HlaMin

Month: May 2025

  • Peter’s Drawings for Cho Cho Hlaing’s Thesis

    Thesis for Diploma in German

    In 1981, Cho Cho Hlaing studied for Diploma in German. A requirement was to submit a thesis. She chose to describe “The cultural background of preparing and serving of Burmese Food“.

    The thesis comprised of 8 chapters. The first chapter described Dana, such as offering (Soon Laung De) to a row of Sanghas (monks), and Soon Kyway at home.

    For each chapter Peter (Khin Tun) did a wonderful drawing. There were altogether ten drawings which clearly express the text, “A Picture is Worth A Thoughtful Words”.

    Cho Cho Hlaing gained Credit in the Final Exam.

    The Professor was very impressed with Peter’s drawings.

    Cho Cho Hlaings’s Thesis for Diploma in German

    Offering of Ah Yone Soon in the village

    Food offered to monks at dusk by the villagers

    Drawing 1

    Preparing for Soon Kway in the village

    Drawing 2

    Soon Kyway

    Drawing 3

    Rice / Paddy fields

    Drawing 4

    A hut in the Rice / Paddy field

    Drawing 5

    The boys at the monastery having meal on Daunglan

    Drawing 6

    Staple food from different parts of Burma

    Drawing 7

    Burmese Htamin Waing

    Drawing (missing)

    What shall I eat?

    As Myanmar is located between two gastronomical countries (China and India) the boy was thinking and scratching his head thinking what he should eat.

    Drawing 8

    Three specialties that are described in detail in the thesis

    La Phet (Pickled Tea Leaves),

    Htamane (Sticky Rice)

    and Thingyan Htamin (Specially prepared for consuming during the Thingyan Water Festival).

    Drawing 9

    Note :

    • One drawing is missing. Hope Cho Cho Hlaing has the original or copy.

  • Gatherings

    At Hokkaido Seafood Restaurant in 2010

    Gathering 1

    Alumni Mini-gathering

    • Saya U San Tun & spouse
    • Saya U Kyi Kong Tham
    • Saya U Maung Maung (George)
    • U Hla Min & spouse
    • U Benny Tan
    • U Maurice Chee
    • Saya U Thein Aung & spouse
    • Daw Mu Mu Kin (spouse of Saya Allen Htay)
    Gathering 2

    Saya U Soe Paing’s visit to the SF Bay Area

    Two mini-gatherings

    • Lunch at a restauraunt
    • At Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt’s house
    Gathering 3
    Gathering 4

  • NorCal RITAA Dinner in 2016

    Alumni Appreciation Award

    NorCal 1

    Executive Committee & Board of Directors

    U San Lin, U Thaung Nyunt, U Aung Myint Oo, Maurice Chee, Water Tan, U Myat Htoo, Gordon Kaung, U Hla Min, U Myint Swe, U Ko Ko Zin, U Nyunt Than

    NorCal 2

    EC, BOD, Family & Friends

    NorCal 3

    U Myat Htoo, Chair, BOD

    NorCal 4

    Swel Daw Yeik Minthamee from 1970 still enjoys dancing

    Daw Mya Than Win was Minthamee of Swel Daw Yeik Ah Nyeint at 1970 RU Jubilee Celebrations

    NorCal 5

    Some Attendees from NorCal

    NorCal 6
    NorCal 7

    Guests from SoCal (U Myo Myint Sein, Dr. Tin Win, U Thura Thant Zin)

    NorCal 8

    Photos : Richard Khoo (Dhatu Kyaw Lynn, ChE75)

  • Four GBNF in 2017 & 2018

    U Myint Thein (Maung Kabar, M69)

    • Passed away on October 22, 2017
    • He was active in 69er activities.
    • He is seen with U Tint Lwin (Daniel, M69) and U Aung Myint (M69) during his visit (including medical check up) to Singapore.
    • Photos of Kabar’s last journey.
    Kabar 1
    Kabar 2
    Kabar 3
    Kabar 4

    U Chit Tin (EC69)

    • He is one of the four EC69ers to pass away.
      The others are U Kyaw Soe, U Aung Thu Yein (Brownie Way) and U Oo Kyaw Hla.
    • He is seen with Kabar at a 69er gathering at M3. Both are GBNF.
    Chit Tin

    U Ye Htut (M)

    • Passed away on October 21, 2018
    • Newspaper clipping
      Reported by U Win Myint
      Posted by U Khin Maung Than
    Ye Htut

    Daw Khin Khin Aye (Kitty)

    • Passed away of December 2, 2018
    • Younger sister of U Myo Myint (EC67) & Sayama Daw Tin Tin Win (RIT Chemistry)
    Kitty

  • Brief Biography of Gotama Buddha

    By Dr. Khin Maung U

    Dr. Khin Maung U

    Mahā Calendar Year 67 (623 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Thursday): Conception took place.

