Category: Broadcast

Broadcast on November 1, 2020

Early Sayas

Dr. Mya Bu
Professor of Psychology and Philosophy

Dr. Hla Thwin
President, RU Soccer (Sports Council EC)

Dr. Kyaw Sein
Minister, BSPP

U Khin Maung Tint / Tekkatho Phone Naing

Daw Khin Khin Htwe / Flora
Retired as Librarian in charge of Burmese Section, Library of Congress

Daw Elsie Po Sa (GBNF)

Computers / Computing

Psychology of Programming (by Gerald Weinberg)

Psychology of Computer Vision (by Patrick Henry Winston)

Experiments

False Memory

Stanford University “Prison Experiment”

Learning by children

Miscellaneous

Theories

Study of Behavior

Individual

Group

Neuroscience

Clinical Psychology

Psycho — Movie by Alfred Hitchcock

Sequels / TV shows

Span of Attention / Span of Control

Relevant in many disciplines

Broadcast on December 7, 2020

Matriculation in 1958

• Dr. Soe Win (SPHS, Ch, Retired Rector of YUFL) stood First in Burma
  Father : Saya U Sein (SPHS)
  Uncle : Saya U Kyaw Sein (SPHS)
  Spouse : Sayama Daw May Saw Lwin (Ch)
  Sons : U Aung Mon and Dr. Nyi Thet Lwin
  
• U Robert Sein (SPHS, Phy) stood Second
  Sister : Dr. Wendy Sein
  
• Daw Myint Myint Tin (Pearl Ba Tin, MEHS) stood Third
  Spouse : Dr. Khin Maung Wint (“Sargalay”)
  Brother : U Myo Win (Melvyn)

ARAE Regatta in Calcutta in 1958

Dr. Harry Saing (Htut Saing, GBNF, Bow)

• Pediatric Surgeon
• Rangoon
• Hong Kong
• Multiple Sports Selection
• RUBC Captain and Gold
• Burma Hockey
• Burma Cricket
• Track and Field
• Soccer
• Passed away in Hong Kong

Tin Htoon (A60, Stroke)

The RUBC crew won the Venables Bowl for Coxless Pairs

Fledgling Sayas in 1958

Allen Htay (C58, GBNF)

• Studied MS at Harvard University
• Also attended courses at nearby MIT
• Co-founder and President
  RIT Alumni International
• “Brother, can you afford US$500”
  Article for SPZP-2000

U Myo Myint Sein (A58)

• First batch of Architecture Graduates in Burma
• Studied Masters at the University of Michigan
• Retired as Professor and Head of Architecture Department
  

Dr. San Hla Aung (C58)

• Had to wait one year after Matriculation, because he was under age.
• Graduated at the Top of his class.
• Joined the Civil Engineering Department as Assistant Lecturer.
• Studied MS at MIT.
• Promoted to Lecturer.
  
• After retirement, moved to USA.
• Completed Doctorate at Tulane University, New Orleans
• Retired as Professor of Practice
  
• Served as Line Judge at RUBC Regattas
• President, RIT Swimming
• President, RIT Rowing

• Wrote article about his student days for “RIT Alumni International Newsletter”
  

U Htin Paw (EE58, GBNF)

• MS from Michigan
• President, BEA
• President, TBSA

U Ba Nyunt (EE58)

• MS
• Transferred to MOC
• Spouse : Daw May Su (Phy)

Matriculation in 1959

• Dr. Frankie Ohn (SPHS, Physics) stood First in Burma. Sold his company in Southern California.
  Brothers : U Tin Nyo, Dr. Tin Bo, Dr. Tin Mo, Dr. Tin Wa
  
• Dr. Shewan Lee (SPHS, Chemistry) stood Second in Burma.
  
• Dr. Than Nwe Aung (SPHS) stood Third in Burma.
  
• Rocky (SPHS), younger brother of Koon Yin Chu, was Joint Fourth with U Oo Tha (Mathematics)

Fledgling Sayas in 1959

U Tin Hlaing (M59, GBNF)

• Received MS from Purdue University
• Head of Agricultural Engineering (Sub-department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Managed Universities Hockey Team
• Sadly he could not get access to a Dialysis Machine
  The Passport to have medical treatment abroad was delayed

U San Tun (M59)

• Received MS from MIT
• Head of Automobile Engineering (Sub-department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Past President, BEA (predecessor of BAPS)
• Took trip with Sayagyi U Aung Khin to China
  Host : Saya U Kyaw Myint (Auto64) working for UN

U Myo Kyi (EE59)

• Most senior (with Dr. Ba Lwin) among the EE sayas that are alive

Dr. Ba Lwin (EE59)

• Most senior (with U Myo Kyi) among the EE sayas that are alive

Dr. Chris Lee (L Tin Htun, EE59)

