HlaMin

Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • Threes

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Three RIT Sayas

    U Aung Myint, U Moe Aung, U Kyaw Sein (GBNF)
    U Moe Aung

    U Moe Aung (EE63)

    • Pen name : Tekkatho Moe War
    • Distinguished writer, poet, editor, publisher, zat saya, vocalist …
    • Chair of SPZP-2002 and SPZP-2010 in Singapore
    • Chief Editor and Publisher of Commemorative Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saungs for SPZP-2002, SPZP-2007 and SPZP-2010.
    • Chief Editor and Publisher of Commemorative Swel Daw Yeik Sar Magazine for Shwe YaDu (in 2014) and SPZP-2016.
    • Editor of RUESU Annual Magazine.
    • Chief Editor of RIT Annual Magazines and Hlyat Sit Sar Saung.
    • Compiled and published selected poems and articles.
    • Johnian.
    • Worked in Singapore, but moved back to Myanmar after retirement.
    U Kyaw Sein

    U Kyaw Sein (M65, GBNF)

    • Expertise : Mechanical Drawing, AutoCAD, Tinkering with devices
    • Posted and moderated several FaceBook pages.
    • Had minor health problems (e.g. vision)
    • Johnian
    • Passed away in Singapore

    U Aung Myint (M69)

    • Retired from Singapore Poly
    • Spend most time in Auckland, New Zealand
    • Hobbies : Painting, Posting motivational messages

    Three RIT Sayamas

    Daw Khin Swe Aye, Daw Tin Tin Myint, Daw Tin May Soe

    Daw Tin May Soe (ChE70)

    • Siblings / Older brothers
      U Myint Soe (C, GBNF) and U Mya Soe (C, GBNF)

    Daw Khin Swe Aye (Winnie, ChE70)

    • Spouse : U Ohn Khine (M70)
    • Younger sister of U Win Maung (George Tun, EE69er)
    • Cousin : Dr. Min Lwin (Maurice Hla Kyi)

    Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70)

    • Minthamee
    • Co-founder of Dana Sri Lanka (DSL)
    • Co-founder of Triple Gems Publication
    • Patron and Host of Pon Chan Chan Group in Singapore
    • Spouse : U Yu Swan (Don Min)

    Three 69ers

    U Shwe (EP69)

    • Treasurer for both the 69er HCF (Health Care Fund)
    • Joint Treasurer, EE69er HCF

    U Tin Htut (Harry, M69)

    • Pen name : Mon Yu
    • Hobbies : Music, Tai Chi, Writing

    U Thein Swe (EP69, GBNF)

    • 3rd Year Lu Ye Chun at RIT
    • Organizer for the EE69er gatherings
    • Knows names and nicknames of classmates

  • Songs

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Kabar Ma Kye (National Anthem)

    • Ko Than Hlaing wrote articles about National Anthems.
    • “Kabar Ma Kye” was composed by YMB based on the work by Thakin Ba Thaung.
    • The song blends the Burmese and Western styles.
    • The Chorus is usually played at public events.
    • The Prelude describes the Founding Principles (e.g Justice, Peace, Equality).

    “Our Heritage
    So, let’s defend
    This Golden Land
    Till the End of the Time / World”

    Kabar Ma Kye Bu

    • Literal meaning — We will not forgive and forget till the end of time
    • Composed by Naing Myanmar
    • Tune is based on “Dust in the wind”
    • Became a hit with the Pro-Democracy Movement in 1988.
    • Was played frequently in the Nway Oo Taw Hlan Yay.
    • YUFL students have translated into English and Chinese.

  • Two

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Bicameral Parliament ပါလီမန်

    • US Congress : Senate & House of Representatives
    • UK : House of Lords & House of Common
    • Old Burma : Upper House & Lower House

    Extremes to be avoided ရှောင်ရန် အစွန်းနှစ်သွယ်

    From ဓမ္မစကြာ

    • Sensual pleasures
    • Self mortification

    Meditation

    • Samatha သမထ — Concentration meditation
    • Vipassana ဝိပဿနာ — Insight meditation

    Nama-rupa

    နာမ ရူပ

    • Nama — Mental formations & characteristics
    • Rupa — Physical characteristics

    Number

    • Hindu-Arabic numeral — 2
    • Roman numeral — II
    • နှစ် (Two in Burmese)
    • ဒုတိယ (Second)
    • Duece, Duo, Duet, Duel, Pair