    Mahā Calendar Year 68 (624 BC) – Full Moon Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Friday): Born in Lumbini Park (now known as Padaria in modern Nepal.
    Name as Buddha: Gotama
    Name as Prince: Prince Siddattha
    Mother: Mahā Māyā Devi
    Father: King Suddhodana Mahārājā
    City: Kāpilavatthu (now in India)
    Royal Bride: Princess Yasodharā Devi
    Son: Prince Rāhula

    Mahā Calendar Year 97 (595 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Monday): Renounced worldly life, became an ascetic to seek enlightenment.

    Mahā Calendar Year 103 (589 BC – Full Moon Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Wednesday): Attained enlightenment, became a Buddha. (Time: At dawn on the first Waxing Day of Kason (Vesākhā))

    Mahā Calendar Year 104 (589 BC) – Full Moon Day of Waso (Saturday): Expounded Dhammacakkapavatthana Sutta

    Mahā Calendar Year 148 (544 BC) – Full Moon Day of Kason (Tuesday): In the Sāla Grove in the City of Kusināra in Māllas (modern Kasia in the eastern part of Nepal), Buddha passed into Nibbānna.)

    Mahā Calendar Year 148 (544 BC) – 12th Waxing Day of Kason (Vesākhā) (Sunday): The Buddha’s remains burned on their own in cremation.

    Notes

    • Dr. Khin Maung U (SPHS63) stood First in Burma in the Matriculation.
    • He is a Multiple Luyechun (Outstanding Student) at IM (1).
    • He did Teaching & Research in Burma and USA.
    • He translated a part of Dr. Nandamalabhivansa’s course on Abhidhamma.
    • He and his spouse Dr. Nyunt Nyunt Wai are Gawpaka at a monastery in Maryland, USA.

  • U Thet Lwin

    By Tekkatho Moe War (U Moe Aung)

    Pon Tu
    U Thet Lwin 1
    U Thet Lwin 2
    U Thet Lwin 3


    သည်ည အိပ်မပျော်သေးမီ သူငယ်ချင်း ကိုသက်လွင် (ကဗျာဆရာ မောင်ငွေလှိုင်း) တစ်ယောက် နေမှကောင်းရဲလား သတိတရဖြစ်နေ၍ အတွေးနယ်ချဲ့လိုက်သည်မှာ…

    ၂၀၂၀ပြည့်နှစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁ရက် ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်ရာပြည့်အထိမ်းအမှတ်ပွဲ မကျင်းပလိုက်ရခြင်းအတွက် တနုန့်နုန့်ခံစားနေရဆဲဟူ
    သည့် အဖြစ်ကို တွေးနေမိပြန်သည်။

    တကယ်တော့ သူငယ်ချင်းမောင်ငွေလှိုင်းသည် စာရေးသူနှင့် ၁၉၅၈ ဝန်းကျင်ကတည်းက ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်ကလောင် အသင်းတွင် အတူပါဝင်လှုပ်ရှားခဲ့ကြသည်။

    ထိုစဥ်အချိန်က နာမည်ကြီး “မြကျွန်းညိုညိုတက္ကသိုလ်” သီချင်းကို သူရေး ပြီးပြီ။ ယခုတိုင် လူကြိုက်များနေဆဲ။

    ဖြစ်ချင်တော့လည်း စာရေးသူ ရန်ကုန်စက်မှု တက္ကသိုလ်တွင်ရှိနေချိန် သူက မော်ကွန်းထိန်း အနေဖြင့်ရောက်လာတော့ အစစအရာရာ စာပေ အနုပညာလုပ်ငန်းကိစ္စအတွက်ပိုမို အဆင်ချော
    သွားသည်ပေါ့။

    အခုလည်း မနှစ်က သူ့သီချင်းကို MRTV ကလွှင့် သွားခဲ့သည်ကို တစ်ဖန်ပြန်လည်တင်ပြပါရစေ။
    အခြားတစ်နေရာ၌ နားသောတဆင်နိုင်ကြပါသည်ခင်ဗျား….