• Past President, BASES
• Worked on Space Shuttle Project

Broadcast on October 22, 2020

NEWS does not stand for

North, East, West, South

Notable Events, Weather, Sports

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Collection and Distribution

Before the Internet

News Agencies

AP
AFP
Reuters
UPI
…

Correspondents

Local
Foreign
Special / Area / Event
…

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News Agency Burma (NAB)

English Section
Myanmar Section

Select news for translation

U Ohn Pe (Tet Toe)
U Kyaw Min (Min Kyaw Min)
Spouse of Sao Aung Myint
…

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Early Newspapers in Burma

Myanmar
10+ Morning Newspaper
A few Evening / Weekly

English
Nation
Guardian

Features / Sections
Breaking News
World News
Local News
Editorial
Letters to the Editor
Articles / Columns
Cartoons
Poetry
Horoscope
Horse racing
Examination results
Lottery results
Advertisements
Special Supplements
…

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After Coup d’etat

Many newspapers were shut down

Four Myanmar newspapers
including Loke Thar Pyi Thu Nay Zin (with Shwe Oo Daung as Chief Editor)

Two English newspapers
including Working People’s Daily (with U Khin Maung Latt as Chief Editor)

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Miscellaneous

Censorship

Decline / Demise of hard copy newspapers

Need for Fact Checking of news on the Internet

Video Broadcast on November 5, 2020

Overview

Zartar name

Naming ceremony

Naming practices

D or DOW : Day of week
associated with Letters
associated with a number

One word names

Aung
Ba
Cho
Khin
Nu
Thant
…

Two word names

D repeated

Aung Aung
Aye Aung
Khin Khin
Khin Kyi
…

D, D+1

Aung Gyi
Aung Khin
Khin Sein
Kyaw Zaw
…

Miscellaneous

Sons of U Paing

Myo Paing
Soe Paing
Win Paing
Kyaw Paing

Stylish for a period

Start with BA
Start with ZAW
…

Three word names

Start with D

Aye Aye Khin
Aye Aye Kyi
Ba Yin Aung
Ba Yin Lay
Bo Bo Han
Kyi Kyi Htay
Tin Tin Aye
Tin Tin Win
…

D-1, D, D+1

Htun Aung Kyaw / Tun Aung Gyaw
Aung Kyaw Zaw
…

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Longer Names

Thane Oke Kyaw Myint
Khin Maung Thet Cho Oo
…

Old Passports

Did not mention that the following are prefixes

Maung
Ko
U
Ma
Daw
Ashin
…

Caused problems to some Myanmar

Miscellaneous

Confusion of some names

Khin Maung Zaw
called burma his colleagues as Khin Zaw

Some changed spelling

Khin : Kin

Khine, Khaing : Kai

Thein : Thane

Video Broadcast on October 21, 2020

Evolution

Silent Movies
Talking Movies

Black and White
Color

Small screen
Wide screen / Panorama
iMAX

Live accompaniment to Silent Movies
Stereo / Surround Sound

Subtitles / Captions
Credits

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Hollywood

Bollywood

Some Asian Producers / Directors / Actors gain international acclaim

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Myanmar

First Silent Movie “Love and Liquor” screened on October 13, 1920
Owner / Director : U Ohn Maung
Actor : U Nyi Pu
Story : P Moe Hnin

Myanmar Yoke Shin Yar Pyay in October 2020

Early companies

Parrot (U Sunny)

British Burma
U Nay Win studied Movie Technology in the US

Myanmar Ah Swe
Became A1
A1 U Tin Nwe
U Nyi Pu
U Tin Pe (Maung Maung Soe)
A1 U Tin Maung
Several Producers, Directors, Actors
Academy Awards

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Several childhood school mates

Myo Set (GBNF, son of Thar Gaung Gyi)

Myat Hla Sein (GBNF, son of U Chin Sein / Shwe Nyar Maung)

Children of U Mya Maung
Ma Peggy (GBNF)
Academy Win Mar
Toe Nyunt
Academy Sandar

Children of U Hla Bu
Ma Aung Si
A1 Than Htut
A1 Thein Htut
Thaman Kyar Ko Myint (Aung Myint)
Sai Wunna

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Miscellaneous

Early Cinemas

Academy Awards

Censorship

Motion Picture Corporation

Yoke Shin Kaung Si / Ah Phwe

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Video Broadcast on September 6, 2020

References

• “Who’s who in Health and Medicine in Myanmar?”
  by Dr. Mya Tu (Founder of BMRI) and Daw Khin Thet Hta
• “Pioneers of Medicine in Myanmar”
  by Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint
• “A Tribute to Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw-Myint”
  Ppresent for 70th birthday by former colleagues and students
• Articles by Dr. Maung Maung Nyo

Some early doctors

• Colonel Min Sein and Daw Yin May
• Dr. Ba Than
• Dr. Kyee Paw
• Dr. Ko Gyi
• Dr. Maung Maung Gyi
• Dr. Khin Maung Win
• Daw Myint Myint Khin
• Dr Pe Nyun
• Dr. Hla Hla and Dr. Mya Mya

SME (Subject Matter Experts) who earlier helped me include Dr. Khin Maung U (First in Burma in 1963) and Dr. Nyunt Wai (Fourth in Burma in 1963).