    Reality

    သစ္စာ

    • Sammutti sacca — Pannatti — Apparent reality သမုတိသစ္စာ
    • Paramattha sacca — Paramattha — Ultimate reality ပရမတ္ထသစ္စာ

    Rowing — Coxless Pairs

    ပဲ့နင်းမဲ့ နှစ်တက်လှော်

    • Stroke & Bow
    • ARAE Regatta Trophy — Venables Bowl : Won by RUBC crew (Tin Htoon & Harry Saing) at 1958 Regatta in Calcutta

    Two tier architecture

    • Front end & Back end
    • Client & Server

    Two valued logic

    • Constants — True & False
    • Truth table — 4 entries : FF, FT, TF, TT
    • Logic Functions — 16

    Worldly and beyond

    • Loki လောကီ — Mundane (Worldly)
    • Lokotra လောကုတ္တရာ — Supramundane (Beyond world)

    Chief Disciples

    အဂ္ဂသာဝက

    • Sariputtra ရှင်သာရိပုတ္တရာ
    • Mogallana ရှင်မဟာမောဂ္ဂလန်

    General

    အထွေထွေ

    • Ascent & Descent
    • Bicycle : cycle with two wheels
    • Binary number system : 0, 1
    • Bifocal : Having two foci
    • Back court & Front court — Basketball
    • Closed & Open — Case; Interval
    • Dilemma
    • Diode : Cathode & Anode
    • Dual & Primal
    • Duality — Principle (e.g Geometry, Logic, Linear Programming)
    • February — 2nd month in the Gregorian Calendar
    • East & West; Eastern & Western
    • First half & Second half
    • First term & Second term
    • Gemini : Heavenly Twins — Castor & Pollux
    • Gemini project : Two astronauts
    • High & Low
    • It takes Two to Tango
    • North & South
    • President & Vice President
    • Prolog & Epilog
    • Sports : Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles
    • Tea for Two — Song
    • TF (True or False) Quiz
    • Two heads are better than one — Proverb
    • Two Phase Commit — Database
    • Up & Down

  • RU Sports Council

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Dr. Ko Ko Lay & U Yu Khin

    • Dr. Ko Ko Lay : Chair, University Sports Council
    • Dean U Yu Khin : Chair, Sports Promotion Committee
    Dr. Ko Ko Lay, U Yu Khin

    Dr. Hla Thwin

    Dr. Hla Thwin 1
    Dr. Hla Thwin 2

    U Ba Toke

    U Ba Toke

    Saw William Paw

    Saw William Paw

    Dr. Maung Shein

    Dr. Maung Shein

    Saya Nyein

    Saya Nyein

  • Visits in 2015

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Invitation

    Ivan Lee (M69) invited several 69ers to get together at his house in New Jersey around June-July of 2015. U Aung Myint and U Sein Tin could not make it to the 2015 mini-reunion.

    Fred Thetgyi (M69)

    • Lives in Philadelphia
    • Joined the 2015 mini-reunion
    • Drove most of the 1800+ mile trip in Ivan’s Mercedes
    • Except when his batteries went out, he took pictures at the mini-reunion and the trip.
    • He would appear only in a fraction of the photos, when someone else (Ivan, a waiter, or a stranger) took the photo.
    Phil 1
    Phil 2
    Phil 3
    Phil 4
    Phil 5
    Phil 6
    Phil 7
    Phil 8
    Phil 9

    New Jersey

    • Main Host : Ivan
    • Other hosts : Saya U Soe Paing & Daw Saw Yu Tint
    • Ivan took us on a short trip to New York
    • Ivan showed us around New Jersey
    • For several years, Ivan had hosted the RIT-UCC Gathering with Saya Dr. Aung Gyi and Saya U Soe Paing as Guests of Honor.
    • Photo shows two Sayas and six 69ers — Fred, TAG, HM, Alice, Toung / Tom and Ivan
    New Jersey

    Niagara Falls

    • On the way to Canada
    • Took photos from the US side & the Canada side
    Niagara Fall

    Windsor, Canada

    • Host : Sayagyi U Aung Khin
    • Saya patiently waited for our arrival.
    • Saya let me and my spouse spend the night in his Guest room. Ivan and Fred stayed at a motel.
    • Saya prepared Mohinga and Ah Kyaw for breakfast.
    • He gave us mementos.
    U Aung Khin
    Saya U Aung Khin
    Memento

    Toronto

    • Brief sight seeing
    • Saya Des Rodgers had earlier invited to drop by his house, but our schedule did not have slack time.

