U Hla Shwe (T69, GBNF)

• He graduated with Textile Engineering in 1969.

• He joined the Faculty at RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology).
• He retired as Associate Professor.
• When a bootlicker asked him to end his class to pay respect to a visiting Taing Hmu, he continued teaching. A post about the event caused some alumni (who did not know him) to donate to his medical expenses fund.
• He and Saya U Tin Shwe (EP66) passed away about the same time.
  They are GBNF (Gone But Not Forgotten).
• They are remembered by Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War) in his Kabyar (poem) “To the Shwe Duo”.

• I translated the poem.

“ရွှေ နှစ် ရွှေ သို့ “

ရွှေနှစ်ရွှေ…..

ဝေတော့လည်း တူ

ကြွေတော့လည်း အတူတူ

ငြူစူခြင်း ကင်း

မျှဉ်းမျှဉ်း အသက်ရှူ

စိုက်ထူမှတ်တိုင်

မယိမ်းယိုင်ခဲ့…..

မနိုင်ဝန် ပိ

အလှည့်သင့်လာ

သောအခါ မှာ

ခန္ဓာအမွေ

ကြွေသာ ကြွေလည်း

မသေ ဝိညာဉ် ဝဲပျံနေသေးတကား ….။ ။

( ကိုတင်ရွှေ- လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နှင့် ကိုလှရွှေ- ချည်မျှင် သို့)

တက္ကသိုလ် မိုးဝါ

(၂၆ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂ဝ၁၅ – ည ၉:၅၅ နာရီ)

To the SHWE Duo

Poem by Tekkatho Moe War
Translated by Hla Min

SHWE duo
Blossom in unison
Disappear together
Free from complaint
Even with thin breath
Showed mark [of courage and wisdom]
Never ever wavered …
Pressed by burden
At the awaited turn [of journey’s end]
Body — inheritance [from previous lives]
Succumbs [to failing health]
Yet, “Wei-nyin” is fresh, alive and hovering.

** Notes

* K K Wong / Sein Myint wrote :

He is a Straight forward guy, also jolly guy.

A lot of our Batch guys are Straight Forward Guys. I saw Some Guys still wanting to Lift Balls.

When you are A Straight Forward Guy, better prepare your loopholes or at least One Good Loop Hole.

Then you can say, don’t worry be happy!!!

* Sai Kyaw Myint wrote :

He was much similar like me in the manner

of against proud group. No one is above the law.

* Saya U Moe Aung gave me some of his works.

One was a collection of his poems.

Another was a collection of his articles.

I translated selected poems and articles.

* Saya and four other RIT poets — Okpo Maung Yin Maung, Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla), Ko Toee (Myit Che) and Win Myint (M72, Kabyaung) published poems related to Swel Daw Yeik.

Bagyee Myat Myo Myint illustrated the poems.

I received copies of the book from two authors.