by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Gifts

Pon Tu

• From Bagyee Myat Myo Myint (U Myo Myint)

• See Post — Pon Tu

SPZP-2000

• Sayagyi U Ba Toke (GBNF) gave me a set of Coasters

• U Tun Aung (Jefferey, GBNF) gave me a commemorative pen

• U Aye Win Hlaing (Abel) & Daw Phyu Phyu Latt (Christine) gave me a toy bear.

2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles

• U Aye Lwin (GBNF) gave me a miniature painting

• U Khin Maung Tun gave me indigenous medicine and a CD player loaded with dhamma talks.

Yangon

• M72 gave me “Thamudaya Kyaung” CD.

• Saya Moe & U Nyunt Htay gave me books, magazines & sar saungs.

• Daw Gyn Yu gave me Balashin ဗလရှင် and Thai balm.

• Saya U Ba Toke gave me an autographed copy of his book.

Golden Jubilee

• From KMZ

• From Zaw Tun & Ma Kyu

Guests of

Dr. Soe Thein

• He invited me to attend the Civil Engineering Gathering (held before SPZP-2007) and introduced me to the audience. He invited me to attend the C-75 dinner held at M3 in Yangon in 2012.

Class of 70, 71 & 72

• Attended meetings of Combined 1st BE intake of 64 and 65, and the group’s Reunion and Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe.

• Attended gatherings (PZP, Dinner, Lunch) by the Class of 72 in general and M72 in particular.

Steeve Kay

• Meeting alumni in Los Angeles
• QTC Anniversary
• 40th Anniversary of Arrival in USA

• Special Reunion & Acariya Pu Zaw Pwe

Hosts

Singapore

• Ko Tin Aung Win (C81, UCC) hosted me during my trip to Singapore to attend SPZP-2007.
  He treated me (individually & with group) during my other visits.

• Ko Win Latt (UCC)

• Ko Zaw Tun (UCC) & Ma Kyu

• Ko Ngwe Soe (UCC) & Ma Nu

• Ma Pale (UCC) & Ko Ye

California

• Saya U Tin Htut

• U Tin Htoon

• U Aung Khin

• Ma Phyu Phyu Kyaw

Texas

• Dr. Ba Han & Lillian

• U San Lin (Robert) & Marina

• Thamee KZO & Myo

• U San Myint Thane (Sammy)

Canada

• Saya U Aung Khin

• Saya Dr. Aung Gyi & Daw Emma

East Coast

• Ivan Lee

• Fred Thetgyi

• Dr. L Sein Myint
• U Wynn Myint Aung (GBNF)
• U Htin Lin
• Uncle U Thein Han & Aunty
• U TAG & Daw KMM
• Tom & Kim

Some Invitations

• Ko Htay Aung (Victor) invited me to attend the RIT Alumni Dinner Gathering in Sydney in 2006.

• Saya U Ba Than (GBNF) took me to Mech Engineering sayas’ lunch gathering at Kone Myint Tha.
• Ko Thant Zin (GBNF) invited me to attend the inaugural All Mech Gathering at Dolphin restaurant.
• Ko Ohn Khine & others invited me to join another All Mech Gathering at a restaurant in Pyithu Yin Pyin.
• Ko Wai Lwin & friends invited me to join two Dinner gatherings : Feel restaurant to celebrate Daw Emma Gyi’s birthday, and at Ko Nyan Tun U’s compound to welcome Sayas Dr. Aung Gyi & Dr. San Hla Aung.
• Thanks to hosts of 69er monthly breakfast gatherings, lunch gatherings, annual dinner & entertainment. Ko Aung Min & team; Sponsors, Donors, Guitarists, Vocalists & Dancers

Appreciation Awards

• At SPZP-2000
• On August 20, 2016, Maurice Chee organized a birthday Soon Kyway at Dhammanda Vihara, Half Moon Bay.
  Several sayas and alumni brought sumptuous dishes and desserts. I received “Alumni Appreciation Award” (for the second time).
• At the Norcal RITAA Annual Dinner in 2016, I received “Alumni Award” (for the third time).

Transportation

USA

• KMZ
• Ivan
• L Sein Myint
• Wynn Myint Aung
• San Myint Thein
• San Lin (Robert)
• Benny
• Maurice
• Aung Myint Oo
• Yu Ket (Ed Saw)
• Myint Swe
• Tin Maung Win
• Ko Ko Zin
• Kyi Aung (Roland)
• Phyu Phyu Kyaw (UCC)
• and more provided me rides in the USA.

