Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • Nyunt Wai (Victor)

    Nyunt Wai (Victor)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    • Classmates in Standards VIII A, IX A and X A at St. Paul’s HS.
    VIII A
    • Stood 4th in Burma in Matric of 1963 and won Collegiate Scholarship.
    SPHS63
    • Graduated from Institute of Medicine (2). Wrote articles and drew paintings & cartoons for IM(2) magazine.
    • Doctorate from UK
    • Taught Physiology at IM(1), IM(2) and a Malaysian University.
    • Has compiled a list of Professors of Physiology.
    • Attended the Soon Kyway for Sayadaw Beatson (Physics teacher & Scout Master at SPHS).
    V Nyunt Wai 1
    • Artist and painter. He illustrated a book by Ashin Ananda (Reverend F Lustig, Laureate Poet).
    • Writes blogs, poems (including Kauk Kyaung Kabyar ကောက်ကြောင်းကဗျာ and Sagar Pariyae စကားပရိယာယ်).
    V Nyunt Wai 3
    • Dr. Nyunt Wai wrote :
      I’m no painter or a poet. Just occasional excursions to these fields. And I’m not a visiting Professor. Had to apply for this job in Malaysia just like any other expatriate from India or Bangladesh. So I’m no 3 “P”s. This reminds me of “No 3 P policy” of the now extinct Yahoo group Alumni-Myanmar-medical-institutes founded by Saya Johnny Thane Oke Kyaw-Myint, which served well as a lively forum for us until the advent of Facebook.

      Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint wrote :
      Yes AMIM was a tight small group of us. Those who became friends then remain now as close friends. On FB, there is short attention as well as being bombarded by posts that we have no interest in.
    V Nyunt Wai 1

    Posts

    • Matriculates
    • Sagar Pariyae
    • St. Paul’s High School
  • Dhamma Books

    Dhamma Books

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Sunlun Sayadaw U Vinaya

    • Chief Resident Monk of KabaAye Sunlun Gu Kyaung ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဂူကျောင်း
    The Yogi & Vipassana

    In the Buddha’s Words

    • Mr. Li Chan (Buddhist Chaplain) taught at the Summer Dhamma Camp at Dhammananda Vihara, Half Moon Bay, California, USA.
    • He gave me the book as a dhamma gift.
    In the Buddha’s Words

    Milinda Panha

    • Ashin Nemeinda (Taungyi Thein Daung Taik) taught courses during his visits to California
    • One course covered the book about King Milinda (မိလိန္ဒ မင်း) & Ashin Nagasena (အရှင်နာဂသိန်)
    Milinda

    Dhamma Dana by U Ba Than & Family

    U Ba Than
    • U Ba Than is Retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT.
    • He offered Birthday Soon Kyway and gave dhamma gifts.
    Things that every Buddhist should know
  • 1972

    1972

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Video Broadcast

    Some RIT Graduates

    M72
    • Victor Aung Myin (M) : Scholar Athlete
    Cross Country Event Winners
    • Wynn Htain Oo (M) : Fund raiser and Organizer
    • Nyan Win Shwe (M) : Chair of SPZP-2007
    • Myint Pe (M) : Lu Shwin Daw, Cartoonist, MES
    • Win Myint (M) : Poet
    • Ko Ko Kyi (EC) : Luyechun, Saya
    • Aung Myaing (ChE) : Poet, Saya
    • Ma Gyn Yu (ChE) : Fund raiser
    • Kyaw Myint (T) : President of MARB, Indigenous Medicine
    • Thein Aung (Met) : Mr. RIT, Co-emcee of SPZP-2000

    Munich Olympics

    • Gymnastics : Olga Kolbert (USSR) got Perfect Tens
    • Swimming : Mark Sptiz (USA) won Seven Gold Medals with Seven World Records —
      100 m (Freestyle), 100 m (Butterfly), 200 m (Freestyle), 200 m (Butterfly), 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
    • Soccer : Burma won a match in the first round, but lost to the power houses
    • Dark Moment :
      11 Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed by “Black September”

    UCC

    • Several posts were filled after approval from PSC
    • UCC Courses in Computer Systems & Applications
    • State scholars for Academic Studies in UK
    • UCC Engineers sent to ICL ETC, Letchworth, UK
    • UCC was helped by unpaid and minimum-wage Volunteers
    • @hmin3664
    YouTube channel for my videos
  • TED and TEDx Talks

    TED and TEDx Talks

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    TED Talks

    • TED Talks started 30+ years ago.
    • In the beginning, the talks were mainly about
      (a) Technology
      (b) Entertainment
      (c) Design
    • The talks now cover a much broader scope.
    • Each talk cover lasts around 18 minutes.
    • The videos can be found on TEDTalks.org and YouTube.

