by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
Work Experience:
My dear parents gave me birth and brought me up to be a good son. My teachers taught me everything else I know. My land of birth, Myanmar, through the sweat and hard work of its citizens supported and paid for my engineering education and my studies abroad. To each and everyone I am obligated and I give my thanks. For it is narrated in Al-Hadith that one who does not thank one another in this life even for little favors is unworthy to thank the Lord for the big favor.
Sitting: (1) U Pu (2) Dr. Aung Gyi (3) U Min Wun (4) U Ba Hli (5) Mr. Redpath (6) U Ngwe Thein (7) Mr. Eswara (8) Mr. Num Kock
1st Row: (1) Khin Maung (2) Than Aung (3) Htay Aung (4) Khin Maung Lwin (5) Kyaw Tin (6) Win Thein (7) Chit Pe (8) Shwe Tun Maung (9) Win Maung (10) Thein Lwin (11) Tun Yi (12) Than Pe
2nd Row: (1) V. Kumar (2) Kyaw Hoe (3) Allen Htay (4) Ba Hnin Chit (5) Kyaw Mya (6) Kyaw Din (7) Irwin Myaing (8) Chit Aye (9) Maung Maung (10) Nolan Wu (11) Morgan Singar
3rd Row: (1) Patrick George (2) Oscar Shirazee (3) Hla Shwe (4) Aung Par Thein (5) Saw Lwin (6) San Hla Aung (7) Shwe Win (8) Douglas Hoe (9) Sidney Chen
There was a mini-gathering at SPZP-2000. The attendees include
When Sidney Chen’s health was failing, his daughter requested us to let his classmates and friends know that he was eager to regain contact with them. Sadly, he passed away.
Mr. Oscar and U Aye Win Hlaing used to work in Iran many years ago. Mr. Oscar’s spouse is the sister of U Ngwe Zoe (Peter, SPHS57, GBNF).
Due to schedule conflicts, Saya Dr. San Hla Aung could not attend some SPZPs. He retired at the age of 80. He is now free to attend many SPZPs.
Saya Dr. Win Thein (GBNF) succeeded Saya U Min Wun as Professor & Head of the Department. Except for a warning sign from an early Medical check up, he was healthy. He passed away in Yangon. His sister has donated Saya’s Garawa money to selected Charities.
And many weekends spent away from your family as well? If you can then you probably are a member of the RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe organizing committee.
It all began one day several months ago when we met over lunch at Benny Tan’s home in Hillsborough. Ko Hla Min and Ko Khin Maung Zaw among the lunch party had started the RIT Alumni website and were receiving enthusiastic responses. Hearing that the duo were carrying on the project all by themselves we decided to throw in our moral and financial support to assure its survival, realizing that it was providing a needed service for the RIT alumni to locate and communicate with each other. Every one present, ten of us at that time, took out our checkbooks and wrote out one hundred dollars each, with promises of more as needed. We informally called ourselves the RIT Alumni Bay Area Group. I was asked to be the group leader.
After that fateful event we continue to have regular meetings, hosted in turn at the homes of some among group members: Ko Hla Min, Maurice Chee, Ko Myat Htoo, Ko Thein Aung, and most recently Dr Nyo Win. Did I leave out any one? Ah yes! Ko Myint Swe and San San Swe. All the while the membership continues to grow and our objective keeps on changing from support of the website to some vague dream of a future RIT alumni organization on a global scale and finally settled on a plan for RIT Alumni Grand Reunion at the beginning of the 21st Century. Ko Hla Min broached the idea to include Saya Pu Zaw Pwe as part of the Grand Reunion in keeping with the Myanmar custom of honoring one’s teachers. As our plan jelled we got carried away by our own excitement and started talking about holding the reunion before the end of the Year 2000. After all, ending one millennium successfully augers well for success in the next millennium.
Before we fully realized what we were up to we have found an ideal site, the Embassy Suites Hotel conference hall near the San Francisco International Airport, and found ourselves making a commitment for a definite date, 28 October 2000 and a attendance fee of fifty dollars, a modest amount to encourage maximum number of Alumni to participate. The minimum capacity of the conference hall is 200 seats and we were required to make down payment and sign a rental and service agreement based on 200 seats. Our most optimistic estimate at the time was 100 attendees. If the attendance is low that means the Bay Area Group, as the Organizing Committee was not in force at the time, will have to make up the short fall. Which could amount to as much as five thousand dollars, or five hundred dollar from each group member. We hesitated a moment to reflect on what that means to us individually in terms of diminished spending power. But, in the end our attachment to RIT and the engineering profession, our sincere desire to meet the Sayas and class mates from whom we were separated for long over came us. We will accept the risks.
