HlaMin

Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • Dr. (Album)

    Dr. Tin Win (Alan, Chemistry)
    Dr. Aung Myint (Chemistry)
    Dr. Aung Than (Dental)
    Dr. Aye Hlaing (Institute of Economics)
    Dr. Ba Han (Law, Lexicographer)
    Dr. F Ba Hli (UBARI)
    Dr. Freddie Ba Hli (National Planning Advisor)
    Dr. Ba Than (IM 1, Zwe Ah Nyeint, Footballer)
    Dr. Chit Swe (Pioneer of Computer Education and Application in Burma)
    Dr. Daw Yi Yi (Botany)
    Dr. Hla Phay
    Dr. Htin Aung (Vice Chancellor, Rector, Author)
    Dr. Khin Maung Nyo (Chemistry)
    Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt (History)
    Dr. Ko Ko Gyi (Zoology)
    Dr. Kyaw Sein (M65)
    Dr. Maung Maung Gyi (Mandalay IM)
    Dr. Maung Maung Kha (RU)
    Dr. Mya Than (Institute of Economics)
    Dr. Myint Tun (Henry, Chemistry)
    Dr. Nyi Nyi (Deputy Minister)
    Dr. San Tint (Electrical)
    Dr. Saw Wai Hla (Physics)
    Dr. Soe Myint Win, Dr. Aye Thein Kyaw (Physics)
    Dr. Soe Myint Win
    Dr. Soe Win (YUFL)
    Dr. Soe Aung and Daw May Saw Lwin
    Dr. Than Tun (History)
    Dr. Thein Aung (Chemistry(
    Dr. Tin Aung (Physics)
    Dr. U E (IM 2)
    Dr. Win Naing (Physics)
    Dr. Zin Aung (Physics, Assumption University)

  • Alumni

    ** Sayama Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70) posted photo from a gathering with Saya U Thein Tan, Sayama Daw Tin Tin Oo (Toni), Sayama Muriel and Daw Phyu Phyu Latt (Christine, A70).

    ** U Myint Pe (M72) posted photo with fellow RIT Cartoonists.

    ** Daw Thuzar and family hosted Soon Kyway in memory of U Tun Aung (Jeffery, EC68) who passed away a year ago.

    ** U Aung Kyaw Myint ( Eddie, M70) posted photo with U La Min (EP70) and Dr. Nyunt Wai (Victor, SPHS63). They are Old Paulians.

    ** U Win Thein Zaw (Wai Lu, Min69) posted photo with U Sein Myint (EP69). His spouse Daw Mu Aye is a cousin of U Win Boh (Robert, EC69).

    ** U Tin Aung Win (Oscar, M69) posted photo of Zoom meeting with former HIC colleagues : U Myint Thein Lwin (M62), U Than Htut (M67, RUBC Gold) …

  • 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.