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Author: Hla Min (Lifelong Learner)

  • Thaung (Names)

    Thaung (Names)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Thaung Sein (Steeve)
    • Thaung — Aung Bala, Chief Editor of Kyemon; Critic; Number One spared him for a while to prove that journalism was not dead; Speaker at the SF Bay Area talks; Published several books and critiques
    • Thaung — Younger brother of U Thant; Was with U Than in the final days; Brought back U Thant’s body to Rangoon
    • Thaung — DSA 1st batch; Ambassador to the US; Minister of Science and Technology; Branded our alma mater as “Thabon Kyaung“
    • Thaung — Boxing
    • Thaung Aye
    • Thaung Dan — BAF
    • Thaung Han — Artist
    • Thaung Han — RUBC
    • Thaung Hlaing
    • Thaung Htut
    • Thaung Khin, Daw
    • Thaung Lwin (EC66)
    • Thaung Lwin (Michael, SPHS63) — DSA; Dy Minister
    • Thaung Myint — ဆင်လမ်း
    • Thaung Myint, Dr. — RIT Maths
    • Thaung Nyunt
    • Thaung Po
    • Thaung Sein — SPHS
    • Thaung Sein — Navy
    • Thaung Sein — Steeve Kay
    • Thaung Shwe
    • Thaung Tin — KMD
    • Thaung Tin — Soccer
    • Thaung Tin — Commodore
    • Thaung Tun
    • Thaung Win

    Posts

    • Names
    • Naming Convention

  • 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

  • Structure and Usage

    Structure and Usage

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Antonym

    • Antonyms are words which have almost the opposite meaning for the given context.
    • Since some words have multiple meanings, one must be careful of the meaning associated with an antonym.
    • For example, Love and Hate are antonyms.
    • In Pali, the antonyms of Lobha (Greed), Dosa (Anger or Hatred) and Moha (Ignorance of Delusion) are Alobha (Non-greed), Adosa (Non-hatred) and Amoha (Non-ignorance or Wisdom).

    Homonym

    • Homonyms are words which sound the same.
    • Examples
      air, heir
      rain, rein, reign
      throne, thrown
    • A puzzle based on homonyms :
      “What is the difference between the Prince of Wales and a cricket ball?”
      The Prince of Wales is heir to the throne. A cricket ball is thrown to the air.

    Idiom

    • is usually a phrase whose meaning is not obvious
    • gets the meaning accepted due to usage over time
    • is a linguistic device
    • During my middle school days, one of my uncles gave me books (including “A Book of Idioms”). From the book, I learned that “the hand that rocks the cradle” stands for “a mother”.
    • “Rain cats and dogs” is an idiom which means “Rain heavily”. In this example, the idiom uses a metaphor.
    • No one knows the root of the idiom “kick the bucket” meaning “dies”. Someone guessed that a man being hanged by a rope might kick a bucket.
    • Idioms should be used sparingly. If you combine two idioms mentioned above and say “The hand that rocked the cradle kicked the bucket” you might receive LOL (Laughing Out Loud).

    Synonym

    • Synonyms are words which have almost the same meaning for the given context.
    • Since some words have multiple meanings, one must specify the meaning associated with a synonym.
    • Dictionary, Thesaurus, Lexicon and Vocabulary are synonyms.
      Their usage depends on the context. In general, Lexicon is a body of knowledge (or dictionary) of Latin and Greek.
      At one time, Lexicon is a card game where players create words and score points. It was superseded by Scrabble.
    Scrabble
  • Anattalekhana Sutta

    Anattalekhana Sutta

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    Atta and Anatta

    Some early religions talked about reincarnation (transmigration of atta, atman, soul). In contrast, Buddhism discusses rebirth and no-soul (anatta).

    Sutta

    The Buddha delivered “Anattalakkhana Sutta” as a follow-up sermon to the “Taya Oo” to his five disciples led by Ashin Kondanna. The Sutta’s title literally means “No-self characteristic discourse”.

    Buddha taught that “each of the five khandas (aggregates) are subject to impermanence (anicca), and suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or misery (dukkha) and thus unfit for identification with a self”.

    The five disciples became enlightened after listening to the Sutta. They became members of the (Paramatta) Sangha, the third of the Triple Gems.

    Books

    Book

    There are many books on the Sutta including the one by Mahasi Sayadaw explaining the relevance of the Sutta to Vipassana meditation.

    There is also an English translation of the Sutta by Saya U Pe Maung Tin.

  • U Soe Khaw

    U Soe Khaw

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    U Soe Khaw (Left)

    Part-time Lecturer, Mining Engineering

    Education

    • B.S., Mining Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. 1950
    • Honors: Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.
    • M.S., Mining Engineering, Missouri School of Mines, University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri 1952.

    Experience

    • 1953 – 1964 Service with the Ministry of Mines, Govt of Burma. Entry as Asst. Inspector of Mines, then promoted to Inspector, Chief Inspector, Director of Mines, and Deputy Dir. General PMDC
    • 1954 – 1955 As Visiting Lecturer taught Mining Courses at the BOC Engineering College, Rangoon University
    • 1971 – 1984 Service with United Nations ESCAP in Bangkok as Economic Affairs Officer (P-4) and rising to Chief of Mineral Resources Section (p-5).

