Category: Computation

by Hla Min

Updated : September 2026

Three RIT Sayas

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 (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 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

by Hla Min

Updated : September 2026

Numerals

• HIndu-Arabic numeral : 8
• Roman Numeral : VIII

Magggingas

• Samma dithi / Right view
• Samma sankappa / Right thoughts
• Samma vaca Right speech
• Samma kamanta / Right action
• Samma ajiva / Right livelihood
• Samma vayamo / Right effort
• Samma sati / Right mindfulness
• Samma samadhi / Right concentration

Precepts for Ajivatthamaka sila

Abstain from

• killing living beings
• taking what is not freely given
• committing sexual misconduct
• telling lies
• slandering or divisive speech
• harsh speech
• frivolous talk or talking nonsense
• wrong livelihood

Uposatha Precepts

Abstain from

• killing living beings
• taking what is not freely given
• ignoble conduct (sexual intercourse)
• telling lies
• intoxicating drinks and drugs that cause heedlessness
• eating after mid-day (until next dawn)
  (a) dancing, singing, playing music, witnessing shows or entertainment
  (b) wearing flowers, using perfumes, beautifying with cosmetics
• using high and luxurious seas and beds

Importune Moments

• Being born in hell
• Being born in the animal realm
• Being born in the Peta realm (of ghosts or ever-hungry beings) and in the Asura realm (of demons)
• Being born as a long-lived Brahma in the realms of No-Perception (Asannasatta) and No-Form (Arupaloka)
• Being born as a person in a remote borderland inaccessible to monks, nuns, and lay people
• Being born as a person with wrong views
• Being born as a man with no intelligence to understand the Dhamma
• Being born as a man with intelligence but when the Buddha has not arisen

Miscellaneous

• Octave
  Eight notes apart

• August
  Eighth month in the Gregorian Calendar
• October
  Eighth month in the Old Roman Calendar
• President’s Challenge Cup (RUBC)
  Inter-club Coxed Eights
• Gallon
  Eight pints
• Mile
  Eight furlongs
• Sabbath includes 8th Waxing day and 8th Waning day
  

by Hla Min

Updated : September 2025

Opal

In our younger days, Opal was a decent car. But, when one jokingly calls someone “Opal” (or “O Pei အို ပယ်” then one is obsolete (good to be ignored for getting old).

T. O

• Technical Obsolescence
• Some artifacts can be found only in museums, antique fairs (by die-hard collectors).
• Some technologies are disruptive.
• Many automobile workers lost their jobs when robotics gradually displaced them. Those, who did not have alternate skills, were hit hard.
• Secretaries (experts in shorthand and typing) found that their skills have been marginalized by the word processors, voice-activated systems and similar advanced tools.

Thoughts

• On the flip side, I might not have a good memory and a hobby of “connecting the dots” of seemingly diverse topics if I had early access to the wonderful world of Internet, AI, and Gaming.
• Slate, Chalk & Talk, Log Table, Slide rule, Multiplication tables (up to 16), Grammar books, Pronouncing Dictionaries, and now hard-to-find artifacts trained us to remember (not rote learning per se, but using visualization and tricks).
• Some people thought that I am either “brain damaged” or have an “unusual brain”.
• One said, “You can write backwards faster than most of us can write forward”.
• A few were not impressed.
• A professor said, “You cannot earn money by being an expert in History in general, and History of Computing in particular.”
• A manager said, “What is the use of knowing the Trivia (e.g. hobbies, awards) of your fellow workers?”
• T.O. required me to unlearn some old skills, and to learn new “latest and the greatest” skills.

• For me, it’s easy to remember and too hard to forget. I know thousands of names.
• After procrastinating for decades, I had a wake up call to dump my Trivia.
• I have posted 2500+ articles and 220+ videos in the past few years.
• I remember and appreciate the good old days.

by Hla Min

Updated : September 2026

Numeral

• Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
• Roman numeral : IV
• In Burmese : လေး

Recent Buddhas of ဘဒ္ဒကမ္ဘာ

• Kakusandha
• Konagamana
• Kassapa
• Gautama

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

• Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယ
• Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာ
• Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တ
• Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မ / general objects — not covered by the above three

Brahma Vihara Practice

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

Guardian deities

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

Mahabhuta

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

Miscellaneous

• Four sided figures စတုဂံ
  Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
• Baseball
  first base, second base, third base, home plate
• Games
  Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
• Rowing လေးတက်လှော်
  Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls

• Education ပညာရေး
  Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
• April ဧပြီ
  4th month of the Gregorian Calendar

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