Thus was born the preparations in full swing for the Grand RIT Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe. Others must tell the rest of the story – of struggles, compromises, and elations along the way and from participants themselves what it means to be present at the defining moment in the history of RIT Alumni.
Allen Htay,
RIT Alumni International – Bay Area Group
RIT Grand Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe Organizing Committee
Hello All:
Thanks and Congratulations for a well organized and well executed event. I believe we all went to bed early Sunday night irrespective of the change back to Standard Time (from Daylight Savings Time according to the rule “Spring forward, Fall back”) , and no doubt slept soundly and very happy, knowing full well what happened during the past three days is more than what we dared to dream. I for one took the Monday off and forgot lunch because I woke up so late. But what is one missed lunch!
Allen Htay
Dear Ko Maung Maung Than (M79):
Thanks for your note of appreciation for the RIT Reunion and Saya Pu Zaw Pwe. Everybody chipped in: the sayas, organizers, committee members, helpers, supporters like you which we were very fortunate to have, the alumni and general guests and well-wishers. We won’t be able to host an event of this magnitude and importance if any of the components were missing.
Success belongs to everyone.
Thanks again for your generous support
Allen Htay
Dear Colleagues and students
I am very sad to hear that Allen Htay passed away.
I have known Allen Htay since the early 1950s when we were both students at Methodist High School, Yegyaw, East Yangon. He was one year junior to me.
We were together again in the late 1950s when we were both Assistant Lecturers at B.O.C. Engineering College. During that time he and I together with Saya Num Kock and Saya U Aung Khin went for an excursion to visit Lawpita Hydroelectric Plant construction site near Loikaw, in Kayah State.
While I was living on the R.I.T. campus in the early 1960s he moved to a house just across the street from us.
I will always remember him coming to our house many times in the evenings for a chat with my family.
The last time I saw him was at the 2004 Saya Puzawpwe in Yangon.
He will be sadly missed by many of his friends and students.
May his soul rest in Peace.
Maung Thit (Metallurgy)
Melbourne, Australia
By Ko “Henry” Thet Tun
Our sincere and deepest condolences to Saya U Allen Htay & family for the demise of Saya.
From the RIT Alumni Australia & Myanmar Engineering Association of Australia Inc.
Dear Ko Hla Min,
We are very much saddened by the departure of Saya Allen Htay. Please convey our heartfelt condolences to Daw Mu Mu and family. His good nature and kind demeanor will always live in our memory and that of those who loved him.
While we will all miss Saya Allen very much, I hope all his loved ones can find some slight comfort in knowing that his suffering has ended.
Very Sincerely,
Tin Win and Lily.
Dear Ko Hla Min,
Without the RIT Alumnu Updates, I would not have known about the passing of our (me and George Peters) final year thesis supervisor Saya U Allen Htay.
Thank you for your regular as well as supplement updates.
Please convey our deepest condolences to Daw Mu Mu and family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this time of great loss and sadness.
Best regards,
Dennis (Kyaw Thu) (C73) & Alice U
Editor’s Notes:
Dennis & Alice moved to Canada.
My friend Allen Htay (GBNF)
Some years ago I wrote an article for the ex-RIT.org about my saya friends at RIT which included Allen Htay.
I met Allen Htay when I joined the 1st Year BSc (Engg) class at the Faculty of Engineering at Leikkhone in 1958 .Ko San Hla Aung was our drawing instructor for the main majors (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical), and Allen Htay was the instructor for the rest.
In December1958, I went on State Scholarship to Stanford University. When I returned home after completing my studies, I found myself on the same ship S S Warickshire from Liverpool to Yangon with Allen Htay, Ko Tin Maung Nyunt (Agri Eng) and Ko Ko Lay (UCC). There was also another Myanmar Ko Than Pe, a Chartered Accountant, on the ship. Those days it was customary for the Government to send the returning scholars by ship.