    Notes

    In 1954, BOC Engineering College campus was located south of the Rangoon University estate between Prome Hall and the Teachers Training College on Prome Road. It consisted of modest single storied buildings. In addition to degree courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical engineering, Mining courses were offered for the first time during that year.

    At Dean Sayagyi Tan Ba Hli’s request, Ministry of Mines assigned U Soe Khaw as part time Lecturer to teach Mining Engineering courses.

    U Soon Sein was later transferred from the Mines Department to the University and taught Mining courses full time.

    Updates

    • U Soe Khaw and U Soon Sein are now GBNF

    Memories

    Memorial Service for Saya’s Spouse

    • Soon Kyway at Tathagata Meditation Center (TMC)
    • Attended by Dhamma friends
    Dhamma friends

    Posts

    • Associations
    • GBNF
    • HMEE
    • Mining Engineering
    • SPZP
  • 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
  • Khin Maung Win, Dr.

    Khin Maung Win, Dr.

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    He is a retired Professor of Maths. He studied in Rangoon and France. He wrote about Maths, Education and Vispassana Meditation. He passed away at the age of 81.

    He is the only son of two well known writers Saya U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit.

    U Khin Maung Latt taught English at Rangoon University and at a private tuition school co-founded by him and U Thein Maung (Htin Lin, National Literary Award Winner). He was the inaugural Chief Editor of WPD (Working People’s Daily).

    Daw Khin Myo Chit’s works include “Colorful Burma”, “Heroes of Ancient Bagan” and an award winning short story.

    The Centennial of the two writers was celebrated in 2015. (Note: Bogyoke Aung San was also born in 1915).

    Khin Maung Latt, Khin Myo Chit, Khin Maung Win

    Family of writers

    • Parents : U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit
    • Spouse : Daw Shwe Yi Win
    • Children : Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit) & Mi Mi Win (Junior Win)

    ဒေါက်တာခင်မောင်ဝင်း (သင်္ချာ)

    အသက် ၈၁ နှစ် ရန်ကုန်အချိန် ဩဂုတ် ၃၊ ည ၁၁ နာရီ ၁၅ ခန့်က ၊ ရန်ကုန်နေအိမ်မှာ ကွယ်လွန်ပါတယ်။

    ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြသူ အားလုံးကို ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါတယ်။

    He’s got a good life and he’s got a good fight.

    သူဘ၀ကိုကောင်းမွန်စွာ နေထိုင်ပြီး ကောင်းမွန်စွာ ရင်ဆိုင်သွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။

    သား – မောင်ရစ် + မေသန်းဌေး

    သမီး – ဂျူနီယာဝင်း

    မြေး – ပွင့်ဖြူနန္ဒာ

    • U Khin Maung Latt taught English at Rangoon University and later at his Private Tuition School with U Thein Maung (Htin Lin). He also served as the first Chief Editor of Working People’s Daily.
    • Daw Khin Myo Chit was active during Burma’s Fight for Independence. She is an award winning author. She published several books about Burmese culture.
    • Dr. Khin Maung Win received his doctorate from France. After retirement as Professor of Mathematics, he wrote articles covering education and meditation.
    • Tekkatho Shwe Yee Win’s works appeared in magazines (e.g. Shwe Thway).
    • Maung Yit (U Maung Maung Win) is a cartoonist and co-founder of Moemaka.
      Daw May Than Htay taught at SJSU.
    • Junior Win (Daw Mi Mi Win) is a bilingual author. She won a prize for her book about her paternal grandparents (published for the 100th birthday celebration).
  • Engineering — Requirements

    Engineering — Requirements

    by Hla Min

    Updated : June 2025

    HMEE

    Early Days

    • [Special in 1924]
      Eligible B.Sc. graduates are admitted to the “accelerated” program (3 year course)
    • [Common in the old system]
      Students who passed the I.Sc. (Intermediate of Science) with Science Option and scored 50+ points in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry are admitted to the four year course.

    Short-lived in the Old system

    • Eligible students who passed the Matriculation are admitted to the “special” six year course.
    • Due to resources (logistics …), the students were transferred” before they graduated to the “default” program.

    November 1964

    Three batches of students were admitted to RIT (Rangoon Institute of Technology) under the then new Education System.

    200 (or so) students joined the first ever 3rd BE Class. Most of them completed their I.Sc.(B) with the Science Option

    320 (or so) students joined the first ever 2nd BE Class. Most of them completed their I.Sc.(A) with the Science Option

    450 (or so) students joined the first ever 1st BE Class. Intelligence Level Aggregate (ILA) system was used for admission. There were students with (a) all Science (b) all Arts (c) Hybrid

    Regional College Era

    After finishing two years at a Regional College, eligible students were admitted to 3rd BE classes.