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Month: May 2025

  • Allen Htay

    SF Bay Area RIT Alumni

    • Saya Allen Htay (C58, GBNF) was the leader of the San Francisco Bay Area RIT Alumni.
    • He is a founding member of RIT Alumni International and served as President.
    • His article, “Brother, can you afford US$500?” helped with the Fund Raising of SPZP-2000 with five Golden Sponsors — Steeve Kay (Thaung Sein, EC70), Benny Tan (Yu Beng, M70), David Ko (Tin Myint, M67, GBNF), Ivan Lee (Khin Maung Oo, M69), Maung Maung Than (M79) — and many donors.

    Donation to YTU library

    • In memory of Saya Allen Htay (C58), Daw Mu Mu Khin donated books and book shelves to YTU Library.
    • Maurice Chee (M75) coordinated the shipment of Saya’s books.

    Financial Aid for eligible YTU students

    • In memory of Saya Allen Htay (C58), Daw Mu Mu Khin provided Financial Aid for eligible YTU students.
    • NorCal RITAA and ARITA coordinated with the selection of students.

  • 24

    • There are 24 hours in a day.
    • In the old days, most people use a film allowing 24 pictures.
    • 24mm and 35mm are two sample sizes for the old projectors.
    • There are 24 Relations in the Pathana.
    • “24 Hrs” is a TV series.
    • Several Health Insurance companies provides free access to “24 Hr Fitness” to eligible Seniors.
    • Time management is partly based on the fact that everyone — rich or poor — has 24 hours a day. Most people spend 8 hours a day for sleep. There are a few who sleep less (e.g. 4 hours) and live long and healthy. There are others who suffer (e.g. accidents in traffic and work) due to insufficient sleep.
    • Some provide 24 x 7 service. (7 days a week)
    • It is difficult if impossible to provide 24 x 365 service. (365 days for a common year).
    • World Cup had 16 finalists before it was expanded to 24 teams and beyond.

  • Shwe Ku May Hnin

    SF Bay Area Talks

    In addition to the Annual San Francisco Bay Area Literary Talks, there are also ad hoc talks by visiting Sar Yay Sayas and Sayamas.

    Brief Bio

    • Matriculated from Shwe Ku
    • Attended Rangoon University for two years as part of the agreement for Teachers’ Training
    • Returned to the University after teaching for several years and graduated.
    • Gave me the book “Nga Doh Khit Ka Tekkatho” at the San Francisco Bay Area Talk.
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    • EC Member of the RU Literary Club (1959 – 60)

  • Mini-gathering in Singapore

    RIT and UCC Sayas and Alumni

    Singapore

    Saya Dr. San Tint (EE61) and U Shein Soe Myint (EC83, UCC) are GBNF.

  • Down memory lane

  • Numbers

    0 (Zero)

    Zero has no value when it stands by itself. When a zero is placed to the right of a number, it increases the value N-fold (where N, say 10, is the Base or Radix of the Number System.

    10 (Ten)

    Ten stands for the number of fingers on our hands. It is used as the Base of the Decimal Number System. 10/10 (Ten out of Ten) is a perfect score in some contests (e.g. gymnastics, diving).

    20 (Twenty)

    Twenty is known as a “Score”. Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address starts with “Four scores and seven years ago”. In French and Pali, the number 80 is expressed as four 20s (instead of eight tens). A card name is known as Vingt-e-un (Twenty One).

    Per Dr. Kyaw Tint] : Maybe because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes, altogether adding up to score.

    60 (Sixty)

    Sixty has many factors : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 …
    It is used as a Base for Time and Angles.
    e.g 1 minute = 60 seconds
    1 hour = 60 minutes

    Powers of 2

    Two is used as a Base for the Binary Number System.
    Digital computers extensively use the system.

    Four, Eight and Sixteen are used as Bases (in Computer Science).

  • Protective Verses

    Protective Verses (1)

    ဗုဒ္ဓါနံ ဇိဝိတဿ နသက္ကာ ကေနစိ အန္တရာယောကာတုံ တထာမေဟောတုဧတေန သစ္စဝဇ္ဇေန သောတ္ထိ ဆန္ဒပြပြည်သူလူထုအပေါင်း ဟောတုသဗ္ဗဒါ

    မြတ်စွာဘုရား၏အသက် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကို တစုံတစ်ယောက်သောသူမှ ပြုချင်းငှာမတတ်နိုင်။ ဤမှန်သောသစ္စာကြောင့် ဆန္ဒပြသူအပေါင်း အခါခပ်သိမ်း ဘေးကင်းပါစေ

    Protective Verses (2)

    ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်ကိုယ်လုံးခြုံ

    ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်အိမ်လုံးခြုံ

    ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်လမ်းလုံးခြုံ

    ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်မြို့လုံးခြုံ

    ဉုံဗုဒ္ဓ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံဓမ္မ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ
    ဉုံသံဃာ့ စက္ခုံ တစ်ပြည်လုံးခြုံ

    မြန်မာ ပြည်သူ/ပြည်သားများ အားလုံး ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ကင်းကြပါစေ

  • Heritage

    • Heritage may stand for property handed over to an heir.
    • Heritage may mean tradition.
    • Heritage may mean something that is transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor

    UNESCO

    UNESCO provides grant for sites that have been accepted as “UNESCO Heritage Site”.

