာမ်
- Asajji အဿဇိ
Five Khandas / ခန္ဓာ Aggregates
- Rupakkhandha : Material phenomena ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vedanakkhanda : Feeling ဝေဒနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sannakkhanda : Perceptionသညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sankharakkhnada : Formations သင်္ခါရက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vinnanakkhandha : Consciousness ဝေညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
Five Precepts

ငါးပါးသီလ

Abstain from
- Killing
- Stealing
- Sexual misconduct
- Lies
- Intoxicants (liquor, “drugs”, …)
Five Senses

အာရုံငါးပါး
- Hearing
- Sight
- Smell
- Taste
- Touch
Five Nikaya / Collection

နိကယ် ငါးရပ်
- Digha Nikaya : “long collection”
- Majjhima Nikaya : “middle-length collection”
- Samyutta Nikaya : “grouped collection” — “thematically linked discourses”
- Anguttara Nikaya : the “further-factored collection” — discourses grouped by content enumerations
- Khuddaka Nikaya : the “collection of little texts”
Miscellaneous
- Five Jhana စျာန် ငါးပါး
- Five fingers on each hand လက်ချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Five toes on each foot ခြေချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Pentagon five sided polygonပဥ္စဂံ
- May မေ လ 5th month of the Gregorian Calendar
February 26, 2026
One
by Hla Min

Updated : Mar 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 1
- Roman numeral : I
- တစ် (One)
- ပထမ (First)
Miscellaneous
- Ace — ဖဲချပ်။ လေသူရဲ
- First day of the month — လ အစ
- January ဇန္နဝါရီ လ— 1st month of Gregorian Calendar
- March မတ် လ — 1st month of old Roman Calendar
- Monocle — မျက်မှန်
- Monograph — စာတမ်း
- Monopoly — စျေးကွက် ကို တဦးထည်းကြီးစိုး။ Board Game ကစားနည်း
- Monarchy — ထီးနန်း
- Monotheism — Belief in one god or deity
- Single — တဦီးချင်း။ အိမ်ထောင်မရှိ
- Singleton — Bridge ဖဲကစားနည်း မှာ Suit တခု မှာ Card တချပ် ဘဲရှိ။
- Unique, Uniqueness
- Universe — စကြာဝဠာ
- Universal
- Unicycle — စက်ဘီး
- Union — ပြည်ထောင်စု (စသဖြင့်)
- Unit — အတိုင်းအတာ
- Unity — စည်းလုံးမှု
Poem
February 26, 2026
Four
by Hla Min

Updated : Mar 2026

Numeral
- Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
- Roman numeral : IV
- လေး (Four in Burmese)
- စတုတ္ထ (Fourth in Burmese)
Recent Buddhas မြတ်စွာဘုရား
- Kakusandha ကကုသန်
- Konagamana ဂေါဏဂုံ
- Kassapa ကဿပ
- Gautama ဂေါတမ
Sacca / Noble Truth သစ္စာ
- Dukkha ဒုက္ခ
  Unsatisfactoriness / Misery / Suffering
- Samudiya သမုဒယ
  Cause of suffering
- Nirodha နိရောဓ
  Cessation of suffering
- Magga မဂ္ဂ
  The Path / The Middle Way
Foundation of Mindfulness သတိဇပဌာန်
- Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မာနုပဿနာ/ general objects — not covered by the above three
Brahma Vihara Practice

ဗြဟ္မာစိုရ်တရား
- Metta မေတ္တာ
  Loving kindness / Unbounded love
- Karuna ကရုဏာ
  Compassion
- Mudita မုဒိတာ
  Sympathetic joy / Altruistic joy
- Uppekkha ဥပေက္ခာ
  Equanimity
Guardian deities

လောကပါလ
- Dhatarattha (East) ဓတ္တရဌ
- Virulhaka (South) ဝိရူဠက
- Virupkkha (West) ဝိရူပက္ခ
- Kuvera (North) ကုဝေရ
Mahabhuta

မဟာဘုတ်
- Patthavi ပထဝီ
  Earth element
- Tejo တေဇော
  Fire element
- Apo အာပေါ
  Water or liquid element
- Vayo ဝါယော
  Air or wind element
Undergraduate Classes

ဘွဲ့ကြို
- Freshman
- Sophomore
- Junior
- Senior
Baseball
- First base
- Second base
- Third base
- Home plate
Miscellaneous