We normally had our meals together seated at the Chief engineer’s table. After dinner we would play bridge to spend the time. Ko Ko Lay partnered with Ko Tin Maung Nyunt and Allen Htay and Ko Than Pe took turns as my partner against them. We played almost every night after dinner and all of us became very good friends.
We got back to Yangon in October 1963. Allen Htay rejoined RIT. I was posted to RIT in January 1964 and Ko Tin Maung Nyunt in March 1964 and so we were together again. When I got married and moved into the RIT staff quarters I was at 16F, Allen Htay at 16E and Ko Tin Maung at 16D. We visited each others house very often. We also became friendly with Allen Htay’s brothers and sisters.
I have attached a photo taken during Thingyan 1966 with Allen Htay (2nd from left) and his youngest brother (extreme right).
I left RIT for UCC and the UN, and Allen Htay and Ko Tin Maung Nyunt went to the United States. All of us met gain in the Bay Area in 1985, 2001 and 2010. I saw Allen Htay at the RIT reunions in 2004 (Yangon), 2007 and 2010 (Singapore).
He could not make it to the 2012 reunion in Yangon because of his health. He was a mild mannered soft spoken gentleman and we will all miss him. May he rest in peace.
“Let me count the ways [to love]” by Elizabeth Browning is a poem present by Ma Ma Mu to Saya Allen.
In memory of Saya, Daw Mu Mu Kin
Ko Maurice Chee (M75) coordinated the donation of books.
NorCal RITAA and some volunteer alumni from Yangon coordinated the selection of scholarship recipients.
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
M72
Mg Mar Ga occasionally posted the GBNF list.
ChE72
by Hla Min, U Osadha & Thor Aye
Update : May 2026
by Ashin Osadha
မနေ့က မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ မကျန်းမာတာ ကြာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ဒကာမကြီး ဒေါက်တာ ဒေါ်ခင်ညိုသက်ဆီ သွားပြီး ပရိတ်ရွတ်ပါတယ်။ ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၂-ရက်လောက်က တယ်လို့ ပင့်ထားတာပါ။ ဒကာမကြီးနဲ့ ကျုပ်က ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေး ရင်းနှီးမှုရှိသလို သူသိချင်တဲ့ တရားတွေကိုလဲ မေးလေ့ရှိပါတယ်။
တကယ်တော့ ဒေါက်တာလင်းဆွေအေးနဲ့ ဒေါက်တာ ဒေါ်ခင်ညိုသက်တို့ လင်မယားက ကျုပ်အမေရိကားရောက်ပြီး သိပ်မကြာခင်မှာ စတင် ရင်းနှီးခွင့် ရခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အကြောင်းကတော့ ကျုပ်က နွေရာသီမှာ ကလေးတွေ စာသင်ပေးလို့ပါ။