    TEDx Talks

    They are similar to TED talks, but they are organized by regional and local organizations.

    Daw Thin Thiri Mon is the daughter of Dat Pone Sann Aung (RUBC Gold, M74) and Dr. Anna Myint. She is the niece of Sayama Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma Myint, ChE70). She is a co-organizer of several TEDx Talks in Yangon.

    TEDx Inya Lake

    In TEDx Inya Lake, U Nay Oke (St. Paul’s) talked about two Burmese Poets from the “Khit San Sar Pay” era. One was his beloved mother Daw Khin Saw Mu. The other was Minthuwun (Saya U Wun). They were students of Saya U Pe Maung Tin (Pali Scholar who proposed to establish a separate Burmese Department at the University of Rangoon). U Nay Oke gave the background of the short story “Bagyi Aung Nyar De ဘကြီးအောင် ညာတယ်” by U Wun (Minthuwun). He remarked that the true story should be visited since it led to the emergence of Myanmar Kabyar, and all the main characters alluded in the story — ICS U Tin Tut, ICS U Ba Tint, Minthuwun and Daw Khin Saw Mu — have passed away.

  • Centennial

    Centennial

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Video Broadcast on November 20, 2020

    Celebrations

    • St. Paul’s High School Centennial in 1960
    SPHS
    • Mahatma Gandhi’s Centennial
    • U Thant’s Centennial
    • Bogyoke Aung San’s Centennial in 2015

    2020

    October

    • Myanmar Yoke Shin

    December

    • 1920 Rangoon University Act
    • First RU Students’ Strike
    • Saya U Ba Toke’s Birthday
    U Ba Toke

    Miscellaneous

    • Anniversaries
    • Jubilees
    • @hmin3664
    YouTube Channel for Videos
  • Age

    Age

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Video Broadcast on September 13, 2020

    Types

    • Stone Age
    • Information Age / IT Age

    Age

    • Date of birth (DOB)
    • Time passed since birth
    • Conventions of reckoning age
    • Physical age
    • Physiological age
    • Mental age

    Requirements / Restriction

    • Admission to school / college
    • Voting age
    • Minimum age for marriage
    • Retirement age

    Miscellaneous

    • Senior / Thet Kyee
    • Aging / Longevity
    • @hmin3664
    YouTube Channel for Videos
  • Checkers

    Checkers

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Video Broadcast on November 16, 2020

    Board Game

    Use only 32 dark squares on 8 x 8 board

    Two players with 12 pieces each

    Player who has all pieces captured by the opponent loses.

    Player whose pieces are trapped by the opponent loses.

    Player may end in a draw by mutual consent or by a set of rules (e.g position repeated three times).

    ကျား (Myanmar)

    Kyar Bayin (Mandalay)
    Kyar Ba Nyein (Assistant / also Champion Boxer / Evangelist of Myanmar Boxing and Martial Arts)

    Variant

    Player who has all the pieces captured by the opponent wins

    Fun / Trick play

    Player with 12 pieces forces the opponent with a single piece to capture all its pieces and wins!

    Artificial Intelligence

    Arthur Samuel (IBM) developed a Checkers playing program and a data base. Learning from mistakes, the program improved and eventually beat a human player.

    Miscellaneous

    • Draughts (British)
    • Origin / Game from Middle East
    • Chinese Checkers
    • @hmin3664
    YouTube Channel
  • Three & List of Threes

    Three & List of Threes

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Three

    • Hindu-Arablic numeral : 3
    • Roman numeral : III
    • Tri (e.g tripod, tricycle, trimester, trilogy)
    • Trio

    List of Threes

    Triple Gems

    • Buddha : the Enlightened One
    • Dhamma : His Teachings
    • Sangha : Monastic Order

    Tipitaka (Three Baskets)

    • Vinaya : Monastic Rules of Conduct
    • Sutta : Discourses
    • Abhidhamma : Ultimate Reality