Singapore

• Khin Maung Myint & nephew
• Tint Lwin (Daniel)
• Tin Aung Wynn
• Ngwe Soe (Silver)
• Zaw Tun
• Pale
• and more provided me rides in Singapore

Yangon

• Ko Myo
• Aung Min
• Khin Mg Bo (Allan, GBNF)
• Kyaw Min Thein (Kenneth)
• Kyaw Zin
• Myint Thein (Kabar, GBNF)
• Myo Nyunt
• Than Win
• Tin Aung Win (Oscar)
• Tin Win
• Win Maung (Lake)
• Zau Lai (Duwa)
• Ohn Khine
• Saw Lin (GBNF)
• Myint Pe
• Tin Oo
• Mg Mar Ga
• Ye Myint
• Pansy Thin
• U Win
• Dr. Sann Oo
• Hla Win
• Than Tun
• Kyaw Phone Myint (Victor, MARB)
• Edwin Ngwe (SPHS)
• Aung Myin Bo (MARB)
• KK (Smart)
• Mar Mar Soe (UCC)
• Saw Yan Naing (ICST)
• Kyaw Min, Dr. (SPHS)
• and more provided me rides in Yangon.

Gatherings

• Singapore gatherings : M73 Group & Saya Winston, Daniel & 69er Group, RIT-UCC Alumni

• Alumni gatherings in SF Bay Area : RIT Alumni International; Norcal RITAA;
  Celebrations (birthday, anniversary); Welcome sayas & alumni (out of state); Ko Aung Myaing & Ma Gyn Yu

• Saya U Soe Paing & Ma Alice
  Many gatherings at their house
• Saya U Tin Htut : Hosted me at his new house; Took me to BASES dinner and Soon Kyway the following day
• Dr. Sann Oo & Ma Than Yi :
  Dinner in 2016; Lunch & Tour of their hospital in 2019

• Ko Aung Kyaw Myint (Eddie Shein : Wedding reception of his daughter (Medical doctor in Australia)
• Don Min U Yu Swan & Sayama Emma Myint : Several sessions of food & entertainment

• Ko Nyunt Htay : Shwe Bei
• Dr. Win Aung : Dinner after East Coast Reunion

Kudos to

• Contributors of articles, news
  and photos

• Those who provided Feedback,
  Corrections & Captions

• Organizers & Volunteers of RT-related activities
• All who have kept the RIT Spirit alive and well
• I belong to several circles and communities. I may have missed some non-alumni & related gatherings.

Feedback

Aung Min wrote :

Junior များ

လက်ဆင့်ကမ်းကြလော့

My reply :

Need organizers like U Aung Min

Aung Myaing wrote :

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away making you healthy and happy.

Zaw Winn wrote :

My Appreciations Dear Senior,

Your affection for our Alma Mater is unparalleled and will be in our memories for ever.

Mg Mar Ga wrote :

အကို့ကြောင့်သာဒိလိုမှတ်တမ်းမှတ်ရာတွေအသေအချာကျန်ခဲ့တာပါအကို့ခြေရာနင်းနိုင်ဖို့နောက်တယောက်ထပ်ရှိဖို့မလွယ်ပါတကယ်ပြောတာပါမှတ်ညဏ်ရယ်​စေတနာရယ်အချိန်ပေးနိုင်မှုရယ်ဆောင်ရွက်တတ်မှုဆိုတာသာမန်လူလုပ်နိုင်ခဲလွန်းလှတယ်RIT Archive လုပ်ဖို့အကိုတအားတိုက်တွန်းခဲ့တာမှတ်မိတယ်ကြိုးစားစခဲ့ပေမဲ့တကယ်ကအကိုလုပ်ပြီးသားထက်ရေှ့မတိုးနိုင်ခဲ့ တကယ်ကိုရင်ထဲကချီးကျူးပါရ စေကျန်းမာသက်ရှည်လိုရာပြည့်ပါစေအကို

U Myo Myint wrote :

Mg Mar Ga

ဆရာ U Hla Min စုဆောင်းပြုစုမှတ်တမ်းတင်နေတဲ့‌အားထုတ်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များကို

ဦးဝင်းထိန်ဦးရဲ့မှတ်ချက်နဲ့ထပ်တူကျနော့်ရင်ထဲမှာလေးစားတန်ဖိုးထားချီးကျူးရပါကြောင်းနှင့်

ဆရာကိုယ်စိတ်နှစ်ပါးကျန်းမာ ချမ်းသာပါစေကြောင်း ထပ်ဆင့်ဆုတောင်းပါတယ်ခင်ဗျာ။

Wai Lu wrote :

These are extraordinary records. Maybe superman @ genius @ techniques.

San Lin wrote :

ပြီးခဲ့သမျှကို အရမ်းမှတ်မိသလို လုပ်လဲလုပ်နိုင်တဲ့ ဆရာဦးလှမင်း ကျန်းမာသက်ရှည်ပါစေ။

U Hla Myint Rit wrote :

Thanks to all. VV Nice. Be mindful

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