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Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • RIT Alumni in NorCal

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    NorCal RITAA

    Aik Kyu (Steven Wang, M85)

    Alex Khoo (Aung Kyaw)

    Alfred Yaung (Sein Yaung, M67)

    * Allen Htay (C58, GBNF)

    Anthony Ng (Aye Tun, M76)

    Audrey Wong (Yi Yi Khaing, C84)

    Aung Htet Naing (Aaron)

    Aung Khine (EC80)

    Aung Kyin (M83)

    Aung Myaing (ChE72) — share time in Thailand

    Aung Myint (M67, GBNF)

    Aung Myint Oo (EC84)

    Aung Thein (John, M72, GBNF)

    Aung Thein (T69)

    Aung Zaw Maung (Pet78)

    Aye Aye Myint

    * Benny Tan (Yu Beng, M70)

    Charlie Kaw (T, GBNF)

    Charlie Tseng (EC70)

    Cho Cho Thwin (EC86)

    Darren Lee (Naing Win, M62, GBNF)

    David Ko (Tin Myint, M67, GBNF)

    Dennis Chee (Thein Tun Aung, EP76)

    Dennis S. Lin (San Naing, M83)

    Diana Tseng (ChE71)

    Edward Saw (Yu Ket, EC85)

    Eng Shwe (M87)

    * George Chan (Maung Maung, ChE66)

    * Gordon Kaung (Kaung Kaung Oo, M83)

    Gyn Yu (ChE72) — share time in Thailand

    Htay Lwin Nyo (EP74, GBNF)

    Htin Paw (EE58, GBNF)

    Hla Kyaing (M69)

    Hla Kyi (EC77)

    * Hla Min (EC69)

    Htwe Htwe (C8x)

    Jimmy Chee (M75)

    K C Chiu (ChE63) : moved to SoCal

    Khin Mg Myint (C71) — Visit son for a long time

    King Wong (Victor, C66)

    Ko Ko Zin (M84)

    Kyaw Myint (M/Auto64)

    Kyaw Myint (M83)

    Kyaw San (C6x, GBNF)

    Kyi Kong Tham (C63)

    Kyi Shane (M83)

    L Shark Moon (C67, GBNF)

    Lillian Kaung (EC83)

    Lyo Kyin Sein (Mabel, T69)

    * Maurice Chee (Hla Myint Thein, M75)

    Maung Maung (Kyaw Than, EC84)

    Maung Maung Moe Zaw (Met02)

    Mao Toon Siong (M62)

    Mya Mya Sein (T79)

    Mya Thwin (Phillip, EE75)

    Myat Htoo (C68)

    Myint Lwin (Henry Chee, C63, GBNF)

    Myint Myint Thein (C77)

    Myint Myint Yee (ChE73) : moved to Virginia

    Myint Soe (M79)

    Myint Swe (EC74)

    Myint Thein (M73)

    Myint Thein (Soon Hoe, C75)

    Myo Aung (M85)

    Myo Sint (Mn78)

    Ne Win Myint (Victor, ChE66, GBNF)

    Nyan Shein (Henry, C68)

    Nyo Nyo Win (T73)

    * Nyo Win (M65)

    Nyunt Than (M86)

    Nyunt Tin (M70)

    Patrick Fong (C70)

    Reynold Wu (Reginald, xxx, GBNF)

    Robert Hla Thein (M72)

    San Lin (C62)

    San Lin (M87)

    San Lwin (EC77)

    San San Myint (Helen, T69)

    San San Nyunt (Sandra, M76)

    San San Swe (EC74)

    San Tun (M59)

    Soe Win (M77)

    Thaung Nyunt (M87)

    Thein Aung (James, Pet72)

    Thein Kyaing (George, T72)

    Tin Maung Nyunt (M60)

    Tin Maung Win (C86)

    Tin Myint (David Ko, M67, GBNF)

    Tin Myint (John Lee, M69, GBNF)

    Tun Shwe (ChE72) : moved to Virginia

    Walter Tan (M70)

    Win Htut (M8x)

    Zaw Lwin (M87)

    Zaw Min (EP70) : moved to Nevada

    NOTE :

    * specifies Founding Member of RIT Alumni International

    Updates

    • An earlier post listed some Inactive Alumni in Northern California
    • Mg Mg Moe Zaw has a list of young alumni (mostly Civil) who moved from Singapore to Northern California
    • BASES has a list of alumni in Southern California. Ko Win Naing (M81) is President. Ko Aye Thwin (C83) is VP.

  • Dana in Nov 2021

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Dana for Saya Dr. Chit Swe

    • 2 year Memorial for Saya Dr. Chit Swe at Sydney Australia & Elar, Pyinmana
      by Daw Khin Khin Latt, Dr. Moe Thu & U Nay La, U Thu Ta & Daw War War Aung, Dr. Kyaw Thu & Khin Su Hlaings,
      Dr. Swe Latt & Daw Phyo Phyo Aung, U Chit Khin & Mrs. Lin Tranh
    Memorial Soon Kyway

    Dana for Saya U Aung Zaw

    Yet Le (7 day) Memorial

    • by Daw Nan Kyawt (Tint Tint Wai), Daw San Tint Tint Zaw & family, U Ant Bwe Zaw, U Nyan Htet Zaw & family
    • by U Zaw Tun & friends (Singapore)
    • by Daw Pyone Yee & Family (Myanmar)

    Donations in Thanatpin, Myanmar

    • In memory of Saya Zaw by Daw Nan Kyawt & Family, U Tun Aung Gyaw & Family, U Myint Lwin & Family
    • Lights for a zedi & neighborhood in Thanatpin for Two Nights
    • Drinking Water for the residents for Two Days
    • Ah Hlu for residents and visitors from neighboring villages
    AZ 1
    AZ 2

    Donation by ex-UCC to Foundation (supported by Saya Zaw & Family)

    • Saya U Soe Paing
    • Saya Dr. Maung Maung Htay
    • U Soe Myint
    • U Sein Myint
    • Daw Kyin Kyin Htay
    • Daw San Yu Hlaing
    • Daw Swe Swe Than
    • U Win Pe
    • U Nyunt Than
    • U Aung Zaw Maung
    • …

    Memorial for C73 GBNF

    • U Kyaw Lin (Organizer of Civil Engineering Gatherings)
    • Other GBNF from C73

  • NJ Gathering in Aug 2017

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Ivan Lee (Khin Maung Oo, M69) had hosted IT and UCC mini-gathering in New Jersey for a decade or so.