Video Broadcast on September 29, 2020

Myanmar Language

Myanmar Sagar : Spoken Burmese

Myanmar Sar : Written Burmese

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Study in schools

KG

Primary

Middle school

High school

Intermediate College

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U Pe Maung Tin :
Burmese and Pali Scholar
Proposed having a separate Burmese Department in Rangoon University
Myanmar Sar Mi Thar Su unveiled a bust of Sayagyi in RU in 2019 (as part of the Yar Pyay Ah Kyo Celebrations)

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Early graduates :
founders of Khit San Sar Pay
ICS U Sein Tun : Theikpan Maung Wa
U Thein Han : Zawgyi
U Wun : Minthuwun

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Some Sayas

U Pe Maung Tin
U E Maung
U Wun
U Maung Maung Gyi
U Chan Mya
U Tun Pe
U Toe Aung
U Hla Shwe
U San Htwa
U Tin Maung
Daw Than Swe
Daw Po
U Hla Maung
U Po Kyaw Myint
…
U Thet Lwin
U Tein Kyi
U Soe Myint
U Saw Tun
U Kyaw Hlaing

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Miscellaneous

Myanmar Sar Ah Phwe

Change of spelling :
Fines

Burma Translation Society :
Sar Pay Beikman

Swel Sone Kyan

Burmese Typewriter :
Require tricks

Burmese Fonts :
Preferably Unicode compliant
Some fonts (e.g Zawgyi) are not
Ad hoc : use Converters

Degradation of usage
Fancy spellings on the Internet

Video Broadcast on September 30, 2020

John Warner

• better known as Cheiro (Palmistry, Numerology, Books)
• Count Louis Hamon

U Ba Than (Physical Education)

• Warned a family friend of a fatal accident
• The friend replied that he survived a car accident and had scars of his face.
  He was going back to Dawei on his father’s schooner, and upon his return to Rangoon would become a temporary monk.
• Sad to note that he tried to help the crew mates after the schooner sank, probably got exhausted and “lost his grip” before the rescue ship came.

Ava House : Book shop

• A fellow shopper recounted a “bad” reading by a palmist
• The palmist interpreted the square on the Line of Fate as good fortune.
• The shopper ended up in a jail cell.

Colleague

• Auxiliary line “bridged” the broken life line
• Needed several grafts for the foot injury while riding at the “end” of the bus (which was “rammed” by a car following it)
• He had come back from a forest monastery where he practiced as a temporary monk

Sein Win (C69, Win Kyaw, GBNF)

• He was a serious amateur Palmist.
• Read many books on Palmistry
• His consultant was a professional palmist.
• They tied the knot.

Miscellaneous

• Benham
  “Scientific” study
  
• Associations in some countries
  
• Indian text “for fun or profit”
  Map palm readings to astrology

• Myanmar palmists
  Saya Sandra
  Bogalay U Kywe
  U Kyaw Min
  …

Broadcast on September 21, 2020

• Kabyar
  Poem by RIT Alumni and/or Sayas
• Illustration
  by Artist Myat Myo Myint (U Myo Myint)
• Translation into English
  by U Hla Min

Creativity

• Convergence of technologies and disciplines

Collaboration

• Tekkatho Moe War
  Saya U Moe Aung (EE63)
• Okpo Maung Yin Maung
  Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72)
• Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla)
  Saya U Nyunt Htay (Met73)
• “Ka Byaung”
  U Win Myint (M72)
• Maung Sein Win (Padeegone)
  Winner of S.E.A Write Royal Award
  
• Myat Myo Myint
  U Myo Myint, Illustration
  
• Life Long Learner (U Hla Min)
  Translator

Objective

• Highlight the Myanmar traditions and beliefs
  (e.g Dana : Sharing and Caring, search for beauty, noble livelihood)
  to the world through “Poetic Art”

Video Broadcast on September 21, 2020

Objective

• Highlight the Myanmar traditions and beliefs
  (e.g Dana : Sharing and Caring, search for beauty, noble livelihood) to the world through “Poetic Art”

Creativity and Collaboration

• Convergence of technologies and disciplines
• Kabyar / Poem by RIT Alumni and/or Sayas
• Illustration by Artist Myat Myo Myint (U Myo Myint)
• Translation into English by U Hla Min

Contributors

• Tekkatho Moe War
  Saya U Moe Aung (EE63)
• Okpo Maung Yin Maung
  Saya U Aung Myaing (ChE72)
• Maung Nyunt Htay (Ah Htet Min Hla)
  Saya U Nyunt Htay (Met73)
• “Ka Byaung”
  U Win Myint (M72)
• Maung Sein Win (Padeegone)
  Winner of S.E.A Write Royal Award
  
• Myat Myo Myint
  U Myo Myint, Illustration
  
• Life Long Learner (U Hla Min)
  Translator