ဆရာတော် ဦးသီလာနန္ဒက ၁၉၇၉-မှာ အမေရိကားကို ရောက်ပါတယ်။ ရောက်ခါစမှာ ဆရာတော်က လူကြီးတွေအတွက်ပဲ တရားဟော, တရားပြ လုပ်နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ကလေးတွေကို မသင်နိုင်သေးပါဘူး။ ဒီတော့ မြန်မာမိသားစုတွေက မွေးတဲ့ ကလေး တွေဟာ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာနဲ့ ဝေးကုန်ပါတယ်။ ဒီကလေးတွေ အနာဂတ်မှာ ဘာသာတရားနဲ့ ဝေးသွားမှာကို သူတို့ ဇနီးမောင်နှံက စိုးရိမ်မိကြပါတယ်။ ဒါနဲ့ သူတို့က “အေး+သက်ဖေါင်ဒေးရှင်း”ဆိုပြီး တည်ထောင်ကာ ငွေများမ,တည် လှုဒါန်းခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲသလို အေး+သက်ဖေါင်ဒေးရှင်းကို စတင်တည်ထောင်သူမို့ “အေး+သက်မိခင်ကြီး”လို့ ခေါ်လိုက်တာပါ။ သူတို့တည်ထောင် ခဲ့တဲ့ နွေရာသီ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ သင်တန်းကိုတော့ ၁၉၉၁-ခုနှစ်မှာ စတင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဒါက သမိုင်းကြောင်းလေး စပ်မိလို့ ပြောလိုက် တာပါ။
နေမကောင်းတာ ကြာပြီဆိုတော့ ဒကာမကြီးဟာ အိပ်ရာပေါ်မှာ လဲနေလိမ့်မယ်လို့ ထင်ခဲ့တာပါ။ အိမ်ရောက်တော့ ဧည့်ခန်းမှာ မျက်နှာကြည်ကြည်လင်လင်နဲ့ ထိုင်နေတာ တွေ့ရလို့ ကျုပ် အံ့သြသွားတယ်။ တကယ်တော့ ဒကာမကြီးက ကင်ဆာရောဂါ ၃-ကြိမ် ဖြစ်ထားတာပါ။ ဒါကြောင့် ကျုပ်နဲ့တွေ့တိုင်း “တပည့်တော်က သေရွာပြန်ဘုရာ့”လို့ အမြဲတမ်း ပြောပါတယ်။ အဲ… ဒါပေမဲ့ အခုတခါတော့ သူ့ကိုယ်သူလဲ သိနေသလိုပဲဗျ။ ဘေးနားက သူ့သားသမီးတွေကလဲ မျက်နှာ မကောင်းကြဘူး။ ကြိုသိနေပုံပါဘဲ။ အနည်းငယ် စကားပြောပြီးတော့ သီလပေးကာ ဗောဇ္စျင်သုတ်နဲ့ ပရိတ်တော်များ ရွတ်ဖတ်ပေးပါတယ်။ ပြီးတော့ အချိန်အခါနဲ့ သင့်တော်မဲ့ နကုလပိတာ ဒကာကြီးကို ဘုရားဟောတဲ့ “ကိုယ်သာ နာစေ, စိတ် မနာစေနဲ့”ဆိုတဲ့ တရားလေးကို အကျယ်ချဲ့ပြီး ဟောပေးပါတယ်။ အခုချိန်ဟာ လက်ရှိဘဝခန္ဓာလဲ မတွယ်တာအောင်, နာကျင်မှုကြောင့်လဲ ဒေါသမဖြစ်အောင် တရားနှလုံးသွင်းတတ်ဖို့ လိုကြောင်း၊ တွယ်တာမှု တဏှာနဲ့ အလိုမကျမှု ဒေါမနဿက လွတ်အောင် နှလုံးသွင်းနိုင်ရင် စိတ်ဟာ အစွန်းနှစ်ဖက်က လွတ်မြောက်သွားကြောင်း၊ ဒါကိုပဲ မဇ္စျိမပဋိပဒါကျင့်စဉ်ဟု ခေါ်ကြောင်း၊ မဇ္စျိမကျင့်စဉ်ဆိုတာမဂ္ဂင်လမ်းပင်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ မဂ္ဂင်လမ်းဆိုတာ ချုပ်ငြိမ်းမှု နိရောဓကို ဦးတည်နေကြောင်း… စသဖြင့် တရားရေအေးနဲ့ သောကအပူတွေ တခဏလောက်ပဲ ငြိမ်းစေတော့ဆိုပြီး ဟောပြပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။
တရားနာပြီး သူကိုယ်တိုင် ရေစက်ချ, အမျှဝေပါတယ်။ မြတ်စွာဘုရားက နကုလပိတာ ဒကာကြီးကို တရားတိုလေး ဟောလိုက်တုန်းကလဲ ဒကာကြီးဟာ စိတ်တွေ ပေါ့ပါး သွက်လက်ပြီး မျက်နှာတွေ ကြည်လင်တောက်ပ လာပါသတဲ့။ အဲသလိုပါဘဲ။ ဒကာမကြီးလဲ သူလုပ်ချင်တာလေးကိုလဲ လုပ်လိုက်ရပြီ၊ သူတွေ့ချင်တဲ့ သူနဲ့လဲ တွေ့လိုက်ရပြီ။ သူ့အတွက် အားဆေးတစ်ခွက် ဖြစ်စေမဲ့ တရားလေးလဲ နာလိုက်ရပြီ။ အဲဒါကြောင့်ပဲ စိတ်ရဲ့ ဖိစီးမှုတွေကနေ လွတ်မြောက်ကာ, ကိုယ်ရဲ့ နာကျင်မှုတွေလဲ တဒင်္ဂ ချုပ်ငြိမ်းနေပုံ ရပါတယ်။ တရားဟောပြီးတော့ သူ့မျက်နှာဟာ တိမ်စင်လပမာ သိသိသာသာ ကြည်လင်လာတာကို သတိထားလိုက် မိပါတယ်။ တရားဟောပြီးတော့ သူ့ကို အားပေး, နှုတ်ဆက်ခါ ကျောင်းကို ပြန်လာခဲ့ပါတယ်။
အဲ…. ဒါပေမဲ့၊ အခု နှုတ်ဆက်လိုက်တာဟာ ကျုပ်အတွက် နောက်ဆုံး နှုတ်ဆက်လိုက်ခြင်း ဆိုတာကိုတော့ မသိလိုက်မိဘူးဗျ။ သူ့ကို လာရောက်အားပေးကြတဲ့ ထဲမှာ ကျုပ်ဟာ နောက်ဆုံးလူတစ်ယောက် ဖြစ်နေလိမ့်မယ် ဆိုတာကိုလဲ မစဉ်းစားမိ ဘူးဗျ။ သူတွေ့ချင်တဲ့ သူ….