    Napean, Canada

    • Host: Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi & Daw Emma
    • Saya drove us around Toronto
    • We spent two nights at Saya’s house.
    Dr. Aung Gyi
    • Took a quick trip to Thousand Islands. Ma Ma Emma bought a gift for my Myee
    Thousand Islands

    Shrewberry, Massachussetts

    • Hosts : Dr. Tun Aung Gyaw (EC69) & Daw Khin Maw Maw
    • Since they were renovating their home, U TAG hosted us at a hotel.
    • Visit MIT & Harvard University
    U TAG
    Dinner

    Trumbull, Connecticut

    • Hosts : U Toung (Tom, EC69) and Daw Khin Myint
    • Visit Yale University
    • Visit Pizza place frequented by the young Bill Clinton
    Ko Toung
    Place frequented by young Bill Clinton

    Philadelphia

    • Hosts : Fred Thetgyi (M69) & Eunice
    • Dropped by to see Fred’s elder sister
    • Visit Pake Forge and Liberty Bell;
    • Visit my last remaining uncle U Thein Han in Maryland
    MD 1
    MD 2
    MD 3
    MD 4

    Posts

    • 69er
    • Alumni
    • Reunion
    • Sayas
    • Visits

  • One

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Numeral

    • Hindu-Arabic numeral : 1
    • Roman numeral : I
    • တစ် (One)
    • ပထမ (First)

    Miscellaneous

    • Ace — ဖဲချပ်။ လေသူရဲ
    • First day of the month — လ အစ
    • January ဇန္နဝါရီ လ— 1st month of Gregorian Calendar
    • March မတ် လ — 1st month of old Roman Calendar
    • Monocle — မျက်မှန်
    • Monograph — စာတမ်း
    • Monopoly — စျေးကွက် ကို တဦးထည်းကြီးစိုး။ Board Game ကစားနည်း
    • Monarchy — ထီးနန်း
    • Monotheism — Belief in one god or deity
    • Single — တဦီးချင်း။ အိမ်ထောင်မရှိ
    • Singleton — Bridge ဖဲကစားနည်း မှာ Suit တခု မှာ Card တချပ် ဘဲရှိ။
    • Unique, Uniqueness
    • Universe — စကြာဝဠာ
    • Universal
    • Unicycle — စက်ဘီး
    • Union — ပြည်ထောင်စု (စသဖြင့်)
    • Unit — အတိုင်းအတာ
    • Unity — စည်းလုံးမှု
    Poem

  • Four

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Numeral

    • Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
    • Roman numeral : IV
    • လေး (Four in Burmese)
    • စတုတ္ထ (Fourth in Burmese)

    Recent Buddhas မြတ်စွာဘုရား

    • Kakusandha ကကုသန်
    • Konagamana ဂေါဏဂုံ
    • Kassapa ကဿပ
    • Gautama ဂေါတမ

    Sacca / Noble Truth သစ္စာ

    • Dukkha ဒုက္ခ
      Unsatisfactoriness / Misery / Suffering
    • Samudiya သမုဒယ
      Cause of suffering
    • Nirodha နိရောဓ
      Cessation of suffering
    • Magga မဂ္ဂ
      The Path / The Middle Way

    Foundation of Mindfulness သတိဇပဌာန်

    • Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယာနုပဿနာ
    • Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာနုပဿနာ
    • Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တာနုပဿနာ
    • Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မာနုပဿနာ/ general objects — not covered by the above three

    Brahma Vihara Practice

    ဗြဟ္မာစိုရ်တရား

    • Metta မေတ္တာ
      Loving kindness / Unbounded love
    • Karuna ကရုဏာ
      Compassion
    • Mudita မုဒိတာ
      Sympathetic joy / Altruistic joy
    • Uppekkha ဥပေက္ခာ
      Equanimity

    Guardian deities

    လောကပါလ

    • Dhatarattha (East) ဓတ္တရဌ
    • Virulhaka (South) ဝိရူဠက
    • Virupkkha (West) ဝိရူပက္ခ
    • Kuvera (North) ကုဝေရ

    Mahabhuta

    မဟာဘုတ်

    • Patthavi ပထဝီ
      Earth element
    • Tejo တေဇော
      Fire element
    • Apo အာပေါ
      Water or liquid element
    • Vayo ဝါယော
      Air or wind element