အထွေထွေ
- Four sided figures စတုဂံ
  Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
- Games အားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ
  Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
- Rowing လှေလှော်
  Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls
Coxed Fours
- April ဧပြီလ 4th month of the Gregorian Calendar
Posts
- Computation
- Digital
- Number Systems
- Numerals
February 26, 2026
Notes 9
U Lun (Thakin Kodaw Hmaing)
- Principal of Ah Myo Tha Kaw Leik (National College)
U Than Tun
- Father of Ashin Pannagavesaka (Bobby Myo Tun, A69)
- He passed away in his late 90s.
U Han Zaw
- Retired minister
- Spouse: Daw Thwin Thwin Aye Hmi (A69)
U Ba Khin
- He matriculated from St. Paul’s High School and was First in the whole of Burma.
- He was the first native Auditor General. He also managed four Directorates.
- He is a renowned Vipassana teacher. His teacher was Saya Thet. His disciple was Goenkaji.
U Thein Oo
- He transferred from Commerce Department to UCC.
- He founded MCC (with U Tin Win Aung)!and Ace (with his spouse Daw Than Than Tint).
- He is Past President of MCF.
Dr. Thein Htut and Dr. Nyunt Win
- Dr. Thein Htut is the son of Colonel Min Sein and Dr. Daw Yin May (first Triple FRCS). He is RUBC Gold.
- Dr. Nyunt Win (Eddie) is the grandson of U Po Sa.
- They moved to Australia.
Theikpan Maung Wa
- ICS U Sein Tin
- First student in Masters course for Burmese
- Author
- Cofounded Khit San Sar Pay with Zawgyi and Minthuwun
San Shwe Myint
- Character created by Cartoon Myint Thein
Pathan
- By Ashin Nandamarlabhivansa (Ph.D)
Pediatricians
- Credit: Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint
RASU Rowing
- Credit: Dr. Nyan Taw
Roll of Honor
- Donors for YTU Library Modernization
UNSG (United Nations Secretary General)
- U Thant was the 3rd UNSG and the First Asian UNSG.
University Athletes
- They represented Burma in the Second SEAP Games (Rangoon, December 1961)
- Credit: Dr. Richard Yu Khin
U Wun
- Laureate Poet — Minthuwun
- Lexicographer — မြန်မာအဘိဓာန်
- Cofounder of Khit San Sar Pay with Zawgyi and Theikpan Maung Wa
- Head, RU Translation
- Professor at RU; Visiting Professor at Osaka University
U Kyaw Mya Thein (Phy, ICST)
- He wrote “Kar Ku La Thinchar” (Calculus in Burmese).
- He retired as Pro-Rector of ICST.
U Kyaw Myint (Phy, DHE)
- He retired as DG of DHE.
- The photo was taken at a fundraiser for his Foundation.
February 26, 2026
Album G
by Hla Min

Updated : Feb 2026

Golden Jubilee
- Rangoon University celebrated its Golden Jubilee in December 1970.
- I was a volunteer for the “Zay Nay Yar Cha Htar Yay Committee” headed by Saya U Tun Hla Aung (Geography).
- Saya Dr. Aung Gyi (Professor, Civil Engineering) and Saya U Thet Lwin (Burmese, Institute of Economics) were Chair and Secretary of a Committee. They had a reunion as Rector and Registrar of RIT.
- Ah Nu Pyinnya Shins from RIT took part in the Entertainment with Swel Daw Yeik A Nyeint, Tabin Daing A Ka & Htee Yein.
RU Golden Jubilee

RIT Htee Yein

There are other Golden Jubilees :
- GJ of the new Education System introduced in 1964
- GJ of Admission to University or Institute
RIT GJ in 2014
- GJ of Graduation from University or Institute
69ers GJ in 2019

Geology
- Dr. Tha Hla received his doctorate from the UK. He served as Professor of Geology Department. He retired as Rector of the University of Rangoon.
- His successors include Dr. Nyi Nyi, U Ba Than Haq and Dr. Maung Thein.
Geology Sayas and Sayamas

Dr. Tha Hla

Dr. Nyi Nyi

Geology 1978

Dr. Maung Thein

Geology Volleyball

Geology Volleyball

Graduation

RIT Grads
- RIT 69ers
Tin Aung Win (M69) & his father

M69 grads

A69 grads

Graduation Photos
- In the early days, some quality photos had to be taken in Studios. The photo (taken at “Bayin Ma”) shows proud parents of a fresh graduate.
Grad 1
- It was customary to take photos at the “Full Dress Rehearsal” and in front of the Convocation Hall.
Grad 2
- Permits were issued to registered photographers to take photos during the Convocation. Maung Maung Nhyat made a fortune.
Grad 3