သူလုပ်ချင်တဲ့ အလှု….
သူနာချင်တဲ့ တရား…
ဒါလေးတွေကို သူကိုယ်တိုင် လုပ်ခွင့်ရလိုက်ပြီ ဆိုတော့ စိတ်လျှော့လိုက်ပုံ ပေါက်ပါတယ်။
ညနေခင်းဘက်ရောက်တော့ ဒကာကြီး ဒေါက်တာလင်းဆွေအေးဆီက ဖုန်းဆက်လာတယ်… “အရှင်ဘုရား ပြန်ကြွပြီး သိပ်မကြာခင် နေ့လည်ခင်းမှာတော့ ဒကာမကြီး ငြိမ်သက်စွာနဲ့ ဆုံးသွားပါပြီ ဘုရား”လို့ ဖုန်းဆက်လာပါတယ်။
ဒကာမကြီးအတွက် နောက်ဆုံး နှုတ်ဆက်တရားလေး ကျေးဇူး ဆပ်လိုက်ရလို့ ကျုပ်တော့ အတော်လေး ကျေနပ်မိပါတယ်။ သူလဲ ဒီကုသိုလ်စိတ်ကြောင့်ပဲ ကောင်းမွန်ရာ သုဂတိဘုံမှာ ရှိနေလိမ့်မယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်မိပါသဗျ။ဓမ္မာနန္ဒကျောင်းမှာ အေး+သက်ဖေါင်းဒေးရှင်းကို စတင်တည်ထောင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဒကာမကြီး ဒေါက်တာ ဒေါ်ခင်ညိုသက်, မြင့်မြတ်တဲ့ဘဝမှာ ဆက်လက်ကာ သာသနာ ပြုနိုင်ပါစေ…
အရှင်သြသဓ
မေလ ၄-ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၁-ခုနှစ်။
Dear Aye Family,
On behalf of TBSA, please allow me to offer our condolences to you and your family on the passing of our inspirational woman, founder of Aye-Thet Scholarship Program, Dr. Khin Nyo Thet.
I was privileged to meet her occasionally and had a great time socializing with her. She was an amazing woman. Not only she was admired by me but many other people. Every time I met her, she offered me positive energy with encouraging words, her willpower with positive energy was way above many of us. Most importantly, she was a wonderful mom who can see the benefit of youth learning Theravada Buddhism is vital to our USA-born kids.
Thank you! Ma Ma Nyo. Thank you!
Many words I can add about her endlessly. I will miss her dearly.Please allow us to send you all our condolences, along with the best memories and sharing of our good deeds to her. May she rest in a better stage of being…
May she be on the path of Nirvana…
We share all our merit dedicated to her.
Sadhu…Sadhu…Sadhu….
With best regards,
Daniel Bomya (U Thein Swe, President of TBSA)
Dr. Khin Nyo Thet passed away peacefully, at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by her husband, Dr. Lyn Swe Aye, and her children, Mimi Thabyay Aye and Thor Wynn Aye, on May 3rd, 2021.