    Some ancient Pyu sites (e.g. Hanlin) are designated as UNESCO Heritage Site.

    Yangon Heritage Trust

    Yangon Heritage Trust has recognized several old schools as Yangon City Heritage. They include :

    • SPHS (St. Paul’s High School)
    • St. John’s College (originally called St. John’s Diocesan [Boys] School)
    • MEHS (Methodist English High School)
    • Myoma National School
    SPHS
    St. John’s Dio

    Historic Sites

    In the USA, some sites and buildings are deemed to be “historic” (e.g. 150+ years old).

    Restrictions are placed on how to upgrade them.

  • Lottery

    Types of Lottery

    The types of Lottery vary by country and state.

    Well known ones include

    • Power Ball
    • Mega Millions
    • Super Lotto

    The winners have an option to take the grand prize in installments over a specified period of years, or to take lump sum. They have to pay applicable taxes.

    The shop gets a commission for selling winning tickets.

    Aung Bar Lay

    • During our younger days, Aung Bar Lay Lottery announced the winners every two months (or so).
    • Resellers bought a set of 11 tickets for 20 kyats.
    • A lottery ticket sold for two kyats.
    • The top prize at one time was One Lakh Kyats.
    • One advertisement ran, “Do not reject the suitor outright. He has an ‘Aung Bar Lay’ ticket in his pocket.”

    Aung Su Pan and Imitators

    • Some (e.g. Aung Su Pan, Kandawgalay) became big distributors.
    • They promised to inform the winners (who do not need to find out from the newspapers or from the radio broadcasts.

    [Per Dr. Nyunt Wai] :

    To avoid law suit, Aung Kha Yu Pan was created. Near the main Aung Su Pan lottery shop in Thein-gyi-zay, we could see smaller shops on the platform in front. One of these was Aung Kha-Yu Pan. Hanging Sabai pan-gones (jasmine garlands) between Kha and Yu, the sign board looked just like Aung Su Pan. Because the main shop was crowded, some people bought tickets from Aung Kha Yu Pan, thinking it was a road-side stand of Aung Su Pan.

    Branding Campaigns

    • Cigarette manufacturers such as London Gold Flake (by U Win Shein & company) and Ludu Cigarette (by U Cho & company) started selling lottery tickets.
    • They require the buyer to provide a specified number of empty/used cigarette packets to get a lottery ticket from them.
    • The winners of the tickets received bonuses.
      Examples:
      One Lakh on top of the One Lakh prize.
      Vacation and/or round-trip air tickets

    Luck

    • According to statistics, there is a very low probability of winning the Grand Prize (often known as the Jack Pot).
    • There are many who have never won a lottery prize.
    • Yet, there are some lucky people who won the Grand Prize several times.
    • A few won lottery games several times in a single day.
    • Some rely on their luck and their guts to choose the time and place to buy lottery tickets.

  • 69er GBNF

    Architecture — 2 ယောက်

    1. တိုဘီ
      Tobias Kittim Ku
    2. တင်မောင်လှ
      Tin Maung Hla

    Metallurgical Engineering — 3 ယောက်

    1. မျိုးမြင့်
      Myo Myint
    2. မြသောင်း
      Mya Thaung
    3. မောင်ထွန်း
      Maung Tun

    Petroleum Production Engg. — 4 ယောက်

    • ကျော်ဆန်း
      Kyaw San
    • ညီမောင်
      Nyi Maung
    • အောင်မြင့်
      Aung Myint
    • မြင့်မောင်
      Myint Maung

    Chemical Engineering — 6 ယောက်

    • မ တင်နု
      Ma Tin Nu
    • အောင်မင်း
      Aung Min
    • အောင်မြတ်ကျော်
      Aung Myat Kyaw
    • မင်းထွန်းလှိုင်
      Mehm Tun Hlaing
    • မြင့်ဆွေ
      Myint Swe
    • ခင်မောင်ဦး
      Khin Maung Oo

    Mining Engineering — 10 ယောက်

    • ချစ်ဆွေ
      Chit Swe
    • ကျော်သန်း
      Kyaw Than
    • မြင့်ဆွေ
      Myint Swe
    • မြင့်ကြည်
      Myint Kyi
    • အောင်နိုင်
      Aung Naing
    • ချစ်ထွန်း
      Chit Tun
    • ကျော်စိုး
      Kyaw Soe
    • ကျော်တင့်
      Kyaw Tint
    • ခင်ကျော်ငြိမ်း
      Khin Kyaw Nyein
    • အောင်ဝင်း
      Aung Win

    Textile Engineering — 12 ယောက်

    • လှထွန်း
      Hla Tun
    • ဂျင်မီကြင်
      Jimmy Kyin
    • ကျော်ဒင်
      Kyaw Din
    • တင့်ဆွေ (အမရပူရ)
      Tint Swe
    • မ မြင့်မြင့်ကြည်
      Ma Myint Myint Kyi
    • ချစ်ဆွေ
      Chit Swe
    • ကျော်ဆင့်
      Kyaw Sint
    • စိန်ဝင်း
      Sein Win
    • လှရွှေ
      Hla Shwe
    • မ မင်းမင်းသန်း
      Ma Min Min Than
    • ကျော်မင်း
      Kyaw Min
    • နန်းစုစု
      Nan Su Su