    The timing was chosen so that Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi (Canada) and Saya U Soe Paing (EE, UCC) could participate.

    The group photo was taken at the gathering on August 19, 2017.

    New Jersey (2017)

  • Till We Meet Again

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Poem

    Poem
    • My poem “Till we meet again” was published in the Forward Magazine on December 15, 1969. The Chief Editor was Maung Thaw Ka (Bohmu Ba Thaw).
    • I received fifteen kyats for my poem.

    SEAP Games

    • The First SEAP (South East Asia Peninsula) Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 1959.
    • Burma hosted the Second SEAP Games in December 1961, and the Fifth SEAP Games in December 1969.
    • Myint Aung won six Gold medals in Gymnastics. Jimmy Crampton won Gold in 800 m and 1500 m. Shimbwegan succeeded Mee Tung Naw as the Marathon Champion.

    Tekkatho Moe War wrote : Well, Maung Hla Min, this is indeed one of the unexpected from your expected works. Congrats!

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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 သတိပဌာန်

    • 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

  • 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)

  • SPHS Std VI (D) 1958 – 59

    by Hla Min

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Teachers

    • U Pe Tin
    • Brother Anthony
    • Ms Amelia Kyi (Miss Hong Kong)

    Students

    • Dicky Kywe
    • Edward Hla Shwe
    • Freddie Tun Lwin
    • George Maung
    • George Steven
    • Han Kan Pau
    • Hla Min
    • Hla Myint
    • Khin Maung Khine
    • Khin Maung Kywe
    • Maung Maung Aye
    • Maung Maung Thaung
    • Malcolm Maung Maung
    • Mervyn Zan
    • Michael Oo
    • Michael Su
    • Moe Nyunt
    • Norman Thant Zin
    • Sein Myint
    • Sein Nyunt
    • Shwe Thein
    • Sonny Yone Sein
    • Stanley Shwe Gyi (Thein Lwin)
    • Sydney Khant
    • Teddy Thaung
    • Tin Latt
    • Tin Tun
    • Victor Kyaw Phyo (Kyaw Phone Myint)

    Kyaw Wynn

    Birthday

    He offered birthday soon kyway to Uzin Okkantha (Victor, Aung Chaw) and treated his former SPHS63 classmates (some of whom have not seen each other for a long time). The attendees include :

    • Aye Ngwe (Edwin)
    • Kyaw Win (“Birthday Boy”)
    • Khin Maung Bo (Alan Saw Maung, EP69)
    • Hla Min (EC69)
    • Uzin Okkantha (Aung Chaw, Victor, C69)
    • Than Win (M69)
    • Aung Kyi (Arthur Kyi)
    • Tin Tun (M69)
    • Khin Maung Zaw (Frank Gale, IM1 70, UK)

    SPHS Novice Crew at RUBC

    • Maung Maung Kyi (Bow)
    • Hla Min (No. 2)
    • Kyaw Win (No. 3, EE)
    • Willie Soe Mg (Stroke)
    • Myint Thein (Cox, SPHS 62, B.Com 66)

    We were all awarded Full Green.

    When the schools were closed following the first Anniversary of 7th July, Kyaw Win and Maung Maung Kyi applied for scholarships to study in Germany.

    Maung Maung Kyi received Dip Ing in ChE with Specislization in Pulp and Paper. He worked at Sittaung Paper Mill and PPIC before moving to Wales, UK.

    Kyaw Win had a higher calling. He and his friends protested in front of the Burmese Embassy. The higher authorities were alarmed at their movement and recalled back to Burma. Fortunately, he was able to complete his EE in Rangoon.

  • Center for Burma Studies

    by Hla Min & Dr. Yan Naing Lwin

    Updated : Apr 2026

    Northern Illinois University at “De Kalb”

    July 29 & 30, 1987

    • တရားဝင် ဖွင့်လှစ် Formal Opening Ceremony
    • ဦးနု U Nu gave the Keynote Address

    Jan 19, 1987

    • စုပေါင်းဓာတ်ပုံ Group Photo
    • ဦးနု နွေရာသီ သင်တန်း ပို့ချ U Nu taught Summer course in “Buddhism”
    • ဆရာ Dr သန်းထွန်း (သမိုင်း) Dr. Than Tun (History Professor) — Visiting Scholar in Residence
    • ဆရာ Dr ရန်နိုင်လွင် (ရူပဗေဒ) Dr. Yan Naing Lwin — Doctorate from UIUC ပါရဂူ၊ Physics Professor at WIU ပါမောက္ခ၊ Center of Burma Studies Organizer
    • ဆရာ ဦးကျော်လှိုင် U Kyaw Hlaing — မြန်မာစာ ကထိက Lecturer in Burmese
    • Dr စင်သီယာ ထိုက် Dr. Cynthia Htaik

    Credit: ဆရာ Dr ရန်နိုင်လွင်