Born in Rangoon, Burma on Sept. 17, 1946 to Dr. Kyaw Thet and Daw Khin Khin Gyi, she is survived by her brother, Dr. Lyn Aung Thet – (Dr Khin Mae Hla) and predeceased by her elder brother, Lyn Maung Thet, and younger sister, Khin Aye Thet.
She grew up and was educated in Rangoon, with an interlude in the USA while her parents completed their postgraduate studies at Yale. She graduated from the Institute of Medicine II, Rangoon, and immigrated to the USA, where she specialized in Pediatrics.
She established a private medical practice in San Jose, California where over several decades, she enjoyed nurturing relationships with generations of patients. Fearless, honest, warm and generous, as a teenager she sang in a girl group on the radio, and she loved to light up the dance floor. She took up competitive tennis, and later pickle ball, leading her teams on to victory. She also loved hosting bridge and mahjong groups.
She helped many people, both professionally and privately. With her husband, she founded the Aye-Thet Scholarship Fund which sponsors an annual summer camp for children, focusing on Buddhism and Meditation at the Dhammananda Theravada Monastery in Half Moon Bay, California.
Given current size limitations on gatherings, a family-only service will be held at Skylawn Cemetery in San Mateo. A memorial service may be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Theravada Buddhist Society of America
(Aye-Thet Scholarship Fund),
17450 S. Cabrillo Hwy.
Half Moon Bay,
CA 94019
**Khin Nyo Thet passed away peacefully, surrounded by her husband, Lyn Swe Aye and her children Mimi Thabyay Aye and Thor Wynn Aye on May 3rd, 2021 in Foster City, California.**
We’re coming to the end now. We’ve said our I love you’s and have started saying our goodbyes, or if you like, our farewells and until-next-times.
But while I have you, let me say thank you for all your love, attention, lessons learned and patience along the way. Thank you for fighting all these long years to stay alive.
Cancer three times in one life? It just doesn’t seem fair. And well it’s not.
You’re a good person who has spent her life in the service of others. A caretaker and healer of our youth, as a pediatrician. A dedicated, dutiful daughter who sacrificed to care for her mother, no matter the cost. A leader and the center of our Burmese community, helping recent immigrants find work, help, housing and most importantly a connection to their community. You were the mom on the block that gave all my friends hugs, kisses, meals, rides and love. Everybody loved you. And how could they not? We were so lucky to have you.
You’re the most important person in my life. I cannot imagine a world, my world without you.
But in the same breath, I see how much pain and suffering you’ve already endured. I can see your energy draining and see that the things that once brought you happiness, are now belabored and joyless.
I’ll miss your brutally honest feedback, your big warm hugs, your delicious cooking but more than anything, I’ll miss your Unconditional love. No matter what I did, where we were or how long we’d been apart, I knew you’d be thinking about me and missing me too. You’d always support and love me, with no strings attached. I’ve been so blessed to have you in my life.
But Mom, if you’re ready to go. I’m ready to let you.
I’ll miss you every day for the rest of my life. Go in peace and with our love and blessings.
You’ll always be in my heart. I love you.
Ma Ma Shirley and Ko Robert brought home cooked gourmet dinner to Ko Swe Aye and Ma Nyo’s house for Lyn Aung’s birthday celebration: yummy whole duck roast, French onion soup, ravioli pasta, steamed crab, shrimp scampi, and chocolate cake from the famous Ettores bakery.
After this most scrumptious lunch we all went to Bayshore park for a stroll and did some bird watching along the shore of the bay. The tide was up so not as many shorebirds were seen like on the previous evening we went by ourselves when there were so many feeding in the flats at low tide.
My favorite love duet was sung by Ko Swe Aye and Ma Nyo.
Thank you to all our friends for your unfailing support through the hard times, your kind words and condolences. Friday, when we laid our beloved Nyo to rest, was a sunny day. We had a quiet ceremony. In her life, she found joy and gave joy. Now, peace.
Desiree Tin :
Lynston, You are such a wonderful husband and so Nyo Nyo found joy and give joy. I’m sure she is resting in peace at a higher abode now. Sharing the merits of the good deeds on her behalf.