Grad 4

Geography Sayas

Geography Dept
- L Dudley Stamp taught at LSE and RU.
- Dr. Daw Thin Kyi was an early Burmese Sayama to receive a Doctorate from USA. An Alumnus donated Seed Money for her bust.
Dr. Daw Thin Kyi
- Dr. Maung Htoo : Professor
- U Kyaw : Principal, Workers’ College; Rector, Institute of Education; Father of U Myo Nyunt (Harry, OPA) & Daw San San Kyaw (UCC)
U Kyaw
- U Win : Received Doctorate from USA; GIS; Water Resource
Posts
- Games
- GBNF : Gone But Not Forgotten
- Guardian
February 26, 2026
Names E
- E, Dr. U — Rector
- E Maung — Burmese Professor
Ed, Eddie, Edward
- Ed
- Eddie : Eddie Shein, Eddie Teoh
- Edward : Edward Hla Shwe, Edward Maung Oo, Edward Saw (Yu Ket), Edward Sett, Edward Than Maung (Tin Maung Maung Than)
Edwin
- Edwin Ba Hein (Yi Thway), Edwin David (Rev.), Edwin Ngwe (Aye Ngwe)
- Elanor : Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eileen
- Ellen : Ellen Tin Maung
- Emily : Emily Ba Aye, Emily Than Pe
Eng
- Lim Htyan Eng, Eng Eng Chan, Eng Hwang (Maung Maung)
- England Sein
Eric
- Eric Chan (Sonny), Eric Lwin (Than Lwin)
- Esther : Esther Ohnmar Myint, Esther Sin Kee
- Ethan : Ethan Kay
February 26, 2026
Dr. Chit Swe
by Hla Min

Update : Feb 2026

Highlights

Dr. Chit Swe 1

Education ပညာရေး
- Mandalay University
- B.Sc(Special) from Imperial College, London University
- Masters from Glasgow University
- Doctorate from University of Liverpool
Experience လုပ်ငန်းအတွေ့အကြုံ
- Professor of Maths, RASU သင်္ချာပါမောက္ခ၊ ရန်ကုန် ဝ/သ တက္ကသိုလ်
- Founder Director of UCC တက္ကသိုလ်များ ကွန်ပျူတာဌာန တည်ထောင် သူ / ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး
- Rector of RASU ပါမောက္ခချုပ်၊ ရန်ကုန် ဝ/သ တက္ကသိုလ်
- Commanding Officer, UTC တပ်မှူး၊ တက္ကသိုလ် လေ့ကျင့်ရေး / အရံ တပ်
- President, Burma Judo Federation ဥက္ကဌ၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဂျူဒို အဖွဲ့ချုပ်
- Founding member, BARB မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဝေဒသုတေသနအဖွဲ့
- Supervised students & researchers in Bangkok သုတေသနကျမ်းပြု သူများကို ကြီးကြပ်
- Visiting Professor of Macquarie University, Sydney ဧည့်ပါမောက္ခ
Family မိသားစု

Dr. Chit Swe & Family
- Spouse : Daw Khin Khin Latt
- Children : Dr. Moe Thu, U Thu Ta, Dr. Kyaw Thu, Dr. Swe Latt, Chit Khin
Last Journey
- Passed away in Sydney on 25th November, 2019
Obituary

Dr. Chit Swe 1

Castlebrook Memorial Park Crematorium

Date : 28 November 2019

Time : 12 – 2 PM (Australia AEDT)

Location : 712 – 746 Windsor Road

Rouse Hill NSW 2155

(Opposite Rouse Hill Shopping Center)

Web site: https://www. castlebrook.com.au

Memories
- Young Couple
- With young sons
With two youngest sons
- UCC Yahan Khan
UCC Yahan Khan
- With Saya Dr. F Ba Hli, U Myo Min, Dr. Kyaw Thein & U Aung Zaw
With Sayas
- Mini-SPZP in Sydney (2006)
Sydney 2006

Sydney
- Pu Zaw Pwe (2013)
Dr. Chit Swe 2

Updates
- Several sayas — Dr. Freddie Ba Hli, Dr. Chit Swe, Dr. Kyaw Thein & U Aung Zaw — are GBNF.
- Saya’s family offered Soon Kyways in Sydney & Myanmar. Their donations include a bus for hospital services.
Posts
- Computing Pioneers in Burma
- Mathematics
- Memories of UCC
- Rectors
- Sayas
February 26, 2026
U Tin U 3
- Scholar Athlete
- Survived a Kidnapping (with intent to kill him)
- Had good memory and strong hands until his final days
Tin U
- Passed away in Yangon on August 19, 2025
- He was 96 years young.
Obituary

Obituary

Final Journey
- Attended by Family members, relatives and friends
Invitation for Yet Le Soon Kyway

Aye Aye Khin (Daughter)

Thin Thiri Tun (Granddaughter)