    Characteristics

    • Annica : Impermanence
    • Dukkha : Suffering, Unsatisfactoriness
    • Anatta : No Atta, No Self

    Trinity

    • Father
    • Son
    • Holy Spirit

    Most well-known Hindu Gods

    • Brahma : Creator
    • Vishnu : Preserver
    • Shiva : Destroyer

    Early NASA Projects

    • Mercury : single astronaut
    • Gemini : two astronauts
    • Apollo : three astronauts

    Apollo Crew

    • Mission Commander (e.g. Neil Armstrong for Apollo11)
    • Command Module Pilot (e.g. Michael Collins for Apollo11)
    • Lunar Module Pilot (e.g. Buzz Aldrin for Apollo11)

    Apollo Modules

    • Service Module
    • Command Module
    • Lunar Module

    Musical Envelope

    • Rise : attack
    • Sustain
    • Fall : decay

    Prime constituents of an atom

    • Electron
    • Proton
    • Neutron

    Persuasion Techniques

    • Ethos
    • Pathos
    • Logos

    Typical Toastmasters Meeting

    • Prepared Speeches
    • Table Topics : Impromptu Speeches
    • Evaluation
    DTM

    Three-valued Logic

    • Yes
    • No
    • Do not care

    Essay (and most writings)

    • Introduction : Beginning
    • Body
    • Conclusion : Ending)

    Medal

    • Gold : first prize
    • Silver : second prize
    • Bronze : third prize

    Measurement of Time

    • Hour
    • Minute
    • Second

    Angular Measure

    • Degree
    • Minute
    • Second

    Academic Degrees

    • Bachelor
    • Master
    • Doctorate

    School Type (1)

    • Primary School
    • Middle School
    • High School

    School Type (2)

    • English School
    • Venacular School
    • Anglo-Venacular School

    Traffic Light

    • Red
    • Amber
    • Green

    Guitar

    • Lead Guitar
    • Rhythm Guitar
    • Bass Guitar

    Professor

    • Assistant Professor
    • Associate Professor
    • (Full) Professor
  • Aye Lwin (M69)

    Aye Lwin (M69)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Inaugural RIT Annual Magazine (1969)

    Magazine

    Editors

    RIT Annual Magazine Committee
    • Saya Dr. Aung Gyi
    • Saya U Aung Hla Tun
    • Saya U Moe Aung (Tekkatho Moe War)
    • Sayama Daw Yin Yin Mya : absent in the Photo Shoot
    • U Aye Lwin (Secretary)
    • U Kyaw Win Maung
    • U Zaw Min
    • U Myo Khin : absent in the Photo Shoot
    • U Zaw Min : absent in the Photo Shoot
    U Aye Lwin 1
    • Ko Aye Lwin was Secretary of the RIT Mechanical Engineering Association.
    • He was Secretary of the RIT Annual Magazine Committee, which published the Inaugural Issue in 1969.
    • He attended RIT Gatherings including the 2015 RIT Alumni Reunion in Los Angeles.
    69er Gathering 1
    69er Gathering 2

    October 2017

    • 69ers (especially M69ers) pay respect to Sayagyi U Ba Than around his birthday (October 2nd).
    Garawa
    • Due to pandemic, Sayagyi celebrated his 90th and 91st birthdays online.

    December 2021

    Ko Aung Min (M69) wrote :

    So sad to inform you that our friend Ko Aye Lwin (M69) passed away last night of lung CA, at Pann Hlaing Hospital.

    Source: Than Hlaing & Zaw Win

    GBNF 116

    May his soul Rest In Peace.

    69er HCF & GBNF

    • U Aung Min is Chair of the 69er Health Care Fund. He & his team maintain Contact Info and the GBNF list.
    • 69er GBNF list has 116 members. About a third of the Class of 69. Sad and alarming.