Bo Zaw Win :
Thadu Thadu Thadu
Yasmin Vanya :
My thoughts and prayers with you all during this sad time. Her kindness, generosity and beautiful smile will never be forgotten! Please take care Ko Swe Aye.
Peggy Nut :
Thank you to you, Mi Mi and Thor for the tireless care, love, etc you all provided through hard times. It was a joy to see Ma Ma Nyo smiling on the family trips. She is an exceptional human being for all that she did in her life. Everyone will remember MMN and miss her. We are glad that Mi Mi and Thor are living in same State to comfort you. Plus all your wonderful friends are in California are reachable.
Thethar M Thwe :
My warm thoughts are with you Uncle Swe Aye, MiMi and Thor, as you are passing through this difficult time. Please let me know if there is anything I can do.
Yin Mar :
Please take good care of yourself Uncle Aye. It has been a tough week for you. Auntie is an exceptional person and she will be missed by many. May her spirit rest in peace and may she be somewhere in this universe or at a “Kaung Ya Bone Yauk Ba Ze”. My thoughts and good wishes to you and your family.
Alison Hong Freeman :
Nyo was a special woman! We loved spending time with her. Sending our love to you, Mimi and Thor.
Mra Tun :
May she Rest In Peace.
Richard Myint :
Our thoughts and prayers have been with you and your family for the past week or so. Life will go on. Stay strong!
Winsome Tun :
She gave so much love and joy to family and friends close to her and she deserve peace in a higher abode. Thiri and I donated to the nunnery as well as to 25 old folks living on my Mingaladon estate, rice, oil, milk packets, cookies for Ma Ma yesterday. We already miss her dearly. I would like you, Thapyae and Thor to know that You can count on us whenever you need anything. Please treat us as part of your family.
Ye Hla :
Just as family and friends joyfully welcome home, loved one returns afar, their own good deeds welcome those that have performed them as they go from this life to the next! Dhammapada 220
She used to follow my post on Dhamma
Birth and rebirth endless rounds, seeking in vain I hastened on find who framed this edifice Birth incessantly! What a misery
အနေဂဇာတင်ဂါထာ
Than Than Hman :
My heartfelt condolences to Ko Swe Aye, Thor n Thabyay. May God bless you all with peace and comfort.
Marshall Moran :
Lyn, so sorry for your loss.
Sherlie Bwa :
Please take good care of yourself, Ko Swe Aye. We will get-together. We all love you.
Lay Khine :
No words can describe how sorry I am for your loss.
Pleas Accept my Deepest Sympathy.
Alvin Oak Soe Kha :
Ma Ma Nyo will be very sadly missed. May Ma Nyo Rest in Peace. Full respect from me, Ko Swe Aye for being a dutiful, loving and supportive husband to Ma Nyo throughout the years.
Cynthia Tin :
Ma Nyo had meaningful life. Have no words how much I’m sad. Also no words to say how much I thank both of you.
Merrylin Zaw-Mon :
You are so right. She was a very special person that emanated joy and shared it with everyone. That’s why she was loved by many and will be forever missed. I am so grateful I got to spend precious time with you and her. It was a precious gift she left me with. Thinking of you and hope to see you in the near future.
Ye Gaung :
Our deepest condolences and thoughts are with you all for your loss! She was our big sister to our family and will be in our memory forever. May she R.I.P.!
Yi Yi Myint Rossiter :
Rest in Peace my dear Ma Nyo. I will miss you forever.
Connie Wu :
My condolences to you and your family, she was a warrior and will be missed!!
Aung-Win Chiong :
Dear KSA, Mimi and Thor, we’re thinking and praying for you all. Ma Nyo was a positive, wonderful and lovely person. Nice to see that you all are so close and caring towards one another. We shall always remember the great times we had at your home, singing, dancing filled with laughter and great foods. Love Winnie and Lam Peng
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip visited Royal Berkshire Hospital where Dr. Peter Tun (Khin Tun) was working.
When Peter passed away untimely as an early victim of Covid in April 2020, his son Ye Lay wrote a letter to the Queen.
Peter’s family was surprised and delighted to receive an official letter from the Queen’s office.
Prince Phillip passed away at the age of 99.
Queen Elizabeth passed away at the age of 96.
Dr. Peter Khin Tun passed away at the tender age of 62.
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
by Hla Min
Updated : May 2026
HlaMin 