Academic & Experience
- BSCE (Oregon State University)
- MSCE (Yale University)
- Former Part-time Lecturer, Civil
- Former Director, Clark & Grieg
- Former Advisor, InterKiln
- Former Advisor, PWD Architect Group 2
- Oldest & Most Senior Past Captain, Rangoon University Boat Club
- Past Captain, Rangoon Golf Club
- Former Treasurer, Burma Society of Civil Engineers
Family

U Tin U, Aye Aye Khin, Daw Cherry, Ye Myint, Peter

Spouse

Dr. Cherry 1
- Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt (Cherry) — passed away in November 2019
- She did Nutrition Research at BMRI.
Children

Peter & his mom Dr. Cherry

Family & Relatives

Aye Aye. Dr. Cherry, Dr. Peter, U Tin U

Family & Relatives 2

Daw San San Aye, U Tin U, Dr. Ye Myint& Dr. Aye Sandar
- Dr. Khin Tun (Peter, MRCP, Former Associate Dean of Oxford University, passed away in April 2020) & Daw Winmar;
- Daw Aye Aye Khin (B.Com, CPA) & U Tin Tun (passed away in May 2020)
- Dr. Ye Myint (Fellowship training in Intensive Care and Anesthesia, Took care of his father’s health in the final days) & Daw San San Aye
YM 1

YM 2

YM 3

Grandchildren
- Min Ko & Prudence
- Ye Aung
- Dr. Aye Sandar
- Thin Thiri Tun
- Dr. Khin Sandy Tun
Great Grandchildren
- Su Wai Tun
- Hnin Wai Tun
Peter, Winmar, Ye Aung, Min Ko

Siblings

U Tin U, Ruby, Father U Chan Sein, Betty

Ba Than, Myo Tint, Myo Min, Thaung Lwin, Tin Htoon, Tin U

U Tin Htoon, U Tin U, U Ba Than, U Thaung Lwin, Dr. Myo Tint

Six Siblings
- U Ba Than (Scholarship Winner in 1947, Gold Medalist for I.Sc in 1949, Alumnus of Imperial College, Retd. Prof. of Mech. Engg) — GBNF
- Dr. Daw Win Hlaing (Ruby)
- Daw Myint Thwe (Betty, B.Com, Spouse of Dr. F Ba Hli) — GBNF
- Dr. Myo Tint (3rd in Burma in 1952, RUBC Captain) — GBNF
- U Tin Htoon (A60, RUBC Captain, ARAE Champion, SEAP Silver Medalist in Yachting)
- U Myo Min (1st in I.Com & B.Com, Chartered Acct, UCC Co-founder)
- U Thaung Lwin (Scholarship Winner in 1960, First in EC66, RUBC Captain)
- Daw Cho Cho Hlaing (CRO, German Diploma)
Highlights
- Matriculated from St. John’s Dio in 1946
- Represented RUBC at the 1948 Independence Day Regatta at Kandawgyi with Pe Nyun, Pe Thein and Khin Maung Wint
1948 Independence Day Regatta

Rowing
- Four brothers — Tin U, Myo Tint, Tin Htoon & Thaung Lwin — are RUBC Captain & Gold
- Two other brothers — Ba Than and Myo Min — are RUBC Green
Tin U & Thaung Lwin

RUBC Captains
- Photo shows Five RUBC Captains. Sein Htoon (Cox) is a cousin; he is 1960 ARAE Champion
Most Senior Past Captain
- Captain of Rangoon University Boat Club (1948 – 49)
RUBC
- As the Most Senior and Oldest Past Captain of RUBC, U Tin U was invited to open the RUBC Centennial Celebration in 2023
RUBC Centennial

Bridge
- Played with friends (e.g Richard Po Ohn)
- Played with Uncle and two cousins
Golf
- Past Captain, RGC
- Played with senior (e.g U Yaw Hlaing) & junior (e.g U Soe Paing) partners until his early 80s
Memories
- Relaxing in the garden
Tin U
- Visit
With Than Htut

Interviews
- For RGC (Rangoon Golf Club)
- For HMEE (History of Myanmar Engineering Education)
- For his grandson Min Ko
Kidnap Survivor
- See account by his son Dr. Khin Tun (Peter)
Yahan Khan

Yahan Khan

Garawa
- SPZP-2012
SPZP-2012
- PWD Architect 2 Group
PWD 1

PWD 2

PWD 3

Birthday Presents
- Photo Album for 90th birthday by Tin Htoon & Htaik San
- Photo Cards for several birthdays by Tin Htoon & family
Birthday Card from U Tin Htoon & family

Posts
- ARAE Champions
- Ba Than
- BSCE
- GBNF
- HMEE
- Matriculates
- RUBC
- Tin Htoon
- UCC
February 26, 2026