    စာရေးဆရာ ကဗျာဆရာများဖြင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့် ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်ကလောင်အသင်း။
    နောက်တန်း –ဘယ်အစွန် မောင်ငွေလှိုင်း၊ တတိယ– စာရေးသူ။
    ရှေ့တန်း– ယာမှ ကြူကြူသင်း၊ ရွှေကူမေနှင်း ၊ +++++၊ မောင်ဆွေတင့် -ရှုမဝ။

    Comments

    • U Thet Lwin graduated from St. Paul’s High School (SPHS) in 1957. His Burmese teacher was Saya U Sein (father of Dr. Soe Win, First in Burma in 1958, Retired Rector of YUFL).
    • He taught Burmese at the Institute of Economics. He composed the song “Mya Kyun Nyo Nyo” which has been sung at the RU Centennial and at many other events (including the RIT Worldwide Saya Pu Zaw Pwes).
    Composer / Pianist Maung Ngwe Hlinne (U Thet Lwin)
    • He and Saya Dr. Aung Gyi (then, Professor of Civil Engineering) were members of the RU Golden Jubilee Celebrations Committee in 1970. They would reunite again at Rangoon Institute of Technology as Registrar and Rector.
    • He and Saya U Moe Aung were EC members of the “RU Kalaung Ah Thinn” for the academic year 1959-1960 along with Kyu Kyu Thinn, Shwe Ku May Hnin and Maung Swe Tint (Shumawa).
    • Sayas U Thet Lwin and U Moe Aung were active in the publication of RIT Annual Magazines, and RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn.
    • He retired as Director of DHE (Directorate of Higher Education).

  • Toastmaster

    Brief history

    First club founded at Santa Ana, California, USA in 1924.

    My journey to DTM

    Hla Min (DTM)
    • Every new member is provided a mentor.
    • I was fortunate to have a Double DTM as my mentor.
    • I completed both the Communication track and Leadership track to become a DTM.

    Communication track

    • CC (Competent Communicator)
    • ACB (Advanced Communicator Bronze)
    • ACS (Advanced Communicator Silver)
    • ACG (Advanced Communicator Gold)

    Leadership track

    • CL (Competent Leader)
    • ALB (Advanced Leader Bronze)
    • ALS (Advanced Leader Silver)

    DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster)

    Requirements include

    • Completion of speeches and projects, serving as an officer in club and beyond (area, division, district), mentor or club coach, and organizer of contests.
    • Advanced Communicator Gold
    • Advanced Leader Silver
    Hla Min

    Hall of Fame

    • Distinguished Toastmaster
    • Triple Crown
    • Leadership Excellence
    • Advanced Leader Silver
    Hall of Fame 1
    Hall of Fame 2

  • YTU Scholarship Fund

    Before the pandemic, NorCal RITAA provided Scholarship and/or Financial Aid to eligible YTU students,

    NorCal RITAA awards

    NorCal RITAA provided financial support for seven YTU students.

    Four were given $1000 each.

    Three were given $500 each.

    Scholarship 1

    Volunteers for Selection

    Scholarship 2

    Several RITAA members volunteered to interview the applicants and proposed a short list to NorCal RITAA for the awards.

    Eight members of the Pre-selection Committee are seen together with the seven recipients.

    Donors

    The following donated $500 or more to NorCal RITAA for the YTU Scholarship Fund. Some are repeated donors. The complete list of donations is maintained by the Treasurer of NorCal RITAA.

    • Daw Mu Mu Kin Htay, spouse of Saya Allen Htay (C58, GBNF)
    Daw Mu Mu Kin
    • U San Lin (M87) and Daw Tin Lay Win
    • U Myo Aung (M85) and Daw Thida
    • U Myint Swe (EP74) and Daw San San (EC74)
    • U Maung Maung Win (Maung YIT, EC93) and Daw Than Htay (ChE92)
    • Daw Yo Shu (Yee Yee Win, EE74)
    • U Tin Maung Win (C76) and Daw Thida Khin Win
    • Gordon Kaung (M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83)
    • U Kyaw Myint (M83)

    Raffle Drawing and Auction

    NorCal RITAA Picnic

    To raise the YTU Scholarhip Fund, a Raffle Drawing was held at the 2018 NorCal RITAA Summer Picnic at Coyote Point Park, San Mateo.