    Undergraduate Classes

    ဘွဲ့ကြို

    • Freshman
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Baseball

    • First base
    • Second base
    • Third base
    • Home plate

    Miscellaneous

    အထွေထွေ

    • Four sided figures စတုဂံ
      Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
    • Games အားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ
      Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
    • Rowing လှေလှော်
      Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls
    Coxed Fours
    • April ဧပြီလ 4th month of the Gregorian Calendar

    Posts

    • Computation
    • Digital
    • Number Systems
    • Numerals

  • Five

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Numeral

    • Hindu-Arabic numeral : 5
    • Roman numeral : V
    • ငါး (Five)
    • ပဥ္စမ (Fifth)

    First group of disciples

    ပဥ္စဝဂ္ဂီ

    • Kondanna ကောဏ္ဍည
    • Baddhiya ဘဒ္ဒိယ
    • Vappa ဝပ္ပ
    • Mahanama မဟာနာမ်
    • Asajji အဿဇိ

    Five Khandas / ခန္ဓာ Aggregates

    • Rupakkhandha : Material phenomena ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ
    • Vedanakkhanda : Feeling ဝေဒနက္ခန္ဓာ
    • Sannakkhanda : Perceptionသညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
    • Sankharakkhnada : Formations သင်္ခါရက္ခန္ဓာ
    • Vinnanakkhandha : Consciousness ဝေညာနက္ခန္ဓာ

    Five Precepts

    ငါးပါးသီလ

    Abstain from

    • Killing
    • Stealing
    • Sexual misconduct
    • Lies
    • Intoxicants (liquor, “drugs”, …)

    Five Senses

    အာရုံငါးပါး

    • Hearing
    • Sight
    • Smell
    • Taste
    • Touch

    Five Nikaya / Collection

    နိကယ် ငါးရပ်

    • Digha Nikaya : “long collection”
    • Majjhima Nikaya : “middle-length collection”
    • Samyutta Nikaya : “grouped collection” — “thematically linked discourses”
    • Anguttara Nikaya : the “further-factored collection” — discourses grouped by content enumerations
    • Khuddaka Nikaya : the “collection of little texts”

    Miscellaneous

    • Five Jhana စျာန် ငါးပါး
    • Five fingers on each hand လက်ချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
    • Five toes on each foot ခြေချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
    • Pentagon five sided polygonပဥ္စဂံ
    • May မေ လ 5th month of the Gregorian Calendar

  • Dr. Chit Swe

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    • Graduate of Imperial College, Liverpool & Glasgow
    • Founder & Director, Universities’ Computer Center
    • Professor, RASU Maths
    • Rector, RASU
    • Advisor for Burmese postgrad students in Bangkok and Sydney

    With two youngest sons Swe Latt & Chit Khin

    DCS 1

    Saya’s Family

    DCS 2

    Computer Pioneer in Burma

    DCS 3

    Former Rector, RASU

    DCS 4

    Yahan Khan at UCC

    DCS 5

    UCC Alumni in Sydney

    DCS 6

    Obituary

    DCS 7

    Last Journey

    Castlebrook Memorial Park Crematorium

    Date : 28 November 2019

    Time : 12 – 2 PM (Australia AEDT)

    Location : 712 – 746 Windsor Road

    Rouse Hill NSW 2155

    (Opposite Rouse Hill Shopping Center)

    Web site: https://www. castlebrook.com.au

    Posts

    • Computer Pioneers in Burma
    • Dr. Chit Swe’s Vision
    • Memories of UCC
    • Names — Chit Swe
    • Sojourn in Sagaing Hills

  • RIT Table Tennis

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Inter-Institute Champions

    Team Coach

    Saya Mao
    Saya Mao & family

    Saya Mao Toon Siong (M62)

    • Represented Burma in International Competitions
      (SEAP, Asian Games and World Championship)
    • Retired Burma National Coach

    Players

    U Win Myint & Stan Liou
    • U Maung Maung – C67
      (aka Chin Kaung Hook – extremely good in Chess)
    • U Win Myint – E67 (aka Hin Lok Kung)
      Retired engineer, San Francisco Bay Area
    • Stan Liou – M67
      Former Chair, Board of Directors, NorCal RITAA
    • U Myat Lwin – Ch67 (GBNF)