Category: Concept

Meaning

• Tradition.

• Property handed over to an heir.
• Something that is transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor.

UNESCO

UNESCO provides grant for sites that have been designated as “Unesco Heritage Site”.

Yangon

Yangon City Heritage has recognized Heritage Sites and presented Blue Plaques.

• SPHS (St. Paul’s High School)
• St. John’s College (originally called St. John’s Diocesan [Boys] School)
• Myoma National School
• MEHS (Methodist English High School)

USA

• Some sites and buildings are deemed to be historic (e.g. 150+ years old).
• Restrictions are placed on how to upgrade them.

In our younger days

• In our youth, it was fashionable in the movies and outside to smoke cigars, cheroots and cigarettes.
• There was no warning that “Smoking could be hazardous to your health”.

Gold Flake and Ludu

• Some did not smoke, but they bought used cigarette packs with brands such as Gold Flake and Ludu. Why?
• There was a campaign from Gold Flake and Ludu that they will give a lottery ticket for the specified number of packs purchased (e.g. 20). The top prize for “Aung Bar Lay Htee” at that time was one Lakh Kyats. If the top winning ticket was bought from Gold Flake or Ludu, the winner received an additional one Lakh Kyats. That was a sizeable amount of money.
• U Win Thein (M67, GBNF) — the indefatigable organizer — was from the Gold Flake Family.
• Saya U Hla Myint (Charlie, M65), Ko Michael Lim (C74), Ma Kyu Kyu Lin (“Bawlone”, T75), and Ko San Lwin (EC77) belong to the Ludu Family.
  Ludu had a family band of musicians and vocalists (e.g. Dr. Thynn Thynn Lin) that made public performances at festivals.

Game

There was another use of cigarette pack covers. There was a game where players take turns to put up one cover. If the top-most cover matches the cover immediately underneath, the player “wins” the pile of covers. Those who ran out of covers might decide to buy back some covers.

• Most children are not afraid of failing. They ignore their failures and eventually learn to do new things
  ride a bike,
  swim and
  speak several languages
  
• Most adults are afraid of failing. They do not try to move outside their comfort zone.

• We read about “King Bruce and the Spider“. The moral of the story was “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

• Thomas Edison succeeded in developing the incandescent bulb after 1000+ tries and failures. He said that he learned something new from the failed experiments.

• NASA had failures.
  Three astronauts training for Apollo 1 Mission — Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee — died due to the deadly fire
  The NASA space program rebounded from the failure and eventually landed men on the moon,
  NASA developed an accelerated program to beat USSR in the race to the moon.

• Around Christmas of 1968, three astronauts (Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders) circled the moon and sent back lovely pictures.
  Apollo 8 was an important step for a successful mission to set men on the moon.

• I wrote a poem on “Apollo 8”. It was not published. My mentor Reverend F. Ludvig (aka Ashin Ananda) said, “Your poem is long. Most people do not have the time and leisure to read poems, especially long ones.” I could have lost heart and confidence.

• In July 1969, Apollo 11 landed in Tranquility Bay on the moon. I wrote a poem “Men on the Moon“.
  Ashin Ananda gave my poem to Mr. Hall, Information Officer at USIS. He forwarded it to NASA. He put me on the subscription list of USIS. I received “Alin Yaung Magazine”, Newsletters and Translations.
  My poem was also published in the Guardian Newspaper.