Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • 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
  • Zaw Win

    Zaw Win

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    သင်္ချာ ပါရဂူ Dr. ဇော်ဝင်း

    * သင်္ချာချွန် — တပြည်လုံး ပထမ

    * သုံးထပ်ကွမ်း လူရည်ချွန်

    * 1970 တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်စာမေးပွဲ တွင် Second in Burma

    * Scholarship သုံးမျိုး ရ

    Collegiate Scholarship;

    Basic Science Scholarship;

    လူရည်ချွန်သုံးထပ်ကွမ်းနဲ့ အထက် Scholarship

    ဒါပေမဲ့ တခုဘဲ ခံစားခွင့်ရ

    * အတန်းတိုင်း — ဘာသာစုံ ဂုဏ်ထူး

    * သင်္ချာဆရာ — နည်းပြ to ပါမောက္ခ

    * Germany က သင်္ချာ ပါရဂူ

    * 2024 June မှာကွယ်လွန်

    * Credit

    ဦးတင်အောင်လွင် — သင်္ချာသိပ္ပံချွန်

    ** အထွေထွေ

    * ငယ်စဉ်က ဖယောင်းတိုင်နဲ့ စာဖတ် ခဲ့ရ

    * လက်တက်ပွါး

  • Kyaw Thein, Dr.

    Kyaw Thein, Dr.

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Dr. Kyaw Thein (Rightmost)

    He told attendees of the 5th Acariya Pu Zaw (ICST/UCSY) that I was Generation Zero, Bo Htay was Generation One, and he was Generation Two.

    He was a fledgling tutor in the Mathematics Department in 1963. He was a top student in his Honors Class (1958 – 1962). He held Tutorial for the topics taught by U Khin Zaw, Mr. Choudry and Daw Khin Ma Ma. He encouraged me. I was top of I.Sc. (A).

    We crossed our paths again when we (U TAG, U Soe Win (EC70) and I) visited Southampton University to see Saya U Soe Paing and U Aung Zaw. He was doing his Ph.D. He is an expert on Differentiable Manifold (and related topics). He and U Aung Zaw joined us to see Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, and a Safari.

    As Dr. Chit Swe’s assistant and general hand, I worked on several projects with the Maths sayas (including Dr. Kyaw Thein).

    He became Principal of Sittwe College.

    He succeeded Saya Dr. Tin Maung as Rector of ICST.

  • Prominent Doctors

    Prominent Doctors

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    ဆရာဝန် / ဆရာ (တချို့)

    Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint co-founded “Alumni of Myanmar Institutes of Medicine” and wrote about selected sayas, colleagues and junior doctors.

    ဦးမောင်မောင်စိန် U Maung Maung Sein

    • Surgeon
    • Rector
    Mg Mg Sein

    ဦးထွဋ်ဆိုင် / Harry Saing

    • Pediatric Surgeon : Second Lead for the operation of Ma Nan Soe & Ma Nan San
    • Professor at Hong Kong University
    • Scholar athlete — Rowing, Hockey, Cricket, Soccer, Track & Field
    • Past Captain, Gold & Coach of RUBC
    • ARAE Champion in 1958 (for Coxless Pairs) and 1960 (for Coxed Fours)

    ** ဦးမြဦး U Mya Oo

    ** ဦးခင်မောင်စိန် U Khin Maung Sein

    ** ဦးထွန်းသင် U Tun Thin

    ** ဦးဖေဝင်း U Pe Win

    ** ဦးဘချွန်း U Ba Choon

    ** Credit

    • Alumni of Myanmar Institutes of Medicine
    • Dr. သိန်းအုပ်ကျော်မြင့် Thane Oke Kyaw Myint
  • Rowing — FEARA Nov 1959

    Rowing — FEARA Nov 1959

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Newspaper clipping provided by U Tin Htoon

    FEARA

    RUBC

    Rangoon University Boat Club took part in the FEARA (Far Eastern Amateur Rowing Association) Regatta held at Hong Kong in November 1959.

    U Tun Shein (Willie, Past Secretary)

    Willie (3rd from Right)

    He is Ko Lin Tun’s father and U Tin Win’s brother. He represented RUBC mostly as Timing Stroke. He is also a Sculler like U San Maung (Gerald). He won the Senior Novices in 1954 and became RUBC Gold. His Senior Novice crew include M. Hla Min (Mossaji, Gold), Than Nyun (George, Captain & Gold), Sao Hso Holm (Saw bwa lay, son of Arzani Sao San Tun) and Tin Htut (cox, multiple Novice winner, Captain & Gold). Four Golds out of Five members.

    U Win Kyi

    Win Kyi (4th from Left)

    He is the son of Sayama Miss Hong Kong (Amelia Kyi, SPHS), older brother of U Min Kyi, and father of Ko Naymyo Thura. He usually rowed as 3 in 4+ (Coxed Fours) and 7 in 8+ (Coxed Eights).

    U Tin Htoon (Past Captain)

    Tin Htoon

    He rowed as 2 for Ko Jimmy Saw Lwin and Ko Willie Saing in the early days. He later rowed as Timing Stroke and won ARAE trophies :

    • Venables Bowl for Coxless Pairs at Calcutta in 1958 with Ko Harry Saing
    • Willingdon Trophy for Coxed Fours at Colombo in 1960 with Ko Harry Saing, Ko Victor Htun Shein, Ko Sunny Teng and Ko Sein Htoon.
    • He was Editor of the 40th Anniversary Issue and Chair of the 90th Anniversary Issue (where I wrote Prelude for each section, and three articles).

      His brothers include
    • Saya U Tin U (Past Captain)
    • Saya U Ba Than (Green)
    • Dr. Myo Tint (Past Captain)
    • Saya U Myo Min (Green)
    • U Thaung Lwin (Past Captain)

    Dr. Harry Saing (Htut Saing, Past Captain)

    Harry (Right)

    He rowed mostly as Bow. In the RUBC Annual Regatta of 1962, he rowed as Timing Stroke with U Win Kyi as 7 to train seven brand new Golds : Myo Tin, Micky Tan (Thein Aung), Htain Lin, Oung Kyaing, Winston Tun Thoung (Mehm Myo Thoung), Myo Myint and Tin Aung (Victor Wu).

    He is the elder brother of Dr. Victor Saing (Aye Kyaw).

    In the 90th Anniversary Issue, I wrote a tribute to him as a multi-sports athlete and scholar / professional.

    U San Maung (Gerald, Past Secretary)

    San Maung (Standing Leftmost)

    Hevrowed on the Stroke side before specializing in Sculls.

    He served as Club Coach along with Ko Harry.

    He is the elder brother of Ko Hardy (Yan Shin).

    Dr. Hla Min (Eddie)

    Eddie (2nd from Left)

    He was a Golden Cox.

    He later coxed Defense crews.

    He served BMH (Mingaladon Base Military Hospital) as Orthopedic Surgeon.