    Thanks to the donors of the prizes, to the attendees who eagerly bought the raffle tickets, and to Daw San San (EC74) and Edward Saw (Yu Ket, EC85) for serving as Raffle Masters.

    Gordon Kaung (Kaung Kaung Oo, M83) and Lillian Kaung (EC83) generously donated three iNapa Premium Wine bottles. Each bottle sells for $75 – $80 on the Internet.

    One bottle was put as as the Grand Raffle Prize. It was won by Ma Thandar, the youngest alumni present at the Picnic.

    Two bottles were put on auction.

    • U Sann Naing (M84) and spouse, owners of Burma Kitchen, successfully bid for the first bottle.
    • U Walter Tan (M70) and spouse successfully bid for the second bottle.
    • The sales from the auction $240 also went to the YTU scholarship fund.

  • My Life

    • The photos cover different events in my life.
    • They are sampling of some of my activities.

    Let Oo Saya

    My beloved parents

    SPHS

    St. Paul’s High School
    Scholarship Holders

    RIT

    • Admitted as Top student to 2nd BE in November 1964
    • Selected Luyechun in the Summer of 1965
    • Graduated in 1969 with B.E. (EC)
    69ers

    RIT EE Association

    • Served initially as Class Representative and Magazine Committee Member
    • Later became Joint Secretary and Secretary of the Association
    RIT EE
    Hlyat Sit Sar Saung

    RUBC

    • Full Green
    • Former Treasurer
    • Former Vice Captain
    • Contributing Editor for RUBC 90th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine
    • Donor for publishing the Autobiography of Sir Arthur Oeggar
    RUBC 90th Anniversary
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    Old Members Association
    Sir Arthur Eggar
    95th Anniversary Regatta

    UCC, DCS & ICST

    UCC 1
    UCC 2
    UCC 3
    UCC 4
    UCC 5

    Newsletters

    • RIT Alumni Newsletter
    RIT Alumni Newsletter
    • Dhammananda Newsletter
    • BAPS Newsletter

    SPZP

    • Core organizer for SPZP-2000 (in California. USA)
    • Coordinator for SPZPs in Singapore and Yangon
    SPZP-2000

    SF Bay Area Alumni Group

    Bay 1
    Bay 2
    Bay 3

    Paying respect to Sayas

    U Ba Toke

    With Sayas U Ba Toke, U Ba Than and U Tin Htut

    Saya U Moe Aung

    • Saya’s pen name : Tekkatho Moe War
    • I translated some of his articles and poems.
    • Saya gave me presents (books, magazines and longyi)
    With Saya U Moe Aung

    NorCal RITAA

    With Ko Tin Maung Win and Ko San Lin
    Annual Dinner
    Appreciation Award

    Public Speaking and Leadership

    DTM 1
    DTM 2

    Special Pu Zaw Pwe hosted by Steeve

    With Benny
    standing beside poster of Steeve

    My Beloved Spouse
    (Grandma of my Myees)

    With my beloved spouse
    Anniversary Cruise
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    Life savers

    My Writings

    • Poem
    • Translation of Kabyar (Burmese Poem)
    • Translation of Saung Par (Burmese Article)
    Ngapali (Sample Poem)

    Literary Talks

    • Annual Talks
    • Special Talks by Visiting Authors
    With Myo Sint and Min Ko Naing
    at SF Bay Area Literary Talk
    5th Irrawaddy Literary Festival
    With Apk

    Sample Visits

    • Australia
    • Canada
    • Halin
    • UK
    Visit to Sydney in 2016
    Windsor, Canada
    From Halin (Heritage Site)
    Wales, UK

    Luyechun

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    Inlay Luyechun

    HMEE

    HMEE 1
    HMEE 2
    CD Supplement by Hla Min & Ohn Khine

  • Gatherings

    • There are alumni gatherings, mini-gatherings and micro-gatherings all over the world.
    • They complement/supplement the world-wide Grand Reunion and SPZPs.
    • Some are scheduled (e.g. monthly, quarterly).
    • Some are ad hoc (e.g. welcome)
    • Some are meetings for serious business.
    • Some include food (pot luck, iNapa wine) and fun (karaoke, birthday cake after “kisses”).
    • They complement/supplement the world-wide Grand Reunion and SPZPs.