    Kutho Donation

    • Ko Aung Min wrote :
      Dear RIT69ERS
      လူကိုယ်တိုင်တော့ ကွယ်လွန်သူ ကိုအေးလွင် (စက်မှု) ၏နေအိမ်သို့ မရောက်နိုင်ခဲ့ပါ။ သူ့ဇနီး ဒေါ်သန်းသန်းမြင့် နှင့် တော့ကြိုးစားဆက်သွယ်လျက် ဖုန်းဆက်ပြီး အားပေးစကားပြောနိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ကိုအေးလွင်အားရည်စူးလှူဒါန်းပေးမည့် အများ၏အလှူငွေ ကျပ်တစ်သိန်း ကိုလည်း ဒေါ်သန်းသန်းမြင့်မှ HCF သို့ ပြန်လည်လှူဒါန်းပါသည်။ ပခုက္ကူ မြစ်ခြေ သို့ယနေ့ပြန်ပြီး အဲဒီမှာ ရက်လည်ဆွမ်းသွတ် အမျှဝေခြမ်းပြုလုပ်ပါမည်။ ဤကောင်းမှုများအပေါ် ကောင်းမြတ်သောဘုံဘဝမှ သာဓုခေါ်ဆိုနိုင်ပါစေ ကိုအေးလွင်။

    Posts

    • 69er
    • Associations
  • Images from the Past

    နှောင်းအတိတ်က ပုံရိပ်များ

    ညီအကို ခြောက်ယောက် Six Brothers

    Six Brothers
    • ဦးတင်ဦး U Tin U — 96 နှစ်

    Oregon State University က မြိုပြ ဘွဲ့

    Yale University က မဟာ ဘွဲ့

    Oldest & Most Senior Captain, ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်လှေလှော်အသင်း

    • ဦးဘသန်း U Ba Than — 94 နှစ် မှာကွယ်လွန်

    Imperial College, လန်ဒန် က B.Sc နဲ့ M.Sc

    စက်မှုအင်ဂျင်နီယာ ပါမောက္ခ (ငြိမ်:)

    ဥပစာကောလိပ် — ရွှေတံဆိပ်ရှင်

    • Dr. မျိုးတင့် Dr. Myo Tint — 85 နှစ်မှာ Covid နဲ့ ကွယ်လွန်

    1952 — Third in Burma

    RUBC Captain

    • ဦးတင်ထွန်း U Tin Htoon — ပိသုကာ 1960

    RUBC Captain

    1958 & 1960 ARAE ချန်ပီယန်

    1975 SEAP ရွက်လှေ ငွေတံဆိပ်

    • ဦးမျိုးမင်း U Myo Min — UCC Co-founder

    1960 & 1962 ဝါဏီဇ္ဇ — ရွှေတံဆိပ်ရှင်

    Chartered Accountant

    IBM (UK), Nangyang Institute, Seagate, Connors

    Lancaster University က မဟာ ဘွဲ့

    • ဦးသောင်းလွင် U Thaung Lwin — လျှပ်စစ်ဆက်သွယ်ရေး 1966 မှာ ပထမ

    RUBC Captain

    IBM (Burma), Chartered Semi

    စာရေးဆရာ မိသားစု Family of Writers

    U Khin Maung Latt
    • ဦးခင်မောင်လတ် (ကွယ်) U Khin Maung Latt
    • ဒေါ်ခင်မျိုးချစ် (ကွယ်)
    • သား — Dr. ခင်မောင်ဝင်း (ကွယ်) Dr. Khin Maung Win
    • ချွေးမ — တက္ကသိုလ်ရွှေရည်ဝင်း (ကွယ်) Tekkatho Shwe Yi Win
    • မြေး — မောင်ရစ် / မောင်မောင်ဝင်း Maung Yit / Maung Maung Win
    • မြေး — ဂျူနီယာဝင်း / မိမိဝင်း Junior Win / Mi Mi Win

    ဒေါက်တာမောင်သိန်း Dr. Maung Thein

    • လူရည်ချွန်စခန်း Luyechun Camp
    Luyechun
    • ဘူမိဗေဒ ပါမောက္ခ Professor of Geology

    မန္တလေး & ရန်ကုန် ဝ/သ MASU & RASU

    Geology Prof

    သမန်းကျား အဖွဲ့ Thamankyar

    Thamankyar
    • ဝင်းလှိုင် (ကွယ်) Win Hlaing
    • ကိုမြင့် Ko Myint
    • စိုင်းဝဏ္ဏ (ကွယ်) Sai Wunna
    • တိုးညွန့် Toe Nyunt
    • မျိုးသန့် Myo Thant
    • တိုးချစ် Toe Chit

    ဘောင်ဒရီ ကျောင်းပြဇာတ် PPBRS Concert

    Concert
    • အောင်မြင့် (သမန်းကျားကိုမြင့်) Aung Myint
    • တိုးညွန့် (ရွှေဂေါင်းပြောင်) Toe Nyunt